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  Woops, forgot about the "Special Talk"

  by watson in

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  actually forgot about it.

  could someone post a link to the thread with the outline?

  just in case my mother asks...

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  "Forgot about the special talk"

  Well thats about the best thing you could do with it.
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  Immoral sleeping arrangement?

  by hoser in

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  i'm reading through the watchtower rule book right now and i came to the chapter clarification and guidelines on handling certain matters.

  there is a part about scriptural divorce and even if adultery is not proved if your ex stayed all night or is involved in an immoral sleeping arrangement you can get scriptural grounds to remarry.. .

  they make a rule, then they have to make a rule for the rule, make another rule for the rule for the rule.

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  I once shared a hotel room with my daughter and sister in law.

  I guess thats hard proof that once disfellowshipped, one just becomes a wicked,

  incestuous, sex feind, with no control over ones satanic driven fleshly desires.
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  Armageddon Diaries

  by Teeny Pyjamas in

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  hi guys and gals!.

  i want to write a sequel (or a prequel) for the armageddon diaries short story - http://www.jehovahswitnessblog.com/diary-of-an-armageddon-survivor/.

  do any of you have any good ideas for a synopsis?

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  Interesting version.

  I prefer this one personally.

  http://www.1timothy4-13.com/files/bible/diary.html

  Strange, I was just thinking of this story, only this afternoon. Good read for those who dont know it yet.
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  Immoral sleeping arrangement?

  by hoser in

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  i'm reading through the watchtower rule book right now and i came to the chapter clarification and guidelines on handling certain matters.

  there is a part about scriptural divorce and even if adultery is not proved if your ex stayed all night or is involved in an immoral sleeping arrangement you can get scriptural grounds to remarry.. .

  they make a rule, then they have to make a rule for the rule, make another rule for the rule for the rule.

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  "you can have scriptural grounds to remarry".

  just making up a get out clause, in a desperate bid to hang on to a few more "faithful"
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  Any JWs You Know Practically Salivating Over this North Korea Situation???

  by LostGeneration in

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  just had a sick conversation with my jw father when picking up by kid.

  dad: so things looking really bad in n korea huh?.

  they rattle the cage every few years and everyone seems to just appease them.. dad: yeah, but this new guy, i mean he is just sounds plain crazy.

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  my mother was the same in 1962, with the cuba crisis.
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  "The Truth That Leads To Eternal Life" book

  by smiddy in

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  if i remember correctly there were more than 100 million books distributed around the world in the the 1960`s.. and if i remember correctly it was listed amongst the ten most distributed/published books by the guiness book of records .. and if i`m not mistaken "paradise lost to paradise regained" was also on this list.

  and even in one year about that time their were no less than four of the societys publications on the 10 most distributed books ever.

  at that time.. how much of what was printed in those publications then, is relevant to what is beleived today.

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  but how many people actually read it?
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  "The Truth That Leads To Eternal Life" book

  by smiddy in

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  2. bible

  if i remember correctly there were more than 100 million books distributed around the world in the the 1960`s.. and if i remember correctly it was listed amongst the ten most distributed/published books by the guiness book of records .. and if i`m not mistaken "paradise lost to paradise regained" was also on this list.

  and even in one year about that time their were no less than four of the societys publications on the 10 most distributed books ever.

  at that time.. how much of what was printed in those publications then, is relevant to what is beleived today.

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  Death

  by punkofnice in

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  when i was a dub i was petrified of displeasing the trademark imaginary god that the wbt$ had invented.

  i feared that kind of death.. the thought of being unconscious totally forevermore seems so weird.. now that i know the wbt$ was lying (as usual), and i realise there can't possibly be a god as described in religion i am now faced with the reality that i'll be dead and gone with nothing to carry me on after in a conscious way.

  just because i don't want this to happen doesn't mean it won't.. oh, darn!

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  I think about this all the time. not in a morbid way though. Thank god we got out of that horrible,life wasting religion when we did.

  On another note, someone once made me think that we all are reabsorbed by this good earth beneath our feet. one day, i'll become part and parcel of this planet. In a way, i'll be reunited with my dad,my daughter,and others that I loved so much. This thought kind of comforts me in the face of the inevitable.

  In the meantime........enjoy.
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  Only "TIME" matters

  by Roberta804 in

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  it was last year at easter time that i had a big insight that still looms large with me.

  my elderly mother was living with me and she had been suffering from dementia.

  i was taken aback why this one elder would come over once a month to try to get my mom to come up with 15 minutes of fs.

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  sorry to hear about your mum roberta. funny, but I now find myself in exactly the same position.no one but no one from this ''loving'' religion comes to see my aged lonely mum.I thought that at least when they heard of her early stage of illness, that they would come and comfort her. One ''brother'' does come to take her out on a mag route, once a month. How kind.
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  Hello

  by apocryphal in

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  jean-luc picard

  welcome to the forum apocryphal. Looking forward to your contributions.On here,at least, you can be yourself. you have the right to your opinions.I miss my family,but less than in the past. If they didnt have this hold over people,easily 50% would leave straight away.