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  Brace yourself Australia! Added to the Floods

  by hotspur in

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  2. friends

  just been reading this...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12342031.

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  Conscience or Mind Control?

  by hotspur in

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  2. experiences

  this was plainly wierd.

  i'm telling this story to warn others of the power of mind control.. not long after my marriage failed i met a darling photographer who has since become my wife.

  i walked away from the borg, never to look back.

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  Speaker prompts for Questions - true story

  by hotspur in

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  2. friends

  at certain points throughout the talk "cues" were to be given by the speaker so that preset questions could be asked by nominated 'brothers".

  all well and good - no problem until..... .

  ..... bro x is found fast asleep in the audience.

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  Re-instatement

  by hotspur in

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  2. beliefs

  can anybody show me in any bible that, to be re-instated, i need to humiliate myself for at least 6 months?.

  what's that all about?

  in fact, that is high my list of 1001 reasons i'd never go back!.

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  Secrets?

  by hotspur in

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  2. beliefs

  isn't it strange how something all of a sudden hits you smack between the eyes - even after being presented with the same 'raw' data for years?

  (i was baptised in 1971.).

  i've realised in all the organisations to which i've ever belonged (there have been a few) - only the jws keep their rule books (whatever you might like to call them) a closely guarded secret.

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  Ancient International Standard of Measurement - The Inch

  by hotspur in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  all this kerfuffle over the year 607 threw up an interesting side issue for me.. some posts relate to the wts use of chronology derived from ctrussell's "divine plan of the ages" and "studies in the scriptures".

  within those pages are found some explanations of how the years 1874 and, later, 1914 were 'decided'.

  it seems there was a remeasuring of a particular tunnel within the great pyramid of gizeh which was, subsequently, found to be 40 inches longer.

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  Do JW's donate blood?

  by hotspur in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i raised this point in another, short lived, thread but feel it needs more thought...... at least some other opinion.. now, before we go too far in this discussion i reckon i know the answer and it's an empahtic no!.

  but.... how can they, in all conscience, receive the fractions they are now supposedly permitted to take?

  is it another case of..... "living in the world but being no part of it"?

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  The irony is not lost on me!

  by hotspur in

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  2. beliefs

  it has bothered me for a while now.... and it all stemmed from something i thought about during a dc some 6 years ago.

  well, it was pretty boring!

  hypocrisy.

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  "Have you stopped killing your people?"

  by hotspur in

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  2. medical

  alledgedly, that is the question (or similar) which was asked of stalin by queen elizabeth ii when she first met him.

  i thought it was so apposite to the situation jws are finding themselves today.

  and what a question?

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  Urgency Enigma....

  by hotspur in

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  2. beliefs

  how come an organization that is busting all out to get people through armageddon urgently is not teaching anything about survival?

  any storm predicted (weather forecast) sees people scurrying around to protect themselves.

  all that seems to happen in jw land is preparation for more printing.

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