Topics Started by dh
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Real Powerful Words, not fake ones
by dh in1877 (surrender speech) by chief joseph of the nez perce
i will fight no more forever.
i am tired of fighting.
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Classical Composers & Movie Soundtracks
by dh ini love all kinds of music and mostly listen to classic fm when i drive in the uk, being away a lot i have to rely on my .mp3 collection most of the time, or tune in online.. anyway i recently discovered a composer by the name of ludovico einaudi and i think his music is absolutely awesome, listening to it is like learning to breathe again, it's beautiful.
anyway i like a few other composers of contemporary classical type music such as john williams who does mostly movie soundtracks and a few others, and i wondered if anyone else out there was really into any contemporary classical music, movie compositions or full on classical compositions or anything like that?.
who are your favourite composers and what are your favourite movie soundtracks?
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What is The Elders Index???
by dh in.
i was recently scanning through some wt letters and i came across something interesting regarding the elders index.. basically the letter outlined that the new index was to be kept safe, a copy given to each elder, but otherwise not to be copied with a special emphasis on not putting it into a computer in any form.. from what i read the index is a document that each elder can keep one copy of, containing all the policies etc, and how to deal with things, and it wasn't referred to by any other name than 'the index', which is why i think it might be different to the elders book.. anyways this letter went on to tell criticise elder bodies for not using the index properly, saying that many elder bodies write to the society with questions on policy which are covered in the elders index, if they used it right, basically it's an efficiency thing, they want the elders to use the index instead of wasting bethel time by writing in, when most policy issues are covered in said index.. has anyone heard of this document/documents, the elders index?
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flying back to UK tomorrow, hopefully see some of you guys.
by dh ini'm flying back to the uk tomorrow and i haven't been back for around a year, not sure how long i will be staying but it will be cool to get back to fish & chips & bad weather!!!.
i read on a thread (englishman's barbie thread) that there is an apostafest going on in july (17th), so hopefully if it is still going on and i can get there, i would like to come and meet some of you people!
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i don't want to live forever... will i be df'd?
by dh inthis is just a hypothetical question, but lets say you are a jw, but with one thing and another you realised that you didn't want to love forever, and so told the elders that not wanting to live forever yourself, you would be unable to to sell everlasting life to people on the doors, and that if you don't share the hope of other jw's, how can you really call yourself a jw?
basically you do not feel like a jw because you do not want what jehovah is offering you.. would they df you?
or would they let you fade?
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proof that watchtower.org web developers take lsd
by dh in"i've been asking why i'm here most of my life"
the best way to find out why something was designed is to ask the designer
even sincere world rulers have not been able to bring about a peaceful, paradisaic world
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speaking of blood, i just talked to my mom and she said...
by dh ini talked to my mom on the phone the other day she is a jw, she knows full well what i think of the jw garbage, and i have tried to make her see it, but it's not use, so i don't go on about it much, aside from the occasional comment to see what the reaction will, in good humour of course... anyway, the other day i was struggling to think of topics we could talk about (typical son/mother relationship) so in my usual amused way i asked what she thought about the new view the society had on blood parts... i was expecting something but i didn't know what.... anyway, my mom calmly as if nothing was amiss, told me that it hasn't changed really, and that 'it doesn't matter anyway, because blood was always a conscience matter' now i love my mom, but this blew me away, i know of, and she knows people who have died because of blood, and she would still probably do it, but more to the point, haven't people been df'd for having blood transfusions?
good grief, if blood is a conscience matter and always was, why the hell so many people die and whose conscience lets their kid die?.
pffffffffff
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My Wonderful New 8MB Broadband Connection
by dh in.
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sure as hell beats 56k i've been using for the last few month!
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what do you make of these scriptuires... (re: elijah's mantle)
by dh inas a child this was one of the first passages in the bible that made me question god, and one of the first that made me think the yhwh described in the the bible was not dissimilar to us in many ways, and clearly a being that like us, used machinery and technology to get things done... .
when i think of the mindset that wrote these scriptures, i can't help but liken it to the way native american indians would describe a locomotive train as an 'iron horse' though clearly it is not an iron horse, it's a case of using the words you know to describe a thing you do not understand.. if you believe the bible, or if you think it is an accurate teller of history... what do you think this biblical passage is descibing?.
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