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Name something that JWs believe in that isn't in the Bible
by Awakened at Gilead inmy favorites are:.
"paradise earth": not in the bible.
"great crowd" of "other sheep" - two unrelated texts... put them together, and voila!, you just changed the destiny of millions!.
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Abusers, childcare experts, cameras and youtube
by usualusername ini have found a potential way to confront abusers.. invite your friendly pedophile to dinner.
invite the family of the kids they have abused.
set up a secret camera to record the evening.
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And then Chris Hansen steps out from inside the grandfather clock...
"What are you doing here?"
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Just finished our District Convention
by BonaFide ini know i am going to get caught being on here...and i don't want to get caught, but i need support or i will lose my mind.
how can i give information about my convention without someone figuring out who i am?
(i am not important i know that, but i know so many people in the organization) .
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This will be the first convention I'm going to miss. Will save several hundred dollars in gas and lodging as a result.
At the DC last year I took the best notes I've ever taken... writing down everything that was wrong with what was being said. It was depressing, cathartic, and eye-opening.
BTW a belated welcome to BonaFide!
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Some questions about WT sources
by witnessgirl insomething has been bugging me for years and years, and always bugged me when i was an active witness.
i've never mentioned it before and i've never seen it discussed.
like with a lot of other matters, i just assumed that this meant that i was missing something that everyone else understood.
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solace1998: im not hurt at all, i just think he was being a dick. Am i allowed to say this?
Of course you are. But you've made six posts about it in this thread, and that falls squarely into the category of Whining Crybaby. You say you're not hurt; that's obviously untrue as your disproportionate response to a single snide remark proves. As you suggest in your Yoda-inspired thread, we'd all do well to "get over ouselves." Sure A@G was being a dick. Why do you have a problem with that?
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Some questions about WT sources
by witnessgirl insomething has been bugging me for years and years, and always bugged me when i was an active witness.
i've never mentioned it before and i've never seen it discussed.
like with a lot of other matters, i just assumed that this meant that i was missing something that everyone else understood.
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WT is always ready to quote those on the fringes of respectibility in their fields to supprot their wacky teachings.
Another technique they use is to cite or quote a source without naming the source.
For example, to lend credibility to their argument, in the February 15, 2006 Watchtower on page 7, they quote an unnamed "scholar".
They repeated this quote, complete with name omission, in a talk at the 2006 district convention.
Independent research reveals that this respected "scholar" is none other than Christian wacko Lee Strobel, author of the books "The Case for Christmas" and "The Case for Easter," among others.
Apparently the WT respects this member of BTG enough to cite him as an authority on Jesus... as long as they don't tell their sheep who he is.
BTW what is with college students getting all butthurt because they got insulted by someone on a message board? Boo hoo, get over it, pretend to be a grownup, eh?
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I bet you do not remember this picture, or do you?
by vivalavida indoes it ring a bell?.
it was taken by me from the stern magazine from germany issued on august 13th, 1961..... clue: i guess 47 years later she wouldn't attract any angels, would she?.
vivalavida.
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Wow... another example of plagiarism. That looks identical.
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billy jean
by Hortensia inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7507218.stm.
michael jackson's "billy jean" voted best dance music ever on bbc news.
i rather agree, i've always thought that was one of his best songs ever.
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Gotta give credit where it's due... Cook did Chris Cornell's version.
Still like MJs' the best, though.
Hmm, trying to embed...
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Convention Badges made by Apostate Printing, Inc
by donny inone of the guys who works for me has a wife who is a jw, but he is not.
his son-in-law also used to work for me until he got his license to sell real estate.
he serves as a minsterial servant in his congregation.
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Buahaha! I might have put in microscopic "666" images, then leaked the story that the badges were the mark of the beast...
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When Human Rights Extend to Nonhumans
by hamilcarr inall these supremacist notions take a long time to erode.. ideas & trends.
when human rights extend to nonhumans david silverman/getty imagesalmost human a chimp at an israeli wildlife park in april.
spanish lawmakers recently voted to grant apes some rights.
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"Rights" I don't think is a proper term to use for animals. Animals do not have rights.
In nature there are no rights. Rights were invented by humans.
If we as a species decide to abide by a code of treatment for other species, it is for our own sake, and not theirs, a recognition of our superiority and an acceptance of the caretaker responsibility that entails.
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Request for info - Please post the number of partakers between 1975 - 1992
by Awakened at Gilead ini have the figures from 1992 to present.
most of the the previous years are not in the cd-rom.
anyone have yearbooks or bound volume data they can share?.
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In 2007 there were 347 more partakers than 2006... that is the largest single-year increase ever. It could well signal the start of an upward trend.