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  Pregnant woman murdered and baby stolen

  by Heatmiser in

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  2. current

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141836,00.html

  i can't understand the mindset of someone that would do this.

  wtf????.

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  I can't understand the mindset of someone that would do this. WTF????

  it defies explanation. i mean, how could someone be HUMAN and be capable of such a henious act? truth is stranger than fiction...
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  Artificial Life Closer

  by Satanus in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/4104483.stm

  researchers at rockefeller university in the us have made the first tentative steps towards creating a form of artificial life.

  the soft cell walls are made of fat molecules taken from egg white.

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  Brave new world of the nano

  November 15, 2003

  
  

  Nanotechnology is leading us into a very different future.

  A mysterious technology is about to transform our lives, but scientists say it needs more debate, writes Deborah Smith.

  Put Hollywood and Michael Crichton together and you've got the next big science scare.

  When a film based on the best-selling author's thriller Prey - featuring tiny robots that run amok - hits the big screen, it could do for nanotechnology what his Jurassic Park did for cloning.

  In nano-talk, tiny means hardly there at all. One hundred-thousandth the thickness of a human hair. Half the width of a strand of DNA. Three gold atoms side by side. A billionth of a metre.

  No matter how hard researchers have tried, there is no catchy way to describe a nanometre, no simple comparison that gives meaning to the term at the heart of the science set to transform our lives.

  And this is probably part of the reason why nanotechnology - making new devices and materials by working in the 1-to-100 nanometre range - has not aroused the same debate in Australia as other controversial new technologies, despite concerns raging overseas.

  Nanotechnology also packs a very broad punch. The list of areas it is expected to effect, for better or worse, is as long as a nanometre is short.

  Promises of research in this Lilliputian world also range from the mundane to the miraculous, from a cure for smelly socks to an unbreakable cord to tether satellites to the Earth.

  It could transform medicine - leading to tiny devices scooting through our veins to repair worn bodies. Or, some scientists warn, it could transform the human race.

  Nanotechnology will also have an impact on the environment, defence, energy, information technology, agriculture, sport and manufacturing. Most aspects of our lives will be affected, says Vijoleta Braach-Maksvytis, head of the CSIRO's Global Aid plan and, until recently, co-director of CSIRO Nanotechnology.

  Dr Braach-Maksvytis is among those who do not want to see the same mistakes made as with other technologies, where public consideration of the social and ethical implications lagged behind the science.

  Nanotechnology will lead us into a very different future, she said. "And I passionately believe we have an extraordinary moment in history as a global people to rethink where we want to take the world with this new technology."

  The nano-revolution began 20 years ago when it first became possible to see atoms with a microscope. Then, in 1989, scientists laboriously dragged individual atoms into the pattern of their employer's name, IBM, a feat that would allow a book to be written on a pinhead.

  Simon Ringer, of the University of Sydney, likens our position to that of the 17th century microscopists who first saw the world of organisms and cells.

  "We are going on a new journey, into inner space, to find out how materials really work at the nano-level. We are on the cusp of a new age of enlightenment," said Professor Ringer, executive director of the Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation, NANO.

  Scientists are excited because the properties of materials can alter dramatically when they become nano-sized. Most metals, for example, change colour. As well, it is the scale at which proteins and DNA work.

  Professor Matt Trau, director of the Centre for Nanotechnology and Biomaterials at the University of Queensland, compares his nano research to children playing with building blocks. "But our Lego blocks are molecules."

  Australia made its mark six years ago when Dr Braach-Maksvytis, with Dr Bruce Cornell, developed the first nano-machine, a sensor that could detect a sugar cube dissolved in Sydney Harbour.

  Australian companies make the world's smallest nanoparticles for commercial use and have just had the first nanotechnology-based medical device approved for human therapy. And the first university course on nanotechnology was introduced here.

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  i see all these advacements as testaments to the incredible and phenomenal accomplishments "imperfect man" is capable of. i mean, what have any of Jehovah's Witnesses done to make this world a better place?

  it's a brave new world all right...
  
