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  Do you think the Society has spies on sites like this?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  not that any of them would post, but do you think that they have people who they secretly have visit anti-jw sites and forums like this just for the purpose of seeing what people are saying about them and what their current members might stumble upon?.

  if you google jws, the first couple are official, the next two are wikis, then you have an anti-jw site and then there's this one.

  any current or potential member that is looking for more information than is published by the wbts will be directed to these sites.

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  Zimbabwe Embassy Call

  by zensim in

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  this is funny!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arf7ydwv8ho.

  do you want to vote for robert mugabe?.

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  An interesting discussion with my wife

  by 10p in

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  last night i had an interesting talk with my wife in bed.. oprah had a show on recently about gays.

  now i don't normally watch oprah, but she was watching a taped one in the evening, so i was just overhearing stuff.

  anyway, i think my wife puts more faith in oprah than in the gb :).

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  What do you know you know?

  by zensim in

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  i have been inspired to ask this question by narkissos' thread: "is 'consciousness' overrated?

  " (et al).. whilst my question is primarily directed to you nark, i want to open this up to everyone else also.. nark - from your opening ramblings (and i mean that in the most endearing way) on "is 'consciousness' overrated?

  ", and from other recent posts, i get the feeling that you are asking these questions because you know something and you are trying to grasp onto what you know.

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  Have you been introduced?

  by IP_SEC in

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  to mr deity?

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  http://youtube.com/watch?v=dzuxyq3ltls.

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  Women - do you love being around men?

  by Mr Ben in

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  women - do you love being around men?

  i only ask because i realise that for over 20 years i just love being around women.

  it's not just for sexual reasons either, though that's important sometimes, i just really like being around women.

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  Is "consciousness" overrated?

  by Narkissos in

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  disclaimer: this is the rambling of a french mind, where the single word conscience embraces what the english language distinguishes as "conscience," "consciousness," "awareness," and is closely related to connaissance, "knowledge".. to this french mind "consciousness" appears as a wonderful yet bittersweet product of reflection (the specular or "mirror" metaphor being central to it).

  although it is objectively related to animal sentience, our view of consciousness, i think, is entirely dependent on the seminal technique (the "technique of techniques," as french theologian gabriel vahanian put it) of language / symbolism (the ability to point to "things" even though absent or non-existent) and imagination (representing "things" on our inner and cultural "mind map"), from which both memory and anticipation as we know it derive.

  functionally it serves a practical purpose, which is precisely technique: through this way of dealing with "things" we can "change" them.

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  A Touching Heartfelt Experience at The ATM Machine!

  by caliber in

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  a touching heartfelt experience at the atm machine!.

  it was a very touching experience that i had this last weekend at the atm machine.

  it was about half an hour discussion but what follows is the highlights that i remember most vividly.. it begins with a once a upon a time pioneer partner of my wife (h4o) coming in to the atm.. jw says....how are things going?

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  If you believe in nothing, then how do you know JW's are wrong?

  by slimboyfat in

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  many who leave the witnesses go on to affirm other recognisable sets of beliefs.

  some become christians of various sorts, others tend toward patriotism as a kind of rejection of the anti-patriotic stance of the watchtower, while yet more simply affirm in general the secular values of mainstream society.

  do you believe jehovah's witnesses are wrong?

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  JW fluff.. "Thriller" SoBe Commercial

  by yknot in

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  i have small children and don't get to watch much "grown-up" tv.

  so tonight i was flipping through channels and saw a shorten version of this commercial.

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=anlqu77uth0.

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