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songs to leave by
by spider inwhen you were leaving the witnesses, were there songs you liked to play which expressed something of what you were feeling?.
here are the tracks which i turned up and sang to:.
who wants to live forever?
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1000 leaving Bethel - Why?
by spider inbill said something in his "disfellowshiped" post which i found very interesting.
well, a change occurred at the end of april much like what happened in china.the conservatives used silentlambs as an excuse to squash the liberals and any chance of reform in the organization.why do you think they are asking for 1,000 to leave bethel?
it is the liberals, they are being kicked out wholesale and by doing so the last chance for the organization to save itself.the battle is over, jaracz won.. i had heard about the 1000 people leaving bethel but it was spoken of as "downsizing".
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Are U.S. witnesses still morally superior?
by spider infrom the perspective of a uk observer it seems to me that the divide between 'the world' as it is in conservative heartlands of the us, and the mindset of the jehovah's witness is getting narrower by the day.. is there really a big difference between a jw and a majority of people in such places?
in the newspaper today i read how the new film alexander was being slated for showing alexander the great as a bisexual.
the uk independent reported that one online critic has warned christians that are considering seeing the film to "speak to your pastors immediately because satan is attempting to enter your mind".
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JW cd-rom availability?
by spider ini was looking for a watchtower cd rom, and as i can't go through official chanels, i looked at e-bay to see if they had it.
yes, there it was - but i found to my surprise that people are making copies and selling it - there is one here which is going for $31 dollars so far, and its still got a day and half to go.
check it out (paste it into address field).
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FOR GODS SAKE!!!!!
by spider in.
won't you shut up with all your arguing for ten minutes and concentrate on the threads that really matter.
people are hurting and you can't hear it for all the shouting in here.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=35125&site=3
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other side of the coin
by spider inperhaps i will be attacked for this thread, i am not sure.i am as shocked as can be by the terrorist atrosity perpetrated today.i have watched all afternoon and evening and still can't quite take it in.. i have heard the people involved described as evil cowards in the west.i accept this statement and as i have aleady stated deplore the action but i feel that the media only shows one side of the coin.. the pilots that commited suicide were certainly not cowards.they believed in their cause enough to give their lives for it.these, along with the many that orchestrated this event put a lot of time, money and sacrifice in to this.. this is the part of the story i am unclear about.this is the part which is not being explained - at least not to my feeble understanding.. why do so many of the middle eastern countries hate the west as much as they do.sure iraq has good reason but what about the others.. there are two sides to every story and as much as i hate what has happened i wonder what theirs is.why do they dance on the streets now?
america has bombed countries.in serbia to get rid of milosivich.they must have hated america then but this was out of a lack of information.. i do not believe evil exists - evil acts but not evil as an entity.it is all too easy when asked why atrosity is performed to simply answer - the person was evil.there has got to be more to it than that.
what brought about these murderous acts.was it the kind of mind control that was perpetrated on us as witnesses.after all, the witnesses would take delight in the coming armageddon when billons of people will die.. is this evidence of a similar condition?.
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UK can get Dateline too
by spider ini noticed yesterday as i flicked through the freebie channels that a new one had been added.its called cnbc and what happened to be up next - dateline.i only have a basic ntl cable package.i guess you can probably get it on sky digital as well.so us brits don't have to miss the show after all.
hoorah!
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paranoid android
by spider indid you used to get people in your cong that were more sensitive to the demonic influences than others.some people just used to get bad feelings about an innocious piece of music.a tears for fears song did it for one of my old friends.then there are others that sense a satanic presence around inanimate objects.. satan was everywhere and in everything.kate bush was a witch - so was the girl out of fleetwood mac.some records had secret messages that if you tilted your head and turned three times said "worship satan" .
there probably are such messages in metal music but they used to be so paranoid it reached ridiculous levels.
"don't you hear it - listen again but slow it down more" .
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should witnesses be vegetarian?
by spider invegetarianism and the respect for life .
or why aren?t witnesses vegetarian?.
this is not my own argument for vegetarianism, but merely one which i might challenge a witness to, from the perspective of their own belief system.
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leaving well enough alone
by spider inits late and i am tired but i'm kinda stirred up.
i forgot it could get like this.
i left the religion behind and its fine really - nicely in the past - of course i got issues and i get angry sometimes but i left it all behind - all the friends.