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  Brain surgery boosts spirituality (science)

  by bohm in

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  2. friends

  "removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from italy.

  their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas.".

  http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=brain-surgery-boosts-spiritual.

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  "Youth book" said 97% of teenagers Masturbate...but none of them are Witnesses! Is this unrealistic?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. beliefs

  "youth" book and "young people ask" admitts that 97% boys and 92% of girls masturbate but of course none of the holy decent witness teenagers would ever do such a thing and earn jehovahs anger!

  how realistic is this?

  97% of the world have t.v's or a telephone!

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  God and Suffering

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a few weeks back, in the midst of the haiti tragedy, much discussion took place in cyberland about the tolerance [or indeed the insistence on] suffering by a loving god.

  the furor over haiti has settled a bit [as unfortunately most tragedy is wont to do far too quickly in the human mind], but this persistent matter continues to chew at my subconscience.

  today i came across this:.

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  Interesting story

  by bulgogiboy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok this isnt my own personal experience but its an experience of someone else's that i read in a paper.

  basically her parents were taken from her by the borg.. here's the link if anyone is interested:.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1250078/the-knock-door-turned-parents-brainwashed-fanatics--nearly-cost-life.html.

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  If we were alone together in the woods 100 miles from nowhere

  by John Doe in

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  2. friends

  and a tree fell on me, pinning me to the ground, and all you had was a dull pocket knife, would you perform a field amputation of a leg or arm to save my life?

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  Out of Left Field...Strange things you were told by elders

  by FollowerOfSet in

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  2. friends

  just curious if the crazy was limited to my town or not.. i remember and elder, during a talk about everyone being resurrected that it included all the babies that had miscarried or were aborted, because the big j knew what their hearts were.

  after the meeting, he was telling a couple of us how it also disturbed him that his wife would have to carry someone elses babies and he would be raising someone elses children.. another elder said that we would colonize other planets, and that since the bible never said the big j didn't make other inhabited worlds that there was a whole universe of planets to colonize after armageddon.. anyone else hear crazy crap like this?.

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  Any information on Nancy Yuen?

  by Edington in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  has anyone ever met nancy yuen, or have any information on this sister?.

  i recall listening to her being interviewed at a kingdom hall in the uk many many years ago regarding her solitary imprisonment in china for refusing to stop preaching the jw message.. she was married to a non chinese, non jw man & had children as i recall.

  she missed most of their growing up as her husband left china with their children.. ed.

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  Injuries at Assemblies, who covers the cost

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  2. friends

  well, i knew it would happen, and i wasn't surprised when it did.. a friend of mine, older brother with a heart condition, was assisting in shoveling snow at the circuit assembly this weekend (suit and tie, no less!

  ) and slipped on the ice and cracked a couple of his ribs.. what is the likelihood that the circuit or society will assist or cover his medical bills?

  any takers on this?.

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  Does anybody else feel relieved that they won't be tortured during the great tribulation?

  by doublelife in

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  i grew up hearing about different ways people have been tortured in the past and was always scared of going through that during the gt.

  it was always an unhealthy obsession of mine.

  i always thought that i was more worried about it than other jws and that i would end up renouncing my faith to get out of it.

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  Did you loathe going in field service, if so why?

  by HappyGuy in

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  2. friends

  i always felt like i was not a "spiritual" person because i loathed going in field service.

  i'm not even sure why i loathed it.

  i am very outgoing and can talk to anyone, anytime, about anything.

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