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  Happy New Year and a blessing !

  by wobble in

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  2. friends

  a happy new year to you all!!!!.

  and a dave alan blessing "may your god go with you".

  another irish blessing (toast) "may your roof never fall in, and may those below it never fall out !".

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  Another thought on 1919

  by wobble in

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  2. beliefs

  as the claim is that jesus chose the bible students as his fds in 1919, surely he did not choose a corporation, the wbts,nor did he choose just the directors, but the claim is he chose this whole group of faithful ones, the bible students.. as over the next few months and years over two thirds of those bible students left rutherford and gang, surely it is logical that they are the ones chosen by jesus, they remained bible students, and exist to this day, but surely rutherford and co did not "follow the slave's leading" ?

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  Mickey Mouse thinks religious belief is.............

  by wobble in

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  2. bible

  mickey mouse, our very own treasured poster, not the cartoon character, thinks that religious belief is both rational and intelligent.. do you ?.

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  JEFFRO !!!! did we ever meet?

  by wobble in

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  i was born in, born in kent in 1950, so we must at the very least know a few people in common, pm me if you are interested in a chat..

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  Those "Passion arousing jungle rythyms" !

  by wobble in

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  do any of you remember the wt putting those words in print ?.

  i remember when i read them that i thought "they don't give me a hard-on", now, slow dancing close to a lovely lady, that was different,.

  i was pleased to see her !.

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  cult novelist writes about...........cults !

  by wobble in

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  the novelist and essayist haruki murakami wrote quite a bit, based on interviews he did with survivors and cult members, about the aum sect, who released deadly sarin nerve-gas on the tokyo subway in 1995. his interviews and his thoughts appeared in english in the book "underground".. he promised to return to the matter of cults in his fiction, which he has done in his latest work, iq84.. in it appear two cults, one is "aum like", with a very sinister leader, the other is a christian sect whose pamphleteering members refuse life-saving surgery and is called "the society of witnesses", i wonder who inspired the latter one ?.

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  Vatican Irders Inquiry into abuse at English School

  by wobble in

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  2. child-abuse

  the vatican has ordered an apostolic visitation as the inquiry is called ,into the abuse that went on for many years at st benedicts school, ealing, and at ealing abbey.. the vatican fears the scandal is much larger than they at first thought.. when will the wt make some enquiries in to their child abuse problems ?

  they cannot continue to hide them, the rc church has found that out..

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  Would Christianity have survived if......

  by wobble in

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  2. bible

  ...........the roman empire had not adopted it ?

  they were far from being in the majority at the time,although growth had taken place over a large area, but within that area they were still a minority religion, often an underground one.. so hypothetically, would it just have withered and died, have torn itself to shreds with all the schisms and sects ?.

  i think that without the power of rome it would have done just that, perhaps the coptic church may have survived until the 21st century and perhaps the eastern churches, but the western ?

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  For those still "in" the W.T , a Moral Question.

  by wobble in

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  for those who are still in the jw/wt religion for whatever reason , and to whatever extent, i ask :.

  how high would you rate your moral standards ?.

  where do you stand on telling lies, upholding truth, deceiving others etc ?.

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  I saw a sad sight yesterday.

  by wobble in

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  i was strolling up our high street, trying to avoid the sally army chuggers, when coming towards me was an elderly lady, she suddenly approached a young lady and offered her a tract, the girl refused.. the old dear was weirdly dressed in very old-fashioned clothes that still screamed "pioneer",they can't have been exactly fashinable when they were new, she must have been in her seventies, but was weird looking, not helped by bright orange hair and very red lipstick, i checked, and she was holding the tract "you can trust the bible" (oh yea??).

  i have not seen anyone doing street work for ages in our town, even she was not that dedicated, she dodged in to a charity shop and had a look at what was on offer,still counting her time i guess.. i thought of engagng her in conversation, but then i thought no, better to leave her in the cult, she will do more harm reinforcing the impression that jw's are a bunch of weirdos by her desultory street work than she would if she woke up and left the dubs.. years ago we used to get a bunch of young people together and we would all go in street work, and to the markets etc.

  we used to make it fun, as much as we could.. now all they have as the public face of the jw's is a sad, weird old lady.. i think we shall see this more and more, the glory days are gone for the wt.. good..

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