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  Anybody at an assembly right now?

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  i know this is a long shot and my identity as a witness is certainly at stake but anyone at a circuit assembly right now who is mentally out/disfellowshipped/faded who'd like to meet up?.

  i can't disclose the location but i'm curious though.

  i mean i know that there are assemblies and conventions all year long so i'm pretty sure there's more than one going on now but i'm extremely bored and annoyed and can barely keep from showing my anger at hipocresy and lies that are being said on the platform!

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  Can you sneak in a sketch pad and doodle bawdy cartoons????
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  WT Society Still Lies to JW's into Believing they Live Forever - 12/15 WT

  by flipper in

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  this quote was just so annoying and unbelievable it stunk the pages right up.

  but doesn't all the wt rhetoric stink it up ?

  in the article titled, " find real success in life " on pg.

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  I love what "wha happened" said on page 1...

  "... "But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die; ..."

  [wha happened] "Still works today.."
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  They want it both ways

  by jeremiah18:5-10 in

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  several years ago the wts stopped announcing individuals who were df'd as, "so-and-so has been disfellowshipped" and instead began announcing, "so-and-so is no longer one of jehovah's witnesses".

  this seems to be rather important to me.

  undoubtedly this change was fueled by legal issues raised by someone who was df'd and impacted in some way perhaps financially.

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  "...Show me a religion which DOESN'T do the same, and you'll have found a religion which just likes losing court cases and being slapped with jusgments and/or paying out settlements to ex-members. ..." Dave Perez, post #68

  Problem is, Dave, MOST religions nowadays do NOT cut off members arbitrarily just because they decide that that particular church - or religion - is not for them...

  Such behavior smacks of the extreme religious partisanship that existed in Ireland in the last two - three centuries, for example.

  What modern religion that wants to exist in harmony with the modern world, would act like an 18th-century despotic theocracy?
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  Physics Joke For You Cat Lovers

  by metatron in

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  http://www.neatoshop.com/product/young-schroedinger.

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  Poor cat!!!
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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 12-30-2012 (DO YOUR WILL)

  by blondie in

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  http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/?contentlanguagefilter=en&pubfilter=w&yearfilter=2012.

  united nations http://www.randytv.com/secret/unitednations.htm.

  http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com.

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  Marking...

  Thanks, Blondie!!!
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  WT Society Still Lies to JW's into Believing they Live Forever - 12/15 WT

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this quote was just so annoying and unbelievable it stunk the pages right up.

  but doesn't all the wt rhetoric stink it up ?

  in the article titled, " find real success in life " on pg.

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  Bump!!

  And marking...
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  How Science has advanced since the Victorian Era...

  by ziddina in

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  buttonhooks, steam-run horseless carriages, corsets, steamships, gaslight streetlights, wax candles..... these things were considered the 'latest' in "modern conveniences" during the victorian era.. the victorian era also ushered in some exciting new scientific discoveries and inventions - uranium, x-rays, electric telegraphs, bicycles, and a good part of the industrial revolution.. of course, nowadays we wouldn't dream of using buttonhooks to 'button up' our shoes, nor would we even consider having a steam-powered "horseless carriage" in our garage.. we wouldn't allow a dentist to work on us using 19th-century tools or techniques, nor would we trust a psychologist who insisted on using "phrenology" to determine why we have mood swings or depressions....

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  [sigh...]

  Apparently it's more fun to generate heat on certain threads than to light a candle on this one...
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  How Science has advanced since the Victorian Era...

  by ziddina in

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  buttonhooks, steam-run horseless carriages, corsets, steamships, gaslight streetlights, wax candles..... these things were considered the 'latest' in "modern conveniences" during the victorian era.. the victorian era also ushered in some exciting new scientific discoveries and inventions - uranium, x-rays, electric telegraphs, bicycles, and a good part of the industrial revolution.. of course, nowadays we wouldn't dream of using buttonhooks to 'button up' our shoes, nor would we even consider having a steam-powered "horseless carriage" in our garage.. we wouldn't allow a dentist to work on us using 19th-century tools or techniques, nor would we trust a psychologist who insisted on using "phrenology" to determine why we have mood swings or depressions....

