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  How many former JW witness current this forum

  by PyroJoe in

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  it tough.

  feelings are without explaination.

  please allow me to feel others in grief.

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  moggy lover

  27 years in

  23 years out [since ' 83]

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  Do you miss fictional characters?

  by Swan in

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  i just finished a 970+ page book this weekend, a breath of snow and ashes, and now i'm bummed.

  i miss claire, jamie, brianna, roger, jemmy, ian, fergus, and marsali already.

  it will be one to two years before i find out what other surprising twists are in store for the time traveling fraser family.. the lord of the rings was the same way.

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  moggy lover

  I'm from the generation of British Empah days, when you opened an Atlas, and half the world was British Pink, and half the world of mankind spoke the pukka, King's English, of Queen Victoria's day.

  And everyone was reading the Ripping Yarns of the frontiers of Empire, like those of H Rider Haggard. My favourite was Alan Quatermain. His adventures with She[who-must-be-obeyed] and Ayesha, the doe eyed beauty of the Serengetti.

  <Sigh> Them were the dyes

  They don't write literature like that anymore

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  Surgeons and JW Elders

  by inbyathread in

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  five surgeons are discussing who has the best patients to .

  operate on.

  the first surgeon says, "i like to see accountants on my .

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  moggy lover

  Or how about this one:

  These three surgeons were discussing their most complicated operations they had performed

  The first one mentioned his complicated heart operations.

  Thats nothing, said the second, "Iv'e done some real complicated brain operations"

  The third, an Aussie [Uncle Bruce's uncle, actually] said: "That's nothing, mate, you should have seen the tonsil operations I have performed on Jehovah"s Witnesses"

  TONSIL operations????

  "Yep" quote the Aussie, "The buggers keep their traps shut, so I had to use the other end!"

  Boom Boom

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  The NWT....

  by Sunspot in

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  is it really a scholarly translation?.

  (excerps taken from) .

  http://www.xmark.com/focus/pages/jehovahs.html.

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  moggy lover

  The KIT came out in two seperate editions, one in ' 68 and the other in ' 85. Both editions have been allowed to go out of print and are no longer available from the WTS directly. You may get one of the editions in a second hand shop, or on Amazon.

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  Math Problem

  by Scully in

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  a riddle for you to figure out

  three kids go into a store to buy a picture frame for their mom for mothers day.

  they find a frame that costs $30.

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  moggy lover

  Darn ! I wuz gypped! I paid $31.50 for my frame from the same bloke, and he gave me nuthin' back.

  Sniffles.....

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  Increase of war--staggering statements from the Really Teach book

  by M.J. in

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  2. bible

  the "bible teach" book, on p.89 says:millions of people have been killed in wars during the past century.

  one british historian wrote: "the 20th century was the most murderous in recorded history...it was a century of almost unbroken war, with few and brief periods without organised and armed conflict somewhere.

  " a report from the worldwatch institute states: "three times as many people fell victim to war in [the 20th] century as in all the wars from the first century ad to 1899.

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  WOW! To both of you, MJ and Carla. With researchers such as you both, how can we possibly lose the war of information with the WTS? How the hell do you kids manage to pick up these sites which give the REAL story behind the hype of the Organisation?

  The WTS absolutely revels in producing statistics, as if out of a hat, telling us how dreadful armed conflict is today, and how impossible it is to work out the ways of peace in our time. I would have had a greater respect for their articles if they volunteered to actually DO something to ease the pain of these conflicts, rather than gloat on the sidelines like a flock of vultures, scoring cheap doctrinal points over the suffering of others.

  It is interesting to dovetail the two reserchers quoted by MJ and Carla. Of course, the objective behind the WT articles, is not to tell us the facts of the matter, but to reinforce the image that THEY alone have the true Bible perspective on war. How often, with monotonous regularity, have they quoted Matt 24:7 to tell us the end is coming day after tomorrow. The question is: Is this what we are seeing today?

  The ignorant rantings of the WTS say :Yes. But both the researchers presented by MJ and Carla say otherwise. Both, the historian, Eric Hobsbawn, whose article is found in the "Guardian Unlimited" journal of Feb 23, 02, and the Human Security Centre report [part 5] bring out something that the WTS either, inadvertantly, or deliberately has overlooked.

