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  Teachers showing the Berg video

  by blacksheep in

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  just heard from a couple of news sources that in san diego, some teachers have been alledged to have shown the berg video to their classes, telling them that "this is what bush has done.

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  Do NOT watch this...

  by blacksheep in

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  i know i was warned.

  i had to see for myself the berg video.

  saw it at work this am.

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  Fabulous vacation spot

  by blacksheep in

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  http://www.bethelcoachtours.com/english.htm#top

  (for some reason, i'm not able to get a good link)

  check out the "bethel classic with dc & holocaust" - sounds like a truly upbuilding trip:

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  Will the World ever Die?

  by blacksheep in

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  during the last few years, i've progressively observed a phenomenon which i hadn't really seen before in my jw mother.

  lately she's been talking about her will, about wanting to get long term care insurance for herself and my dad so they won't be a burden on us kids.... it's like she knows she's going to eventually die in "this system.

  " what happened to armageddon's right around the corner??.

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  Persecution of JW's Imminent?

  by blacksheep in

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  2. friends

  probably dating myself, but remember all those assemblies/yearbooks, etc., that focused on the possibility that jws would suffer persecution at the hands of nazi-like regimes?

  i remember attending an assembly which dramatized jw's being held, as in wwii, as having to make a choice to either "renounce?

  " their jwism or die.

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  The Passion Christian Hype is Making Me Sick--Thoughts

  by blacksheep in

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  2. current

  i've seen the passion.

  thought i'd be moved.

  it supposedly has changed people's lives, caused them to confess sins (actually turned themselves in as criminals), etc.. please, can you explain to me why shindler's list didn't inspire such actions?

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  Can someone please explain

  by blacksheep in

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  2. beliefs

  i've been out of the org so long that my memory is fading as to exactly what their rationale is for not celebrating thanksgiving.. i was speaking to my dad, whose not a jw but a supporter of it (for my mom's sake), and he was for some reason informing me of my mom and his attempts next week to take a relative (for whom they are caretakers) up to visit my aunt and uncle (several 200 miles away) for thanksgiving.

  but he made sure to inform me how my mom and he would not eat with them (they'd go somewhere, like a movie, for a while).

  again, forgive me, i've been out too long.

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  Violins in rock music?

  by blacksheep in

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  2. entertainment

  so the dixie chicks are abandoning country for rock.

  apparently because they're not appreciated or understood by the country music industry and fans.

  didn't we have some sort of post-anti-bush discussion about how they were making more money since their ill-fated comments?

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  Ban Babycenter.com-- they behave like JWs

  by blacksheep in

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  2. friends

  okay, i've been banned/shunned from a website called "babycenter.com".

  i've been posting to their debate boards ever since my first child was born three years ago.

  in one particular site, they behave very much like jw's (it's a breastfeeding board).

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  Has anyone seen the hogwash on this issue on the JW site?

  by blacksheep in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  just out of morbid curiosity i was checking out the wts site on the blood issue.

  what particularly stuck out was the "risks" of blood transfusions.

  of course they pointed to the hiv debacle as support.

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