oh, come now. I'm not sure I even want to see the Tower toppled. Just a little more moderate in some of it's practices - blood, shunning, go door-to-door or be shamed endlessly, etc. When Teddy Jaracz passes from the scene, I think there will be big changes. He is one of the last of his breed, imo. The current crop of JW 20 and 30 somethings who are "sticking with the truth" are way more liberal than the aged theocrats at the top, and are far removed from the historical era that created the bizarre minds of these men. Time will change the WT, it cannot survive in its current state.
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Only way to take down the tower.....
by IslandWoman inis to act together as a united group.
i know to many of us that smacks of jwism but it's not really, it's just common sense.. take for example the colonial world in north america prior to the revolution.
there were thirteen colonies, each with their own problems, their own goals and needs.
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WIDE LEFT!!!!!
by DanTheMan in.
poor fsu - it happened again.
bobby bowden must have nightmares about this stuff.edited by - dantheman on 12 october 2002 15:52:26.
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DanTheMan
Poor FSU - it happened again. Bobby Bowden must have nightmares about this stuff.
Edited by - dantheman on 12 October 2002 15:52:26
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
by Mulan inhas anyone else seen this movie?
dave initially thought it was a "chick flick" but so many men recommended it, he decided to go too.
he died laughing all the way through it.
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I saw it and yes I laughed my a$$ off all the way through it too. I had forgotten about the Windex!
The interesting thing about the movie is that it is based on the true life story of the girl who plays the lead (Nia Vardalos). She was a starving actress in L.A. (no roles for average-looking Greek chicks in Hollywood). She wrote a little play about her life that she was performing at a local dinner theater. Word got around that it was pretty good. So Tom Hanks' wife decides on a whim to go see this funny girl at the dinner theater that somebody had told her about. She sees it, loves it, and approaches her after the show and tells her that she should make a movie out of it. Nia tells her that she has a script, but all the major studios had turned her down. Well, you can guess what happened from there.
The thing I liked about the movie was that the female lead was not played by an anorexic implanted dyed-blond fluff doll. A refreshing change.
It doesn't take too much of an imagination to draw parallels between the Greek family in the movie and a large extended JW family. Just less dark and more real, not so cuckoo like JW.
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laughed till I cried.......
by Shakita infound this in the paper this morning and i laughed till i cried.... my cousin, dr. michael watson of bamberg, s.c., recently retired from 48 years of practice at the age of 76. i hope that this does mean he has resolved to abstain from sending me such e-mails as this:.
a man comes into the er and yells "my wife's going to have her baby in the cab!
" i grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her panties.
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I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and asked, "So how's your breakfast this morning?" "It's very good, except for the Kentucky jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste," the patient replied. I than asked to see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labeled "KY Jelly."
That is sick!!!!
Thanks for the laughs.
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The Inner Circle Phenomena
by metatron insometimes, a defector may not be able to substantiate.
accusations gathered from other sources.
us to wonder about the credibility of the person who.
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Good points made. I witnessed what you're talking about with BOE's, you definitely had the 'wiseguy' insiders who knew the system and the naive newbies, who eventually became wiseguys or stepped down in disillusionment. Ray was definitely in the latter category in his GB experience. A secular parallel would be the naive yet achieving individual who climbs near the top of a corrupt corporation, only to discover the rot at the core, and blows the whistle.
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The Society is Loving all this Fighting
by LovesDubs inyou know they read this.
you know they love it when we fight.
you know we feed directly into their twisted logic that they have love and we dont....when we fight and hurt each other its like turning on all the lights during a blitz...the enemy can see where you are and can destroy you.
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Anyone Read The Rise and Fall of the THIRD RIECH?
by Searchin50 ini found this book truly was the worldwide best selling classic about.
the most infamous era of our time.. author william l. shirer.
this work goes into explict details, about the nazi concentration camps.
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...I tried to read HITLER by Joachim Fest a few years ago. It was so ponderous and full of dictionary words, I was only able to make it about half-way through it.
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All is right in a NOBEL WORLD....
by breeze in.
the world could be righting itself in 2002..... the reason....a georgia boy, and a peanut farmer is awarded the nobel peace prize..... jimmy carter...a great human an passed president....!!.
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I was just a kid when he was prez - but my parents loved him. But, like they say, IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!!! He didn't do to well in that category, I guess. I'm sure there were other things too that caused him to lose to Reagan.
Regardless, a great human being, I'm very happy he got the prize.
Love the way he disassociated from the Southern Baptists a few years back. RIGHT ON JIMMY!!!!
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Anyone Read The Rise and Fall of the THIRD RIECH?
by Searchin50 ini found this book truly was the worldwide best selling classic about.
the most infamous era of our time.. author william l. shirer.
this work goes into explict details, about the nazi concentration camps.
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I've heard that ___ Speers memoirs is a good read (don't know his first name) - anybody read this book? I think he was an architect in the Nazi movement who was one of Hitler's cronies
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What show scared you as a kid?
by Been there inposting on wtlies thread i got to thinking about the shows i watched as a kid.
there were a couple that scared the &*^% out of me.
the old twilight zone where the little demon guy was on the airplane wing was really scary.
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I forgot to mention the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz - scared the bejeezers out of me! Also the scene when the Witch locks Dorothy in that room with the hourglass, and they keep flashing back to it, Dorothy crying and all...like I said, I was a pretty sensitive kid!