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  Amazing Vegemite Facts

  by Mackin in

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  for the benefit and edification of all the non-australasian readers of this board i submit the following: .

  edited by - mackin on 1 november 2002 15:48:10.

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  Any relation to this stuff?
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  ANOTHER TRADING SPACES THREAD

  by kheli in

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  who out there watches this show?

  i enjoy the show (i usually find myself laughing at the disaster designs).. any comments about the show?

  what do you think about the "graveyard" designer?

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  I LOVE Genevieve
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  An Apostate Replies

  by SYN in

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  someone that i publically flamed (well, sort of) here yesterday sent me an email.

  much to my bemusement, they actually spoke to me & stuff.

  note that this is unheard of.

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  SYN, you will tell us if you get a reply, won't you?
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  Do material things rule your life?

  by haujobbz in

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  i think i have to say i am obsessed with material things,i love having the latest music,games,tv,etc.

  allthough there seems nothing wrong with this i do seem to worry about my belongings a lot, for instance i have dreams about people trying to steal my belongings,also i have fitted numerous locks on my doors to protect my belongings, its not that im a geek i have a kid a lovely wife but i think im to possesive over my material belongings.. its funny it sounds like a awake article question.

  i think i will have a tomb built when i die to take it all with me.

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  Things are cool, but they are just things. They don't equate happiness, but I agree they do help.
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  ? for Nancee Park

  by Rado Vleugel in

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  you posted that the watchtower closed down the jahchristian website.

  my question is: do you really believe that the watchtower is behind this shutting down?

  or is this just sensationalism or a form of persecution mania?.

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  Read the watchtower every day!
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  I've never met a JW who had confidence....

  by MegaDude in

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  ....about their beliefs.

  've talked with many jws since i began having doubts years ago:.

  sincere publishers.

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  Yeah, read 1984. Chilling similarities
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  ? for Nancee Park

  by Rado Vleugel in

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  you posted that the watchtower closed down the jahchristian website.

  my question is: do you really believe that the watchtower is behind this shutting down?

  or is this just sensationalism or a form of persecution mania?.

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  I herd that Ted Jara c z had JFK killed. Milton Henschel was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.
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  I've never met a JW who had confidence....

  by MegaDude in

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  ....about their beliefs.

  've talked with many jws since i began having doubts years ago:.

  sincere publishers.

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  I think a lot of Witnesses have a fear of living their life without being told what to do or what to believe in. They never want to remove life's training wheels. The simple idea that there is "nowhere" to go but to live your own life is completely foreign to them.
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  Top Five Forbidden Watchtower Subjects

  by metatron in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  if you are an 'old timer' and wonder why the watchtower and awake.

  magazines are so bland and lacking in content, it may come as no surprize.

  to you that it's often because a number of topics are 'off limits'.. that is, certain subjects are so troublesome to the watchtower leadership.

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  When was the last time that they studied the Revelation book. Man, that book seems so wack now that I look back.
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  I've never met a JW who had confidence....

  by MegaDude in

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  ....about their beliefs.

  've talked with many jws since i began having doubts years ago:.

  sincere publishers.

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  A witness life,

  Think about it this way, we all die, every human that has ever lives has died or will die in the future. There's no stopping that fact. Death is a fact of life. Every witness knows this, but they also have this belief that somehow they will be saved from this universal human fate. They may have become witnesses when they were younger or were even raised in it. And they have this belief that somehow they are going to cheat death.

  So they pour all of their whole life, all of their effort, free time and energy into their religion which is supposed to keep them from dying. Normal human activities pass them by, but they are reaching out for an even better reward. Then it starts happening, they inevitably start getting older. People they may have known, maybe even their parents succumb to their fate. They realize that these people had the same mind as themselves, that they also believed that they could cheat death. That they also spent their life selling magazines as slaves to a religious corporation because they thought that god's kingdom was coming "soon".

  It starts to really eat on them as the years go by. They turn 40, 50, 60, the "end" that they expected to come before they graduated from High School seems nowhere in sight and now they have children of their own and in some cases their children have children. Time marches on and so does society. There are down times and there are up times as well. Things don't seem to be changing, the world is as it always was, but as the witness looks back they see that what they have done their whole life is everything but enjoy it. The gift of a relatively short amount of time on the earth has been squandered on a gamble of a future reward.

  At this point it may seem that one would be disillusioned by what they have believed for so long, that they might feel that their life has been a waste and try to enjoy the last few years they have left, but too much has been invested at this point, they stubbornly move on not willing to admit that they have been on the wrong path for so long. They press on with more zeal than ever.

  Finally, its their turn, they succumb, like all of us will one day to that which has been waiting since the day of our conception. The witness is surrounded by family, all doing what he did his entire life, devoted to a religion. He looks back on all of the things he could have done in his life to truly enjoy the gift that he was given, but there was always a meeting, there was always service or an assembly to attend. So many things he wanted to do, but all chances expired. Life slowly fades away while he awaits his promise, a promise that goes unfulfilled. But the grandchildren are there. They are being taught to believe by their parents that the end is coming soon. They are so young and have so much life ahead of them, surely they will be able to cheat death, surely the end will come before they are out of high school.

  Edited by - RandomTask on 4 November 2002 18:5:49