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  One day assembly

  by Sour Grapes in

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  at a recent one day assembly i walked away with the thought that the wtbts sure does not like witnesses who have the opportunity to make a good living.

  there were, in one day, three experiences of witnesses who turned down "6 figure salaries" because there would be some traveling involved and some meetings would be missed as well as missing family worship night.

  i thought it strange that the exact phrase was used of "6 figure salary".

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  Yet, they need the "6 Figure" salaried people to appease their consciences by dropping big time into the box!
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  Which of these activities bothered you the most?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  which of these activities did you hate/bothered you the most?

  rank them from 1-5 with the most hated to the least.. .

  field service.

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  clarity, I hear you. We haven't attended for 10 years, but my in-laws insist on praying for food, either at home or when we dine out!

  We just start eating now.....
  
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  Who Benefits from the Multi-Billion Dollar Real Estate Empire that is WT?

  by TTATTelder in

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  this thread is to formally address this subject.

  this is for forum members and especially for lurkers (current witnesses reading this in secret).

  please feel free to post any additional points.. there are a lot of changes happening in wt land.

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  Here where I live, we had to sub-divide the land the hall was on, and sell the spare block of land. So we had to get the kh land title back from the society. While it was here, the solicitor that was handling the transaction asked about the hall title and what to do with it, we said send it back to headquarters and he was reluctant to do it. He said we could hold it as a committee ourselves.... that would have upset the hen house wouldn't it!
  
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  Question related to the digestive tract of carnivores

  by geevee in

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  2. beliefs

  i was raised as a jw from about the age of 2, my parents were baptized when i was 5 years old.. i always liked the thought in the song about a young boy leading all of these once viscous animals, that are now tame.... in some of the reading i have done, the digestive tracts of carnivores..meat eaters has a highly acidic stomach, with a short small intestine and a short large intestine [bowel].

  a lot of apes are frugivores [fruit eaters] less acid, long small intestine and longer bowel.

  the question: did god recreate these animals [carnivores] and change their digestive tracts after the noachian flood so that they could eat meat [other creatures] as the jw's believe that these animals only ate straw [herbivores] before the flood and that he will restore their original herbivore digestive tract after armageddon?.

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  A while after we stopped attending [10 years this year] my wife's bother and wife went over to Thailand or somewhere where there are tigers that you can walk around and pat [obviously heavily drugged] and they were telling everyone how great it will be in the kingdom as they will be able to do this on a world wide scale and that these tigers ate grass.... It was just ridiculous!

  Anyway you see my point! There was no recreation........................

  
  
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  Question related to the digestive tract of carnivores

  by geevee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was raised as a jw from about the age of 2, my parents were baptized when i was 5 years old.. i always liked the thought in the song about a young boy leading all of these once viscous animals, that are now tame.... in some of the reading i have done, the digestive tracts of carnivores..meat eaters has a highly acidic stomach, with a short small intestine and a short large intestine [bowel].

  a lot of apes are frugivores [fruit eaters] less acid, long small intestine and longer bowel.

  the question: did god recreate these animals [carnivores] and change their digestive tracts after the noachian flood so that they could eat meat [other creatures] as the jw's believe that these animals only ate straw [herbivores] before the flood and that he will restore their original herbivore digestive tract after armageddon?.

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  I was raised as a jw from about the age of 2, my parents were baptized when I was 5 years old.

  I always liked the thought in the song about a young boy leading all of these once viscous animals, that are now tame...

  In some of the reading I have done, the digestive tracts of carnivores..meat eaters has a highly acidic stomach, with a short small intestine and a short large intestine [bowel]. A lot of apes are frugivores [fruit eaters] less acid, long small intestine and longer bowel.

  The question: Did God recreate these animals [carnivores] and change their digestive tracts after the Noachian flood so that they could eat meat [other creatures] as the jw's believe that these animals only ate straw [herbivores] before the flood and that he will restore their original herbivore digestive tract after Armageddon?

