It's funny, I knew exactly what he was talking about when I read the post. I loved that show too! I didn't remember it as being creepy at all, but yeah after watching that YouTube it definitely is lol.
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Looking for name of a show from when I was a kid: Marionettes flying around in a wooden rocket ship
by Elsewhere inthe other day some friends and i were talking about shows we liked when we were kids.
one show i absolutely loved when i was a kid, but cannot remember the name, was about some kids who would fly around in a tall wooden rocket ship.
the characters were all marionettes on strings and the ship looked like it was cobbled together will bits and pieces of scrap wood with a cone on the top.. i think it aired in the 1970's or 1980's.
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Looking for name of a show from when I was a kid: Marionettes flying around in a wooden rocket ship
by Elsewhere inthe other day some friends and i were talking about shows we liked when we were kids.
one show i absolutely loved when i was a kid, but cannot remember the name, was about some kids who would fly around in a tall wooden rocket ship.
the characters were all marionettes on strings and the ship looked like it was cobbled together will bits and pieces of scrap wood with a cone on the top.. i think it aired in the 1970's or 1980's.
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It was "Vegetable Soup"! The ship one was called the Outerscope.
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just a few questions I don't want to ask directly hell
by Janey214 inhello - first may i apologise for capital letters my keyboard has gone screwy.
for the last several months i have been having meetings with two really nice women from the jw organisation.
i don't want to offend anyone by asking these questions i am simply trying to better understand how the watchtower came about without listening to too much anti stuff.
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Hi Janey, and welcome :-)
I've not seen the JWFacts site suggested yet, so I recommend you take a look at the vast information available there -- www.jwfacts.com. You will find much information about the origins of the JWs, and specific info regarding your questions about Russell, Beth Sarim, etc.
Part of the problem you're running into with your study conductors is that typical JWs generally don't even know their own history. That is actively discouraged, in fact -- the past is written off as "old light" and the rank-and-file members are strongly discouraged from looking too closely at the organization's history. So you're not likely to get informed, straightforward answers from the ladies who are studying with you. The good news is that your own independent research will tell you all that you want and need to know. jwfacts.com is an excellent place to start.
As for the 144,000, the JW teaching is that Christ is the mediator only for those. All others, do not have Christ as their mediator. It is unusual that your study conductors told you this upfront; many JWs don't even fully realize it, much less admit it to "outsiders."
Independent research is a very good thing, and it's great that you're asking so many intelligent questions and not looking to get baptised any time soon. Keep doing that :-)
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In need of...
by CandleSurgeon inif anyone has extra song-books, nwt bibles, reasoning books ect and would be willing to mail it to me please let me know.
i don't really like reading stuff on the screen all the time and i have an upcoming youtube project that i would really like hard copies of these for.
also does anyone know a good way i can get the current watchtowers with the study article on a regular basis?
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CS, I'm sending you a PM.
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God confused peoples language so they couldn't build Babel....a load of crap!
by Witness 007 inyeah well, back in the day a group of people built a tower to heaven, so god confused their languages so they would not build a "mega city" and become powerful.. or if you want to used half a brain....languages evolved over time as a form of comunication between different tribes.
many languages are related, slavic or asian languages share the same or simular words.
oh and the cherry on top is adam and eve spoke yiddish.....ooie mashugana!
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The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.(credit to Mr Adams obviously)
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I am new jehovah witness
by newwitness ini recently just got baptise an so excited to start my new life.
is there anyone have anyting to say fars how to keep myself close to god..
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nameless_one
Maybe he's a troll, maybe he's not. Imperfect grammar/spelling is hardly limited to trolls. Why not give the guy the benefit of the doubt?
Newwitness, welcome to the forum. Please take the time to read some of the threads here. There is much wisdom to be found if you look. -
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Songs that speak to my heart when I think of the organization
by nancy drew inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fre89067f1g.
this song is how i feel about the organization.. hello everyone!.
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Hugs to you Brin, I know you know what I'm talking about *insert cool CAF huggy here lol*
PS Green Day is better than all that
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Songs that speak to my heart when I think of the organization
by nancy drew inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fre89067f1g.
this song is how i feel about the organization.. hello everyone!.
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Comfortably Numb
Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone at home?
Come on, now
I hear you're feeling down
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again
Relax
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
Okay
Just a little pinprick
There'll be no more
But you may feel a little sick
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working
Good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go
There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown, the dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb.
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Joshua and my father
by mrsjones5 inreading oompa's little dilemma reminds me of something my mother said to me about a week ago.
apparently my father thinks that my youngest shouldn't go on the outings that my father takes the kids on.
he questions whether the things that they are doing (going to g rated movies) is age appropriate for my youngest son joshua (he's 6).
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This is awful! I think you are 100% correct to say no way to excluding your youngest, and also no offense but shame on your father for trying (or even wanting) to do that. Your boy is surely picking up on the "bad vibes" from grandpa; even if he is included in the outings, it sounds like your dad has some dim views of Joshua and isn't making much of an effort to hide them. Your other kids are surely picking up on it too, and I'd guess they feel protective of their little brother. Grandpa's cop-out might just backfire on him badly; that's no way to treat a grandchild and the kids surely know it. Maybe the day isn't too far off when they won't want to be around grandpa, rather than the reverse. I'm sorry your family has to deal with this :-(
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my motorcycle trip next weekend with dubs....and why it is sad.....
by oompa incause i have some really cool old jw friends and it is a weekend riding camping trip in the great smokey mountains...........and that should be fun right?............ya.........except......
these cool old friends were going to let my dfd son ride with us and camp and all........but then some of their dub family wanted to come, and some other dubs who dont even know my son........and even though he was great friends with some of these guys kids... who wanted to come just to camp...........well..........they would not come if my son comes............ you can not beleive how sad this makes me....it hurts....i dont even want to go now but i do understand these nuts and i do like my old friends......my dfd son even said to still go because he understands why his lifelong best friend (just reinstated!!!!
) will not go if he goes......he seems way cooler about it than me.................... this kind of painful conflict is going to kill me early......i wish me and my son could move far far far far far away....oompa.
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I agree with the others who say please don't go. I've never stood in your shoes, but I do feel pretty sure that it wouldn't even be a question for me, there's just no way. Also, if you're thinking that you can "anti-witness" to these people around the campfire, well frankly I think your very presence there will immediately deflate and negate any argument you might present about how crappy it was to exclude your son. Because if you're there too, and your son isn't, well you've essentially done the very same. Actions speak so much louder than words; if it were me, I would let my absence do the talking. Spend the weekend with your son, not in the company of people who would crap on him. That will send a strong message to all involved, including and especially your son. My two cents.