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  Who left the Borg in 2007

  by WT=watchtrouble in

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  just curious to see who else left in the same year as me.

  and how are things for you now.. it has been 2 1/2 years since i left and damn time has gone fast.

  i now have heaps of fun.

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  MissingLink

  Faded completely in 2007. Things are now almost normal with a whole new set of friends. Only occasionally dealing with JW issues from parents.
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  Aluminum Poisoning by Charles T. Betts - download link

  by VM44 in

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  charles truax betts was a dentist that wrote about the dangers of aluminum poisoning.. many of his articles were published in the golden age magazine during the 1920's and 1930's.. he wrote a book with the title "aluminum poisoning", the second edition being published in 1928.. it may be obtained at this webpage:.

  file name: betts_aluminum_poisoning_2ed.pdf.

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/h8wuuz.

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  MissingLink

  Like most Watchtower info - it's complete rubbish.

  I've discussed this in detail before, but just consider this - if it WERE true that aluminum were harmful, then people with greater exposure would have a higher incidence of medical problems or death. Who has the most exposure? People working in bauxite mines and processing plants, and people working at aluminum smelting. These people get at least thousands of times more exposure than the general public ever would get from cooking in aluminum pans. But they experience no increased health problems.

  Anyone who knows even good high-school chemistry can tell you the rest of it is just complete nonsense, the idea that even if elemental aluminum was dangerous, that chemical compounds containing aluminum would also have the same danger. Think about that for a second or two.
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  VIDEO: Albert Einstein kid discussing about god at school...

  by Albert Einstein in

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  actually it is a macedonian commercial supporting return of religion lessons to schools.. btw, this "famous" story about little albert einstein (my grandpa ) is not considered likely to happen... ae as a kid was shy and did not really talk about god and spiritual issues.... but what do you think about the discussion?.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s8_2tcivuc&feature=player_embedded.

  albert.

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  MissingLink

  There is a Snopes Article on this.

  I think the more interesting question is why do religious people think it's OK to make up these sorts of lies? Where are their morals? Is "spiritual warfare" (lying for Jesus) common in all religions and not just JWs?
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  Re-cap of my wife's awakening last week.

  by Open mind in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/176622/1/update-from-open-mind.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/177326/1/point-of-no-return-had-the-f-d-slave-talk-with-my-wife.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/178025/1/my-jw-wife-is-looking-at-jws-on-the-net-wahoo.

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  MissingLink

  Thanks for the update and summary OM! I think it's important for others to see that this can be done if you think it through, make a plan, and take it slow. So happy for the two of you!
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  There's A Ghost At My Place Of Employment

  by finallysomepride in

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  ok some of you will laugh at this, but it's true, there is a spirit that haunts the premises where i work.. it has spoken to me once when i was locking up, it was 1 single word "hello", i looked around and saw nothing, i ignored it, set the alarm locked the door & went home.

  other times i have felt something brush passed me as i have entered the building early in the morning.

  the experience that got to me most happened the other nite when i was called back to the store by security, as i pulled into the drive way there was a man standing at the rear of the building, in the split second of looking away he dissapeared, there's no way that he could have run off the property in that split second.. what do you think?.

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  MissingLink

  It's just brain junk.
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  IE8 sucks rocks

  by JeffT in

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  i upgraded a couple of days ago from ie7 to ie8 after a prompt showed up on my desktop.

  after hours of locked pages, slow downloads and unsuccessful attempts to tweak the settings on my computer; i followed a suggestion on computer related board.

  i've uninstalled ie8 and reverted to ie7.

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  MissingLink

  Windows 7 IS a great upgrade from Vista, but IE8 is SLOW.... Google Chrome is the fastest browser around.
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  How Much of an Impact is Being Made by Young JW' s Leaving the Cult ?

  by flipper in

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  we have read threads where statistics show that 2 out of every 3 people raised as jehovah's witnesses eventually leave once they get in their 20's to 30's and out on their own.

  my children and my nieces and nephews are between the ages of 21 to 35 .

  out of those 8 people - 4 of them have completely stopped attending meetings .

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  My peers wouldn't qualify as "young", but of the 8 who were in my wedding party, only 2 are still "active".
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  Astronomers spot 'most distant object in the universe'

  by Doug Mason in

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  from the online news at yahoo for 29 october 2009:.

  scientists have observed the most distant object in the universe, thought to come from a star that exploded more than 13 billion years ago.

  the research team, published their findings in the journal "nature".

