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  Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 01-02-11 WT Study (YOUNG GUIDED)

  by blondie in

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  (prov.

  possible advice in his word, the bible.

  do parents make rules?.

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  Lore

  They may be under stress, or they may view your mistakes as a failure on their part. Rather than dwelling on what you feel is an injustice, why not show appreciation for their earnest desire to be helpful?

  Focus on what is said, not on how it is delivered. Then, rephrase your parents’ comments in your own words and respectfully repeat their remarks back to them.

  Parent: "Go to your room and don't come out until it's clean!"
  
  Youth: "So your saying I should not leave my room until it is clean. Does that include comming out for meals?"
  
  Parent: "Don't backsass me!"
  
  Youth: "So your saying that I should not backsass you? I understand that you under a lot of stress and are percieving my responses as disrespecful. You may view my behavior as a reflection of the failures in your abilities as a parent. While I assure you it was not my intention to backsass you I appreciate your desire to be helpful. "
  
  Parent: "Your completely right, lets say a prayer and we'll clean your room together."

  This warm family moment brought to you by the governing body.

  Seriously though, what age group is this magazine targeted at? The information on how to deal with your parents seems to be directed at 5 year old mini-psychologists who somehow are unable to grasp the concept that parents make rules to protect you, but at the same time understand how a line of credit works.

  Meanwhile the part on money seems to be directed at 18 year old retards who are to stupid to realize on their own that they can compare prices, have a limited amount of money and can ask adults for advice. Unless I'm horribly mistaken you cannot get a credit card until you are 18. . .

  Any 12 year old should be saying "well duh" to this guidance from gods word.
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  The end is coming on May 2011

  by I need a lot of help in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re/us_rel_apocalypse_soon.

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  "If May 21 passes and I'm still here, that means I wasn't saved. Does that mean God's word is inaccurate or untrue? Not at all,"

  Gotta give them credit for coming up with that beforehand.
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  400,000 year old human tooth?

  by sabastious in

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  interesting stuff.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_teeth.

  -sab.

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  I have yet to read what method was used to date the tooth. Certainly, C14 will not go that far back, if indeed it could be used on a tooth.

  The article says the team "dated them according to the layers of earth where they were found. "

  So if it was found in an undisturbed layer of stratum that was deposited 400k years ago, it's unlikely to be newer than the dirt that was deposited on top of it.

  Lets say you know a volcano erupted in an area 20 years ago, and you find a ring under the ash from that eruption. If there are no signs that is was buried there after the fact it means that is was laying there before the eruption, so the ring is at least 20 years old.

  Not that I know ANYTHING about this tooth or the dirt it was found in. I'm just explaining the dating technique the article says they used.
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  The Emerging Internet God

  by metatron in

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  let me explain................. there is an old joke that directs us to consider what the future will be .

  a bunch of scientists create the greatest computer of all time, containing all human knowledge.

  they ponder what to do with it.

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  yet the google god is very falible too...
  
  no electricity? No 'god'.
  
  satellites fall out of the sky? God dead..

  Me not having electricity does not mean Google does not exist, it just prevents me from communicating with it. Which most theists will agree on: The lack of response does not equal lack of a god.

  And if all the satellites just 'fell out of the sky' at the same time then that probably means a new god is kicking the current gods' butt, cause that kind of thing doesn't just happen on its own. Even a solar flare would only wipe out the satellites over the half of the earth it hits.

  (Also we have land lines and radio towers to fall back on in the case of emergencies.)

  Additionally even if ALL communication was taken out somehow, the information is still there in servers all over the world just waiting to be brought back to life with the flip of a switch.

  - Lore
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  The Emerging Internet God

  by metatron in

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  let me explain................. there is an old joke that directs us to consider what the future will be .

  a bunch of scientists create the greatest computer of all time, containing all human knowledge.

  they ponder what to do with it.

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  Imagine you lived 500 years ago and you wanted to know if it's safe to give your dog a piece of your chocolate bar.

