RunningMan
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Education - How encouraging low self esteem creates better witnesses.
by BigG infunny title you might think but consider this point and apologies if i am covering old ground here...its not intentional.. i was raised by my mother who was and is a devout jw and as such until i was 20 (10 years ago) i was the same...trying my best to fit into the social environment i clearly was not made for but benefiting from good wholesome association with fellow brothers and sisters (note the sarcastic tone...make what you will of it).. althought at the time i didnt realise it but i was what others consider intelligent and quite academically able; i had a mind like a sponge and would spend hours in the jw library at the kh (which surprisingly enough contained non jw literature)...it was this that i read and would digest endlessly where i could.. one of those books (why it was there i dont know), was what i later undertood to be criminal law reports concerning cases that had gone before the courts.
my childish thirst for knowledge was intrigued...(i was then about 12).
the legal arguments i hadnt a clue what they meant but the facts surrounding these crimes were good reading.. i then knew i wanted to be a lawyer and that was what i said when an elder asked me what i wanted to do when i grew up; i mentioned trusting this man that i had read a book in the kh library and found it interesting...and that i wanted to be lawyer...i remember him smiling and saying that it was better to pioneer rather than seek a highly paid job...personally i didnt know what he meant properly but i felt a bit sad...and demotivated...i later in the week went back into the library and found the book had gone...!!.
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Your First Christmas Tree?
by BrendaCloutier inthe end of 1986 i moved from my hometown of portland oregon to the big city of seattle.. it was 1987 and some new friends from that summer (met sailboat racing on puget sound) called and said they had permits and were going christmas tree hunting, did i want to come along.
yeah, of course.
should be fun!.
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Bumper Sticker
by BrendaCloutier ini saw this the other day and really like the sentiment.
god bless the whole world.
no exceptions!.
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Some figures for the 2004 Annual Service Report - taken from E-Watchman
by truthseeker ininteresting points below.... http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/viewtopic.php?t=1194&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0.
we have now received the 2004 service year report in feb 1st 2005 watchtower.
there have been good things happening over the year.
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Ray Franz cash pay off...?
by Gill inwhen ray franz left brooklyn, he and his wife were given a $10,000 pay off according to crisis of conscience.. was this an act of christianity or was it a pay off to keep him silent about the 'inner workings of the borg'?.
i wondered this because he put up with a lot of defamatory gossip before, after two years, deciding to write his book?.
any one any ideas?
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2004 Worlwide Report
by frogit ini have the scanned 2004 report pm me and i will email them to you.
grand total (235 lands) 6,513,132 2004 av pubs 6,308,341 inc over 2003 % 2.0 2004 no baptised 262,416 av pio pubs 858,461 no of congs 96,894 toal hours 1,282,234,887 av bible studies 6,085,387 memorial attendance 16,760,607 memorial partakers 8,570. note the fine increase!.
frogit.
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What happens when 144K all die?
by M.J. insorry for my ignorance but,.
what is the wts's stance on the dying out "anointed class"?
don't they comprise the "faithful, discreet slave"?
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John the Baptist cave found? Does the WTS agree it is?
by catchthis inhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041205/sc_afp/israel_antiquities_religion_041205191050
i wonder if the wts will side with the doubting critics solely for what is said here:several crosses and a rough drawing of a severed head were also carved into the walls, illustrating john's death by beheading at the hands of herod antipas, ruler of the northern galilee region at the time.
on one hand, they would love to say with certainty that archeologists have found conclusive evidence, outside the biblical account, that jtb exisited.
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Is the word "bulletin" negative?
by crizlee inat last nights meeting my dad gave the announcements and he said bulletin board.
after the meeting an elder came up to him to tell him that bulletin is a negative word and to say information board next time.
whats up with that?