Posts by RandomTask

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Millions now living may never die

by Sirius Dogma in

i was reading this on slashdot today and thought you folks would find this interesting.

probably not us, but maybe our grandchildren could live to over 5000 years old.

they would be physiological age of ten though, to be 'stunted' age the age of 16 you could live to a healthy 872. there is still hope for us though, if they get this working by the time we are 70, we could tack another 92 years onto that.. this is a serious effort, i hope it gets more backing.. read more about it here:.

RandomTask

Well actually only the children will survive, all the adults will go mad and die off. The children will age very slowly until they reach puberty, when they start going mad and dying. The children will form groups called "onlies" and refer to the adults as "grups". One of them will be named Miri...

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the aftermath

by the mole in

my uncle called for my dad and wanted to know why he stopped attending meetings, he then asked me what hall im attending.

first i told him my dad could only answer why he does what he does and then i told him i had difficulty with alot of teachings that are curious.

after talking for awhile i asked him why if the magazines are a tool for bible understanding then why is it that so many take it as bible truth?

RandomTask

The secret police are already at your doorstep..

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Wedding Rings....

by goddess_baal in

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am i dreaming this up, or aren't they a pagan symbol?

if so, why would jw's continue to use them as part of a marriage ceremony in jehovah's eyes?.

RandomTask

Oh and Pinatas are ok now too.

"Ok folks, I know you thought Pinatas are bad, but its really ok, well as long as no one gets stumbled, and people in the area don't use them for pagan reasons, even thoguh those people may be professed christians, but they are all gonna die at the firy hands of god, which is better than hellfire, isn't god loving? In fact we are going to give you a new map to show you where pinatas are acceptable, you can overlay it with the one for beards and the one for low cut tops and short skirts. Thank you for your cooperation. Remember we all have christian freedom!"

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Time To Forgive The Prince Of Wales?

by Englishman in

jw
friends

george carey, ex-archbishop of canterbury, ex-number 1 head honcho of the church of england next to her maj. .

>>>>it would be "the natural thing" for the prince of wales and camilla parker bowles to marry, the former archbishop of canterbury has said.. george carey and his wife, eileen, met camilla at their son andrew's house in peckham, south-east london, after her relationship with the prince went public, he told the times.. lord carey said of charles and camilla: "he is the heir to the throne and he loves her.

the natural thing is that they should get married.".

RandomTask

Eh, I forgive him

What do you mean I'm not british? some of my ancestors were English!

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Any of you worked for Primerica? My experience at their "seminar."

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

a few weeks ago, a brother called me out of the blue and asked me if i was interested in working for him.

he told me he had his own business and was looking to "expand.

" he told me i "was a special person" with "good qualities" and "capable of going places.

RandomTask

Sorry, let me clarify because I realize people do this legitimately chevys, but you just have to know my wifes cousin. Her attitude is one of laziness and an unwillingness to work for something and so everything she tries to do, to "get around" the conventional way of making money, turns to crap. It is this attitude and a lack of common sense that caused her to drain her parents savings (although they admittedly had other problems of their own) and has now drained her rich husband and is getting money from her rich in-laws. Its just a shame to see so much money and so many 'ventures' go to complete crap because of her ineptitude. This would not be the first of her schemes or ventures.

I mean, she is still a pleasant person to be around, but she doesn't have the sense God gave a spitoon. I see a lot of this when it comes to witnesses. And not all witnesses, but certainly there is a subculture within the witness group that subscribes to this notion of "money for nothing". Yes she is an avid seminar-goer.

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Any of you worked for Primerica? My experience at their "seminar."

by truthseeker in

jw
friends

a few weeks ago, a brother called me out of the blue and asked me if i was interested in working for him.

he told me he had his own business and was looking to "expand.

" he told me i "was a special person" with "good qualities" and "capable of going places.

RandomTask

When I first moved out of my moms house I had a couple of friends who were witnesses and we all got a house together. Well specifically me and one of my friends rented a house and our other friend, who had no job, lived in the den. We felt sorry for him because he had a very domineering mother.

Anyway, this out of work friend of course had a plan to make money, that plan was Primerica. Of course he wanted to sign us up, which we politely refused. 6 months went by and he made absolutely nothing on this venture, all the while, my friend and I were paying the rent and the bills, allowing him to live for free. When I got married this person was my best man.

After moving and subsequently leaving the witnesses, me and this person lost touch until this past April, when I saw him at a baseball game. We emailed each other back and forth a couple of times, and he asked me how I was doing in "the truth". I explained that I don't go and I don't believe it, but I don't want to make it an issue and I respect his beliefs. He suspiciously stopped emailing me back, which with witnesses is not entirely unexpected.

I had forgotten about him until just about a week ago, my brother in law, who is a witness, says that he saw this individual at a sort of witness softball game and told him "hey, I should have brought (me) it could have been a reuinion". This individual then launches into a tirade on my brother in law, about what he percieved to be my character or lack thereof. He did this in front of another former associate, who was also in my wedding who stood there stunned.

So to sum this story up, Primerica sucks, and the witnesses seem to be infected with this "get rich quick" scheme disease like no other group I have been associated with. I mean, my wifes cousin, who is a witness, has as her latest scheme, buying forcloseures and reselling them. Or profiting on the tribulations of others. I mean, I guess its ok seeing as how they are all going to die soon anyway, right? soon? Anyway, this venture will undoubtedly fail like every other scheme she has come up with in the last 5 years.

It seems that witness culture in general leaves someone bereft of fellow feeling for other humans, it also seems to strip them of common sense. I don't know if those are symptoms of being a witness or causes though.

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Black Veil Lowers again?

by H. in

hello i am new and this will probably be the last time i post.

nice forum by the way but honestly and with all due respect it is not something i would like to be associated with.

i joined saying "oh cool a jw forum" but after reading just 2 posts i realized it is the black veil all over again.

RandomTask

Let's be easy on H. We were just the same once.

Exactly.

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There's a really good article in the magazine...

by Nosferatu in

what always blew my mind was that whenever an article in the watchtower, awake, or any wt publication is when someone refers to a part of the publication and says, "there's a really good article in here about bla bla bla".

i've heard many jws use it at the doors, use it at the kingdom hall, etc.

my question is, when is there ever a bad article?

RandomTask

No freedom of thought. Its not natural human behavior. Did God create us with free will and independent thought only to have them be rendered meaningless by a religion?

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