In th UK its about £5 or $10 per gallon, I'd love prices like $4.
barbar
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$3.15 per gallon and rising!
by Outaservice inhas gas prices affected your service time any?
outaservice (who had to quit altogether ) .
seriously, do you think it will affect the good ole society?
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Balanced!!!
by barbar inthe witnesses often talked about being balanced, but usually that meant do less of what you wanted and more "theocratic" things.
in fact if you spent 100% of your waking time in the ministry you would probably be viewed as a balanced person.. come to think of it witnesses are very unbalanced or extreme in their views.. any examples of how they are unbalanced?.
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The witnesses often talked about being balanced, but usually that meant do less of what you wanted and more "theocratic" things. In fact if you spent 100% of your waking time in the ministry you would probably be viewed as a balanced person.
Come to think of it witnesses are very unbalanced or extreme in their views.
Any examples of how they are unbalanced?
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barbar
There is a distinct difference. One is banning smoking altogether (and in fact take very draconian action if a person is caught smoking) the other is not telling people they can't smoke. It is saying that thy can't smoke in enclosed public places.
The difference being that the government are protecting people who have chosen not to smoke.
I totally agree with this ban as I don't want to sit in a restaurant breathing in other people smoke while I am trying to eat.
As a doctor said on TV in the UK recently, "other people right to smoke end when it reaches my nose". I couldn't agree more. -
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If you could?
by barbar insometime in my daydreams especially when someone has treated me badly, i think that it would be good to get rid of aggressive, violent people.
then it is easy to move on to liars and thieves and cheats.
in the end, if i am feeling particularly aggrieved most people are gone and it is just me and my close circle left.
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Sometime in my daydreams especially when someone has treated me badly, I think that it would be good to get rid of aggressive, violent people. Then it is easy to move on to liars and thieves and cheats. In the end, if I am feeling particularly aggrieved most people are gone and it is just me and my close circle left. Although I totally disagree with the concepts of the "wicked" humans being destroyed wholesale at Armageddon I somehow don't have such a strong conscience when it comes to me determining who should be allowed to survive in my dreams. Am I the only one who does this or is it somehow a natural thought.
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Ridiculous JW superstitions
by B_Deserter ini'm not talking about the stuff you hear at the kingdom hall, i'm talking about the "experiences" you were told of by people you knew.
the big one for me was demons.
so many people i know had experiences with them.
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barbar
I mean this seriously. Are you saying that women and men have the same number of ribs? I really thought (because I was told that and just took it for granted) that either men or women had one less. Barbar
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The WTS society admits that the door to door ministry is inefficient
by cultswatter inlook at what the scans below say.
that publishers spend considerable gas and insurance and time to go from door to door to place the odd magazine or book.
in reality the jw publisher is footing the whole bill and then some.. the jw publisher has to spend about 100 dollars per month for every dollar from donations received for literature sold at the door.. i know this to be true as i used to flog books at the door.
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I have always thought that the door to door ministry is for 3 reasons.
1. To get new converts.
2. To stand out from other religions, they like to be different
3. And I think the main one, is to force the witnesses to defend their faith. Even if they don't believe it, when a householder raises an objection they are forced to come back with the societies standard response. Thereby reinforcing the idea in their own own head.
And can you beleive it, I actually managed to get paragraphs formatted in this text.
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JW Terminology
by KW13 inok guys, list the ones ya know.. the truth/truth = the truth according to jw's is their religion.
for example someone baptized as a jw is baptized in the truth, whereas someone baptized elsewhere is not.. new light/light = a better understanding of the current status quo or 'light' in general which is just knowledge, new light allows for a complete change in beliefs without exception.. god's word = mainly the bible but anything else published by the wbt tract society is also acceptable.. true christians = refers only to jehovah's witnesses or suitable examples from the bible.. apostates = anyone who has been a jehovah's witness who opposes their beliefs (not necessarily people or individuals) and shares how they feel about the watchtower bible and tract society with anyone.
a person who hasn't been a jehovah's witness but does clearly oppose their message and beliefs may also be referred to as an apostate.. experiences = stories that will upbuild and encourage jw's.
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barbar
IMO - In my opinion IMHO - In my humble opinion. Barbar
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Ridiculous teenager counselled at Assembly.
by Duncan inthe ridiculous teenager is me.
this story takes me back to 1969, when i was 15 years old.
we were attending the international assembly at wembley stadium, near london, the only time, i think, that wembley was ever used for an assembly.. if youve ever read any of the stories i posted on jwd over the years, youll know that i was never one of those kids growing up in the truth who always had doubts about it or was unhappy and miserable with the religion, just waiting for the chance to get out.
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The other thing that used to really wind me up were the people who mime as the speaker read from the bible. They would silently read along with the speaker but be actually mouthing the words wildly. It was like they were some sort of ventriloquist projecting words to the speaker, just in case he forgot them. Barbar
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DAMN IT'S COLD!!!!!
by Mary inanyone east of saskatoon and north of kentucky will understand this thread:.
it's frigging cold out there!!!
christ almighty when i went outside to start my car up this morning i thought i was going to freeze solid like lot's wife.
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The bad news is: there's absolutely no end in site.
Mary, what do you mean there is no end in sight. The end is almost here, its any day now. It must be because my told me when I was 11 that I wouldn't be going to secondary school. And that was in the summer holidays just before I started. My kids have been to school and left as well. But I know the end is near its gotta be.
Hang on, I just realised you're talking about no end in sight for the bad weather, that makes me feel better.
Sorry about the formatting, can't do anything with this.
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How far would they go?
by barbar ina while ago my mother said that if the society asked the jws to do something that was wrong they wouldn't do it.
it is already easy for them to go against their own consciences, many don't feel it is right to shun others but they do it because they are told to.
most would feel dreadful with letting their children die but would do it if blood was needed because the society tells them to.
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barbar
Got no snow where I am, about as far south as you can get. But my son says there plenty in the north where he lives.