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  That god guy sure was clever in stretching out those light rays that far to trick us into thinking the universe is that old.
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  Are YOU Shunned By Jehovah's Witnesses At All?

  by minimus in

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  some witnesses speak to me quite normally/.

  others avoid me like the plague.. how are you treated by the witnesses?.

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  Only shunned by our former closest friends. Others are polite, and we were even invited for coffee last week! Before that we haven't seen any of them for nearly 2 years. We're not DF or DA.
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  Church of Scienctoligy hit a rough patch

  by is there help out there in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts956.

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  On Monday, a French court convicted the Church of Scientology on fraud charges stemming from complaints by two women. The judge in the case levied massive fines as punishment, fueling a long-running battle between Scientology and France , which considers the group a "sect" rather than a religion. The legal ruling is the latest in a string of recent setbacks for the star-studded organization. Here's a recap of what's taken place recently:

  French court rules against Scientology
  The judge in Paris ordered the Church of Scientology to pay a €600,000 fine (roughly US$900,000) and sentenced its French leader to two years in prison along with a €30,000 fine (US$44,000) for "organized fraud." One of the women involved in the complaint claimed that she was conned into spending over €20,000 (US$29,500) on vitamins and life-improvement courses after she took one of the stress tests the group is known for administering to prospective members. Another claimed that she was fired by her boss, a Scientologist , after she declined to complete initiation. France refuses to acknowledge the group as a religion and views it as a profit-generating commercial organization. Scientology has been highly scrutinized by the nation's authorities over the past decade for fraud and for making false claims to consumers, causing many to call for the Church of Scientology's ouster for allegedly posing a threat to "public order."
  
  Reacting to the judge's ruling, Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis said that the ruling violated the group's rights and that he expected it to be thrown out on appeal at a later date.
  
  High-profile members defect
  Scientology lost one of its more well-known members last week when Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis ("Crash," " Million Dollar Baby ") publicly renounced his membership. In a letter to Davis, Haggis cited the group's opposition to gay-marriage rights in California . He also chastised Davis' recent public denial of Scientology's mandate of "disconnecting," which allegedly requires members to cut ties with disapproving friends and family members. In the letter, Haggis said that his wife went so far as to disown her parents, despite his protestations. He went on to denounce Davis for using personal information to smearScientology defectors like Amy Scobee, the person who led the group's celebrity recruitment efforts for more than 20 years. About the treatment of Scobee, Haggis wrote:

  How dare you use private information in order to label someone an "adulteress?" You took Amy Scobee's most intimate admissions about her sexual life and passed them onto the press and then smeared them all over the pages your newsletter! ... She ran the entire celebrity center network, and was a loyal senior executive of the church for what, 20 years? You want to rebut her accusations, do it, and do it in the strongest terms possible - but that kind of character assassination is unconscionable.

  Haggis' defection comes on the heels of persistent rumors that John Travolta , one of the group's most prominent members, is planning to walk away from Scientology as well. In response to the letter, Tommy Davis said that Haggis' disagreements with the group are based on "misunderstandings" and that Scientology is in fact firmly in favor of gay-marriage rights.
  Newly appointed spokesperson sparks controversy
  Prior to Paul Haggis' letter being made public, Davis himself made news when he angrily stormed out of an interview with "Nightline" interviewer Martin Bashir after Bashir asked him whether or not he believed in Xenu, the intergalactic warlord reportedly at the center of Scientology 's theology. Davis said the line of questioning perpetuated "disgusting perversions" about Scientology. He then showed up at ABC's headquarters in New York 45 minutes before the interview was set to air and demanded that the network pull the footage from its broadcast, a request that was denied.

  Additionally, a source said to be close to Davis recently told The Daily Beast that his checkered past puts him at odds with the group's notoriously strict "executive posting qualifications." Davis, however, denies that he is a "drug revert." Prior to becoming the group's main public face, Davis (the son of actress Anne Archer, a longtime Scientologist) was Tom Cruise 's "personal, full-time assigned Scientology handler," something that has caused some, including Paul Haggis , to claim that Davis received special treatment in obtaining his position, an assertion he vigorously denies.

  Even for a group familiar with scandal, the combination of negative stories may have Scientology's PR enforcers - Davis included - on the defensive.