  You ask the guy next to you. . . He doesn't know.

  You ask your dog. . . He says: "YES YES YES GIMME"

  You go outside and ask some random guy on the street. He doesn't have a dog.

  You can clasp your hands and pray for the answer. No response.

  You have just exhausted your knowledge base. Sure you could go to a library. But how the heck are you supposed to find that particular piece of information? You could ask a vet and hope he knows. He may or may not.

  But NOW if you want to know if it's safe to give your dog a piece of chocolate you can just go to google and type in: "Dog Cho______"

  You don't even have to finish typing it in and google is giving you your answer on the very first link. Because not only does it know the answer to your question, it knows what you are about to ask.

  Google has God beat big time.
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  Lack of emoticons

  by Newborn in

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  i often wish there were more smileys and symbols to chose from!

  isn't there anyway to add more?.

  for instance, now it would have been great with a christmas tree but i guess a palm tree will have to do.

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  guess a palm tree will have to do
  
  

  Well just have a 30th century xmas:

  
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  Sticky Situation - What to do?

  by I<3MYGod in

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  i have posted about my experience with the cult....so now i find myself in a difficult position.

  i have left it alone for many years but i wonder what you guys think.. i faded away from the cult and stopped going for quite a while.

  my older sister took it upon herself to meet with my family and discuss all my sins and actions (they were active).

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  This isn't really a 'sticky situation' yet.

  You are about to MAKE a sticky situation, but you're not currently in one.
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  Are Faith and Reason Compatible? Jan Awake

  by DanaBug in

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  here's some quotes from that article:.

  the bible says, for example, that if your worship is to be acceptable to god, it must be a sacred service with your power of reason.

  in other words, you must worship god in a way that is worthy of thinking beings.

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  http://youtube.com/v/q2SJgAdpCVQ

  Funny how Shermer lets the priest go through his whole 2 minute routine at the beginning without so much as a peep. But the priest interupts Shermer in his very first sentence and doesn't let him talk from then on out.

  Not that the inabilty to be civil in a discussion proves that there is no god. But it does prove that the priest is a jerk.
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  Ok. Let's have some comments on this pic from march 15 wt

  by therevealer in

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  Ah the pointless jobs they assign people to do.

  Why does he have to stand there holding a mic on a stick? She can't hold a mic herself while she comments?

  And he's not supposed to look at her. (Yeah that's intentional, it's not just a weird picture, they INTENDED for him to not be paying attentiont to where he holds that mic. Makes you wonder how they're supposed to avoid smacking someone in the face if they can't look at them.

  At the last assembly they had a designated area for the baptismal victims to sit. They had TWO brothers STANDING there for literally over 30 minutes before the assembly started holding signs that said: "Reserved for baptismal candidates"

  WHY?!?!

  They could have been replaced with a piece of tape.

  And then an elder approached me, I'm neither an elder nor a servant, and asked me to volunteer to help do something because, and I quote: "We're shorthanded and need all the help we can get." No clue what he wanted me to do, probably hold a third sign or hold a door open.

  If you're short on people I have some suggestions that will give you about 15 extra guys.

  1: Tape a sign to the reserved seats, saving 2 brothers from holding signs.
  2: Set a deck of programs on a table with a sign (not held by a brother) that says: "please take one" That'll save a brother from handing them out at every entrance
  3: Use a door stop. There is no reason for you to have a guy holding open INTERIOR doors for people to walk through.
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  Governing Body 3.0?

  by Think About It in

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  wts gb 2.0 is fully in place now with the death of barr.

  out of the current gb members, who would be considered members of gb 3.0, or has that group started yet?

  the jw's might as well face it......their armaggedon is not coming and their gb could go on and on.. .

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  I would say the ones born before 1914 were 1.0 - Barr was the last of these.

  The ones born before 1935 are 2.0 - This includes Samuel Herd, Theodore Jaracz and Guy Pierce.

  And the ones born after that are 3.0 - That's the rest of them.