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  I bet Jehovah's Witnesses have some good knock knock jokes...

  by dmouse in

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  knock knock jokes... completely wasted on the homeless.when i was little, we used to play a game called "knock and run" where you knock on someone's door and run away before they answered.. .

  nowadays, it's known as "parcelforce" .

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  Has anyone else noticed how long the titles to topics are these days? I mean they used to be quite pithy but now they ramble on and on...

  by dmouse in

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  2. humour

  honestly!

  look at the first pages and see how short the titles were.. now they can contain two or three sentences!

  are we losing the ability to be concise?.

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  Is interpretation of dreams divination?

  by dmouse in

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  2. beliefs

  i've just watched the old 'joseph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat' on dvd and i'm a bit confused.. basically, what is the societies viewpoint, and more importantly, the scriptural viewpoint, on interpreting dreams - or using them to predict future events?.

  i'm sure the society would look down on anyone saying he had dreams that came true.

  yet the bible is full of such instances.

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  'Happy Feet'

  by dmouse in

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  2. friends

  when my brother suggested we watch the new film 'happy feet' i inwardly groaned - i'm getting tired of anthropomorphic cgi films with their cute identical characters.

  i'm surprised to say though that i really enjoyed this film - it wasn't what i expected.

  the reviews put me off, a film about singing, dancing penguins?

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  My Ex is suicidal, apparently

  by dmouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  some of you might remember my story from years ago - how i became an 'apostate' which effectively ended my marriage of 20 years.

  how my wife subjected me to intense psychological abuse when i left 'the truth'.. my son ben, whom i love deeply, left when he was dragged into the back room and told he was being used by satan to corrupt the congregation (he was only15) because he was gay.. my dearest middle daughter charlotte, who has more common sense than all of us put together, 'left' on her 14th birthday.

  she was dragged out of the house in her bare feet to be taken to the meeting, and because i intervened i spent the next year on a camp bed in the front room.. in the end, i could not stand the abuse and left.

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  Suprising statement by C.T.Russell in first Watchtower

  by dmouse in

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  there's a website that has reprint of lots of old watchtower, and i happened to look at the first one, dated july, 1879.. http://www.mostholyfaith.com/bible/reprints/.

  in a supplement to the issue, by c.t.russell, he offers a suprising (to me) viewpoint which seems to echo the arguments of many 'apostates' here, namely, that to kill billions at armageddon would be unloving and unscriptual.. we reasoned that, if christ's coming were to end probation, and bring irrevocable ruin upon ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind; then it could scarcely be considered desirable, neither could we pray with proper spirit, "come, lord jesus, come quickly!

  " we had rather request--much as we should "love his appearing"--that he remain away and our sufferings and trials continue so that "if by any means we might save some.

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  Creation/evolution debate - an interesting analogy

  by dmouse in

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  - from the institute for stork research and science.

  two different theories exist concerning the origin of children: the theory of sexual reproduction, and the theory of the stork.

  many people believe in the theory of sexual reproduction because they have been taught this theory at school.

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  Have you ever had acupuncture? What else can I try for high blood pressure?

  by dmouse in

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  2. medical

  i had a bit of a shock last month when, in a routine check-up, my doc told me i had high blood pressure.. i can't remember what the reading was the first time but the next few days it was averaging 150/100.

  not wanting to go on drugs for the rest of my life i decided to look at alternatives.

  there are some chinese clinics in the town where i live so i tried one of those.. they recommended a course of herbal medicine and acupuncture.

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  Gene Pitney has died

  by dmouse in

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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=382088&in_page_id=1773&ico=homepage&icl=tabmodule&icc=news%20debate&ct=5

  i really liked his music, or at least his style of singing.

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  Ex JW wins lawsuit against WBTS!

  by dmouse in

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  2. friends

  don't know if anyone posted this news snippet but i found it very interesting:.

  http://www.nydailynews.com/boroughs/story/380379p-323000c.html.

  church may be forced to pay millions.

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