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  Was Judas present when the Emblems were passed? Who should partake?

  by DATA-DOG in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  wt 1/15/51 " the lord's evening meal.

  8 mark's account agrees with matthew's above.

  thus we have two writers as witnesses.

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  kurtbethel

  So what's the deal?

  Who wants to be in the Judas class of non partakers?
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  Today's Puzzler: Why did the SUV just stay there?

  by Open mind in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on my morning commute today in a residential area, there was an suv driving in the same lane i was in, but about a block ahead of me.

  the suv pulls over just past a bus stop where a young lady is already waiting for a bus.

  the suv lets off a passenger who starts walking back to the bus stop.. .

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  kurtbethel

  Some gangstalkers use the SUV to ply their trade.
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  To garyneal and Others, Evidence that the anointed remnants represented by the GB were selected in 1919.

  by mankkeli in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  1st evidence: the release of loyal jews from exile, made possible by the fall of babylon, foreshadowed the release in 1919 of anointed christians from spiritual exile.

  2nd evidence: that year marked the beginning of the period when the anointed remnants were released from a form of spiritual captivity to the ideas and practices of false religion.

  although having rejected such false teachings as the trinity and the immortal soul, they were still tainted by babylonish practices.

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  Have some compassion. It is a tough thankless job to defend the spiritually and intellectually bankrupt claims of the Watchtower.

  
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  Controversial essay- cull 20% of the poor.

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  a controversial essay is part of aussie news today.. the essence of it is that the state needs to kill about 20% of the poorest in the community, to fix its financial problems.

  it is, of course, claimed to be 'tongue-in-cheek,' but is there a sound basis to the concept?

  i sound very right-wing in saying that, but i live opposite a boarding house that is full of people who, i guess, would be prime candidates for the cull.

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  kurtbethel

  Before going any further, I suggest reading A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift.

  That said, this idea of culling the poor is nonsense. First off, there is not much wealth that would be absorbed by eliminating them, because they really don't have much of anything. Maybe they have less than nothing, with debt and liability factored in. Now if you want the most wealth available to the population, you would kill off the 20% of the wealthiest people, because THAT'S where the money is.

  Going even more basic, I want to know why is it that the poor, or anyone else, must have these little slips of paper or digits in an account to live? Why can't they get what they need to live without having to first earn that paper, or grovel for it? Setting the system up so they have to get that paper has made them dependent on it, so why do these wise people never propose doing away with a system that makes people use those slips of paper?
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  Satan & the Garden of Eden

  by love2Bworldly in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hi-- i was forced to listen to a jw witnessing on a mass transit bus the other day.

  she said something that sparked my attention.

  i read almost the whole bible cover to cover when i was a jehovahs witless.. she stated that satan was in charge of the garden of eve as an assignment from god to watch over adam & eve but he became too full of himself.. how in the world do the jws explain this teaching of satan being in charge over the garden?

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  The Watchtower makes people hopelessly confused about the events in the Garden of Eden.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww75UH2Io74
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  Twin Explosions at Boston Marathon

  by BizzyBee in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-explosion_n_3086665.html.

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  right at the finish line - seems too coincidental to be anything other than a purposeful act.

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  These butchers who bomb innocent civilians are disgusting bits of human trash.
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  Men & Women - How true this is!

  by SkyGreen in

  1. social
  2. humour

  http://s80.photobucket.com/user/dot_rpg/media/man-woman-switchboard.jpg.html .

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  Yep. Pretty much.
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  '1600 years of Ice melting in 25 years is a bad omen'

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  glaciologists from ohio state university have been studying the ice fields in peru.

  tropical peru is home to ice formations 18,000 feet up in the quelccaya region, the largest of these tropical region ice sheets.. the glacier is melting so quickly that plant samples are having to be frozen artifically so that scientists 30 years from now can have something to study, lonnie thompson from the university said in the interview.

  the ice field is the smallest it has been since the last ice age.. peruvians rely on the water from the glaciers, which will be reduced by 50% in their lifetime.

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  It is a pretty big problem, whether you accept the consensus or not.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
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  Getting Your Money Back From The Governing Body For Selling You A Worthless Bunch Goods

  by frankiespeakin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  well think about this for a minute what happens when one wills his property or something valueable to the watch tower money grabbing corporation and then finds out the corporation is all based on a crack pot delusion, how can you get your money back if you signed over a deed to them signed a will granting them that.. and what about all our volunteer service to sell books and magazine for them free of charge without any reembersments?.

  i mean could this open some interesting lawsuits against them?

  and what about all their outrageous lies and horrible treatment they inflict upon the leaveing disbeleiver there might be an angle of some sort of legal action but i'm not a lawyer but i see some legal recousre for money spent while serving the nonprofit corporation because of false advertisements in thier literature..

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  Read the fine print. They didn't sell you paradise. They sold you a "prospect" of being in paradise.

  You sold yourself out for a freaking lottery ticket.
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  AAWA ... It's not too late to change the name.... any suggestions?

  by Calebs Airplane in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  first, i'd like to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to cedars, barbara and the rest of the staff who put this together... it's something we all hope will have great success in exposing the watchtower's continuous deception and manipulation.. however, i don't think it's too late to change the name to something less militant or less confrontational.... my humble suggestion is ... pafjw (pacifist association of former jehovah witnesses).

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  kurtbethel

  It's done. In the future the AAWA apostates are welcome to form their own splinter group and give it a really cool tricked out name.

  What's in a name anyway?

  By their fruits you will know them.

  Praise "Bob"!