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  I like you more if you are literratte

  by usualusername in

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  as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .

  if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .

  if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .

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  Hortensia

  You got my joke!
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  Is JWN an unforgiving place

  by usualusername in

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  over many years i have looked at jwn.

  in fact barely a day goes by without my fix.. .

  it is a site of contradictions.. .

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  Hostile? No. Lively? Yes. Haven't you noticed, too, that when someone asks for support it is generously given? Lots of genuine compassion here, not such a bad place.
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  I like you more if you are literratte

  by usualusername in

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  as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .

  if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .

  if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .

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  Hortensia

  Well, your thread has peeked my interest!
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  this site sucks

  by Hortensia in

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  you all spend all your time bickering about religion and doctrine and god and evolution and atheists, not to mention all the discussion about athiests too.

  you are totally ignoring an important subject.

  we haven't had one fucking decent discussion of dr. who in at least a year!!!.

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  Braincleaned -- I think Amelia Pond is already married and living happily back in 1938 NY. You'll have to try your luck with Clara, although she's dead in some universe. I think she is, at any rate.

  Does Cumberbatch's Sherlock remind you of Dick Tracy?
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  this site sucks

  by Hortensia in

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  you all spend all your time bickering about religion and doctrine and god and evolution and atheists, not to mention all the discussion about athiests too.

  you are totally ignoring an important subject.

  we haven't had one fucking decent discussion of dr. who in at least a year!!!.

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  I am so jealous of all you folks who get to see the 50th when it's broadcast. I'll have to wait until the next day, I suppose, and pay amazon some absurd amount of money to see it.

  Clara? Amy Pond? My favorite is River Song, although Rose comes in pretty close too. Of course, I'm not a guy -- I can see why the guys like Clara and Amy -- those cute little short skirts and those pretty eyes.
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  this site sucks

  by Hortensia in

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  you all spend all your time bickering about religion and doctrine and god and evolution and atheists, not to mention all the discussion about athiests too.

  you are totally ignoring an important subject.

  we haven't had one fucking decent discussion of dr. who in at least a year!!!.

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  Hortensia

  You all spend all your time bickering about religion and doctrine and god and evolution and atheists, not to mention all the discussion about athiests too. You are totally ignoring an important subject. We haven't had one fucking decent discussion of Dr. Who in at least a year!!!

  I mean -- well, I won't get to watch the 50th anniversary thing on Nov. 23 because a)I don't live in the UK, b)I don't get BBC America, c)I don't think our local cable channel even OFFERS BBC America, and d)I am not near any the of very few theaters around the world that will be showing the film at the same time.

  And then, there's whatisname Capaldi. We really need to hash out whether he can fill the bill. And then, in the 50th anniversary film WHICH David Tennant Dr. Who will be there -- the real Dr. or the one he left behind with Rose in that alternate universe. I mean, logically, if it is the real Dr. Tennant, then he'd already know, as Matt Smith, what was going to happen because he would have already been through it, so logically it should be the alternate universe Tennant character but we know that the writer isn't all that logical, esp. if you watched this last year which wasn't that good, except for the last episode which really ended the River Song thing the right way.

  Run-on sentences are just signs of passion and anyway, I don't give a damn about grammar or spelling when it comes to Dr. Who.

  Why can't you people focus on the more serious issues facing us? God doesn't exist. Don't give him the time of day. Dr. Who doesn't exist either but he's far more interesting than god, AND more colorful AND much nicer all around. If you have to center your life around a fictional character who doesn't actually exist, I far prefer Dr. Who to god.
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  Before and after the Storm, Images of Tacloban

  by fulltimestudent in

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  these piks, from the australian abc web-site provide graphic evidence of why the storm damage was so great:.

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  http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/typhoon-haiyan-photos-before-after/.

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  Like the people who suffered so much in the Haiti earthquake -- their poverty and the flimsy structures they lived in made things worse. There was a bad hurricane yesterday in Illinois/Indiana, loads of damage, but only a few people died. Their structures were safer and I think there are fewer people per square mile than in the Philippines.

  So sad, so heartbreaking.
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  RBC

  by Gypsy Sam in

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  it's hard to believe it was only a little over a year ago i received my first official rbc assignment.

  i was so excited i posted about it on facebook, to many likes from my fellow jw friends.. fast forward to this year, learning ttatt and fading (last meeting was the memorial and special talk).. i've received my fourth email, in the past two months, asking for rbc help.. stifling urge to hit reply all, with a jwfacts and candace conti case web link.... isn't it amazing how much your life and worldview can change in 1 year?.

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  Amazing and wonderful!
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  time to reboot jwn??? attn. tech49, formerlongtime elder, others.

  by nowwhat? in

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  first of all let me start by saying who am i to judge, but... i understand jwn has completely evolved over the years, but what i would like to see a forum that has current members and former jw's that still live by bible principles and respect the bible, but are not afraid to call out the watchtower on their practices and revised history.

  i think quality posters as mentioned above, after venting their frustrations and experiences realize this website is taken over by athiests.

  and punk kids-[ see similar post.

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  Hortensia

  Exchanges like this always amuse me. It seems to me that the atheists are outnumbered, but they're loud and they don't back down. It's wonderful that there are so many debates on the forum, and amusing when they descend to name-calling. "Mean-spirited atheists." I don't suppose atheists are any more mean-spirited than believers.

  There are some true intellectuals on this forum. I love to read what they share with us. I learn a lot from these debates. You should consider yourself lucky to be a member of a forum where freedom of speech actually exists! Freedom of speech means having sometimes to listen to stuff you don't want to hear. If you just want to have your ears tickled, go somewhere where your ideas are safe from being challenged. Otherwise, man up and wade into the debates with some honesty and willingness to learn.

  Have you actually read the bible is a good question. I read it through several times, because we were told to do so back in the day, three chapters a day and you read the whole thing in a year. I did it for several years. Man, what an awful book. Clearly it reflects the lives and culture of the people who wrote it, and we have learned so much since then that I am amazed that people still follow that ancient book of folk tales.
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  Have you grown detached from caring about JW family and old friends?

  by tootired2care in

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  after being out of the borg for a year and a half, weve dealt with a lot of nonsense from local elders stopping by unannounced, well-meaning do-gooders trying to encourage us.

  somehow weve managed to get through this without getting dfd/dad.

  for me the worst part of it all has been that much of my family has shunned me, and stopped talking to me, as soon as they heard through the grapevine that i wasnt going to meetings.

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  Tootired2care -- We never had a discussion to hash it out. My mother asked me once why I didn't go to the KH any more. I told her I didn't believe the Bible, not one word. She asked why not and I said, "there's no point in discussing it, Mom. I'm not going to change my mind." And that was that. We just never talked about it again.