Aniron, that's a wonderful story. The best part is the kindness you showed them. Do you still keep in touch? How did you respond to their letter? I'm sure it helped them to know they had your friendship.
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Hihlights (lowlights) of new Young People Ask book
by stillajwexelder inso this was released yesterday at the kansas city dc -by the way, for the first time in living memory no gb speaker.
got one from patterson bethel instead.
young people ask answers that work volume 2 - the first 5 chapters are on the opposite sex.. chaper 28 is how can i avoid homosexuality - contains phrases such as "bi-curious" etc.
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How is the Internet changing us?
by Narkissos inopen question: i really don't have any ready answer for that one.... my basic assumption is that mankind has always been different.
every period and situation of history can be construed as a "system" involving specific political, economical, social and technical conditions and a corresponding set of ideas, or beliefs, allowing for a certain type of self-, community- and world-understanding.
just to follow one particular line among many: .
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anyone in Bristol?
by veradico ini'm visiting for the next week and would love to make new friends here in britain.
pm me if you don't want to announce your location publicly.
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veradico
Thanks! If I end up in Poland, we'll have to hang out! Anyone else in the UK? I have been traveling around a lot, so the odds are in favor (favour) of meeting up.
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anyone in Bristol?
by veradico ini'm visiting for the next week and would love to make new friends here in britain.
pm me if you don't want to announce your location publicly.
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veradico
I'm visiting for the next week and would love to make new friends here in Britain. PM me if you don't want to announce your location publicly.
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most random scripture citation EVER
by veradico indid you ever notice, particularly in unimportant filler articles, that sometimes the writers of the society's publications cited scriptures which had very little to do with the subject at hand?
i'm not talking about the misleading use of scriptures, that is, when they would perpetrate amazing feats of eisegesis.
i'm talking about when they cited scriptures just because they felt like the sentence needed to end with a citation.
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White Dove, it says you took 2 minutes to perform your experiment. Don't you think that was a bit hasty? Also, it could have been a fluke. Someone should check and see if this gravity thing is repeatable. Be sure to limit the variables. Besides, even if experimentation by worldly intellectualists seems to point to the existence of so-called "gravity", a true Christian knows where to turn for reliable guidance: Jehovah's Word of Truth, as explained by his Discreet Servant.
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most random scripture citation EVER
by veradico indid you ever notice, particularly in unimportant filler articles, that sometimes the writers of the society's publications cited scriptures which had very little to do with the subject at hand?
i'm not talking about the misleading use of scriptures, that is, when they would perpetrate amazing feats of eisegesis.
i'm talking about when they cited scriptures just because they felt like the sentence needed to end with a citation.
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I remember a friend of mine saying after the bookstudy was over: "Hey, at least now we can be sure that gravity exists. It's in the Bible."
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most random scripture citation EVER
by veradico indid you ever notice, particularly in unimportant filler articles, that sometimes the writers of the society's publications cited scriptures which had very little to do with the subject at hand?
i'm not talking about the misleading use of scriptures, that is, when they would perpetrate amazing feats of eisegesis.
i'm talking about when they cited scriptures just because they felt like the sentence needed to end with a citation.
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Did you ever notice, particularly in unimportant filler articles, that sometimes the writers of the Society's publications cited scriptures which had very little to do with the subject at hand? I'm not talking about the misleading use of scriptures, that is, when they would perpetrate amazing feats of eisegesis. I'm talking about when they cited scriptures just because they felt like the sentence needed to end with a citation.
I'm visiting my JW family right now, and I noticed, resting on the kitchen table, a copy of the booklet "Study Questions for the Book _Is There a Creator Who Cares About You?_". I immediately remembered a scripture citation in the booklet that represents, for me, one of the funniest things the Society has ever printed. On page 3 of the companion question booklet, it reads: "Why can we say that the electromagnetic force and gravity are each precisely tuned? (2 Ki. 9:33; Matt. 10:29; 13:8)".
Does anyone remember looking those scriptures up? I do. I lol-ed. They read as follows:
"So he said: 'Let her drop!' Then they let her drop, and some of her blood went spattering upon the wall and upon the horses; and he now trampled upon her."
"Do not two sparrows sell for a coin of small value? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without YOUR Father's [knowledge]."
"Still others fell upon the fine soil and they began to yield fruit, this one a hundredfold, that one sixty, the other thirty."
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Myspace is bad
by JimmyPage insomeone told my wife that the myspace site is bad.
they said it will be brought out more in the upcoming assemblies.
a lot of dubs have gotten themselves in trouble on the site.
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Ha! Your post reminds me of a Joey & David clip:
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A question about Crisis of Conscience
by seek2find inthe first time i read this book was an older copy in the mid 1990s.
that copy was burnt by a family member and i no longer have it.
in the newest version which i downloaded in pdf i'm having trouble finding a particular part.
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veradico
Didn't they come from Scotland? It has been a while since I read Crisis of Conscience, but I do recall the passage you're talking about.
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Announcement: They Clapped!
by metatron inweird.
after the letter was read, many clapped.
i don't know how to interpret that.. .
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My mom mentioned that my grandmother thinks it's great, but my mom added, "Then again, your grandma thinks everything they announce is great."
Obviously, there are too many meetings. (Of course, given the material presented at the meetings, even one is one too many.) However, I think Witnesses will regret the loss of the bookstudy. I'm sure they're wishing it had been some other meeting.