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  Your Favorite JW Guilt Trips

  by Wordly Andre in

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  what are your favorite jw guilt trips?

  mine are: "you hurt my feelings when you say things like that" and "oh i pray to jehovah, that you will come back, what did we do wrong with you"

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  Confucious

  We'll you do know there was an earthquake in India this past weekend, right?
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  Online games

  by RollerDave in

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  ok, here's a safer topic.. what is with people who can live their entire life in an online game?.

  i have an ex who submerged herself in world of warcraft and insisted on talking about characters, places, events, and items from in-game as if they existed in the real world.. she would start off telling me she was going someplace to do something, and in the end it would be 'wait a minute, this is all in-game?!?'.

  then i'd be all exasperated that she'd wasted my time.. she even tried to leave her husband and child for some guy from texas who 'fell in love' with her avvie on star wars galaxies!.

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  I'll give you the whole run down.

  I play World of Warcraft.

  We all fall under one of the following catagories...

  Real Life Losers: These are people that don't really function in real life. But they are so good at these games, that this is their calling. If you are good and you have good "gear" in the game? Like your character can beat up a lot of people. And in these games, when you get rare items and you are good - you are really a celebrity in this world.

  Escape People: In my real life, I function very well. I have healthy relationships. But I tell you, to be "someone else" for a while is priceless. This is me.

  Social Seekers: People that really like hanging out with these other people. It's a REAL LIFE social networking. It's not just the game. There are guilds that you belong. A lot of funny chat.

  True Gamers: These are the people that really enjoy playing the game. The game is really fun.

  Other than that... like items in the game are really hard to "earn." It's the same as in real life. You work hard, and you get buy cool stuff.

  In this game, there really is a sense of satisfaction when you work hard to get a piece.

  And in these games, you get an item. You turn off the game, you log back on and you still have your item.

  It's not like a game like monopoly where when you're done - your finished and you start over from zero.

  Yes... people take this too far sometimes, but at least now you have some insight!

  Confucious
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  USA Should Declare Bankruptcy?

  by sammielee24 in

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  the fevered efforts to save the financial system, typified by today's panicked three-quarter-point interest rate cut by the federal reserve and the bush/paulson stimulus plan not only will not work, but will backfire spectacularly, and soon, economist lyndon larouche warned today.

  the financial system is dead, and any attempt to save the fictitious values of the trillions of dollars of worthless financial paper will not only fail, but will destroy any nation foolish enough to attempt to do so, larouche said.the global financial system, emphatically including the united states, is entering a period comparable to that of weimar germany in the autumn of 1923, but on a far larger scale.

  whereas the damage from the runaway hyperinflation in weimar germany was largely restricted to germany itself, the current crisis is global in scale.

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  True. That was a general sweepings statement.

  And I know it is a mess.

  Basically we've become a country that doesn't produce anything.
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  Auxiliary Pioneer ya lazy B*$tard$!!!

  by Open mind in

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  for those who no longer get your monthly km, i thought i'd just share a little "encouraging" tidbit from the material scheduled for this week's service meeting (tm).. there's a 20 minute "regurgitate the paragraph" session entitled "pioneer or die" or something like that.

  i can't remember the exact title right now, but it was one of the most blatant "beat the sheep.

  you're not good enough" articles i've seen in quite a while.

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  Here are some other ones that can Aux Pioneer...

  People who Own Pets

  Ones That Have Cable TV

  Artistic People

  People Without Disbilities

  Those the Own Cell Phones
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  USA Should Declare Bankruptcy?

  by sammielee24 in

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  2. friends

  the fevered efforts to save the financial system, typified by today's panicked three-quarter-point interest rate cut by the federal reserve and the bush/paulson stimulus plan not only will not work, but will backfire spectacularly, and soon, economist lyndon larouche warned today.

  the financial system is dead, and any attempt to save the fictitious values of the trillions of dollars of worthless financial paper will not only fail, but will destroy any nation foolish enough to attempt to do so, larouche said.the global financial system, emphatically including the united states, is entering a period comparable to that of weimar germany in the autumn of 1923, but on a far larger scale.

  whereas the damage from the runaway hyperinflation in weimar germany was largely restricted to germany itself, the current crisis is global in scale.

