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  How many JW's in the nazi camps?

  by Norm in

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  * some were arrested many times.

  1950: 1,000 witnesses executed 1,000 died in prison and concentration camps:.

  another 1,000 of jehovahs witnesses died in prisons and concentration camps.

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  fodeja

  You chose to gloss over my proof of GjW's strawman / misrepresentation of Norm's position.

  Yes! I chose to gloss over what little argumentation you presented because calling someone "a clown for his cult", "perhaps a bit stupid", an "idiot" and "spreading foul infection" goes to show that you're pretty much uninterested in sensible discussion, but love to hear yourself getting all worked up in front of an audience. Self-confidence problems, hm? Nobody listening when you're talking at home?

  That's just my very humble opinion of course.

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  It'll be a COLD day in hell...

  by JanH in

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  ...before we see this happen in the usa, i fear:.

  norway minister marries gay partner.

  oslo, norway (ap) - finance minister per-kristian foss has married his gay companion, becoming the first member of a norwegian government to enter a binding homosexual partnership.

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  Abaddon,

  I know that stereotypes are often just that, but I've been asked what language is spoken in Britain by two Americans; ...

  What's so tricky about these stereotypes is that sometimes, you really have to persuade yourself that they're just stereotypes. That's when an American asks you how you celebrate the 4th of July "over there". Or when a college teacher from Texas asks you which language is spoken in the country she visited two days before. Or when you're on a conference in Boston and later on, you're having a couple of drinks and this one guy asks you very seriously how you're going to get a job and stay in America (implying that it couldn't possibly be half as good "over there"). It's when you open a newspaper or worse, turn on the TV and realise that for the average media consumer, the world consists of North America for all practical purposes (except when there's a war going on). It's when you realise that America's connotation of "freedom" and "free world" is tightly coupled with nationality. It's when some self-styled American expert tells you confidently that mobile telephony is so extremely successful in Europe because "terrestrial telephony is extremely bad in quality, and simply unavailable in many areas" (sure - and people lived in wooden huts until 50 years ago, huh?).

  The problem with this peculiarity of American culture is that it's very obvious. It's basically jumping in your face all the time. Other cultures do have their fair share of sillinesses, strangenesses and stupidnesses, but they often don't become as visible, if only because they're less broadcasted by the media all over the planet. America is exporting culture just the way it's exporting fast food - that's not necessarily bad or good, it just is.

  So, DazedAndConfused, when you meet people from other countries, you'll have to take into account that most likely they've had much more exposure to more or less accurate pictures of "America" than you've had of their cultures.

  Personally, since I've grown up and lived in more than just one place and don't consider myself very much of a "this is my country" person, I like to make fun of all of them. This world is a silly place, nationalism is completely ridiculous to me, and waving flags makes me laugh. On the other hand, I could never live in the USA for a longer time because it's impossible to get real bread (i.e., distinguishable from plasticine) there

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  How many JW's in the nazi camps?

  by Norm in

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  * some were arrested many times.

  1950: 1,000 witnesses executed 1,000 died in prison and concentration camps:.

  another 1,000 of jehovahs witnesses died in prisons and concentration camps.

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  fodeja

  Set up strawman, knock it down, all small-brained dub-dubs cheer - do you love to fondle the mic while this happens? Does it ... You Know .. ?

  Why is it that lately, on this board, anyone who doesn't agree one-hundred-percent with the most radical anti-JW stance is labeled a reactionary by some vocal nitwits?

  Isn't that exactly the same black-and-white, us-versus-them thinking that we attribute to those stupid JWs?

  Painting GJW as a WTS defender is simply ridiculous and goes to show that you didn't even take a second and check his previous writings. You didn't even really read his writings in this thread.

  Apparently, you can get some dubs out of the Watchtower, but you can't get the Watchtower out of some dubs. Pathetic.

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  Taliban prisoners in Cuba

  by Abaddon in

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  does this trouble anyone?.

  it seems semantic tom-foolery to declare a war on terrorism, and then to say that prisoners of the war are not prisoners of war.. it also seems very suspect keeping them of proper usa soil, as where they are they are out of sight, mind, or appeal by civil-rights factions.. do not get me wrong.. i am not saying, "ah, poor ickle terrorists".. but in a war against terror, surely taking each and every opportunity to distance yourself from your enemies is the wisest and best course of action?.

  why do anything that is even remotely dodgy or underhand?.

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  These people will kill your mother, aunt, son, doughter and any one else they can get their hands on.

  Seems you have more information than the rest of us, who get nothing but propaganda via the mass media.

  Who are these people, and what evidence is there? Heck, even circumstantial evidence would be a good start. Anything more than hearsay and allegations.

  I wish I could sentence you to five days of helping remove the bodies at ground zero.....

