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  science!

  by Chameleon in

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  after hearing the stupidity of last sunday's watchtower about trusting the bible over science, no matter what, i'm ready to educate myself.. science wasn't one of my strong subjects in high school; didn't like formulas and all that, but i'm ready to learn now.. so, where should i start?.

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  Pick up an apple. Drop it three times. Watch apple fall three times. That's science.
  
  Set apple on table and wait for it to float to the ceiling. That's religion.
  
  Set apple on table and wait for apple to turn into a Buick. That's Witness religion.
  
  
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  June 3-08 #4 Talk - Evolution - A Scientific Dilemma

  by still_in74 in

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  okay, so i have this talk tonight and i forgot all about it.

  anyone on here have this talk and can post it here for me??????????.

  or if you feel inclined you can write it for me!

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  garybuss

  Can ya read it?

  Uh-oh
  Hope He's only a Sunday creationist.
  TB? My God! Are you sure?
  Afraid so, but we caught it early.
  So my prognosis is good?
  Depends. Are you a creationist?
  Why yes I am. Why do you ask?
  Because I need to know if you want me to treat the TB bug as it was before antibiotics.
  . . . or as the multiple-drug-resistant strain it has evolved into.
  Evolved?
  Your choice. If you go with the Noah's Ark version, I'll just give you streptomycin.
  Um ... what are the newer drugs like?
  They're intelligently designed.
  
  
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  AA..Ding Dong round 2

  by digderidoo in

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  i have posted on here previously about my problems with alcoholism and the fact that i have attended aa meetings so i thought i would start a thread to post where i am at now.. i first attended at the beginning of january and went 7 weeks without a drink, i then had a weekend away and got drunk.

  i then went another 7 weeks until my birthday (april 19).

  since then i have felt that i could control my drinking within the confines of a local program.. this however hasn't really worked for me, i find that i do not really enjoy going out drinking and trying to pace myself.

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  I actually like Witnesses better than drunks. I've never had a Witness throw up on my shoes.
  
  
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  Had The Shepparding Call Last Night

  by cognac in

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  it actually was no big deal.

  there was only 1 scriptures read and it was in psalms.

  btw, i was kidding about spiking there drink, lol.

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  garybuss

  Henry Ford had a policy I adopted as my own and it worked well every time. He never had a meeting in his own office. He said if you have a meeting in your own office you are trapped, so he had most meetings in Harry Bennett's office.
  
  In my business, I had most meetings in my foreman's office so I could leave at any time. I can't get up and leave someone sitting in my office. I don't have meetings in other people's offices because that puts me at a disadvantage.
  
  I have talked to Witnesses in my home but only at my invitation, like a cat that invites the mouse over for lunch:-) I did talk to two elders who made a "missing employee" first call on me after I hadn't attended any Watch Tower Publishing Corporation sponsored events for 9 years. I was curious what they would say. I could see why they hadn't bothered to call on me for 9 years. They are idiots. They spent the whole 9 years perfecting that designation.
  
  I don't really like Witnesses much, but the elders are kind of useful for entertainment, sort of like a pin-ball-machine. It's fun to watch em flip the ball back and forth, there's a "Do Not Tilt" sign on their foreheads, and eventually all the balls go down the hole and the game's over.
  
  
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  1980 Happiness-How To Find It!-PDF

  by Atlantis in

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  1980 happiness-how to find it!--pdf bm=bookmarked s=searchable r=reduced from 61-mb to 24-mb what does the front cover of this book look like?

  click here: http://www.imagger.com/view/184838_cover0001.jpg.html (credit goes to jwfacts) whilst ongoing research and data collection on historical earthquakes has increased known earthquakes and fatalities, the watchtower society has managed to decrease the fatalities it claims occurred prior to 1914. statistics from the following magazines show the trend.

  sourceclaimed deaths per annum prior to 1914 claimed deaths per annum since 1914watchtower 1951 april 1 p. 2024,00040,000awake!

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  garybuss

  Got it! Thanks!
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  1931 Bethel Home Rules & Regulations!--PDF!

  by Atlantis in

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  1931 bethel home rules & regulations--pdf!

  bm=bookmarked s=searchable (to a degree) r=reduced from 11-mb to 2-mb the previous owner of this small 24 page booklet wrote the date of 1931 on page 1. this sounds about right, because on randy's site a revised edition of this booklet published in 1935 shows 32 pages.

  it would seem that the bethel family were plagued with more and more "rules and regulations" as the years pressed on.

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  Interesting! Housekeepers had to be anointed. I'd like to see that today.
  
  Thanks! Keep em coming:-)
  
  
  
  
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  To all "born-in" DF'd/DA'd posters.....

  by DublDipd in

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  do you feel that we will ever be free from the mental damage imposed by our parents?

  i have been df'd for over 17 years.

  basically, my entire family still remain active jw's.

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  garybuss

  I'm not going to let crazy people ruin the rest of my life. They want to, but I'm not going to let them.
  
  I have ethics and standards. Jehovah's Witnesses don't meet my minimum requirements. The planet's full of nice, sane people. I'm gonna go hang out with them.
  
  
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  Do you think the guys in the Governing Body belive in the Governing Body?

  by Samuel Thorsen in

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  i presume they do.

  they are probably so intoxicated by their own power that they belive in the never ending rubbish.. or am i wrong?

  is there other reasons to stay on the top of the hill?.

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  Do you think the guys in the Governing Body belive in the Governing Body?
  
  It's hard not to like yourself when there's seven million people lined up to kiss your ass.
  
  
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  mp3 of rutherford records

  by bereanbiblestudent in

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  here are some of the records i have.

  i have not seen these online as mp3 before .

  trinity p-14.

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  Thanks!

  
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  Reasonable People

  by Honesty in

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  in your personal opinion is the average jw a reasonable person?.

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  I found a few who were able to reason, thus reasonable . . . but undesirable. A vinyl seat cushion functions, but it still sticks to my ass. I'd much rather spend time with a reasonable Catholic, or a reasonable skeptic.