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  Respond ONLY if you are not an elder/ms...just for fun thread!

  by restrangled in

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  of course i am neither.....but as stated am related to too many heavy duty jw's its hard to fathom.. so.....who are you?.

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  lrkr

  No- now, like most normal people I am not interested in being called an old man or a servant.
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  Is the GB crooked or just misguided?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  i ask myself this from time to time.

  is the governing body operating seriously out of the belief that they are god's only channel to mankind?

  or are they deliberately scamming people?

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  "Crooked" implies that they know that what they are doing is wrong and they keep doing it- I dont think so. You have to be quite a sociopath to do that successfully (in any field of endeavor).

  "Misguided" implies that they are entirely innocent- I don't think you get to that level and remain innocent.

  I prefer the term "Deluded" or "Delusional"- they have created a reality in their minds which they reinforce with each other and which is reinforced by the millions of faithful around the globe.

  By the way, I would also describe the pope, archbishops, cardinals, etc, etc as similarly deluded. I heard the Dalai Lama speak and he seemed to have a sense that he was not all that people believed him to be- but he does allow millions of followers to believe that he is the reincarnated Bhudda- so maybe he's deluded too.
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  Found this today - My Book of Bible Stories

  by kurtbethel in

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  i was looking in a thrift store and found this gem from 1978. .

  quick!

  hide it from your children!.

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  lrkr

  The Bible Story book is a classic. Ever wonder why the first 3/4 is dedicated to people dying by various means for failing to worship God.

  So let's see, you can be

  • swallowed by a shark,
  • burned by fire from the sky,
  • thrown out of the garden and left to die,
  • killed in a flood,
  • killed by a giant,
  • killed by drinking milk and then having a stake driven through your head,
  • God will keep the sun up so you can kill more Cannanites,
  • killed for having sex with the neighbor boy (oh- I forgot- the neighbor boy and all of his village got killed actually),
  • the king can throw a spear at you,
  • the Babylonians can march you off to captivity,
  • you can kill someone (almost) who doesn't bring you food- then God will kill him for you so you can marry his cute wife,
  • And the grand finale- Millions of angels on horses coming to kill everyone who doesn't do things right
  • etc, etc, etc, etc.

  The bottom line- Worship God or be killed!!! Maybe even if you do worship God but not good enough- you'll get killed.

  Such a nice book for children.
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  DC 2008 Releases

  by JWFreak in

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  just to update you all on the this summers releases from a very good friend / source .

  totally confirmed .

  i just love to annoy the borg......and no i am no longer a witness .

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  lrkr

  how many chapters do you suppose there are on masturbation, oral sex, etc... The boys at bethel just love writing about those subjects
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  Our CO gave a talk to kids. Stay OUT of school!

  by easyreader1970 in

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  he wanted to talk to the young ones in the congregation.

  the main theme of the talk had to do with avoiding higher education.

  basically the main idea was this: witnesses are losing alot of young people here in the last few years.

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  One minor, little regret- I'm sure that as the talk was being given everyone in our congo was nodding their heads saying "Yup, just look what happened to Lrkr and his wife."

  Not enough of a regret to make me show up for the talk though.....
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  What was the most stupid word in Dub literature or Kingdom Melodies???

  by Alpaca in

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  i remember a wt with the word "happifying".

  now that's really stupid!!

  !.

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  lrkr

  "thrilling" when used to describe assemblies, service, meetings other things that are decidedly NOT
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  Latest Witness comments about no more Bookstudy- Rejoicing and happy????

  by Witness 007 in

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  i've asked afew witnesses at work and around town about no more bookstudy.........they are all so relieved!

  one elder with four kids said..."it will make things alot easier, with rushing home from work, the society understands our needs.

  "......another brother said: "it's great, now we can go to the cinema on half price tuesday's!

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  Now that seems like a realistic reason. We have known for years that the legal department has the real power at bethel. I knew it couldn't be that the GB actually cared about people having to use their gas. And my pet theory- that it is for "message control" is true- but I don't think that the GB actually worries too much about that.

  The lawyers at Patterson- bingo. I think we have a winner.
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  Jehovies at work

  by Wordly Andre in

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  my best friend chris, works as a supervisor for a construction company has some jehovies that work for him, the other day he was saying how he thinks that they take advantage of the fact that they need time off to go to meetings, and special events.

  he goes on to tell me that they must leave early mondays, tuesdays, thursdays and fridays, also they never want to work weekends because of their service time.

  i started laughing and told him that he should just fire them, because they are taking advantage of his kindness and that the jws do not have that many meetings.

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  It seems to me that he is just allowing himself to be taken advantage of. If they are on salary, convert them to hourly and pay them for the hours they work. If he needs someone to work weekends, hire them. If they cant be converted to salary base their compensation on the amount of work performed. All in all, quit complaining and be the boss already.
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  Thomas Paine "Age of Reason"

  by BurnTheShips in

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  on another thread purporting to start a discussion of this work, some suggested that it be restarted in a new thread, as the consideration there had begun in a polluted way and had only stayed at that level.

  since things poorly begun usually end worse, i am starting the thread as some have requested.

  i am currently beginning to read age of reason, and will return to it from time to time as time itself allows.

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  lrkr

  Now if we could just convince the current crop of politicians to live up to that legacy.
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  *********** We love baseball******************

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  this is a baseball tribute thread.

  please post anything and everything about baseball memories, the game, your favorite team, players opinions on the designated hitter rule.

  baseball brings back the magical feelings of childhood and tagging along with my older siblings to the little league games played at the parks my mother worked when she was the art director for mobile parks and recreation.

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  lrkr

  He's 9. And what do you expect- Little League distracts from preaching, teaches a competitive spirit (not) and provides lots of bad association (other 9 year olds)

  Go Yankees!!!