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  America Mass Shooting: 10/1/2015

  by adjusted knowledge in

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  since this will be the norm in america, perhaps we should put a date on each of these topics.

  can't really put school mass shooting because too many to choose from.

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  I hope people realised that previous post was tongue-in-cheek.

  I live in a fairly rural area in the UK, we have a lot of shot guns here, for peasant errrmm I mean pheasant shooting, they are not carried openly and it is very difficult to use them in a killing spree as you have to reload the cartridge after the cartridge (or 2 if double barrelled) has been discharged.

  As Simon pointed out we had a few spree shootings (probably averaging out at 1 per decade) over the last few decades. Two that spring to mind were Dunblain and one quite local to me in Hungerford (a gun nut called Michael Ryan), these resulted in tighter gun control measures which have resulted in an even lower incidence of gun crime.

  Bottom line - more guns do not correlate to increased personal safety.
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  So sick of the abuse...

  by iwasblind in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am still serving as an elder but just hanging in there.

  i think their quandry is that they don't see me out in the field, but when they need encouragement and decent prayer they come to me.. i just got off the phone to this poor sister who i have only met twice.

  she is not even in my congregation (her sister is).

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  Atheist ex-elder here, it sounds like you do your best despite the organisation.
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  America Mass Shooting: 10/1/2015

  by adjusted knowledge in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since this will be the norm in america, perhaps we should put a date on each of these topics.

  can't really put school mass shooting because too many to choose from.

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  Why doesn't the UK have more spree killings like this? In theory with our lack of guns and no way of protecting ourselves the criminals should be massacring our children every day!

  The UK needs guns to make our country as safe as the USA,
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  I went down in the first Round!

  by John Aquila in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  there is a visitor brother in town and from what ive been told, he has been a missionary for many years and they were having a get together for him.

  i took my mom to that get-together yesterday and stayed for a few minutes.

  i heard a group around a table with the visitor brother talking about how hard it was getting in the world with so many distractions and that many of the brothers were falling into the trap and leaving jehovahs organization.

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  cantleave

  Sounds like a cult to me.
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  Britain Branch Construction - UPDATE

  by The Searcher in

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  2. scandals

  definitely something going in the london bethel.. i thought i'd ask them again (and record it again) what the situation was regarding the new britain branch construction work.. i got the same sister (debbie) and here is how the conversation went: .

  me: i've been told that construction of the new branch has been stopped - is this true?.

  debbie: no, it has not ceased, it's carrying on as normal - can i ask where you're calling from?.

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  cantleave

  LATEST......Chelmsford new redesigned branch

  
  
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  Why are GMO's bad?

  by cappytan in

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  2. friends

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4bi60alzu.

  first person to say, "this scishow episode is a monsanto conspiracy," is a rotten egg..

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  IMO there is nothing sinister about GMO's, this kind of genetic manipulation is just the next step from the phenotypic breeding methods that have been employed for millennia. GM plants can benefit us by providing greater yields per hectare, more robust plants and plants that can produce higher levels of beneficial molecules, such as soluble fibres, than can be found in nature.

  Where I have an issue is when commercial organisations such as Monsanto use bullying tactics in order to protect their patents and sell their brand of poison along with the seeds or even worse, impregnate their GM seeds with their toxic cocktails.

  I think the world should just grow Avena sativa - there are no GMO oats.
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  Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

  also pulled: .

  wallkill photo gallery 2.

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  cantleave

  Huge project, poor planning, poor choices, volunteer workers, what could possibly go wrong?

  With Jehovah's Holy Spirit anything is possible......

  
  
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  Removed from JW.ORG: Warwick Photo Gallery 3 (January Through April 2015)

  by wifibandit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the warwick gallery #1 and gallery #2 are still up.. i have #3 backed up: http://imgur.com/a/klnlg.

  also pulled: .

  wallkill photo gallery 2.

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  Question: why isnt it sprayed on in a fraction of the time??

  This is an elastomeric membrane which in its unpolymerised state would have a "stringy" rheology and too high a viscosity to spray.

  Edit....Which means they went cheap and bought the wrong product for the area being covered.
  
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  JW Lurkers and curious. This is for you.

  by punkofnice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hello, lurkers and curious.

  i imagine you're reading this because either you think you can defend your beliefs victoriously or you have doubts.. i have 2 questions that i hope you can log in and answer (no one will know who you are unless you tell them or leave your page open for others to see).

  1. what actual worship did you do at the meetings or gatherings?.

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  cantleave

  That tumble weed will continue blow in no-man's land.

  I guess the worship is the "singing" of badly composed dirges and prayers blessing the GB for all the work they do on our behalf - and where "Jehovah" is used as a full-stop after every sentence.
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  ARE WT COSTS ABOUT TO SKYROCKET?

  by mtwtf in

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  what will it cost jws in australia if the arc recommends that all au.

  churches contribute to a compulsory victims compensation commission (for the want of a better name).

  it looks as if every au.

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  cantleave

  Australian dubs can look forward to another Tithe