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JW's - Better than others? Or ashamed?
by freedom96 ini have read quite a few posts that describe witnesses as haughty, snotty, thinking they were so much better than others because supposedly they had the truth.. i try to remember, and i don't recall seeing that as much as many of them being downright depressed, shy, and appeared to be ashamed.. myself, for one, was never one to announce to anyone that i was a witness.
certainly never held it over others, for i was always embarrassed.
the idea never crossed my mind.. there of course were always the ones that thought that they were better than others, but i always chalked them up to being that way regardless of what religion they belonged to.. what did you notice?
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Eternal Life through Jesus - When did it start?
by anti-absolutism inok this one might seem odd to some people... as christians, (i personally am not sure if i want to consider myself christian yet) is the belief that, since christ gave us the opportunity to have eternal life, or an immortal soul, that it was only after his death that we had the opportunity?
in other words did the people who died before his death not have the opprtunity and therefore are still just dead?.
your response is appreciated, as brief as possible, please.
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Bush approval ratings now at 99.98%
by IronGland inpoll: bush popularity approaching 100 percent
washington - nearly every television viewer of president george w. bush's recent state of the union address agreed with him on every issue, according to a poll conducted this week by the arfley research institute.. .
the poll gave bush a 97 percent approval rating for his "astonishing" management of the u.s. economy and a 98 percent approval rating for his "amazing" handling of foreign affairs.
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Do they imagine that they have some sort of special powers mandate ?
by A Paduan indo elders, or other jws, convince themselves that they have some sort of divine mandate which allows them to walk over the top of people's rights ?
i know some jws who appear to simply do as they please, whether or not it infringes on anyone's privacy, or impacts on their lifestyle, or even their natural rights, and i've read posts here which would indicate that elders in particular may simply enter someone's home uninvited, and worse.
what's your experiences of this imaginary authority?
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Mrs. T's big adventure.
by JeffT insince we have been married debbie and i have never traveled very much, for a number of reasons (many borg related).
when younger, i went to mexico and europe, but although shes always wanted to see more of the world, until 1990, with the exception of a funeral in nyc, debbie had never been outside washington, idaho, california and bc.
in 1990 my dad was awarded half of the nobel prize in medicine and we got to spend a week in stockholm.
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Jesus McBeal?
by detective inman requests jesus for legal help.
jesus, help me!.
tuesday, february 11, 2003 posted: 10:22 am est (1522 gmt).
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BRAIN-WASHING - excellent article found on the web
by Prisca inthe article is rather long, and i was going to just post the link but i can't get a direct link, since it's from a message board.
in this situation, the questioner is not merely given authority by prestige; he may also have the power to keep the tortured person in prison, to torture him, and perhaps end his life.
[1] does the watchtower society have the power to 'keep the tortured person in prison'?.
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History --- rewritten
by simplesally innotice how some 6th graders misspells and punctuation marks really change history!!
and boy....some of these people sure stay dead a long time!!
abraham lincoln was america's greatest precedent.
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My four year old just made me laugh!!!!!
by anti-absolutism ini just sat down at the puter and my four year old came in, sat down beside me, calmly picked up my new world translation bible and said, "daddy, what is this bible for?
" boy does that open up a great debate.
if she only knew the impact of her question...... i thought it was really cute.