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  getting my feet wet!

  by Shania in

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  2. friends

  hi all!!!!

  i've been apart of all your stories......been lurking here since 03. you all have helped me in many ways .....i feel like i'm stepping out of the little puddle and am looking at a big ocean....so it is sink or swim for my life back.....and by reading here i feel like i am safe.....though a bit scarey!

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  Shania,

  Welcome, and glad you stuck around and joined. I'm looking forward to hearing your stories.

  Take care,

  Bryan

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  Film Documentary about Ex JWs

  by Ayernye in

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  2. experiences

  my name is ayernye... sometimes i go by stephan... it used to be stephen mcguire back when i was a witness in the wilmington and groton massachusetts congregations from '83 - '94.

  was a pioneer and ministerial servant and was married for two of those years.

  with tremendous agony and confusion, i moved far away to discover myself... took years to adjust to my new reality... drugs... drinking... anything to numb my tired brain... but the transformation was eventual and so worth it... of course... i am now my own person... mostly happy, adjusted and living my life to the best i can... .

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  Can I be in your film?

  I'll play the part of "a friend in need".

  "Get out of here NOW!"

  How'd I do, how'd I do?

  Sorry Ayernye... it's an inside joke about a witness who resides here trying to save the weary.

  Bryan

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  How Good Are Those Young-Earth Arguments?

  by hawkaw in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am not sure if alan f. or others have posted this but the following is from talk origins.. .

  i thought some of you may find the following interesting with respect to young-earth creationist arguments:.

  http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood.html.

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  Does this topic also cover Young/Old humans?

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  Feb. 17, 2005 ? Modern humans appeared at least 35,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a redating of bones unearthed in Ethiopia in 1967.

  Discovered along the Omo River in Ethiopia, by paleontologist Richard Leakey, the fossils, called Omo I and Omo II, were originally assigned a tentative age of 130,000 years.

  http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050214/oldesthuman.html?ct=6532.86705332906

  Bryan

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  Big experiment this weekend.

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm leaving the office early and debbie and i are going to a rented cabin on whidbey island.

  we are going to attempt something called "having a life.

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  Please keep detailed notes for comparison to later experiments.

  To everyone else... Please do not try this at home!

  Have fun!

  Bryan

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  Growing Old and Dying on the Paradise Earth

  by Leolaia in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the standard watchtower teaching about the coming "paradise earth" has, as its most prominent feature, the promise of everlasting life and eternal youth.

  this expectation is especially based on such texts as revelation 21:1-4 which declares: "i saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea.

  i saw the holy city, and the new jerusalem, coming down from god out of heaven.... here god lives among men.

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  Leolaia,

  Great research! Thanks so much.

  Bryan

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  Hate leaving my family behind.

  by Big Dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after lurking about for a while i finally decided to join the board.

  i have never done anything like this and was amazed at how stressful it was to sign up and press the return key to join up and actually post something.

  just a quick bio: 41 year old lawyer who was raised a jw but had the good sense to never get baptized.

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  Welcome Big Dog.

  My daughter - whom I helped raise in the bOrg - started shunning me about a year ago. Like you, I feel more concern of her being in it, than I do her shunning me. I hope she wakes up before I did.

  Take care,

  Bryan

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  JW: Body parts found in subway =end of the world

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/crime/nyc-legs0218,0,5899349.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-crime.

  body parts found in subway.

  by daryl khan.

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  Oh yes... I love that passage.

  Bryan

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  JW: Body parts found in subway =end of the world

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
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  http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/crime/nyc-legs0218,0,5899349.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-crime.

  body parts found in subway.

  by daryl khan.

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  Men and women have been drawn and quarted into body parts for probably thousands of years. Though, today in the mind of the collected bOrg, it means the END... Armageddon!

  lol

  Bryan

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  How is JWD doing ?

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  someone came out with the tired old claim that the site is dying, there is a mas exodus, yada yada yada.

  some people would really love for that to happen, i know .... we have gone down a few places on bigboards simply because some new sites were added to it that have more posts - the sites we are ranked alongside all went down by the same amount at the same time and we've gone up against some and down against others (not that sheer post numbers matter that much).

  also, a combination of optimising page caching and alexa changing how they rank things has reduced the ranking on that too ... but how are we really doing?.

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  Personalities will clash at times no matter where you are.

  I think you've done a great job and service to those who really need it (ME).

  I don't agree with you, Simon, on somethings, but you have done a wonderful thing here.

  Thanks,

  Bryan

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  Why Do You or Don't You Believe In The Bible?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  do you believe in the bible just because you were raised to believe?

  are you sure it's "believable"?

  .....have you convinced yourself the bible is just another book?

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  I have a bit of a problem with the bible. It says man in only 6000 years old. We know that's not true. Until someone can explain this, I have to consider it a great book, but not exactly a totally inspired word of god.

  Bryan

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