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Another Urban myth Perpetuated By the WTS

by BluesBrother in

it is funny how some things stick in your mind .

this little point about a man supposedly swallowed by a whale, then rescued, stayed with me and i certainly used it in the "field ministry" in order to support the jonah account.

*** g70 5/22 p. 11 the great sea monsters ***.

truth_about_the_truth

In 1891 the English whaleman, James Bartlett, was swallowed by a sperm whale

Wow, you actually can use "swallow" and "sperm" in the same sentence and not be drrrrrrrrrty.

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Does the WTS's past matter?

by M.J. in

i know, i'd jump into this topic by saying, "heck yeah.

they're the ones saying they've been appointed by god based on what they were doing back around 1914-1919.

" but i'm trying to help someone out who has reached a roadblock with his wife.

truth_about_the_truth

Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. ---- 1984 by George Orwell

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In the last days there will be a witness to all the inhabited earth........

by holly in

jw
friends

and then the end will come.. something like that!!.

so, for those who believe the bible, who are these people and what scripture would back that?.

holly

truth_about_the_truth

Jeff,

Amen. Couldn't have expressed it better myself.

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In the last days there will be a witness to all the inhabited earth........

by holly in

jw
friends

and then the end will come.. something like that!!.

so, for those who believe the bible, who are these people and what scripture would back that?.

holly

Remember Jesus made that quote 2000 yrs ago when he was virtually unknown to the world outside of Judaea. Who today in the yr 2005 doesn't know about Jesus and the message that he brought? Even atheists, buddhists, hindus, whatever know about it beacuse of all the 'witness' work being done for the past 2 milleniums. The idea that JW by themselves need to carry this out is preposterous. You dont need to reinvent the wheel.

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WT banned music

by truth_about_the_truth in

it's been a while since the society has been specific about what kind of music to avoid hasn't it?.

the last i remember was when the said to stay away from rap and heavy metal.

that was a while ago.

truth_about_the_truth

It's been a while since the society has been specific about what kind of music to avoid hasn't it?

The last I remember was when the said to stay away from rap and heavy metal. That was a while ago.

Have they made any specific bans recently? What kind of music could they forbid now anyways? It would be hard because music is so fragmented now into subgenres.

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Hunter Thompson "suicided" for inside info on 9/11?

by truth_about_the_truth in

toronto globe and mail | february 26, 2005:

paul william roberts in his globe and mail article of saturday, february 26, 2005 wrote the following:.

hunter telephoned me on feb. 19, the night before his death.

truth_about_the_truth

ok. I lifted. What else should I do? Type it over again with my own words? Sorry too lazy for that. I figured it would be better than just pasting a link.

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Hunter Thompson "suicided" for inside info on 9/11?

by truth_about_the_truth in

toronto globe and mail | february 26, 2005:

paul william roberts in his globe and mail article of saturday, february 26, 2005 wrote the following:.

hunter telephoned me on feb. 19, the night before his death.

truth_about_the_truth

Toronto Globe and Mail | February 26, 2005:

Paul William Roberts in his Globe and Mail article of Saturday, February 26, 2005 wrote the following:

Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."

Hunter S. Thompson ... was indeed working on such a story.

Now check out this February 25 Associated Press story about Thompson's death. Sounds a lot like a professional hit with a silencer:

"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in Friday's editions.

She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column...

Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but didn't know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said. (Her account to Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is slightly different: "I did not hear any bang," she told Kass. She added that Thompson's son, who was in the house at the time, believed that a book had fallen when he heard the shot, according to Kass' report.)

Mack White sums up the questions well:
Thompson's family says he was not depressed, nor was he in enough to pain to kill himself. In fact, by all reports, he was quite happy. He was talking on the phone to his wife, getting ready to work on his column, when he decided it would be wise to kill himself, so that he could go out (we are told) while "still at the top of his form," even though this would mean not finishing his column or his expose on 9/11 (potentially the most important thing he would ever write) (?)...

This account says Thompson killed himself while sitting in a chair on his typewriter and yet the original account tells us that Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone in the kitchen. Why has the story changed andwhat is the significance of the word typed on the paper in light of the fact that Thompson said he would be 'suicided' before being able to release a major story on explosives bringing down the twin towers?

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