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  Marriage material in JW

  by JustTickledPink in

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  i grew up jw and was your average blonde, blue eyed florida girl.

  i of course being a normal girl had raging hormones and was always looking around at boys.

  i was a pioneer though and homeschooled, so i only met jws and was always of the mindset that i had to marry a jw.

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  FairMind

  I was an older single brother due to a divorce that happened at age 43. I didn’t look for a new wife for several years due to the circumstances I was in. I would like to mention though that several (married and single) sisters including one pioneer were willing to make my singleness a pleasurable experience. Being a man of good conscience I did not succumb and I did not tell.

  Anyway, once my circumstances changed I began looking for a sister to marry. The sisters in my age group were either married, ugly or of a mental nature that would have made marriage to them a fate worse than death. So, I did the unthinkable and dated several sisters who were 15 – 20 years younger than me. Friends, there is a world of difference in perspective of what is important in life when you are talking about that kind of age difference. Fortunately I finally met a sister (don’t fault her for being a JW, please) seven years younger than me and we married. We have lived happily (more or less) ever since.

  I suppose the moral of this story is that compatibility and true affection are (IMHO) the keys to a happy relationship.

  FM
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  No one knows the DAY or the HOUR - have we misread this verse?

  by truthseeker in

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  i was just thinking the other day, about what jesus said concerning the end of the system of things.

  he said that, "no one knows the day or the hour...but only the father.".

  there are two units of measurement - day and hour.

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  FairMind

  As JosephMalik said we have been given a sign or events to look for that would indicate the when we would be in the end times. I believe we are now in the end time and have been for a while. Even if I was an atheist I would probably believe that mankind was on the verge of wiping himself out of existence, either through destruction of the environment or biological and nuclear warfare. People are indeed fearful of the things coming upon the inhabited earth.

  When Jesus said no one knows the day or the hour but the Father he was stressing the importance of always living our lives as if the end was near and not with a particular date in view (IMHO).

  FM
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  Haven't seen a KM in a while, but this blew me away!

  by Nosferatu in

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  110 input householder$.

  140 input householder$.

  150 if householder$ = "not interested" goto 200.

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  FairMind

  When they began putting suggested presentations in the KM I was initially set back. I had always taken my door-to-door sermonizing seriously and felt the effort required to put together one's own presentations sharpened you. I think the canned presentations are the result of CO's recommendations based on the quality (or lack of) of the presentations they had observed when working with different publishers. Lack of interest in FS activity is the real root of this.

  FM
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  Worldwide Growth At 2% - the new service report

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have the feb magazine with the new report in it.

  if anyone is interested to know any of the figures then let me know and i will post it over the next half hour or so....

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  A question for willyoman. You mentioned being in Elders School two years ago. Are you still an elder or have you left the WTS. Just curious, I always enjoy reading your posts.

  FM
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  Is the Watchtower over extending itself?

  by truthseeker in

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  with the go ahead from the city, it looks like the society will be building more real estate.. but even with free labor, these projects still need capital investment.

  they recently spent $50,000,000 on new man presses for several branches around the world.. they spend on average, about $79,000,000 a year on missionaries and other full time servants.. paper, ink and food cost money.. utilitiy bills cost money, especially in new york city.. computers cost money and so do telecommunications services.. even though they may have earned $1 billion for 2001, there surely can't be that much left over, even after slave labor is taken into consideration.. any thoughts on this?

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  FairMind

  The WTS watches its' finances with an eagle eye. I'm pretty tight with a penny but those guys in Brooklyn are masters in controlling their expenses. They are also masters in acquiring assets. A good example is the accepting of donations for the KH fund. They loan this donated money to a congregation to build a KH and once the loan is repaid (with interest) the title to the KH is transferred to the WTS. They wind up with the money, the interest and the KH. If the local congregation ever wants to build a new hall they start all over since they have no equity. There is something perverse in all this.

  FM
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  ``Turning the Tables"Dept.: What About Doing Shepherding on Elders?

  by Room 215 in

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  i wonder how the local elders would like it if a couple of of us ``weak ones" were to stop by their homes unannounced to discuss ``spiritual matters" with them and their families?

  it may be an unfair generalization, but it seems to me that every encounter with an elder has to be on their terms.

  locally here, few if any jws know the addresses of the elders or has ever been to any of their homes; this is especially true of any dub regarded as ``weak," ``irregular" or ``marginal.

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  There was an older but new elder in a congregation I used to be in. He would approach me and say he and another brother wanted to make a shepherding call on me after one of our Thursday night meetings (School and SM). This was not a good idea from my perspective since I get up very early to go to work. I suggested that these brothers call on me at home but they didn't like that idea since I was a 20-minute drive from the KH. Anyway, I finally asked this brother "who makes the shepherding calls on the elders". His shocked but delayed response was "Jehovah does". After this he never again egged me on about needing a shepherding call.

  FM
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  So, who runs this joint anyway . . . ?

  by xochsi in

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  who owns this board?.

  mod roll-call.. who's the manz?.

  xochsi

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  The Governing Body of the WTS. This site is an apostate sting operation. Your goose is cooked!
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  Corporal punishment

  by JustTickledPink in

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  my opinion is that jw's are into corporal punishment more than the general population.

  maybe it's my imagination, maybe not.. do you remember being told "not to spare the rod" in disciplining children?

  do you remember being that kid that got beat?.

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  FairMind

  I was raised in a military family and both my father and mother whipped the living sh** out of us (especially me) so when I had kids and was a JW I whipped them too. I was commended more than one time for the severe spankings I gave my daughters. All my kids are grown and have turned out reasonably well but resent the heck out of me for the whippings they got. In hindsight I feel very bad about the corporal punishment I meted out. Would do it differently if I could go back in time.

  FM
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  New NOVEL "In the Truth" by Paul McCool - good read!

  by Dogpatch in

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  paul mccool

  format isbn price

  electronic book 1418466824 $4.95

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  FairMind

  I'll buy and read the book.

  FM
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  The Watchtower's Dilemma

  by metatron in

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  2. scandals

  dilemma (n.) - a situation involving choice between equally unsatisfactory alternatives.. .

  that's exactly where the governing body - and directors- find themselves.. they are becoming painfully aware of growing malaise and lack of growth in the organization.. in response, they could:.

  scream louder about armageddon being close ( not likely to work).

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  FairMind

  I think that the WTS in a dying state. There is one thing of which I'm fully convinced, no matter what "new light" they come up with the hard-core JWs will by it. They will believe anything Mother says. It is totally perplexing to me how otherwise intelligent people (such as my wife) can be duped over and over again and not see what's going on.

  FM