i think the reason why you don't hear hell and immortal soul and such is because i think a lot of sermons don't vividly preach in them, they just preach in "letting jesus into your hearts". i remember watching TV the other day, and that what the pastor went about for like 3 hours....
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"Immortal Soul" - A Watchtower Doctrine!
by Stephanus inin my 25 years or so in "christendom" i've been to many different churches in different denominations and have heard hundreds, perhaps thousands, of sermons.
in all that time i have never heard the term "immortal soul" used, not even once.
yet the jws go on (and on, and on!
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Being publicly reproved
by Strawberryfieldsforever inyears ago my husband and i were publicly reproved.
we had gone out with some "worldly friends" from work and went dancing and had a few drinks too many.
well someone must have been around to see us and told the elders.
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dustyb
private reproof?? BAH. my g/f was said to be on private reproof, but everyone knows about it pretty much, so that would make it....not private i guess. its a shitty thing to do, all about power. taking away "priviledges" doesn't amount up to much.
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gift
by baggy inmy friend's son and daughter-in-law are jehova's witnesses.
i know they do not celebrate birthdays, but is it ok to give them gifts during the year that are not for a specific occasion?
also, i bought a little ceramic figurine of an angel that was personalized with their infant daughter's name on it.
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dustyb
give it all to them..
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Whats your favorite TV show?
by dustyb in.
i personally liked ren and stimpy.
they were funny.. (edited)
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I personally liked Ren and Stimpy. They were funny.
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New book: The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society
by Dogpatch innew book out in two weeks!.
the four presidents of the watch tower society.
[the following are the first four pages of introduction to the above-named book].
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uhm, where to we order this book at?? =D
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WTS: Charitable Gift Annuity Registrant
by Nosferatu insorry if this has been posted before.
can someone explain exactly what this is?
if you scroll down near the bottom of the list, there's the wts.
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The Iowa Insurance Division supervises all insurance business transacted in the state, including health maintenance organizations and mutual hospital and health service corporations. The insurance commissioner grants permission to companies wishing to sell insurance in Iowa and has general control over all aspects of their business, from the forms they use to the rates they charge. The commissioner also serves as the administrator of the securities act which involves the licensing of brokerage firms and their agents, examining new securities offerings and investigating investment fraud cases.
thats what the Iowa Insurance Division is about.....but i think that they also donate lots of money for influence and stuff like that...kinda like having insurance salesmen =) but iono, i'm just taking a guess
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What would you say to Gods' answering machine?
by Sirius Dogma in.
thank you for calling god, please leave a message at the beep or press 5 to leave a fax.
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(gods daughter leaving the answering machine message) Hey God's daughter, this is a big dirty man. I'm going to come to your house tonite and slit both your parents throats. then i'm going to get out my huge ding dong and stick it in your BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP(end of tape)
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If conservative GB members died tonight, would there be real change?
by stillajwexelder ingoverning body members .
theodore jaracz,.
john barr, carey barber, albert schroeder,.
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dustyb
depends. if they all died at once the JW's would say it a sign. if they died off gradually (which they will because they are in their late 80's and early 90's), it'll be a sign to the JW's that this organization is fake. i think the org is actually goign to burn themselves out from age....
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tonite's superbowl party
by dustyb ini found it strange actually.
i went to a superbowl party with my mom and all her jw friends and my jw girlfriend.
me and a few people were downstairs watching the game, and when i come up, i see a few guys drinkin some beer and playin some chess.
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dustyb
just for the record....ya i know lol, i've never seen a witness that knew how to play chess to pass up on a game. i just think its kinda stupid tho because they bitch and bitch about being no part of the world, yet they are playing games and watching sports like EVERYONE else is doing on sunday night (referring to the superbowl)
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Similarities between Best Buy (USA) and WTS
by dustyb ini used to work at best buy (an electronics retailer in the usa) and i thought about it today.
not so much working there, but how you got paid.
used to if you were an electronic salesman at bby you got paid on commission, but in 1996 the policy changed.
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dustyb
I used to work at Best Buy (an electronics retailer in the USA) and i thought about it today. not so much working there, but how you got paid. used to if you were an electronic salesman at BBY you got paid on commission, but in 1996 the policy changed. in 1996 employees started to get paid by the hour, and the company said that it was for the benefit of the customers. but what BBY didn't tell the employees was that they were paying commissions out the ass to all the employees because they were so good, and they didn't have enough money to pay sony off (hundreds of millions of dollars). so they had to switch to hourly to save money and pay off sony. It was also part of a settlement in a lawsuit that BBY couldn't operate on commission anymore.
The reason why it reminds me of the WTS is because everyone here knows they used to sell their literature door to door. then i also remember a lawsuit that enacted a sales tax on anything that was distributed and sold door to door like the WTS done.
Question: What is the quickest way to get around paying taxes to the US government? Take a second...another second..ok
Answer: DONATIONS!! every single donation is a tax-defferred exchange, which means you save millions of dollars, literally.
Now I know that the WTS doesn't get as much money through donations as it did when it sold literature, but you still save in the long run because you have paperwork to fill out if you haves sales tax, which takes lawyers and more stamps, etc etc, and the cost keeps on piling up.
What my big point is, would have to be GREED.
We had a talk this morning about loving god and loving thy neighbors and stuff like that, and that Jehovah's Christians Witnesses are no part of the world etc etc etc. then he listed off some characteristics of "the wicked system of things", then listed off characteristics of "JW's", but when he was listing for "the wicked system of things", GREED was one of those characteristics listed.....
ok, this topic makes no sense, but at least it wasted my time, hehe