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"Store up... treasures in heaven." 2007 Circuit Assembly review
by Zico ini had my circuit assembly last weekend.
it was absolutely mind numbing, but i took extensive notes, and i thought i'd share the key points with everyone here for your reading pleasure.. .
i feel i'd made a lot of progress since my convention in june.
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Will the wts face a Muslim backlash over the new tract?
by fullofdoubtnow inthey do, after all, classify all religions apart from theirs as false, and we've seen in the last few days that it doesn't take much to inflame the more militant factions of islam.
there's a large muslim community around here, and i can't see some of them taking kindly to being labelled a false religion.. this may not be the best time for the wts to be distributing such "information", but i expect they will go ahead, oblivious as to the sort of reaction it may provoke.
i hope that nothing much comes of this campaign, but in the sensitive times in which we all live, i can't help wondering....
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Is There Anything Positive About Being A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus ini recently went to a wedding and the father of the bride that (re)married a (worldly) man said to me, "the only thing that i can say about raising our kids as witnesses was at least they got a good foundation.
look at our kids.
they're good kids".
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But what if they're right............still the Truth?
by ScoobySnax inthis will probably apply to few here, but to me it'll always be that way.
it's the what if syndrome maybe, but it's always there.
i still think that as a core belief system the jw's have it right, even if their delivery isn't always right.
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I'm glad the board came back !!!!
by JH in.
i thought that it was hacked and my 10,000 posts all gone.
glad to see it back up
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What is the most unique name you've encountered?
by Why Georgia inthis question comes to mind right now because i seem to be surrounded by pregnant women.
3 of the mom's in my sons' kindergarten class of 12 - are pregnant and in the other classes i notice a similar trend.
it's not a large school - maybe 60 kids max between the preschool and kindergarten.
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Shaking with adrenalin, fear and anger
by Crumpet innever was a glass of wine so keenly anticipated as this one.. an hour ago i was sitting at the station waiting for a train and having my first cigarette of the last few days.
i don't usually smoke in public except in bars, but this was the end of a difficult and tiring week for me being my first week back at work and having hjad to do it all on crutches.. when all of a sudden some 60+ old nutter started yelling at me.
he said you don't know what you are doing to yourself- you will die horribly of cancer.
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Pat Robertson tells town, "Don't expect God to help you"
by sir82 inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9995578/
i thought evangelism was supposed to make god more appealing to people?
the irony is, most jws will point accusing fingers at this representative of babylon the grape, but not realize that their own message preached every saturday morning is essentially the same: "worship god our way, or don't come crying to us when armageddon comes"
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The sacrifice of a child, for pioneer hours.
by Gill inchildren are an expendable part of the the wtbts.
if they're worldly children, they're insignificant as they're going to die anyway when armageddon comes.
if they're jw children, they only survive because of their parents 'good standing' and then their needs must always come after their parents 'god' the demands of the almighty wtbts.. i was walking home from school this morning past the home where about 16 years ago, a single mother and her tiny little boy used to live.
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Post DF: Trying to make friends of family
by banished1 injust got an email from my fleshly athesist brother.
he might as well have punched me in the stomach.
just a card would be appreciated, if i must.