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  Whatcha listening to?

  by bikerchic in

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  i've got pandora on my 'puter and it's so cool.

  i've got one of my stations named cake and they select songs in that venue and right now cake is playing "the distance".. love it!.

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  erandir

  Got iTunes on listening to Dashboard Confessional, atm...albeit low-volume cuz the wife is asleep :)
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  Jws act like they don't remember their past teachings

  by Blindbutnowisee in

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  two jws came knocking to my door.

  instead of ingnoring the knock, i decided to answer.

  with fixed smiles on their faces, one of the ladys offer me a flyer concerning the district convention.

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  Those that left have an easier time remembering the snapshots because we know we weren't always at war with Eurasia...

  Mysterious, I love that book. It reminded me of so many aspects of the organization. Maybe the J-dubs should change their name to Big Brother's Witnesses.

  About the not remembering their past teachings, some of the newer ones like my wife and I refused to acknowledge the real truth. We were surrounded by "friends" who kept up that song that the "Society" never endorsed 1975 and that it was due to a few independently minded brothers. I finally broke free from that, did my own research, saw it for myself, and believed that, yes, prior to 1975, the publications pointed very clearly to 1975 as the year of the end. My wife still doesn't want to acknowledge it for various reasons, one of which is that she doesn't want to lose her friends. The difference between us is that I no longer attend meetings, but she still does. She's still surrounded by the propaganda and the control.

  Likewise, those two women at the door obviously didn't know what they were talking about, or if they did, just glossed over it because they are afraid of standing for the real truth and being expelled from their comfortable social circle.
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  New Seven Wonders

  by Pubsinger in

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  has anyone voted?.

  http://www.new7wonders.com/.

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  erandir

  Yep...learned about this after visiting Chichén Itzá last month.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/14/136316/2430029/post.ashx#2430029

  And that's the first one I voted for.

  Now I'm waiting for 07/07/07 to see which ones won.
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  Moon Landings - Real or Fake?

  by Black Man in

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  i've always wondered about this, especially recently.

  i've always contended that they were real and ignored the conspiracy theories.

  but if they were real, why hasn't nasa been able to send a man to the moon since the 1970s?

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  erandir

  darthfrosty:

  and who took all of the pictures of them landing and taking off from the moon?

  The space craft they used had a luner lander module while the orbiter stayed in lunar orbit. The pictures of the Eagle's landing and take off could have been taken from the orbiter or from the lander depending on what view they wanted. Two astronauts were in the lander while the third stayed in orbit (that must have sucked for him).

  Here's a brief summary from Wikipedia. (I know wikipedia isn't entirely credible, but it gives you the basic info so you know what to search for to verify it.)

  The first manned moon landing on Earth's Moon was the United States' Apollo 11 mission, commanded by Neil Armstrong accompanied by Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. While fellow crew member Michael Collins piloted the command moduleColumbia, Armstrong landed the lunar moduleEagle on the surface of the Moon at 4:17:42 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, July 20, 1969. After spending a day on the surface of the Moon, Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean three days later and so became the first Moon landing to complete a round trip back to Earth. A total of six such manned moon landings were carried out between 1969 and 1972.

  Any flat-earth believers out there, too?
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  Who here believes in Creation, yet believes in the Fossil records??

  by Lady Liberty in

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  good morning and "happy sunday everyone!!.

  yesterday our family (grandparents, grandkids, aunts, uncles) all went for a two hour drive for a picnic and all day fossil dig.

  (sorry, i cannot tell you where, as it would probably reviel who i am to the trolls on this forum.

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  I like Mark Twain's version of creation and the fossil record. In the Diary of Adam or the Diary of Eve (don't remember which one, or the exact title), Adam and Eve and the kids make fossils and bury them on mountain tops as a practical joke for future generations.
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  A little Biblical humor (groan)

  by bikerchic in

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  a little biblical humor.

  q. what kind of man was boaz before he married ruth?

  a. ruthless.

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  This is an old one...

  Did you know that baseball is mentioned in the bible? It says so right in Genesis: In the big inning...
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-24-07 WT Study (Youths Goals Honor God)

  by blondie in

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  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 06-24-07 wt study (may 1, 2007, pages 24-29)(youths goals honor god)(notepad).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  Could use some rain, the flowers are looking good. We are doing some straightening up of the garage and the windows...have a few more projects. What are you doing today?

  We had someone over to set some traps for a pesky groundhog who seems determined to undermine our deck. Other than that, we got some much needed rain all last night, and the wife and I will probably go bicycle riding...during the Sunday meeting.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-24-07 WT Study (Youths Goals Honor God)

  by blondie in

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  comments you will not hear at the 06-24-07 wt study (may 1, 2007, pages 24-29)(youths goals honor god)(notepad).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  As a result, Adele was motivated to dedicate her life to Jehovah. Despite a serious physical disability, she is now a pioneer, or full-time evangelizer.

  Do they really need a special issue of the WT to avoid saying "a pioneer, or full-time evangelizer"?

  Isn't it exciting to know that in the new kool-aid version of the WT, they will no longer have to waste ink explaining what a pioneer is?

  Simply thrilling!
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  My mom went to the assembly today. . .

  by JWdaughter in

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  and an old friend of mine came up to her and asked how i was doing.

  he told her how much he enjoyed my friendship when we were kids, etc etc etc.

  i haven't seen him since i was da'd back in the early 80's (right before franz was-i like to think i blazed a trail for him-tee hee) anyway, i was surprised that he mentioned me to my mom at all since i was dad and he knew it-his dad was on the elder group that i spoke to.

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  He could be a disgruntled JW who thinks the shunning thing is all wrong and is trying to look up an old friend. It's been known to happen....
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-24-07 WT Study (Youths Goals Honor God)

  by blondie in

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  comments you will not hear at the 06-24-07 wt study (may 1, 2007, pages 24-29)(youths goals honor god)(notepad).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  erandir

  Blondie, I certainly enjoyed your WT study this week. Thank you very much.

  I have this to add as a little bit of interesting trivia:

  You said:

  (BTW, have you noticed that "the Society" phrase has been used less since 2003? In the Watchtower, before 2000, 30 plus times each year, 2000-42, 2001-19, 2002-0, 2003-3, 2004-1 , 2005-0, 2006-1?)

  I noticed in my congregation around 2003 and after that our then CO was using the phrase "the Branch," and soon thereafter the elders and ms's started replacing "the Society" with "the Branch." Our book study conductor, who really liked to explain new things like this to his group, took the time to explain to us that we were supposed to substitute the new phrase "the Branch" for "the Society." The brothers saying public prayers made efforts to use the new phrase, and we definitely started hearing this more and more "from the platform." I am pretty sure the reasoning behind it had to do with the change in the organization of the legal entities of the WTBTS and the supposed delegation of some of the GB's responsibilities to different Branch committees. Regardless of why, it was kind of freaky to see such a change in speech and practice happen relatively overnight like that...especially since that phrase "the Society" had been in very regular use for decades.

  Reminded me of M.P. and the Holy Grail: "We are no longer the Knights who say 'Ni!'"