Not to be the one to defend wacko, but who's life has he ruined? Will their life still be ruined if he pays them millions? Did that kid who he paid off back in the 90's have his life ruined? I think he must have a pretty good life now living off the millions jacko gave him. Go wacko. He will kill himself in the end anyway.
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18Arrest Warrent for Michael Jackson
by the_classicist in.
well, it seems the judge got pissed off at his hospital antics.
your thoughts.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4337623.stm.
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Current/former elders -- Ever on Judicial Committee while on your way out?
by AlmostAtheist ingina and i were talking about this last night.
do any of you that are currently serving as elders ever serve on jc's?
is it something you can opt out of and still be an elder?.
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this is a really insightful thread. great to read your comments.
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happy birthday chief, if i had known i would have mailed you a present!
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Arrest Warrent for Michael Jackson
by the_classicist in.
well, it seems the judge got pissed off at his hospital antics.
your thoughts.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4337623.stm.
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Everyone makes fun of jacko, but he has done more good for this world than that judge, those cops, or any of his accusers ever will. So what if he was late for court.
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What if "the end" happens in 2150?
by JustTickledPink injust a question.... what if the wts came out with a for sure prediction based on new light that without a doubt armeggedon will be here in 2150?
well, that means that our generation will all die, but we can hope for a resurrection and we have to continue to preach and our grandchildren or great-grandchildren might actually be the ones to walk through the "end" into their "new system"
the question is how many jw's would there be?
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You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words...
What if?
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Do you hide apostate literature on your computer?
by JH in.
i was wondering how many here take special precautions, like deleting internet files and clearing your internet history, so that no one else may use your computer and find out that you're visiting apostate forums and reading apostate literature.. maybe some won't even put a jwd icon on their desktop, just incase a jw family member could see it.. .
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LOL, nobody uses my computer except me, but it is locked down like fort knox, i keep everything behind 128bit Twofish encryption at all times, even when i am working on it, all except my browser files which are neither here nor there because I don't browse anything that could trouble me.
edited to add: meaing that i keep all of my work and important stuff safe, jw shit doesn't figure in the equation.
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What's The Biggest Lie The Witnesses Tell?
by minimus inis it about the blood issue?
about the fallability of the governing body?
that they really love one another??
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I think it would be more of a task to find out The Biggest Truth That The Witnesses Tell.
Is there one?
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Men suck.. (no offense to any guys here)
by Dirt Rocker ini can't believe how many guys that have told me "oh i really really like you" or "i would never hurt you" <---- (my personal favorite) or just any other bull hooey that they just telll you to try to see how far they can get with you or whatever they want from you.
i'm not even 18 yet and i'm already sick of it!
ugh!!!
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you will learn. we have our uses, ha ha hahaha
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What's in your library?
by the_classicist inwhats in your personal bible or religious library?
let's see what i have... cambridge kjv (really nice, calfskin leather), cambridge reb (really nice, not as good as kjv though), 50 year old douay rheims (with annoying jw notes and written-in textual changes inside, courtesy jw great-grandmother), rsv-ce (imitation leather, looks extremely cheap), nab (imitation leather, looks better but sucky confraternity notes in it).
that's my bible collection (i got rid of the nwt).
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I think there is too much to list, but relevant stuff includes.
1x Some random Catholic Bible with Apocrypha
1x Diaglott
1x Josephus
1x Dead Sea Scrolls - A New Translation by Michael Wise, M. Abegg Jr. & Edward Cook
1x Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation)
1x Set of 1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica
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She Went To Sleep And Woke Up 30 Years Later
by dh injust came accross this interesting story, it's old news but still thought it was an interesting read.... .
she went to sleep and woke up 30 years later .
the real-life story of annie shapiro - who fell into a coma at age 50 in 1963 - is more remarkable than the movie based on her miraculous re-awakening.
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Just came accross this interesting story, it's old news but still thought it was an interesting read...
She Went To Sleep And Woke Up 30 Years Later
The real-life story of Annie Shapiro - who fell into a coma at age 50 in 1963 - is more remarkable than the movie based on her miraculous re-awakening.
