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  Heading to Melbourne International Convention right NOW Regular updates live here!

  by Witness 007 in

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  9.10 am on the train heading in..how late am i?

  train is full of witnesses and comic book characters...they have a comic convention.

  they seem to be having more fun.. .

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  Group 2....omg
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  Worker falls from KH roof during quick build

  by piztjw in

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  i heard through the grapevine that one of the slave laborers was walking backwards on the roof of the falls city, nebraska quick build this weekend and fell of the roof.

  i heard he landed on his back and head and sustained some pretty serious injuries.. anyone in that area that might provide more information?

  extent of injury?

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  Nothing in the Falls City Journal....although I'm sure it's been kept quiet if indeed it happened.
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  City of Houston Demands Pastors Turn Over Gay-Bashing Sermons

  by cultBgone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone else seen this, or did i just miss the posting?.

  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/14/city-houston-demands-pastors-turn-over-sermons/.

  here's the opening paragraph:.

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  It would be great if some Texas JWNers could feed them the Gay-Bashing WT articles and explain that they are JW "sermons".
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  Hey I am Back

  by mouthy in

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  did anyone miss me????.

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  Welcome back! So good to see your smiling face again!
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  City of Houston Demands Pastors Turn Over Gay-Bashing Sermons

  by cultBgone in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone else seen this, or did i just miss the posting?.

  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/14/city-houston-demands-pastors-turn-over-sermons/.

  here's the opening paragraph:.

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  Has anyone else seen this, or did I just miss the posting?

  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/14/city-houston-demands-pastors-turn-over-sermons/

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  The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court.
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  Two Tests Before Everlasting Life?

  by lambsbottom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, even if jws of the great crowd are found faithful and sparred at armageddon, they still have to prove faithful at the final judgement at the end of 1,000 years, right?

  or, are jws of the great crowd assured they will pass the final judgement.

  two tests doesnt sound fair!.

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  I agree with Navytown. It's all fantasy, the giant prize held just out of reach to make the dubbies believe they will Live Forever! It's as crazy as Baptists who teach everyone else goes to that imaginary burning Hell while THEY go to that imaginary wonderful Heaven.

  Good grief. Wake up, people.
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  I really don't understand this

  by keyser soze in

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  why, if you're a health care worker who's been exposed to the ebola virus, would you get on an airplane and travel right after?.

  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/second-texas-nurse-with-ebola-had-traveled-by-plane/ar-bb9f6bs.

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  I'm sorry that nurses are underappreciated but anyone who treated or nursed a now-dead Ebola patient should have had the smarts to self-quarantine for 21 days. At the very least, she should have been smart enough not to potentially endanger others by boarding an aircraft. Seriously?!?
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  The Threat From Ebola by Somebody Who Discovered It

  by cofty in

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  this interview in der spiegel is well worth your time.... peter piot was one of the scientists who discovered ebola in 1976. turns out it was the fault of catholic nuns who coldn't be bothered to sterilise the needles they were using to administer vitamins to pregnant women.. he describes the present outbreak as "a perfect storm" which could claim a frightening number of lives in africa and india.

  he doesn't see it as a serious threat to countries with a modern health care system.. "i still remember exactly: one day in september, a pilot from sabena airlines brought us a shiny blue thermos and a letter from a doctor in kinshasa in what was then zaire...".

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  BOC...lol!
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  This weeks #2 & #3 talk on homosexuality

  by granada35 in

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  2. friends

  after a one year sucessful fade and no longer associated with any congreation, i was visiting my sister this week (who goes to the meeting to please her husband for now; i am slowly planting seeds though) and they decided to year this weeks midweek meeting via the telephone.

  since i was a guest in her house, i sat with them in the living room to hear the meeting.

  to my surprise (especially growing up as a gay jw with still alot of anger in my heart over how i was treated), the talks 2 and 3 where on, of course, homosexualiy.

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  Again, sorry I was ever a part of this ridiculous, hateful, family-destroying organization.
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  Question for those converted to JW as adults

  by DaleRivers in

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  why did you become a jw, what particular teachings attracted you to 'the truth' ?.

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  in my case (baptized at 20/21) it was the only religion i knew; my mom, her mom, and favorite sister were jw; and the teachings of no hellfire or immortal soul made sense to me.. .

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  Dale, not so fast about those with college degrees. I've always been a weird mix of emotional and logical, yet felt somehow "less-than" because I never could understand the bible. My older sister was a JW and always seems to have it all together, so she made the religion appear both attractive and legitimate. I had no use for the religion until I had children...lived thousands of miles from family, had no guidance but saw the blatant hypocrisy in the various mainstream religious families who lived around me. Comparing them to the jws, the jws actually looked less hypocritical (because I didn't know all the dirt back then).

  Sadly, I ended up getting baptized and raising my kids in the "religion". One had the smarts to get out after a really bad marriage to an elder's son. The other is a diehard dub. Sigh....

  Oh, and my sister told me repeatedly that my babies would die at armageddon if I wasn't baptized....THAT was the real catalyst.

  Looking back, it's hard to believe I fell for it, but I adored my big sis and the love-bombing made me feel like part of a big family, which I desparately needed as a single mom.

  The cultic tactics work on emotions, for sure.