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  What is your opinion?

  by Gianluca in

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  a few days ago there was a post which had a link to a we site with an article entitled "the 13 illuminati bloodlines" written by a certain by fritz springmeier.. in there was this comment .

  "the wt society performs a secret ritual every year which is their primary ritual.

  this ritual is actually the ancient gnostic (satanic) ritual of saying no to the.

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  Bendrr

  As soon as I saw the word Illuminati in the first paragraph, my first impulse was to lock and load my illegal chinese assault rifle, don camo, and run for the hills to hide from the black helicopters.
  Then I remembered that there is no Illuminati or New World Order, only Yankees as there have always been since Sherman and the heat drives them away from my neck of the woods.
  I love conspiracy theory timelines like this one. Just goes to show how gullible people can be. Now if you want real truth about the conspiracy, you should have been listening to patriot radio on shortwave shortly before the militia movement culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. Callers bragging about shooting down black helicopters on Linda Thompson's show just made my day.
  Disney is "like, so five minutes ago" when it comes to hidden agendas and messages. If a Disney film were released that was actually "sterile", THEN we would have cause for alarm.
  mike.

  p.s. ever notice on The Little Mermaid that the Bishop doing Ariel's wedding gets a boner?
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  JW women suffer as they look for a Good Man

  by JT in

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  http://www.witnessesonline.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/witnessesonline/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=000118&p=.

  finding a man was always one of the biggest problems in wt due to many factors.

  my last hall had 42 single women from 25 45 yrs of age many never married before.

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  Bendrr

  Bigboi! Are you kidding me?! NO SEX AFTER RESSURRECTION?!
  COUNT ME OUT!
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  JW women suffer as they look for a Good Man

  by JT in

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  http://www.witnessesonline.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/witnessesonline/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=13&t=000118&p=.

  finding a man was always one of the biggest problems in wt due to many factors.

  my last hall had 42 single women from 25 45 yrs of age many never married before.

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  Funny! Sad but funny. But how different is that really from the rest of humanity when you realize that we all have some standard we judge potential mates against and after some dry spell lament that "all the good ones are either married or gay".
  In any case, the wt has done a disservice in so limiting the social skills of its young people that choosing a spouse is like russian roulette.
  I don't miss The Empire's single dating scene one little bit! Too easy to hook up with a psycho! (Come to think of it, the world ain't that different since I'm still getting over Pat)
  mike.
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  Position on College Changed?

  by Maximus in

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  several have made outright statements and others have suggested that the society's negative position on higher education has changed.

  'the society does not discourage higher education where i live.

  ' worse, 'apostates have made it all up--the society has never discouraged education.

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  Bendrr

  I remember electing not to go to higher education.
  Job after job of menial low-paying work. Wasn't till after leaving The Empire I finally found a career and since I had no college it's taken me a long time to reach a position in the auto repair industry that pays worth a damn.
  All you young witnesses who may read this, please consider some kind of schooling whether University or Trade School. You can't live on minimum wage. You can exist on say 30,000/year and I mean simply EXIST. You can forget raising a family on it!
  Jehovah is NOT going to send you a check in the mail, as I had to remind my stepdad once.
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  JUSTICE #12 - Little Bits of Evidence!

  by Amazing in

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  little bits of evidence makes a case .

  brother r had become a jw in the mid-1960s when a jw could still smoke and be accepted in the congregation.

  the only caveat is that he could not be used for any congregational privileges, as his smoking set a poor example.

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  Bendrr

  Thanks, great post as always.
  I've often wondered about the whole smoking issue. While not socially acceptable, my opinion is that making it a disfellowshipping offense is based on personal feelings of the gb. Too many things we do are unhealthy, why single out tobacco?
  (if any of you are jw historians, I'd love to hear the story behind smoking becoming such a mortal sin)
  Another argument I might add (being a smoker myself--ok everyone boo me) is if in the "new system" everyone is restored to perfect bodies and health then at that time, smokers' damage would be undone and logically the "addiction" to nicotine would also be gone.
  Please excuse me for commandeering your thread, amazing, just had to add a little thought on this one.
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  NEW JUSTICE SERIES - UPDATE

  by Amazing in

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  i have now completed posting the first 12 in the justice series that originally appeared on h20 about a year ago.

  i have a few more that i will prepare from my jc and elder experiences.

  the following, however, are the next installment in the series to be posted shortly.

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  Thank you for putting so much work into your Justice Series posts. I've read them all and enjoyed them and been shocked and saddened too.
  Have you ever thought of placing these stories all together on a site?
  mike.
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  10 Things That You Never See At Assemblies:

  by Englishman in

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  a mexican wave.. cheerleaders.. a streaker.. ice cream / hot dog vendors.. people standing up with their fist raised high saying "yes!".

  extra time.. presentation of awards.. autographs.. booing.. the audience waving their lighters as night falls.. there must be more!.

  englishman.. ..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.

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  the beer vendors were always closed at ours. would have been SO WONDERFUL to have attendants walking the aisles and up and down the stairs with trays of ice cold brew! or even better, some of the cute sisters in hooters girl outfits doing it. dang, i can just imagine some of the girls i had crushes on in the jw's in hooters girl outfits.
  .......
  ok, what were we talking about again?
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  Be afraid...be very afraid...

  by fodeja in

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  from http://www.greatcrowd.com/159ubb/forum22/html/000167.html.

  he gave us some statistics about how much the occurrences of random violence have escalated over the recent years, and it's terrible.

  something like 99% of us will be exposed to, or become a victim of a violent crime.

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  And then The Empire turns around and forbids you to pack a .45
  What a crock.
  Jesus said "gird your sword on your side" now when was the last time you heard THAT scripture quoted and applied to "the last days"
  It makes me sick to think that a dub sister could be disfellowshipped for shooting a rapist and preventing her rape, not to mention the other assaults the rapist could commit on others.
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  read this.....freaky!!!!

  by crittersitter in

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  the jehovah's witnesses going crazy?.

  the grim discovery of 39 bodies in a san diego mansion highlights sharp similarities between the heaven's gate cult and another sect widely regarded as a mainstream religion.

  not far from this death scene stands a similar tile-roofed mansion named beth-shan built by the watchtower organization, better known as jehovah's witnesses.

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  Bendrr

  I'm certainly no fan of The Empire, but whoever wrote that letter should be slapped. And their momma slapped for having 'em.
  With the current "zero-tolerance" attitude towards threatening speech we see today coupled with the very real fear of terrorism in all its forms, I'm sure some fed already has a copy of that email and is thinking "Jehovah's Witnesses? Wow! I better call so-and-so"
  I'd love to see them get what's coming to them, but not over some internet garbage like that.
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  epidural for labor allowed for JW's ?

  by Lolieworm in

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  my hubby had a question for me that i couldn't even come close to an answer for.

  ps.

  i used to be a witness.

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  Bendrr

  if The Empire has a ban on painkillers, now I know I'm not going back!