Posts by AlphaOmega

Are online discussions of a sexual nature in agreement with bible principles?
If you choose to chat online about sex, even if it is with people who say they are your friends, your experience could well end up being like that of a young man described in the Bible. g05 9/22 p. 20
The Bible talks openly about sex. (Proverbs 5:18, 19) Admittedly, humans have an increased interest in sex during youth. So you should talk about sex. You need answers to your questions on this important subject. g05 9/22 p. 20

www.public-talk.com

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CHAT: Public Talk

by AlphaOmega in

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i guess now's a good time to announce our new chat site, public talk.

beachbabe and i have set it up for the exjw community to use.

we've tested it out with a few friends and it's looking good so far.

AlphaOmega

Will I make new friends? …Witness youths from around the world can make new friends g05 10/22 p. 18

Then, too, Internet chat rooms have made it easy for even the most timid of individuals to strike up intimate friendships online. es08 p.107 / w06 9/15 p.26 par.4

www.public-talk.com

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CHAT: Public Talk

by AlphaOmega in

jw
friends

i guess now's a good time to announce our new chat site, public talk.

beachbabe and i have set it up for the exjw community to use.

we've tested it out with a few friends and it's looking good so far.

AlphaOmega

Will chat rooms help me to lose weight?
“I sometimes became so involved in chat room discussions that I missed meals.” g05 10/22 p. 18

During marathon sessions, he would not even stop to eat or drink. “I had no awareness of [being] hungry,” he says g03 7/22 p. 3

www.public-talk.com

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CHAT: Public Talk

by AlphaOmega in

jw
friends

i guess now's a good time to announce our new chat site, public talk.

beachbabe and i have set it up for the exjw community to use.

we've tested it out with a few friends and it's looking good so far.

AlphaOmega

I guess now's a good time to announce our new chat site, Public Talk.

www.public-talk.com

BeachBabe and I have set it up for the exJW community to use. We've tested it out with a few friends and it's looking good so far. You can use it for text chat, audio chat or cam chat, and also make use of the PM system.

We're not planning on babysitting this site - we want everyone to treat it like their own. So please go along and use it as a public meeting place.

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Green burials

by changeling in

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http://www.memorialecosystems.com/.

we often have threads about what type of funeral/burial/epitaph we would like.

lately i've been drawn to the idea of a simple burial with a pine coffin so i could return quickly and naturally to the earth.

AlphaOmega

I guess it depends on the country that you are living in.

In the UK there are many rules about cemeteries (even wildflower cemeteries or woodland cemeteries) - such as proximity to the watercourse etc.

In the UK cemeteries employ attendants in order to greet the funeral and escort the cortege to the graveside. Then there will be some admin involved in filing the paperwork.

It is a large outlay for the expense of land and that is not something that can be recouped quickly unless you try to market graves in a way that allows people to choose their own before they die - but even then it is slow.

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ttfn

by Sad emo in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvjgerspe8.

i will pray for you now for you have been my faithful friends.

while the road we walk is difficult indeed.

AlphaOmega

Hi,

I haven't been around lately either.

Take care and I hope all goes well.

BTW - what did you make of the orange book?

AO

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smoking in uk?

by John Doe in

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sorry, don't know the original source for this.

thoughts?.

a painter and decorator who received a 30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned that british civil liberties are "going up in smoke".. .

AlphaOmega

If my understanding of the stupid rules are correct then the problem is that his van is being classed as a work vehicle, and as such smoking is only permitted inside it if he is the sole driver.

Do the regulations include all work vehicles?

Where a vehicle is used for work by more than one person, regardless of whether they are in the vehicle at the same time, it will be required to be smokefree at all times. This protects all who use the vehicle from harmful secondhand smoke, regardless of when they use the vehicle.

Smoking will be permitted in vehicles that are for the sole use of the driver and are not used as a workplace by anyone else, either as a driver or passenger.
The smokefree law does not apply to vehicles that are used primarily for private purposes by more than one person.
Any vehicle that is used by members of the public (for example, taxis and mini cabs) will need to always be smokefree, even when they are being used for private purposes.
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I share a company vehicle with one other person. We are both smokers and want to smoke in that vehicle. Why shouldn't we?
The smokefree law is in place to protect both smokers and non-smokers from exposure to secondhand smoke. As the vehicle is used for work, it is required to be smokefree.
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Can I smoke in my privately owned vehicle?
Yes. The smokefree law does not require vehicles used primarily for private purposes to be smokefree

http://www.smokefreeengland.co.uk/faq/vehicles.html

The rules here are very over the top. We have to have signs on every entrance and exit to a building as well as in company vehicles. Why? Smoking at work is now illegal and that should be that. Murder is also illegal but we don't have to have signs up on every entrance telling people not to murder

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Misquotes from the "Reasoning Book" re: Cross (scans included)

by AlphaOmega in

the "reasoning book" claims that the 1874 edition of the imperial bible dictionary verifies the idea that jesus was crucified on a stake.

however, when you check the reference with the imperial bible dictionary, you see that it acutally is not as clear cut as that.. as usual, the infamous "..." of the watchtower has been used to edit out any opposing ideas in the source that they cite.. i know that this may have been mentioned before, but the scans of the imperial bible dictionary that are floating around the internet are from later editions, hence the page numbers are not those cited in the reasoning book.. .

http://i36.tinypic.com/2ilc9cx.jpg.

AlphaOmega

Preaching to the choir here Alpha. That's why one of my favorite quotes is from one the new books that says, in effect, if you say something in a manner that purposefully leads someone to an incorrect conclusion, you are lying. This is what they are doing, and by their own mouths, it is lying.

Indeed

Do you know which book the quote that you mentioned comes from?

Thanks

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Misquotes from the "Reasoning Book" re: Cross (scans included)

by AlphaOmega in

the "reasoning book" claims that the 1874 edition of the imperial bible dictionary verifies the idea that jesus was crucified on a stake.

however, when you check the reference with the imperial bible dictionary, you see that it acutally is not as clear cut as that.. as usual, the infamous "..." of the watchtower has been used to edit out any opposing ideas in the source that they cite.. i know that this may have been mentioned before, but the scans of the imperial bible dictionary that are floating around the internet are from later editions, hence the page numbers are not those cited in the reasoning book.. .

http://i36.tinypic.com/2ilc9cx.jpg.

AlphaOmega

Justitia Themis wrote...

Thank you for your work, and posting the PDF. However, I looked in the Reasoning book, and it appears the WTBTS is using this quote properly. The sentence preceding this quote says, "Later it also came to be used for an execution stake having a cross piece." Note: "...having a cross piece." Then, they use this quote.
In the next paragraph, they start their argument against a cross starting with this sentence,"Was that the case in connection with the execution of God's Son?"

That is true, as can be seen from the scan of the Reasoning Book, but the spirit of the article in the Reasoning Book is dishonest, for example it doesn't mention the following quote from the Imperial Bible Dictionary which seems to place the crosspiece of the cross at the time of the Gospel age.

There can be no doubt, however, that the latter sort was the more common, and that about the period of the gospel age crucifixion was usually accomplished by suspending the criminal on a cross piece of wood.