  Somehow, I think that carnivores were created as such and that they will always be that way. Sure my cat eats grass for the sake of it's stomach but it really wants meat NOT veges or straw!
  
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  "The Waters" of Jehovah are drying up in Australia...65% young ones leave!

  by Witness 007 in

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  at the international convention last week i caught up with my old congregation and asked about the young ones...there were 2 answers.

  1. they flat out left got a boyfriend etc.

  and 2. havent seen them for awhile meaning they faded or went off the grid so as not to be disfellowshipped.

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  The total of jw's in Australia hasn't really grown much in the last 10 years, there were a bit over 64,000 when we stopped attending, and it would seem to still be that now [?] more leaving through the backdoor than are coming in the front..... ;-) good!
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  Question for "apostate" couples.

  by 3rdgen in

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  2. friends

  hi everyone!

  today i was reminded that just because both of us left the wtbt$ we are not always on the same page.. .

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  It sounds like a lot of couples who have left are similar in that one checks things out still and they other isn't that bothered. We are the same, I drop in here every now and then to see what may be going on, I feel that it gives us a heads up as to what might be going on with our still IN relatives and why they are doing what they are doing or treating us coldly... My wife could go without hearing an ything.

  It will be nice when it doesn't matter at all. We have been "out" nearly 10 years [faded] She was quick to see the crap, I had been working for about 20 years to be a ms then elder and it took a bit to back away from that... there were a few arguments then, but now no arguing about jw stuff.

  Great comments, and thanks for the honesty by all the other posters on this topic....
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  How old were you when baptized?

  by Coded Logic in

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  i was baptized at the age of 11. like most of us, my commitment wasnt to honor god but rather i was gang pressed into the service of the wtbts.

  and, at such a young age, it was impossible for me to appreciate the enormity of my actions.

  honestly, how could i possibly have known any better?

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  I was 14. Mt father had had an affair and my mother was stuggling and it seemed logical that If I got baptized and if my parents split up, that I could help Mum with the other 3 children! On the day I was sick as a dog, and I spent most of the time before the session looking for the PO to tell him I wanted to postpone, but couldn't find him, so I was stuck and had to go through with it! Actually October the 4th 1974.... my 40th Anniversary coming up!

  Took a long time to wake up, but we are nearly 10 years out!
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  Does the President of the WT have any power?

  by BU2B in

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  i thought about this after reading incognito's thread.

  i was wondering if anyone here has any idea what the president of the wt actually does or if he truly has any real power, or if he is merely the gb puppet..

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  geevee

  So it is a question of who heads the legal corporation and who heads the gb...?

  It probably works like a body of elders, the one who dominates the discussions and forms cliques with other elders and who whines and presses the point and wont shut up until they get their own way is the leader, [that is the holy spirit at work brothers!] not the po or whatever they call him these days!
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  The Watchtower 11/15/2014

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  http://bayfiles.net/file/1jpu5/qhxxxl/w_e20141115.pdf.

  select "premium download".

  (thanks breakfast of champions).

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  geevee

  Hi all, i have skipped a couple of pages of comment. In 1974/5 my family was living in a small country town called Bordertown in South Australia. We had some hot shot elders moved in to "serve where the need was greater"....they had come down from Adelaide. One had this idea that we had to be prepared for this exact scenario as the quoted picture on page 1 of this post! We had to have our meeting in a shearing shed on a farm that someone was renting. We had to dress neatly but not fully borgarized, One "brother" would sneak out and then wait, then when we all forgot who was gone, he would come banging on the door and create a disturbance just like the "law" would. We had to try to hide all of our books etc. One bright spark had torn the pages out of his study book and brought them along, when the "police" knocked on the door, this guy stuck his pages in his mouth and chewed and swallowed them!!!!!!! Any wonder the locals thought we were weird! We were!!!!

  After the meeting we would all have supper and a laugh, but we were "prepared". As well these hotshot elders had everyone assigned to meet with one or two families at secret locations just in case!!!!!!!! Maybe the gb would like to call me and I will discuss these vital arrangements from a practical point of view?