Hmm... "What Happened to Love?" is the Awake cover story, just in time for Valentine's Day? Wow. It's a good thing JWs don't celebrate Valentine's Day, because they would never ever try to piggyback their literature on a worldly holiday, right? What's next, "Mexico! Its Spiritual Past, its Stunning Future!" just in time for Cinco de Mayo?
MungoBaobab
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Awake! Less Emphasis on the Bible!
by truthseeker ini picked up the march copy of the awake!
magzine, looking to find more "emphasis on the bible.
to tell you the truth, there is absolutely nothing of the kind!
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What weird things have you read in the bible?
by stillAwitness inthe fact that nimrod's name means: "he stirred up the whole earth to rebel"
and yet ezra's name means: "help"
what caused nimord's mother to name him something that had such a negative meaning and yet he turned out to be just that?
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MungoBaobab
As a gung-ho teenage Witness I set out to read the whole Bible. I made it as far as Sodom and Gomorrah, when I literally threw down my Bible in disgust at Lot's incest episode. Yeah right- the greatest story ever told. I wonder why they left that one out of My Book of Bible Stories?
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How stupidly Zealous were you when you started off as a JW's?
by JH ini knew a brother who would walk 3 miles at -20 degrees to get to the field service meeting.
he wasn't baptized yet, and was new in the organization.
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MungoBaobab
I knew an elderette that openly bragged about skipping her grandmother's wake and funeral to attend pioneer school. As she told the story:
"My mother said, 'But it's your grandmother!' I told her, "Yes, well, she was old for a long time!''
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Help! They're after me!
by MungoBaobab ini thought i perfected the fade, but i guess not.
i live with my parents, and only my mom is a jw.
i haven't been to a meeting since july, and she rarely goes (not for theological reasons).
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MungoBaobab
Thanks, guys. Your advice, plus a few hours to mull it over has done quite a bit to help me strategize. Even if they catch me and DA me, then I'm free forever of the WTS.
"If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can ever imagine."
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Help! They're after me!
by MungoBaobab ini thought i perfected the fade, but i guess not.
i live with my parents, and only my mom is a jw.
i haven't been to a meeting since july, and she rarely goes (not for theological reasons).
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MungoBaobab
I thought I perfected the fade, but I guess not. I live with my parents, and only my mom is a JW. I haven't been to a meeting since July, and she rarely goes (not for theological reasons). Well, she got home from meeting today and said my bookstudy conducter (EX-bookstudy conductor! heh heh) wants to talk with me, and is going to call on the phone. I'm in a damn panic!
So what's he going to ask me, and how do I answer if I want to continue the fade? I don't want to alientate the rest of my JW family by saying somehing... well, truthful. Do I just tell him I've been to busy with work, and that (gulp!) I still consider myself a JW?
Somehow I never thought this would happen to me.
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Is Wal-Mart Racist? Check out this web ad
by CaptainSchmideo in.
this ad was changed shortly after it was posted, but, in the spirit of preservation of original documents, .
please note what is featured under:similar items.
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MungoBaobab
Good point, MsMcDucket. Although the three species of apes as depicted in the film seem a little too close for comfort to prominent racial stereotypes, which I feel cross the line from racial commentary into the stuff of prejudice.The Gorillas have dark skin, and are violent, thuggish, and unintelligent.
The Chimpanzees have white skin, and are rational and conscientious.
The Orangutangs have yellow skin and one is depicted as a Buddha-like figure. They are philosophers and scientists, though ultimately foolish and inconsequential.
Similar racial stereotype comparisons can be made with the alien races on Star Trek. Nevertheless, I feel the Wal-Mart ad presented here is the result of coincidence.
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Is Wal-Mart Racist? Check out this web ad
by CaptainSchmideo in.
this ad was changed shortly after it was posted, but, in the spirit of preservation of original documents, .
please note what is featured under:similar items.
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MungoBaobab
N***a please!
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You cannot live forever in paradise on earth
by Gopher inthe watchtower society has, for about seven decades, been attracting new volunteer workers for its field ministry with the promise of life forever on a paradise earth.
even the titles of its main study books since 1968 bear the promise: the truth that leads to eternal life, you can live forever in paradise on earth, and knowledge that leads to everlasting life.
how logical is this hope that leads people to entrust the watchtower with their time, energy and worldly possessions?
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MungoBaobab
Darth Yhwh brings up a valid point:
One of the things that always bothered me when considering the thought of eternal life on Earth was the fact that the Sun has a finite amount of hydrogen and helium to maintain it thermonuclear fusion.
And the JW answer. Say it with me:
"But that's just a theory."
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What is the wackiest thing God has ever done?
by DannyBloem inis it killing 42 children because they called prophet elisha a bald headed man (which he probably was, so they did ot even lie)?.
is it killing 70000 innocent israelites because the king david does a counting of the people?
(it is hard to keep the numbers right if the fluctuate so much).
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MungoBaobab
Yeah, about the whole foreskin thing: If God hates foreskins so damn much, then why the F did he make 'em?
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Bin Laden's niece is a hotty
by Ned incheck this out!
bin laden's niece bares much in gq spreadmy values are like yours, she says, distancing herself from al-qaida leaderjeff riedel / gq via reuterswafah dufour, niece of osama bin laden, poses in an undated photo taken during a photo session for the january 2006 issue of gq magazine.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10587661/
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MungoBaobab
According to the GQ article, the author states she's shy about mentioning her age, but he (she?) feels Wafah is under 30."Wafah Dufour." Say it. Sounds like a robot from "Star Wars!"