TheClarinetist

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  Your Thoughts, Please (Seriously)...

  by AGuest in

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  2. friends

  may you all have peace!.

  on occasion, dear ones post questions on the board that have a "legal" undertone.

  sometimes those questions are just trying to get a sense of what questions such one should ask (perhaps of an attorney), sometimes they have to do with very ordinary events, and sometimes they really do require in-depth legal assistance/analysis.

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClnSMCdw6E8&feature=related
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  12 Things Troy Wouldn't Do On Community If Actually A Jehovah's Witness

  by lohengren in

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  2. friends

  http://www.cinemablend.com/television/12-things-troy-wouldn-t-do-community-actually-jehovah-witness-37613.html#disqus_thread.

  interesting article about a character on the show "community" that is apparently a jw.

  also there are a ton of apologists in the comments section.

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  LoL. I'm glad I'm not the only one who watches that show or who noticed that.
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  Your Thoughts, Please (Seriously)...

  by AGuest in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  may you all have peace!.

  on occasion, dear ones post questions on the board that have a "legal" undertone.

  sometimes those questions are just trying to get a sense of what questions such one should ask (perhaps of an attorney), sometimes they have to do with very ordinary events, and sometimes they really do require in-depth legal assistance/analysis.

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  I think what has been said about a subforum is correct. Even when asking for advice (and I know I'm one of the people who asked ), we're aware that this is a forum, and at best we can hope for a little direction when we're out of our league. Whereas if there was a subforum, it would imply that people knew what they were talking about, and might even put Simon at risk. Of course, I think the community is nice enough we won't all go lawsuit happy, but who knows?

  I think its same way it is when people post about their personal problems. When you have something helpful to say, you can say it. Other times, you just need to politely tell them that they need professional help.

  (Also, thanks again to everyone who offered advice to me. Whether good "legal advice" or not, it was nice to know people cared enough to try. )

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  @BOTS: This is a sily argument at this point. Really? No one represented themselves as a lawyer. The thread was an open invitation to anyone who wanted to chime in. I didn't believe anyone was a lawyer, and the majority of the posts were either telling me to go see a lawyer, or after I had already said I was seeking a lawyer.
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  It's my birthday :-)

  by poopsiecakes in

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  ...and i'm shamelessly looking for love from my jwn peeps!

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  Here you go! Sorry it took so long... Fianc é e was being difficult. (did you know it has two 'e's when its a girl?)
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  It's my birthday :-)

  by poopsiecakes in

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  ...and i'm shamelessly looking for love from my jwn peeps!

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  Happy Birthday!

  Drinks are on me!
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  Evolution : Where are we headed to

  by bioflex in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is topic is to discuss where we are headed as humans as far as evolution is concerned.

  what possible future awaits us.

  i am posting this video to help my cause.

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  Okay... I can't take this anymore. My BS meter exploded. He started his argument by saying that the bible is right because it says it is and then goes on from there using only the bible as the source for his arguments. Really? Also, attacking the theory of evolution by accusing Darwin of being racist?

  Bioflex, we are going one of three places:

  1) Extinction of our reproductive lines.

  2) Evolution into one or many species through either biological or technological means.

  3) Discovering immortality and staying the same forever without reproduction.

  Of course, it can actually be any combination of those, but it has to be at least one of them. The point is that there is no set endpoint. We have no control. It's just going to happen, like the weather.
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  Evolution : Where are we headed to

  by bioflex in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this is topic is to discuss where we are headed as humans as far as evolution is concerned.

  what possible future awaits us.

  i am posting this video to help my cause.

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  Trying to listen to this.... kind of painful. You could drive a truck through the holes in his arguments. >_< I'll finish after my audition tonight before putting my two cents in on "where we're going".
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  Do YOU Believe That JWs Have A Huge Problem With Pedophiles?

  by minimus in

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  2. child-abuse

  i don't think there are more pedophiles in the religion than there are in others.. i understand that one is too many.

  but i think some believe that it's an epidemic within the organization.

  i believe their 2 witness rule can help pedophiles secretly abuse kids.. but i don't think that this particular crime dominates those in the religion.. .

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  I did a little math earlier this year based on some statistics I found about pedophiles in the Jehovah's Witnesses, and came to the [highly un-scientific] conclusion the Jehovah's Witnesses have slightly less pedophiles than the average population. Like has already been said in this thread, the issue is not that there are too many pedophiles in the congregations, but instead that they aren't dealt with properly.
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  CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE ARRIVED - Lets see what my guy (Ray franz) had been up to

  by mankkeli in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  coc was delivered this evenning and i will be jacking it the whole night.

  i might write a review to refute ray's argument after the reading and btw, i will be away from here for some time.

  let it begin.. .

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  CoC was delivered this evenning and I will be jacking it the whole night. I might write a review to refute Ray's argument

  My fiance seems to think that it's a pun on the acronym. Well played Mankkeli. Well. Played.
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  To garyneal and Others, Evidence that the anointed remnants represented by the GB were selected in 1919.

  by mankkeli in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  1st evidence: the release of loyal jews from exile, made possible by the fall of babylon, foreshadowed the release in 1919 of anointed christians from spiritual exile.

  2nd evidence: that year marked the beginning of the period when the anointed remnants were released from a form of spiritual captivity to the ideas and practices of false religion.

  although having rejected such false teachings as the trinity and the immortal soul, they were still tainted by babylonish practices.

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  TheClarinetist - Were you not aware that the 1914 prediction was made before the event took place?. Wasn't the war not enough substantial evidence to establish the fact that something had been shaken in the spiritual realm?

  It was prophesied that something would happen, a prophesy originating from Pyramidology, hence my comment on Kemetism. The 1914 prophesy came after Jesus' "second coming" in the late 1800s and is completely unrelated to what is currently taught. And even what is currently taught is dependant on several important dates in known history being wrong.