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  For those who bash America

  by puppylove in

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  so how small does your "pee pee" have to be to stoop to bashing america on a jw support board?.

  feeling rather put upon for america's sake, living in new york city, feeling like bashing in the brains of anyone who says that americans going about their daily routines "brought this (9/11) upon themselves".

  i will always remember the day i looked out my window at work and saw over 3,000 people dying..

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  "eminent American comedian George Carlin"

  That explains a lot.

  Borgfree
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  I'm Gone

  by TR in

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  those who want to keep in touch via email certainly are welcome to.. i've just had it up to my gills with anti-american b.s., and i have little if any interest in jw issues lately with the exception of silentlambs.. see ya.. tr.

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  I understand your feelings TR, I asked for my name to be removed from another board because of the anti-American, anti-Israel attacks there.

  I am very pro-American and get tired of the attacks on this country by people who do not even have a clue of what is going on, they have just convinced themselves that they do.

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  Anyone Near Dayton OH

  by zenpunk in

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  i'm being flown out next week for a final interview and a tremendous job opportunity.

  but before i sell the house and move - i was just wondering how many of you are out there and your opinions of the area (i will need some new good association).

  also, i'm from the wilds of ny - do you think i can adjust to ohio?

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  Hi zenpunk,

  I am in Greenville about 30 miles from Dayton. I work in downtown Dayton. There are several who post here that live in the Dayton area, and some others who do not post here.

  Borgfree
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  BRCI Conference Report

  by Amazing in

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  okay everyone ... here are some highlights from this weekend's brci conference held in itasca, illinois, close to chicago o'hare airport.

  it was two full days, from friday at 9:00 am to 7:00 pm and sat.

  9:00 am to 9:00 pm.

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  Amazing,

  Thanks for the review. A few months after leaving the WT, I went to a BRCI conference in the Atlanta area. Everyone was very helpful. I will always be thankful for the help they gave me, and, two sons-in-law who had just left with me.

  I have attended three of their conferences and would like to someday attend more, if I am able. I usually choose the two I most want to attend each year and those are Pinecrest,CA. and New Ringgold, PA. I just cannot fit in more than that right now.

  I agree with the things you said in your review. They are non-judgemental and kind and thoughtful. As they always say, some are there for a short time and then move on. I have, I guess, moved on to a more Christian church kind of life, but will always hold very fond memories of all at BRCI.

  Borgfree
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  John Chapter 3. How does it jive with JWs?

  by FetterFree Annie in

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  2. bible

  can anyone answer a serious question?

  since jws set so much store by bible study etc., i was wondering how they explain away john chapter 3. specifically where jesus tells nicodemus you have to be born again by the spirit of god in order to enter the kingdom of heaven.

  while i'm here i would also like to know about eph 2:5,6. it seems to me they work like trojans in order to attain a place in paradise- but this verse clearly states we are saved by god's grace and not our works.

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  As someone pointed out to me, JWs believe:

  Faith + Works = Salvation

  A Christian knows the true salvation is:

  Faith + Salvation = Works

  Borgfree
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  Funny E-Mail

  by borgfree in

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  i received this e-mail from a co-worker a few minutes ago.

  i thought it was funny and wanted to share it.

  i haven't seen it posted, so if i have duplicated someones post, sorry.. .

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  borgfree

  I received this e-mail from a co-worker a few minutes ago. I thought it was funny and wanted to share it. I haven't seen it posted, so if I have duplicated someones post, sorry.

  I have never seen this and I am laughing myself into tears.

  Have a GREAT DAY!!

  How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity

  1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

  2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

  3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

  4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in"

  5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

  6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors".

  7. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."

  8. Dont use any punctuation marks

  9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

  10. Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.

  11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go".

  12. Sing along at the opera.

  13. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.

  14. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.

  15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.

  16. Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard Kim.

  17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won!", "I won!" "3rd time this week!!!!!"

  18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "run for your lives, they're loose!!"

  19. Tell your children over dinner. "due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."

  And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity.......

  20. Send this e-mail to everyone in your address book, even if they sent it to you or asked you not to send them stuff like this.
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  I went to a Unitarian church today

  by crownboy in

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  (wow, simon, did you steal microsoft word software or something?

  well, today i did something that in most years past i would have believed would have resulted in me being struck by lightning; i attended a religious service other than the jw's.

  this is the first time i've ever been to another religious service.

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  Xander,

  I have been reading this board for ten months now, while not scientific my observations have been that probably 90+ percent of the posters on the board are not Christian. Take this thread, for example.

  Runningman,

  I am used to the Christians being referred to as "fundy's". A christian is not just someone who celebrates Christmas, or believes that there may be a God out there, somewhere. A Christian believes that the bible is the inspired word of God. A Christian believes that God sent His Son to earth to pay the price for the sins of humans, buying for humans the right to eternal life if they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savour.

  Jesus said that He is the way, the truth and the life, no one could come to the Father except through Him. I believe that is fundamental. If that makes me a "fundy", so be it, that is my belief.

  All others claiming to be Christian are not. You cannot be a Christian and at the same time refuse to believe all of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

  There is much room for differences of opinions within the Christian Church but there is no room to disregard the teaching of the Christ Himself.

  It is interesting that ex-jws, on this board, who at one time believed the bible was the word of God, can now be so willing to believe everything but, the God of the bible.

  Borgfree
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  I went to a Unitarian church today

  by crownboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  (wow, simon, did you steal microsoft word software or something?

  well, today i did something that in most years past i would have believed would have resulted in me being struck by lightning; i attended a religious service other than the jw's.

  this is the first time i've ever been to another religious service.

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  They don't seem to realize the difference between correlation and causality. Many people in hardcore fundy religions did not choose the religion for those particular doctrines. They chose it for other reasons (mental illness, family connections, elitism, etc). The goofy doctrines just come with the package.

  I know Christians on this board are vastly outnumbered, but I wonder how those of you who are non-believers, of all persuasions, would like to be called names on this board on a daily basis. Would you like your mental health questioned because you believe life just came about from nowhere? and that humans came from fish, apes, snails, and whatever lower life form the ever changing declarations coming from the scientists of today teach?

  I have considered trying that sort of name calling before to show the non-believers what it is like, but my "goofy doctrines" teach me not to return evil for evil.

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  I went to a Unitarian church today

  by crownboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  (wow, simon, did you steal microsoft word software or something?

  well, today i did something that in most years past i would have believed would have resulted in me being struck by lightning; i attended a religious service other than the jw's.

  this is the first time i've ever been to another religious service.

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  Jewel,

  I guess if I could be an Athiest-Christian then a person could be a Unitarian-Christian.

  Borgfree
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  Does the soul or spirit exist?

  by JanH in

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  science deals with what can be observed, directly or indirectly.

  so in one sense, you could say that science is simply not providing any answers to the question about the existence of a soul or spirit component of a human being.. .

  that, of course, keeps science polite to religious ideas.. .

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  JanH,

  Two acorns were having a discussion. One acorn was arguing that there was a much better life to follow after they died as an acorn. He believed they would live a much fuller life than they could expect as an acorn. The other acorn thought the first one was out of his mind. He said, you have no proof that there is any other life for us, than we are now living.

  The bible uses a similar reasoning.

  1 Corinthians 15:35-44 NIV

  35 But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" 36 How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38 But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39 All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
  42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
  If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

  Borgfree