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JW's and Kingdom Halls making money off worldly people ???
by run dont walk inmy wife works at a clinic in a strip mall beside a kingdom hall, she worked there about 8 months, well apparently the clinic she works for rents (donates) parking spaces from the kingdom hall (and its a huge hall, wow, probaly used to be a church) on a monthly basis, and so do many other businesses in the strip mall (dental clinic, optometrist, etc,) the mall is always full.
i don't mean to nit-pick on the witnesses, but does anyone else find this odd, i wonder if they pay tax on that money or claim it as donations, why would you rent space to business that go against bible principles.
what if the business was an abortion clinic ?
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When was the first mention of a "paradise earth" and what publication ???
by run dont walk inwhen did the paradise earth idea get started, and where did rutherford get the idea ???.
what publication was it first mentioned in and or talk given ???.
any ideas ?
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How can women be part of the annoited class, but NOT of the congregation ?
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okay, its common fact, that the so called "annoited class" is made up of men and women,.
so, if women are part of the 144,000, serving in heaven with christ, why is it, women have no place in the congregation, except as sub housewifes, cannot give talks, prayers, any kind of responsibility, etc, but yet a women could have served 30-40 years as a special pioneer, and her son lets say 18, can become a ministeral servant, with no pioneering (or very little) and she cant.. hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmm, any thoughts
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page 3000 coming up, what's your favorite topics, what interests you ?
by run dont walk inwell, page 3000 coming up, thats over 45,000 topics for discussion, is there anything else to talk about ?.
since you've been here , what is your favorite topic, what topics interest you the most?.
this is not a popularity thread, a popular topic thread, topics not posters.. some of my favorites, were seven006 topic on my two weeks at bethel, the beginning of the end, if you have not read this 5 or 6 part series, you must !!!!
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Why the fascination with death and paradise, What are the older ones like ?
by run dont walk inisn't this all the jw religion is about, nobody wants to die, just live forever.
what did you notice about the older ones in your congregation, did you find them content in their older days, or scared to death of death and fear.. if the jw religion was so right, why would older ones near death be so scared, as opposed to welcomeing it and be happy for what was to come.(paradise).
personally i noticed the older and more limited a person got, the more cranky, complained, criticized they became, my family is a perfect example, my mom does nothing but complain, feel guilty about everything and is the most unhappiest person their is.. i told her if this is how you feel, how can you say the jw religion is right ???.
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Disfellowshipping, strangest stories, what are yours ???
by run dont walk init seems people get disfellowshipped for a wide variety of reasons, .
of course the most obvious ones are, sexual, drinking and or drugs.. but, i have seen a few strange ones .......... i remember a brother in our congregation getting df'd because he went to a strip bar, i admit it not the greatest place to hang out, but df'd for this.
it's not illegal.. another got df'd for because the elders felt he was pushing his business too much at the kingdom hall.
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Websites for Rutherford and latest Watchtowers
by run dont walk init has been posted before, but i found a great website a while back www.ctrussell.us/ has all of russells literature at your fingertips,.
does anyone know of a site for all of rutherfords wonderful publications ????.
also is there a site somewhere that posts the latest watchtower magazines, gotta be a bethelite somewhere who does this, and if no then why not, do they not want all the good news to be preached in all the inhabited earth so the end will come ??
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What is your favorite topic to discuss with family or witnesses ?
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anything in particular you like throwing in your family's face or to jw's.
what topics, just get you going ???????
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NFL KICKOFF why is it so popular ???, did you gamble as a JW ???
by run dont walk inwell, the nfl is due to kickoff thursday, with the rest of the games going next sunday,.
many people outside the usa/canada probaly can't figure out why it is so popular, rugby definitely has more action and contact, soccer shows incredible skills even in low scoring games and they pack the crowds in, aussie rules football is very entertaining, so why is american football so popular ???.
the main reason .......... las vegas and gambling, plus the endless amount of pools (millions ansd millions)(i'm in 6 as of now, vary from $50-$500) across the nation.. most people don't care who wins, but by how much they win by, i have been in vegas and seen people pull out $100,000 to wager on a single game.
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Marriage, JW's seem to change, don't they ???
by run dont walk inone thing that used to really bug me alot when i was a jw,.
we all had our circle of friends in jw land, now when some got a girlfriend you would see them less, that's natural, if they break-up you would see them more, okay, but why was it when after they got married, it was like they never knew you, then they would only talk to and hang out with other jw couples that were married.
it is almost like you got df'd from some friends because you were not married.. anyone experience this ??