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  2011 District Convention "Let Us Be Bored and Confused Into Obedience"

  by ranmac in

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  2. friends

  this has already been discussed but i need to vent.. i just spent the most painful weekend of my life sitting thru this years dc.

  what an unbelievably pointless, soulless and demeaning spectacle the assemblies are.

  the three days were a blur of monotanous droning and brainwashing.

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  2x thanks to gubber - dammmmmmn
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  Bros before ... on the watchtower CD

  by bohm in

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  2. friends

  below are the average occurances of specific words plottet as a function of year for the watchtower.

  the occurences has been normalized such that for instance an occurance of 0.1 correspond to the given word being used an average of 0.1 times per page in the watchtower for that year.

  (a page is assumed to contain 3000 characters).. any good ideas?

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  do peace and security - I'm expecting a bump around the mid 80's of course, but what else?
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  The cost of gas . . .

  by sizemik in

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  2. friends

  i've just completed an interesting exercise on the price / margins etc on supplying fuel .

  if i sell $1,000,000 worth of fuel per annum .

  (yeah, a million bucks worth).

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  and with credit card fees (especially the premium cards), that 2-3% evaporates...
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  If the Watchtower stopped their cultic ways...

  by Mickey mouse in

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  2. friends

  ...places like this would be far quieter.

  why can't they see that they are raking hot coals into their bosom by trying to keep people prisoner?

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  If you could just walk away without any consequence, it wouldn't be a cult, but just another slightly cooky Christian denomination. There are other aspects, but I think that emotional control is the largest factor defining the cult.
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  The bait has been hooked!

  by educatingMyself in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  alreet geezaz!

  ;p. a sweet old lady from my old hall has baited to a nice email i sent, which is good and bad, as you can see in my posts here http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/211809/1/study-conductor-challenge-plus-hello i quite like the people at my old study hall, so i wanted to free a few minds from there.. but on the other hand i didn't want ruin a nice old ladys whole lifes beliefs.

  i'm stuck in a conundrum.

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  It's like The Day after Tomorrow - where the President is consulting Dennis Quad, and staggered by the loss of life of the proposed plan, the military commander compares it to triage - "You have to save the ones you can." Same idea here, I think this lady is probably too far gone to change at this point, and she might just be happy to live out her days with her brand of opium. It's not impossible for older ones to leave (I have seen it), but it's very unlikely.
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  How far will they go?

  by myself in

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  had a pair of witnesses come by last week while i was at work.

  one of our houseguests was here and said they told her they thought that i lived here.

  they mentioned my name.

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  It's called opsec - operational security. You must have had a breach somewhere along the line. I have had to lock down all of my personal and location details, with only very limited people in the know.
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  Lakers Kobe Bryant -- blood procedure puts him at DF risk?

  by FatFreek 2005 in

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  2. medical

  it may be a month old news but we're just hearing it.

  citing four unidentified sources familiar with the situation, the los angeles times on friday reported that the lakers superstar had a procedure about a month ago that is a derivation of platelet-rich plasma therapy.

  prp procedures are less invasive than many surgeries involving the knee.

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  Kobe Bryant is a JW? That's news to me.
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  Oh no, someone's dissed us to the FBI !!

  by Simon in

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  2. humour

  dear sir,.

  a complaint has been registered against you with the federal authorities in the usa.. the complaints center on slander and character assassination emanating from members posting on your jehovah's witnesses network forum, and online stalking.

  all details have now gone to the fbi on federal plaza in new york for their immediate attention.. ([email protected]).

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  it ain't slander if it's true!
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  A new twist on the overlapping generations

  by PYRAMIDSCHEME in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b5yrycmj9u&feature=share.

  (this video was posted on the facebook page: towerwatch.).

  in 2010 we had the new light on the overlapping generations...now there seems to be a new twist.

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  I yearn for the good ol' days of Franz and Co when new light was consistent, intelligent and (dare I say?) reasonably reasoned. The new stuff just doesn't measure up.
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  How many times was Christ begotten?

  by GOrwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in light of all the recent trinity threads, how many times do you think christ was begotten?.

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  So, from your post, you would say that the Logos was both eternally begotten and at the same time, never begotten. Since he has always existed, this means that the Logos was *never* begotten and the actual 'act' of begetting never took place.

  So how can the Logos be begotten, when the Logos never was begotten? Do you see the paradox here? And why JD and yourself were so reluctant in answering?