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  Maurice Jarre - great composer, RIP

  by Sad emo in

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  french president nicolas sarkozy has paid tribute to oscar-winning film composer maurice jarre, who has died in los angeles at the age of 84.. mr sarkozy called french-born jarre, whose credits include lawrence of arabia, "a great composer" who produced "majestic and full-bodied works".. jarre also won academy awards for dr zhivago and a passage to india.. his last public appearance was in february at the berlin film festival, where he won a lifetime award.. .

  full article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7971223.stm.

  lawrence of arabia is one of my favourite films and soundtracks.

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  aligot ripounsous

  If I remember well, his son Jean-Michel JARRE said that, great composer as he was he remained an aloof father, nobody is perfect.
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  The Three Stages of Meeting Attendance Freedom

  by Nosferatu in

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  2. friends

  during my exit from the jws, i went through three stages of being free from the meetings.

  stage 1: going to the meetings, but disliking it.. stage 2: stopped going to the meetings, but remembered every day that i was supposed to be going to the meeting.. stage 3: "oh yeah!

  thursday's a meeting night!

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  aligot ripounsous

  Elders in my congregation gave me 2 weeks ago a helpful hand in my move to reduce even more meeting attendance, since they told the congregation that my comments at the WT and in private conversations don't conform to the line and urged JWs to mark me. The result is that I now wonder what on earth I have in common with that bunch of fanatics. Lots of thanks to them.
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  Newbie *waves*

  by Phee in

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  2. friends

  hiya.... .

  i've been lurking here for over a year...(on the old forum and then this one)...i also post on several other forums.... got a long story, but i won't go into that right now.. some of you know me from the other sites, just figured this was a natural progression into apostahood to register here.

  see ya'll 'round!.

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  Welcome Phee, your experience is very moving. In time and thanks to reports like yours and the Andersons' work I've come to be more aware of that grim reality within congregations, which a few years back I would have dismissed as impossible.
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  good analogy

  by jam in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  iam sure many of you here have heard this comment when you were a jw..is this a good analogy to prove.

  creationism?

  if you have a automobile that have not been assemble how long will it take without any.

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  I agree with creationists at least on one point, intelligent design. ID doesn't have to express itself through literal creation though. As a matter of fact, when one tries to figure out how dinosaurs came to existence, what is more plausible, a full size dino surging from the ground (because if the first man was created out of the soil, dinos had too, hadn't they), or God causing a small mutation in the embryo of an animal the parents of which were not quite dinos yet, but that would be close enough in appearance to its mother so that she would still recognize it as her cub and would look after it as such ? In that way new species could have appeared, sort of evolution directed by God himself. That Hypothesis would explain the design, which to many is just evident, and would spare us the indigestible practical aspects of literal creation.
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  untitled

  by purplesofa in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i was raised catholic.. the immaculate conception of christ defied all logic to me, even as a child.

  it seems to me, christianity has borrowed something from the pagans.. .

  i am reading god against the gods by johnathan kirsh~the history of the war between monotheism and polytheism.

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  Purps, having been a catholic for about 25 years, brought up in confessional schools, etc, I seem to remember that the immaculate conception is referring to Mary herself, not to Jesus' birth, i.e. the Church teaches that only a perfect woman could have given birth to a god, so she is believed to have been born without the original sin, and in the same vein, it is taught that she never died, because death is corruption and she can't have been corrupted, that's why they celebrate Assumption of Mary on Aug 15th that is, her transfer to heaven before death, a bit like what the WTS teaches about Enoch.

  This is not related to the very question you raise in your thread but, since I've no real valid opinion to express on the latter, this is my small take.
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  Wow, They gave a special needs talk specially for me !

  by aligot ripounsous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i was taking a week off with my family, i was told, when back, that a talk had been given during the mid week meeting, in connection with special needs of the congregation.

  it was all about how not to associate with a so-called brother who gives too critical comments at the wt meeting about jehovah's organization and tries to lead astray the spiritually weak members of the congregation, and things alike.

  of course, everybody understood that i was the target.

