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  I've been asked to give a public talk (should I)

  by darth frosty in

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  a friend of mine who is planing his fade, has just been made talk coordinator.

  so he calls me and ask 'do i want to give a talk at his hall?

  ' he knows my situation and lurks on this board himself.

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  I've been asked to give a public talk (should I)

  by darth frosty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend of mine who is planing his fade, has just been made talk coordinator.

  so he calls me and ask 'do i want to give a talk at his hall?

  ' he knows my situation and lurks on this board himself.

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  I'll let the cat out of the bag. I was the one who asked Darth to give the talk at my hall (before I officially faded of course, which I completely walked away in Spring, 2009). After much thought, he decided NOT to do it. At the time I asked him, I was having problems getting GOOD speakers at the hall for the public talks. This was no exaggeration, there were some weeks that the talks were so painful that I wondered whether these speakers could even complete a HOOKED ON PHONICS exercise.

  I remembered how GREAT a speaker Darth was before and during our Bethel days, so I asked him. I had it set up that he would be visiting from his old congo in NYC and even put it up on the board with one of his outlines that he used to give. This was during the final days in the org and I thought it would be a hoot to have him give the talk and it would've made sitting their listening to the public talk BEARABLE for once.

  In hindsight, I respect his decision, but I always wonder WHAT IF? What would that have been like? Would've been AWESOME!
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  My life on the Treadmill

  by cult classic in

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  i was born in 1970 to third generation jehovah's witnesses.

  like all those born in, i was brought up without hope or guidance for a life in this world.

  instead of being taught to be self sufficient and confident, i was trained to obey my parents without question (ephesians 6:1).

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  Great story! I wonder if I was at Bethel the same time as you were.
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  Powerfully heart-wrenching experience by FORMER BETHLITE

  by Black Man in

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  just wanting to post an experience by a former bethelite.

  the first part was just published with the other two coming overt the next couple of weeks.

  click the link.

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  I just wanna push this back to the top for any newbies who haven't read this story. It's the classic turning lemons into lemonade story that is so powerful and impactful. Props again to Mariuca, Carl and the writer Richard.
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  Children believe Santa Claus is coming. As an adult, do you believe Armageddon is coming?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  Noah's Missing Dove, Tower of Babel and Sumer

  by doubtful in

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  i was reading genesis again today - chapter 8 and 9. and here are two additional curiosities i found now that the blinders are off.. 8:12 - apparently noah releases this mischevious explorer dove, who in verse 12, ends up never coming back.

  this raises three questions.

  for one, why would noah have to send out a bird three times to explore for dry land in order to see if it was safe to exit the ark?

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  The tower of Babel- full of holes?

  by highdose in

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  i was thinking the other day about the tower of babel ( like you do) somthing that always puzzled me about reading the account in our modern day times is that we have today buildings that would have been vastly taller than the tower of babel.

  even if purely because the materials needed to build modern sky scrapers have to be light in order to acheive that height.

  accient heavy bricks just wouldn't have done it.. just why was god so threatened by a building???

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  The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories

  by RunningMan in

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  2. bible

  over the years, i have posted all of the chapters from my atheist's book of bible stories on this site.. however, since the original posting, many of the chapters have been polished and updated.. the complete book is now available for downloading, if anyone is interested: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qwpjol.

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  What to do - my heart is broken - I feel like a hollow shell ....

  by muslima in

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  nothing in side.. i will give you all the short storyl i was married to an elder - had 3 beautiful chilren -- after 17 years of mariiage -- i couldn't take it all any more.

  i bailed when my youngest was 11, 13 and 16.. it was my intention to be no religion at all.

  i abhor organized religion.

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  Bumping it back up because I have been wondering how this has turned out.
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  No wonder most of of you guys think us jw's are idiots

  by nowwhat? in

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  2. beliefs

  as a teenager back in the 1970's i once asked the question, how can they declare peace and security if the king of the north [soviet union] is to storm with many chariots?

  i got the "what kind of question is that?

  " response.. then in the 1980's i said "if it wasn'nt for the 1914 generation dying off, i don't see the slightest indication that babylon the great is going to be destroyed anytime soon.

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