Carlos_Helms
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
by Sasha inaaron, joshua, benjamin and samuel: the 13 and 14 yr. old boys who perished in the iowa tornado.
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Does Wearing Your Nations Uniform Automatically Ensure a High Moral Ground?
by hillary_step ini realize that the contents of this thread may enflame the passions of those on all sides of the house.
if your sensibilities are easily damaged, you take yourself to seriously, or your humor is wanting, then be warned this may not be the thread for you.. i have been reading with interest a thread on this board today that is discussing the treatment of us veterans.
i have noticed that when such subjects are discussed there is an automatic assumption that those who don the uniforms of their respective nations, they somehow are automatically walking on a higher moral ground.. i find it all the more puzzling that those who cry the loudest for 'special' treatment for soldiers, and by special i mean as compared to the rest of the working masses, seem to be of an republican bent.
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The Brooklyn pen pushers have blood ink wells.
by edmond dantes inconsidering that the bible is not infallible and certainly not a medical reference book is it wise and safe to interpret the drinking of blood as the same as the tranfusing of blood and because it is a life and death matter wouldn't jesus accept the principal of "you must not kill" as the overiding principle in the matter?.
because the leaders of the new world society have been wrong on so many occasions is it not sensible to accept the best possible medical advice during a critical medical situation?.
have the rank and file no common sense at all or do they put their faith in mere mens instructions who have had no medical training whatsoever and isn't it about time they started thinking and standing up for themselves?.
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Making God's Commands Arbitrary
by milligal inthere's a philosophical theology behind the premise that people who blindly obey (a.k.a.
'sheeplike') have no inner sense of morality or ethics.
take for exampe the idea of shunning, jw's shun those that they are told to shun.
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Banging my head against a brick wall - and I go back for more !
by LouBelle inyup i do - when it come to trying to reason with my cousin - who is still disfellowshipped but believes it's the truth.. i asked him if i could disprove the 607 date thus throwing 1914 and that out the window would he still go back - knowing they had decieved him.
yes - he *&*$(@)&%)(@#$ said yes - i think the look of total shock/horror on my face could have said it all - i was lost for words - i might have growled though.. i know *i* can't make him see it but i keep trying.
i've tried to keep quiet, i've tried reasoning, i've tried shock tactics, i've tried humour, i've tried it all - i know i can't do it - but i'm a sucker.
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So it happened...I met with my Mom and Dad...
by Confession inbrief historical recounting.... 3rd generation of 4 generation jw family.
elder for three years.
realized "the truth" wasn't in september of 2004. tried to fade by moving from michigan to southern california in june of 2005 with my (then) 17 year old daughter (who eventually left the organization herself.
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35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush - Introduced by Kucinich
by What-A-Coincidence inhttp://www.democrats.com/files/amomentoftruth.pdf.
kucinich website crippled under suspicious circumstances after introduction of impeachment articles.
political desk june 10, 2008cleveland, oh - ohio congressman dennis kucinich's re-election website was shut down this morning by a series of suspicious and fast-moving events several hours after kucinich introduced 35 articles of impeachment against president george w. bush.. .
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Women being in subjection...a sore subject
by milligal ini was raised jw and of course the whole theory that a man is the head and the woman must respect her husband and be in subjection to his authority was ingrained in me from a young age.
my mother, (oddly enough) chose the jw religion, dragged my father in kicking and screaming (he later served as an elder for 17 years) and she complained constantly about men being in control and her pains as a woman in subjection.
now, i already have a good idea about my mother's problems.
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Big News or rumor!
by Burger Time ina friend just informed me that the c/o in his hall will be instructing the elders that anyone with a child in college will be stripped of privileges in the hall.
i am not sure if this is true this is just what i was told.
it could be that it is only a campaign directed at him as he has some ties to ex-jw's and some how got found out.
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How Will the Court Deal With Deceit?
by compound complex ingiven the recent information on lawrence hughes' days in court the last of may, how could "caesar" deal with the deceptive methods of the wtb&ts?
i understand that such information has been entered into the court record.
please consider an example of what jw children are coached to say and not to say: .