Lee Harvey Oswald -
and the Cowboys never got a fair call from the NFL after that happened.
james_woods
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What is your town or area's claim to fame?
by free2beme inevery where you live, the local area has something about it that is either famous for something good or something bad.
as an example, you go to one town and it may have the historial site of a famous war battle.
you go to another an it might be the place something was invented, or the birthplace of someone famous.
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BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS Twisting a life-affirming law into death
by Terry inturning a life affirming rule into a death-dealing policy is an amazing accomplishment.
we can thank the watchtower society for a mindset which makes this possible.. i've gone into great detail before about the watchtower blood policy itself.
it is a blatant and deliberate publicity stunt which takes the rather simple prohibitions of the laws of noah for gentiles on murder .
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james_woods
But, Warren - that was only the old testament law...
Nowadays, since we have been enlightened by Franz & Co., we can drain off the blood of our animal victims, fractionate it into its various components, and then make a delicious dark gravy from whatever parts we like. This can then be poured all over those delicious medium-rare sirloin steaks. (For now, at least...maybe this will get changed again in the paradise new earth?)
It is even OK to inject such blood fractions into our veins when the doctor says it is necessary. (as of today circa 2006).
But, of course, your new light may vary.
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Power to change this world
by DjSadhu inand some more monkeys.
everytime a monkey learns the trick, he adds this knowledge to the "collective consiousness" of the monkeys.
people have this same "collective consiousness".
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james_woods
I liked the comment Jim made on that old TV sitcom "TAXI" -
He said: "So, if a tree falls in the middle of a forest, but nobody hears it, does it still make a noise?...
(he continues - ) Well, of course it makes a noise...there was just nobody around to hear it!"
It has always seemed to me that the parapsycolonological view that somehow our own brains form the universe is just too self-serving and arrogant to be given much credence.
Sort of like when the Watchtower Society figured that all bible prophecy worked out to what their board of directors were doing in 1918...
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Power to change this world
by DjSadhu inand some more monkeys.
everytime a monkey learns the trick, he adds this knowledge to the "collective consiousness" of the monkeys.
people have this same "collective consiousness".
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james_woods
Perhaps we should check with Shirley MacLain to see what she thinks...
If, of course, she has come down from the big tree -
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Where have all the idiots gone?
by nicolaou insome kind of sanity seems to have settled over the place.
where's shining one, scholar and all the other little rapscallions?
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james_woods
We had president George Poopy Bush on here just a few minutes ago, but I think he got quietly disfellowshipped...
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james_woods
On embassaramament - While it will take some great research scholarship to ever find it again,
Way back in the 60s, there was one of those little fluff mini-pieces in the back of the Awake (maybe in "watching the news") or something...
It spouted forth that "NASA scientists" had been studying the motions of the earth, moon, and stars. They were severely puzzled by the fact that "a few earth hours" were missing. However, one of the scientists was a bible reader. He went home and found several places where Jehovah had sort of held the sun up in the sky to let the Israelites kill on their enemies a little longer. Amazingly, this turned out to be the exact number of missing hours, and the mystery was solved. So then, by advice from the scriptures, they could get on with the Apollo program.
I was about a 14 year old kid when I read this, but I knew enough about astonomy to realize that there is no way to reference "missing days" from many hundreds of years ago. I was severely embarrased to see this in Jehovah's inspired news tabloid.
The interesting thing is, that I have since seen this little piece of fundie legend several times over in various "born again" literature and on the internet. Apparantly, some JW editor picked it up way back then from such a source and had a little white space to fill in the back of the awake.
Then again, there was that horrible article on "natural childbirth" where natural mothers were advised to "squat and grunt" during delivery. It also had some fascinating detail on breast feeding, as I recall...
James
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Circuit Overseers Tales of Grief and Woe
by Balaams Ass in<div>hi i am in the middle of writing some memoirs of my time on the travelling work.
well anyone be interested in reading them?????
i have some heavy editing to do to protect identies and the like, but i should be finished at the end of the week.
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james_woods
Well, now here is a case of a newbie who posted a few times and blew us off...
And, I think we were all very patient with Ballum and his Arse, too...
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What's the BIGGEST LIE you ever heard?
by nicolaou in.
someone i knew stood up at the convention to answer her two baptism questions both with a "yes".
she was having an affair with a married brother at the time.. but i'd top my 'biggest lie' list with four small words; "in the beginning, god"
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james_woods
Of course, we must not forget the quite obvious ones -
* my wife does not understand me
* the check is in the mail
* I did not know the gun was loaded
* I work for a small oil company
* the Mercedes is paid for
* and, this is just a cold sore on my lip...
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Reading the Bible Made Me Leave "The Truth" & Christianity
by Seeker4 ini was looking up a couple of verses the other day in my nwt reference bible the one with larger print, footnotes, cross references, etc.
in my day i was quite a diligent student - the bible is filled with my notes and comments, and i'd already worn out another one earlier.
one of the things that i found surprising as i was reading my notes, was how often they were pointing out inconsistencies, contradictions and obvious lies in the biblical text.
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james_woods
When I was at the "overseer's school" in Pittsburgh in 1970, old Al Schroeder gave us a whole afternoon on the subject of "independent research" and how bad it was for your spiritual health.
He kept saying how "some of these brothers just studied themselves right out of the truth".
I had no idea what he was even talking about (and most of the others who were there with me did not either).
Now I think I understand - and it may very well have been one of the few things he was ever right about in his entire life.
James
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Why do the majority of "newbies" disappear ???
by kid-A ini have noticed that, in general, there is a "core" of regular posters on jwd that have been members for several years.. however, it seems the vast majority of "newbies" disappear after a couple posts, days or perhaps a week.
how many "welcome" or "introduction" .
threads have we had here where the new member disappears within a day or so, never to post again?
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james_woods
There was this one new poster ( her handle here was Aiesha Harley ) that I really miss. She was one of the first to post back public and PM to my first entries here, and I don't see anything from her since the end of Feb. this year.
I suspect that there are several categories - ( of those who post a few and disappear )...
* really well-adjusted people who just wanted to check us out, but that have gotten on with their lives...
* nut-case trolls or actual JW kooks who come here to either vent the old spleen or count some of their "time"...
* and, I hope very seldom, good posters who we drove off because we got on their case a little too hard.
I sincerely hope that I did not have a hand in doing this last situation to someone yesterday on the blood issue.
James