C'mon, Slim, give us an idea of how you really feel...
Cadellin
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Is Richard Dawkins an ostentatious acrimonious supercilious pusillanimous calumnious censorious vituperative querulous embittered obsessive and bombastic bully?
by slimboyfat inrichard dawkins closes down his free-thinking/free-thought site (www.richarddawkins.net) for 30 days to reconfigure it 'because too many morons were contributing drivel' (he doesn't put it quite like that!
) he is then surprised because those self-same contributors call him everything under the sun (i won't repeat the names flung at him on our ultra -refined boards).
he now wants the site more or less 'peer-reviewed' (by analogy with papers to learned/scientific journals having to be vetted by vips).
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SOON is a baloney sliced too thin. WHAT DOES 'SOON' really mean??
by Terry in[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser /> </w:worddocument> </xml><!
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the watchtower magazine has used the word.
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Cadellin
Okay, that was really hard to do. But honest to God, that was the line of reasoning at last year's DC. Unbelievable.
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SOON is a baloney sliced too thin. WHAT DOES 'SOON' really mean??
by Terry in[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser /> </w:worddocument> </xml><!
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the watchtower magazine has used the word.
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Cadellin
Yes, but remember, they're imperfect men. How can they be faulted if, in their zeal for righteousness, they allowed themselves to speculate. The important thing is that they remained on the watch! And this while the wicked world under Satan's control continued to spiral into ever greater ungodliness.
Now, think, Terry: Would you be upset if you had hired a watchman to patrol your estate and he awoke you in the middle of the night because he believed intruders were present? On the contrary, you would praise him for his diligence! In the same way, the faithful and discreet slave have been keeping an ever vigilant watch on world events as they continue to worsen...
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Borg court: 2nd session
by sd-7 injudicial committee, round 2. i have to give it to the elders on this one.
they fought well, albeit with unrefined technique.
pure strength of authority apparently seems to make up for a lack of sufficient evidence, just as the 300-pound fellow who believed you were checking out his girlfriend can beat the tar out of you even though you were merely looking at the clock behind her on the wall.
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Cadellin
Christopher: Thank you for sharing that traumatic experience; don't worry about your cathartic ranting. You explicated the logical fallacies inherent in the whole faithful and discreet slave problem incredibly well and absolutedly nailed the problem--If you can't identify who's annointed, then neither can they and if you ignore analyzing the evidence, ALL the evidence, then you're no different from someone who runs after Sun Myung Moon or the leader of the Mormon Church. Please keep us informed--you're obviously incredibly bright and articulate, and I hope you can pursue an education (if you haven't already) or whatever it is you were meant to do with your one shining life, post-cult.
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2010 DC" Remain in Gods Love"...Most Unloving Yet??
by JWFreak inthe talk outlines for the summers conventions are only being printed over the next 2 weeks or so.. the finished outlines were ready in the middle of december 2009, however sources that i trust tell me that at least 5 of the talks were returned for last minute rewriting which is highly unusual.
this has held up the printing until now, a delay of over a month.
this is a fact!!.
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Cadellin
I know someone else mentioned it on another thread, but I truly think that we might see some kind of software program written by the Bethel computer dept. that controls internet use. Of course, it wouldn't be "required" that you obtain it, but there might be lots of meeting parts and articles about how refreshing such spiritual food is at the proper time, etc., and personal experiences about how it's safeguarded the spirituality, etc.
I also think there'll be a cracking down on associating with "weaker" aka inactive ones (like me).
And watch for more negativity on recreation/hobbies/extra activities as "time wasters" and more suggestions on how to combine recreation with spiritual activities. Oh, and more bad on college. Not sure if they can outright ban it, but watch for it to renewed demonization to the point where it might as well be banned.
Just my two cents, er, two shells.
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Borg court: 1st session
by sd-7 inrecord of committee meeting #1. after prayer, proverbs 28:13 was read: "he who is covering over his transgressions will not succeed, but he who is confessing and leaving them will be shown mercy.
" the need to confess to jehovah was emphasized.
as jehovah's representatives, the elders said we therefore needed to confess to them.
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Hang in there, Christopher. Keep us posted...
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-NCC 2010 Report: An Actual Increase in US Church Membership including JWs due to an influx of ...
by AndersonsInfo ini've been away so i don't know if this report has been posted on jwn recently.
however, i just want to mention that i recently heard from a credible source (circuit overseer) that the main increase of jws in the united states is among the spanish.
this fits with what this report suggests about the increase in us church membership is mostly due to an influx of immigrants.
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Cadellin
I can add confirmation to willyloman. I'm in Washington State and in the last 5 years or so, the Spanish congs. have exploded and are continuing. We went from having a single Spanish group in the whole area 5 or 6 years ago to now, every KH has at least 1 HUGE cong. sharing it with the Anglos. Their big problem is lack of bros who are in the country legally.
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Watchtower May 15,2010 "Brothers Sow to the Spirit and Reach out"
by hoser inlooks like they're almost begging for elders and ms's.
take a fresh look.
the need for overseers and ministerial servants is greater today than ever before.we.
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Clyde says he would consider being an elder again but his doctor says he has to cut back on his drinking.
ROFLMAO!!!
Actually, ROFLMTA (rolling on the floor laughing my tail off) Damn, I'm getting scales everywhere!
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JW Science Quote (2-19)
by TD insome of the science quotes of "celebrated jw scholars" need lengthy explanations, while others practically shimmer in the air by themselves.
this week's installment in the science quotes of jehovah's witnesses is from the september 15, 1961 issue of the watchtower.
it was from a time when jw writers were almost frantic in their desire to demonize blood transfusion.
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TD, thanks again for your ongoing exposure of theocratic pseudo-science. This latest one is a great example of how JW epistemology is a matter of putting the cart before the horse. Rather than let naturalistic or scientific evidence "lead," theological interpretation "leads," and "evidence" is cherry-picked post priori to fit the pre-determined conclusion.
Of course, the Society could simply say that refusing blood transfusion is a matter of faith and leave it at that, which shifts the grounds for debate to purely theological, but noooo! They trot out "scientific" evidence to prop up their credibility.
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Watchtower May 15,2010 "Brothers Sow to the Spirit and Reach out"
by hoser inlooks like they're almost begging for elders and ms's.
take a fresh look.
the need for overseers and ministerial servants is greater today than ever before.we.
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Cadellin
Ironically, the congs with the most increase here in the US are the Spanish, yet they have the worst problem when it comes to lack of elders and MS's. Why? So many Mexican bros. are illegal. I learned from a relative a week or 2 ago (an elder in a Spanish cong) that they just got a letter from the branch saying its okay for bros here illegally to now carry the microphone.