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Down Under

by JW83 in

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am i the only one still up?

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Satans little helper

19 weeks and 2 days and I will be joining you, except that I will be 2 time zones away in Perth

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Terry Schiavo is Dead

by doodle-v in

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Thanks!!!

by Low-Key Lysmith in

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at the risk of soundy mushy, i would just like to thank everyone for being a part of this board and making it what it is.

in the 14 years since i have been out of the b'org, i have pretty much had to deal with building myself back up by myself.

in the short time that i have been a part of jwd, i have realized that there was a lot of things that i had just repressed and locked away.

Satans little helper

great thread, this is a useful forum for people to realise they are not alone in feeling guilty etc and it helps to let go of that.

LK, great tatt, got any bigger pics of it?

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Does anyone feel that their abilty 2 make money has been influenced by WT?

by theotherside in

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we were told so many times that we were slaves 2 not only god but anyone in a secular position of authority.

so i feel that this only encouraged a subordinate and non confortational attitude with our employers.

almost 2 the point that that even those of us who are self employed never get 2 develope the killer instinct that is needed 2 compete in the business world.

I've always been ambitious and that 'marked' me in the congregation as I stayed at school til 18 rather than pioneering. I did see some guys my own age worn down by the bullshit and lose their desire to excel, it's a darn shame really but to be honest most of the really ambitious people I knew left the dubs pretty quickly as it was impossible to reconcile wanting a life with following the edicts of the GB unless you are in with the elders

I started my degree at 23 long after leaving the witnesses, it took me 5 years to get over the mindf*ck of 18 years in the borg

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Are you impressed by Pope John Paul II?

by GermanXJW in

at pentecost, pope john paul ii could not speak when giving his traditional blessing.

many people are impressed by this pope because he does not resign.

they campare it to christ's sufferings.

Satans little helper

I will be interested to see what happens when he dies. Pope JP has condemned millions to death with his small minded views on birth control, all in the name of maintaining his power base.

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The brainwashing around the "Schiavo" case...

by Brummie in

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up until this evening i had thought teresa schiavo was in an unconcious state, lying on a bed with just a machine keeping her alive.

how wrong was i?

i saw her smiling and showing awareness of her surroundings.

Satans little helper

how the hell can it be abuse to want your wife to die with dignity?

The only reason this has come up as an issue at all is because the guy wants to remarry and be happy rather than continue sitting beside a brain dead wife for another 15 years. She has no quality of life at all and whilst one day there may be the technology to improve her state, it certainly doesn't exist now and is unlikely to exist within the next 10 years, all the time she has no metal stimulation and is nothing more than a questionable consciousness trapped inside a shell.

The big problem I have with this case is that she is being starved to death, it would be more humane to give her a large dose of morphine and allow her to slip out of consciousness never to wake up.

There is alot being made here of the sanctity of life, there's a big difference between existence and life.

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Corruption in Iraq ... why the cover-up ?

by Simon in

i think it's because people high-up have their sticky fingers in the pie.. when the two whistle-blowers sued custer battles on behalf of the u.s. government?under a u.s. law intended to punish war profiteering and fraud?the bush administration declined to take part.. attorney general alberto gonzales why the government wasn't backing up the lawsuit.

because this is a "seminal" case?the first to be unsealed against an iraq contractor?

"billions of taxpayer dollars are at stake" based on the precedent it could set, the iowa republican said.. the administration has harshly criticized the united nations over hundreds of millions stolen from the oil-for-food program under saddam.

Satans little helper

Bush is doing nothing more than the British Emipire did for generations. We just did it with immeasurably more panache.

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Ten killed in US school shooting

by Simon in

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another tradgedy ... .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4370617.stm.

Satans little helper

to my memory there have only been two serious gun related sprees like this in the last 20 years in the UK and both have led to serious restriction of the right to keep arms.

The first in Hungerford led to a total ban on the ownership of assault rifles after a mentally ill guy went amok with a legally owned AK47 and the second was the Dunblane massacre where an alleged child molestor took a pair of automatic pistols into a kindergarten and butchered several children and teachers. It's now illegal to own a hand gun in the UK and whilst we still have gun related crime within the criminal elements of society, we don't have pissed off teenagers being able to massacre their classes at school because they cannot get hold of guns.

If you have easy access to firearms in a violent culture where you are continually taught that violence is the answer (John Wayne films, illegal wars etc) then what do you expect?

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