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  JERRY FALWELL DEAD

  by sf in

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  breaking news on all stations.. skally.

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  Gary1914

  Jerry Falwell has a look-alike cousin who is a Jehovah's Witness. I cannot remember his name but he served as a Circuit Overseer in the northeast some years ago.
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  J.R. Brown's lie exposed on Youtube. (effective?)

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  ok, let me know, could you hear ok?

  was it on the mark?

  is it a hit or a miss?.

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  Gary1914

  Loved it! Especially the chant "liar" in the background and the nose growing.

  Effective and funny. What more could you want?
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  Are JW's generally better than average people?

  by JH in

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  i for one, would blindly trust just about anyone on this forum, just the fact of knowing that you already were a jw.. does this mean that jw's in general are better people or are we a very close bunch of people?.

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  Gary1914

  Actually Rosalee did not apologize at all. Her statement of "apology" was more of her condemnation of the people here.

  She has the nerve to imply that only she and her fellow Witnesses are Christians, Nothing could be further from the fact. You don't have to be a Witness to be a Christian.

  Reading over Rosalee's posts I have come to the conclusion that she is not a very nice person and for all her bravado, she appears to be a very sad person as well.
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  Are JW's generally better than average people?

  by JH in

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  i for one, would blindly trust just about anyone on this forum, just the fact of knowing that you already were a jw.. does this mean that jw's in general are better people or are we a very close bunch of people?.

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  Gary1914

  hillary_step,

  Touché!
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  Are JW's generally better than average people?

  by JH in

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  i for one, would blindly trust just about anyone on this forum, just the fact of knowing that you already were a jw.. does this mean that jw's in general are better people or are we a very close bunch of people?.

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  Gary1914

  You mistake arrogance in me with having high standards. Seems you used to have some too.

  Dear Rosalie, I doubt anyone here faults you for having high standards. But please realize that one does not have to be a Jehovah's Witness to have high standards. It's a big world and there are many people in it who try to live a good, moral, honest life without becoming a member of the Watchtower organization or any other organized religion for that matter.

  To imply that someone does not have high standards just because they were once a Jehovah's Witness and are no longer a witness is unfair and myopic. There were people with high standards before God "spoke" to Pastor Russell and there continues to be people with high standards who never heard of Jehovah's Witnesses. In fact, I wager to guess that there are plenty of people in "God's organization" who don't live the high moral life that they preach about. If you peel back the surface layer of the lives of many witnesses, you will find a festering boil that needs to be lanced.

  I am presently an elder and I know what I am talking about. Some of the most active witnesses are those that are trying to atone for a past (and sometimes present) life that is devoid of high standards. It's good that you are here. Most people here are good people, fine people, who have had a rude awakening. The organization that they believed taught the truth is nothing more that a multi-million dollar publishing corporation. The religious part of this corporation helps them to avoid taxes, employ workers without having to pay them, thereby to grow bigger and richer. Their operation as a corporation is not exemplary or christian like and they are plagued with problems and liabilities that most corporations are. If you knew about the inner workings of the corporation you would not be so quick to defend them.

  You seem to have benefited from being part of the Watchtower organization. Truthfully, many people have. Some people need to be told what to do with their lives. Many people are at a crossroads and the witnesses make them feel superior, special, that have some mission that no one else has. That they alone live high moral lives. That they alone have Jehovah's ear and that he listens only to their prayers. Yes, the Watchtower has perfected their approach and their message. It is why initially so many people fall for their spin.
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  Are JW's generally better than average people?

  by JH in

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  i for one, would blindly trust just about anyone on this forum, just the fact of knowing that you already were a jw.. does this mean that jw's in general are better people or are we a very close bunch of people?.

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  Gary1914

  Hi Rosalee.

  It seems to be it's all semantics. You said that the mature brothers in your congregation are not interested in counting time, but in finding meek ones. Well, they feel that way because the Watchtower organization tells them to. It tells them to go from door to door seeking meek ones to come to Jehovah's. Sounds great, huh? A lofty and noble assignment.

  What the Watchtower organization does not tell the brothers is that their door to door preaching is actually a recruitment technique. Oh, they clothe it in pretty language so that the brothers feel that they are working for Jehovah when, in fact, the brothers are spending their time seeking recruits for the Watchtower organization. It's a multi-tiered operation.

