Given the number of psychologically damaged people in and outside the borg, its amazing this does not happen more often.
Posts by kid-A
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40Kingdom Hall shooting
by Stealth insad to see people so effected by this religon that they resort to violence.
i was glad to here no one was fatally ingured.
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Question for Singles: Tired of hearing the "F" word?
by Elsewhere ini'm very much a home-body, so i don't go out much and meet a lot of people.
in recent months i've been trying to reverse that and meet more people.. so far the pattern is this:.
meet someone.start chatting and talking.notice a distinct chemistry.attempt to move things to the next level.now this is where things get frustrating.
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kid-A
"I'm very much a home-body, so I don't go out much and meet a lot of people."
That is a big part of the problem. You need to be on the scene, and its hard to know the scene with the most potential. However, house parties are usually a good bet, and
some nightclubs can be great for hooking up or at least getting numbers. Online dating is becoming a very reasonable way to meet people, such as match.com, etc.
Finally, I recommend enlisting a "wing-man" when you go out.. I always had more success on the singles scene with 1-2 of my buddies rather than alone.
They give you confidence and support out there in the "meet" jungle.....LOL....
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Do you remember the first anti-JW site you visited on the internet?...
by Hecklerboy ini remember doing a search on jw's and ending up on www.watchtowerinformationservice.org.
which led me to www.freeminds.org.
and then it led me here..
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kid-A
It was Kent Steinhaugs "Watchtower Observer". It was an excellent site, very comprehensive and tons of downloadable and scanned documents. After that I discovered
Randy's site, Freeminds.org which was and still is a first-class site.
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What Did YOU Do At A Typical Witness "Get-Together"?
by minimus indid you sing kingdumb songs, take turns reading the bible, play bible games or did you have "fun"
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kid-A
"ignoring the fact that the poor, the lame, and the crazy weren't invited."
> That might have happened in our hall, except then there would have been nobody to invite...lol...
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Nathan Knorr's online grave....
by kid-A inan online memorial to good old nathan homer knorr, complete with touching tributes from his fanclub..... perhaps i will leave a note.....hee hee hee...... http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&grid=6818565.
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kid-A
"I DID leave a note. Now lets see if they publish it." Stealth, fantastic!!!!
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Nathan Knorr's online grave....
by kid-A inan online memorial to good old nathan homer knorr, complete with touching tributes from his fanclub..... perhaps i will leave a note.....hee hee hee...... http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&grid=6818565.
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kid-A
An online memorial to good old Nathan Homer Knorr, complete with touching tributes from his fanclub....
Perhaps I will leave a note.....hee hee hee.....
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6818565
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An Abortion question, a Christian paradox?
by free2beme ini have expressed this question to many of my christian friends and heard a mix of answers.
each time, they come from the central feeling they have about christianity, and few come from the bible's view.
here is the question, in regards to abortion.. as it is taught in traditional christianity, to kill a life is to mean you are worthy of death yourself.
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kid-A
Sad Emo, page 4 had some interesting rebuttals, such as this:
"In theory, legal abortion reduces murder by being, in effect, "prenatal capital punishment." But, first, it's not very efficient. Like Herod, we have to eradicate many to get the one we want. While genes and upbringing do affect criminality, there's so much randomness that predicting the destiny of individual fetuses is hard."
However, I disagree for the most part particularly the concept that we have to "eradicate many to get the one we want". The fact is, the vast majority of abortions take place amongst poor, uneducated and poverty stricken women. IMHO, its not a black/white issue, its an issue of limited access to reliable contraceptives and sex education amongst the poor. But in the end it doesn't matter, and the jury is still out as to how much control a human being actually has outside the limitations of genetic and environmental backgrounds. The effects on society of poor, disadvantaged and uneducated mothers living in poverty and giving birth to unwanted, unloved children is cumulative and exponential. Its merely common sense that eliminating or at least reducing the "pool" of children forced into existence and then living in squalor and despair will naturally cut the incidence of future criminal development in a linear fashion.
But there is another issue that is not discussed: access to abortion may provide a second chance to young, uneducated and poor women for whom having to look after a child would completely remove the possibility of getting an education, a good job, etc etc. I.E. allowing these women the chance to create a life for themselves wherein it WOULD be a good environment for raising healthy, happy and loved children. Should a broken condom or moment of thoughtless unprotected sex be a permanent sentence of doom not only on the woman but also upon a child that was created unintentionally? Unwanted children are invariably, unloved children.
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One True Religion?
by blondie ininteresting topic from beliefnet.
12/14/2006 11:54 pm .
taking the position that jesus christ is, in fact, the son of god who paid the price for our sins, i dont believe our affiliation with any christian religion "gives a person an 'an edge'" in their approval by god and christ.
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kid-A
I absolutely reject the watering down of authority represented by the any road approach though I also believe truth is independent of any single organisation (it exists everywhere in varying quantities but truth alone does not equate to correct choices.)
> If truth is "independent of any organization", then the first part of your sentence is false. If you reject the "watering down of authority" of said organization or organizational interpretation of supernatural authority, then the second half of your sentence is false. You have contradicted yourself in one sentence.
"but truth alone does not equate to correct choices"
> Ergo, you willingly admit that falsehoods may be used to arrive at correct choices about religious truth? I am beginning to fully comprehend the success of the WTS and the LDS !!! LOL...
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An Abortion question, a Christian paradox?
by free2beme ini have expressed this question to many of my christian friends and heard a mix of answers.
each time, they come from the central feeling they have about christianity, and few come from the bible's view.
here is the question, in regards to abortion.. as it is taught in traditional christianity, to kill a life is to mean you are worthy of death yourself.
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kid-A
"But ultimately what people need in our age is articulate, secular reasons why abortion is bad for society, not scare tactics."
OK, I'll bite.....what is a secular reason why abortion is bad for society? The benefits of abortion have already been demonstrated quite conclusively:
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Does anyone have the Awake 1942 about Rutherfords spiritistic burial
by jwfacts ini found the following quote on the internet.
awake 42 5/27, knorr and the society went to court over a silly matter having to do with their fanciful belief in "the king of the east, and the chief king of the sunrising" calling for rutherford to be buried at beth-sarim at sunrise!
knorr lost the case, but his action postponed rutherford's burial for three and a half months after he died!.
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kid-A
Are you here, Joe???