I have mixed feelings on this one. They are trying to address a problem and may yet be creating another one. What is sad for me is that the problem even exists.
Posts by zack
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78Would You Condone Giving Birth Control To 11 Year Olds???
by minimus inin portland maine, all you have to do is see the nurse and you can get birth control pills.
we're not talking about high school.
we're talking abot middle school!
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Is violence ever justified or acceptable?
by ThomasCovenant insorry if this has been discussed a thousand times before.. .
my heart says no let's all get along and love each other and show respect to the individual.. my mind says yes.
unfortunately not everyone else agrees with the above.
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zack
The use of force or deadly force is IMHO, dare I say it, justified in defense of life or limb.
Can we all just get along is a wonderful sentiment. The reality is that there are those bent on causing as much harm as possible to their fellow man and who
will only cease from their harm when they are met with equal or greater force.
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Wow! Nobel Winner Says Blacks Less Intelligent
by Justitia Themis inhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/tech/science/10/18/science.race/index.html.
a british museum has canceled a lecture by dr. james watson, co-discoverer of the dna double helix, after he claimed black people are less intelligent than whites in a recent newspaper interview.. watson, who won the 1962 nobel prize for his part in discovering the structure of dna, provoked a storm of criticism after his comments were published in the sunday times.. the eminent biologist told the british newspaper he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really.".
watson, 79, had been due to give a lecture at london's science museum on friday but the museum canceled his appearance, saying his comments had "gone beyond the point of acceptable debate.".
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zack
Is it possible he was quoting an old Awake article?
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After 5 Months....I'm Going Back to Meetings!
by new boy inif you believe that......your nuts!.
the only meetings i'm going to now are the "fundamentalist anonymous" meetings.
it's a 12 step program to get you out of the churches that say "are way or the highway" .......lol....o.k.
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zack
Looking forward to more of your stories.
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Comments You Will Not Hear at the WT Study (10/15 Teach Children)
by WT Comments insoliciting your comments as well!
please take a moment to post a comment, even if brief.
share your experience and keep the topic active.. .
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zack
Thanks for the deconstruction. The WTS are masters of guilt. It is a tool they weild often and well. Love, it seems, is too unpredictable to use and the sheep not
worthy of confidence. The kool aid edition will dispense with all the fluff and go for the jugular.
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My mother......sheesh!
by ex-nj-jw infor those who missed the drama, you can check it out here if you wish to www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/140100/1.ashx.
for those who know a little about my past and my mother - she had the nerve to call me today and leave an urgent message for me to call her.
i thought it was about my dad or that something bad had happened since her last comment to me was that i was dead to her, or something to that effect.
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zack
Why don't you just quit taking her phone calls? I know it sounds like a simplistic answer, but she seems to want things HER way. You're a grown woman. Set the groundrules
for your own life. If she can't accept them, tell her to take a hike.
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Remember: Every Kingdom Hall Has Dynamite Within
by metatron inallow me to point out that, per the society's regulations, every kingdom hall has a pile of metaphorical dynamite within.
every kingdom hall.
is required to keep judicial files - often going back decades - locked in the kingdom hall.
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zack
It makes sense to keep a record of certain things. The sins and foibles of ordinary people,however, should never be documented and stored. But the WTS is a business and
runs itself like a business. Businesses keep records. I for one hate the thought of the pain and embarrasment it would cause people if these things ever would
be made public. In my congo all the elders had keys to the files. All the male heads of households had keys to the hall. It isn't difficult to get at them. They shouldn't
exist at all. Just MHO.
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Exciting announcements at service meeting
by truthseeker inwe've already had a post on this, but there were other interesting comments.. the brother giving the announcements said that there would be a new understanding of jesus' reference to the generation as discussed at the annual meeting.. an elder giving a service meeting part review of different watchtower articles from the current year brought out the new light concerning 1935.. he asks: "when is the sealing of the anounted ones?".
elder answers: "there is no specific date".
later after the meeting, i asked an elder if the new understanding of the remnant now meant that younger people could go to heaven.. he answered with an affirmative "yes" and that we would be getting the new understanding of the generation jesus spoke of in a future 2008 watchtower.. .
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zack
95% of official Witness teaching is speculation. I think this is great fun. How could what we say now be any whackier than what we used to believe and affirm back then?
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Remember: Every Kingdom Hall Has Dynamite Within
by metatron inallow me to point out that, per the society's regulations, every kingdom hall has a pile of metaphorical dynamite within.
every kingdom hall.
is required to keep judicial files - often going back decades - locked in the kingdom hall.
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zack
Hypothetically, someone could open the file cabinet, photocopy the files and replace them. No one would be the wiser until scans of the files appeared on the Internet.
How would you like the intimate details of your life or your children's lives available to such easy abuse? Could happen.
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Remember: Every Kingdom Hall Has Dynamite Within
by metatron inallow me to point out that, per the society's regulations, every kingdom hall has a pile of metaphorical dynamite within.
every kingdom hall.
is required to keep judicial files - often going back decades - locked in the kingdom hall.
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zack
They are, for a fact, kept in KH files, as Met points up, in flimsy file cabinets. Gotta love it.