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  Hypocrites.....grrrrrrr

  by Tatiana in

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  2. friends

  well, a couple of nights ago i was kind of ashamed of myself.

  let me explain.. i have a new job.

  as a model scout.

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  Mind Control & Urban Legends

  by freeman in

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  2. friends

  witness urban legends.

  you know what they are; we have all heard them before.

  the stories that somehow show the witnesses or their teachings in a good light but always seem to contain elements that would seem preposterous to most people.

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  Then what is the WT child abuse policy....

  by amccullough in

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  2. child-abuse

  i have recently had the misofortune of being involved in the revealing of a child molestation case.

  my wife's niece recently came forward about being molested approximately 5 years ago by someone holding responsibilities in her congregation.

  my in-laws found out the same day as we did.

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  There is no escape, no way out...

  by butalbee in

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  i've been invited to go to a study group again, by a sister who i work with, she said she would like to explain some doctrines to me that i might had misunderstood, and would like to get together and talk.

  she also gave me 5 magazines--told me, of the great articles, that i should read.

  yep!!

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  Why God cannot have existed forever.

  by sleepy in

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  2. friends

  why god cannot have existed forever.. this is something a friend of mine brought up a number of years ago.at the time i just thought that to understand how a god existed forever was just beyond our little brains.. well now after reading a lot more physics books i think its evidence a god couldn't have existed forever and therefore would had a begining (if there was a god).. basically if god had lived from infinity in the past we wouldn't have been created yet as there would always be forever untill we were created.. do you get that?.

  at any point in time we could take, if time went back forever then you could never get to that point in time.

  you would always have infinity infront of you.. sorry if this doesn't make much sense as it is not easy to describe.

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  Prince married in JW ceremony

  by Gopher in

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  2. friends

  this was reported by minneapolis tv station kmsp, and the link for the story below is http://launch.yahoo.com/read/news.asp?contentid=207277.

  1/12/02, 7 a.m. et) -- prince was married in hawaii on new year's eve, to girlfriend manuela testolini.

  testolini, 25, is 18 years younger than prince (43).

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  Having intense nostalgia-is that bad?

  by ashitaka in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm having a wee bout of memory.

  i've been hearing a lot of the old crew i used to hang out with when i was a jw.

  my old best friend, he's getting married soon.

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  AntiAging News Again

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  scientists say methuselah's age should be attainable by research.

  in not too distant future - because of findings from icelandic.

  gene pool.. http://thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=135692002.

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  Update on my Brother and Cousin...

  by mindfield in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  as some of you know, my brother and cousin have been planning to tell their parents about their beliefs (or rather, lack of) about the jw's and their decision not to attend meetings or convert others.. well, they did it much quicker than i ever expected.

  they did it before yesterday, to be more precise.

  both of them...phew.

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  Are you really ready for big moral issues?

  by Mindchild in

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  2. friends

  while reading the abortion thread on this site today, i was reminded of a college class i took on dealing with ethical and moral issues.

  i learned something interesting in this class and it was that just because we have strong beliefs about something, it doesn't give us any rights to impose our beliefs on others.. this is of course the "christian" way...to demand that their beliefs should be the standard by which we all live our lives.

  this intolerance, or in milder cases disgust for nonconformers, is in itself one of the huge moral issues we face.. essentially, regardless of things being right or wrong, our world defines societal norms by community standards.

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