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My Dad's "Annual" Letter to his Wayward son...
by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up inso it appears my dad is keeping track of when i left.
he has mailed me a letter - the first contact in over 6 months - because it has been a year since i left the borg.. for the sake of explanation, dad is a third gen witness and has been an elder all of my life - po in most of the congs i was in.. yesterday i received a letter from him, it began with "hi boy, this is your annual newsletter of births,deaths, marriages etc so thata you know what is going on with the family" and then went on to recount the family news for the year.
it was actually very touching and made me cry.
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Europe must stand up to Islam NOW
by B_Deserter injust read this today: .
http://news.aol.co.uk/prayer-refusal-pupils-disciplined/article/20080704162734190726835 .
an education authority is investigating claims that two school pupils were punished for refusing to kneel down and pray to allah during a religious education lesson.
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Worship of the Faithful and Discrete Slave?
by Lady Zombie init sure does seem like the wtbts is subtly edging jws towards actually worshipping the fds.
they're constantly reminding jws that all spiritual food is provided via the fds and how the wtbts are jehovah's chosen representatives.. and the nebulous hypothetical question that the wtbts has been asking of late of (paraphrased) 'will you accept and obey direction from the fds, no matter how strange it may appear?
' they insinuate that "in the last days," jws may be issued instructions that may, at first, appear to be outlandish, but that their very survival depends on it.. it was ominously mentioned at the last dc and was mentioned again several times in congregational meetings, especially during the book study which not surprisingly is the revelation book.. the first problem here is, the current gb, the very ones responsible for "providing food at the proper time" are not among the annoited.
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I've seen a whole lot of NEWBS here lately glad to see the new blood...
by zeroday inwelcome all new ones to a breath of fresh air...i lingered in the polluting air of the kingdom hall for 28 years before i steped out for air.....i hope you did not wait that long...
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Anyone else see "Hancock" (warning warning Spoiler throughout)
by free2beme ini went and saw this movie last night and while i liked it to some degree, i was disappointed in it not being more then it was.
i was liking the idea of watching a man who had super powers, go from a drunk to something more, and thought it would have a more human edge.
in the movie, it even hinted towards a possible super villain and then comes this big off the wall twist of the wife being a super hero too.
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Horrific fuel prices in Germany
by flyphisher in.
1,61 euro per 1 liter = 9,57 us-dollar per gallon (!!).
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Musings of a fader: July 4 picnic
by truthseeker ini have been a fader for sometime now.
yesterday was the first time that i went to a july 4 picnic and fireworks - not that i went to specifically celebrate that day, i just wanted to get out and see people, see life.. i was raised in the truth and because of this i had many preconceived notions and ideas - one of them being that worldly people weren't fit to associate with, that anyone not serving jehovah would only "spoil my useful habits.".
i wandered around the park and for the first time i just observed people without any pre-existing conditions - there was a lot of activities for children, face painting, candle making and various rides and people dressed up as cartoon characters.
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How the annointed KNOW that they are...........I must be ALSO!!!
by nomoreguilt init just came to me out of the morning mist.
i was standing in my garage having a smoke just a few minutes ago.
so, i was thinking about the day to come and i had my hands in my pockets.
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For NEWBIES Re: The BITE Model
by What-A-Coincidence inhttp://www.freedomofmind.com/resourcecenter/articles/bite.htm.
mind control - the bite model from chapter two of releasing the bonds: empowering people to think for themselves* .
* 2000 by steven hassan; published by freedom of mind press, somerville ma.