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  Would you turn in your neighbor if non-church members were declared as Anti-christs?

  by cameo-d in

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  what if there was a reward on their heads and times were tuff?.

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  Is not that what hitler did in a sense? Neighbors where encouraged to turn in any one who did not agree with his regime
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  Did You Ever Think That The Demons Were After You?

  by minimus in

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  i know so many jws that love to think satan and his demons are after them.

  if they were being "persecuted", it was because of the devil and his demons.

  if they got an ache or pain, it was because satan was trying to "discourage" them.......did you think the demons were trying to get you, too?

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  The watchtower says demons have me in their sight

  Evil demons to the left of me evil demons to the right

  The watchtower frightened me to within an inch of my life

  The tension so thick you could cut it with a knife

  I do not believe the horrible prophetic words they spoke

  I am finally free from this religions mirrors and smoke
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  Bank lays off 450 then throws a Million dollar party!

  by sammielee24 in

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  bailout bank blows millions partying in l.a.. posted feb 24th 2009 1:18pm by tmz staff.

  a bank that received $1.6 billion in bailout money just spent a fortune last week in l.a. hosting a series of lavish parties and concerts with famous singers ... and tmz cameras caught it all.. .

  northern trust, a chicago-based bank, sponsored the northern trust open at the riviera country club in l.a. we're told northern trust paid millions to sponsor the pga event which ended sunday, but what happenedoffthe golf course is even more shocking.. .

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  yes you did you get math wrong. you need to divide 700,000,000,000.00 $ (bailout package) by 6,000,000,000 (world population = 6 billion)you would get about 116.00 $ each

  a more interesting # is the 700 billion divided by the us population (301621157)

  that equates to over 23000.00 $ for every man, women and child in the US
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  How do you answer "you research just to criticize"?

  by undercover in

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  minimus' thread about research got me to thinking about a friend who recently accused me of researching just to purposely find something wrong so i could justify my actions (of becoming inactive).. how would you answer this?.

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  use these two bible verses, if they still object to you examining and researching the scriptures it is evident that they are not imparting truth.

  Examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;
  Bible quote, Apostle Paul, 1 Thessalonians 5: 21

  Bible quote, John 8:32: The truth shall make you free.
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  Maybe I should just bite the bullet and GO BACK ?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  did the thought ever cross your mind?

  i have done so very recently.

  i might someday - i am tired of having no friends, my life in the rearview mirror.. jeff.

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  Devil's Advocate ?

  I am confused jeff.
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  Take the Beliefnet test... and post your results!

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. social
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  an atheist friend (never a jw) sent me a link to this fun test:.

  http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/quizzes/beliefomatic.aspx.

  turns out i am 100% secular humanist, but unfortunately i am still 5% jw!.

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  I think the test is flawed. I took it again and this time i made sure that everything i chose was counter Jwie. no god, , no satan, ok to divorce , abortion etc it actually ranked my Jw score much higher than my original test
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  Are you afraid you will lose your job?

  by WuzLovesDubs in

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  damn...this economy sucks.

  its making me crazy.

  i work for sams club and being as its a part of walmart and walmart is almost recession proof, you wouldnt think id be worried about my job going away.

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  I am terrified. Three hospitals have declared bankruptsy closed . The hospital that employs me is also in financial straits. I have been looking around, but there is no other jobs (in my feild) in my local area.
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  WHAT WAS WT FIRST SCANDAL?

  by badboy in

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  was it the divorce?.

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  This may have been the first scandal , the fact that russell was not the first presidebt of the watchtower.

  The Proclaimer's Book, page 576: "...Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society was formed on Feb. 16, 1881, with W.H. Conley as president and C.T. Russell as secretary and treasurer....In 1884, Zion Watch Tower Tract Socity was legally incorporated, with C.T. Russell as president."

  Not only is Conley no longer president, but he's not an officer nor a director. Moreover, there are only 3 references about him in the pages of Zion's Watch Tower, none acknowledging his previous rank!
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  665 JW's in US prisons...

  by digderidoo in

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  the federal bureau of prisons does have statistics on religious affiliations of inmates.

  the following are total number of inmates per religion category: .

  catholic 29267 39.164% protestant 26162 35.008% muslim 5435 7.273% american indian 2408 3.222% nation 1734 2.320% rasta 1485 1.987% jewish 1325 1.773% church of christ 1303 1.744% pentecostal 1093 1.463% moorish 1066 1.426% buddhist 882 1.180% jehovah witness 665 0.890% adventist 621 0.831% orthodox 375 0.502% mormon 298 0.399% scientology 190 0.254% atheist 156 0.209% hindu 119 0.159% santeria 117 0.157% sikh 14 0.019% bahai 9 0.012% krishna 7 0.009% .

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  it would be interesting to plot what the religous makeup of general population of the US vs the representation in prison
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  Take the Beliefnet test... and post your results!

  by Awakened at Gilead in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  an atheist friend (never a jw) sent me a link to this fun test:.

  http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/quizzes/beliefomatic.aspx.

  turns out i am 100% secular humanist, but unfortunately i am still 5% jw!.

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  1.	Unitarian Universalism(100%)
  2.	Liberal Quakers(95%)
  3.	Neo-Pagan(94%)
  4.	Secular Humanism(90%)
  5.	New Age(89%)
  6.	Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants(82%)
  7.	Theravada Buddhism(78%)
  8.	Mahayana Buddhism(73%)
  9.	Reform Judaism(68%)
  10.	Taoism(64%)
  11.	Baha'i Faith(62%)
  12.	Nontheist(59%)
  13.	Sikhism(58%)
  14.	Scientology(58%)
  15.	New Thought(54%)
  16.	Jainism(53%)
  17.	Orthodox Quaker(53%)
  18.	Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist)(43%)
  19.	Hinduism(38%)
  20.	Orthodox Judaism(34%)
  21.	Islam(32%)
  22.	Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant(28%)
  23.	Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)(26%)
  24.	Eastern Orthodox(24%)
  25.	Roman Catholic(24%)
  26.	Seventh Day Adventist(21%)
  27.	Jehovah's Witness(8%)

  damned my third most likely was neo pagan