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Fluff - Men: What do you think about women ...
by serendipity in
1. social
2. relationships
ok guys, time to weigh in.. what do you think about a woman asking a man out on a date, especially a first date?.

good idea?

bad idea?
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What is your town or area's claim to fame?
by free2beme in
1. jw
2. friends
every where you live, the local area has something about it that is either famous for something good or something bad.

as an example, you go to one town and it may have the historial site of a famous war battle.

you go to another an it might be the place something was invented, or the birthplace of someone famous.
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1914 BREATHTAKING BLASPHEME
by DannyHaszard in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
articulator manipulator

the "truth" is worth lying for

breathtaking blaspheme!
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What Would You Like to be Written on Your Tombstone?
by Warlock in
1. jw
2. friends
since i have a rather morbid sense of humor, and none of us is going to see armageddon................................ what would you like to be written on your tombstone?

i'll start.. "buried face down...........and you know the rest".

"his last word were..............boy, i'm getting hot!".
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Two classes of Christians after all?
by Narkissos in
1. jw
2. friends
first, as i am just back online, happy new year to everyone!

totally unrelated to the above (or maybe not), it just occurred to me that the unscriptural wt doctrine of "two classes of christians" might have some faint pars veritatis after all as far as the nt is concerned.. of course it is not about "anointed or not," "two hopes," "heaven vs. earth".. yet several segments of early christianity did seem to allow for a huge difference in levels of requirement, vocation, or fate among believers.

on the one hand, the high and hard way of the apostles, disciples, missionaries, evangelists, martyrs; on the other hand, the minimal requirement of the rest.
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Is Change Possible for Homosexuals?
by nicolaou in
1. social
2. relationships
i don't know, you'd think we'd be used to reading crap like this but it still gets my goat.. nic' .

*** w74 8/15 p. 487 is change possible for homosexuals?

thinking transformed.
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Who is the Faithful and Wise Servant? It's JOSEPH, of course!
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. bible
who is the faithful and wise servant?

it's a question that the wt has misused to establish its own authority.

as it is, the parable today as a cautionary tale applies to whoever it fits, but it is clear who the original servant was that inspired the parable.. .
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Things Learned Along the Way
by blondie in
1. jw
2. friends
i have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.

i will post a few every day.

if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie
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Circuit Assembly this past weekend
by Jourles in
1. jw
2. friends
this past weekend we had our circuit assembly.

you guessed it, same ol' same ol.

' on saturday, the overall theme was based on materialism.
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2 Elders steal 6 million dollars
by outoftheorg in
1. social
2. current
the missoulia montana paper of 12/30/02 carried the following news report.. two jehovahs witness elders, dale a. erickson and darryl k willis pleaded no contest to charges of fraud, amounting to 6 million dollar theft from an aged lady, una anderson.. it is the biggest single theft case in the history of montana, according to the prosecutors.

this is quite a long interesting news release.. it can be found at "missoulian.com" http://www.missoulian.com/display/inn_news/news01.txt.

this theft occured over a seven year period.