Sounds exactly like my workplace! Nice one.
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Anybody's Story
by Hopscotch inthis is a story of four people: everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody.. there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure somebody would do it.
somebody got angry about that because it was everybody's job.
anybody could have done it, but nobody realised that everybody wouldn't do it.
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My mother's friend's sister's missionary cousin says Harmageddon is immminnenet
by daniel-p inserious..
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Yep - I would think so! Don't worry Hikaru - I was told I wouldn't finish high school before the big A came and here we are a few decades later...
Don't waste your young life worrying about something that won't happen - life is for living. Think about getting some counselling to help you to face your fears. I can guarantee the JWs will still be waiting on the big A many decades from now.
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the full english
by highdose inin my privious thread about sunday mornings i noticed alot of people , including me sited having a full english breakfast.
but the contents of that seemed to change with every person.
so just what exactly does make the traditional full english?.
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I'm just so totally starving now....thank goodness it's lunchtime here! I love fried potato scone!
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just a few questions I don't want to ask directly hell
by Janey214 inhello - first may i apologise for capital letters my keyboard has gone screwy.
for the last several months i have been having meetings with two really nice women from the jw organisation.
i don't want to offend anyone by asking these questions i am simply trying to better understand how the watchtower came about without listening to too much anti stuff.
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Spike - thanks for your reply but it doesn't answer my question.
The bottom line is this - if you belong to an organisation that stipulates that you do not undertake a potentially life saving medical procedure, then you may die obeying this command. Let's say that this organisation readjusts it's thinking and policy in the future so that now there is some leeway. Clearly it follows that people have lost their life from obeying an organisational rule that is now considered out of date. Imagine the torment of people who have lost family members needlessly.
For an organisation to say - ' sorry, we've reviewed the policy now - sorry about your dead relatives ' is beyond contempt and morally reprehensible. This is clearly out of step with the teaching of a loving God.
Euthanasia is an entirely different premise. This path should involve choice, when someone feels that their life is being made intolerable by illness or other related issues. Children who die through not receiving a blood based life saving treatment have no choice or say in their own mortality.
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just a few questions I don't want to ask directly hell
by Janey214 inhello - first may i apologise for capital letters my keyboard has gone screwy.
for the last several months i have been having meetings with two really nice women from the jw organisation.
i don't want to offend anyone by asking these questions i am simply trying to better understand how the watchtower came about without listening to too much anti stuff.
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Spike - the big problem with the reconstruction and adjustment approach is that many people have lost their lives as a direct result of following the blood policy. It's different if it was something like we no longer clebrate birthdays - at least that's not life threatening.
When you change policy that affects a person's very life then it is morally indefensible.
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Songs that Seem to Celebrate Leaving the WTS
by blondie inwell, i heard some people talkin?
just the other day.
and they said you were gonna put me on a shelf.
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Post a U-tube of your Favorite Songs from Music groups or Singers
by flipper in.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weiyggwt6no.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti4ip8zQyrc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4RAnkqXABQ
BTW, Mrs. Jones, your taste in music is amazing.
Yep - I love the Smiths. They are a great teenage angst band. Loved all the quirky lyrics. -
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Songs that Seem to Celebrate Leaving the WTS
by blondie inwell, i heard some people talkin?
just the other day.
and they said you were gonna put me on a shelf.
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This is a fantastic song that sums it up really well. Turn up the speakers and I defy anyone not to sing along!
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No pain in paradise?
by Hikaru iner... i'd like serious answers on this please, because it's been on my mind ever since brought up.. okay, so a friend and i were debating on aim, and it went to the paradise thing.
and he brought up a point...that i can't answer, grandma said there is an answer, but she doesn't know it.. so anyways, they say jehovah will wipe out pain in the new system.
but wouldn't he have to kill emotions and love then?
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The "We will be perfect" statement covers a lot of paradoxes... barf!
Yep - this is as good as the 'Jehovah will sort it' theory.
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No pain in paradise?
by Hikaru iner... i'd like serious answers on this please, because it's been on my mind ever since brought up.. okay, so a friend and i were debating on aim, and it went to the paradise thing.
and he brought up a point...that i can't answer, grandma said there is an answer, but she doesn't know it.. so anyways, they say jehovah will wipe out pain in the new system.
but wouldn't he have to kill emotions and love then?
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But they always said things like disorders, and the mental issues we deal with now would be gone too. Wouldn't that include emotional pain?
Logically, you would say yes. This highlights how simplistic the JW teaching is. As you rightly said in your earlier post it's often another person that's the source of emotional pain,so how would they be removed in a paradise earth? Good point.
There is no way that perfection can be achieved as we would all be a race of emotionless zombies.