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If You Weren't In Rapt Attention What Did You Think About During The Meetings?
by minimus ini used to think of leaving early.
at the end i started making excuses to leave (supposedly work related) so that i could just get out of there.
i wanted a drink!.
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Did leaving the WT build greater appreciation for or kill your reading of the Bible?
by lepermessiah ini am really on the fence on this issue right now and would love some opinions.. i find that i dont sit down and read the bible for long periods since becoming inactive, but on the other hand, individual scriptures mean much more to me now.. i will sit down and look up some favorite passages from time to time and feel like its the first time i really "got it" - without the jw goggles on.
i love matthew chapter 23, since i think it describes to a tee the situation in jw congregations.
i think if jesus returned today, he would blast the elders and "leaders" of the borg in a similar fashion (along with most religious leaders) .matthew 24 is actually more interesting to me now, simply because my whole life was waiting for the 1914 generation to end sometime during the reagan era!
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What's your personality type? Myers-Briggs test
by frankiespeakin intake this 72 yes/no question test to find out.. http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp.
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conventions on jw.org
by bereanbiblestudent inthe watchtower site added a new function called lookup to find where the conventions are held and when.. do they not tell that at the kingdom hall?.
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Should I have ridden Disney's Carousel?
by Bystander39 insince witnesse beliefs state to avoid all thing with shady, war-like, occult, etc.
background, the following information taken from zigzone.com caused me to wonder if they are allowed to ride the carousel at disney world.
weren't we told to avoid playing chess because of its war training background?.
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Ambiguities surrounding the enforcement of Watchtower rules
by drew sagan ini could write a good bit on this topic, but thought i would simply open this up for discussion.
here are a few things to think about:.
- the watchtower has no fundamental writing that it turns to as its foundational text.
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Is the YMCA now a concience matter?.....
by Aussie Oz inthe following is a little exchange on facebook i had, me playing devils advocate.
now, i am well aware after a search of the wt library 08 that the wbts saw no problem using ymca pools to do baptisms in the 1950s, and then in the 1979 had the big article saying a jw cannot join the y. so is this guy wrong, or has it changed?.
you wroteon january 9, 2010 at 8:25pm.
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Ladies, MS or Elders?
by asilentone inladies, while you were in the org, did you wish to be ms or elder?
has any conversation take place between jw ladies about this issue ?.
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Nine year old baptized
by EmptyInside inthis weekend at the circuit assembly, (i stayed home, thank goodness), i heard a nine year -old girl was baptized.
and she seems a bit mature for her age, but hardly mature enough,in my opinion, to make such a choice on her own.
it seems to be a trend in our circuit right now.
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"Old School" Elders
by xelder inin the last few years that i served as an elder, and as i was discovering what the wts really was, the term "old school" would be used and it began to bother me more and more.
it was usually used to praise a person with a mean, unwaivering, dogmatism to an obselete policy.
a couple of times i would ask the person what he meant by the term.