Posts by DireStraitJacket

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I want to hide a time-capsule in my new house...

by Elsewhere in

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they just broke ground on the lot where my new house is being built.

i noticed on the floor plan that there are empty voids behind a few walls and before they finish building the walls i want to put together a time capsule that i can hide in one of those voids.. if you could put together a time capsule, what you put in it?.

DireStraitJacket

A cd of the mp3s I've been listening to in the past few months

One days worth of newspapers, every issue I could find

Lots of adverts from newspapers and magazines

I'd keep a diary for a week and put that in

If I had the time I would record one days worth of television, 2-3 channels onto dvd

Edited to add:
2 tech magazines, one about the latest computer gadgets, the other about latest military and engineering inventions

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Were You Ever Really "On The Watch"?

by minimus in

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friends

jws are told to always be on the watch.

always be ready.

be alert in the "time of the end".

DireStraitJacket

I used to watch the news and keep up to dates with current affairs so I could try figure who the "king of the North/South" really were, so I would know when the great tribulation would start. Then I'd make the choice either getting baptised or leaving and missing the torturing and other crap thats meant to happen then, easier to just get killed at armagedon.

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What is your Favorite Scene from a Movie?

by Sweetp0985 in

i thought about this topic last night for the board when watching one of my favorite movies.. 1. the man from snowy river- the part when they are going after the expensive colt and they get to the edge of the cliff and all the other riders stop and "jim" keeps going and leaps down the cliff after the wild horses.

i absolutely love that part of the movie...everytime its on i have to watch it, if not just to see this part only.. 2. love and basketball- when she tells him she will play for his heart...awwww first time i started crying.

and then the music they had playing in the background made it even worse.

DireStraitJacket

The scene in Meet Joe Black, where Brad Pitt crosses the street and gets whacked by two cars.

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a number of JW publications online

by cyberguy in

i saw a previous thread regarding the nwt being online.

it appears that the wt is putting a number of publications online!

see http://www.watchtower.org/publications/publications_available.htm.

DireStraitJacket

It would appear that they aren't putting whole watchtowers and awakes on the site, just certain articles from more recent issues (I think, I'm not exactly up to date)...

Article Index

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I think I finally figured out the blood doctrine....I think

by undercover in

this whole blood doctrine thing has got me so confused, but i think i've got it narrowed down to this:.

the wts is trying to get away from the blood doctrine or at least make it less of a doctrinal point than it has been over the years.

the wts now allows fractions, which, if i understand correctly, modern medicine uses fractions more than whole blood anyway.

DireStraitJacket

my mother got back from that watchtower study and she mentioned how they were now allowed to take blood fractions. She said that blood fractions were only really used in stuff like snake bite antidotes, and it wasn't really important.. I immediately brought up that numerous witnesses must have died over the years due to not being allowed to have said antidotes, isn't this a waste of life something Jehovah views as precious?
She said that she was sure those people would all be resurected, so it didn't matter to much. I brought up the pain of those peoples family but she stopped listening to me...
She also said that if she needed blood she would NEVER take it in any form.. I suggested that might be a bit selfish towards the family members incl. me, she said she was just obeying Jehovah.
That is where I walked off trying to stop myself from screaming out how brain washed she was..

anyway, can someone clarify how important blood fractions are, or how widely they are used?
It seems the average dub hasn't noticed much of a change..

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I could REALLY use some help right now....

by babygrl4903 in

hey all,.

ok...i know for a fact that you have all probably heard this before but i am new here so i don't really know all the topics that have been discussed.

so, at the risk of repeating past topics.....here i go.... i am 16 years old and have a boyfriend who is a jw.

DireStraitJacket

It is crappy situation that you find yourself in.
Try making a list of all the reasons that you have for not wanting to join and show them to him. Maybe he can see for himself what is wrong with the religion.
Try help him to understand that as much as you love him, you do not want to enslave yourself to a cult with ridiculous rules.
This isn't going to be easy, there are many people on this board that have not left the organisation because of the effect it will have on their relationships with family members and friends.

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I could REALLY use some help right now....

by babygrl4903 in

hey all,.

ok...i know for a fact that you have all probably heard this before but i am new here so i don't really know all the topics that have been discussed.

so, at the risk of repeating past topics.....here i go.... i am 16 years old and have a boyfriend who is a jw.

DireStraitJacket

Welcome to the board

try viewing some of the stuff about Jehovah's Witnesses on these sites
Actual Quotes From Watchtower Publications
Why they are a CULT
Silentlambs.org

also there are a lot of people on this site who have had very bad experiences involving
the Society. Look around there is plenty of info that you can see

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NWT now on Watchtower web site

by DevonMcBride in

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friends

http://www.watchtower.org/library/rbi8/

i'm not sure if this has been posted or not and if this is something new.

i've never seen the nwt on their web site before.. devon.

DireStraitJacket

omg!! have you seen some of the other crap on that site..

people, tattoos "are often the visible sign that a man . . . belongs
to a violent, brutal, antisocial, and criminalized subculture."

and those pictures..
bwahahaha

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MONEY!

by in a new york bethel minute in

i dont know if this has been discussed in forum before... but i have heard that in some places, the society still asks for money for their "life-saving products.

" two countries in particular have been pointed as being pay-per-mag operated.

australia and (of all places) africa.

DireStraitJacket

dude africa isn't a country...
In South Africa they switched to the donation system around 3-4 years ago.. I havn't a clue about
the rest of the continent

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Walk with God: My Notes SUNDAY

by ezekiel3 in

for more comments see http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/75897/1.ashx

walk with god 2004 dc sunday

10:00 guard against abandoning the straight path

DireStraitJacket

>>>We should not make decisions. Let God. We are not robots, should use ?power of reason?

And accept absolutely everything written by the society without question? If you have
doubts read it over and over until you no longer have doubts... 'power of reason' my ass