Cygnus

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  Wt tax exempt status challenged in Canada

  by JosephMalik in

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  joseph reed is challenging the wt in bc canada.. http://home.earthlink.net/~jmalik/reedvswt.html.

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  Cygnus

  I don't remember exactly, but I defintely remember voting on who would conduct the WT study. As far as I can remember, elders served as P.O., Secretary, Accounts Servant, Ministry School Overseer, and so forth, by rotation every 3 (?) years. I don't remember any elder being corporate members. Ah well, tonight this is way over my head, but it'll be interesting to follow when I'm not so tired.
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  Do you hide you JW family's practice of shunning from non-JW family?

  by kwintestal in

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  i thought of this question as i've been talking to different family members about the situation with my parents and grandmother.

  i wondered if they'd get upset by me telling other non-jw family members what was going on.

  i recently told a family member in coventry who i'm sure will end up telling my grandmother's sisters.

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  Cygnus

  Robert King/You Know/E-Watchman once told me on H2O that JWs and the Watchtower never used the terms "shunning" or "shun." It didn't take me long to prove him wrong. But I suppose he's not, or wasn't since he's DF'd now, alone under that misconception. And I think a lot of JWs think that extreme shunning is just downright mean.
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  God and Science

  by Shining One in

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  now here is an interesting take on all things..... .

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  http://www.crosscurrents.org/godand.htm

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  Cygnus

  Well, being that I'm a Last Thursdayist, my worldview (or whoever "I" turn out to be) might change and support Morris. But as of tonight I've read enough at the library, borrowed books from friends, and read Alan F's logical writeups to turn me off to Morris. Sorry Rex, can I still be your friend?
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  Awake/Watchtower TOC Generator (pee your pants warning)

  by ackack in

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  here is my second installment of auto-generated society content.. http://neocrat.com/toc.php.

  ackack

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  Cygnus

  p.31 Cats -- Evidence of Members of the Opposite Sex Providing For Aerosol Cans

  That one is precious.
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  Hey Everyone.

  by Sam the Man in

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  i've been lurking for some time and now its time for me to say hello.

  i want to call myself sam on here to avoid any repercussions, whatever they may be i have learnt to cover my back in this life from the experiences i now ask if i may relate.

  i was born into a black working class household in england to a mother who had remarried after splitting up with her first husband in barbados.

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  Cygnus

  I hope we can help you, too. Helping to get your family out of the cult, I don't have the exact link but it's Amazing/Jim Whitney's story on www.freeminds.com

  I wish you well, friend. Welcome to the board.
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  I am new here.........

  by hallowedbethyname in

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  long time reader, 1st time poster.. still in the 'borg'.

  trying to disconnect from the hive.

  family and many friends are still in.

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  Cygnus

  I hope you find happiness in your journey. JWs as a whole are not a group of happy people. Some ethnic JWs are happy, but they are in spite of the religion, not because of it. I also welcome you to the board. There are lots of fine individuals here, caring and intelligent. I wish you well. :)
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  Hey! Watchtower.org site is getting more honest!

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i think their site is starting to reflect what they really stand for, agree?

  http://www.watchtower.org.

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  Cygnus

  I have to agree, that was good stuph. The Watchtower is easy to parody but it takes talent to really make it funny. Job well done. :)
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  What celebrity do you look like?

  by JH in

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  did anyone ever tell you that you look like someone on tv, a movie star, someone in professional sports?.

  a poster here said that i look like charles manson .

  i'm honored

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  Cygnus

  My father was the spitting image of Tom Selleck, only shorter and no hawaiian clothes, and my brother looks like Clint Eastwood at 30.
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  What would you have done?

  by defd in

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  what would you have done back in the 1st century when jesus came on the earthly stage and started christianity.

  would you have became his follower?

  how about after he left the earth and christianity began to spread by means of the apostles, would you have been involved in the many congregations that were started throughout the area?

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  Cygnus

  Ok dfed, if I belonged to any group that esposed teachings I disagreed with, and expected me to go out in public and teach it as truth, then yes I would stop associating with that group. Call if presumptuos, egotistic, haughty, what you will. I call it principles and innr faith.
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  How I lost Religion

  by yrs2long in

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  religion and how i lost it.

  http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/index.shtml.

  "jesus loves me this i know, for the bible tells me so.

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  Cygnus

  Few Christians can delineate the reasons and evidences for their faith. Almost any attempt to elucidate qualitative responses on the subject elicit catch phrases and incoherent babbling.

  Sorry, but this guy babbles with too many big words for me (at this time). I guess I just like the simplicity of""I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
  -- Stephen Roberts