Pleased for you that you met them, Jon, and hopefully your parents will meet again despite their fears. Deciding to let them live out their lives without destroying their cherished beliefs is obviously for their benefit, not yours. Thanks for sharing.
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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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Wish Me Luck II
by IP_SEC inwell i decided to buy a powerball ticket again.. so wish me luck and share in the weath.
so easy its sick!!.
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Good luck, and remember me when you buy your kingdom.
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The Hope For Our Dying Home-Earth...An Inconvenient Truth
by justhuman inyesterday it was the day of the global inviroment.
as i walked to the street going to work, the main square of the capitol was filled with small children and their teachers with huge paintings, songs, art work with recycled elements demanding a cleaner plannet.
when the old generation will pass those little ones that will take in charge with all the inviromental education they had they will go for a better world.i'm sure about it, you could see it in their small eyes.
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So I was thinking about this thread again and decided to take another look at it tonight.
The first thing I want to say is sorry if I caused any offence with my "I wonder if Americans who stick their heads in the sand have any idea how educated Europeans view them?" question. I can see how that has encouraged negative back and forth quips. A few points on my using it: 1) As I said earlier, I didn't mean to infer that all Americans are ignorant or unconcerned with environmental issues. 2) I didn't mean to infer that all Europeans are educated. (I don't consider myself so - more on that later.) 3) When I see what I perceive as a destructive attitude I get wound up. 4) Sorry again.
One thing I think we can all agree on is that the earth, its resources and its atmosphere are important to us. If things need changing, we shouldn't waste time trying to justify our present practices just because we like the way things are for ourselves right now.
Some have drawn a parallel between believing in the teachings of our favourite bible cult and in human-caused global warming. I'm not particularly educated, especially with regard to science. As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I was taught to dismiss what science had shown. It ran contrary to what we wanted to believe, so it was deemed to be wrong and appealing to those who were too full of themselves. Having dispensed with that fallacy, I now feel that disagreeing with the scientific consensus over something so important requires extremely good reasons, for obvious reasons. besty has asked for clarification and further information of a number of members - it will be interesting to see if these requests are dealt with.
It makes sense to me that systematically destroying and burning resources and emitting chemicals in significant quantities into our atmosphere has an effect. We are capable of using far less obtrusive technologies to get our power, e.g. solar. Why fight it?
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New video showing inside of Brooklyn Headquarters
by Shepherd Book inwell, this is nothing terribly scathing or impressive, but i thought i would upload some of the footage i shot while on tour at bethel.
at the time, i was volunteering to work there, so i received a slightly more in-depth tour than the kind they give people who just show (like on bus tours).
i shot some footage of a video talking about the graphic arts department.
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Surreal is a good word. And I used to read and believe the sh*t that spun off those presses.
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Letter to My Mother--FINAL!--After 2yrs3mos--Incomprehensibly Long...
by Confession in[2 john 9 11, nwt].
[john 14:6, nwt] .
[john 14:6, nwt] .
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Tagging for later. The little I have read looks very well written and personal.
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Going to college....
by PaulJ insomething i didn't do when i was someone growing up as a witness.... i start a degree in english and history in september... yay.
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Good to hear, Paul. Enjoy. :)
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If it was true
by Honesty inwhich it isn't by any stretch of the imagination.. .
can you envision life during the 1,000 year reign with jesus up in heaven and the governing body running the show down here.. .
how long do you think you could stick with it knowing that the rules could change any minute?.
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If it was true, as long as necessary.
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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: .
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Devious, manipulating b45t4rds!
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The Hope For Our Dying Home-Earth...An Inconvenient Truth
by justhuman inyesterday it was the day of the global inviroment.
as i walked to the street going to work, the main square of the capitol was filled with small children and their teachers with huge paintings, songs, art work with recycled elements demanding a cleaner plannet.
when the old generation will pass those little ones that will take in charge with all the inviromental education they had they will go for a better world.i'm sure about it, you could see it in their small eyes.
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Hmm, attacking the person rather than their data. Hands up anyone here who's experienced that...
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********** Happy Birthday, JK666 ? ***********
by FlyingHighNow inis it your birthday?
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this is what i found when i looked for frank zappa actions figures or dolls:.
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Happy birthday!