Kismet,
Take my post at face value because you're reading second intentions that are not there. I just read the news in the tram this morning on the way to my office, and thought it was a funny coincidence, the name and the way to die. I'm not happy when someone harmless like You Know dies (different is the case when a GB member dies) and I didn't think it would be inappropriate to post his real name, since everybody knows it.
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Joseph Joachim
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Is You Know dead?
by Joseph Joachim ini'm reading in the newspaper that a certain american turist named robert king was bitten by a jellyfish in australia and died.
could that be you know?
is that the fate of apostates like him?
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Disturbing trend in WT magazines...
by TheApostleAK inthis may be obvious to some but has anybody noticed the lack of doctrinal based watchtower study articles in wts for the last 2 years?.
lately we've been just getting either "pep talk" articles or articles that are only based on subjects.. the only new light lately is mainly the daniel and isaiah books.
and any new light in wt's is mainly just clarification (usually in the q's from readers page).. from ak
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Joseph Joachim
This is the fate of all apocalyptic christian sects. Their "prophecies" are not fullfilled, then people with at least one active neuron leave, and what is left is a leadership that completely lacks creativity, intelligence and education. This is not new, it's been going on for 2000 years.
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Is You Know dead?
by Joseph Joachim ini'm reading in the newspaper that a certain american turist named robert king was bitten by a jellyfish in australia and died.
could that be you know?
is that the fate of apostates like him?
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Joseph Joachim
I'm reading in the newspaper that a certain american turist named Robert King was bitten by a jellyfish in Australia and died. Could that be You Know? Is that the fate of apostates like him?
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Religious Intolerence, P-Correctness& Racism.
by Englishman ini absolutely detest political correctness in any form.
im a firm believer that there is nothing wrong with a ship being a she nor a person being a chairman rather than a chair person.
some time ago i was sat in a busy restaurant and a person pushing a wheel chair containing an invalid, asked me if i would give up my table so that the invalid person could use it.
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Puffsrule,
If you continue reading my thoughts I will sue you for invading my privacy. (Sueing someone for no reason is another American trait, after all).
JJ
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Religious Intolerence, P-Correctness& Racism.
by Englishman ini absolutely detest political correctness in any form.
im a firm believer that there is nothing wrong with a ship being a she nor a person being a chairman rather than a chair person.
some time ago i was sat in a busy restaurant and a person pushing a wheel chair containing an invalid, asked me if i would give up my table so that the invalid person could use it.
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Englishman,
I think you should have told the Skinhead that if he were decent society he would find a job; that he shouldn't blame negroes if he's white trash and has nothing good to offer a prospective employer. I don't know how intimidating the Skinhead was, though, so I don't judge you. Anyways, I think you were right on each account.
Political correctness is rare in Switzerland, and certainly inexistent in Latin America. It seems to be mostly an American trait, probably because they go out of their ways trying not to offend people, which is not bad in itself but waters down any conversation that is not about the weather. I was just reading in the newspaper that a rumor started to roll that Cartoon Network wouldn't air Speedy Gonzales anymore, because they thought it might be offensive to Mexicans. Guess who were the first to protest? The Mexicans!
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Maybe we are evil
by joelbear inthe question keeps coming up here.. how could we have ever been a part of something so evil and sinister as the watchtower society?.
maybe its because we are evil.. joel
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Joseph Joachim
The Watchtower Society, like all groups, does good and bad things.
Joel, been reading Bubba Bush's Tractatus Philosophicus again?
The Watchtower Society, like all inanimate things, does neither good nor bad. I can kill a person with a gun but the gun is not evil. In the WTS, like in all groups, there are people who do good things most of the time and people who do bad things most of the time. -
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Falklands 20 years ago
by LittleToe inmy, how the years roll by.. 20 years ago today argentina invaded the falkland islands.. friday 2nd april 1982.. it seems like yesterday.. edited to change 70 years for 20 years, because i'm really not old enough to remember 70 years back - honest.. thanks xena!
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Joseph Joachim
I think that Great Britain has, generally speaking, done a good job in relinquishing its territories back to the native inhabitants.
The thing is that there were no native inhabitants in the Islands before the British colonization, they were up for grabs so to speak. The reason, as I mentioned above, is that they are no good in the eyes of a continental inhabitant. The only problem is that the islands are on the continental platform and thus, in theory, they are Argentine territory. If it weren't for that there would be no conflict at all.
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Falklands 20 years ago
by LittleToe inmy, how the years roll by.. 20 years ago today argentina invaded the falkland islands.. friday 2nd april 1982.. it seems like yesterday.. edited to change 70 years for 20 years, because i'm really not old enough to remember 70 years back - honest.. thanks xena!
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I understand that the Falklanders were offered the opportunity to become part of the Argentines and refused.
I really doubt they have ever been made a formal offer like that, because the Argentine stance has always been not to recognize the islander's right to self-determination. Anyways, I was just trying to point out that Great Britain's rigths to sovereignty are the rights of brute force and nothing more. In practice the whole thing is and has always been a non-issue for Argentina, since the Islands have no economic resources that continental Argentina may want.
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Falklands 20 years ago
by LittleToe inmy, how the years roll by.. 20 years ago today argentina invaded the falkland islands.. friday 2nd april 1982.. it seems like yesterday.. edited to change 70 years for 20 years, because i'm really not old enough to remember 70 years back - honest.. thanks xena!
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20 years ago today Argentina invaded the Falkland islands.
WRONG. It was the Britons who invaded Argentine territory in the 1800's when they started the colonization of the Islands. It's true that the ill-conceived attempt to regain sovereingty over the Islands in 1982 responded to spurious motives of the military dictatorship then in power, but Great Britain's rights to occupy the Malvinas Islands, or Gibraltar, are as legitimate as those of Germany to occupy Poland.
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Should I stay or should I go now?
by meat pie ini know that really only i can decide,(unless i get df'd) but to-day i'm in a real quandry.
should i be honest and tell them i'm never going back, because i really have no intention of ever going back.or would that just give the orgaanization some kind of validity.
or , if this is really some kind of 'evil organization' should'nt i officially leave as a matter of urgency.matthew 24:15. i'm really just thinking out loud.
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Scully, if I was heterosexual, you would be my wife. Typically, I agree with 70 to 100% of what you say.
My advice to Meat Pie is: don't do anything that is irreversible and may have awful consequences, even if you don't see them now. Getting baptized was one of those mistakes, wasn't it? Then why making another one by DA'ing? Your DA letter will only be read by the elders, who won't give a shit; the rest of the congregation will not read it and once they announce you DA'd, you will not be able to tell them why you left. So I don't see how DA'ing helps anyone. By just fading away, you will be able to occasionally talk to some people in the congregation and sow the seeds of doubt in their minds. Play with the enemy by the enemy's tricks, not by their rules.