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Is it a right or is it right?
by likeabird in
1. watchtower
2. medical
in light of the recent posts about the little boy taken out of hospital in southampton by his parents and is now somewhere between france and spain, i started reading up some of the newspaper article links posted.

i was especially interested by the comments posted.. note my surprise, and yes horror, to see a large number of people supporting the parents decision.

how the parents are fully in their rights to do such a thing, going as far as to imply they 'own' their child, so they can do what they want.. i know this is a very sensitive subject and i'm probably opening a can of worms, but i think it needs saying.
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2013 Report - difference in av. pubs compared to % of baptisms
by likeabird in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i just took the first page of the 2013 report and added two new columns to look at alternative ways of calculating the 'increase'.

first column: 2013 av.

pubs minus 2012 av.
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Where do faders figure in the annual report?
by likeabird in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
we all know that wt loves their numbers.

and they use their numbers to their advantage.

so in the annual report we have the average publishers and the peak publishers.. as i understand it, you have to have put in a service report to be counted.
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Hello Lurkers - remember you have a choice
by likeabird in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this just popped into my head, so i decided to share it with you:.

1 timothy 6:9,10.

9 but those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare+ and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge men into destruction and ruin.+10 for the love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.+.
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The AWESOME CHRISTMAS TREE thread
by likeabird in
1. jw
2. friends
awesome is a loaded word.

we may think it relates to something flashy and expensive and elaborate.

or we may think of something else.. for those of us who are out or coming out, awake, or waking up, choosing to celebrate can be very symbolic of how far we have come.
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Did you feel nervous before/while giving talks?
by likeabird in
1. jw
2. friends
the subject of feeling nervous came up in sfpw recent thread http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/268270/2/im-curious-when-you-were-asked-to-do-a-demo-for-a-service-meeting-part-how-did-the-request-make-you-feel#.uqgz_0nd13b.

it reminded me of a sister i knew.

you always knew when you got to the meeting if she had a talk that night.
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Were you a meeter and greeter or a background observer?
by likeabird in
1. jw
2. friends
i've noticed how on newbie threads everyone jumps in to say hello, even other newbies.. it got me wondering.. when you were in, were you the type to greet all the newcomers and visiting bros and siss, or would you stay in the background and wait a few meetings to manage to go over to say hello?.

i'm not particularly anti-social, but as a foreigner, meeting new people meant they felt they had the right to interrogate me on my life story in the first five minutes of the acquaintance just because they could see i wasn't one of them.

being assigned to preach with a newcomer was torturous and i would shut my eyes waiting for the interrogation to start.. so anyway, that's what made me fall into the latter group.
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Is WTBTS really imitating the first century apostles? Or could they just be copying something far closer to home?
by likeabird in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the borg likes to go on about how everything they do is in imitation of first century apostles.. .

that's what i usually asked myself.

i just couldn't imagine the apostles having to lug a heavy bag of literature door to door like we did.
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Does the borg really produce great readers? How much did you actually read when in?
by likeabird in
1. jw
2. friends
i've been reading a lot and learning even more (project deadlines to meet), getting this overwhelming satisfaction and feeling good.. and then i stopped and realised that i never got that feeling when reading borg publications.. i also realized that i have probably read more non-fiction books in the last month than i did during my whole life in the borg.. for all my reading (and i was fully in) i read no more than two wt books cover to cover.

none of my study books were studied cover to cover and wts were usually quickly underlined and rarely properly studied.

magazines were usually flicked through and resolutions to read them cover to cover rarely lasted more than a few weeks.. i did manage to read the bible through once - but that was because i was always afraid someone door to door would ask me if i had, so i figured i should just crack on with it.
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Looooooooooong Prayers...
by likeabird in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
let's have a bit of a laugh.. .

who of you rolled your eyes when brother never ending prayers was called up to give the closing prayer?.

who of you then proceeded to tap your feet, fidget loudly or start doing balancing acts off the back of the chair in front of you while waiting for it to end?.