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  "Do not go beyond the things written"

  by hotspur in

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  how many times did you hear that?

  it wasn't until i read with disbelief no room for george's pitiful statement about being proud to be a jw did i start to think of a simple of way of discrediting the jws... it needed a simple scriptural phrase that causes them to shoot their own foot!.

  so - how many different ways can you think of where jws have "gone beyond the things written"?.

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  What? Three hours and nuffin'?

  There must be something!
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  "Do not go beyond the things written"

  by hotspur in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how many times did you hear that?

  it wasn't until i read with disbelief no room for george's pitiful statement about being proud to be a jw did i start to think of a simple of way of discrediting the jws... it needed a simple scriptural phrase that causes them to shoot their own foot!.

  so - how many different ways can you think of where jws have "gone beyond the things written"?.

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  hotspur

  How many times did you hear that? It wasn't until I read with disbelief No Room for George's pitiful statement about being proud to be a JW did I start to think of a simple of way of discrediting the JWs... it needed a simple scriptural phrase that causes them to shoot their own foot!

  So - how many different ways can you think of where JWs have "gone beyond the things written"?

  I'll give you a starter .....

  Beards... where is it witten you can't have a beard? (Ladies are precluded)
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  Her last drive

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my aunty/grandma/mom/mom's friend/elderly sis in the next cong.

  (choose one of the above).

  anyway she is 95 years old and has been driving for 77 years (according to her family).

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  Walking at 95 is an achievement - let alone driving
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  Finished Mystery

  by dontplaceliterature in

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  i just started reading this last night.

  i've seen it referred to on this forum a few times.

  any weird things i should keep my eyes out for?

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  Finished Mystery? To my mind most of the mysteries started with this book!
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  Absolutely!

  by IMHO in

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  why is everyone using the word "absolutely" these days, in answer to every other question..

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  Indeed
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  A quote to brighten up your Monday!

  by SweetBabyCheezits in

  1. jw
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  "once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

  that was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute.

  after nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die.. one might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature.

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  Maybe if Nietzsche had written on a Tuesday it would've been a bit more upbeat!
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  untitled

  by shechaiyah in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi friends,.

  it's been a long time.

  i check in about every five years.. .

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  Goodness - didn't know my ex mother-in-law posted on this site!
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  "PRINTING" in 3D?

  by sizemik in

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  check this out .

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  .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zboxmssz5aw&feature=player_embedded.

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  I know - it's smart... gonna upgrade my high spec Epson photo printer and print myself a new set of Nikon kit!
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  Formal vs Informal DA

  by irondork in

  1. watchtower
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  in another thread, morbidzbaby said: .

  "not interested" isn't really a df'ing thing so much as a da'ing in absentia (sort of the same, regardless, because of the way it's announced).

  but you didn't send it to an elder... just a friend.. i dunno, it's kind of a gray area, imo.

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  Easy to answer - up until the time you disassociate or are disfellowshipped you are still a reportable number!
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  Foreign language groups. OK to dress in a Saree Sisters?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. beliefs

  in the uk we have 'urdu' groups which are usually english people learning urdu and going to preach in mainly muslim areas.

  (most who speak english perfectly).. some of the white/non asian sister dress in sarees.. is this disrespectful?.

  downright idiotic?.

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  Many years ago - when about to attend my first ever International Assembly in London I didn't want to go (Boy, should have dug my heels in) but I was an obedient teenager. What stood out to me most was I was told I had the opportunity to see all the Bros and Sis in their National costumes and it will look lovely.... that was 40 years ago! Even then that shook me and I just said that I thought Nationlism was not accepted in JWdom! Never got an answer to that one and it took me another 32 years to get out.