Awww, I used to love looking at that little dino inside the cover of the NWT. I found it quite comforting for some reason, probably because he looked as lost and lonely as I sometimes felt. Sorry they have killed him off in the later editions
ambersun
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Dino dies in Flood...
by Tashawaa inhttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=27686
.... where to start??????
how about what was missing from the article... like a reliable dating method by two sources?.
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Just why would god create dinos??
by highdose inthe jw answer to this is that there must have been some purpose for them that we don't yet understand.. but dinos were pretty violent, basic animals who killed without mercy.
i know not all of them but alot of them did.
the ones that were vegetarian ate huge masses of vegatation, how is that productive to the earth?.
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ambersun
I think I might ask some of my JW nephews and nieces this question if I get the chance. It might be a good way of starting an innocent little chat to encourage them to do some independent thinking
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Shunning,, let's twist the knife in a little deeper now !
by man in black inthis morning i took my dog who is a therapy dog over to the hospital and visited with several patients.
it is quite an experience, and it really helps people undergoing medical treatment to calm down and relax.. my wife was one of those patients, she is undergoing some tests before getting her gall bladder removed which will probably be sometime tomorrow.. afterwards i took the dog home, cleaned her up, and changed my clothes.
since i was alone i drove over to panara to try one of their breakfast sandwiches, several of the nurses told me that they are pretty good.
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ambersun
I am so glad to hear your wife has had her op and I wish her a very speedy recovery, especially having such a lovely husband to take care of her.
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Shunning,, let's twist the knife in a little deeper now !
by man in black inthis morning i took my dog who is a therapy dog over to the hospital and visited with several patients.
it is quite an experience, and it really helps people undergoing medical treatment to calm down and relax.. my wife was one of those patients, she is undergoing some tests before getting her gall bladder removed which will probably be sometime tomorrow.. afterwards i took the dog home, cleaned her up, and changed my clothes.
since i was alone i drove over to panara to try one of their breakfast sandwiches, several of the nurses told me that they are pretty good.
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Oh, man in black, I am so sorry for what you had to endure in Panara. It is bad enough at any time, but the day before your wife is about to have major surgery and you get treated like that!! How wonderfully Christian of them.
I admire you for dealing with the situation so well and with such dignity. I think I would probably have got so wound up I would have shouted out "thanks for all the CHRISTIAN LOVE and SUPPORT in my hour of need" as I was leaving, just to show them all up. I feel so angry right now
Please keep us informed of your dear wife's progress. Thank goodness she does not have the elders breathing down her neck about blood.
Oh, and give that lovely doggy of yours an extra pat from me xxx
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How would you respond to this JWs assertions?
by Vanderhoven7 inmy questions posted to mr. penny.
do jehovah's witnesses teach their members to shun ex-jehovah witness family members living outside the home?
do you support this practice?
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ambersun
"How would your religion deal with a member who no longer believes in the events alleged by your organization to have happened in 1914?"
Find out why. And review the facts with such a one. Now if then this person becomes a divisive element in the congregation by promoting his views he can be disfellowshipped. --- Titus 3:10,11; 1 Timothy 1:19,20
I would like Mr Penny to explain how action such as this towards a member, who's only crime is to express individual thinking, does NOT imply strong cultish undertones.
Also, why is there such a fear of the rank and file being swayed by alternative thinking among the ranks if their belief is supposedly so strong? Surely the thoughts of an individual would not be a serious threat unless there was some danger of them having doubts themselves?
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Are you going to Auxilliary Pioneer this October?
by Quarterback inthe little demo at the ca showed a young fella meditating and by golly he reasoned that october had an extra weekend so that was reason enough for him to put in a a pioneer application.
what a brilliant idea.. who else will be doing this?.
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Id love to pioneer for October, unfortunately I am mentally diseased, and therefore, cant be arsed!
Pamsgirl, that's given me the best laugh I've had all day
Wouldn't it be brilliant if a closet apostate got up on the stage to do a demo about pioneering and instead of the usual gushing spiel about taking full advantage of Jehovah's loving provision of aux pioneering came out with THAT line instead!! Oooh, if only
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If You Had 5 minutes to Create Doubt
by roxanesophia ini regularly encounter jw's i knew while studying and it kills me that they would likely not listen long enough for me to tell them the truth about the truth.
my mother says "don't even bother.
it's like finding out you were adopted.
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ambersun
Roxanesophie I think your mother's illustration is a very accurate analogy of the JW mindset and emphasises how difficult it is to get through to them.
Believe me, if I had the formula for 5 minutes of reverse witnessing I would let everyone know!! My heart drops everytime I hear of yet another youngster in the family getting baptised and wasting their young lives sitting in stuffy meeting halls and traipsing up and down people's pathways instead of fulfilling their REAL dreams, or to feel justified in using their considerable talents to the full instead of waiting for the 'New System' before they are allowed to relax and be normal without feeling guilty.
I think the best thing to do is as wobble said, let them see that you are leading a happy and fulfilled life, and continue to show them kindness, support and be interested in them and concerned for them if they have problems, which is probably more than they will get from the 'loving' brothers in the congregation. You will then prove to them by example that 'apostates' are not the cold hearted, evil creatures under the control of Satan that the WTS makes us all out to be. I have already had several occasions when JW family members with problems have received compassion and support from me and hubby, and other 'worldly' family members, yet received nothing from the people they should have got it from, i.e. the 'loving' brothers.
Nice one Punkofnice! I like your style and it's always worth a try
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I`ll play the devils advocate : generation change
by smiddy ini have the wt may 15 1994 scan with the birthdates & deaths of the 16 people featured, and it occured to me using wt logic,that you could extend the generation timespan this way.. #6 d.d.
was born in 1892 and died in 1984. that was the earliest birth of this group.
#4 j.e was born in 1912 and died in 1997. the age gap between these two is 20 years.
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Smiddy, I think you are a genius and should get a job working for the WT writing team immediately!
Keep an eye open for a forthcoming Watchtower containing Smiddy's 'New Light' in the very near future, folks
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Are you going to Auxilliary Pioneer this October?
by Quarterback inthe little demo at the ca showed a young fella meditating and by golly he reasoned that october had an extra weekend so that was reason enough for him to put in a a pioneer application.
what a brilliant idea.. who else will be doing this?.
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Ah yes, I remember demos like that when I was a dub. A month with an extra weekend! Lovely!!
Yet another way to guilt trip the R&F into believing they HAVE to do more or they are not good enough to survive armageddon. JW parents everywhere will be nagging their teenage offsprings to put in their application forms and take full advantage of this 'loving provision' of a long month by Jehovah
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Today's Watchtower Study is SO dumb!!!
by TimothyT ini would like to think of myself as an academic.
im starting my second degree and i enjoy research.
when i see a statement backed up by references and support from a credible source, sometimes i get excited.
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I couldn't agree more agonus. The trouble is, the R&F are so conditioned to accept without question everything they see printed in WT literature that the boys in Brooklyn can do just about anything they want to make first century christians look like modern day JWs and not raise an eyebrow. Crazy!!!