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  Has Anybody Hear a Rumour That Prince Died?

  by cofty in

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  why do people care so much about celebrities?

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  @Nathan Natas

  Just spat my tea into the keyboard!

  Love the picture at the convention with others around him asleep or yawning.
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  Start your own Prince rumour!

  by purrpurr in

  1. social
  2. humour

  i see the jw rumour mill is going into mad overdrive about prince.

  the stories seem to be more and more unlikely.

  so i thought as a bit of fun how about us here try to make up our own rumours?

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  freddo

  Prince died as one of the 144,000 and is now ruling from heaven and about to get inside ToMo3's head to ensure tight purple pants are to be a requirement when visiting bethel facilities.
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  Any thought behind your " Avatar"

  by The Rebel in

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  i think that's the correct phrase?

  anyway when i first came here, that little picture that "the rebel" hides behind, was a self portrait of a very sad man, who simply had too much knowledge.

  now i feel after 7 months here, i should repaint that " avetor" give some happiness to the eyes, and a contented smile to the lips.. in short my " avetor" was a self portrait of a man with too much knowledge.

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  Mine is Emperor Hirohito during WW2 sat astride a large gun barrel surrounded by his top brass. They all look confident and imposing and unassailable.

  Pride goes before a crash. Pride hides inner weakness.

  I hope that what appears to be unassailable is really rather weak.
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  Has Anybody Hear a Rumour That Prince Died?

  by cofty in

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  why do people care so much about celebrities?

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  freddo

  I hear you cofty.

  To my embarrassment as a grown man I found Princess Diana's death and funeral moving and it brought to mind the death of a close relative of mine. Seeing William and Harry walking behind the coffin doing their duty when their heads must have been spinning brought tears to my eyes.

  But not diminishing her family's pain, what did she do that caused such wailing and outpouring among British people. She was on holiday with her lover, got in a car without a seatbelt on and sat behind a driver who ploughed into a pillar at excessive speed. It happens every day of the week somewhere in the world.

  So do I feel a stab of sadness when a "known" (on the TV or in the media) person dies if I find their work chimes with me? Fleetingly perhaps - but Prince? No, not really. Bowie, more so.
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  A Watchtower double standard: Rejection and the silent treatment.

  by ScenicViewer in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a recent watchtower study article shows how bad it is to be rejected over religious beliefs when olga revealed that her husband was not speaking to her because she is a jehovah's witness.. 9 in south america, olga proved loyal to god by showing respect for her husband even under trying circumstances.

  for years, he expressed annoyance at her for being one of jehovah’s witnesses.

  he abused her emotionally, insulted her, refused to speak to her, and threatened to take the children and leave her.

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  Question from Readers WT 1970 March 15th.

  May dedicated Christians attend church funerals ...

  2 Kings 5 v 17 - 19

  About when someone views how his duty as a servant taking his master into a house of false worship will compromise his worship to Jehovah but that Jehovah will forgive him ...
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  Much todo about nothing

  by Crazyguy in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i was with a friend that had a surgery and of course they are witnesses and they went through all the blood documents before surgery.

  then with another friend they prayed to the great bull god jah and thanked him for all the bloodless techniques now used by the hospital etc.

  the doctor made it clear that the chance of even needing blood was minimal and the surgery now is real easy.

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  McDonalds?

  Sorry crazy guy I'm in a foolish mood today. I hope someone can answer your question sensibly.
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  Lennon and McCartney could so easily have been writing for the Watchtower...

  by The Rebel in

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  in fact just like the watchtower, i've no idea what they were writing about half the time.

  all that rubbish about " i am the walrus" and eleanor rigby keeping her teeth in a jam jar or something, and what "lucy the in the sky with diamonds" means i do not know!

  anyway, i mention the above because shortly after i quit meetings, beattle loving brother, ian x also, stopped attending meetings, and i watched him transform himself in to a, scruffy bearded, hippyish, beer drinking slob, ( translation a great guy) .

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  @hoser

  Quite right! Funny how the mind plays tricks.

  So "her face" in the jar was her make up not her teeth. Oops!
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  MIL says she wants to donate home

  by StarTrekAngel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so my wife and her sisters found out this weekend that their mother has contemplated donating her home to the wt.

  she did not tell them directly.

  i am afraid she knew they would not agree.

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  Stupid cow. Sorry not much help am I?
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  Lennon and McCartney could so easily have been writing for the Watchtower...

  by The Rebel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in fact just like the watchtower, i've no idea what they were writing about half the time.

  all that rubbish about " i am the walrus" and eleanor rigby keeping her teeth in a jam jar or something, and what "lucy the in the sky with diamonds" means i do not know!

  anyway, i mention the above because shortly after i quit meetings, beattle loving brother, ian x also, stopped attending meetings, and i watched him transform himself in to a, scruffy bearded, hippyish, beer drinking slob, ( translation a great guy) .

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  Eleanor Rigby was very good in 1966 - about the loneliness of people.

  The teeth in the jar by the door was simply a reference to her old age and putting her dentures in a glass of cleaning fluid at night for the next day.

  "Father McKenzie - writing the lines of a sermon that no-one will hear ... all the lonely people, where do they all come from ... "

  Could be written for the hopelessness of some of the Watchtower slaves actually.

  Quite haunting.
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  WT's expert on blood!

  by Joyzabel in

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  2. medical

  the january 8, 2000 awake magazine published an article "the growing demand for bloodless medicine and surgery".

  this article has been quoted extensively by jws as support for their "scientific" justification for refusing blood products.. a quote from that article that is familiar to most jws and exjws is this one:.

  “all those dealing with blood and caring for surgical patients have to consider bloodless surgery.”—dr.

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  @Blues brother I think you mean 8th of January Awake 2000 - Damn Americans with their back to front Month and Day calendars!

  Was that the one where on the front a guy is in surgeons garb and has a grey-stubble beard?