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  Education idiot!

  by FrightMare in

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  if most of you were jw's at one time, am i right in assuming that most of you are uneducated?

  anyone here actually have a degree of some sort?

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  Cassiline

  TR!!!!!! my sentiments exactly! Too funny.

  C

  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  Education idiot!

  by FrightMare in

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  if most of you were jw's at one time, am i right in assuming that most of you are uneducated?

  anyone here actually have a degree of some sort?

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  Cassiline

  There you go AGAIN ASSUMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When will you LEARN???

  C

  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  Education idiot!

  by FrightMare in

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  if most of you were jw's at one time, am i right in assuming that most of you are uneducated?

  anyone here actually have a degree of some sort?

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  Cassiline

  Assuming??????????????????? I've always heard that assuming makes an ass out of YOU and hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm I forget the rest. I'll just leave it at makes an ASS out of YOU.

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  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  They know

  by Vida in

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  the hardcore jehovahs witness know that it is not real, that its all a mind game or if you like a make-believe reality they live in.. all jws sooner or later come to this knowledge and then some decide to stay and some decide to leave.

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  Cassiline

  Thanks Gopher for the link! I just got COC and have just started reading it. Thanks again!

  C

  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  They know

  by Vida in

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  the hardcore jehovahs witness know that it is not real, that its all a mind game or if you like a make-believe reality they live in.. all jws sooner or later come to this knowledge and then some decide to stay and some decide to leave.

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  Cassiline

  ashitika wrote..........I did not even know about 1980. What happened or did not happen in 1980? I am still researching and a lot of this has my blood boiling.

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  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  Osama Sells Out! - Endorses Product!

  by Tallyman in

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  Cassiline

  Well Tally at least he picked a proper endorsment! Pampers are filled with schitt as he is.... Schitt Head!

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  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  I'm crying now---pray for this family....please

  by LDH in

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  i just received a phone call from the mom of one of my daughter's friend's.. 7th grade little girl, just delightful.. we saw her dad tuesday night at 'back to school night.'.

  he killed himself yesterday.. lisa.

  edited to add, i just talked to the girl's mom again and she told me they went to the doctor together yesterday, i guess he's been having some chronic health problems for the last ten years.. the doctor pooh-poohed his concerns.

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  Cassiline

  I am sorry to hear of your loss Lisa and that poor family.I will keep you all in my prayers. This type of loss is most difficult because there are so many un-answered questions. I feel for you and your friends.
  Sincerly,

  C

  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  Hey, You Masters of War

  by TheOldHippie in

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  in these days of the great cowboys preparing for the man-hunt, here are some lines telling what the mediterranean/european sentiments are, as published by a political commentator.

  i just quote them to show the us-europe gap:.

  un minuto de silencio... .

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  Cassiline

  Oldhippie posts sentiments from the European/Mederterraian. IMO the European's forget who started this Jihad. Very early in history the Crusades sought out and killed thousands of innocents for their belief system. How many minutes do they intend to have a silent moment for those lost to the Crusades? How many minutes for the inocents killed During the revolution? How many for those innocents killed in other wars? Yes the US IMO HAS commited atrocities, JUST as all countrys have. And until its in the Europeans face which I believe the Terroists will attack or try to, just as the European Ministers Just announced today on CNN " We believe we are targets and are stepping up security measures".

  My thought is until ( which I hope will never happen) this same type of attack happens on their homeland they will not know the pain,grief and conflicting feeling that pass through ones mind. So I am grief striken again that people believe we brought this on ourselves. ALL COUNTRIES ALL NATIONALITIES HAVE COMMITED SINS OF TYRANNY that they have to live with and reconcile in their own way.

  The Crusades were expeditions undertaken, in fulfilment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny.

  The origin of the word may be traced to the cross made of cloth and worn as a badge on the outer garment of those who took part in these enterprises. Medieval writers use the terms crux (pro cruce transmarina, Charter of 1284, cited by Du Cange s.v. crux), croisement (Joinville), croiserie (Monstrelet), etc. Since the Middle Ages the meaning of the word crusade has been extended to include all wars undertaken in pursuance of a vow, and directed against infidels, i.e. against Mohammedans, pagans, heretics, or those under the ban of excommunication. The wars waged by the Spaniards against the Moors constituted a continual crusade from the eleventh to the sixteenth century; in the north of Europe crusades were organized against the Prussians and Lithuanians; the extermination of the Albigensian heresy was due to a crusade, and, in the thirteenth century the popes preached crusades against John Lackland and Frederick II. But modern literature has abused the word by applying it to all wars of a religious character, as, for instance, the expedition of Heraclius against the Persians in the seventh century and the conquest of Saxony by Charlemagne.

  The idea of the crusade corresponds to a political conception which was realized in Christendom only from the eleventh to the fifteenth century; this supposes a union of all peoples and sovereigns under the direction of the popes. All crusades were announced by preaching. After pronouncing a solemn vow, each warrior received a cross from the hands of the pope or his legates, and was thenceforth considered a soldier of the Church. Crusaders were also granted indulgences and temporal privileges, such as exemption from civil jurisdiction, inviolability of persons or lands, etc. Of all these wars undertaken in the name of Christendom, the most important were the Eastern Crusades, which are the only ones treated in this article.