  Totally irrelevant. I wish I could sentence you to removing the bodies of the innocent victims of this war-or-not-war "against terrorism". Oh, I'm sorry, there aren't any. CNN said so.

  But that's besides Abaddon's point. Where do you draw the line? Why should human rights be valid for some and not others, and who decides who's entitled? The media? The president of the USA? The military? The mob on the streets?

  And if there are different sets of human rights, what gives the USA the right to complain about other countries' human rights practices? "No fair trials for Americans in China? Those evil Chinese commies! No fair trials for Afghans on a US base? Those evil Afghans!"

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  Okay Fess Up: What's Your Handle Mean?

  by Mindchild in

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  okay fess up: whats your handle mean?.

  my handle: mindchild comes from computer scientist and futurist dr. hans moravec: who wrote the book, the future of robot and human intelligence which is a book about when we will be able to construct machines capable of human intelligence and raises the possibility of uploading ourselves (every thought we ever had) into an android body much superior to the human ones we have now.

  i entertain the hope that not only will i live long enough to see this happen, i will transfer myself (the complete essence of what is me) into a body of my own choosing and become immortal if i so choose.

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  fodeja

  Mine means nothing at all. It's basically constructed like some people make up their passwords: think of a sentence, and take the first letter(s) of each word. But I'm not going to tell you the sentence ;-)

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  TV:AMERICA'S MOST WANTED INCLUDES XJW LONGO TONITE

  by MadApostate in

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  longo enters fbi's '10 most wanted' .

  'america's most wanted' show featuring ex-ypsilanti township man accused in family's slaying.

  saturday, january 12, 2002. by amalie nash .

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  fodeja

  TV: "EX-JW DISCOVERS HIS CAPS LOCK KEY" TONITE

  Additionally, I would like to add a public service announcement for all FBI Senior Agents named Greg: criteria is plural, stupid.

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  Contacting Stratton Ohio over major JW Dispute

  by hawkaw in

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  someone unknown to me sent an electronic mail message to me with respect to community conscious international comments on the dispute between the watchtower and the community of stratton, ohio.

  i guess the person wants to send the following to every person in stratton and would like comments on the message.

  so what do you think of the following folks?

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  fodeja

  The world is watching you.

  Sure. Ohio, of all places, has become the very centre of the world's attention.

  The basic idea behind this message is good: educated people don't fall for JW stories. However, the way it's written, I'd file it under "fanatic rant" or "conspiracy theory".

  Plus, I never trust people who can't spell lose correctly.

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  "Stupid...Hateful..Evil.."?

  by Englishman in

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  at first glance, most people would say that there are lots of very good jws around.

  ok, we reason, maybe they are a little misguided, but most of them mean well.

  we particularly like to think that way about our friends and loved ones who are in the organisation, we dont want to regard them as being unkind and uncaring.

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  fodeja

  Whilst I would not go overboard and say that the witnesses are ALL ‘stupid, hateful, evil’, I would say that most of them have unwittingly learned to be quite stupid, quite hateful and quite evil.

  Damn, I hate "me too" messages, but I just couldn't agree more with you, Eman. See my last two postings on http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=18628&site=3 for one example why I do.

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  NEED COMPUTER GURUS

  by Trotafox in

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  windows 98 (this is the same) with office suite 2002 (upgrade).

  see if microsoft can help with the printing problem.

  does it make sense to do what my boss thinks should be done or go with what is dept.

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  fodeja

  Here's some good advice from Dave Barry:

  http://www.miami.com/herald/special/features/barry/2002/docs/jan06.htm

  And this is how IT people view los...errr, users:

  http://members.iinet.net.au/~bofh/

  Have fun :-)

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  Argentina? New victim of the "thing disgus...

  by enricofrassinetti in

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  economy of all the world are in danger.. another victim of the "thing disgusting that is causing desolation", is the argentina.. yes.. the wild beast, with his economic system, would want have all his slaves, with the debt cards "forcing self-debit".. around the world, this is his project.. mens of the beast, would want give a number code, fixed to all people of the world, for be marked with his invisible mark 666, because the monetary crash is very very near.. the coins of all the nations of the world, proximately, will be eliminated, because his intrinsic value cease with the crash of the world production.. one international recession, is causing all this .

  (revelation 16:2).. the bar-code is his precursor, but proximately, the possibility of eat and drink, will be possible only for his possessors.. only method for christian survival,without accept his mark 666,is to escape from it, giving power to another economic system with our electronic international coin.. jehovah's witnesses,those real,are ready for to go against his project.. from italy we are preparing the bases for this.. in 23 nations we are present with the society www.thealphaclub.com, but proximately, will be ready all our project for redistribution of the wealth and of the income, denominated (alpha & omega).. if do you desire, visit our web site www.testimonidigeova.org

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  fodeja

  Don't bogart that joint, my friend.

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