Let's see, there was the gravel birthday cake with firecrackers for candles, the can of carbide in the trash can with water in the bottom, the gasoline distilling operation, drilling into the pressurized tank, the dynamite fishing expedition. It's amazing what you can do with less than ten fingers.
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What is the most stupid thing you ever did?!!!
by Spectrum inbtw: excluding joining jwism unless it's too intriguing not to say.
here's mine: .
it was in the day when the paraffin man went around selling to those that still had the old paraffin burners to keep their house warm.
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May 28--Four years since Dateline's JW sex abuse program aired. Results?
by AndersonsInfo insunday, may 28, 2006, is the fourth anniversary from when a threshold was crossed into uncharted waters.
on may 28, 2002, the u.s. television news program, dateline, publicized to millions of viewers the facts about watchtower's deceitful child abuse policies which protect pedophiles who target and molest jws' vulnerable children.
subsequently, this subject caught the interest of media throughout the world who, through careful investigation, substantiated the allegations made on dateline.
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Fangorn
Hamsterbait I'm afraid that your little extrapolation is absolutely no evidence whatsoever. I'd be very happy if someone could demonstrate that tens of thousands had left because of this issue but I am not going to live in a fantasy world because that's what I'd like to believe. Too may people on this board make unproven and unprovable assertions. That's Watchtower Land, you want to live there that's fine, I will not, I like facts with real evidence not wishful fabrication.
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Do Individual JWs Pay For The Publications They Distribute?
by Joe Grundy inexcuse my ignorance, and i've read on boards about the us not selling/inviting contributions issue, but do individuals jws in effect pay for the publications they give out?
if so, is that only for their magazines or for hardback books as well?
how is this organised, please?.
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Fangorn
I don't ever recall seeing the price printed on the magazines. Is my memory faulty or is that just wrong?
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May 28--Four years since Dateline's JW sex abuse program aired. Results?
by AndersonsInfo insunday, may 28, 2006, is the fourth anniversary from when a threshold was crossed into uncharted waters.
on may 28, 2002, the u.s. television news program, dateline, publicized to millions of viewers the facts about watchtower's deceitful child abuse policies which protect pedophiles who target and molest jws' vulnerable children.
subsequently, this subject caught the interest of media throughout the world who, through careful investigation, substantiated the allegations made on dateline.
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Fangorn
Sorry, but I just don't know of a shred of evidence to support the statement that tens of thousands have left the organization because of the exposure of this issue. If you have such evidence I would love to see it.
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Fangorn
Certianly not. There has been some good stuff and some bad stuff, just like most of life. I don't take it too seriously and I'm not about to let angst dominate my life.
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Special Talk 4/30/06
by TooBad TooSad inmy wife asked me if i was going to the special talk this sunday?
i told her no and she said "how could i miss the special talk?
" i asked her what was so special about it?
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Fangorn
I can't ever remember a "Special Talk" being in any way special, usually it was deadly dull. The only thing remotely special about it is the fact that the same talk is given in every congregation on that particular day, barring assemblies and such.
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Do Some JW Elders Secretly Consider It Possible That They Are Wrong?
by West70 ini recently heard this "experience" from a now "christian" former jw, which has not previously been publicly communicated.
this jw then moved back to their home area (no jw relatives), and simply continued living their already-in-progress non-jw life.
inevitably, this exjw christian started bumping into their jw former associates.
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Fangorn
There's a considerable number of Elders that go way beyond thinking it might be possible that they are wrong. Perhaps not on everything but on many things. They typically justify their position by believing that they can do more good than harm by staying where they are and usually there is also some kind of relationship issue keeping them in place. Almost invariably some fairly fancy footwork is involved in being in this position, I would think it would be enormously tiring after a while.
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The Hebrews and Stoning
by Clam init seems from the bible that stoning was common punishment at one time, although i use punishment in the loosest sense of the word.
if within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
deuteronomy 22:23-24 nab).
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Fangorn
Friend of mine saw it up close and personal in the Middle East. Said it was about the nastiest thing he ever saw.
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How many left of 144,000?
by annalice ini just saw a feb 1, 2006 watchtower.
there were 8,524 memorial partakers.
isn't that a bit high?
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Fangorn
I've been told that the "powers that be" at Bethel think that only 300 - 400 of the 8500 partakers are legitimate. They figure the rest are either misled or nut cases.
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The Hebrews and Stoning
by Clam init seems from the bible that stoning was common punishment at one time, although i use punishment in the loosest sense of the word.
if within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
deuteronomy 22:23-24 nab).
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Fangorn
I always found it interesting that while there are many things in the Bible that seem to require stoning as a punishment that are very, very few accounts of someone actually being stoned. I wonder if it was simply not recorded or if in practice it was not very much enforced?