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  E-watchman website closing down.

  by yadda yadda 2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  robert king recently announced that his website, www.e-watchman.com, is going to close down because he no longer has the services of his administrator, and because the website has fallen to a lower google rating because of recent inactivity.

  says he is moving everything to a blog..

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  betterdaze

  Hello everyone
  
  As I mentioned on this forum a few days ago, I have lost the services of my webmaster. Which means that I must either find someone else who can do the html stuff or stop publishing on the site. I have decided to use a blog platform instead.
  
  It has also come to my attention that because the e-w site has been dormant for so long that Google has dropped it from it's search results. So, in order to revive the domain I am going to point it to a new blog, which means everything on the present site will go offline and a new blog will come online with the e-watchman.com url.
  
  I am porting over certain essays and commentaries and hosting them on the new blog as PDFs. But all of the mailbag archives will be gone, as well as many of the commentaries. Fortunately a lot of the material is the basis for the book anyway. I am also pulling the plug on the e-w.co.uk blog and JW news blog as well. Starting sometime next week everything I publish, including podcasts, videos and whatever else, will be on the e-w dot com blog.
  
  As they say in the cheesy late night going-out-of-business commercials: "EVERYTHING MUST GO!"
  
  So, if you want anything on the e-w sites, from essays to mailbag questions, graphics, you might want to grab them now. I think I might take a screen shot of e-w for sentimental reasons. Next week the site will be gone.
  
  watchman
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  Thanks, Sylvia, just downloaded the paper for my reading list. You saved me some Googling around!
  
  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  Bake sales, book clubs, warm oil massages, group orgies, semi-nude female pillow fights, man...that's the good stuff.

  LOL! Sounds like you know a lot more about it than I do. Mr. Betterdaze will be thrilled.

  Almost makes a man wanna give up his faith !!

  No need to give it up. Faith in humanity to use reason, science and creativity to solve problems and improve lives. Works for myself and others who've thrown off the shackles of religious belief, or happily managed to avoid it altogether.

  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  PSacramento, I don't think that's what we meant about volunteering.

  But you're welcome to join us and "put it out there" for discussion.
  
  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

  1. jw
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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  Hi Sylvia, there are some pretty forsaken places in NJ your friend could have ended up instead. Morristown isn't really even a "city" by comparison, at least the way I see it. Large parts of Morris are still semi-rural, with protected parklands and water. Very rich in early American history, too.
  
  At the meetup we had people from Washington state, Texas and Tennessee who talked about adjusting to life here. It's not all Newark and the Turnpike! I love living in this region, yet Manhattan is still less than an hour away. So I feel I have the best of both worlds.
  
  BTW, one of the people just happened to attend school in Alabama. He was telling us AL is a "positive law" state, meaning the laws cover what you can do, as opposed to what you cannot do. Interesting!

  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  *bumping*
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  Satan is not that smart, is he?

  by dgp in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was just reading brenda lee's "out of the cocoon" and found an idea that i share just to let some steam off.. according to the fable, satan (this guy .

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  betterdaze

  The reason he rebelled is mentioned in genesis: He wanted to be worshipped.

  
  
  bohm, where is it mentioned in the book of Genesis? Can you point me to the scripture(s)?
  
  ~Sue
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  New Atheist Group in NJ

  by betterdaze in

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  tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.

  2nd wednesdays each month.

  book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed.

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  betterdaze

  Tonight was our first meeting... had a fun time with some friendly, free-thinking atheist/humanists from diverse backgrounds.
  
  2nd Wednesdays each month. Book discussions, attending lectures, volunteering, outdoor activities like hiking were discussed. Oddly enough, no human sacrifices.
  
  Check it out here: Morristown Atheist Meetup
  
  ~Sue
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  What are you having for dinner tonite?

  by Newborn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and do you normally eat more "nice" festive dinner on friday evenings?.

  tonight i'm having tacos.

  have a great weekend everybody and enjoy your mornings without any early meetings for field service.

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  betterdaze

  I like black walnuts, but not English.

  
  
  

  Black ones are hard to find.

  For Sylvia and others who favor a particular nut variety: http://www.nutsonline.com/
  
  They began 80 years ago as a family business in Newark, NJ, so they really know nuts!
  
  ~Sue
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  Thanks for making me feel welcome.

  by Rumspringa in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi, after a couple of years of 'lurking' i thought i'd join up.

  i'm an ex-dub from vancouver island.

  i've been out of the org for aprox' 10 yrs, after being in it for about 28 years.. i post on "jehovahs witness recovery forum" as 'nightgoat', so i thought i'd wander over here & see how you guys are doing.. recently under went some major shunning from parents & siblings & retaliated with a barrage of 'reverse-shunning' in an effort to teach them how to treat my wife & i.. hope i can be of some encouragement to any, on this board.. my daughter has been a member here for 3 yrs.

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  betterdaze

  Welcome, Rumspringa / Nightgoat!
  
  ~Sue