TJ - iAmCleared2Land
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How many GB to change a light bulb?
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inq: how many members of the governing body does it take to change a light bulb?.
a: the light bulb does not need to be changed.
the light bulb, in an antitypical way, represents the light that emanated from the most holy, from between the cherubs atop the ark of the covenant.
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Don't scream while we're crashing, please.
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inas a pilot, i found this commentary a funny perspective on what to do (or not) while the plane you're on is crashing.
(there's also some comments on praying and god and such for those final moments):.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/371623786.html.
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What suicide bombers get in Paradise...
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inafter dying a grisly death in an afghan cave, osama made his way to the pearly gates.
there, he was greeted by george washington.
"how dare you attack the nation i helped conceive!
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Give your money to the WTBTS when you die
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inanother thread discussed how people are encouraged in annual wt articles, service meeting parts, and visits from elders when they are elderly and dying, to consider leaving some or all of their property to the society.
here's proof that they profit handsomely from this activity.
found this searching www.guidestar.org (has filings on charities/trusts):.
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Your "Good Hope" money pledges (1917)
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inon another thread, we discussed the instruction from the society (surrounding kh financing) to pass around scraps of paper on which the publishers could put "pledges" for planning purposes.
found this today while examing the older mags.
seems this practice isn't new.
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Disgusting comment re: holy spirit from the Tacoma 2007 District Convention
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inthe thread re: education at the tacoma convention inspired this.
my sister called me this morning, she had the convention in tacoma last weekend.
she said she tried not to listen as much as possible, but the comment that got her steamed was this:.
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Paradise NOT
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inwell, now, i knew there was a good reason why i didn't want to live forever in paradise on earth:.
from the sept 1906 wt .
for instance, those who will constitute the church, and who will be changed from earthly to heavenly nature in the first resurrection--"changed in a moment" --will be spirit beings like unto our lord, and like unto the angels also in respect that they will be sexless.
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When did WTS first teach 1914 as "Satan cast down"?
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inmany have written about what the early wts taught about 1914 -- that christ had been enthroned since 1874 and that in 1914 armageddon would come.
today, though, they widely teach that 1914 was when satan was cast out of heaven, as evidenced by the great turmoil that the earth encountered that year.
this morning, it occurred to me that i've not seen any research into when the wts first started to associate the year 1914 with the year satan would be cast out of heaven--were they anticipating, before 1914, that this would occur, or was this interpretation made later, as i suspect it was?
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Parody of Song 113: "We're No Longer Witnesses!"
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land inbeing in "the truth" forever, i keep (frustratingly) finding myself humming kingdom songs unintentionally.
it frustrates me when i find myself doing it!.
so today i got this song in my head, and couldn't get it unstuck, so i decided to write alternate lyrics to it... when i get that tune in my head now, i'll have words that work!
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You don't want your kids to die, do you??
by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in'if not, you better get them out to preach six hours a day during summer break!!'.
this is my first post here... i stopped associating a just about a year ago, serving as an elder (wt conductor) up until i stopped going.
multi-generational jw, baptized 1984, pioneered, all that stuff.