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  Music Fans!! Once again I Ask, What's Your Top 10 Favorite Albums?

  by flipper in

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  hello gang!

  didn't think i'd let you off easy did you?

  this one might really make us dig into our personal archives!

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  Okay, gotta add:

  R.E.M. "Monster",

  Crowded House's debut and "Woodface" albums,

  and the Beastie Boys' "Check Your Head"
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  The April 2011 Awake

  by Yan Bibiyan in

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  the new asleep is available on jw.org in its full color pdf glory.. i only glanced trough...seems pretty blah....except for the opening article and the pictures in particular.. the article addresses parents grieving to the loss of a small child due to an infectious disease.

  an unimaginable situation for any parent (myself included)!.

  the wt seems to show the natural reaction to the loss of a child and the expected grieving in a way that any normal parent would react.. however, it stood out in a stark contrast to the 1994 awake, where children lost to a stupid misunderstood and missaplied belief were lined up all smiling and their parents commended for the very actions that cut the life of their own children short!!.

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  Alright here it is:

  http://www.cftf.com/comments/kidsdied.html

  

  Seventeen years after this issue none of the parents have been reunited with their children in any sort of resurrection.
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  Pink Floyd

  by Mickey mouse in

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  i was just listening to some pink floyd and.... .

  another brick in the wall.

  start of lyrics we don't need no education .

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  "The lunatics are in my Hall."

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1bgxfxchkQ
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  The April 2011 Awake

  by Yan Bibiyan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the new asleep is available on jw.org in its full color pdf glory.. i only glanced trough...seems pretty blah....except for the opening article and the pictures in particular.. the article addresses parents grieving to the loss of a small child due to an infectious disease.

  an unimaginable situation for any parent (myself included)!.

  the wt seems to show the natural reaction to the loss of a child and the expected grieving in a way that any normal parent would react.. however, it stood out in a stark contrast to the 1994 awake, where children lost to a stupid misunderstood and missaplied belief were lined up all smiling and their parents commended for the very actions that cut the life of their own children short!!.

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  Does anyone have a scan of the 1994 cover showing the poor kids who died for the blood issue?
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  Someone was hiding the book... but it wasn't me!

  by JimmyPage in

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  my wife recently brought home another "bible stories" book for our child to read.

  i noticed though it was if someone was trying to hide it... other books would be piled on top of it.

  then my child admitted to being the one who was hiding it.

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  My wife recently brought home another "Bible Stories" book for our child to read.

  I noticed though it was if someone was trying to hide it... other books would be piled on top of it.

  Then my child admitted to being the one who was hiding it.

  I had pointed out the violent bloody pictures in it a while back and it had made an impression.

  The kid didn't like them and no longer wanted to hear the book read!
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  Have you known dying persons to use the expression "going home"?

  by JimmyPage in

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  a close relative of mine has reached the last days of their life and has been talking about "going home".

  this seems unusual when you consider that they have been a jw for many years and this would not seem to jive with their belief of being resurrected to live on the earth forever.

  i'll grant you that they have acted quite confused much of the time as they draw closer to their end.

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  Great pic, St. George!
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  Have you known dying persons to use the expression "going home"?

  by JimmyPage in

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  a close relative of mine has reached the last days of their life and has been talking about "going home".

  this seems unusual when you consider that they have been a jw for many years and this would not seem to jive with their belief of being resurrected to live on the earth forever.

  i'll grant you that they have acted quite confused much of the time as they draw closer to their end.

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  I wonder too if this person, in their confused state, has reverted back to their authentic self, and bypassed the cult programming.
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  I need a show of hands: who believes the Bible and to what extent?

  by Terry in

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  i'll start off.. i don't believe anything is divine about bible writings.

  i believe there may be some marginal history although not much.

  i think alot of folk tales and regional myths are contained in the old testament.

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  I think all religious books have some teachings of value, some damaging teachings, some history, and a whole lot of myth.
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  Have you known dying persons to use the expression "going home"?

  by JimmyPage in

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  2. friends

  a close relative of mine has reached the last days of their life and has been talking about "going home".

  this seems unusual when you consider that they have been a jw for many years and this would not seem to jive with their belief of being resurrected to live on the earth forever.

  i'll grant you that they have acted quite confused much of the time as they draw closer to their end.

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  A close relative of mine has reached the last days of their life and has been talking about "going home".

  This seems unusual when you consider that they have been a JW for many years and this would not seem to jive with their belief of being resurrected to live on the earth forever.

  I'll grant you that they have acted quite confused much of the time as they draw closer to their end.

  They have also spoken of wanting to see their own long dead parents, who were never JWs.

  Also, when a non-JW relative who died a few years back was going through the same thing, they also spoke of "going home".

  At this point in my life I consider myself somewhere between agnostic and atheist.

  So I'd like to hear from all of you: have you experienced hearing dying persons use the expression "going home"?

  If you are Christian, feel free to preach what you believe this means.

  If you are atheist, feel free to take the wind out of the sails and give a rational explanation.

  And if you have some other ideas about the afterlife, such as reincarnation, I'd love to hear your thoughts as well.

  Personally, I find the phenomenon fascinating.

  It is a comforting thought for me that our natural intuition at the time of death is that we are journeying on to a better place, and that this is not the end.
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  Facebook: Local Ruling By Elders in Nearby Congregation

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  just heard from a friend that a nearby body of elders in their congregation have decided that anybody who is on facebook will not be able to have privleges in their congregation.. hilarious!.

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  And yet I know elders who are on Facebook.