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new brochure
by bonnzo inat tonights meeting a new brochure was released along with the question box in the km regarding how to dress when visiting bethel/branch homes.
they, of course, said to dress like you do at th meetings.
the brochure is 4 pages with color photo illustations of what not to wear and what is appropriate.
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just wonderin'
by bonnzo inhow brother barely gettin' by on my janitorial/window cleaning business elder and pioneer feels about a giant book selling corporation requiring him to be at a week long business meeting at his own expense starting feb. 2008. quite the opposite from how this wicked 'ol world treats their employee's.
or the hard working elder who has a family and one week vacation in 2008 to be spent at the lovely patterson resort in the dead of winter.
glad i ain't one.
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circuit assembly
by bonnzo inhad a new to me explanation of something i've questioned about matt 24:45-47. i, along with some here, wondered why the "slave" in matthew is singular when the wtbts says it has to be a "class" because no one person could live long enough to be the slave.
personally, i've wondered why it couldn't be each person individually, but the d.o.
says there is precedent.
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faithful and discreet slave
by bonnzo insome wonder why the fds is singular in mt 24:45-47 but then is described as a "class" of more than one by the wtbts.
our new do said this weekend at the circuit assembly that this has been done before by jehovah at isa 43:10: "you are my witnesses(plural),....my servant(singular).
he implied that the "slave"(singular) could be a group of people using this precedent.
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Why so many "qualifications"
by bonnzo inif jesus could find someone at work(matt 9:9; mark 1:16-21) and ask them to be a follower without having to go over 164,000 questions(just kidding a little bit) to see if they qualify to be a publisher of the good news, why do jw's do this?
the same for baptism; the ethiopian eunoch did not, according to scripture, go over a bunch of questions to be baptized, so why?
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ABOUT TIME!!!
by bonnzo inabout time the real carolina panthers showed up!!!
panthers 24, bucs 10. bring on the rest of the season!!!
steve smith is the most exciting player in the nfl!!
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circuit ass-embly
by bonnzo injust a few notes.
the entire ass-embly was dealing with materialism or higher education; apparantly one leads to the other.
why cant the wts realize that higher education is not just a means to get rich or ahead in this system, but a means to have a career outside of janitorial work?
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"it's been said....."
by bonnzo inan elder in my hall prefixes his sentences with this phrase: "its been said...", usually followed by some ridiculous bullshit; an example: "it's been said that mans greatest accomplishment has been the worldwide preaching work".
i guess all scientific and medical advances are secondary.
anyway, his last one was this: "it's been said that by reading the awake magazine one can get the eqivalent to a college education.