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  Worst band names ever

  by Nosferatu in

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  this morning on the radio, they had a little contest to see who could nail the worst band name on a list made by some ideot.

  i tried to get through, but i was wrong anyway.

  the #1 worst band name was the beatles?

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  Marriage Advice...

  by Tuesday in

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  for all the ones that are married out there.

  i'm newly married, but i think there's a problem.

  i'm just going to go over the morning and say that this is a typical day.

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  Apocryphal Jewish Tradition in the New Testament

  by Leolaia in

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  the nt frequently refers to people and events of the ot, but time and again these references include details and assumptions that do not occur in the original ot narratives.

  but these same elements are found, time and again, in extrabiblical jewish tradition.

  taken together, we see that the nt writers drew on popular tradition and haggadah on the ot texts and thus preserved traces of these ancient expansions of biblical stories in their own writings.

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  This Forum.....What Benefit is Is thesedays?

  by ScoobySnax in

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  firstly .......i don't mean for one minute the end of friendships that may have been cultivated here.....or the "help" that may have been extended to those who needed it.... there are some good people here.

  but......... but...... how often can the same old topics be bounced about and re-cycled amongst the topic threads here, usually created by the same few, for an imaginary multitude that i just don't see.

  ok you say many may look in here, and may not comment.

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  Screenplay ?

  by Thunder Rider in

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  hey folks, does anyone have any experience in writing a screenplay.

  i want to turn trb into a screenplay, but i'm not sure just how to go about doing it.

  i would appreciate any suggestions you might have.

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  If JWs are still around in a hundred years, what will they be preaching?

  by True North in

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  if the jw org makes it another hundred years, what will they be preaching then?

  how will their chronology and doctrines have changed?

  if there are colonies on the moon or other moons, or mars, or out among the asteroids, will they still be reporting time in the house-to-house (pod-to-pod?

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  If the JW leadership is all about the money, what do they want it for?

  by True North in

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  in the brief time that i've been reading jw-related postings and sites on the net, i've seen a lot of stuff regarding the jw leadership being all about the money with the implication that there is something unsavory about their acquisitiveness.. if that is true, what exactly do they want it for?

  from what i've read, the gb seem to live reasonably well (better, in fact, than the average jw would expect, i think) but it hardly seems anything that would have earned them a spot on lifestyles of the rich and famous.

  so, why would they be so concerned about amassing organizational wealth?

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  Governing Buzzards - Part 6 - Broken foundation of Russellism

  by Amazing in

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  part 6 ?

  exposing the broken foundation of russell-ism

  a core foundation claim asserted by the watchtower society from its inception in the 1870s to this very day, is that they are god's chosen channel of truth for all humankind.

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  When good elders do bad things...

  by True North in

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  recently i had occasion to speak with an elder i hadn't seen in a while.

  (although i've been out for twenty years now, my wife and some of my children are still locked within the org's tender embrace, which led to my happening to encounter him and our resultant conversation.

  ) he's someone i consider a really good guy at heart, truly caring and sincerely working at being a good shepherd as he sees it.

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  A lurker no more! I have a question about exit counseling for ex-JWs

  by True North in

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  i've been lurking on this board for a couple of months now, taking it all in.

  i've really appreciated and enjoyed reading your postings and it's all been very helpful.

  i have now a question i'd like to ask.

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