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Where We Are in the Stream of Time
by Duncan ini had another visit from witnesses at my door on saturday, only the second time in the four years we?ve lived here.
a very nice young girl, it was, offering me the ?keep on the watch?
magazine.. i let her make her pitch, which was mostly all about how terrible the world was today, and then just replied with enough interest for her to keep going, without giving anything away.
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"Shoot the Pipes" Hester: Another story.
by Duncan inthis is another hester story, sparked in my memory by news coverage of the us election.
i first wrote about hester last year, in a thread entitled ?
what?s the stupidest thing a jw ever said??
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Picture of the transit - 8 June A.D. 2004
by Duncan in.
i hope this works - first time i've done it.. i took this picture of the transit in my back garden 5 minutes ago.. the sun doesn't look perfectly round because it's a picture of a projection and i was standing to the side a little bit, but i think you can clearly see the black dot of venus.. duncan
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Less than 36 hours away...
by Duncan indear all,.
the transit of venus, that i wrote about here:.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/70078/1.ashx.
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Astronomy: Three Dates: A Young Witness
by Duncan inso, taking those title elements in reverse order: the young witness is me ?
this story goes back to the early sixties.
the three dates are: february 1986, august 11th 1999, and june 8th 2004. it's the fact that the last of those dates is , after all these years, finally nearly here that made me think of writing this post.
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At the Filling Station
by Duncan inthere is absolutely no witness angle to this ?
it?s just something that happened to me the other day, and i thought i?d write about it.
- so, that?s me told.. i go back and wait in the car.
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The Number of the Beast
by Duncan inthere?s been a few posts about this lately, and it got me thinking?
reflecting back on all the wt literature i studied over a 20 year period, there were among it all some ideas and stuff which you could charitably say were ?right?, plenty of things that were just flat-out wrong, and a fairly high count of ideas that were simply bonkers.
the thing that always struck me, though, about the watchtower teaching to do with the beast and its devilish number 666, was how utterly lame it all was.
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Sister Doreen and the Real-Life Noah's Ark Survivors
by Duncan inone of the things that has interested me over the many years since i?ve been out of the watchtower is the mindset of the ?intelligent?
christian fundamentalist.
specifically, i mean the educated type, the sort who really ought to have enough educated reasoning skill and basic native brain-power to see the hopelessness of the fundie position on all that early-genesis mythical stuff, but who doggedly sticks to it (or pretends to in public) as if it were a respectable, logical scientific point of view, as if it really were gospel.
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That time of year again.
by Duncan inthis time last year, i posted this:.
: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/41270/1.ashx.
well, yesterday, i noticed they're selling christmas trees again.
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As we move from side to side...
by Duncan in...we hear the total mass retain.. .
recently, i went to a yes concert with some old jw buddies who got in contact with me.
we were all yes fanatics when we were 17, and pioneers.