When she suddenly awoke nearly 30 years later in 1992, she was a 79-year-old granny, devastated by her appearance and the way the world had changed.Just after she emerged from her years of darkness, she told me: "When I went to sleep, I was a darn good-looking woman. But in the mirror, all I see is an old lady with bags around her eyes, wrinkles and grey hair.
She could not believe that her husband Martin was an old man of 81 and that her teenage son and 25-year-old daughter Marilyn were middle-aged. She was awe-struck to learn about cordless telephones and spaceships flights.
The talented business-woman, who had run two apron shops near Toronto, Canada, before her illness, fell into a coma on Nov 22, 1963, aged 50.
She was watching news reports on the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on her black-and-white TV set when she suffered a massive stroke.
For the next two years, Mrs Shapiro was totally paralysed, with her eyes staring wide open. Her husband would put drops in her eyes every few hours to keep them from drying out.
Mr Shapiro, steel foundry worked, said he dressed and fed her "like a totally helpless child."
"She couldn?t think or walk," he said.
At night, he lay next to his sleeping beauty in the darkness. He consulted experts, but no one could help her.
After two years of physical therapy, he finally got her to the point where she could set up and walk, assisted on either side. She could not see but could eat simple food.
As the years passed, Mrs Shapiro?s son and daughter married and had two children each, and most of her friends died.
The Vietnam War ended, astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, communism collapsed and the world entered the computer age.
During her long sleep, Mrs Shapiro?s body began breaking down. She had cataract surgery, a hysterectomy and a hip replacement.
But amazingly, on Oct 14, 1992, she suddenly snapped out of her coma. Mr Shapiro, who had retired and moved his ill wife to a retirement community in Florida, was flabbergasted.
"I was lying beside her in the bed," he said, "when she sat up and said: :Turn on the television. I want to see the I Love Lucy show." It was like a dead person come to life."
Mrs Shapiro got her first shock when she realised the TV was in colour, not black-and-white. But she was rally stunned by her husband?s grandfatherly appearance and her own wrinkled face.
"When she first looked in the mirror, she wanted to die," said Mr Shapiro. "She hollered and then cried over all those lost years."
Her first thoughts were for her son Marshall. The day before her stroke, Mr Shapiro had kicked the 16-year-old youth out of the house because he had crashed the family car.
"She wanted me to bring our son home," he said.
As he dialled Marshall?s telephone number in Toronto, he told his wife that her boy was now aged 48, married and father of two.
At first, Mrs Shapiro was afraid to get on the line and talk to him because it was a cordless phone. "The phone didn?t have any wires," she told me. "A voice was coming out of it and I thought it must be magic."
Then she asked to telephone her sister Rose, only to be told that she and her husband were dead - and her three brothers had died , too.
Mrs Shapiro?s daughter Marilyn Pomerantz, 55, flew from Canada to Florida to help her mother adjust.
As the first shockwaves ebbed, Mrs Shapiro desperately tried to catch up on what had happened in the world. The woman who had been silent for 30 years stayed up around the clock for two days and did not stop talking.
Dr Glenn Englander, who was treating her for high blood pressure the day before she awakened from her coma, called her recovery a miracle. "I gave her something to lower her blood pressure," she said. "If I did something unknowingly to help her, I?d like to find out so I can do it for others."
The most touching part of the miracle was the renewed romance between Shapiro and her husband, who had cared for her all those years, refusing to have her placed in a nursing home.
"When I made my marriage vows and promised to stay together in sickness and in health, I meant it," said Mr Shapiro on a national TV show, "not like the people of today." Our romance began all over again.
"We both could hardly walk, but Annie wanted me to take her dancing," he said.
Sadly, her husband died three years ago. And now, Mrs Shapiro, 85, lives alone in a Toronto nursing home.
According to her daughter, she sleeps a lot but when she is awake, she often time-travels between tragic 1963 and the good final years she had with the man who loved her forever.
Ron Laytner
The Straits Times, Sunday Plus, April 5, 1998.