Cygnus

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  **MUST READ** AlanF's email to Knocking.org

  by sf in

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  this is a must-read that, hopefully, will stay an "active topic" for all seekers and lurkers, by bumping it to the top as often as possible.

  alan wrote it in randys {dogpatch} thread regarding knocking.org documentary and in reply to the email mr. engardio sent to barbara anderson.

  however, it is so vital a read that it indeed needs its own thread:.

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  Cygnus

  Ok Ok in the interest of fairness, I was the ghost-writer of that letter and am allowing Alan to receive the credit.
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  CARD FOR CRUMPET

  by MerryMagdalene in

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  2. friends

  tijkmo is going to try to get crumpet's mailing address so we can send her a get well card from all of us.... so who wants their name signed onto it???

  sign up here

  (edited to add my own name...oops

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  Cygnus

  Add me too, please!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses have abandoned the idea that an Egyptian pyramid has

  by jaffacake in

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  one of many favourite quotes from the watchtower's own official history (1995)

  proclaimers *** jv chap.

  14 p. 200 they are no part of the world ***.

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  Cygnus

  For some insane reason, that quote makes me giggly, especially if I say "abandoned" in my head over and over and over and over and over...........................................
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  Just Got Home From the Hospital

  by Undecided in

  1. jw
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  all went well with my operation.

  very little pain and i can pee now.

  i have to take it easy for two weeks or a little longer.

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  Cygnus

  Way to go, Ken. I'm really happy for you. :)
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  JWs are not a cult................

  by vitty in

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  ...............or so i thought.

  when you were an active jw, how did you feel when ppl accused you of being a cult !!!!!!!!!

  and do you think its a cult now your out ?

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  Cygnus

  The standard answers..... no one human leader, no technical "brainwashing," etc.

  I say JWs are a high-control group with mind-control techniques. When I get emotional, I can refer to it as a cult and feel justified.
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  When Did You Realize That You REALLY Were Going To Die?

  by minimus in

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  and not live forever on paradise earth?

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  Cygnus

  Well, doesn't this thread prove that apostates have nothing better to offer than the Witness' Biblical Hope For Mankind (c)?

  For me it was probably 6 or 7 years ago. The only time I really have faced my mortality was in the OR just before they put me to sleep for my heart operation. I said to the surgeon, just please make sure I wake up. "Had I did snuff it, I would not be here to tell the story I've told, oh my brothers."
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  Analysis versus Creativity: My Life

  by joelbear in

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  i have spent my entire working life in business analysis, analyzing work in order to determine the best way to do it.

  this flows over into the way i approach the rest of my life.

  i analyze.

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  Cygnus

  Good for you, Joelie. I used to be creative musically, before my injuries. Often times creativity is a lot more satisfying than mere analysis, no?
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  A Comparison Of Translations

  by Honesty in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  decide for yourself how accurate the new world translation is:.

  *** rbi8 exodus 6:2-3 ***.

  2 and god went on to speak to moses and to say to him: ai am jehovah.

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  Cygnus

  I often wonder, do crtics of the NWT ever read its Appenidices to find out why certain passages are rendered a certain way? I hear "the JWs have rewritten the Bible to suit their doctrines" all too often.
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  Buffalo, NY JW woman killed by stray bullet

  by Cygnus in

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  it seemed like a normal, tragic story, a hard-working mother who held down 2 jobs and all of her children went to college.. then the article says she was a devout jw.

  i had to do a double-take.. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050818/1025447.asp

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  Cygnus

  I dunno what page, sweetie, I read the paper online and it was under City and Region so I'm guessing it was on the front page of that section, usually B or C (A being the front page).
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  Buffalo, NY JW woman killed by stray bullet

  by Cygnus in

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  it seemed like a normal, tragic story, a hard-working mother who held down 2 jobs and all of her children went to college.. then the article says she was a devout jw.

  i had to do a double-take.. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050818/1025447.asp

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  Cygnus

  It seemed like a normal, tragic story, a hard-working mother who held down 2 jobs and all of her children went to college.

  Then the article says she was a devout JW. I had to do a double-take.

  http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050818/1025447.asp