Max Divergent
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Just randomly underline study WT or book?
by Max Divergent in.
did you ever get into just doing random underlines and notes and all that on your study wt or books just to look like you?d studied it without ever having even looked at it before?
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JW's protected from Tsunami by going to the meeting... from bethel
by Max Divergent incame across this from one of the "faithfull".... now just watch out now you inactive ones there's a tsunami looking for you, so just be sure you "keep you eyes on the prize ocean".
just spoke to [some bethalite at a bethhell near you] last night.. she was telling us of the news regarding our brothers and sisters in the tsunami region.
in one area all the brothers were at the meeting when it struck, except for one sister who was home sick and a 6 member family of inactive ones who were caught up in it because they hadn't gone to the meeting.
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'Nice' news article from Fl
by Max Divergent in.
here's a nice sickly sweet article from fl about the tireless efforts of the local neighbourhood witnessess working for your salvation despite terrible persecution... i really liked the bit where a lady who takes in stray cats and dogs also invited the jw's in!.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/07/11/floridian/the_other_side_of_the.shtml
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Can I visit Brooklyn HQ?
by Max Divergent ini'm planning to go to nyc soon and i would like to tour hq!!
i seem to remember members of the public were welcome?
i went to watchtower.org but that didn't tell me anything about tours and there's no email contact - anyone know what the score is or who i book a vist (or protest march or whatever's going :-) through?
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My secret rebellion...
by Max Divergent ini had a little secret rebelion i kept up all the way through my jw time!
i refused to learn the books of the bible or to remember scriptures!!!
even when i was a genuine, super-zelous ms!!.
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Watched Sunday, JW's at my door 30 mins later!!
by Max Divergent ini watched sunday this morning, then was on my way out 30 minutes later but guess who was at my doorstep?
smooth jw elder and a little boy!
i was very controlled, and had the choice of letting my identity as "an opposed person" or whatever be known, or to retain my cover as an ordinary member of the public!
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What I figured on Jehovah...
by Max Divergent inwhen i was leaving i figured that jehovah is one of these things: .
2. exists but is different to how the wts describe him (her, them, it...), .
3. exists as the wts describes him and is deeply saddened and angered by the inequities and sins committed by his name people but extends to them benevolence and forgivness unconditionally, .
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Survey result: JW views on Homosexuality
by Max Divergent inwere you more liberal that your jw peers?.
a 2001 survey asked for a response to the statement: "i believe homosexuality is immoral".
based on the religion of the respondents, it found that found that 84% of jws responded 'yes', compared to 20% of jews, 30% of 'no religion', and 48% of americans and 36% of australians overall.
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Bali, Terrorism, Iraq, War, My Town
by Max Divergent ina few weeks ago there were heated discussions here along the lines that "if your city was attacked by terrorists, you'd want to attack iraq too" v's "iraq hasn't done anything (big) wrong yet, don't invade".
i'm from perth, western australia and last weekend 30-40 or even more perth people died in a c4 and (apparently) napalm car bomb attack at a nightclub in bali (hence the burns).
bali's not perth, but there are very, very close links between the people of perth and the people of bali built over many years, illustrated by maybe a quarter or a third of the fatalities being from perth.
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Court case on DA/DF relevent to SilentLambs?
by Max Divergent ini've not seen this us court of appeal case before but think it may be important re the silentlamb cases and general da/df legal issues.
after her da, a janice paul sued the wts because she was "upset by her shunning by her former friends and co-religionists alleging common law torts of defamation, invasion of privacy, fraud, and outrageous conduct".
the court dismissed her claim observing that "*883 [7] we find the practice of shunning not to constitute a sufficient threat to the peace, safety, or morality of the community as to warrant state intervention.