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  The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - Ch. 3 - The Numbers of the Book

  by RunningMan in

  1. watchtower
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  king solomon offered as a sacrifice twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep.

  - 2 chronicles 7:4,5. .

  lets look at it another way.

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  melmac

  Many explanations given at www.tektoniks are downright laughable...
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  Here's to Evil Force....

  by avishai in

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  2. friends

  one of the most ironically named posters i've ever seen.

  kind, strong, intelligent, patient with those who are intolerant.

  within the few short mo.

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  melmac

  He´s quite the opposite of his nickname.

  And his new avatar rocks!
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  Boy its hard for teenaged JW's

  by skyman in

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  2. friends

  i had to come home early from work today because a 17 year old girl came over to me and was all upset she asked if she could come up and visit with my wife and i. she said the brothers are always picking on her and she can not do anything right.

  i asked,what have you done she said nothing every time it is some one making things up and she is tired of even trying any longer.

  teenagers come from over all the area they they know they can come and talk to us and we will not judge them.

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  Keep going, Sky!

  Nice avatar, btw...
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  Proof: The Watchtower Lied About College

  by metatron in

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  2. friends

  may 22 1969 awake .

  "if you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old.

  in this present system of things...... therefore, as a young person, you will never fulfill any career that this system offers.

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  melmac

  GB

  The best education for me was my vocabulary education. My thinking is limited to my vocabulary and my understanding of my thought language. I can't think of principles and concepts if I don't have the vocabulary to express those principles and concepts. Language and critical thought are my best rewards for my education.

  That´s why the Party in 1984 created a new language, in which the vocabulary was progressively diminished... Those in command never want the rank and file to have too many tools for thinking.
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  Alright, convince me of the benefits of marriage

  by JW83 in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  someone?!

  anyone?

  !

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  melmac

  ROTFL at EvilForce..
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  My Mother died...

  by david_10 in

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  2. friends

  it happened one year ago today.

  june 4, 2004. they say these things take time and that recovery gets easier as time goes on, and i suppose that's true.

  but then again, some things leave a hole in your heart that will never go away.

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  melmac

  I am sorry for your loss, too. Unlike Jdubs, we know this is not a time to preach, but to respect other people's sorrow.
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  Rants and raves

  by Chia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i may have mentioned this incident before.

  please bear with me...but it's one of the things that really showed me the lack of love and concern.. shortly before my mom kicked me out of the house, someone that i had trusted (my foolish mistake) turned me in to the elders, saying i was "espousing apostate ideology".

  never mind that this person constantly complained about the elders and went to less meetings than i did...but anyway...their "encouragement" consisted of telling me, "the reason why you're becoming so bitter and angry is because you're not doing enough in field service.

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  melmac

  Check your premises:

  Humans have a need for consistency. If we make a commitment to something, we have a natural need to make our other actions/thoughts consistent with that commitment.

  I liked this so much I copied it onto the book I am reading...
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  JWs required to report medical information to elders

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there was an article, i believe in the awake!, that talks about a hypothetical medical worker who in a hypothetical situation comes to find out that a jw has accepted a medical procedure that is not accepted by the wts.

  this hypothetical worker must decide where or not she will report the hypothetical violation to the elders.

  does anyone recall where i can find this article?

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  melmac

  Man, how this DOES sound like 1984 (Orwell)...
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  As a witness, would you have believed this?

  by IronGland in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what if franz stated he found some seer stones and put them inside his tophat and was able to read them and they gave him a new gospel but god took the stones to heaven and now you just have to believe him?

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  melmac

  Only if he was able to translate some ancient egyptian hyerogliphs. And translated his new gospel from the book of the dead.

  Anyway, I hope his new gospel allows for multiple wives
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  A Brasilian Link - Christian Apologetic Centre of Research

  by Petruska in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i guees thats the right name in english.

  "christian apologetic centre of research".

  http://www.cacp.org.br/.

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  melmac

  The problem I find with that site is that it refutes a lot of crap and then tries to implant a new set of crap in your head... as often happens with apologetics sites.