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  I will return to the borg because.....

  by cyberjesus in

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  i was just reading of a dude who is going back to the matrix.... to save his wife?

  to meet a wife?

  to divorce scripturally his wife?

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  Vidiot

  PublishingCult - "To wear a speedo to all the congregation picnics and softball games."

  So THAT's why they pulled the plug on "congregation" events back in the 90s... It was all YOUR fault.
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  Social Networks are a threat to the Watchtower Society

  by FrankWTower in

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  2. bible

  in recent months there have been massive protests and demonstrations against autocratic rulers in the middle east and north africa.

  many of these were possible in part because the protesters used social media services like facebook, youtube and twitter to get the word out and let the world know what was going on.

  these services are so threatening to many governments that they're blocked in order to control their people.

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  "WT Governing Body goooood, social networks baaaaad..." (parodic Zoolander reference for the confused)
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  "After all, we modern-day JWs are continuing the work from the 1st Century C.E."

  by miseryloveselders in

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  2. friends

  for those of you not in the know(lucky sobs you!!

  ), the congregation bible study wrapped up the come be my follower book last week.

  we're now into the bearing thorough witness publication.

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  sabastious - "They say that Mary was always a virgin even though Jesus had siblings?"

  Yup. They've always had a real problem with the idea that any major 1st Century Christian had a sex life. 'Specially J.C., himself.

  Even better, the original Aramaic word "almah" used to describe the Messiah's mother in the Isaiaic prophecies merely translates as "young woman".
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  New 'light' or flip flop on wild beast/image of the wild beast

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  something that i noticed a couple of weeks ago regarding the identity of the wild beast.

  the do said that the wild beast is the 'the world's failed political systems that do not acknowledge jehovah's authority.

  i always understood that it was the un.

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  Vidiot

  Mr.Falcon - "Vidiot, thank you for explaining that."

  My pleasure.

  Mr.Falcon - "Just making shat up now as we go along now."

  Not even that.

  If they change the script too much this late in the game, too many members will be all "WTF?"

  Hmm. Then again, maybe not.

  The ones that would say "WTF?" (Lefties, creative types, intellectuals, out-of-the-box thinkers) are mostly all gone by now...

  Mr.Falcon - "We might as well be proclaiming judgment against the forces of Mordor. My Lord, even now the King of the North marches towards Brooklyn...."

  LOL!!!

  Wait, that's just weird, 'cuz I was watching The Return of the King only last night...
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  The Three Common Complaints by JWs Against "False Religion"

  by sd-7 in

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  2. beliefs

  1. false doctrines, all taught to keep people in darkness, all done by those claiming to speak for god!.

  2. misconduct by the leaders and by the followers with impunity (ie.

  child abuse, adultery, etc., etc.)..

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  Vidiot

  In my experience, authoritarian personality types most loudly condemn the failings in others that they secretly despise the most about themselves.
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  Why was Rutherford sent to prison?

  by Alfred in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  well that was 93 years ago so well probably never know all the facts.

  but the wt claims that russell and others were falsely accused of sedition.

  the may 9, 1918 new york times article that covered these arrests and sedition charges states that they were charged with spreading doctrines calculated to promote unrest and disloyalty among the men of the army and navy.

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  Alfred - "Why was Rutherford sent to prison?"

  Because he was a prick who pissed off too many people.
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  Wikileaks: U.S. Believes Saudi Arabia Is Running Out Of Oil

  by Bangalore in

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  2. friends

  wikileaks: u.s. believes saudi arabia is running out of oil.. http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/09/wikileaks-u-s-believes-saudi-arabia-is-running-out-of-oil/.

  bangalore.

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  "U.S. Believes Saudi Arabia Is Running Out Of Oil"

  Well, duh...why else would Dick Cheney and the rest of the PNAC crowd want to bomb the Middle East back to the Stone Age? Gotta get what's left of the crude while the gettin's still good.

