EDIT: For the benefit of Americans, the interviewer is NOT John Howard, the Austrailan Prime Minister. :-)
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Stupid Americans
by Mackin inwatch this and weep.. .
edit: for the benefit of americans, the interviewer is not john howard, the austrailan prime minister.
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ex JW atheists
by Bobhere ini know we were sold a lie in believing god was only dealing with the wt and to obey them is to obey god.
what puzzels me is that in rejecting the wt so many also reject their belief in god.
surely they believed that god existed as witnesses.
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Mackin
I was born into a JW family. As a kid I believed in God but as I got older and learned to think for myself I realised that God was an invention of the human mind.
But I was locked into the JW organisation, I had no friends outside of the JW's and virtually all my relatives were JW's too. The ones that were not had ceased to have very much to do with us loopy JW's. So It was easier to feign belief and go with the flow.
I must add that I pioneered, was appointed an MS, accepted for Bethel, appointed an elder, was the Presiding Overseer in my congregation, gave talks at Circuit assembly's and District conventions, led the congregation and even conventions in prayer and I never believed in God!
You could say I was being somewhat dishonest, and you'd be right, but I was deeply "locked in" to the organisation that I didn't have the courage to back out. I still feel bad about it sometimes.
Kinda puts to the lie the belief that elders and MS are appointed by holy spirit eh. Why would the holy spirit appoint someone who didn't believe in God?
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Slyvia Browne
by Blueblades inis she for real?
what do you know about her and books?
she is on montell williams right now.. blueblades.
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Mackin
Some of you people need to develop your critical thinking ability a bit more. Anyone who believes in so-called psychic ability is either retarded, self-deluded or just plain gullible.
Everyone who visits a psychic and is amazed by their ability to tell them all about their past & future should google the phrase "cold reading". If you still think that psychic's are for real you should probably go back to the Dubs, after all, they just might have the truth.
Oh yeah, name one *verifiable* instance where a psychic *really* provided evidence that helped any police dept solve a murder (or any other) case.
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Article on Origins of Xristianity I Wrote REALLY UPSET Local Christians
by Seeker4 ini had an assignment to write a bunch of holiday articles that would be shared by all the various papers owned by the guy who owns the paper i'm the editor of.
after i'd had enough with the usual holiday stuff, i decided to get a little adventerous and expanded one in the series to include, not just the origins of christmas foods, but also some ideas i've been reading and watching about the origins of the chrisitain religion itself.. this is a link to the article, which ran a few weeks ago: .
http://www.messagefortheweek.com/main.asp?sectionid=1&subsectionid=20&articleid=849.
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Mackin
<quote>I dare you! No, double dare you to write such a piece about Islam in the Middle East or Europe. Call the origins of Mohammad a Greek myth and tomorrow some fanatic will be more than happy to kill you and your family. Also all your known relatives.
Do you think that Christians are such easy prey. Because we won't kill you for your blasphemy, you have license to write such blatant lies about our faith? Or our faiths origins.
I think not.</quote>It always find it interesting how religious people (and the dubs are no exception) use the threat of Islamic extremeism to try and frighten enyone who criticises them.
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Melbourne Apostafest anyone?
by Sam87 inhas there ever been any melbourne/victoria based apostafests?
my family and i would be really interested in having one in melbourne or any surrounding area sometime in the next few months.
we have been out of the org for just under a year now and we would really like to make some new friends.. is anyone up for this?
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Mackin
I'll be in Melbourne for the F1 Grand Prix in March. I'll be meeting with a few X-JW's I know.
Mackin
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Any Info On Letter To Be Read This Week??
by owenfieldreams inhi, everyone.
i'm hearing rumors that a letter is going to be read at this week's service meeting here in the us about kids and the internet.
let me guess--its another "the internet is evil" propaganda letter trying to steer everyone away from going online....
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Mackin
***I thought: 'hey, what are we so scared of unless the apostates have at least something right?'***
I couldn't agree more. If they really have the "truth" then that truth should shine thru all the "apostate lies", there should be no need to scare people away from evil "apostate" sites like this one.
Then again, if the "truth" is not really the truth...
Mackin
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WATER WITCHING
by Mary indo you believe water witching actually works?
i had lunch with an ex-dub friend yesterday who told me that many years ago, when she was still a witness, her landlord's son came over (they rented a farm) and he showed her that it did work.
she had been fully prepared to say "ha!
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Mackin
There is water beneath 94% of the earth's land surface. Therefore you can point your "witching" stick at just about any point on the ground and if you dig deep enough, you'll eventually find water.
Someone has already mentioned the JREF $1 million dollar prize. If you think you are a dowsers with some kind of supernatural ability, why not take them up?
Of course it could all be down to blind chance, and with such high odds of success that probably is the case.
Mackin
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Watch out for October
by moomanchu inrecieved this e-mail from a jw relative, thought i would share the lunacy.
not trying to foretell anything, just some interesting things that happened in october.
watchtower library has many more.
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Mackin
***Hmmmm......almost over.....tick tock, tick tock.....***
Hey, did the big event occur?
Did I miss it?
Damn!!!
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My UN email to my dad, he called the Writing Dept (this is long)
by Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit indate:tue, sep 26, 2006 11:47 am with good advice that i received at this site, i presented my questioning with a soft start... tell me what you think please.
yes, thank you, nice pictures.
i didn't recognize uncle ____.your place looks great.
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Mackin
2) I can easily imagine the dialogue that led to the WTS getting on the UN NGO list. I would have thought it cock-up rather than conspiracy. I can easily imagine some twat researcher, with only a couple functional neurons, approaching the UN library desk: "So what do I have to do to use the library" "You have to become an affiliate NGO" "Not sure what that means, but how do I do that?" "You sign here" "OK" Realise mistake 10 years later. "Whoops! We joined the "disgusting thing" fan club - better leave and do it quietly or we'll look like complete twats" ------- Jerohobobonadad, it didn't happen like that. The document was signed by one of the Govening Body (Lloyd Barry if memory serves) not some brain-dead researcher. Mackin PS sorry about the formatting. This crap site won't work properly on Linux. I think it's been coded by a Microsoft fan-boy.
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John Edward (psychic)--What do you make of it?
by rebel8 inhave you watched this guy's show?
i really don't believe much in the afterlife, but this makes me wonder.
unless they are all plants in the audience, he is either a mind reader or is really communicating with their dead loved ones.
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Mackin
***What do you think?*** I think you would do well to develop some critical thinking ability.