Topics Started by Band on the Run

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Trolley Witnessing with Laika from JWN
by KateWild in
1. jw
2. experiences
a while ago laika came to visit.

we went to town and low and behold the jw trolleys were there doing their thing.. we approached the brother and i introduced laika, the brother was polite.

i then went on to tell him that it was too difficult for me to return and be reinstated.
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Muslim refuses to stand for the National Anthem
by designs in
1. social
2. current
cleveland cavaliers basketball player dion waiters stayed in the locker-room during the national anthem at a recent game.

asked why he responded 'i am rededicating myself to my muslim faith'.

another basketball player recently refused to stand for the anthem while on the court and was fined by the nba, dion chose to remain in the locker-room.. have you heard of followers of islam refusing to stand for the national anthem or to say the pledge of allegiance on religious grounds.. .
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Looking Back, Do You Ever Think You Loved Jehovah God?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
as a child, i was made to believe that i loved my mom and family and close friends but that i loved no one more than jehovah god.

did you ever really love him?.

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Questions concerning Deng Xiaoping
by fulltimestudent in
1. social
2. current
on another thread band on the run requested that i answer certain questions she put to me concerning deng xiaoping.

i requested another thread for that, one wasn't started so i start it myself.. i see the questions are reasonable, at least for someone who (admittedly) claims to know little about china, and i have no issues about answering them.

like all humans deng xiaoping, is a mix of good things and not so good things.. in telling deng's story, i have no wish to distort history, i see no reason to tell "outright lies about the past, or to omit facts that may lead to unacceptable conclusions or to gloss over anything with a quiet, slight admission that is buried by some other detail.
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Religion without revelation - any examples from the past?
by EdenOne in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm researching on the common trait of mostly every religion coming from pre-humanist times, and that would be, the notion of "revelation", that is, that at the beginning of every [i say this with caution because i'm admitting to exceptions] religion there is some sort of "revelation" from supernatural being(s) of some sort.. my question is: do you know of any example of religions from the past that you can confidently say that were exempt from "revelation"?

this is not the same as asking if there were religions without gods, or religions of nature.

i'm not even considering what i understand as philosophical-ethical systems, such as confucionism or platonism my purpose is to find out if, at the starting point of all religions of the past, there is a "revelation", or merely "observation / contemplation".
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God is not an element both in religious fanaticism and atheism alike
by exWTslave in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
in my intimate conversations with many of my atheists friends i have found that their real problem is the human rights abuse of the religious fanaticssomething which god hates (not the lack of proof for gods existence) (means when the religions went to one extreme, their opponents go to another extremethus god is not at all an element in religious fanaticism and atheism alike) atheists shun, belittle or resist proofs for the existence of god, because they fear it will only further strengthen the religion from which the fanaticism arisethus object of atheists attack is fanaticism (not god) .

hence what atheists do is really a service to the humanity (while fanaticism is a crime against humanity).

hence when the atheists ask for proof for the existence of god, one need not take it seriously.
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Child sex abuse cases mentioned at weekly meeting?
by HeyThere in
1. watchtower
2. child-abuse
okay, tonight someone told me that one of the elders actually addressed the child sex abuse cases at the weeknight meeting this past week.

she said the speaker said that accusations are being made against the truth but that they should stand firm in the truth and that they are going to continue fighting these allegations and that all should stand firm for jehovah or some similar comments.... did anyone else hear this from the stage?.

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Can a JW go home for Christmas ??
by Clambake in
1. jw
2. experiences
jw love to make a big deal about christmas but the reality is alot of people have time off work from christmas to new years.

we like to go home.

with me being an ubm does it become an issue within the cong ?
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Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes Complete (the Bootleg Series Vol. 11)
by Simon in
1. social
2. entertainment
bob dylan is an artist like no other.

while some spend months or even years working on and crafting an album, some of his have been cut over a long weekend.. some have been great, some are near misses - some seem awful at the time and then come into their own a decade later.. the mistique around the man has always driven demand for his music especially the unrelease stuff.

the original bootleg album was "the basement tapes" recorded with the band after his motorcycle accident of the late 60's.
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Why the WTBTS is liable for Sex Abuse Cases
by Coded Logic in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
the problem isn't just that kids are getting raped by people in their congregation.

the problem's also that anytime someone has "serrious charges" brought against them the elders add notes to that jws publisher file.

and, if the elders don't take the matter to the police or, as is often the case, tell the victims families not to take it to the police either, this establishes a level of accountability.. take daniel fitzwater for example.