Topics Started by JWoods
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Time for Tort Reform? Check this out...
by JWoods ini scarcely need to comment on the morals, the physics (or lack thereof), or the implications to society:.
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jury awards $850,000 in aluminum bat lawsuitby matt gouras (ap) 14 hours ago.
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Hotel California - is this Eagles Album Single for Christians?
by JWoods init came on the car radio this morning, and reminded me that this was probably the big single of 1977 - just about the beginning of the end time for me with the jehovah's witnesses.. now, you might understand that as a doubting elder with many deep issues at hand (it was the ray franz era of disenchantment for many elders)...i never heard much from them about the lyrics.. however - listening to it today, i can see where a "good" dubbie might find it to be at least as demonized as the smurfs cartoons.. and yet, very ironically, looking at them then and now, i always viewed it to be a sort of pop-social commentary on the california celebrity scene.. stretching it a little, you could almost compare the traveler's nightmare experience to getting trapped into the jehovah's witnesses - thinking it was a safe haven but then finding out that "you can never leave".. "we haven't had that spirit here since 1959".
"in the master's chamber they gathered for the feast".... yes, i can apply a lot of this to the cult entrapment experience..
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Marion Dunlap as I remember him...
by JWoods inseveral here have shown interest in marion dunlap, even asked about some stories.
(i had the great privilige of knowing marion from around 1963 all the way up to his death a few years back).
he was the younger brother of ed dunlap from the ray franz book, for those who did not know.. i did a few, but then got bogged down dredging up the various memories.
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May I just ask one simple ? on 607, apologists, and this board???
by JWoods inhere we have iirc more than four separate threads on 607, and of course a remonstration to not be unkind to the apologists.. why?
607 is of course complete nonsense - not even regular witnesses can remember the "logic" behind it and why it is even mentioned from time to time in their stupid "deep spiritual literature".
some time back this board was so badly infected with this junk by people like the "scholar" that it was painful to look over all of it and find an intelligent thread to participate in.
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Shroud of Turin punked by Italian Scientist -
by JWoods inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33179539/ns/technology_and_science-science/.
he used methods and materials available in the middle ages, produced a near-exact replica, and is proclaiming the ancient artificat to be a medieval fake..
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Is the "torture stake" dogma a reverse idolatry in itself?
by JWoods inwitnesses have famously (and gleefully) tossed the usual christain "t" cross symbol overboard after having used it themselves for quite some time.
one common arguement is that "if christ had been shot by a rifle, you would not worship the image of the gun" -.
and yet, they do not shy away from insisting on the notion of the upright torture stake.
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Oriental guy comes to door last night and wants to talk to my oriental lady -
by JWoods inthis seems to be happening about once a month now.
nice looking middle aged oriental man in white shirt & tie.
yup - positive jw id made already.. guy looks shocked when texan comes to door - "we were calling on oriental families" (as if i had no right to be there!).
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Tesla & Fisker line up for U.S. $$$$ -
by JWoods inthese are a pair of fairly exotic "green technology" sports cars (well, sports sedan in the case of fisker).the tesla costs 110k.
the fisker is promised to cost 90k (if we ever see one in real life).
fisker is not even made here or a u.s. company.. .
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murder-suicide note Scottsdale Arizona
by JWoods inshould we not be bringing the goodnews of the kingdom to these people, so they would have hope?.
if i was in that shape, with a gun in my hand, the very last thing that would help me is yet another ding-dong - jehovahs's witnesses!!!.
or help the said jw, if you think about it -.
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Insane (but tragic) floor mats/car safety story -
by JWoods ini don't know how legitimate - we do not yet have a good link - but here it is: (from a car forum i go to) -.
heard on the radio today,a loaner lexus crashed ,killing 4 on board,driver was an off duty cop,going 120+ into an intersection hit an other car,driver was on phone with 911 ,were he said no brakes[witnesses said fire was coming out of the wheels,like driver had brakes full on],prelim says dealer installed floormats jammed gas pedal on,,car had no ignition key just a pushbutton start,,sad,but my only thought is why didn't he put the shifter into nuetral ?.
most of the california posters seem to be believing that this is the real thing.