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The Way Things are, Not How You'd Like Them To Be
by AllTimeJeff inat 37 years of age, i'm much to young for feeling this damn old, so apologies for sounding less than idealistic, but...... we need people who will be honest and true to themselves.
having offered jws the entire decade of my 20's while they tried to suck out my soul, i have come to appreciate how little of a desire these days i have to change the world.
which was sad at first.
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Letter from my mother
by Las Malvinas son Argentinas ini've been officially disowned.
translated from the original:.
"my daughter,.
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leavingwt
You deserve better.
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Advice needed please.
by tenene ini've been a lurker here for about a year and a half.
i am a baptised jw(born-in).. i was a publisher in good standing until about last december when i stopped putting in fs time as well as attending meetings and conventions including this year's memorial.. i no longer believe in the teachings of the watchtower society.. about 3 weeks ago an elder and a ms from my cong came to ny house uninvited and told me they were just checking on me and wanted to find why i haven't been to the meetings for such a long time.
they told me it was not an official visit, but sort of hinted to me that if i don't show up then i might be getting an official one soon.
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leavingwt
If you tell them the truth, you'll be excommunicated.
So, you must either lie to them or avoid them. You must also live your life publicly according to JW rules. If they find about about conduct that is against their rules, they will excommunicate you.
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If Serena wins gold, will she stand for the US Anthem?
by Open mind inthey're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .
thoughts?.
om.
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leavingwt
She dominated Sharapova!
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Chinese teen kills nine, wounds four - with a knife
by james_woods inchinese teen kills nine with a knife and wounds four.
/ icon and title message http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-teen-kills-eight-knife-attack-reports-102629246.html.
quote:a teenager has been arrested after killing nine people and wounding four others in a knife attack in northeast china, state media reported thursday.
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leavingwt
Is the freedom to own a knife more important than nine innocent lives? If not, people should not be allowed to own them.
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need your advice again, please
by outsmartthesystem inso here's the latest in my pathetic saga.
i've tried to fly under the radar for the past year, but it isn't working so well.
i've learned not to engage my wife in debates but rather to ask questions.
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leavingwt
At this particular moment, you may need to simply take a break from thinking about all of this. You'll drive yourself crazy.
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If disfellowshipping was abolished...
by iamwhoiam in...what would it accomplish?.
a few thoughts running through my head.... 1. the kingdom hall would be open to people who were originally df'd for apostasy, and therefore opening the door for debate without consequence (e.g.
people spreading thier ideas freely within the cong without fear of being df'd/banned).
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leavingwt
Shunning is the issue. Many people who are still JWs are shunned.
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Nice 1975 quote from F Franz, in 1975
by Splash in*** w75 5/1 p. 285 a contrastmissionaries with an urgent, lifesaving work ***.
another speaker, f. w. franz, the societys vice-president, forcefully impressed on the audience the urgency of the christian preaching work.. he stressed that, according to dependable bible chronology, 6,000 years of human history will end this coming september according to the lunar calendar.
this coincides with a time when the human species [is] about to starve itself to death, as well as its being faced with poisoning by pollution and destruction by nuclear weapons.. franz added: theres no basis for believing that mankind, faced with what it now faces, can exist for the seventh thousand-year period under the present system of things.
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Chinese teen kills nine, wounds four - with a knife
by james_woods inchinese teen kills nine with a knife and wounds four.
/ icon and title message http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-teen-kills-eight-knife-attack-reports-102629246.html.
quote:a teenager has been arrested after killing nine people and wounding four others in a knife attack in northeast china, state media reported thursday.
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leavingwt
Most people consider some rights to be more important than others.
Sixty million Americans own firearms, and almost none of them ever will fire a shot in anger. The premise behind gun control, then, is that millions of law-abiding Americans should have their rights and liberties circumscribed in order to prevent a minuscule fraction—something like three one-hundredths of 1 percent of them—from abusing those rights.
Imagine the uproar for a moment if you applied this to, say, Muslim-Americans. Imagine saying, “We know most of you will never commit a terrorist act, but we also know some of you might do so in the future, so we’re going to ask every one of you to register with your local police department.” Americans, quite rightfully, would erupt in furious outrage at such a proposal. Why, then, do liberals embrace it for gun owners?
Answer: Because—just like conservatives who favor profiling—they consider some rights important and others not.
http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/01/liberals-discover-their-inner-dick-chene
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Chinese teen kills nine, wounds four - with a knife
by james_woods inchinese teen kills nine with a knife and wounds four.
/ icon and title message http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-teen-kills-eight-knife-attack-reports-102629246.html.
quote:a teenager has been arrested after killing nine people and wounding four others in a knife attack in northeast china, state media reported thursday.
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leavingwt
He probably watched violent movies and played violent video games.
