HS,
Great post,
Ecclesiastes 12:12
As regards anything besides these, my son, take a warning: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh.
chester
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Why On Earth Did You Ever Become A Witness & What Made You Decide To Leave?
by minimus ini've known for years that if i was visited at my home by jehovah's witnesses, i would have become a do not call.
i would have firmly but politely told the witnesses to never come back to my door and bother me again.
since i was raised "in the truth", i learned the religion from infancy.
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Garnet,
Welcome to the board.
You can do a search on the pro and cons of writing a DA letter this by typing "disassociation" into the search feature of this forum.
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WT Document Posted in Sweden (in Swedish) re Abuse
by blondie inhttp://www.silentlambs.org/education/documents/slswedishletter5-03.pdf
paste the link above in your browser and you will be able to see a scan of the.
document sent to all congregations and newspspers in sweden.. .
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Happy man,
Did anything exciting happen today (tuesday) in Sweden?
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WT's Billions $$$$$$$ & and NOT one Nursing Home for the Old
by JT inas i looked at these photos i could not help but to think of the $$$$$$ billions that they own around the world and they have not setup one retirement home for it's members.
outside of any members who are bethelites such as co, do, missionaries who have spent 40-60yr of service to the corp they have no where to go.
how sad.
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he says we don't want to start ANY TRENDS OF NON-BELIEVERS GOING ON BUS TRIPS
JT,
That is an amazing story.
I am so glad to be "OUT"
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My tribute to my grandmother
by Aztec inyesterday at 3:15 am my grandmother passed away.
she had pneumonia.
she fought it for weeks.
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(((((((((((((((((((((Aztec))))))))))))))))),
Thanks for sharing the story of your Grandmother's life. She sounds like a wonderful lady. I am so sorry to hear of her passing.
Love,
Chester
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Replacing Cash with electronic money
by JH inif one day cash would disappear from the stores and banks, and the only way to pay would be with an electronic card, would this bother you?
the government would know everything about your financial situation, and you couldn't hide anything anymore.
everybody would have to pay taxes on every dime they earn.. do you think we are heading for a complete electronic domination over our lives?.
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JH,
The stations are fully automated....thus no cash
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gcc2k I apologize, please accept- james
by JT ini would like to apologize for coming off so hard on you.
i really fell into doing what i have often told others not to do and that is to dog a new person on the net- sometimes one gets carried away esp after one has done the level of research on the org that myself and many many many others have done.
so sometime when a person like yourself comes on the net and makes a comment about the org, that we know is not true - instead of helping you or anyone else to see where we got our info and and more importantly allowing a person to digest this info.
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JT,
You Da Man!!!
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Replacing Cash with electronic money
by JH inif one day cash would disappear from the stores and banks, and the only way to pay would be with an electronic card, would this bother you?
the government would know everything about your financial situation, and you couldn't hide anything anymore.
everybody would have to pay taxes on every dime they earn.. do you think we are heading for a complete electronic domination over our lives?.
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Here in the United States we have stores like Sams Club and BJs that sell Gasoline.
If you don't have a credit or debit card you can not purchase gasoline from them at all.
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N.G.O.s Mentioned in special talk today.
by NikL ini had the privilage...make that misfortune to escort my better half to the kingdumb hall today for what they consider a special talk.
i guess what makes it so special is that it is the same outline used in all congregations around the globe.. it was called, "has christendoms time for jugement arrived" , or something along those lines.
it was pretty much the old hard line approach ," we have the truth no other religions do and if you are visiting from some other church today you had better get your ass in gear and become a jay dub or else you are gonna bite the big one when god finally has enough of this crap".. anyway, the speaker mentioned an article about united nations n.g.o.s.
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Here you go
From the Oct 22 2000 Awake
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Effort
to Oust Vatican From UNTHE Rome-based news agency Inter Press Service (IPS) reported that "an international coalition of more than 70 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) has launched a global campaign to oust the Vatican from the United Nations." Presently, the Vatican is a permanent observer, or nonmember state, in the UN organization. The Vatican has had that status since 1964.
Why does this group of NGOs, which by the end of April last year had increased to 100 organizations worldwide, object to the Vatican’s position in the UN? Because the Vatican, the NGOs argue, is a religious authority and not a political state. Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice, told IPS that the coalition does not oppose the Vatican’s right to express its view, but "what is in question is the right of this non-state to occupy a position with governments."
Anika Rahman, director of International Programmes at the Centre for Reproductive Law and Policy, agrees. IPS quoted her as saying that "if the UN treats the Holy See as a state with permanent observer privileges because of its religious authority, the world body is creating a precedent for similar claims by other religions." She added: "To ensure that the United Nations does not promote any particular religion, religious entities such as the Roman Catholic Church should not be permitted to participate in this forum as a non-member state."
But what about the argument that the Vatican is a state and is therefore entitled to its present status? "That is semantic double-talk," responded Ms. Kissling in an interview. "We say that this is in essence a 15th-century definition of statehood and that the Holy See is, in effect, the governing structure of the religion." She added that the terms "Vatican" and "the Holy See" are both "synonyms for the Roman Catholic Church."
Much of the resentment of the NGOs against the Vatican’s current position in the UN is caused by the Vatican’s view on population issues. For instance, the Vatican has used UN conferences such as the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, in Cairo, and the 1995 Women’s Conference, in Beijing, to express its strong views against family planning. "Since the UN takes most of its decisions by consensus," notes IPS, "dissenting voices such as those of the Vatican have derailed negotiations on issues relating to population, contraception, women’s rights and reproductive health care."
According to Ms. Kissling, "the appropriate role for the Vatican is that of a NGO—the same as all the other NGOs representing Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Bahais and other religious organisations." The coalition wants UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and ultimately the UN General Assembly to conduct an official review of the place the Vatican occupies within the world’s largest political body.
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UN photo 143-936/J. Isaac
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Critique volunteers for letter to the Society?
by Jourles ini have finally completed my letter to the society and am looking for a few volunteers to help critique it.
by suggestion from the elders, they said to keep it simple and to the point(one said to just bullet my questions and leave it at that).
well, i veered slightly off from those two parameters a bit but i had to do so to make my points clear.
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Jourles,
I would also like to read your letter. [email protected]