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  This is VERY weird

  by Mulan in

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  i have a friend in malaysia, who is a muslim, and she has been sending me lots of things since the wtc attack.

  most are theories she is hearing in that predominantly muslim nation, about zionists, and american conspiracies agains islam.

  this morning she sent me a very weird thing.. the flight number for one of the flights that hit the towers, was q33.

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  I have some old vinyl records lying around: if you record these on a tape recorder bought in a garagesale, while it stands on top of a ouija bourd, then playback the recording at reversed double speed on mentioned recorder on a full moon, after drinking a mixture of baileys and tonic, the sounds produced will make smurfs come to live. I still have to test this on the purple teletubbie TinkyWinky but the odds are against him (pink, triangle, handbag, tsk.. tsk...). So I better give Buffy a call first.

  Doh!
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  Witnesses instructed not to harbor private ideas

  by cyberguy in

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  today's watchtower lesson instructs witnesses not to think for themselves when it comes to bible understanding:.

  augest 1, 2001, p. 14, par.

  first, since "oneness" is to be observed, a mature christian must be in unity and full harmony with fellow believers as far as faith and knowledge are concerned.

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  August 1, 2001, p. 14, par. 8:

  First, since "oneness" is to be observed, a mature Christian must be in unity and full harmony with fellow believers as far as faith and knowledge are concerned. He does not advocate or insist on personal opinions or harbor private ideas when it comes to Bible understanding. ... -- Matthew 24:45.

  This hummed in my head for quite some time. This weekend I got myself a (translated) copy of this WT when I visited JW relatives. This translation doesn't in any way reflect the 'harbouring' part, but only talks about advocating and propagating own views. I'd like to do a more thorough comparison.

  Would someone put this page of the English version under a scanner and email me the image?

  TIA
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  ``Quality Time'' in Field Service: Fact or Fiction

  by Room 215 in

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  based on comments in various threads, it seems that many of you are acquainted with the various ``dodges'' jws use to strech out their field service time: foot-dragging, driving around on return visits from one far-flung end of the territory to the other, the skilful avoidance of contact with housholders, coffee breaks, etc.

  etc.. do you have any impression of how pervasive these time-wasting such practices are, and what proportion of the time reported by jws is actually bogus and not spent productively?

  or, put another way, how rare is is to encounter who just loves to go out and who uses his/her time efficiently from beginning to end?.

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  I actually know a guy who tried to be holier than the pope: he only counted the minutes spent talking at doors that actually went open AND where it was his turn to do the presentation. I never understood how he ever managed to turn in at least 1 hour.

  I really enjoyed explaining to him how I started the meter whenever I opened my eyes on sat/sun-morning, carefully argumenting that the time spent on the toilet, brushing teeth, having coffee, travel, etc. all had to be seen as an essential part of the holy service, without which I'd probably still be snoring in my bunk.
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  British History Lessons

  by Utopian Reformist in

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  i desparately tried to avoid this thread about anglo & american superiority.

  i truly did, until i read the "poppycock" about the british war efforts in the last century.. perhaps anglophiles should refresh their ancient and modern memories a bit before launching such laughable tirades of triviality and supposed triumph.. first, did not the english employ mercenaries during the battle of hastings to win the 100 years war?

  (since "expatbrit" is correcting me--i am modifying this)-- excuse me for my trivial error).

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  I personally have nothing against Americans. But one thing which will generally get any Brit's back up, is when Americans claim to have won the war for us. Also the number of films which grossly exaggerate the Americans influence in the outcome of the war.

  Come on! Didn't you see U-571? Oh yes, obviously there are those weird British who claim this is a 'revisionist' movie and keep whining about some place called Bletchley Park and some guy called Turing, but who DID save your asses in the end? Right: Private Ryan! And by all means, do you remember the 'Guns of Navarone'? Remember how that British sod (major Franklin) got his leg wounded and how the American captain Keith Mallory had to do all the hard work? And...

  Hollywood: Americas finest history education available.
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  British History Lessons

  by Utopian Reformist in

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  i desparately tried to avoid this thread about anglo & american superiority.

  i truly did, until i read the "poppycock" about the british war efforts in the last century.. perhaps anglophiles should refresh their ancient and modern memories a bit before launching such laughable tirades of triviality and supposed triumph.. first, did not the english employ mercenaries during the battle of hastings to win the 100 years war?

  (since "expatbrit" is correcting me--i am modifying this)-- excuse me for my trivial error).

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  Isn't nutella German?

  Im sure it was invented by an englishman living in germany

  Nope. It's all Italian.

  http://www.nutellausa.com/history.htm
  http://www.ferrerousa.com/history.htm

  And you really don't want to know what English put on their bread...

  For the Brits here: what do you call these slices of rye, drowned in almost fluid lard and then deep-fried in the same oil where seconds before both your fish AND chips we're fried and that you subsequently sprinkle with voluptuous amounts of vinegar, ketchup and mustard, right before you stuff it into your faces?

  Yech!
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  Bowen in Christianity Today

  by Dogpatch in

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  article in latest christianity today:.

  http://christianitytoday.aol.com/ct/2001/004/23.html.

  http://www.freeminds.org.

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  Randy, what did you do to make them link the 'official' WTS-site to freeminds?

  mmm...
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  Eulogy for My Father

  by Farkel in

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  on tuesday, august 4, 2001 at 3:42.a.m.

  mst, duane floyd checketts, 77 died in his sleep due to complications from pneumonia.

  he is survived by his wife bette and two children, douglas checketts, patty smith, and 8 grandchildren.. duane, who was fondly called duke by everyone who knew him was born in farmington, utah on march 8, 1924. his father floyd, was one of 10 children raised in a tiny house built by his own mormon father who immigrated in the early 1860's from birmingham, england.

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  My condolences for you and your family. We've never met and yet I sit here with tears in my eyes. Sigh.
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  Remote Viewing

  by funkyderek in

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  following on from the anybody else had visions?

  thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).

  i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.

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  So, what to do... why don't all the skeptics put a 1000.00
  dollars in a pot, we'll have a third party judge and if I
  the Judge says I described any part of the target I get the
  money. If I don't you guys can harass me? That seems fair. LOL

  People can easily say things don't work, or prove it to me.
  But are they willing to put it on the line for money?

  Remote Viewing works, let's get 5k on the table, come on!

  This is good news. Would you be so kind as to reflect on the JREF challenge? Many skeptics have created such a pot which now contains ONE MILLION dollars. For ten years now.

  http://www.randi.org/research/index.html

  Please let us know about the progress on your application.
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  British And American Intercourse.

  by Englishman in

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  ok, america, this is it.

  you have got to start learning english english at some point or another, after all, us brits are having to learn american english to be able to understand all those films (movies) about how you saved our arses (butts) during the 1939 -1945 (1941 - 1945) war.. now we all know the obvious ones, such as you calling a car bonnet the hood, the boot is the trunk and a spanner being a wrench etc etc.

  plus the fact that you eat fries instead of chips and spread mayo instead of butter.

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  Loss:

  http://www.presidentmoron.com

  "It's all true"
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  Any Chess Players in here?

  by jelly in

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  hello,.

  any chess players in here, and if so how about a match on yahoo?.

  jelly

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