Topics Started by hopie
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The spirit of mankind - A True Story!
by searcher ini thought you all might like to read this story of how we can all help at one time or another!.
at a fund raising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.
after extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: 'when not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection.
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Do You Have A Goal Regarding Jehovah's Witnesses???
by minimus innow that you're mentally out of the religion, do you have an expressed goal regarding the witnesses?
do you want to expose the religion for the fraud that it is (like i do)?.
do you want to set up a ministry devoted toward the destruction of everything watchtower?.
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Looking for new books to read by ex-jWs or ex-jW issues
by blondie ini found this on the net.
has anybody ever seen this book come out?.
the following is taken from the in progress manuscript of the book letters to an elder by r. j. sikorski.
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Does A School Yard Bully Attitude Take Over This Discussion Board?
by The wanderer in<!-- .style1 { font-family: arial; font-size: 18px; } .style2 { font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; } .style3 { font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } .style5 {color: #0000cc} .style6 {color: #000000} --> does a school yard bully attitude take over this discussion board?growing up, i can recall such times when a rival would want to pick a fight .
with me and when we met, he would bring along two of his friends and i .
sometimes, i would knock their block off and sometimes, it was the other.
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If most men decided to wear a beard today, would the JW's follow?
by JH inthe jw's will say that in jesus time, it was ok to have a beard because it was their custom back then, and today jw's should not have a beard because it's not our custom to have one today.. since the world is ever changing, it will continue changing, and beards might come back and be popular once more.. it's only a cheap excuse on their part, because they will never accept beards, even if every man wore one today..
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Thinking of writing a book
by Dawn ini've been contemplating writing a book called "from the other side" .
basically a story about leaving the jw's.
only instead of focusing on what's wrong with the jw's (not that i wouldn't have a lot of material there!!.
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What is your preferred method of communication?
by Crumpet ini was prompted to think further about this today when i was reading the following in a book called "headhunters":.
"e-mails are a love of mine.
i prefer them to communicating by word of mouth.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream
by under_believer inplease indulge a little whining.
i don't go out in service--i don't comment.
they assign talks (once, one of the highlights of my existence) to me every couple of months.
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speaking to a New Testament class, suggestions wanted
by streets76 ini work in the information department of a small private college.
the professor of religious studies has asked me to come to his survey of the new testament class and talk about jehovah's witnesses -- what they believe, what it was like growing up in the movement, ect., whatever.. so what do you think i should share?
what approach should i take?