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  Rebel,

  If your question is for me, I've no answer to it. It just seems to me (I've no statistics, just hearsay and reading articles about AIDS, hepatitis B, to cite 2 among the main infections) that, on the whole, transfusions have caused more damage than good, let aside the fact that it is a scandalous business, raw product being provided free (most of the time) or bought from poor people and being sold at very high price for the rich. How compelling would be my conviction if I were personally confronted to a problem like haemophilia, I just don't know. To me God's command about blood is like the Ten Words, Israelites knew what were the right things to do, still someone would steal if starving and Jehovah would understand circumstances. He for sure knows all the ins and outs of our actions and is the sole judge.
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  Wow, They gave a special needs talk specially for me !

  by aligot ripounsous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i was taking a week off with my family, i was told, when back, that a talk had been given during the mid week meeting, in connection with special needs of the congregation.

  it was all about how not to associate with a so-called brother who gives too critical comments at the wt meeting about jehovah's organization and tries to lead astray the spiritually weak members of the congregation, and things alike.

  of course, everybody understood that i was the target.

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  How did you get away with just being marked ?

  As I said in earlier posts, I always endeavoured to back my shootings with biblical texts, the spirit of which they couldn't deny. And I tell them that I'm not intent on proselytizing my opinions, which is totally untrue, of course. It worked out for a certain time, until they thought it was too much for them to countenance.
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  Wow, They gave a special needs talk specially for me !

  by aligot ripounsous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i was taking a week off with my family, i was told, when back, that a talk had been given during the mid week meeting, in connection with special needs of the congregation.

  it was all about how not to associate with a so-called brother who gives too critical comments at the wt meeting about jehovah's organization and tries to lead astray the spiritually weak members of the congregation, and things alike.

  of course, everybody understood that i was the target.

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  Yes Kudra, I'm a frenchman living in a large french city. As you can see, things have ended up on this side not very differently from what they would turn out in any other part of WT land, all the same.

  Undercover, it is definitely an isolating enterprise to protect the flock.
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  Wow, They gave a special needs talk specially for me !

  by aligot ripounsous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i was taking a week off with my family, i was told, when back, that a talk had been given during the mid week meeting, in connection with special needs of the congregation.

  it was all about how not to associate with a so-called brother who gives too critical comments at the wt meeting about jehovah's organization and tries to lead astray the spiritually weak members of the congregation, and things alike.

  of course, everybody understood that i was the target.

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  aligot ripounsous

  As I was taking a week off with my family, I was told, when back, that a talk had been given during the mid week meeting, in connection with special needs of the congregation. It was all about how not to associate with a so-called brother who gives too critical comments at the WT meeting about jehovah's organization and tries to lead astray the spiritually weak members of the congregation, and things alike. Of course, everybody understood that I was the target. It was a direct result of a recent sheperding call two elders gave me, which was rather tense and that I reported in an earlier post http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/politics/171477/1/Getting-on-with-it

  Conclusion of the matter, the congregation was strongly requested to "mark" me (I thought that it was a personal decision but anyway). The positive side of it, apart from the fact that from now on I will consider myself as just accompanying my wife to the WE meeting, is that I was able to make the account of my friends on the very first sunday meeting I attended when back. I was told that a sister was so shocked by the sectarian ring of the talk that she stood up right in the middle of it and retreated in the back room, so as not to hear more. Quite a courageous move, indeed. So here I am, let's say 3/4 outed, was predictable.
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  May 15th Watchtower - New Light?

  by slimboyfat in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the new watchtower asks the question: "when was satan cast out of heaven?

  - rev 12:1-9".

  and the answer it gives is: "so, then, the bible does not reveal the exact time when satan and his demons were expelled from heaven.

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  Nevertheless it is evident that this event closely followed the enthronement of Jesus Christ in heaven in 1914."

  Well, if the FDS says it is evident, it must be so. But why then didn't we know earlier ?