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  How Should We Deal With "Pirates"?

  by minimus in

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  i'm talking of sea pirates..

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  First of all no one said that anyone had the right to attack anyone elses ships. However your racist rant is offensive . Somolians have never extended their necks with rings (that is the Padaung tribe in northern Thailand) nor have they ever put bones through their noses. Your comment is part of the reason so much of the world view us with contempt. By the way I am an American
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  beards are from satan!

  by Adrianoblue in

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  it is illegal to wear a beard.

  (matthew 24:45-47).

  but it is legal to wear a mustache.

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  HMM DOES NOT THAT POINT TO NATURAL SELECTION?
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  Help for class

  by dogon in

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  i have a fellow class mate that is telling me that dubbers a allowed to go to college.

  i need some society quoats about how they discurage higher education and if possible how these people who do anyway will not be used in the congergation.

  thanks much..

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  No Jehovah's Witness should want to go to college. Rather, work in the Watchtower Organization! Watchtower,9/1/75, p.543; Pay Attention to Yourselves and to All theFlock, 1977, p. 105..

  Do not pursue higher education. There is very little time left! Make pioneer service, the full-time ministry with the possibility of Bethel or missionary service, your goal.WT 3/15/1969, p. 171

  What about professional careers? The position has not changed. If you are a young person thinking about a career-forget it. The end will be "in a few years". Do you remember expecting the end by the mid-1970's. Awake!, 5/22/69, p. 15.

  Professional people, doctors and lawyers are often "inconsiderate of others" due to their undesirable higher education. Awake!, 918168, p.1 0. It is foolish to want to be a doctor or a lawyer. Watchtower, 8/1/75, p.451.
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  Naughty Things Our Kids Have Done

  by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

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  anything your kids have done that were way naughty or could have gotten you in trouble with the ehhhl-duhrz..... once my littlest one when he was about 4 or 5 years old asked his mom for a bowl of cereal.

  so, she sends his older brother to go downstairs and make them both some cereal.

  so the bigger one is an real ass and decides it's time to lord it over his baby brother.

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  Damn oompa forest fire ? It makes my younger brothers antics pale in comparison.

  He decided when he was 12 to march in the towns 4th of july parade. My mom knew nothing about it, the elders lost their collective minds. He was always a rebel lol
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  Is rejecting supernatural explanations close-minded?

  by inkling in

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  here is an excellent video regarding the accusation that skeptics are.

  "close-minded" to the supernatural and to woo-based explanations .

  if you have ever been on either side of one of these conversations, .

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  Great video .

  Since I have left the witnesses I have become much more scientific in my reasoning. I am willing to accept the supernatural if scientific proof can be provided to me . So far I have seen no proof.
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  Top 10 Memorial Excuses

  by rebel8 in

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  good excuses.

  pinkeye.

  (highly contagious, and you aren't supposed to touch other people's dishes and glasses.)tuberculosis.

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  too engossed in reading ray franz's book crisis of conscience, besides that i am going to a 12 step program for the annointed that night

  
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  Just thinking out loud here.....

  by AK - Jeff in

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  if someone owned a cleric's collar, a black blazer and slacks, and a gold crucifix, was well known as a former jw in the local congregation, wouldn't it be great fun to show up at the memorial looking rather 'man of the cloth'?

  a large bible with a nicely embossed cross on the cover would complete the ensemble.. one could stand at the back of the hall, hands behind his back, and just quietly saying 'hmmm' throughout the service.

  the occasional chuckle could be quieted with a cough to cover and a hidden smile for any who dared take a look.

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  I would like to go in dressed as Charles Taze Russell with a twist
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  Bound volumes free for the taking

  by jukief in

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  we have several nearly complete sets of watchtower and awake!

  bound volumes, from 1960 through the early 2000s, that we need to get rid of quickly.

  you can have them for the shipping cost.

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  i hear ythey make good kindling
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  I passed my test!!!!!!

  by mouthy in

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  thank god ( well i know all of you wont ) but i did !!!!!!.

  in canada when you reach 80 you must have written tests to see if you should still drive .

  then every two years after that....i will be 82 in may so i had to go for mine today .. i was so scared as we had so much snow today,i hate driving in the snow.. all my family ( grand kids >not jws) i am sure were hoping i wouldnt pass as they all.

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  congrats stay out of the snow ;)
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  The horror! (Not for the squeamish)

  by JimmyPage in

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  Yeah thanks for spoiling my breakfast for the next friggin six months....next you'll be telling me Bacon comes from pigs....sheeesh!