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Alan Watts' Wisdom (1)
by picosito in"when you set someone up as an authority, never forget that the belief that you have in this authority is just your opinion.".
from still the mind; an introduction to meditation
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More JW urban legends
by NikL inwell here is a new batch of jw urban legends (oops, i mean experiences) i just got in the e mail.
thought i would share the joy and lighten your day ;-).
a sister took her granddaughter to the circuit assembly with her.. later that evening at home, the sister told her granddaughter to get .
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Update on Indianapolis Ex-JW get-together
by borgfree ini received this from an ex-jw in indianapolis.
i misunderstood exactly what the get-together is.
this should clarify it.
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The WT and Native Americans
by Valis ini was just browsing the officail wt site...hmmm i thought we were, but just for the sake of this post i'll admit going there.
they have an article at the url below which i thought was hillarious.
it talks about how the native americans are facing more and more assimilation and the destruction of thier indigenous culture by "the world".
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Peer Pressure - the WTS Greatest Weapon
by hillary_step inin my early years of questioning wts theology and methodology in the late 70s', i was entirely on my own.
i knew that something was seriously wrong with their doctrines, but there was no internet, no discussion groups, and in my particular area of the uk, no listening ear.
in fact everybody seemed so pleasantly in love with the truth and so drawn along by collective enthusiasm that i seriously began to question my own attitudes.. sometimes i would wonder if i had gone quite mad, lost god's spirit, or had accomplished some dark deed in my past, that unknown to me was stripping me of my faith.
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Open Letter To Jehovah's Witnesses
by Outaservice inyou may not remember, but i know you very well.
i met you a long time ago when you came to my house with your smiling faces, your neat clothes, and your soft voices, and a bible tucked neatly under your arm.
you told me many beautiful stories of a "paradise earth," and a "righteous new system" which would be established shortly.
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Did Moses and King Solomon smoke POT?
by Mindchild inholy smokes: did moses and king solomon smoke pot?.
working in the publishing business has its perks, and one of those is getting to see new releases of books that sometimes never land in the bookstores.
today, i happened to be reading through some product literature that i had put off for some time and discovered a book that was published a few months ago about the usage of drugs in the bible.
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Giving Up Smoking
by ballistic ini'm giving up smoking on the 22nd.
it will be the third time, but this time as part of a government sponsored training course with drugs and patches supplied etc.
anyone else given up and got any helpfull advise?.
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Whatever Happened to Ignacio Estrada?
by TMS indont let that comedy act fool you.
brother estrada is a deep thinker.
those words of kenneth dull, circuit overseer, tumbled around in my mind as i came up to the housing project.