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  Stew meat - room temp - 12 hours - is it safe? Your opinion wanted...

  by confusedjw in

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  so stew meat was taken out last evening at approx 6:30pm and was left out until 7 am.

  it was laid face down on the metal stove so it thawed fairly quickly, leaving it at room temp for many hours.

  so at 7am this morning, it was put in the refridgerator and then at 9:30am taken out to be cooked for a stew.. .

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  Way I figure it, if you eat and die you probably shouldn't have done. My 2p.

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  This One Is For Scholar And His Celebrated WT Scholars

  by Honesty in

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  i have some quotes from several respected bible linguists regarding the new world translation: .

  dr. julius mantey - "a manual grammar of the greek new testament" calls the new world translation "a shocking mistranslation".

  dr. bruce metzger, late professor of new testament at princeton university -"a frightful mistranslation", "erroneous", "pernicious", and "reprehensible".

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  To be fair, so did a lot of ex-JWs when they first came here. Pointing that fact out is probably not going to help them overcome their cognitive dissonance. The mor likely effect will be to send them scurrying for "safety" again in the clutches of the Ravenous Bug-Blatter Beast.

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  THE MOTIVES OF GOOD JWS WHO POST ON THIS SITE

  by steve2 in

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  while i think it's perfectly okay, i do wonder what motivates jws to post here and especially to also express views critical of ex-jws.

  is it the freudian notion of "projection": the jw who denounces something in others that he or she is also guilty of?

  hence, if a jw clearly denounces an apostate's faults, it must mean the jw is really against apostasy when it might be something he or she struggles with.

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  Steve2,

  I think that was well stated. I also see where it might be off-putting to a lot of lurkers who may otherwise step out of the shadows. I regret my role-playing as Scholar, above. I can see where it might be damaging to others being able to feel comfortable.

  Ozzie, if you don't mind taking down my cheeky post where I claim to answer for scholar, I'd appreciate it. I've thought better of it and would like it removed.

  Respectfully,
  OldSoul
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  Opinion - looking for some insight

  by free2beme in

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  i was wondering something and wanted to see what others thought .... my sister, an active witness, recently became a foster parent to a baby.

  in history, the baby is the child of my uncles underage girlfriend, that he is now serving time for raping (under age, always seen as a rape).

  the young woman was doing meth (clean for almost a year now), and was living with her own mother who was an alcoholic.

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  No offense intended for talking about your family, but that is plain EVIL!!!
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  If I was born in 1914...

  by OldSoul in

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  if i was born on my real birth day, in the year 1914...i'd be 91 today!

  yipeee!

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  Thanks for the Happy Birthday's guys. My wife wished me a Happy Birthday, too. Then she made it come true, .

  Seriously, big step for her.
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  If I was born in 1914...

  by OldSoul in

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  if i was born on my real birth day, in the year 1914...i'd be 91 today!

  yipeee!

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  Bestiality, huh? Puts a whole new slant on "born in sin."
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  If I was born in 1914...

  by OldSoul in

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  if i was born on my real birth day, in the year 1914...i'd be 91 today!

  yipeee!

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  ROFLMAO@ Leolaia!!!

  [wipes tear from eyes] Long-term relationship with a heifer!!!

  [there he goes again] ROFLMAO!!!
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  So you used to be...

  by onacruse in

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  when i stubbed my toe last night and characterized a long-time poster here as still being an elder (for which i apologize), and then this morning, reflecting on the meaning of that, the question came to me:.

  what does it matter?.

  there have been so many "persons of authority"-- ministerial servants, elders, bethelites, even district overseers (as i've heard)-- who have posted, and continue to post, on this discussion board.

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  That, I think, is what I like most about Shadow. He does not hold himself above others. Great post, Craig. Leveling is an awesome event.

  Respectfully,
  OldSoul
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  mediator?

  by Momofmany in

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  last night my mom and i were talking.

  she asked me to give her one reason other than the un and 607 why i can't go back to the kh.

  i told her, jesus is my mediator.

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  Nevertheless, in a preliminary way, the great crowd have already "washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." (Revelation 7:14) Christ does not act as Mediator of the new covenant toward them, yet they benefit from this covenant through the work of God’s Kingdom.

  This is an important quote. Who makes up God's Kingdom? ... They experience benefits through the work of God's Kingdom? What does that do to the "theory" that they experience benefits through the shed blood of Christ?

  It destroys it. It spits on it. That's what it does.

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  Well, we supernaturalists are not all fundys!

  by Shining One in

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  hmmmm, this will have the naturalists spinning like tops....lol .

  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/weekinreview/02johnson.html?ei=5099&en=4f86677dbc30eb92&ex=1128830400&partner=topixnews&pagewanted=print .

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  As a lawyer for Dover's schools said in his opening statement, gravity was also once thought to be a supernatural force until it was understood by physics.

  Aw, I love this! Priceless!

  $10,000,000 to the person who can show me gravity. "Gravity" is a descriptor we have assigned to an observed phenomenon, it does not mean we know what it is beyond the description we have assigned to it.

  That this force seems to follow a reliable and constant order is a convenient discovery of ours, but that doesn't mean we know what it "is," anymore than a caveman's ability to use fire was proof that he knew what it was. You can show me the effects of what we call gravity, but gravity doesn't "exist," in Scientific terms, as anything more than an arbitrary name assigned to a metaphorical construct used to describe an invisible phenomenon.

  Is it real? Yes. Unquestionably. Does it "exist?" Not according to the Scientific Method. Its effects are demonstrable, observable, falsifiable, etc., but gravity itself is not.

  Respectfully,
  OldSoul