Topics Started by Norm
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Ethics and morality,
by Norm inin the west we are rightly very concerned with child labour and other such matters.
western consumer groups boycott firms that have their clothes made by factories using children.
i know this is usual in europe and i guess it is in the us too.. in other areas we see no such concerns.
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America bashing, love and pride.
by Norm init is indeed strange, yet understandable to observe the "kneejerk" reactions you get when you point out possible .
flaw's with the mighty us of a, "god's own country".
even from people who should have learned not to have that .
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Criminal , new US ally
by Norm inthe norwegian newspaper vg, reports: iraqi general nizar al-khazraji was the man behind the butchering of 180,000 iraqi kurds in 1988. he was one of saddam's faithful generals.
he later had to flee iraq and is living on a secret address in denmark.
he is under investigation by the danish police.. ---------------------------------------------------.
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JW Paranoia
by Norm innowhere do we get a better idea of how paranoid jw's are when it comes to avoiding reality on the net.
anything to prevent having to deal with anything resembling critical thinking:.
hello my name is rita , i want to assist you in joining our jwotw group but because this is a private community for witnesses only, i'd like to ask you a few questions.. 1. what is your real name (first and last)?.
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Christ - a complete idiot?
by Norm inin the corporate world the top leaders are of course responsible when something goes wrong in the organization they lead.
why should it be different in the religious area?
during its existence the watchtower society has printed all kinds of articles about who are chosen to become elders in the watchtower organization.. the sum of all of them is that these men are appointed by all the big shots in the universe starting with jehovah, which in turn delegates the handling of this matter to jesus which in turn works his wonders through a mystic entity called the holy spirit.
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"Persecution"
by Norm inlooking over some of my old papers i came across this quite amusing article from the awake magazine.
the awake!
starts up its lament with a text from the bible: .
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Freedom of religion
by Norm inthe january 8.
magazine discuss this theme.
looking through it (the norwegian issue) it really amazes me that the average jehovah's witness can actually read this and not notice the glaring inconstancy.
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The "humble" man Rutherford
by Norm inthe watchtower society must indeed suffer from a severe lack of humble people.. in their search for an example of humility and humbleness they actually name their second president, j. f. rutherford, a man still known for his complete lack of anything resembling humility.
hoping for the usual total ignorance among the r&f the watchtower wrote this:.
*** w93 2/1 19 what godly subjection requires of us ***.
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Jehovah "Tempers his Justice"
by Norm insomeone among the top brass in brooklyn have had a rare moment of thought and come up with another adjustment in the endless line watchtower society new light.. some of you probably remember when they became tired of the expression: the society says, which of course identified to clearly who is really god in the lives of the witnesses, so they had to tell the witnesses to stop using that expression because it was extremely embarrassing.. this time it is another expression that shouldnt be used.
not at all of the magnitude of the example above but still sufficiently important to someone, probably in the gb.
i guess it took a couple of heated sessions in the gb to get this approved.
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"A sense of urgency"
by Norm inthe above phrase is one of the most cherished in the watchtowers huge arsenal of tools for manipulation.
it is used to work the average jehovah's witness into a sort of frenzy and keep them there.
come, lord jesus.revelation 22:20. watchtower, october 1.