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  Colorado Rock Climber Amputates Own Arm

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  i dont usually start new threads that have nothing to do with jw stuff--heck i dont post that much at all, anymore--but this story blew me away.

  from yahoo news: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030502/ap_on_re_us/climber_amputation_3.

  moab, utah - a colorado climber amputated his own arm thursday, five days after becoming pinned by a boulder, and he was hiking to safety when he was spotted by searchers, authorities said.

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  I have this friend who needs some advice...

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  i have a friend named uhhh... timmm, who is in a bit of a quandary.

  he has decided to go public with his apostate leanings, because it is becoming too hard to play the role of a meek, spiritually weak witness--complete with looks of pity and concern from his mother and siblings, and contempt from his sister-in-law.

  timmm is sure one brother will have nothing to do with him after this, and he can live with that.

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  Let the dead bury their own dead

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  my (non-jw) grandmother is visiting from the southwest this week.

  the usual family get-togethers are planned.

  my ms younger brother was complaining to me about how unreasonable our (jw) mother is being.

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  Upcoming WT article - The Pedophile Issue

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  in bibleexaminer's thread (letter read tonight) the question was asked what else we'd like to see from the society, assuming their instructions to canada legal to direct all callers to the police turns out to be correct.. i'd like to see unambiguous declarations in upcoming watchtowers--a public admission of guilt, and clear instructions to the r&f regarding contacting the authorities, so no future crackpot elders could pressure them into silence.

  in an effort to help out the boys in writing, i've written the first few paragraphs and questions for them:.

  ___ 15, 2002 watchtower.

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  The UN Thing - for new members

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  on another thread someone asked about "the un thing".

  i didn't want to hijack that thread, so here is the reader's digest condensed version.

  the "un thing" in a nutshell: .

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  Interview with the JW Geek

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  when i was a senior in high school, the principal called me in to her office to ask why i'd missed repeated deadlines to turn in my applications for colleges.

  i went to a school for brainiacs, and was above average there--yes, i was a geek among geeks.

  the principal asked me if it were a question of finances.

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  My last talk as a JW

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  diamond's thread inspired this idea... at least, this is how i wish my last talk had gone.. next on the school is brother hmmm.

  his talk is based on the song of solomon, and his theme is: "be steadfast and faithful, like the shulamite maiden.. "throughout history, babylon the great, the world empire of false religion, has fornicated with the scarlet-colored wild beast.

  they have traded support for the league of nations--and it's successor the united nations--for political clout and expediency in furthering their selfish goals.

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  UN update needed

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  after letting my little un bomb lie like a dead mackerel for weeks, my mother suddenly emailed me with thoughts of love an encouragement.

  she is deathly afraid that i've allowed satan to not only lead me astray, but to be used as a weapon to attack my poor unsupecting family.

  (my email put out the bare facts, two links, and questions about the veracity of the claims, as presented to me by "a brother i know.").

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  Girl died after parents hit her 160 times

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  a friend just called me and told me to check out chicagotribune.com.

  below is the article to which he pointed me.

  warning: it's very disturbing.. .

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  Repent!... and avoid being disfellowshipped

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  an elder once told me that sitting in on judicial committees was tough, "because you have determine if they're really repentant.

  they'll cry crocodile tears, and say how sorry they are, but you can't always believe them.".

  it seems to me that a) if they came forward with their "sin" in the first place, that's pretty substantial proof of repentance; b) if they can summon up "crocodile tears" when not truly sorry, then they deserve to stay in--as a reward for superior acting talent, if for no other reason; and c) if they've sinned, even if not obviously repentant, they shouldn't scripturally be kicked out, if they're not trying to subvert the masses--they should be helped.. what brings this to mind is the recent court case with which silentlambs has been involved.

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