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  Hey Everyone!!!

  by cognac in

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  just thought i'd stop by and say hi to everyone?

  anything new and exciting?

  did the borg over in france collapse cause of all the money they owe yet?.

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  Just thought I'd stop by and say hi to everyone? Anything new and exciting? Did the BORG over in France collapse cause of all the money they owe yet?
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  Ooooooohhhh...My "unofficial" DA letter...yup...got it in the paper!!

  by HadEnuf in

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  over the years here on the forum...i have read with interest many da letters.

  brave people!!

  not so brave.

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  Can't work in a job that carries a weapon. Can't work in a job where you would dispense blood to patients. Can't sell cigarrettes. Can't wear a national flag on your uniform. Can't work in a job that requires you to miss a meeting. Etc...

  As far as I knew that was all conscious matters... Also, you can work a job that requires you to miss a meeting, they just discourage missing many meetings. I think to say what job you can or can't take goes a bit to far in our accusations against them...

  Can't sit in the back row because that's reserved for whoever the elders decide to reserve it for (people with kids, elderly, DFd, etc.).

  Well, I would hardly call that controlling at all. Usually its reserved for elderly and people with kids because imo it's the loving thing to do since it is harder for those people...

  Do I think they are a cult? Absolutely. But, when we are not completely accurate in our accusations against the BORG it takes away from our credibility. If somebody who was going to the meetings and studying saw that they would view it as lie and thus there perception of apostates confirmed and there resolve to stay with the cult stronger.

  That's my humble opinion on those specific points. Other then that it was very well written.
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  Ooooooohhhh...My "unofficial" DA letter...yup...got it in the paper!!

  by HadEnuf in

  1. jw
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  over the years here on the forum...i have read with interest many da letters.

  brave people!!

  not so brave.

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  what kind of work you could do... and even where you should sit in their “Kingdom Halls”.

  How do they make decisions on what kind of work you do or where you should sit in the kingdom halls?
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  Paul kindof stepped over the line more than once

  by gubberningbody in

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  i was thinking of the passage at galatians 1:6-8.

  "i marvel that you are being so quickly removed from the one who called you with christs undeserved kindness over to another sort of good news.7but it is not another; only there are certain ones who are causing you trouble and wanting to pervert the good news about the christ.8however, even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare to you as good news something beyond what we declared to you as good news, let him be accursed.9as we have said above, i also now say again, whoever it is that is declaring to you as good news something beyond what you accepted, let him be accursed.".

  so that was either hyperbole and irritation on his part and we shouldn't take it or anything else he said in a letter without some careful consideration, or he was seriously out of line in going down that road.. .

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  I just thought he meant because after Jesus time no angels would come down from heaven, so if one said they did, they were false... Paul never explained himself very well and even Peter said that so I think a lot of what he said is misunderstood...
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  need advice

  by ninja in

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  thinking of starting a new business.

  how many cat spas should i get?.

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  I think it depends on the cats age...
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  Designs would like to discuss crime committed in the world of Christianity

  by isaacaustin in

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  lol, Isaac.
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  Are Publishers Adequately Prepared for Bad Publicity?

  by compound complex in

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  2. scandals

  last saturday afternoon i heard the talk, "put on the lord jesus christ," at the circuit assembly.. one of the overriding questions guiding christians into straight paths was the expected, "what would jesus do?

  " citing various texts, the speaker admonished that we should put up a hard fight for the faith, arming ourselves as soldiers.

  all good.

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  That would cause curiosity and internet searches.

  Even as a JW that's what I would have done. The curiosity would have gtten the better of me. Plus, if that DO could have public info, why wouldn't I be able to? I wonder how msny JWs went home and did the same thing...
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  VIDEO from father of Bethany Hughes (JW girl who died because of blood issue)

  by Albert Einstein in

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  i just recently found this, sad, but wanna share with you.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocex1eu5v6u&feature=player_embedded.

  albert.

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  Wow, this is really sad...
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  20/20 Last Night - Elder killed his wife

  by cognac in

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  anybody see it?

  i thought it was very odd how his mil accused him at the very beginning that he killed her.

  i felt like she held back or was hiding a lot.. what were your thoughts?.

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  oops - sorry. Didn't see Snakes post...
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  20/20 Last Night - Elder killed his wife

  by cognac in

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  anybody see it?

  i thought it was very odd how his mil accused him at the very beginning that he killed her.

  i felt like she held back or was hiding a lot.. what were your thoughts?.

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  Anybody see it? I thought it was very odd how his mil accused him at the very beginning that he killed her. I felt like she held back or was hiding a lot.

  What were your thoughts?