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Who will struggle in 2011? The Uneducated (and those with Awake! degrees)
by truman indespite the watchtower's drumbeat of anti-higher education rhetoric, they are tragically misguiding their followers about the relationship between a college education and job prospects.
i ran across this tidbit in my internet travels:.
who will struggle in 2011http://finance.yahoo.com/news/who-will-struggle-in-usnews-1712944905.html?x=0.
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latest WT thoughts for the day
by truman inthe august 1 wt arrived in my mailbox today.
i eagerly ripped off the wrapper in anticipation of fresh spiritual gems.
i was not disappointed.
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Do JWs really want Armageddon?
by truman inrecently several threads have been under discussion concerning the possible change in the understanding of the jw this generation that will not pass away teaching.
since the change in the early 1990s that sought to disconnect the doctrine from its previous anchor date of 1914 and another change in 2007 to free it from 1935, it seems now that more alteration is in the works.
in the scotsmans thread, he says that as these new light understandings come out of the wts, most r & f jws will embrace this with both hands.
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JWs and the Arts: The Muse Executed at Armageddon?
by truman inthe recent thread about some jw's reaction to the movie avatar made me flash back to some of my own misgivings when i was a jw about the wts's relationship to the arts.. .
jws are always ready to denounce any work of the human imagination that hints at ideas outside their narrow dogma.
movies whose titles have hindu etymology and which feature alien blue pagans are only the most recent.
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R&F at fault for Armaggedon delay
by truman inwell, another issue of the wt came today, aug 15,2001. and again it has some statements which piqued my ire, so i thought i would share a couple.. on pg.28, paragraph 14, in the study article titled 'do not give up in doing what is fine'is the following:.
"remember too, that 'jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed, but desires all to attain to repentance.
' (2 peter3:9) notice, god is 'patient with you'--members of the christian congregation.
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"Kindom Simplification" conventions, re: 1991
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Mormons making movies, how about us?
by truman inthis week's "newsweek", sept. 23, 2002, has a small article about a current series of movies made by mormons skewering their culture.. they're a laugh riot.
mormons, known for their seriousness and sobriety, are letting loose on the silver screen with a spate of small-budget comedies.
.....two brigham young university grads, started the trend with "the singles ward", a campy jab at the mormon singles scene... (a line about divore: "our ancestors were able to handle 4 or 5 wives.
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child exploitation?
by truman infirst, thanks all who welcomed me to this board.
i appreciate your kindness.
i am kind of shy, and fearful, but my keyboard makes me powerful!
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repost: PO &CO visit me....new light!!??
by truman ini already tried to post this, but i can't find it on the board, and don't know what went wrong, so i am trying again.
if this becomes a duplicate, please excuse my ineptitude.
i am just going to have to start keeping my front door closed.
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MilkDrop....cool!!!
by truman init is a winamp plugin program which synchronizes amazingly varied, constantly morphing visualizations with music.
i saw it for the first time last night, and i thought is was extremely cool.
it is endlessly watchable.. i was with my xjw son and another xjw who is df'd, so i hope that qualifies this to be at least a little jw related.. ---- http://www.nullsoft.com/free/milkdrop/screenshots.html.