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  All of Economy is Fallacy.

  Our economy is based on fiat currency.

  It's just a bridge for exchange of goods and services.
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  USA Should Declare Bankruptcy?

  by sammielee24 in

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  2. friends

  the fevered efforts to save the financial system, typified by today's panicked three-quarter-point interest rate cut by the federal reserve and the bush/paulson stimulus plan not only will not work, but will backfire spectacularly, and soon, economist lyndon larouche warned today.

  the financial system is dead, and any attempt to save the fictitious values of the trillions of dollars of worthless financial paper will not only fail, but will destroy any nation foolish enough to attempt to do so, larouche said.the global financial system, emphatically including the united states, is entering a period comparable to that of weimar germany in the autumn of 1923, but on a far larger scale.

  whereas the damage from the runaway hyperinflation in weimar germany was largely restricted to germany itself, the current crisis is global in scale.

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  The US Economy is not good.

  But the world is pegged on our economy.

  The world NEEDS us to be strong.

  Look what happened when Wall Street took off for MLK Day. The word panic'd and their markets tumbled.

  Bernake cut 3/4. Wall Street went back up and so did the World Makets.

  I agree... it's a mess. A big mess.

  But people are just NOT going to stop living. They are going to buy. They are going to go into debt.
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  New Crop of C.O.'s - Charismatic or Company Men?

  by Confucious in

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  just a fun discussion thread here.. when i first was involved in the wt - probably early 90's.... all the c.o.

  's were really charismatic men.. i know part of it was that the wt gave the men a lot of leway on their talks.

  pretty much they can use their speaking talents.. i mean, some of the c.o.

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  Robinson Caruso...

  I do understand what you say, but that's not a fair comparison.

  We as JDubs spend a lifetime listening to boring talks all year.

  We all know this is true.

  Our one reprive is 2 weeks a year when the C.O. comes and we get treated to a couple of good charasmatic talks.

  Con
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  really need some help please

  by Erichhhhhhhhh in

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  hey everyone, my name is erich and i'm 19 and i have just suffered a break up with my jehovahs witness girlfriend.

  we dated for over two years and we recently broke up.

  i broke up with her because she was sad that she wasn't true to her religion and i felt terrible i was keeping her from it.

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  Erich...

  I actually feel your pain.

  My advice is to just move on.

  What will help you is knowing that JW for the most part are confused people.

  We are a repressed people and our minds are constantly fighting with our heart.

  In short, your ex gf is probably as perplexed as you.

  Con
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  New Crop of C.O.'s - Charismatic or Company Men?

  by Confucious in

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  just a fun discussion thread here.. when i first was involved in the wt - probably early 90's.... all the c.o.

  's were really charismatic men.. i know part of it was that the wt gave the men a lot of leway on their talks.

  pretty much they can use their speaking talents.. i mean, some of the c.o.

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  Going along with Billy's thoughts...

  I did the cong accounting for almost 10 years. During that time, I got to see the C.O. expense reinburments get more and more bizarre.

  The last C.O. had like grooming supplies from Wal-mart and stuff like that.

  And of course it has to be "approved" by the cong from the stage - which was a joke. All approved? Anyone not approve we pay this?

  But for this C.O. I had to just gloss over the expenses.

  Also.. in the beginning, the nights with the C.O. - I looked foward to the Tues/Thurs and Sunday talks.

  It was your one break and I have to say the talks were enjoyable. But the last few when I went were no different that the regualr meetings we had.
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  New Crop of C.O.'s - Charismatic or Company Men?

  by Confucious in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just a fun discussion thread here.. when i first was involved in the wt - probably early 90's.... all the c.o.

  's were really charismatic men.. i know part of it was that the wt gave the men a lot of leway on their talks.

  pretty much they can use their speaking talents.. i mean, some of the c.o.

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  Confucious

  That's how I've been seeing it.

  There was a time where we would pass around "bootleg" casette recordings of C.O. talks.

  Some of them were incredibly fantastic.

  Not so much anymore.