Posts by martinwellborne

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so are there really co's and elders who are undercover appostates???

by newly unsure in

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so are there really co's and elders who are undercover appostates??

?

martinwellborne

it's a possiblility!!

but i know plenty of ex-elders, ex-servants who are on here as i type

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HOW can a Jdub accept BLOOD FRACTIONS?? hmm?

by martinwellborne in

i thought the main thing with the blood issue was that it was to be viewed from god's point of view.

not that it would be up to individual choice and conscience.

my point that i am trying to get to is this, how can a jdub accept blood fractions if they want to view blood in the same light as god would.. am i making this clear?

martinwellborne

Thank you Eye.. it's a change to get some sense. i remember asking to get my blood directive signed and being questioned over the fact that i had put ABSOLUTELY NO BLOOD or any FRACTIONS.

i think the elders on the committees are thicker than many of the lay folk.

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Been away for a while - is anything happen in JW world?

by eyeslice in

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i have not been here for a long time?

my wife still goes to the meetings but i haven't heard too much about what is happening.

new light, great organizational changes, is it the religion for me now???

martinwellborne

lots of changes in doctrine, lots of change on blood fractions etc, but absolutely no change on letting pedophiles out on the work.

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I predict

by hubert in

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i predict that before i am sixty six and a half years old, i'll reach 2,500 posts.. well, i haven't started a thread in quite some time, so i figured this would get me over the mark.

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hubert .

USA Should Declare Bankruptcy?

by sammielee24 in

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the fevered efforts to save the financial system, typified by today's panicked three-quarter-point interest rate cut by the federal reserve and the bush/paulson stimulus plan not only will not work, but will backfire spectacularly, and soon, economist lyndon larouche warned today.

the financial system is dead, and any attempt to save the fictitious values of the trillions of dollars of worthless financial paper will not only fail, but will destroy any nation foolish enough to attempt to do so, larouche said.the global financial system, emphatically including the united states, is entering a period comparable to that of weimar germany in the autumn of 1923, but on a far larger scale.

whereas the damage from the runaway hyperinflation in weimar germany was largely restricted to germany itself, the current crisis is global in scale.

martinwellborne

in regard to the latest incarnation of economic woe for the good old USA. i should say you are having the time of your lives selling everything including the kitchen sink to all the foreigners since dollars are so cheap to buy?

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My first JW encounter at the door in ages...

by Gregor in

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i am spending the week at my sons house in seattle to help him while recovering from knee surgery.

i answered the doorbell and it was a young woman by herself.

she read a scripture from james (can't remember) and offered me the a&w.

martinwellborne

you should have taken the chance to plant a few seeds in a young mind.

the older one is hard packed wayside soil so you would have had no chance with an oldie. try next time if it is a newbie.

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100,000-year-old Human Skull Found

by Legolas in

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100,000-year-old skull delights scientists.

chinese researchers hail "greatest discovery since peking man".

beijing - an almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in china, state media said on wednesday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since peking man.. last month's find in xuchang, in the central province of henan, was made after two years of excavation just as two archaeologists were leaving for the lunar new year break, the china daily said.. "we expect more discoveries of importance," li zhanyang, archaeologist with the henan cultural relics and archaeology research institute, was quoted as saying.. the fossil consists of 16 pieces of the skull with protruding eyebrows and a small forehead.. "more astonishing than the completeness of the skull is that it still has a fossilized membrane on the inner side, so scientists can track the nerves of the paleolithic ancestors," li was quoted as saying.. besides the skull, more than 30,000 animal fossils, and stone and bone artifacts were found.. "the pieces of the human skull showed up just when archaeologists were going home for the spring festival," the newspaper said, referring to the new year holiday which officially begins next month.. peking man was discovered in the 1920s near beijing and dates back roughly to between 250,000 and 400,000 years.. http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/296725.

martinwellborne

prove it DOH!

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apostates outside assemblys ,i was told not to even look, did any of you

by looloo in

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ever want to speak to them , i was only a study but i thought it very odd and judgemental to not even look at them and i used to think what are they so scared of if they have the truth , i did not buy the satan stuff about them at all , cult , was what sprung to mind and started my doubts

martinwellborne

i do remember a few standing outside with banjos. they seemed like hill billys to me.

but i do remember thinking what have we to be scared of

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Auxiliary Pioneer ya lazy B*$tard$!!!

by Open mind in

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for those who no longer get your monthly km, i thought i'd just share a little "encouraging" tidbit from the material scheduled for this week's service meeting (tm).. there's a 20 minute "regurgitate the paragraph" session entitled "pioneer or die" or something like that.

i can't remember the exact title right now, but it was one of the most blatant "beat the sheep.

you're not good enough" articles i've seen in quite a while.

martinwellborne

thx for all the encouragement Openmind. thx again

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Rotary

by lrkr in

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any other "rotarians" out there?

let me know your experiences.

i just was "inducted".

martinwellborne

seem to be going round in circles here :-)