Topics Started by dh
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She Went To Sleep And Woke Up 30 Years Later
by dh injust came accross this interesting story, it's old news but still thought it was an interesting read.... .
she went to sleep and woke up 30 years later .
the real-life story of annie shapiro - who fell into a coma at age 50 in 1963 - is more remarkable than the movie based on her miraculous re-awakening.
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Are JW's no part of the world...? I think not!
by dh indoesn't it make you laugh when you see jw's preaching to themselves that they are no part of the world and should not have any part in the world, one foot in the world and one foot with jehovah cannot work.. the question is, if jw's want no part of the world, why do they wear clothes made by worldly people, drive cars designed and made by worldly people, work for worldly people, eat food produced by worldly people, sit on toilets that were designed by worldly people, live in cities and society built and created by worldly people, in fact why do they partake in everything the world offers except a few hand picked things?
how can you claim to be 'no part of the world' when you live, breath, eat sleep, drive, fly, live in and everything else as part of it, using the tools that world provides... how can driving a worldy made car and eating worldly made food and all of the above be classed as being no part of the world?.
if jw's really wanted no part of the world, they would live like hamish, but as with everything else jw, they give a thing a name that it is not, they say they want no part in the world, yet i doubt even the bricks, hard seats and green carpets in their kingdom halls were made by anyone but worldly people... .
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Lawyers Who Deal With Disfellowshipping
by dh inis there a directory of lawyers who have experience in helping jw's with judicial df'ing issues?
what i mean by helping, is a lawyer who knows the df procedure, and will inform the elders that he/she will be attending the judicial meeting with the person etc.
if the elders refuse point blank to allow it, then a lawyer who knows how to pressure them so that they cannot announce the disfellowshipping or ever speak about it, as it would be slander would be very useful.. i think that there should be (may already be) lawyers out there who up to speed on this, and if they aren't, they should be brought up to speed by us, the ex jw community on what to expect from judicial meetings, and on the whole jw procedure of disfellowshipping etc.
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How long before wireless internet is everywhere?
by dh infor you people interested in the internet and technology, how long do you think it will be before we have wireless internet everywhere?
when the net is as freely & readily available as air, all you need do is log on, from anywhere... how long do you think... five years?
ten years?
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Marine on liberty dies in gunbattle with police
by dh ini saw this story on the news last night, it showed the full video of the guy gunning the cops down point blank, they had no chance really, you could see he was trained to do the job.
did this story make headlines over there or is it being kept quiet?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/us/01/11/marine.shooting/.
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What gives any being the right to be worshipped?
by dh in.
i'm not sure if i've phrased the question correctly, but what is it that you think gives god or whoever else the right to ask (or demand) the worship of us humans.
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Who here still finds it hard to celebrate Christmas?
by dh ini was raised a jw and as i've probably said before, i left when i was around 18... i'll be 27 in a few days, and as i get older realise how i do not really know how to celebrate anything.
being raised a jw we never had xmas or birthdays (or any celebration), and since none of the friends i had when i left the jw's were christian either, i have to this day never celebrated it... i am not christian and will openly admit that i couldn't care less about the religious side of christmas, but what i see around me, everywhere in the world are people who aren't really christian either, celebrating christmas, either for kids or friends or whatever, but i've never done that or had anyone around me to do that with... people look forward to this time of year so much, they buzz and rush around like it's a real event, and to this day i've never been able to feel that way.
most of my christmas/birthdays since leaving jw's have been spent by myself, completely devoid of celebration, i want to get into that feel good spirit, but i don't know how, and if i try to fake it, i know it is fake.
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Crisis Of Conscience - What Did The Society Say?
by dh ini remember reading somewhere online that the society have banned jw's from reading ray franz book; crisis of conscience.
i wondered what the details of this were, have they actually named the book in any of their publications?
or spoken publicly against it?