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  Interesting Article in the Globe and Mail

  by Beep,Beep in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/lac.20070525.jehovah25/tpstory/tpnational/?page=rss&id=gam.20070525.jehovah25.

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  this is a canadian newspaper, i believe.

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  Madame Quixote

  It seems that inconsistency is the only consistent thing about JW policy.
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  Interesting Article in the Globe and Mail

  by Beep,Beep in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/lac.20070525.jehovah25/tpstory/tpnational/?page=rss&id=gam.20070525.jehovah25.

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  this is a canadian newspaper, i believe.

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  It seems to me that Dr. Shander has found himself a highly specialized niche - bloodless surgery - which he uses to exploit cult members. How much you wanna' bet "bloodless surgery" is 10 Xs more expensive than conventional methods?

  Anyone know? Sounds about as expensive as dialysis. BTW, yeah, bluesbrother, I did think the WT forbade removing and replacing blood.
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  The Great Tribulation is picking up speed!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by unbaptized in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the tribulation is really starting to speed up it's pace.

  i just read that atleast 3 types of animal and plant life go extinct every hour.

  global warming threatens the entire planet, crimes against women and children are at a all time high, honeybees dying off for unexplained reasons, the threat of nuclear war, the ravage of infectious disease.

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  I totally agree with you, unbaptized, and I have evidence to prove it. Crabgrass is taking over my lawn; my car is leaking oil--again; junk mail is increasing exponentially; the employees at McDonalds are getting ruder by the hour; some JWD posters are overusing punctuation (!!!!!!!!). When will it end? From the depths, I cry out to you, big J. The Great Tribulation is upon us, so would you please either get it over with or forget about it altogether. Thanks for listening.

  So funny, parakeet!

  The problem is, ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/135017/1.ashx), the Big J can't decide whether to temper his justice with mercy, and the Society can't decide whether or not it's appropriate to use the expression, "temper his justice with mercy" because they seem to have forgotten that god has already pre-ordained the date and time . . . so why would he procrastinate that which is preordained with mercy?
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  The Great Tribulation is picking up speed!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by unbaptized in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the tribulation is really starting to speed up it's pace.

  i just read that atleast 3 types of animal and plant life go extinct every hour.

  global warming threatens the entire planet, crimes against women and children are at a all time high, honeybees dying off for unexplained reasons, the threat of nuclear war, the ravage of infectious disease.

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  OH NO!!!!!!!!!!

  I'M GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!

  Warlock

  But the good news is, "millions now living may never die." Isn't it heartwarming to know that?
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  How do you think God feels about atheists? Angry? Amused?

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hey guys, .

  have you ever considered what god thinks about atheists?

  assume for a moment that he/she/it is there: what's the reaction to non-believers?

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  If there is a god, it is his will that I am an atheist, just like it was his will for Jesus to die on the cross and be killed by the Jews.

  So, if anyone is to blame, it's God - NOT the atheists or the Jews.

  Laugh. God just laughs if he's there, and I doubt that "He" exists anyway, so what does it matter whether I believe in him or not.

  Microbes might not believe in me either, and I really don't care. That's what Lysol's for.

  Perhaps, in a few millennia, science and technology and other forms of secularism will be Lysol for religion.
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  0.22% chance of being born into true religion as JW!!!!!

  by Qcmbr in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i've just been reading some cool books, one, freakonomics is very very good at revealing why statistics are important and we make a lot of assumptions based on false info.

  well anyway i decided on a purely statistical front to use the rough figures found on the pages below: .

  http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop .

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  Madame Quixote

  On another thread, I just read the 14 mil = meeting attenders (Sunday?)

  6 mil = active sales people publishers

  Aside: I wonder what the figures would be for being "born" an Amway distributor?

  Interesting post, Qcmbr!
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  Help me with some articles for uncyclopedia for JW's

  by 5go in

  1. social
  2. humour

  make up something for articles on the presidents.. something on the organization, origins, teaching, and history.. oh and former witness.. .

  remember most people reading this will not be witnesses so try to keep it in a outside point of view.

  oh and it doesn't have to be true in fact just make something that sounds true.

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  My favorite addition to date.

  Beliefs

  Regarding Jesus

  • Despite contrary popular opinion Jehovah's Witnesses do believe in Jesus. They don't on the otherhand believe he is God. They believe that their God Jehovah Raised him up out of the grave. Which means Jehovah's Witnesses believe in what the scholars call Zombie Jesus .

  Regarding Blood

  • Jehovah's Witnesses also forbid the eating of blood. Which why they have such a hard time making head way in the country of Trannsylvania .

  Now that's funny!
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  What if you put an envelope in the box- "For the Lawsuits" ?

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  another thread made a similar suggestion, so i thought what if....?.

  what would happen if you put an envelope in the donation box with a check, and on the .

  envelope (also on the comments portion of the check) it said "for the child-abuse lawsuits".

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  I really prefer the idea of sending them "funny money" with protest info regarding the sex abuse scandals (or UN scandals Or Blood scandals) instead.

  The funny money statements would be far more educational, but the idea of putting a dollar or two in an envelope and asking your local congs to earmark it for the sex abuse law suits is a great idea for education, too.

  I suspect that writing letters to individual congregations asking innocently how you might help them in their struggles against the sex abuse cases, pointing them to the appropriate ("Satan-influenced") news and website resources might too be educational. You don't have to follow up with the offer to "help" and could use bogus name/address.

  For many here, the idea of sending a check with their name and address on it would not be acceptable, anyway due to the need for confidentiality.
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  What if you put an envelope in the box- "For the Lawsuits" ?

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  another thread made a similar suggestion, so i thought what if....?.

  what would happen if you put an envelope in the donation box with a check, and on the .

  envelope (also on the comments portion of the check) it said "for the child-abuse lawsuits".

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  Madame Quixote

  If they can avoid addressing it at all to the R&F, they will.

  They'll just keep quietly selling (and buying) real estate and the R&F will continue building Kingdom Halls and donating them to their (600+billion dollar) enterprise known as the WTB&TS.

  I don't think the Society has any legal obligation to use "donations" for what the donor requests and how could one ensure it would happen anyway? If it were an enormous sum of money donated, maybe, but not a bunch of itty-bitty checks/cash in envelopes. The society will probably just use those "donations" as they see fit.

  If they really are worth +600billion dollars, the 16 lawsuit settlements might be a "drop in the bucket," even if they add up to multi-millions of dollars.

  I just can't even wrap my mind around the concept of anyone religious cult having +600 billion in assets. Even with all the donated kingdom halls, financed by individual congs, and then handed over to the society for free.

  600 bill is a he$$ of a lot of money.
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  Worldwide recall of contact lens saline solution

  by Nathan Natas in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  if you wear contact lenses, this is important!.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/ar2007052600496.html.

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  UIC investigators think the infection is not originating in the manufacturing process, but that the cleaning solution is not protecting people from the infection, which they get in their eyes through showering or swimming, Tu said.

  Ick.