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  Going to buy Cigars tomorrow...

  by Confucious in

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  me and simplesally have been talking about homes.

  disasters and triumps... .

  right now, i'm finishing my libary/chill out room.

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  I heard it's $1,000 per cigar if you get busted with Castro's Sh!t. But that's a GREAT idea.

  Good god! What a bizarre law. What is America so afraid of?
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  Bear has beer preference...

  by desib77 in

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  http://abcnews.go.com/wire/us/ap20040817_2517.html bear drinks 36 cans of favorite beer black bear found passed out at campground apparently consumed 36 cans of his favorite beer

  the associated press .

  baker lake, wash. aug. 17, 2004

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  Ignoramuses. That's what kills bears; when they become habituated(sp?) to human food.
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  Converting JWs to Sanity

  by Mr. Jones in

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  through clear reasoning with a jehovah's witness, has anyone found it possible to show a jw that they are completly brainwashed members of a cult?

  what are the best strategy's or methods of converting a jw back into a clear thinking individual?

  any anecdote or insight is welcome.

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  So pointing out something is not true and having them agree does not amount to much.

  My point brought down to one simple sentence.

  You are asking too much for them to bear. They will simply pretend to not hear it, or have 'faith' that some 'new light' will occur. Look at the U.N. scandal. Most dubs don't give two shats about it.
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  In Search of A Pope

  by Valis in

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  i thought this was a good article i would share with you folks.

  interesting read about finding a new pope for the catholic church.in search of a pope .

  it is often hard to tell by reading "the word from rome.

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  Pope on a rope.
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  Converting JWs to Sanity

  by Mr. Jones in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  through clear reasoning with a jehovah's witness, has anyone found it possible to show a jw that they are completly brainwashed members of a cult?

  what are the best strategy's or methods of converting a jw back into a clear thinking individual?

  any anecdote or insight is welcome.

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  Sad to say, dubs (witnesses) usually are quite happy in they're little bubble world. They really don't want to be 'converted' back to normal. Some people are blissfully ignorant. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

  Enough of the cliche's.

  How would you like to know that everything that you ever believed in was a complete lie? Every hope, dream, shattered overnight. It's not a nice thing to have happen (as I can attest), and you really have to want to know truth before you can accept it. You are not only telling them that they're belief is completely and utterly false, but they must now go into society and try to be 'normal'. Be normal and try to become friendly with people who are considered walking corpses. They cannot maintain they're current friendships, because they are 100 percent conditional on they're being involved in the religious group!

  When you ask to convert dubs to sanity, you are asking a whole lot more than just turning they're backs on a despicable 'organization'. You are asking them to turn theyr'e backs on they're whole lives.
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  Demon experience thread from 2 yrs ago ,u may be surprised at response

  by wednesday in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/36470/1.ashx

  i thought those of u who have posted demon /ghost,/spirit enties/ just anything that deals wih the paranormal would enjoy seing how this subject was treated on this board a mere 2 yrs ao.

  it's an interesting read.

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  Do you honestly expect me to go through a 7 page thread written two years ago about demonz? I'm going to bed.
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  Field Service Quota?

  by Unclepenn1 in

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  do jw's have to keep a quota to remain active?

  does anyone have any wt article or km that tells the rank and file what is expected if they are going to be a publisher, vs a pioneer, or anything like that?

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  I don't have a KM or anything like that, however,

  To be a 'regular' publisher you need to report time every month. It used to be one hour, but they recently went down toa 15 minute rule....

  One step down... you don't report time for one month. Now you're 'irregular'. You need to be 'regular' for 6 months to become 'regular' again.

  One more step down... you're inactive. You don't report time in field service.

  How much time do you want to spend? You want to be the national average. Usually about 10 hours per month, though it does change. If you are under, well, you're not doing to dammed well. You need to have a good excuse. People talk.

  Pioneer is 90 hours per month, aux. pioneeer is 60 hours per month, and I believe special pioneer is 120 hours per month.

  Why do I still remember this rubbish? All man-made terms and man made rules. Hope this helps.
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  I would love to see a 20/20 on the UN

  by Crooked Lumpy Vessel in

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  i was re-reading some of the old posts in the best of.... i was thinking....wouldnt it be great for this topic to appear on prime time.

  i really dont think many members are aware of this issue even to this day.

  i would like to see interviews with officials at the un and the wts.

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  It will never happen.

  If it does happen and I'm proven wrong, I will gladly eat my shorts and set up a live feed for all to see on JWD. It would be worth it.
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  It LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by Jim_TX in

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  last week - i looked at my watch - and noticed that it was blank.

  i have one of those new-fangled digital lcd watches.

  i have had it... well... for quite a while... probably going on 20 years now.

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  Watches... I have this thing about them....

  I have had two... count em two temperature compensated altimiter watches. Now this dammed thing is so big that it looks like a golf ball on your arm. Whenever someone sees it, they're like what's with the watch?

  So I got tired of paying $250.00 for a piece of plastic crap watch just to see how high I was going. My last watch strap broke and is long gone. So I bought a nice Nixon watch.

  The strap went on it. It's irreplaceable, as it's leather and the leather is kind of built-in to the watch! Piss me off! It was the coolest watch! Now it's toast, just sitting here at my desk, staring at me, asking "why? why? why?". I spent $200.00 on that, and it only lasted 8 months.

  Now I use a $20.00 crappy watch and it works fine. It tells me the time and that's that.
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  Why Does God Permit Wickedness?

  by undercover in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how many times did we, as jws, see that question?

  how many times did we read or recite the same ole bs about allowing wicked people to try to rule themselves and failing?

  god's soverienty was brought into question and now he'll give satan and man so many thousand years to give it a try.

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  It was by means of creating his Son, and pattering us who follow him in the pattern of his Son, that he will use his Son, and us, to bring and end to wickedness, and to the Devil, and to the One who is wicked.
  
  The Light has come to be that by means of the Light, the darkness will be brought to nothing. There was wickedness before creation, there was wickedness after creation, but when the last hour arrives and all things are brought back together again into the Christ, wickedness will be no more.

  If it sounds like horseshit, smells like horseshit, would you eat it? Would you even sample it?