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  District Conventions are awful if you have kids. (Learn why!)

  by easyreader1970 in

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  i know that many of you have not been to distric conventions in some time, but what i am about to describe is a recent trend.. 1. more people than seats.

  for the past six or seven years, they've tried cramming too many congregations into one convention hall at one time.

  in many cases, if you do not get to the convention more than an hour before the program starts and you need more than a couple of seats, you cannot find seats.

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  Grown people--grown people--are running through the place, briefcases and purses swinging, trying to find seats.

  If I'm gonna die, I'll get killed trying to get into a Who concert with festival seating.

  Take your kids to your local Episcopal Church. They have nurseries for the little ones. They have Sunday school. They have crayons, coloring books and toys for the children you wish to bring into the service. They don't mind if you kids lie on the floor, sit on their knees in the pew, pile up the prayer cushions like building blocks, sing when it's not time to sing, cry, talk, babble or whatever. They love kids and they all will tell you it's a healthy place for children. They don't have big conventions they expect you to break the bank to attend. They never try to scare you and they don't care if you believe what they are saying.

  OOOH! A religion where you don't have to believe? Daaamn! These are my kind of people. I'd probably still be a JW if one could get by without believing (or faking it). I'm smart and honest, never cut out for the JW lifestyle.
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  Thomas Paine "Age of Reason"

  by BurnTheShips in

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  2. beliefs

  on another thread purporting to start a discussion of this work, some suggested that it be restarted in a new thread, as the consideration there had begun in a polluted way and had only stayed at that level.

  since things poorly begun usually end worse, i am starting the thread as some have requested.

  i am currently beginning to read age of reason, and will return to it from time to time as time itself allows.

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  Writers, politicians, and philosophers were quite brilliant 200 years ago. Imagine if a national figure wrote like that today??!!!

  Indeed, this is why I have the one true religion. I'm a proponent of the the ideas of the founders of the United States and pretty much an agnostic about everything else. Come to the light, and be saved.

  "The enlightenment" was, in my opinion, a time of intense intellectual explosion far greater and far more important than any other Renaissance, anywhere, ever. I love the United States because it is founded on reason.

  Bring_the_Light (and HOOAH!)
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  Thomas Paine "Age of Reason"

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on another thread purporting to start a discussion of this work, some suggested that it be restarted in a new thread, as the consideration there had begun in a polluted way and had only stayed at that level.

  since things poorly begun usually end worse, i am starting the thread as some have requested.

  i am currently beginning to read age of reason, and will return to it from time to time as time itself allows.

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  another thread up in smoke.

  why don't you guys want to discuss Paine?

  It must hurt them, BOOYAH! (paine, hurts them, get it, huh?huh? woo!, ahh stupid, sorry)
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  It's "lie through my teeth" time again.

  by easyreader1970 in

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  2. friends

  well, the elders are coming over tomorrow for a shepherding call with me and my wife.

  i am sure they will discuss my low hours in the field ministry and how i am not doing everything i could be doing.

  for my wife's sake, i will be good and mostly "smile and nod".

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  The ordeal is over. They came over but it wasn't as bad as I envisioned. They backed WAY off when we revealed to them that my wife is bipolar and that one of our children is chronically ill (asthma). They said it was a wonder we made it to the KH or out in service whenever we did. So then they read us some scriptures and went on with life. They didn't try to waterboard me or anything. So everyone is happy. The wife got her "spiritual encouragement" that she needed, I wasn't forced to lie (much), and we were not oppressed by the men in black.

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  What a CROCK! If being depressed gets you off the hook, how do they justify going after ANY witnesses?
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  New Scientist - Article on Blood Transfusions mentions JW's

  by PopeOfEruke in

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  2. medical

  interesting reading in a recent new scientist magazine - 26 april 2008 issue.. .

  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826533.500-could-blood-transfusions-actually-cause-harm.html.

  to read the complete article you have to buy the magazine.. blood transfusions found to harm some patients26 april 2008 rachel nowakmagazine issue 2653 "for the life of the flesh is in the blood.

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  Would be interesting to find out about Rachel Nowak and if she has any links to the JW's.

  In my opinion the article is quite pro-JW which is surprising considering The New Scientist's normally uncompromising stand against creationists in general....

  Pope

  The guinea pig is the scientists best friend. I volunteered for a brain MRI study once, I have never had such a good friend in my life as the PhD running the study. If I requested a BJ in exchange for 30 more mins in the machine, I'm sure it could have been arranged.
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  New Scientist - Article on Blood Transfusions mentions JW's

  by PopeOfEruke in

  1. watchtower
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  interesting reading in a recent new scientist magazine - 26 april 2008 issue.. .

  http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826533.500-could-blood-transfusions-actually-cause-harm.html.

  to read the complete article you have to buy the magazine.. blood transfusions found to harm some patients26 april 2008 rachel nowakmagazine issue 2653 "for the life of the flesh is in the blood.

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  Well seems obvious to me. Pumping life into someone like that, clearly would cause damage. Maybe if the vaccine/autism link is firmly established, the super-old JW's will jump up from their wheelchairs and yell "BOOYAH!" we knew we was right that vaccination was evil befer these derned youngsters got their "new light".

  In all fairness, Jehovah's Witnesses have been excellent guinea pigs and have indeed contributed to science by being so. Now, we need "new light" which reveals that the key to salvation is volunteering for dangerous medical experiments and then we'll see the full measure of Jehovah's gift to medicine.
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  Latest Witness comments about no more Bookstudy- Rejoicing and happy????

  by Witness 007 in

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  i've asked afew witnesses at work and around town about no more bookstudy.........they are all so relieved!

  one elder with four kids said..."it will make things alot easier, with rushing home from work, the society understands our needs.

  "......another brother said: "it's great, now we can go to the cinema on half price tuesday's!

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  Jemima Witness (kinda lame, not Family Guy)

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1KoaVZmulk
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  2 Scots "gobsmacked" at what they see.

  by chrisjoel in

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  http://www.ardrossanherald.com/articles/1/23461

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  Don't be concerned about anything in the sky unless it starts galloping.
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  On National Public Radio Today: This I Believe

  by BurnTheShips in

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  i enjoyed today's essay on the "this i believe" segment, just wanted to share it.

  my wife turned me on to a local charity.

  i am considering ways i can help too.

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  i have two $25 loans out.... one to a woman in azherbijan and one to a woman in cambodia

  Cool! what kind of interest are you raking in on those bad boys? I've heard that fleecing the poor is a pretty good racket.
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  Meetings cut down to twice a week....

  by newly unsure in

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  2. friends

  i heard that they are planning to cut meetings down to twice a week and the book study will become part of the school and service meeting...any one else hear about this?.

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  thanks everyone!! would anyone know where i can read more ..like where i can find the post?

  That depends.... Are you looking for:

  1. Basic Facts?

  2. Apostatic glee?

  3. Conspiracy theories?

  We've got a copy of the letter somewhere. However, I'd note that if you were more diligent in your meeting attendance, Mr. Faderpants, you'd already have the facts. You naughty meeting misser you! That "we" had the scoop long before the less advanced Witness is now just something to be proud of rather than actively gloat about.