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something went wrong the first time.
here are a few facts that i have recently discovered by doing some research.
Are you trying to paste from Word? I've heard that's problematic. Instead, copy from Word, paste into Notepad, then copy from Notepad and paste into the forum.
(The same may be true of other sources, not just Word. Stripping the clipboard down to plain text is the idea being driven at here.)
http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/index.html
anyone else gonna go see this opening day?!?!?!!?
if its any good, prolly twice the same day!
I am *so* there! Adams' books are unbelievably awesome. Even the made-for-TV stuff didn't suck as bad as he thought it did.
If it flies (how could it not?) the Dirk Gently books would make fantastic movies.
Dave
"jehovah's witness accidentally eats candy cane" - http://www.onthejohnnews.com/2004/001/witness.htm.
"jehovah's witnesses divided over kwanzaa celebration" - http://www.thebentinel.com/041204-jehovahs-witnesses-kwanzaa.html.
enjoy!
"Jehovah's Witness Accidentally Eats Candy Cane" - http://www.onthejohnnews.com/2004/001/Witness.htm
"Jehovah's Witnesses Divided Over Kwanzaa Celebration" - http://www.thebentinel.com/041204-jehovahs-witnesses-kwanzaa.html
Enjoy!
hello my brothers and sisters.
may god be with you this fine and lovely day.
i wanted to share something close to my heart this day and i've chosen genesis 4:14. this text shows the danger of being cast off by god if you disobey him and really get him mad.
I have always been told that Abel was the first witness. Do you suppose Cain just got sick of his witness crap and offed him?
That's the most reasonable explanation I've ever heard! Abel: Perhaps, Brother, I can assist you? I see that your spiritual weakness is causing your sacrifices to our God to be hindered. Cain: Um, no. Thanks, I'm good. Abel: I only ask because while I've been pioneering the sacrifice of animals (I call them "meatings"), you've been inactive in your service, offering only the leftovers of your harvest. Cain: I see, I see. Ya know, maybe you're right. How about we step over into that field and you study with me? And, um, can I borrow your ax? Dave
can anyone give me any information on the society's buildings are they keeping them for themselves or are they selling them privately?
Perhaps you, like me, have wanted desperately to make fun of the fact that the Watchtower was building in the DUMBO area. I mean, it's just so obvious. The elephant in the living room, as it were.
So what is DUMBO? It stands for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass", apparently just a way they refer to that area of Brooklyn, like Cincinnati has "over the rhine" and Columbus has "the brewery district". (Needless to say, we moved to Columbus!)
No word yet on Watchtower acquiring City's Underdeveloped Lower Tract...
Dave
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went over to e-watchman this morning and the site is "defaced".
anyone know what that means?
Sounds like that new worm that exploits a hole in phpBB.
It was dependent on Google, and they are blocking it, so it is probably not going to spread as quickly now. But as I understand it, it was overwriting files, so the sites will need to get rid of it, then restore from backups.
my parents were both very strict, and i wasn't allowed any toys at the hall.
my rations included a copy of my book of bible stories, and a pen and note pad.
my parents were strict to the point of not allowing me to draw pictures, i had to "take notes".
My son played with my Palm Pilot. I tried to keep new games on it for him, drawing programs, stuff like that. Somehow it was ok that he was playing with a "Personal digital assistant" but it would have been wrong to play with a GameBoy! ;-)
the term "brainwashing" is sometimes thrown around this forum and i thought i'd briefly comment on it.
the idea that a group or person can actually make you think, act and feel in a certain way is highly dubious.
i'm not saying it's impossible, but i highly doubt that any ex-jws have ever experienced "brainwashing.
from American Heritage dictionary
brain·wash·ing
n.
I don't know, Bradley, it sounds like your definition is too narrow. If brainwashing really meant what you say, then the word just wouldn't have any meaning at all. I think the idea here is that brainwashing creates the environment (you allow has an impact on the individual) that is most conducive to encouraging a person to adopt a set of ideas that they would not otherwise adopt.
Gina and I went to a high-pressure sales session once. The guy set us up, bringing in a few different people at different times, insulting us, challenging us. My guess is these tactics must work or he wouldn't continue making his living doing it. Essentially he was trying to erase my filters against his sales-pitch/lies and replace them with acceptance of the idea.
JW's do the same thing, but they don't apply pressure, they apply love. "Nobody will ever love you like we do, now here's what you have to believe to make us keep loving you. You want to be loved, don't you?"
Is that brain washing? I don't see how you could deny that JW's fully qualify under both of those definitions.
i am a bit fuzzy, but i always remembered that the "faithful and discreet slave" were the annointed members of the governing body and that they were led by jehovah god.... of course according to the wts.. now, as they get older and other wts corporations have been formed and the president of the wts himself isn't of the "annointed" then what happens when the "annointed" governing body members who represent the "faithful and discreet slave" die off?.
where is the intermediatary between the regular jw's and jehovah?
what will happen to the light that kept getting brighter?
Honest response, the annointed numbers jump all over the place every year, so there will probably always be a few annointed lying around that they can somehow attach to whatever they do. Even it boils down to a simple group of elderly "advisors". They'll invent a new "class" name based on some obscure scripture that doesn't apply at all, and everyone will swallow it like they always have.
Maybe Blondie could comment here, but doesn't the latest Watchtower viewpoint say that there WILL be annointed still on the earth when the end comes? So that's another date-but-not-a-date, since you would naturally reason that they must all be very old. Of course, since there are new annointed ones every year, they'll never run out of them, while always keeping the number low. Brilliant, an eternal state of "nearness".
i am a bit fuzzy, but i always remembered that the "faithful and discreet slave" were the annointed members of the governing body and that they were led by jehovah god.... of course according to the wts.. now, as they get older and other wts corporations have been formed and the president of the wts himself isn't of the "annointed" then what happens when the "annointed" governing body members who represent the "faithful and discreet slave" die off?.
where is the intermediatary between the regular jw's and jehovah?
what will happen to the light that kept getting brighter?
I've always heard 1st Hezekiah 4:18 quoted when this topic comes up: "Then a woman shall lead them. At that time she will don her top hat of righteousness, accented by her pink boa of truth, and offer posts of reason and wisdom."
But I assumed it was all just JW BS, so I blew it off...