  Matt 24:7 tells us that , not just war per se, will usher in the last days, but INTERNATIONAL warS [plural] is what does it. If 1914 was the harbringer of the Last Days, there would have to have been international conflictS to tell us this. [Despite it being an inter-state war, it was, to quote the vernacular, the only game in town] This we did not see. Not only was there to be Nation against Nation, but also Kingdom against Kingdom. The WTS has always assumed this to be a singular conflict, but why should it be so? Surely Jesus was prophesying a global conflict within global conflict in a world wide catastrophe of unparalled destruction unknown in human experience.1914 will, in sum, be a blimp, and chicken feed in comparison to the coming conflict that Jesus warned about. [If, as most evangelicals, one takes Jesus words to have a fulfillment beyond the 1st C - I will concede that many feel that Jesus' words do not resound down through the centuries, having been emptied of fulfillment back then]

  So, not just war per se, but international wars is what we are looking for, See any? Not according to the researchers quoted. While INTERNAL conflicts within nations may have marginally increased in our time, both reveal that International conflicts which are part of the last days have in fact DECREASED in our time. In other words, for Jesus words to have a measure of fulfillment today, He would needed to have said:"Nation WITHIN nation, and Kingdom WITHIN kingdom". Which of course He did'nt.

  The uncomfortable conclusion that awaits WTS scrutiny is this: Either Matt 24 has been fulfilled to the limit of its prophesy in the 1st C, or it is still to be an unfolding drama in the not too distant future. But, there is no credible evidence, as presented by those two reports, that it is being enacted today.

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  Whats the price of gas where you live?

  by JH in

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  i just noticed that minimus has a similar thread....i guess he knew that i was going to start this thread, so he started it a few days before me........... .

  gas was $1.13 a litre last night and this morning its up uto $1.22 a litre.

  so it's as if gas went up from $4.27 to $4.61 a gallon overnight.

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  moggy lover

  Its $A 1.35 a litre in Western Aust = $A 6.21 a gallon

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  "Big Boards" Statistics re JWD

  by Scully in

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  wow.

  i'm so impressed!.

  jwd's rank for unique daily visitors is 148th.

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  moggy lover

  I am constantly being amazed at what an instrument of insight and wisdom and humour this JWD Forum is turning into.

  In the rich and varigated tapestry of ideas presented here, from the urbane to the mundane, from the scholarly to the irreverant, from the thoughfull to the gratuitous we all are contributing to the forging of a voice of freedom that is reaching to the far corners of this globe. What we say here is impacting on the hearts and minds of countless people whom we will never meet in this life, yet it is instrumental in changing their lives forever.

  A word, a turn of phrase, can alter a persons course to the better, and we will never know that we were responsible. Which is how it should be.

  We are showing to the world of forced ideas, and locked minds, that debate is not disunity, and dissent is not evidence of disloyalty. Rather these are living and vibrant proof that a free people can think differently and still stand together.

  Truth to tell, it gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

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  VOTE: Who Is The Most Popular Poster Here Right Now???

  by minimus in

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  i have to say it is richie rich!!

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  moggy lover

  As campaign manager for the scholars/schmolars party I submit the Party Ticket:

  WT Study Conductor: Blondie

  Branch Overseer : Nark

  President: Leolaia

  You can send your cash [preferably pots of it] to:

  ME !!!
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  OK...I Just Have to Share....

  by Legolas in

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  i put my house on the market today at around 12:45pm... the sign went in our front yard around 1:20pm...2:10 the realtor phones and says that someone wants to see the house 1:30 tomorrow (saturday)....then he phones back at 3:45 (i'm out picking up lucifer from work) i phone him back around 4:00pm...he says the people want to see the house at 5:30pm (today)....9:30 we get an offer, and we sign the papers....i am sooooooo happy...lol...but they have 20 days to get an inspector in and their finances in place....so may 11th, if all goes well, my house is sold!

  i just had to share..lol....i have been phoning everyone!

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  moggy lover

  Good for you mate!!

  I'd invite you to come over to my place, but I've only got this one bed, and Moggy sleeps on that side of it, [actually, with her bushy tail she takes up three quaters] and I sleep in this bit here.

  So if you don't mind sleeping on the floor like.......

  By the way how the devil do you get those thingees onto your post. I think the bald bloke with the glasses could look like me, only he's better looking and a better dancer !!

  Cheers