  For example, say you Rosalee are working in field service looking as you call it "for meek ones to come to Jehovah." If you can win that person over, he/she in time will become one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Then that person will engage in the door to door work and find someone else that wants to be a Jehovah's Witnesses. Neither you or your new recruits know the real reason you are being recruited.

  Every new person that the Watchtower recruits with the aid of free salesmen, contributes monetarily to the organization. So every new recruit is money in the bank. Sometimes these new recruits have property that they Will to the society, sometimes they have life savings they they give to the organization. Sometimes, the recruit lives from paycheck to paycheck but because he is told that contributing to the world wide work is something Jehovah wants, he gives a portion of his small earnings each week to the Watchtower. He truly believes that he is doing it for Jehovah, but it is only going to finance a man made organization.

  The bigger the organization becomes the more credible it becomes, the more people it can attract, the richer it becomes, and so on.

  When Pastor Russell declared that organized religion was a snare and a racket, he was just not whistling Dixie.

  Are JW's generally better than average people? Well, average people do not have their habits, tastes and desires legislated by the Watchtower organization, giving the appearance that they are a better class of people.
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  Any current Good Standing JW, posting here?

  by NotaNess in

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  i was wondering if there are any current regular posters here that are still active , but are mentally inactive and don't believe all the bull anymore, and are just going through the motions to keep their life with friends and family together.. i realize this might be a posting that will probably get 0 replies, but.......

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  Gary1914

  ROFLMAO!! Your congregation must really feel blessed eh?

  Oh yes, Mary. The PO is always complimenting me on what a fine example I am setting for the congregation.

  I am often called on to give an experience I've encountered in the field service. I have a number of them that I have thought up and written down to be used in an emergency.

  It's just too bad that I cannot take any of the brothers on my many bible studies with me, but I have to always take my wife with me to teach her and to help her make her time. Fortunately we have our own territory card so that we can go out evenings when we don't have meetings. We are always busy in "Jehovah's work."

  What makes it easier is that I am blessed with a wife who is starting to feel the way that I do and who loves to sleep in on weekends.
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  Any current Good Standing JW, posting here?

  by NotaNess in

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  i was wondering if there are any current regular posters here that are still active , but are mentally inactive and don't believe all the bull anymore, and are just going through the motions to keep their life with friends and family together.. i realize this might be a posting that will probably get 0 replies, but.......

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  Gary1914

  Yes, I am still in.

  I am an elder in my congregation and while I feel guilty about it, I just can't step right now.

  I have devised a scheme where I no longer go out in field service. I just write the number of hours, return visits and bible studies on the report every month and no one is the wiser. I must say that my hours are well above the national adverage.
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  JWs in Unlikely Marriages

  by Clam in

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  a few weeks back i had the pleasure in meeting a druid.

  chatting away about all things spiritual he informed me that he was married to a jw.

  imagine my surprise.

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  Gary1914

  I know a marriage that I always thought was a little peculiar.

  He is a 20 year old from Pennsylvania. She is a 42 year old from Jamaica, the Caribbean island.

  She has 6 children from a previous relationship. Her oldest girl is 16. The children were being cared for by her mother in Jamaica while she came to the United States to work and send money back.

  When these two got married they sent for all six children. They had one child of their own, a daughter.

  I don't want to say more on fear that they are recognized, but that was one coupling I could never understand.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 4-1-07 WT Study (RESPECT HUSBAND)

  by blondie in

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  comments you will not hear at the 04-01-07 wt study (february 15, 2007, pages 18-22)(respect husband).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  Gary1914

  11) When encouraging Christians to be submissive even to harsh, unjust authorities of this world, Peter explained: "In fact, to this course you were called, because even Christ suffered for you, leaving you a model for you to follow his steps closely." (1 Peter 2:21) After describing how much Jesus suffered and how he submissively endured, Peter encouraged wives of unbelieving husbands: "In like manner, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, in order that, if any are not obedient to the word, they may be won without a word through the conduct of their wives, because of having been eyewitnesses of your chaste conduct together with deep respect."-1 Peter 3: 1, 2.

  Thanks Blondie. Superb review!

  When reading the above paragraph I could not help but think that Christians wives do not have to sleep with unjust authorities, cook their meals, wash their clothes, bear their children or give these authorities their marital due. So I just don't see how this analogy applies to the relationship between husband and wife.

  I think the whole article is insulting to women and speaks of a time when women were considered property. And again.... Satan the Devil is to blame!