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  Good Advice?

  by sizemik in

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  one day i hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.

  we were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

  my taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!

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  A DOUBLE LIFE - What's the worst case you've seen

  by sizemik in

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  lots of jw's lead a double life.

  many are young people that simply go through the motions until they can free themselves .

  others have relatives or family still trapped .

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  How Do You Feel About Your Country?

  by sizemik in

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  there is such an international flavour on this board .

  and i really love that.. as an xjw .

  how do you feel these day's about your country .

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  RUTHERFORD - Alive and well?

  by sizemik in

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  2. beliefs

  many here are familiar with this entry in wikipedia .

  for those that aren't, here's a link;.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/joseph_franklin_rutherford.

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  JAPANS EARTHQUAKE - Aftershock Sequence

  by sizemik in

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  below is a link to an interactive map of the japanese earthquake and it's aftershock sequence.. there are a number of interactive tools enabling a close examination of what took place .

  ie; you can speed up the sequence and select various periods of activity.

  you can also pause the sequence and hover the pointer over specific quakes to determine depth, magnitude etc.. the map will open beginning with day one .

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  GLOBAL FLOOD . . . Did it Really Happen?

  by sizemik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this question became an off-topic sidetrack in another thread.

  i thought it might be worth some debate so posted here .

  the debate is basically between mainstream geological understanding of the earth's history and "young earth creationism" in particular with how the evidence relates to the occurrence of a global flood in the recent past.. a couple of points from the yec website www.icr.org are raised as examples in order to kick things off .

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  Earthquakes Earthquakes and more Earthquakes

  by sizemik in

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  2. friends

  for those who may be interested in things geological .

  just an update on seismic activity here in christchurch.

  what's below is the seismometer drum for the last 24 hrs .

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  I don't belong here anymore

  by sizemik in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these are some things i have been thinking about .

  .. when i first found this site i registered immediately ... never was a "lurker" ... and i've been here about six months.. everyone was very warm welcoming and i felt at home very quickly ... very pleasant at the time, but as time has progressed i look back and feel a bit "love-bombed" ... much like a religion i used to belong to.. i have found that this site is a bit "cliquey" ... groups of posters frequent at similar times and enjoy their familiarity with each other and that's great ... but they also sometimes exhibit a coolness toward those outside their clique ... almost as if your 'post count' is the first thing by which you are "judged" ... much like a religion i used to belong to.

  some posters develop a personal dislike for others and not only jump on their threads but even deliver the odd "slap" on unrelated threads to increase the discomfort for the object of their dislike ... not unlike a religion i once belonged to.. some posters even follow others around the board looking to counter or use snide or clever put downs at every opportunity ... a kind of intellectual "rivalry" that was common to those in that religion i used to belong to.. many posters like to use 'in-house' jargon and labels eg; "newbies" for those recently joined.

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  June 15 W/T - "Should Youths Get Baptised?"

  by sizemik in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  the above mentioned article caught my eye for a couple of reasons .

  .. it is obvious to most observers that the children of active jw's provide a potential "large army" and in spite of the attrition rate of jw youths (around 2/3's i believe), it's a resource the borg are keen to maximise.

  there tactics appear to be encouraging baptism at an ever younger age.

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  Murray Smith says goodbye

  by sizemik in

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  hiyall .

  don't panic, i know i've only been here a short while .

  but i'm not really going.. when i joined i did so with such enthusiastic haste, i used my actual name.

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