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  Comparing molested children to prostitutes.

  by avishai in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  here is an excerpt from the "beware the voice of strangers" talk from the 2003 district convention.

  this part is obviously referring to the "dateline" special.

  notice how they subtly compare the victims with prostitution and insinuate that they are immoral?

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  I think that it's human nature to try to cover your a$$

  and the witnesses have that down to a science. (or is it a fine art?)
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  What did you pray for when you were a JW?

  by JH in

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  did you pray for health, even if you knew that only in the new system your health would get better.... did you pray for a bible study?.

  did you pray not to be tempted by the debil?

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  at every meal (even in restaurants), meeting, studying, going out in service...i was constantly praying. i prayed for protection from Satan and temptation, and to be a better person than the day before. too bad all that faith, devotion and self-denial was wasted on a lie...

  
  Before....................After

  p.s. i don't pray at all now. for any reason.
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  How did your congregation react when you moved out on your own?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i left home at the age of 21 - the time was right and i needed my space and independence.. a few witnesses had their own opinionsabout my move.

  there were some old timers that said the only reason you should leave home is because you're married.

  some traditionalists think you should stay home with your parents until you're married, as moving out on your own makes you selfish and too independent.. how did your congregation react when they heard you were moving out?

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  i honestly don't know. i moved to another city and got an apartment and lost touch completely with all of them. the only person still in by that time was my sister, who's still in now, and she couldn't find me 'cause i didn't give her my phone number. personally, i don't think they cared one way or the other. anyway i was not even 19 yet and moved in with this girl from an ad in the paper who was looking for a roommate. suddenly i found myself alone and it was scary. i slept with the lights on all night, the first time i was in the apartment alone. but i had my job to go to every day and friends from work and after a while the panic attacks stopped... it wasn't easy. but i never wanted to go back to that hellhole, no matter how scary the big bad world was... then i met a nice older worldly man.. but that's a whole other story.
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  A (JW) Father's Touch

  by Incense_and_Peppermints in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  "sad eyes never lie.

  " - bruce sprigsteen

  http://www.fatherstouch.com

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  i stumbled on that link by accident and was blown away. and i exited the site and thought i'd just forget about it, but that didn't feel right...i kept remembering their sad little faces...so i posted it. witnesses who come here looking for answers can see, and witnesses who come here to spy on stray sheep can see. it seems that abused children always have the same haunted look about them. i mean, they smile and laugh but there's always that look of melancholy that permeates their being. the abuser can hide the abuse from everyone, but their victims' eyes tell the tale. that took a lot of courage for that man to write that book. and now he's telling everyone see what daddy did to me...and my brothers and sister...see how he was protected by the WTS... he took away their innocence - which is worse than defiling a temple. i wish there was a Hell so people like that could burn in it...
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  A (JW) Father's Touch

  by Incense_and_Peppermints in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  "sad eyes never lie.

  " - bruce sprigsteen

  http://www.fatherstouch.com

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  "Sad eyes never lie." - Bruce Sprigsteen

  http://www.fatherstouch.com
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  Who are these idiots? Re: Scott Peterson Trial

  by IronGland in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these arent family members according to the caption, they're just people waiting outside the courtroom when the sentence was announced.

  their faces show they have some major emotional investment in this trial.

  the man even appears to be praying.

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  Maybe she's auditioning to be one of Bill Clinton's interns.

  omg lol
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  Comparing molested children to prostitutes.

  by avishai in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  here is an excerpt from the "beware the voice of strangers" talk from the 2003 district convention.

  this part is obviously referring to the "dateline" special.

  notice how they subtly compare the victims with prostitution and insinuate that they are immoral?

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  beware of the voice of apostate strangers.

  actually, i think they were saying that the "voice of strangers" is as "seductive" as a prostitute...
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  The Org and my marriage

  by Chloe in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  well, it looks like the jehovah's witnesses are going to start intruding in my marriage again.. a little background, when i first met my husband he was going to meetings sporadically.

  he has studied off and on for years but was never baptized so he's always been in the "love bombing" stage with them.

  he believes most of the doctrines (no christmas although he lets me celebrate it, the trinity is wrong, etc.

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  Well, it looks like the Jehovah's Witnesses are going to start intruding in my marriage again.

  those jerkfaces...