it took me a while to get my own computer or console. friends of mine had a commodore 64 and amiga. my family didn't even have a tv. i played mortal kombat, termiator and the likes on public arcade consoles. at about 15 i got a sega game gear with sonic the hedgehog, mortal combat etc. a witness friend of mine got a 486 pc (turbo!) and a nes, another one had a snes system. we played super mario kart, zelda (of course), civilization, colonization, populous, powermonger, warcraft/warcraft II on the pc and what not... later i got my own computer and installed emulators for the old systems. also a n64 emulator, played zelda there too. i played counter strike and empire earth lans with my younger witness friends for a long time (most of them quit due to conscience issues over time). later i got into world of warcraft with a few of them and even infected my wife who is still playing, although i've gone years without it. got a ps3 and played loads of uncharted, resistance, gta, cod and whatever else. now my little boy is taking over the ps3, so i got a steam account and play some civilization every now and then.
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Who plays video games?!!
by DATA-DOG inany gamers out there?
i love a good game.
to me a great game is like a great book!
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Recorded Judicial Meeting by 19 year old
by BlindersOff1 in.
he runs circles around the dogmatic elders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lko0vmqfyau.
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i also recorded my JC, but it's no use, as it's in german, and not even "high german" but some austrian dialect noone understands... i'll be translating the interesting parts when i get some time.
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Subliminal demonic images in Literature
by Newly Enlightened ini know that this was covered in 1993, but with newer technology and lots more pictures to deal with....go check out this website.
http://www.watchtowerlies.com/watchtowerlies_019.htm.
if no one wants to believe these as real then check it out in our own literature.
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what a load of crap
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Why is France fighting in the middle of Africa?
by slimboyfat inseriously i have no idea what is going on or why.
because of my situation at home i have not been watching the news for the past two months or so.
but i keep catching glimpses about some sort of french war in africa.
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it actually isn't the same government, gadhafi was killed while sarkozy was president of france.
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Why is France fighting in the middle of Africa?
by slimboyfat inseriously i have no idea what is going on or why.
because of my situation at home i have not been watching the news for the past two months or so.
but i keep catching glimpses about some sort of french war in africa.
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they're helping the mali government against islamic extremists. good thing.
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Why should this annoy me?
by punkofnice inlong story short.
i left the wbt$ and was forcibly da'd for attending a church.. wifey says she 'chooses' not to talk to me about 'spiritual'(tm) matters.
i told wifey that she didn't 'choose' but was told not to talk to me about such matters by some men in brooklyn.
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you're a big bad punk, this shouldn't annoy you.
don't you love it how they turn things around?
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Birthdays & Christmas
by Rattigan350 inwhat is the deal with people criticizing jws because they don't celebrate birthdays or christmas?.
it is as if when someone is born, from a baby, to a child, teen, adult; that one has a responsiblity to celebrate christmas (and i thought it was a free country); and others have a responsiblity to celebrate others' anniversary of one's birth.. i don't get the criticisms as if celebrating either is a great thing and the not celebrating is a bad thing.. data on star trek said that he does not understand why people celebrate their birthdays - a day one can not possibly remember.. what are you actually celebrating?
the fact that you made it another year?
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rattigan, you're a bit confused. people don't critizise JWs for not celebrating birthdays and holidays, people critizise JWs for not allowing their members to celebrate anything like that. i don't care for xmas either, as i grew up a JW and just never got into it and i can to some extent follow their line of reasoning regarding xmas. but the ban of birthday celebrations is utter nonsense, i never understood it and it's something i did miss out on. even when still a JW, me and the other youngsters would start celebrating birthdays in some form. of course noone of the elders knew about this.
celebrating something is nice. it's fun. it's social. try it.
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New Member-Active Elder
by Promitheas ini'm a new member & i'd like to say hi to everyone, intoducing myself.. i am a 3rd generation born-in at mid 50's & an active elder.. english is not my mother language, so pls ignore any grammatical errors.
i live in a small country in europe.. i'd like to thank you for all information posted.
some of them have rally helped me to understand and examine again my beliefs.. last new light concerning f&ds=gb has verified the idea that they are popes in the position op pope.. i still believe in god & in his son jesus christ but not in the gb..
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welcome from another small european country.
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a new awake! magazine issue?
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Should Jehovah's Witnesses be added to the Wikipedia article on Doomsday Cults?
by jwfacts inthere is discussion of doomsday cults at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/doomsday_cult, and much of it aligns closely with watchtower predictions and behaviour, so i was wondering why jehovah's witnesses are not mentioned.
here are some quotes from the article:.
doomsday cult is an expression used to describe groups who believe in apocalypticism and millenarianism, and can refer both to groups that prophesy catastrophe and destruction, and to those that attempt to bring it about.
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just make sure to discuss this on the WP discussion page before making any modifications.