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  SAINTS WIN SuperBowl XLIV (44) Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!

  by cattails in

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  saints win.

  saints win.

  saints win.

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  oppostate

  The touchdown where the Saint just barely managed

  to contort his body to score inside the endzone

  was amazing to see in slow motion, in replay!

  Almost thought it would be tied, but then the Colts gave it over.
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  SAINTS WIN SuperBowl XLIV (44) Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!

  by cattails in

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  saints win.

  saints win.

  saints win.

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  oppostate

  The onside kick and recover the football was a brilliant move by the Saints!

  Very gutsy plays, the Saints team took lots of risks, and enjoyed their rewards.
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  Watchtower Bible and Tract Society will move their world headquarters to Warwick -- Patterson Part Deux

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower will move world headquarters to warwick.

  warwick - if all goes according to plan, jehovahs witnesses will relocate their world headquarters from brooklyn to warwick.. .

  at its regular meeting on nov. 19, the warwick town board announced the plans by the religious group.. the visual impact of the religious denominations plans to refurbish the former international nickel company property off long meadow road stand as the primary concern residents want addressed in any environmental impact statement.. .

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  oppostate

  The plan to move out of Brooklyn is a reaction to 911.

  Do you agree? What else could motivate their move to the burbs?

  invited him to tour its other New York campuses in Patterson and Shawangunk

  Patterson I know. But where in the world is Shawangunk, is that Wallkill?
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  Why do elders offer to "study" with witnesses?

  by donuthole in

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  2. friends

  has anybody else ever experienced this?

  when you get into a bit of trouble in the congregation or have certain questions/doubts over teachings and they want to study with you all over again?

  you could have been a witness your whole life, know the bible teach/live forever/knowledge book front to back, even have studied with others and brought them into the religion - and the elder sitting across from you wants to know if a bible study would help you.

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  oppostate

  As Highdose said earlier in the thread: It's part of the mental conditioning. 

  If an elder studies with you they are certain to know you've been reprogrammed. 

  If you fail to reprogram you're out.
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  Watchtower Bible and Tract Society will move their world headquarters to Warwick -- Patterson Part Deux

  by oppostate in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  watchtower will move world headquarters to warwick.

  warwick - if all goes according to plan, jehovahs witnesses will relocate their world headquarters from brooklyn to warwick.. .

  at its regular meeting on nov. 19, the warwick town board announced the plans by the religious group.. the visual impact of the religious denominations plans to refurbish the former international nickel company property off long meadow road stand as the primary concern residents want addressed in any environmental impact statement.. .

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  oppostate

  Watchtower will move world headquarters to Warwick

  Warwick - If all goes according to plan, Jehovah’s Witnesses will relocate their world headquarters from Brooklyn to Warwick.
  
  At its regular meeting on Nov. 19, the Warwick Town Board announced the plans by the religious group.

  The visual impact of the religious denomination’s plans to refurbish the former International Nickel Company property off Long Meadow Road stand as the primary concern residents want addressed in any environmental impact statement.
  
  The plans for the new headquarters that are before the town’s Planning Board call for almost 90 percent of the 257 acre site to remain in its natural condition. The site consists of approximately 195 acres of forest, 37 acres of wetlands and Blue Lake, and almost 14 acres of roads, buildings and landscaping.

  The plans include specifications to meet the Green Building Initiative’s three “Green Globes” standard, a building rating system used in the U.S. and Canada. The proposed Watchtower redevelopment site has been vacant since the mid 1990’s. Two other tax-exempt entities - Kings College and later Touro College - each abandoned plans to redevelop the site.
  
  Supervisor Michael Sweeton said attorneys for Jehovah’s Witnesses invited him to tour its other New York campuses in Patterson and Shawangunk to demonstrate “what they do, what their campuses look like and how they fit into the community.”

  The project has received a positive declaration under the State Environmental Quality Review, meaning the town is required to “identify and mitigate the significant environmental impacts” before approving the plans. Sweeton said the proposed campus seems like a good fit for the site and he is “pleased so little land would be disturbed.” The site sits in the Tuxedo School District, which had concerns about children on the campus; however, Sweeton said according to the religious order it only permits members without children to work and live on campus. Members with children would have to leave the site and settle in the community where their children would attend school.
  
  If the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society proposal goes through, it will have a minimal carbon footprint, says Sweeton, and “use all kinds of recycled materials with a vast amount of open space to remain.”
  
  He also said members visiting the campus will stay in bed and breakfasts and hotels, eat in restaurants and shop, bringing tourism dollars with them.
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  Mill Hill Disfellowshippings

  by BorgHater in

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  a few months ago there was a thread about a couple of elders at the mill hill bethel being disfellowshipped because they disagreed with some wt doctrine (i can't recall exactly what it was) and that several other betheliteswere under 'investigation'.

  i haven't heard anything since, does anyone know anything more about this?.

  borghater xx.

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  oppostate

  If you get a chance Paul, I'd be interested in learning about your Judicial

  Committee meeting and how things went. I listened to Ed Dunlap's tape

  online and it was very heart wrenching to hear how a brother could be

  treated in such an un-Christian manner. I forget which website it was that

  I found it on once I started reading Crisis of Conscience and searching the

  internet for more information. 
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  The Rise of the Conscious Class

  by truthseeker in

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  "i believe in one god, and no more; and i hope for happiness beyond this life.

  i believe the equality of man, and i believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

  but, lest it should be supposed that i believe many other things in addition to these, i shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things i do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them.

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  oppostate

  Count me in, graduating conscious class 2010.

  Thanks TruthSeeker for the well thought out, well worded article for this thread.
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  email fwd from my mom: utter BS..bet the sheeple eat this crap up and MY REACTION

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  i received this crap from my jw mom today.

  i hope it doesn't "encourage" you to go back .

  you see, when i left, i immediately felt the relief of not being burned all the time by all of the gossip that occurs within the congregations, circuits, etc.

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  oppostate

  Sooo, could it be that the person in question didn't realize what the elder 

  was doing playing with the embers and only needed someone to be there

  for companionship? If the elder really meant to use his little illustration 

  he would have made application of it I'm sure otherwise he'd run the risk 

  that the message would be lost. It sounds so much like a made up story.
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  Something You Hate About The Jehovah's Witness Religion

  by minimus in

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  one thing that truly bothers me is that the religion forces you to accept an understanding they have expressed.

  they might very well change their view and you simply have to accept the newest view or you are the bad guy!

  the generation understanding has changed so much since its inception, how could any witness possibly be 100% sure that what they're told to believe in is "the truth"??.

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  oppostate

  I hate the fact that they've stolen some of the best years of people's lives 

  under a religious pretense in order to increase their publishing company's 

  wealth and corporate holdings.
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  NEW GENERATION DEFINED -- April 15, 2010 Watchtower

  by Ultimate Reality in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  from jw.org, here is the new definition of the generation from the april 15, 2010 watchtower.. .

  article: holy spirits role in the outworking of jehovahs purpose.

  13 third, holy spirit is at work in bringing bible.

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  oppostate

  Oh the fatigue of ever changing pronouncements and erroneous interpretations, how long must this go on!