Bonnie_Clyde

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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-29-2012 WT Study (DIVIDED)

  by blondie in

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  happiness is possible.

  in a divided household.

  the christian congregation!.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I think the WT writer must have taken that story from one of the older publications. In the 50's I remember hearing an experience like that at one of our circuit assemblies, and I thought it was just wonderful that the husband FINALLY came into the truth due to the long-suffering of his wife. It seems like society in general back then didn't take spousal abuse as seriouslly as we do now. I think many women didn't have as many options as they do today. It wouldn't have been as easy to leave an abusive husband as it is now. Today there are support groups for victims of domestic violence. Also women today tend to be better educated and can function on their own without have to remain in an abusive situation.

  My own daughter was a victim of spousal abuse and ended up divorcing her JW husband. This was about 11 years ago. She showed the elders her bruises, and they actually supported her in her decision to leave her husband.
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  I don't always study my watchtower but when I do it's during the public talk

  by Iamallcool in

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  i got a text message from a jw, she just send me a picture of a white bearded man with xx beer on the table.

  the title of the picture is "i don't always study my watchtower but when i do it's during the public talk.

  " i just do not know how to forward the image from the text message.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  One of the sisters in our congregation underlined her WT while in the bathroom. She told me all she needed to do was underline the first and last sentence of each paragraph.

  Bonnie
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 04-22-2012 WT Study (POSITIVE)

  by blondie in

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  a loving spirit in the congregation.

  be zealous in the ministry.

  9. how does our attitude toward the field ministry.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  One of the sisters in a neighboring congregation happened to mention that she watched the movie, "The King's Speech" (R rated) while she was out to lunch with another sister. The other sister promptly called one of the elders and they called her in. Even though she "repented", she can't give a talk in the ministry school or pioneer for awhile. I wonder what they would have done if she had argued with them.

  I watched the movie myself and didn't see anything wrong with it, even though I'm normally quite picky about the morality in the movies I watch.

  It was about King George VI's ascension to the throne.
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  Witnesses are told to "politely leave the territory"

  by passwordprotected in

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  anyone got any idea what's going on with the wtbts legal department these days?.

  witnesses are now told to leave the territory if told by a law enforcement office to do so.. how does this square with harold king?.

  and can someone remind me of the name of the woman (in china?

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I remember in the early 60's when a trailer park manager asked us to leave the territory. The elder (then called assistant congregation servant) that was leading our group stood up to him and the manager called the police. I was greatly relieved that he didn't take us in.

  Yes, things have changed....
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  The Special Talk.....

  by wha happened? in

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  wifey attends the spanish cong, so when we ran late in our errands, she started to get upset that she was going to miss the special talk.

  i told her again, and i reminded her that we already talked about this topic.

  the special talk is just a new outline.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  Just making sure - Sunday's talk was from a manuscript wasn't it?

  The reason I ask... Clyde's friend called to say how bombastic their speaker was--as if he was using his own words. If it was a manuscript, I would think he couldn't have deviated from the script, could he?
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  New name for Awake! magazine

  by Bonnie_Clyde in

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  i told my son that the society is reducing the size of their public edition from 32 pages to 16 pages.

  he asked if they will now call it "half awake!".

  of course, it could be "half asleep!

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I told my son that the Society is reducing the size of their public edition from 32 pages to 16 pages. He asked if they will now call it "Half Awake!"

  Of course, it could be "Half Asleep!"
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  NYC Dept. of Education Wants The Word "Birthday" removed from tests for JWs

  by garbonzo in

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  http://failblog.org/2012/03/29/homework-class-test-school-of-fail-lets-not-insult-people-who-dont-believe-in-birthdays-or-anyone-ever-about-anything/#comment-1635032.

  this guy makes a valid point:.

  if they dont want to offend anyone then i suggest a few more words to be removed:.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  I would have thought that stupid even when I was a believing JW.
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  Biting off more than they can chew - why I think the Society's internet approach is good for us, bad for them...

  by cedars in

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  i've been giving some thought to the society's latest decision to reduce the size of the awake, and relaunch jw.org as a revamped site - intended for bringing in yet more converts.

  for those who missed it, here is the relevant part of the leaked letter to elders discussing these changes.... the internet is a technology that jehovahs organization is using to good advantage to spread the good news to all corners of the earth.

  consider the impact our web sites are having.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  Do you think there are very many witnesses who are using tablets right now at the meetings? My son's father-in-law told me that there was a young man at his hall who had an ipad, had downloaded the study Watchtower, and that's what he was using instead of a printed Watchtower. Said he could even click a link and open up the scriptures that were cited. He thought it was great and might get one for himself.
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  College and the Watchtower: Remember One Thing

  by metatron in

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  if any of you lurkers listen to a rant by the society against college, remember one thing:.

  the brother giving the talk is probably an utter hypocrite.. there are a few exceptions but consider that many elders are financially secure - which allows them to be elders.

  while they talk about not planning for the future because armageddon 'is so close', they have pensions, ira's, roth accounts and investments.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  Whether or not a person goes to college is none of the Watchtower's business. It's a personal decision, and that's the end of the matter.
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  Help.. was the 8/15/68 WT altered later?

  by Norcal_Sun in

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  hello, i am doing some research on 1975 again, and i came across this on a couple different sites:.

  are we to assume from this study that the battle of armageddon will be all over by the autumn of 1975, and the long-looked-for thousand-year reign of christ will begin by then?

  possibly, but we wait to see how closely the seventh thousand-year period of man's existence coincides with the sabbathlike thousand-year reign of christ.

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  Bonnie_Clyde

  The part that is in bold was in the original bound volume. I'm looking at a copy right now.