True North
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I Have The Best Wife Everrrrrrr!
by Corvin inmy wife just came home and brought with her, the widescreen version of the lord of the rings- the return of the king on dvd!.
she ordered it two weeks ago, and we have been watching the first two getting ready for the third.
now, if i can just get her to wear that arwen costume for me .
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Accomplishes are good, accomplishments shared are better
by joelbear ini just went to pick up my diploma from school.
as i opened the envelope and saw my name there i couldn't hold back the tears.
i was overcome with emotion.
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New Gal saying hi to everyone
by betty boop inive been logging on to the website for awhile but have only been reading.today ive decided to extend my hello to all of you and to thank you for helping me out in confirming a decison i shouldve made years ago.
i left the j-dubs last august (by fading) and i feel so much happier in my life.
i can say bless you when someone sneezes, i can go to a birthday party, put a x-mas tree up, and have sex guilt free .
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Strangers to the Past. Would You Agree.
by Blueblades in.
would you agree that whether in the dark ages, the middle ages, the age of discovery, the industrial age, the atomic age, the space age, the events of the day are essentially repetitions, variations, elaborations or extensions of the past, and life on earth, the overall course of humankind, human nature itself and mankind's relationships with one another continue very much the same as they were in the past.. would you agree that what appears momentous, even stupendous, to one generation is not to the next, and rarely figures in the daily thoughts or concerns of people living in such later times.. would you agree that the past fades from human thoughts that are immersed in the present and grappling with the future.. would you agree that the only genuinely complete change would only take place if, and this is a big "if",some power beyond humankind, "god" if you will, actually someone who is not a stranger to the past and is a competent judge of the present changes the cycle of human history for the betterment of all mankind.. otherwise our children's children will follow in our footsteps as to being strangers to the past.and we will also fade into the past as forgotten by those immersed in the present and grappling with the future.. as many have posted here, we are stuck in the present, discussing recent past events, and trying to make sense out of what the future holds for us.. i don't know why i am posting this except that my mind is restless and spinning going nowhere fast.does this happen to you?has 30 something years in the watchtower brought me to this point in my life?i am in a holding pattern trying so hard to flush 30 years out of my mind.. blueblades.
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Could there ever be another "hostile takeover" of the WT Society?
by True North ini've read that back in the day, rutherford worked the legal system to take over the wt society in opposition to russell's final instructions.
could this sort of thing ever happen again?
another recent thread on this forum spoke of there currently being factions within the organization that take opposing views of many things.
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What happens when Bethelites are too old, infirm, or disturbed to work?
by True North inin barbara grizzuti harrison's book visions of glory: a history and a memory of jehovah?s witnesses (which is online at http://www.exjws.net/vg.htm -- i highly recommend it) there's an account of heartlessness at bethel that i found particularly troubling.
it's in "chapter iv.
accumulating wealth while the world refuses to die" (http://www.exjws.net/vg4.htm) and is as follows:.
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Did you ever actually make a JW convert from the door-to-door work?
by True North inin all the years i went door to door as a jw, i never once had a study who went all the way to baptism.
in the thirty years i've know my wife -- who has been a jw all this time -- she has never made a single convert from going door to door either.
is this true of others on this forum?
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what is the fate of those who aren't preached to before Armageddon?
by True North inrecently i spoke with someone who says they were told that current jw teaching about those who aren't preached to before armageddon (in china, india, etc.
) is that such ones will be allowed a "second chance" in the "new order" (or "new system" or whatever it's called these days).
in reply, i said i found it unlikely that this would be their teaching and that if so it would mean that even from a jw perspective, people would be better off if they were never preached to.
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Elder Gives Talk About "Unbelievers" & "Unbeliever" Calls Him An "Asshole"
by minimus inthe husband of a sister attended the public talk and the visiting elder came down hard on "unbelievers" and "worldly" people.
he spoke about how miserable it is for faithful sisters to be married to such "worldly unbelievers" because they cannot share the same spiritual goals.
this man recently had started to attend some meetings because his wife pretty much begged him to.