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  About the leeches...

  Nowadays they are raised in a sterile environment. Does anybody know where they got their leeches from, back then? Had they started raising them in clean evironments during the Victorian era??

  For Brizzzy:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era

  http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/

  http://www.victorianweb.org/
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  How Science has advanced since the Victorian Era...

  by ziddina in

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  buttonhooks, steam-run horseless carriages, corsets, steamships, gaslight streetlights, wax candles..... these things were considered the 'latest' in "modern conveniences" during the victorian era.. the victorian era also ushered in some exciting new scientific discoveries and inventions - uranium, x-rays, electric telegraphs, bicycles, and a good part of the industrial revolution.. of course, nowadays we wouldn't dream of using buttonhooks to 'button up' our shoes, nor would we even consider having a steam-powered "horseless carriage" in our garage.. we wouldn't allow a dentist to work on us using 19th-century tools or techniques, nor would we trust a psychologist who insisted on using "phrenology" to determine why we have mood swings or depressions....

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  Hee hee hee!!

  Damn, that was my last post for a while....
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  How Science has advanced since the Victorian Era...

  by ziddina in

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  buttonhooks, steam-run horseless carriages, corsets, steamships, gaslight streetlights, wax candles..... these things were considered the 'latest' in "modern conveniences" during the victorian era.. the victorian era also ushered in some exciting new scientific discoveries and inventions - uranium, x-rays, electric telegraphs, bicycles, and a good part of the industrial revolution.. of course, nowadays we wouldn't dream of using buttonhooks to 'button up' our shoes, nor would we even consider having a steam-powered "horseless carriage" in our garage.. we wouldn't allow a dentist to work on us using 19th-century tools or techniques, nor would we trust a psychologist who insisted on using "phrenology" to determine why we have mood swings or depressions....

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  "fed rectally"..?????

  Similar [edited - I meant, 'as primitive as' ] to the attempts to "save" President Lincoln after Booth's assassination attempt...

  http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/06/11/prsc0611.htm

  Abraham Lincoln probably would have had trouble expressing ideas, struggled with dyslexia and experienced vision problems. But the nation's 16th president might have survived an assassin's bullet to the head if today's medical technology had been available.
  
  "He would have had a long recovery," said Thomas M. Scalea, MD, physician in chief at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. "Could he have been president again? Maybe."
  
  Dr. Scalea spoke about Lincoln last month at the university during the 13th annual Historical Clinicopathological Conference. The gathering attracted more than 300 alumni, faculty, students and history buffs.
  
  Past conferences explored medical mysteries of prominent figures such as Alexander the Great and Edgar Allan Poe.

  President Lincoln died 10 hours after being shot in the head.

  On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The bullet from Booth's derringer stopped behind Lincoln's left eye. Army assistant surgeon Charles Leale, who was at the theater, cared for Lincoln and found a blood clot at the back of the president's head.
  
  Physicians used brain decompression, but within 10 hours, Lincoln was dead.
  
  "The state of the art that they offered him was brandy, water and probing the wound," said Dr. Scalea, who reviewed medical records from Lincoln's physicians.
  
  If the shooting happened now, Lincoln would be airlifted to the Baltimore trauma center for a CT scan and medications to reduce effects of brain swelling. Surgery would be done to lessen pressure and remove accumulated blood. Doctors also would work to prevent additional brain damage.
  
  "If [Lincoln] came in here tonight and lived, we wouldn't be amazed," Dr. Scalea said.
  
  He said Lincoln's frontal lobes were spared, preserving sections that handle emotions, language and problem-solving. With rehabilitation, the president would have improved and may have been able to communicate.
  
  Steven Lee Carson, a U.S. presidential historian who spoke at the conference, said he believes Lincoln would have had a difficult time returning to a normal presidency.
  
  "If Lincoln had survived, he would have been in such bad shape that there would have been a long, long rehabilitation," Carson said. He noted that at the time, there was no provision for replacing a disabled president. It wasn't until 1967 that the 25th Amendment was ratified to address transfer of power from the president.