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  I thought this would be dumb...

  by AwSnap in

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  ...but then i realized that my friends & i used to do the same thing, except whoever made this video did it to perfection.

  lol...enjoy.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygqega.

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  cantleave

  Fantastically Funny.
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  Best Guitar Riff Ever?

  by cantleave in

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  legendary guitarist jimi hendrix's 'voodoo child (slight return)' has been voted as the best guitar riff ever by the users of musicians' website musicradar.com.. what do you guys and gals think?.

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  Crazy Train is a great riff, need to really stretch your pinky to play it too.
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  BBC Programme on JW youth

  by InquiryMan in

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  has anyone in the uk seen this programme.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p4dyl.

  unfortunately, non-uk residents are not able to watch this transmission on internet...is there anyone who might see it who would download it somehow and download it and share it.. if anyone has seen it, how was it?.

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  cantleave

  Scots please show the way to one of those congregations - I'm fed up with the koolaid ones I have been attending all my life.
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  BBC Programme on JW youth

  by InquiryMan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  has anyone in the uk seen this programme.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p4dyl.

  unfortunately, non-uk residents are not able to watch this transmission on internet...is there anyone who might see it who would download it somehow and download it and share it.. if anyone has seen it, how was it?.

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  cantleave

  Just watched he programme. I think the local elders will have much to ponder. The young girl in the film was bullied badly at school and was home schooled. She is a black belt in marshall arts and is gay. If the commentator had not stated that her parents were witnesses there ws little in the film to suggest that they were. There were no shots of family worship, field service or kingdom hall attendance but there were some things under the surface that witnesses would pick up on. Megans issues and reticence to be part of the outside world seemed to stem more from the bullying she experienced rather than the religion of her parents.

  Her parents seemed to actively encourage her to move away from the religion and what would be considered acceptable by the congregation.

  Megan was not just home schooled, she had no friends at all, no witness friends, no friends from marshall arts, no old friends from school and no pen pals. Even in the organisation that is bizarre.

  It seemed to me that this wasn't just about Megan growing up and experiencing more freedom, this was about her parents accepting that the religon they followed was not going to be the religon their daughter followed and how they prepared her to have a new life. They allowed her to pursue outside interests and make friends within these groups. They encouraged her to socialise with others outside the organisation. It is unclear how seriously the parents took their religion, they were described as strict JWs but they were not devout. Jackie the mum read a passage of scripture from a Gideon Bible in the hotel room about modesty just before sending her daughter to a disco but she did so not in a serious let us pray together mode but in a here's a funny thing I found in this book mode.

  There is little for the organisation to dislike in terms of bad press, the parents were reasonable and accepting of their daughters choices and supportive of her new life. They didn't come across as religious zealots struggling with a moral dilema. There was no talk of disfellowshipping although it was suspicious that they had been out of touch with her cousin for 4 years. There was nothing that would make people think witness parents were controlling and emotionally crippled. Staunch witnesses would say that on the evidence these people were not spiritually strong anyway.

  I think good for them their love for their child was paramount and did provide a useful perspective. So many people leave the organisation still clinging to what they have lost and feeling bitter. Megan showed that if an emotionally damaged girl could go out and start afresh making new friends, with no look back then so can we all.
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  New Songs - Why?

  by IMHO in

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  whose idea to have new/changed songs?.

  who decided what songs would be 'deleted'?

  and on what basis?.

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  The public talk slot at the meeting today is being used for practice of the new songs - that should be a laugh.
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  lurking in JW land, i saw this...re bible studies at home

  by Aussie Oz in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  came accross this the other day.

  it was on some jw forum i was lurking on.

  the witness gushed 'just like the f&ds' to be one step in front!

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  Nice follow-up there Blues!

  Anywat, whatever happened to obeying god as ruler rather than men?
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  Husbands/Wives, Do you share passwords for each other's email account?

  by asilentone in

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  just wondering.

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  Yes we share all password, usually because we use the same ones for everything.
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  Best Guitar Riff Ever?

  by cantleave in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  legendary guitarist jimi hendrix's 'voodoo child (slight return)' has been voted as the best guitar riff ever by the users of musicians' website musicradar.com.. what do you guys and gals think?.

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  Mickey Mouse I love spandex bands too. Slash is an inspirational guitarist, Van Halen is a demi god and Europe something of a one hit wonder, but what a great somg (I'm sure this will annoy the Eurpoe fans here).

  Dinah, Kieth Richards must be the most pickled Guitarist out there but no-one deny his part in the Stones domination of Rock and Roll since the 60's, satisfaction should definitely be in the top 10 riffs..
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  Did you ever think you would end up here?

  by highdose in

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  meaning... on this website, no longer a jw or at least no longer beliving anymore?

  i never did, even 18 months ago it would have seemed impossible, unthinkable.

  even though looking back the seeds of doubt had been sown for some time, i just never allowed myself to think about them... vvv dangerous thing to do!.

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  No way. I would have believed this place was the tool of Satan himself.
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  Religious Shunning

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this google video is about the church of scientology and the struggle of david sweetland.

  i could feel myself sitting in his shoes.. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4128809453616957961#.

  how does this video make you feel when watching?.

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  cantleave

  Perry, I am a strong believer that two wrongs don't make a right. I would not allow myself to sink to their level. With JW's I believe thay are victims and need our sympathy not our hate. They maybe hateful, but that is because they have been brainwashed into believing their salvation is dependent on their following Jehovah;s direction, given through the FDS and its GB. I was there just a few months ago, I look back on what I believed and shudder, it took me 42 tears to realise I was living a lie. Thesre people still are living that lie, by shunning them we can't help them, in the same way their shunning us does not attract us back into their belief system.