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  I Found It!

  by BrendaCloutier in

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  the true meaning of ...(brummie dots).... .

  it's in the cookies i baked yesterday, on winter solstice.. .

  instead of thumbprint cookies with chocolate covered cherries, these are now officially ...brummie dots... .

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  They look kinda like nipples.
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  The Awake magazine: In A Realm Beyond Dumb?

  by metatron in

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  i hold in my hand a typical awake magazine (jan. 8, 2005) - entitled "can planet earth be.

  saved?".

  of course, it trots out the usual formula of half truths that has brought the watchtower.

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  In the December 22, 2004 Awake they found some poor marine biologist who agreed to be interviewed about seahorses a Dr.Keith Martin-Smith, presumably of Australia. Decent enough fluff article until the last paragraph. After a doom and gloom prediction from someone described only as a "researcher," they quote Dr. Martin-Smith saying "There is definately goodwill out there among people. Our job is to make more people care about the earth's living creatures. When that happens, change will occur. Perhaps if we can save the sea horses, we can also save the seas." Then Awake condescendingly adds, "Pehaps. Happily, though, there is a more reliable source of hope.-Revelation 14:7" So some unwitting scientists actually takes the time to do an interview with "Awake! Writer in Australia," probably for free, and what attitude does the writer take with him? "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just tell us about sea horses, and we'll just discredit anything you say that we don't agree with."
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  Did God put a 12 year old up the Duff??????

  by Zep in

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  apparently, back in the days of mary and joseph, arranged marriages were very common.

  a girl was usually married off by 12 or 13.. there are pretty good odds that god knocked up a 12 year old virgin mary.. i don't know about you people, but.....ewwwwww!

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  So THAT'S what God and R. Kelly have in common!
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  daniels prophecy, to be studied next year? More self glorification

  by DaCheech in

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  are they kidding?.

  we gotta sit through this again?.

  isaiah's prophecy and daniels book has to be the most "blow smoke up their ass book there is"!

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  Daniel's Prophecy didn't bother me, but those Isaiah Books...Twin Engines of Boredom!

  -Zzzzzzzzzzz
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  The collapse of the Watchtower. Write your gloomy-doomy scenario here.

  by Pole in

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  hey, prophets of doom, if you were to write an abstract of a screenplay for a movie about the collapse of the watchtower what would be the final nail in the coffin?

  make it as serious or as preposterous as you like.. here's two scenarios to begin with.

  english is not my first language, so naturally yours may be much more entertaining.. .

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  Ted Jaracz will reveal himself to be the phantom menace behind e-Watchman and will disfellowship all Jehovah's Witnesses he can find to purge the earth of the Organization, except for two he cannot track down. These two, before they die, will train Jaracz's long lost son in the ways of Dubdom, and he will seek to turn his father away fom his apostasy. In a few years I will re-release it with new special effects, including a bunch of dinosaurs thrown into the background for no apparent reason, and this time, Judge Rutherford will shoot first so CT Russell doesn't seem like such a bad guy.
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  The Golden Pipewrench Awards

  by MungoBaobab in

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  ladies and gentleman, apostates, lurkers, ex-jws, fundamentalists and atheists, welcome to the 2004 golden pipewrench award nominations, commemorating notable examples of the wts "pipewrenching" scriptures to get them to say what they want, regardless of the original context.

  nominations may include any spurious or preposterous conclusion drawn from any specific scriptural reference, and not necessarily one from 2004.. please note: the "faithful and discreet slave" (matt.

  24:45) and the "this generation" (matt.

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  Ladies and Gentleman, Apostates, Lurkers, Ex-JWs, Fundamentalists and Atheists, welcome to the 2004 Golden Pipewrench Award Nominations, commemorating notable examples of the WTS "pipewrenching" Scriptures to get them to say what they want, regardless of the original context. Nominations may include any spurious or preposterous conclusion drawn from any specific scriptural reference, and not necessarily one from 2004.

  Please Note: The "Faithful and Discreet Slave" (Matt. 24:45) and the "this generation" (Matt. 24:34) parables have already been awarded lifetime Golden Pipewrenches and are ineligible for nomination.

  Very well, I would like to nominate Genesis 3:7 (Adam & Eve sew themselves fig leaves) and 3:21 (God gives them animal skins and expels them from paradise) for attempting to prove that God imposed a "higher standard of modesty" in dress on Adam and Eve, instead of the obvious implication that fig leaves offer inadequate protection outside of the paradisaical Garden of Eden, and that animal skins are a more utilitarian necessity for the cursed earth.
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  Evil come evil go.

  by Peppermint in

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  what was the silliest thing taken away from you as a child because of its supposed evil influence?

  i remember when i was about 5 or 6 years old, my mum gave me a copy of the 1812 overture.

  i remember it as a real cool gift at the time.

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  I got into building various model kits when I was around 12, and after a few spaceships I decided I'd take a crack at a sailing ship. I bought the USS Constitution, Old Ironsides herself, but my mom returned it because it was a "war toy." You should have heard her explaining that to the clerks at the toy store.
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  I'm afraid there are only 2 ways of being a true believin' Christian

  by Zep in

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  the first way is to be completely ignorant.to ignore the fact that the bible is a hopelessly flawed man made document, and all other reasoned argument and evidence that points to the non existence of the christian god.

  this strategy basically involves living inside mental cocoon and closing your eyes to any alternative views.

  the best way to employ this tactic is to perform a whole lot repetitive and ritualistic action; a whole lot of head bowing and praying etc... etc....you know the drill!.

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  When I started trying to convince myself that the remains of Neanderthals were the Nephilim I decided to try a shave with Occam's razor. And let me tell you, my intellectual cheeks have never felt so silky smooth.
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  Who here still finds it hard to celebrate Christmas?

  by dh in

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  i was raised a jw and as i've probably said before, i left when i was around 18... i'll be 27 in a few days, and as i get older realise how i do not really know how to celebrate anything.

  being raised a jw we never had xmas or birthdays (or any celebration), and since none of the friends i had when i left the jw's were christian either, i have to this day never celebrated it... i am not christian and will openly admit that i couldn't care less about the religious side of christmas, but what i see around me, everywhere in the world are people who aren't really christian either, celebrating christmas, either for kids or friends or whatever, but i've never done that or had anyone around me to do that with... people look forward to this time of year so much, they buzz and rush around like it's a real event, and to this day i've never been able to feel that way.

  most of my christmas/birthdays since leaving jw's have been spent by myself, completely devoid of celebration, i want to get into that feel good spirit, but i don't know how, and if i try to fake it, i know it is fake.

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  I cannot imagine putting up all kinds of decorations, cleaning around them, taking them down, and packing them away like some people do. Talk about a pain in the ass!
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  What do yall do when you have a bad day?

  by missy04 in

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  what makes you feel better when you have a totally sucky day??.

  ~sarah

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  I go to the pet store and play with the animals. For some reason I get off on the idea that I've brought joy to a kindred life form; that whatever alien thought processes exist in the creature's head, we shared something enjoyable. I think about how all life on Earth is related, and how the animal is my distant cousin and somewhere down the road we shared a common living, brathing, individual as an ancestor. Despite this divergence of millions of years, we still recognize eachother and take joy in our company.