if i remember well, i used altavista back in the mid 90's.
The very first: AltaVista, back in the days.
I recall feeling a pounding in my head the first time I typed "Jehovah's Witnesses" in the search engine; the pain was real. I didn't dleep that night, and the following four nights. Then it felt like everyone at the KH knew exactly what I'd been doing...
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richard parker, a member of the jehovah`s witnesses, says that the refusal of transfusions is one of their fundamental beliefs.
based on what is written in the bible.. .
... that while it is a controversial issue, the refusal of transfusions is a matter of faith for witnesses, and deserves to be respected as their choice.
Pgs 53 & 54. It's a minor but significant note: "Of note was the presense of Jehovah's Witnesses at the Congress". It's a 2001 report of a year 2000 event. Not insignificant, considering the reason for the Congress and the hypocritical and unChristian practice of JWs wrt to blood ('fractions') use and blood donations. .
check out google's new free tisp, incredible brain trust there!.
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This service would make use of a standard toilet and sewage lines to provide free Internet connectivity at a speed of 8Mbps (or 32Mbps with a paid plan). A user drops a weighted end of a long, Google-supplied fiber-optic cable in their toilet and flush it. Around 60 minutes later, the end would be recovered and connected to the Internet by a "Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)." The user then connects their end to a Google-supplied wireless router and run the Google-supplied installation media on a Windows XP or Vista computer ("Mac and Linux support coming soon"). Alternatively, a user could request a professional installation, where Google would deploy nanobots through the plumbing to complete the process. The free service would be supported by "discreet DNA sequencing" of "personal bodily output" to display online ads that relate to culinary preferences and personal health.
Google TiSP was a fictitious free broadband service supposedly released by Google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes
Hehehe. Some joke.
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years ago when i was attending my old kh there was an elder that was very stern.
bro glen(not his real name) used to be very firm in telling students about their talks not being good, or where they needed to improve.
i know i was "terrified" of bro glen.
An elder there was in my old congregation; beat the hell outta his wife routinely; the woman 'll cry; she confided in another sister, who confided in another elder, who advised the sister to persevere. She did. Then one day he beat the living daylights out of her again, then she ran out, and it became known to the neighbours. Then enter the elders. Judicial proceedings against the elder brother. I'd asked a MS who knew about this case; his answer, in retrospect, made some JW sense: ".... this elder was not only beating his wife, the neighbours knew about it and it was a great reproach on Jehovah's name...". Yeah, it's about the neighbours knowing. That he beat the woman wasn't bad enough...
I remember the elder being "stepped-down" though, but I also recall him making a physical attack at the KH on one of the elders on his case.
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download the publication standards manual: http://www.davidgladden.com/jw/docs/stdm-e-2006.pdf
have you ever wondered what guidelines the wts uses to write its publications?
shortly i will be releasing another closely related memo titled "writing for our journals".
On page 129:
the term "Brainwashed" is disallowed. Almost correct; except that what's happening to JWs as a group is industral strength misinformation.
All fo the part on disallowed terms makes for interesting reading. Surely, whooever wrote this never thoughtit'll make it to the public domain.
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download the publication standards manual: http://www.davidgladden.com/jw/docs/stdm-e-2006.pdf
have you ever wondered what guidelines the wts uses to write its publications?
shortly i will be releasing another closely related memo titled "writing for our journals".
Elsewhere,
thanks.
And to those brave people who continue to risk a lot to get these out, a million thanks, too.
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mine are, in no particular order:.
"the friends".
"glean".
Not to forget:
"timely".
Like: the talk was timely; annoying nonsense. Very annoying.
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starting a new thread so that everyone can find the link.. this is the video of the elders trying to act smart stupid.
http://www.savefile.com/files2.php?fid=5509435.
they will keep the file as long as it is downloaded once every 14 days.. enjoy
Is this for real????
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in another thread the question of a person's memories being placed within a re-created body has been discussed.
the possibility was raised that what if two bodies were created, and the person's memories were placed in both bodies?
which re-created person would be the continuation of the original person?.
So the Messiah comes through the seed of woman, which is, er, untainted. Soo, what's the all the trouble with preserving the Davidic line? You mean genetics is interferring with the Bible's narration, or what?
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and what other measures can be taken against a jw who does something the elders dissapprove of, short of disfellowshipping?.
(this may sound like a dumb question but i was never a jw)
- forbid you to to field serviceThis last one is almost never given as punishment.
The undisfellowshipped JW - no matter what they may have done - is supposedly better than any non-JW; of course, this includes suspected and confirmed child molesters. Nothing comes between the WTS and statistics/preaching hours; nothing; not even the fear of God and the protection of the public, including innocent children. Sigh.
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