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Poor jokes

by Pleasuredome in

there was this guy and he had a girlfriend named lorraine who was very.

while he was still going out with lorraine.

"i can see claire-lee now lorraine has gone.

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Euph,

Is that a striker or a wanker?

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genesis 3: 24 - and so he drove the man out and posted at the east of the garden of eden the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to guard the way to the tree of life.

correct me if i'm wrong, but didn't man create the sword?

what was god doing with a blade in heaven?

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I agree with Dan, It was all a big mythtake.

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Poor jokes

by Pleasuredome in

there was this guy and he had a girlfriend named lorraine who was very.

while he was still going out with lorraine.

"i can see claire-lee now lorraine has gone.

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Whats a striker?

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Who has despised the day of small things?

by Know_You in

as the apostates increasingly gather courage, poking their vile heads out of their filthy spider-holes, slavering like the mad creatures that they are, as they shake their puny fists at the lord of all creation, jehovah's people may may become downhearted, even despondent.

many, we hear, are slowing down or even becoming inactive.

others have been so bold as to have risen up to question the slave as it faithfully dispenses food in due season.

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WELCOME BACK Know You. I have missed your posts, they are always real keepers.

You are by far the best and most knowledgable satirical writer that this board has ever seen. A few have tried but none have ever come up to your standards.

Keep up the good work!

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WBTS gets foriegn funding in INdia 2000-2001

by Wallflower in

i found this article by accident.

foreign funding for indian ngos.

2000-2001 beneficiaries - third biggest the watchtower and tract society.

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I thought for a moment that we were talking big numbers here but a million rupees is only 22,000 U.S.D.

This is small change when you compare it to the extent of their financial involvement in the U.S. and U.K. for example.

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Why I Believe the Bible, A Nuclear Scientist Tells His Story

by VM44 in

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from awake!, january 22, 2004, pages 19-23.. "why i believe the bible - a nuclear scientist tells his story".

read how a nuclear physicist reconciled his knowledge of science with his belief in the bible.. -- page 19. .

why i believe the bible.

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I must be one of the many who sent e-mail messages to Dr Williams at: [email protected] ,asking these questions.

My server indicates that the message was delivered but perhaps Armageddon will arrive before his answers.

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Shamus, you hoser!

by onacruse in

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when will you canucks learn to speak proper english?.

almost as bad as listening to mancunian, it is!.

eh?.

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One year the Drama tape seemed to have been recorded by Canadians.

The kid behind me said " Mummy what’s a key ant wok?". "What do you mean" said mummy.

"Well, that lady just said that that poor man key ant wok"

"No she didn’t" said mummy "she said he can’t walk"

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Further Education

by scotsman in

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i had lunch with a jw friend who's just finished a law degree.

she was saying that at the last circuit assembly the bethel speaker, (philip longstaffe) said that the society had not changed its stance on further education, and that college for vocational skills was all that they thought was ok. my friend's a bit of a free thinker (i'd half hoped that this lunch date was to tell me she had doubts, but no) so she doesn't give fig what they think.

i was actually appointed as an elder the month before i started attending uni and the co had told the other elders it was no reason to prevent my appointment.. anyone else heard this at their assemblies?

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It has been my experience, being involved on the periphery for the past nine years, that the Dubs say "yes" "Yes" "YES" at the meetings and then go off and do their own thing. Many do not understand what the religion is all about and many others could not care less what they are told. They don't know and don't want to know.

I often get the response "Oh! that doesn't apply to me" if I point this sort of thing out.

Of course you will always get the exception that proves the rule but I have found the majority to be completely two faced.

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Do you know?

by Schizm in

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a certain jw doesn't believe in the 1914 doctrine any longer.

this, of course, naturally gives rise to certain serious problems.

for example, how can this person now continue to participate in field service activities and make use of the publications produced by the wts?

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As an Unbaptised Publisher I was faced with this very question. When I found out that the 1914 chronology did not add up I went to the elders and told them that I wanted to terminate my involvement. I said that I could no longer go out on field service and tell people that they had to believe things that were likely untrue and that I could not believe myself.

Their response was that I would never be asked about 1914 whilst I was in the ministry therefore it should never be a problem for me!!!

However they did agree that if I were ever to conduct a Bible study my disbelief might present a problem and consequently they accepted my "resignation" (no announcement).

The strange thing is that they never pointed out that I had to believe 1914 in order to get baptised and be a Witness and they never tried to convince me of 1914. It seemed that most of the people that I spoke to did not believe it either and I later found that most Witnesses that I came into contact with did not even understand the Doctrine or it’s implications.

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Possible Anti - Apostates here on JWD.

by link in

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this is obviously in response to the thread "possible apostates here on jwd" started by flying high now.

it was clearly not intended to be taken seriously but it does reflect another possibility that should be considered seriously and that is that there are anti-apostates on this board.. i do not consider myself to be a particularly paranoid person but i have seen signs of things that do not seem quite right to me.

so what do i mean and how would an anti-apostate operate here?

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Perhaps a better term would have been Counter–Apostates.

There is an abundance of good material on this board and I suspect that at least 75% of it would get a doubting JW thinking seriously about his future. I was an Unbaptised Publisher but learning some of the factual and checkable material on this board saved me from the clutches of the Society.

However I do know of two others who came here and unfortunately clicked on the "wrong" threads. One of them was a Belief thread that started out good and then degenerated into a blasphemous slanging match complete with the semi-oblierated sexually explicit words.

Whether intentional or not, it had an effect that does not reflect the purpose of this site as far as I can see.

This wonderful "right" to freedom of speech is a two edged sword that a counter–apostate can use to advantage. This is a good site that has a high profile and is easily found by both ex-JW’s and those thinking of departing. Just occasionally a lot of unnecessary stuff goes on here that would be better posted somewhere else and I got to thinking why? Thats all.

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