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  Guess what's gonna happen to us Apostates

  by Undecided in

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  i picked up the bible while the site was down and this is the first thing i read:.

  "for what is the hope of an apostate in case he cuts [him] off, in case god carries off his soul from him?

  job 27:8 .

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  james_woods

  pARAKEET _

  I like some of the newer versions of hell. I saw a Far Side comic that had the Devil leading a bunch of old ladies doing leg lifts: "999,997, 999,998, 999,999, 1,000,000! Now the left leg!" It was titled "Aerobics in Hell."

  me too - but my very favorite two Gary Larsons were the airline pilot saying to his right seat, "Gosh, now what would a bighorn sheep be doing way up here in a cloud bank?" - that and the Russian Circus dancing bear saying to his roller skating buddy (about the muzzle staps) - "did you ever notice that these things just snap right off?"

  Seriously speaking- can anyone think of anything more horrible than having a clone of yourself going to penta-weekly meetings and having constant vegatarian picnics forever on their 1 & 1/4 acres (2.5 hectares - thank you Awake magazine) of land forever?
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  Verbatim Court Transcript Maria Russell vs Charles Taze Russell

  by Terry in

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  did rose ball sit on c.t.

  russell's lap?

  did they caress each other?

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  james_woods

  Finally, we have something to lend credibility to the "masonic lodge & shriner parade" theory of the birth of this abbhorant religion.

  So, the eighth "trumpet" call was for the "reverand" Jimmy Swaggart? ( if only he was able to change a flat tire - we would maybe not have known ).

  Sorry to say it, but it is really about the only halfway normal sexual reference about a watchtower leader in the last 100 years.

  James - ( of the OHH wellll,,,, OK - I think I do like him a little better than the Judge Rutherford ) class ...
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  The Nigerian Check Scam

  by target in

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  where i live, garage sales are not allowed, but there is a web site locally where garage sales online are posted.

  it is great.

  i sold a lot of stuff last week in preparation for our move to colorado.

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  You live in "Phonix,"???

  Was that a Freudian slip???
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  What's Your Favorite Brand of Beer?

  by tfsm in

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  i know this is slightly off-topic but i find alot of the discussion here somewhat depressing and most of it is far too cerebral for me.

  i (obviously) live in america and i'm a big fan of beer.

  light, dark, lager, ale, whatever.

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  james_woods

  Dortmunder Union.

  And whoever is responsible for making it unavailable here in Dallas, may you be placed in a potty and flushed at least twice.
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  The "Revelation" Book...did you HATE that thing as much as I did??

  by LovesDubs in

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  ok the first time i thought it was pretty cool how they applied every little scripture to themselves.

  i sat rapt with my young children while we discussed wonderful things to come.

  the second time i was like...where's my old book with all the notes in the margins, im not looking all this sh-t up again!.

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  james_woods

  I guess all this Revelation prophecy thing kind of slipped the Watchtower press spokesman's mind when he was talking to LDH -

  "Jehovahs Witnesses are not God's sole organization on earth" "Jehovahs Witnesses do not claim to be inspired by God"

  OK, so what other organization is in a favorable fulfillment of a revelation prophecy? And, how did the witnesses find out they were the final result of all these prophesies (if they weren't inspired)?
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  Do You REALLY Believe That A Pedophile Issue Will Bring Down The Watchtower

  by minimus in

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  i see the excitement and thrill when a jw gets nailed for pedophilia.

  i'm happy when any of these creeps get caught.

  but i just don't think that this is what will bring down the organization.

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  james_woods

  IMHO, Minimus is making a lot of sense with his reasonable position that this too will pass. Just like everybody else, including him, we want to see the Watchtower revealed for what it is. However, given past experience with other orgs, including the Catholics, their own people are just going to blindly ignore the facts of this case. A few will be dislodged, but the org as a whole will just cop the stance that they hate child molesters and self-righteously truck right on.

  I sometimes wonder if we ex-JW dissenters do ourselves any good by making too shrill a protest over these issues? I sometimes have a gut feel that standing outside a convention with a banner "JWs are child abusers" may be counterproductive...these JW people already know this happened. Maybe we stand the risk of making those who leave them for the highest of good reasons actually look like the "crazy apostates" that the WT is always screaming about.

  Nevertheless, isn't it just great that good old bethel elder Jesus Cano stole all their district convention thunder and overshadowed whatever new light was being planned for this fall?
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  What Would You Like to be Written on Your Tombstone?

  by Warlock in

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  since i have a rather morbid sense of humor, and none of us is going to see armageddon................................ what would you like to be written on your tombstone?

  i'll start.. "buried face down...........and you know the rest".

  "his last word were..............boy, i'm getting hot!".

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  A pro-JW troll got really mad at me in a thread a few months back - he was freaking on Armaggedon and going on about how could I live with the terrible knowledge that I was going to die in a downpour of nuclear fire. Wasn't my life miserable that way?

  I posted back that quote from Oscar Wilde - "Living well is the best revenge" - mostly in a light hearted effort to ease up the thread a little.

  So, he posts back - "that's just great...is that what you want written as your epitaph? I am sure it will really comfort your faithful JW friends...etc.blah,etc,blah."

  Now that I think about it, though, a person could do worse than that little phrase...
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  I'm new at this drinking business give me tips

  by troubled mind in

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  why is it when i have been drinking alcohol i come home sleepy then pow i'm wide awake and can't sleep ?

  also is it true drink hard liquor first, followed by beer and water so hangover is not as bad ?

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  And for the good of yourself not to mention the rest of mankind,

  don't drive your car --- a cab is really cheap insurance.
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  new blood article in August Awake

  by choosing life in

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  first,be patient if i make mistakes here-i am new to posting.

  i have been a lurker for about a year now.i finally decided to join the conversation,but must be careful due to family still in.

  the new article in the august awake has completely blown the witnesses stand on blood.

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  Choosing Life - did you pick up on that nutty teaching they had that the physical heart is somehow tied up in the mental thought process - it was sort of like an anti-brain that worked its own will against your brain's logical thought process. Physically! It could lead you to sin!

  I remember having to make a huge fiberglass heart and brain for an assembly when they put out this "new light". Each one would light up as they fought over whether their hypothetical person was going to commit an immorality in this part!

  Believe it or not, I was talking with the overseer who gave that talk, and told him that I felt like the brain was your thinking organ and the heart was your blood pumping organ. He chastised me over it - and gave me this ridiculous argument: But, when making love to your wife, your heart gets to beating faster, so see - it is all involved in the emotions of sex...blay blah blah...and you are right - if you got a heart transplant, you could very well get some evil strangler murder's heart to lead you astray.

  We need to ask around to see if this stupidity is still being taught...

  James
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  She's Back! With a question about guns & JWs

  by asleif_dufansdottir in

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  hey, guys.... looooooong time no see.

  some of you might remember me but it's been a very long time.

  still in grad school, and have a new (sort of) hobby.. i've always liked guns.

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  james_woods

  Well, keep in mind that I have been out for over 25 years, and I did not know about the "generation" thing or the "consciencous objecter" issue either until coming here 6 months ago...so maybe they have been banned. I was speaking about the way this was viewed in the 60s and 70s.

  Back then, you could pretty much have a pistol if you wanted, so long as you did not make a big deal about it. And I guess we can say that a shotgun must still be OK, if the "hunting for food only" logic is still in place.

  I think, though, that the previous posters ideas were right...maybe somebody at Brooklyn realized that this issue was not worth "rocking the boat" for - particularly not in the western part of the united states.

  Maybe somebody with current knowledge of the latest writings can say what the official line is as of 2006 -

  James