  DIVISION

  It has been customary to describe the Crusades as eight in number:

  the first, 1095-1101;
  the second, headed by Louis VII, 1145-47;
  the third, conducted by Philip Augustus and Richard Coeur-de-Lion, 1188-92;
  the fourth, during which Constantinople was taken, 1204;
  the fifth, which included the conquest of Damietta, 1217;
  the sixth, in which Frederick II took part (1228-29); also Thibaud de Champagne and Richard of Cornwall (1239);
  the seventh, led by St. Louis, 1249-52;
  the eighth, also under St. Louis, 1270.
  This division is arbitrary and excludes many important expeditions, among them those of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In reality the Crusades continued until the end of the seventeenth century, the crusade of Lepanto occurring in 1571, that of Hungary in 1664, and the crusade of the Duke of Burgundy to Candia, in 1669. A more scientific division is based on the history of the Christian settlements in the East; therefore the subject will be considered in the following order:

  I. Origin of the Crusades;
  II. Foundation of Christian states in the East;
  III. First destruction of the Christian states (1144-87);
  IV. Attempts to restore the Christian states and the crusade against Saint-Jean d'Acre (1192-98);
  V. The crusade against Constantinople (1204);
  VI. The thirteenth-century crusades (1217-52);
  VII. Final loss of the Christian colonies of the East (1254-91);
  VIII. The fourteenth-century crusade and the Ottoman invasion;
  IX. The crusade in the fifteenth century;
  X. Modifications and survival of the idea of the crusade

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10424a.htm

  C

  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  Battered Women 8/8/01

  by silentlambs in

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  i am stunned.. with all the effort to try and make the issue of abuse known through silentlambs.

  the hundreds of accounts given by victims explaining the foundation of why watchtower policy hurts children.

  the lawsuits now being enacted to make watchtower compensate those injured by their policy.

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  Cassiline

  Dear Bill,
  Not only does this article curdle my blood but I want to hit my computer screen. I am a Victim Advocate here on a Military base in Lousiania. I work with the Military police and Civilian Law enforcement to counsel Women, Children and Men ( yes men there are men who are victims also) and assure that they have a safe haven and know there rights as a Victim.
  What the WTS is failing to do is to inform these battered women of their rights and when one takes on the task of writing such a article WITHOUT letting the victim know of their rights they are in essence breaking the law. Each state has Federal Guidelines that one has to abide by concerning the rights of a victim. Since I have not read the entire article I would like to know if indeed the WTS has broken the law by not informing these victims/potentinal victims and past victims of their rights. In this I mean was a victims code of rights printed along with the article? Yes I know the WTS believe they only need to follow some of "cesars laws" but one of my points is this article is being distrubted to non-witnesses and if they are not following the guidelines in writing about abuse and following Federal law in informing victims of their rights. They are breaking the law.

  I am sorry for my tirad but one of my clients who was a JW just killed herself this past weekend, because she saw no other way out, in her note to her 15 month old child she hoped Jehovah would see that she had a mental condition and would be ressrectuted in the new system to live with her daughter,IF her husband continued to raise her in the JW faith. I have been sick since Saturday night and I am getting sicker by the moment.

  Bill if possible could you e-mail me the entire article?
  Thanks
  Cami
  [email protected]

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  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.
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  Will YOU be the next dead American?

  by Nathan Natas in

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  i respectfully request that you take a few moments to read the following article, and i would appreciate hearing your responses.. - - - -.

  future widows of america: write your congressman.

  by ann coulter.

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  Cassiline

  I really hope not. I believe the article has some value IF the author is speaking of illegal immigrants and even then I am not sure how protected we will be with quotes such as this from Bin Laden and Muslims in our country today.

  > FEB 1998 Bin Laden's statement from what he called 'the World Islamic Front for Jihad aginst the Jews and Crusaders," in which he stated IT IS the duty of all MUSLIMS to KILL U.S. citizens- civialian or military- and their allies EVERYWHERE<

  >CNN today, Unidentified Muslim woman states, that Bin Laden although slow to react to the US's influence and hold over the global oil economy and Americans spearheading a crusade aginst Islam was RIGHTOUS in his Jihad.< This woman was leaving a mosque here in America.

  These quotes scare the hell out of me. In light of the recent events a Muslim woman states these things in OUR country, yes its the land of the free and of free speech. But condoning such grivious acts aginst citizens of the US and some 80 other countrys,who had people working in the WTC in my opinion is treason period. Should she be deported YES, IMO. Should we kill Bin Laden? I'm not sure what that would accomplish I see Bin Laden as a Idea not just a man. If he is killed I think there would be hundreds of others willing to take his stance and place, perhaps even with more Vengence.

  C

  When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.