likeabird
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Are you more ecological, more economical or more wasteful? Did your habits change at all when you left the borg?
by likeabird ini know from living on a borg budget, you don't have much choice but to live economically.
recycling, while ecological, can also be a form of economy.. did the verse "god will bring to ruin those ruining the earth" play a guilt factor in your ecological habits?
i know it used to hum along in the back of my mind.. did any of your habits change when you left the borg?
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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 inthe 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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Time for a quiz! Guess when this happened!
by likeabird inlet's enjoy yet another meeting-free tuesday night with a quick quiz.. .
here's your clue:.
in the space of ten years, this religious organization produced and distributed over 23 million publications.. .
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Check this out!!!
by likeabird inwe all know how the wt likes to go on about how the church would prevent the common person from reading the bible, wanting to keep everyone in the dark, well, they seem to have conveniently missed out a good part of history in the process.. .
notice how what this book on the history of literacy campaigns says on church involvement in encouraging people to read the bible seems to have been completely overlooked in wt publications:.
in the case of sweden, a church law of 1686 required children, farm hands, and maid servants to learn to read and see with their own eyes what god bids and commands in his word.
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Time for a laugh - Two great comedy routines on Noah
by likeabird inthis would make a great audio drama :.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfu92tdr8rg.
my apologies if someone posted this one recently :.
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Where do faders figure in the annual report?
by likeabird inwe 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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Were you a meeter and greeter or a background observer?
by likeabird ini'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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Pope calls for action on child abuse - could you imagine the GB ever doing that?
by likeabird insaw this on the news.
do you think we'd ever see the same from the gb?.
in any case, i'm not betting any money on it!.
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Hello Lurkers - remember you have a choice
by likeabird inthis 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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A quick Saturday Morning Survey - The Results
by likeabird ina few weeks ago i posted a survey on the following thread :.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/241790/1/a-quick-saturday-morning-survey-to-believe-or-not-to-believe.
we got over 80 replies, so a big thank you to all who contributed.. i've been going through the results,and breaking them down to make different comparisons.