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Afraid of Dying?
by PointBlank in
1. jw
2. friends
i don't know if this subject has been discussed here before.

if it has, could someone help me find it?

if it hasn't (i can't imagine that it hasn't), here's what i was wondering.
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Rutherford's Views on Women
by Leolaia in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
"the women make monkeys or dupes of men.

the men have before effeminate, soft and easily influenced and have lost their real manhood and sturdiness in the affairs of state and home.

for instance, when men are sitting at a table and a woman approaches, all the men arise and pay her homage and thereby elevate her to a place above men.
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Keeping your pets safe during the holiday season
by Lady Lee in
1. jw
2. friends
make the season bright for your pets with our holiday safety tips.

"we see an increased number of calls related to pet poisoning between thanksgiving and new year's," says dr. steven hansen, senior vice president, aspca animal poison control center.

here's one holiday list you can check twice to help keep the furry members of your family happy and healthy:.
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JGnat Says Hi
by jgnat in
1. jw
2. experiences
i have been wandering around the board for a while now, and have decided it is time to contribute a bit of my history.

i have described my involvement with the witnesses as being from the outside looking in.

my sweet honey has been trying for two years to get reinstated.
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Childhood Misconceptions
by Big Tex in
1. social
2. humour
when i was a kid, i kind of lived in my own world.

i thought i knew everything, but as i grew older i realized my biggest problem was that i only halfway paid attention to the world.

and the bathroom was on the right of what?
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Me and my brother.
by nicolaou in
1. jw
2. friends
an earlier discussion has been highlighting the differences between da'ing and df'ing.

xena said:i am sorry qadreena but i have never in the 20 some odd years i have been a jw ever heard of an unbaptised publisher being d/aed...marked as bad association yes..but d/a...no...but i guess stranger things can happen.... well that brought it all back.. actually xena the exact same thing happened to my brother in the early 80's.

he was only 14. he'd carried on associating with a friend of his who'd been disfellowshipped.
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The Russell/Mason debate
by NikL in
1. jw
2. friends
i have noticed there is some debate on this board about russell and whether he was a mason or not.

some say he is a part of a conspiracy others say it is nonesence.. i am, to be quite honest, not sure where i fit in this.

i do find it interesting that russell is buried under a pyramid in the masonic section of a grave yard.
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independent thinking
by stephenw20 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
1983 "avoid independent thinking .. how is such independent thinking manifested?

a common way is by questioning the counsel that is provided by god's visible organization.

" {wt jan 15 1983 22}.
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"He who loves me will OBEY my commandments...
by AGuest in
1. watchtower
2. bible
to the household of god, israel, that is on jw.com, and all those who 'got with' them:.

may you have peace!.

because israel has, at this 'season' fallen asleep with regard to many 'things' that our lord, the son of god, jah-eshua mischa-jah ("jah saves"; messiah - "chosen of jah"), 'commanded' us to teach others (matthew 28:20), i am compelled by the spirit of my father, the holy one of israel, jah of armies (psalm 68:4), that is in me, by means of my lord, to remind israel of one of such commandments.. on the night that he was put to death in the flesh, our lord gave a commandment, to which he stated "keep doing this in remembrance of me.
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Forum plans and policy
by Simon in
1. jw
2. friends
in case anyone is wondering about our registration policy:.

i don't intend to turn people away who want to register and post or make ultra-strict registration procedures because i honestly don't think that they work.

if i were to ask for names of congregations or presiding overseers then i have no real way of checking if they are correct.