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  :-)

  by John Doe in

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  lancelink

  Ohh ! They're after me lucky charms
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  Any funny stories you remember involving your kids?

  by happpyexjw in

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  when co tony and mary disenti (sp?

  ) were serving our congregation they came to our house for lunch.

  at the time i had two kids, about three and five years old.

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  lancelink

  when my youngest son was about 6 years old he had an inflatable balloon type hammer, (it was about 3 feet long).

  And on mornings when he did not want to get up for either school or service I would get this thing and hit him with it, he really disliked it

  but it was very efficient in getting him out of bed.

  Well, one time the CO was talking to us after the service meeting and he asked my son if he would be out in service Saturday morning.

  Jeff turns to him and said " yea, but I hope that my dad doesn't hit me with the hammer in the morning.

  Mortified looks all around until I explained the whole situation, and that I was NOT a child abuser !!!!
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  Amazing JW YouTube clip

  by yadda yadda 2 in

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  2. friends

  the work and wit that's gone into this is incredible.

  enjoy!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egrzknjkzt4&feature=related.

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  lancelink

  Could you imagine something like this following the terminator movies ?

  Arnold appearing early on a Saturday morning, going up to a door and saying

  "come with me if you want to live" when the door gets slammed in his face he would turn to the camera and say

  "I'll be back"

  Alright,,,,I need to get out more often !
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  AGAIN with the college bashing

  by Pistoff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok so the mate took good notes at the ca and here is the newest on "higher education:.

  the usual bashing of motives: those who want great wealth, prestige and seek it in a college educationcollege graduates don't always get jobs in their fieldsdrugs, drinking and sex are "rampant" at collegesthose who want to "snatch us away" are near if we go to college (isa 54)if we seek a college education, we are not spiritual mindedthe most disturbing for me was this:.

  those who choose college will not get blessings from jehovahand of course there was the obligatory interview with the college graduate who disdains the education whe received.. .

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  lancelink

  Drugs drinking and sex are rampant at colleges.

  These things were rampant at the congregation I attended (CL Illinois) for over 20 years with the teenagers and certain elders,,,, what kind of logic do these fools follow?

  Look at yourself first before you go bashing someone who wants to better themselves !
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  Were there any "dynasties" in your congregation?

  by truthseeker in

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  did your congregation have any so-called dynasties, or "a succession of rulers who belong to the same family for generations"?.

  my last congregation had a family who had or seemed to have complete control over most aspects of congregation operations.

  they like to run the show and make it obvious that they are in charge.. then there are those who receive unearned privileges because their father is an elder who fast tracked his son to eldership.. .

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  lancelink

  barrington Illinois had the Scott clan ruling for quite a number of years.
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  What was the stupidest advice you ever taken from the Kingdom Hall?

  by asilentone in

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  lancelink

  We were told by two elders, "no Sara will not be resurrected, she never took her first breath, so in God’s eyes she was never a living soul”. L

  Freeman, I'm sorry that they put you throught this, my Mother had two miscarriages while i was growing up and the elders told her pretty much
  the same thing.
  
  But three years ago, one of these elders has a daughter who lost her baby at 7 months, and he orchestrated a "memorial talk" at the KH for the baby.
  I wouldn't go, because of what he told my mom 38 years ago. 
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  What books would you have picked ?

  by lancelink in

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  i recently was watching the 1960's version of the "time machine" starring rod taylor as george wells.. at the end of the movie when george disappears into the future for good, his friend mr. filby, (alan young) and the housekeeper look at the bookcase and notice that three books are missing.. filby asks, "what three books would he take to restart a civilisation"?.

  what three books do you think he took with him ?.

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  lancelink

  I recently was watching the 1960's version of the "Time Machine" starring Rod Taylor as George Wells.

  At the end of the movie when George disappears into the future for good, his friend Mr. Filby, (Alan Young) and the housekeeper look at the bookcase and notice that three books are missing.

  Filby asks, "what three books would he take to restart a civilisation"?

  What three books do you think he took with him ?
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  snubbed by the dubs...

  by undercover in

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  as most of ya'll know, i'm not dfd or dad, just faded and i've commented about how i still have some contact with some jws that i used to associate with.

  only on rare occassions do jws that i didn't know that well to begin with treat me as persona non grata...no big deal, i usually couldn't remember their names to begin with so it wasn't like i was being shunned by family or friends.. this story begins at the mall, where i was with my wife (*sbm), not my favorite place to be...but the sacrifices we have to make sometimes...you married guys know.... anyhoo, we're in a common area near the food court, deciding if we wanted to get a snack or just hold out for real food in a real restaurant somewhere else, when a "sister" we've known for years spots my wife and comes up.

  we've known this person for over 20 years...we go way back.

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  why did you let them have the upper hand in the conversation ?

  Since you were not in a KH, or AH, standing there and making your presence known, getting involved with their conversation and refusing them the satisfaction of their "religious rightousness" I believe would have made much more of an impact then walking away and allowing them to play out their little superiority role-playing.
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  My wounds opened up badly today

  by Maddie in

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  the past three weeks having been so stressful and very sad.

  my ex husband died after being in hospital for just over a week in intensive care.. i was just 18 and he was 21 when we first met and after a whirlwind romance we married 6 months later and have two sons together who are now adults.

  although our marriage ended after 25 years and i remarried 7 years ago, he was my first love and i knew him for most of my life.

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  I'm so sorry, and I also am speechless at the way you are being treated.
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  Anyone know about this pro JW website?

  by middleman in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  looks interesting.... .

  http://www.scripturaltruths.com/.

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  lancelink

  Our death is no different than the death of an animal, the end result being the same for both. All is “all vanity” in death, for “all go to one place” and “all return to dust.” It does not matter what we might do now, this outcome will be the same for everyone unless the end comes first. This does not mean we have no hope beyond death, for we do in the resurrection.

  I remember as a witness telling people who lost a loved one in death pretty much the same thing..In fact when my grandmother died a certain fanatical sisiter came to the funeral, stood me in front of the coffin and told me in no uncertain terms that she was dead, and would soon awaken after armageddon

  yet since my Mom died back in September I have been attended a grief support group at the local hospital. Many who were in this group had no main religious belief, And as I listened to their stories, and situations I was struck by how different each one of them grasped the entire concept of death.

  I would sometimes step back as an experiment, and revert to the JW mindset and think how they were wrong, and that there is only ONE condition of the dead,, the one that the WTS spells out.

  As the weeks progressed i slowly began to realize how inhumane, and cold it would be to crush the hope that someone is leaning on at their difficult time. I remember the witnesses at my old hall cruising the obituary column of the paper, looking for people to write letters to and count it as FS time.

  looking back, I see that there is a major part of humanity missing from people who do things like that, now I look at people who have lost loved ones as very fragile, and they no doubt reevaluate their beliefs and find great comfort in certain aspects of their faith.

  having someone come along with a "My religion alone knows what the Bible says attitude" is very uncaring.

  Something is emotionally missing from people who claim to be 100% right, and know everything that the bible says,,, It is a personal journey for each one of us.