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No understanding without experience....
by TD inmany times i've tried to explain jw things to complete outsiders who try to understand, but don't quite "get it.".
a very good friend of mine recently met a nice lady and they started dating.
this lady was raised as a jw, but apparently was a 'wild' teenager and was disfellowshipped around the age of 16. she moved on with her life and never looked back.
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Funny hacking attempts
by TD ini was reviewing the security log on a customer's server yesterday and came upon this.
(this was near the end of a long string of attempts by a u.k. spammer to commandeer exchange) .
the attacker was apparently getting frustrated at this point: .
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JW Science Quote Of The Day 8-31
by TD inthe jw organizations attempts to defend their blunders are sometimes more colorful (and correspondingly less honest) than the blunders themselves.. one such example, and todays jw science quote of the day, appeared in the september 15, 1961 issue of the watchtower on page 558: .
"it is of no consequence that the blood is taken into the body through the veins instead of the mouth.
nor does the claim by some that it is not the same as intravenous feeding carry weight.
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Letter to God
by TD ina postal worker was going through the undelieverable letters bin.
one letter was addressed in shaky handwritng simply to "god.
" the postal worker thought he should open it to see what it was about.
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A question on blood
by 2112 inive been wondering, over the past few years as more and more blood fragments are being "allowed by god", do these new revelations coincide with and gb members their families, or other prominent one's needing such treatment?
in other words if they need it then god changes his mind and allows it.. if that could be shown then it could really "play well in the press".
i don't know if there is any way we could find out but i have thought about it.
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607 - What Russell taught.
by Zico ini was wondering if someone could clarify what russell taught about 1914, as i'm not completely sure.
so, he first taught that jesus became king in heaven in 1874, and that armageddon would come in 1914?
he started teaching the date came from 606, and changed this to 1915 when he realised there was no 0 c.e?
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Hospital witnesses new gift to surgical theatres
by RR infrom the left jehovah's witnesses john marks, alan dunlop and john o'mahony with pilgrim hospital's dr david boldy, paul haigh and christine holiday.
hospital witnesses new gift to surgical theatres
patients at pilgrim hospital will soon be able to benefit from a new piece of equipment donated by the jehovah's witnesses.
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Weird Surprise Tonight
by Oroborus21 inyeah so i was catching up on some of my back issues of the watchtower and i was surprised to see a dear old friend and his wife, shannon and rosaliya rainey, in the gilead graduating class pg.
15 of the july 1, 2005 issue.
i didn't even realized that they were at gilead since it has been over a year since i saw them last.
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What's wrong with this quote?
by TD ina few weeks ago, j.r. brown, director of the office of public information of jehovahs witnesses was interviewed on ktar, a phoenix based radio station.
after listening to an audio tape of the interview given to me by a friend in the area, i thought some of you might find the following example of browns forthrightness enlightening.
mcmahon: were looking at the jehovahs witnesses, uh with the help of its national spokesperson j. r. brown, ah, the jehovahs witness office, the director of offices--- the office of public information in brooklyn, new york and theres so many things to talk about particularly clearing up some areas of confusion, uh curiosity.
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JW Science Quote (2-12)
by TD inthe unabashed confidence that moves "celebrated jw scholars" to challenge any expert in any field has led them to produce two major rebuttals of evolutionary theory over the years.
appeared in 1967 and life how did it get here?
by evolution or by creation?