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Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or L
by Drue in
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2. humour
i'm not sure if this should go into the humour section, but there you go:.

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html (long reading requiring meditation)albert einstein's theory of relativity.

in words of four letters or less.
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The Saddam Hussein Interview (British Channel 4)
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1. jw
2. friends
the saddam hussein interview.

at the weekend, the veteran labour politican tony benn travelled to baghdad to meet and interview the iraqi president.

tonight we hear why - according to saddam - iraq has no interest in war and possesses no weapons of mass destruction.
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anyone in or around London, UK?
by Drue in
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i am a former jw from russia (disassociated due to conscience reasons a year ago).

i will be on business in london, uk late april-beginning of may and will have a week off after may 3. i would like to meet some witnesses/ex-witnesses while im in the uk, but i dont think i know anyone in the london area or around.

please drop me a line at [email protected] if you might like to meet.
JW persecution in Georgia and WT PR
by Drue in
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a video about jw persecution in a former soviet union republic of georgia from jw-media site.

while by no means do i support the beatings or religious intolerance, i also do dislike how the wt makes a mob violence case a vehicle for self-promotion -- a tribute to a pr department.. .

http://www.jw-media.org/video/georgia_01lo.htm
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New World Translation Greek Scriptures in Russian
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this summer the wt is releasing their new world translation greek scriptures in russian.

i have known this for a while but obtained a copy only today.

since there is no full nwt in russian yet, the old testament is taken from traditional russian synodal version in one volume with new testament in the nwt rendering.. the first impression is that this is quite a fresh translation as compared with the most widely used russian version that uses archaic words and expressions and that is perhaps stylistically similar to english king james version.. jehovah is used 237 instances, as in the english variant of nwt.
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a plane crash in siberia
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dont really know why i'm posting this on a jw forum.

i found the story very sad.

i work for an airline and live not too far from the place of the accident.. .
Russia Court Protects Scientology
by Drue in
1. social
2. current
friday may 18 3:34 pm et .

russia court protects scientology.

moscow (ap) - a moscow court has dismissed an appeal by prosecutors seeking to shut down a russian office of the los angeles-based church of scientology, the group's lawyer said friday.. prosecutors had accused the group of conducting illegal business activities, the interfax news agency reported.. moscow's northeastern circuit court rejected the charges against the humanitarian hubbard center in a ruling tuesday, but prosecutors appealed, said lawyer galina krylova.
Registration and Ban in Russia
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russian court orders registration of jehovahs witnesses in kabardino-balkaria .

on 24 april 2001, a judge in southern russia ordered the department of justice in kabardino-balkaria to register three congregations of jehovahs witnesses.

this republic, with a mixed orthodox and muslim population, is close to chechnya and the republic of georgia and is part of the russian federation.
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A quote from wt literature that I liked
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while the society have certainly printed much regrettable material i believe it is fair to admit that there was fine material too as was noted by other posters in different threads almost all of us were initially attracted to jws and i trust it often was because of good stuff printed.. one quote from the commentary on the letter of james i found appealing:.

discussing james 3:17 the book says:.

the wisdom from above makes a person reasonable, yielding, moderate or forbearing, not fanatical in his zeal .