  While I wholeheartedly support and approve of WikiLeaks' shenanigans, all they've really done with their massive info dumps lately is confirm what damn near everybody already knew through the grapevine.
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  New 'light' or flip flop on wild beast/image of the wild beast

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  something that i noticed a couple of weeks ago regarding the identity of the wild beast.

  the do said that the wild beast is the 'the world's failed political systems that do not acknowledge jehovah's authority.

  i always understood that it was the un.

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  Mr.Falcon - "this is an interesting topic. It's seemed to me lately (maybe just to me) that there has been very little UN-bashing in talks and recent articles. I remember growing up and it was just on and on about how evil the UN and a bunch of sinisterly drawn monsters representing the UN. Now I honestly can't remember the last time that I heard a single reference towards the UN."

  It's not just you.

  The anti-UN rhetoric has trickled away since the early 90s, for several reasons. The Soviet Union had suddenly collapsed, and the WTS was left with the uncomfortable question of who the "King of the North" was (he has not been recast). Then, they acquired NGO status for whatever misguided reason, and were thusly required to publish relatively positive material regarding the UN until the Guardian newspaper exposed that little embarassment. We studied the revised Revelation Climax book one last time about 5ish years ago, but since then, nothing.

  These days, the suggestion that the UN would try to "destroy Babylon the Great" would be laughed at; the secretary-general and security council barely have the clout to enforce even the mildest of resolutions, let alone wage (and win) a global campaign against organized religion, not to mention that the US - one of the most religious countries on the planet - would have veto power over any such action.

  The idea actually has its origins in mid-20th-Century Right Wing conspiracy theory*; back when Millerite-at-heart Fred Franz was crafting the WTS's eschatology, the concept was a bit more respectable among the various apocalyptic millenialist groups (there was a lot more cross-pollinization of ideas between them all back then).

  These days, though, the UN World Government/NWO thing is pretty much relegated to fans of the Left Behind series or Alex Jones' PrisonPlanet website, which (in and of itself) goes a long way to explaining why the WTS might not want to associate itself with the idea very much anymore.

  Needless to say, however, the WTS is now stuck with an End-Times script containing powerless or unknown/nonexistent Bad Guys.

  * The American Right Wing has always been suspicious of the UN; many of the Charter's original draftees were Europeans with Soviet connections.
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  About hell and dying GB members

  by Mad Sweeney in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  on bio channel the other night was an episode of "i survived" where a guy was shot in the head and was dead for about five minutes, then in a coma for around four weeks after being revived.

  while recounting his story, he talks about being literally in hell, chained within a tiny dark cell oppressed by evil all around for what felt like forever.

  he attributes his visit there to having a selfish, materialistic lifestyle at the time of his death and he has vowed to turn his life around so that when he dies again, he won't have to return there.

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  Vidiot

  I read somewhere that "dreamtime" is accellerated; what seems like hours in the dream is really just minutes in reality.

  I also read somewhere that the brain stays alive for 5 or 6 minutes even after the heart stops pumping.

  Most dying individuals lose conciousness before actual clinical death. Humans dream when we're unconcious. If the brain went into a full-on dream state after conciousness is lost, but before the moment of clinical death (say, as an instinctive or hard-wired self-preservative action), the last few minutes could, by that logic, seem to stretch into an eternity by the dreamer.

  Our dreams are the sorting of all the stuff jumbled inside our subconcious, including guilt for past misdeeds; most of us can attest to this personally.

  If Old Man Jaracz passed on in his sleep, it would make sense that the last few minutes of brain activity was - from his POV - a virtual eternity of pedophilic reruns with him in the starring role of victim. If that ain't the ideal "Hell" for that man, I don't know what else would be...
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  Just finish reading the 2 part of Randy Watters story

  by TotallyADD in

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  2. friends

  i find his life story very interesting.

  but in part 2 of his story he said something that hit me right between the eyes.

  he states "gb rewrites their own history and rewrites themselves into the bible, as if it was written to them and only themn.

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  Vidiot

  I tried clicking on the link at the Freeminds site, but the page for Part 2 wouldn't come up.

  Is it mirrored anywhere?