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  Confliction

  by zoiks in

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  2. friends

  you have a pm..

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  The New Jeremiah Book

  by zoiks in

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  2. friends

  my mother-in-law just got back from her convention and gave us the new releases, this jeremiah book included.

  just a quick scan of it has revealed a few gems.. first of all, there is a chapter entitled, "you can benefit from the new covenant" (italics theirs).

  i am not a christian, but i understand the beef that many will have with this entire chapter.

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  Generation 'New Light' is Actually Working

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  as ridiculous as it seems to me and most of you, the infamous 'generation' update has every jw that i know in a tizzy.

  they're all worked up about how 'exciting' it all is.

  i just received a letter from my mom (she only communicates through letters now), and she brought it up - how they carefully explained it at the convention, and how it shows that we are so close to the end.. unbelievable.

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  Increasing Light and Cleaning Products

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  well, with the increasing light being shed upon the godly meaning of the word 'generation', i decided it was time to do something about our choice of cleaning products.. you see, my wife had purchased a bottle of dish soap called "seventh generation".

  curious as to whether the 'generation' they were referring to was the biblical generation, i looked at the back of the bottle and saw this slogan:.

  "'in our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.

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  RIP Mr. Dio

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  \m/.

  metal legend ronnie james dio dies at 67. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=126873517.

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  Our UK Friends Are Buried!

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  2. friends

  i see that you have a lot of snow!

  should we do a roll call?

  a head count?.

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  Richard Dawkins forum

  by zoiks in

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  2. friends

  are there any posters here who also read and/or post on the forums at richard-dawkins.net?

  it seems as though a large number of xjws post there.

  there are some really good and thought provoking points made, from a slightly different perspective.. just wondering!.

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  What Are You Reading?

  by zoiks in

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  ok, here's my current list:.

  i just finished the greatest show on earth by richard dawkins, and am almost finished crisis of conscience by...some guy.. currently in hand, i have:.

  the power of myth, joseph campbell and bill moyers.

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  Validation and defense mechanisms, or why it's ok for billions to die

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  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  more and more i have been thinking about the mindset that considers the idea that billions are to be destroyed at armageddon as perfectly ok. farkel's articles on freeminds.org really helped to bring it home for me.

  as jws, we do (or did) think it was perfectly reasonable that billions will have earned a death sentence simply for not accepting religious literature from an uninvited person at their doorstep.

  how do otherwise good people (for the most part) come to accept genocide as an acceptible, even good, solution to the problems they see and experience?.

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  An introduction

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