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  Stupid Rush Limbaugh comment

  by Vormek2.8 in

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  "how could the dinosaurs have lived in the deserts of the middle east?

  he said that about 2 weeks ago.

  "i knew they were supposed to have lived in louisianna and texas but i've become skeptical because they want me to believe they could live in the sands of arabia".

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  "Stupid Rush Limbaugh comment" Is anything he says not stupid?
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  Do J.W.'s deliberately lie to new converts?

  by hubert in

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  when i showed my daughter a story of an old man who was df'd and shunned for asking questions about w.t.

  doctrine, she said "he must have had a big sin".

  so, this is what my daughter is being taught, that you have to have a "big sin" to be disfellowshipped and shunned.

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  I think they lie to themselves.
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  Nearly a week smoke-free, and I am MOODY!!!

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i've been off of cigarettes for almost a week now.

  i'm chewing nicotine gum like mad, but i can still feel myself melting down inside.

  the world seems like such a crummy place to be right now.

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  Good luck AA. Hope it works out. I started about a year ago with cigars at trade shows and company retreats.. Now i smoke maybe 3-4 newports a day. I still entertian the foolish idea that i could quit if i wanted to. (though i am really lying to myself.) Part of the reason i started was because i was struggeling with my ideals and felt like their was no joy in my life. I remembered how good the cigars made me feel and i wanted to recreate that. The ciggs still make me feel good but their effect is waning. Also i am learning to take joy in other parts of my life. (slowly..)

  So i should quit soon... Good luck though! Don't die.
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  Have you ever heard a Jehovah's Witness....

  by Honesty in

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  get upset when another jw says anything that might be interpreted as being disloyal to the faithful discreet slave?.

  if so, did it make you feel uneasy?

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  Doesn't make me feel uneasy but it will make me feel them out a little. I am friends with a few in my area that are definately on the fringe of "the truth." A few that i can speak my mind to though not completely. A few that pretty much have decided to believe what they want and stay in the truth for their families or their history. They are out there.
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  What weird things have you read in the bible?

  by stillAwitness in

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  the fact that nimrod's name means: "he stirred up the whole earth to rebel"

  and yet ezra's name means: "help"

  what caused nimord's mother to name him something that had such a negative meaning and yet he turned out to be just that?

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  Joel 3:10 - 10 Beat YOUR plowshares into swords and YOUR pruning shears into lances. As for the weak one, let him say: “I am a powerful man.”

  Also there was one that i can't find the scripture.. But it was something to the effect of.. "And they must ask you where did you get those wounds on your body between your hands, and you must answer they were inflicted upon me in the house of my intense lover."
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  speed reading - what's the technique?

  by Spectrum in

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  there is so much good stuff on this forum to read and not so much time to read it all.

  i once knew a girl that could read a page from a novel in about 15 seconds and understand it.

  i had a teacher who could read a page by looking at the centre of the sentence and somehow absorb the words on either side and just go down the page at lighting speed.

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  I agree with the genetic disposition idea. My whole family can speed read and retain the information very well. I don't think i could win any contests... Part of it for me is the visual effects; I recognize the shapes of the words instead of reading the words. My brain does the processing in the background.
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  Man COURT ORDERED to attend K-Hall meetings!!

  by DannyHaszard in

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  enquirer photo .

  brett haines, right, and his attorney at his sentencing by judge william mallory.

  [courts sentence drunk drivers to aa (alcoholic anonymous) meetings and use the same protocol having a 'court paper' signed by the meeting's chairperson.many drunks will become full fledged aa 12 step followers and will praise the court action that introduced them to the 'program'.it appears this man's sentence is modeled after the same idea.

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  Hmm... a drunk and a racist.. All he needs to do is molest a child, and blow the CO, and they will appoint him.
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  A Protective Warning To All Witnesses

  by ColdRedRain in

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  something i got off the myspace.com jw group.

  if somebody can tell me the difference between the logic in this post and the logic in an orwellian book, pm me and i'll give you my credit card number.. .

  i wanted to mention, to all active jehovah's witnesses, that a brother has called to my attention that he is being harassed by apostates.

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  I think him saying that he warning us to protect ourselves while at the same time telling us to carry our own load is a pretty classic double think..
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  Does 2 Samuel 12:15 show the god of the Bible to be a god of justice?

  by scout575 in

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  after king david commits adulery with bathaheba and arranges for her husband uriah to be killed in battle, does god execute the death penalty on david as prescribed by the mosaic law for adulterers?

  ( deut 22:22 ) no.

  rather than executing david, what punishment does god mete out?

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  I have never understood Jah's "relationship" with David. Besides killing bathsheba's hubby, he also acted sacreligously and commited adultry. Also there are hints of a homosexual relationship with jonathan. And yet Jah constantly asks the kings after him "Why can't you be like my servant david??"

  Makes no sense.
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  Gimme your best excuses

  by justsomedude in

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  ok folks, i know there are some creative people on this board so help me out here.

  i'm successfully fading so far, but every now and again i get some well meaning zealot ask me about my missing the 5 weekly brainwashing sessions and the priviledge of hocking crap door to door.

  as sort of a reverse reasoning book, lets see some good conversation stoppers that wont give away my position.

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  I was thinking along the lines of oweing someone a lot of money and asking them for a loan. In fact go to a meeting and ask everyone you see for money.. Suddenly no one will miss you.