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  Heard a rumor: Guy Pierce died this morning

  by respectful_observer in

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  didn't see any other threads, apologies if one already exists.

  apparently died of a massive stroke this morning.. r_o.

  (completely unconfirmed.

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  breakfast of champions

  This is pure speculation, but I think there's something to it:

  I think GB 2.0 as a group is going to die prematurely.

  Pierce died at 79 - that is about 20 years early for a GB member.

  It seems like most of the members of GB 1.0 lived well into their 80's and 90's

  Here's where I see a difference:

  GB 1.0 were all skinny guys (mostly). They looked like they might eat a half-can of tuna fish in water a day.

  GB 2.0 do not look like they miss too many meals. Morris looks downright obese, Jackson too. Even Sanderson has a lot of weight on him, especially for a forty-something guy. While I wouldn't have pegged Pierce as "obese" he certainly did not have the wiry profile of Franz or the other old-timers.

  Sure, their lives overlap with 1.0, but that may not give them as much of a "stretch" as they intended unless they start taking their health seriously.

  Fat cats.
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  Heard a rumor: Guy Pierce died this morning

  by respectful_observer in

  1. jw
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  didn't see any other threads, apologies if one already exists.

  apparently died of a massive stroke this morning.. r_o.

  (completely unconfirmed.

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  breakfast of champions

  DOC
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  My son has made his decision

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  this is the followup to this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/276119/1/well-its-march-and-the-college-answers-are-coming-in#.uyjdu_ldv2e.

  the financial aid offer came in.. the first year of attending is actually cheaper than what we were going to pay at the state university after their scholarship offer.. i mean, really cheaper.. we would be fools to turn it down.. they are even flying him in for the preview week.. .

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  breakfast of champions

  YES YES YES!!!!!

  So happy for you and your son!

  Best of luck (although LUCK probably has nothing to do with it!)

  BOC
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  Beware of Mediums

  by Splash in

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  from 1920 wt publication "talking with the dead":.

  p. 116 materializations.

  "these materializations occur by a power which the demons posess of being able to draw out of the mediums body connected streams of the cells of which her body is composed, and then changing the form of these living cells into any desired appearance.

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  breakfast of champions

  I like mine medium-rare.
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  Heard a rumor: Guy Pierce died this morning

  by respectful_observer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  didn't see any other threads, apologies if one already exists.

  apparently died of a massive stroke this morning.. r_o.

  (completely unconfirmed.

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  breakfast of champions

  Is this "Grandpa Al"?

  They're gonna hafta find another 42-year-old to replace him. . .
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  Is anyone else completely astonished that they're drawing attention to 1914/2014 - 100 years

  by jambon1 in

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  i note that they're making reference to this in the upcoming convention programme.

  someone has has dropped a bollock here, have they not?.

  i mean, if i were a jw, i'd be sitting thinking of all the promises made and broken.

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  breakfast of champions

  Well, what choice did they really have.

  Either they avoid the whole issue, and let doubts fester only to erupt at some time in the near future. . . . .

  OR. .. .

  Embrace the 100 year anniversary as a sort of "feature" of god's invisible kingdom!

  I think they knew what their choices were and are gambling on #2 as the way to go.

  If I were in the same position as they (i.e. a cold, calculating psychopath) I think I would've chosen the same.
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  Woman talk to media about Church of Scientology ripping her family to pieces

  by Imminent1975 in

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  http://gma.yahoo.com/fla-woman-says-church-scientology-ripped-her-family-165522676--abc-news-topstories.html?vp=1.

  this was posted on yahoo news, informing people about a woman that claims her family has been ripped apart by the teachings of scientology.

  sounds like the situation for many of us here with our families still in jw land.

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  This is a GREAT article/video. Showed it to my wife yesterday. Pointed out that if you only switch a few words of Scientology-Speak with JW-speak and you have the same damn story.

  She commented on how hypocritical L Ron Hubbard's writings on the "importance" of family were. . .

  I showed her the 2009 Awake on not having to choose between family and religious belief. . . .

  A very effective piece.

  "Let's review: They're both cults!"- OUBLIETTE

  Amen!
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  The Birth of the Universe - Scientific Breakthrough

  by cofty in

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  researchers working with a telescope at the south pole beleive they have glimpsed light from the first "trillionth of a trillionth of a tillionth" of a second after the big bang.. a lot of work has still to be done to confirm the findings, but if it holds up it is one of the biggest discoveries ever.. _________________________________________.

  ...inflation came with a very specific prediction - that it would be associated with waves of gravitational energy, and that these ripples in the fabric of space would leave an indelible mark on the oldest light in the sky - the famous cosmic microwave background.. the bicep2 team says it has now identified that signal.

  scientists call it b-mode polarisation.

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  Yes! Just reading this on the NYTimes. . . Fascinating stuff!
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  2014 District Convention Symposium - "What Must Be Kept In Second Place". - wow, unbelievable......

  by EndofMysteries in

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  its up on jw.org the 2014 convention program.

  friday 2:00 symposium : what must be kept in second place?

  recreation.

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  2015 Convention Talk Suggestions:

  "Oxygen and Food Are Overrated"

  "Why Bother With Bathing?"

  "Cardboard Box in the Park - A Perfect Pioneer Pad"
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  Ex 20:11. Two big problems for WT creation tradition. What's their best shot?

  by Open mind in

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  somehow the significance of exodus 20:11 has slipped right past my critical thinking skills for several decades.

  "for in six days jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and he proceeded to rest on the seventh day.

  that is why jehovah blessed the sabbath day and proceeded to make it sacred.".

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  breakfast of champions

  This is a good point OPEN MIND. Glad you brought it up.

  JWs like to appear "reasonable" and not like "fundamentalists" (which is what they really are). In the end, you get a kind of pseudoscience-y mix of reality (the earth/universe is obviously billions of years old) and myth.

  Ken Hamm really makes more sense. At least he sticks to the myth.