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PASSION of the Christ
by myownsaviorthankyoumuch in
1. social
2. entertainment
wondering if anyone has seen it yet, and what the general consensus was around here.

i saw it a week ago this coming monday, overall i liked it, and didnt really see what the controvesy was, thought that the aramaic w/ english subtitles was a nice touch, cinematography was great, watching mary's griefmoved me a whole lot more than watching jesus get tortured, satan rocked visually, i especially enjoyed the fact that he was portrayed by a female, [that was not a comment to instigate the femenists on the board] though he had one too many hollywood moments, i really like the fact that jesus actually came across as arrogant, not the weakling he is always portrayed as during the easter season, he actually had some nads, and had something to say, that was cool, made him a lot more real in my eyes, after walking out of the theater though, i could only keep thinking to myself this was such a tragedy in the likes of homer, a hero bound for disaster, a legend told through the centuries, much like king arthur became a legend based on the events of a real man, im thinking the same must have happened with him, 80 flogs with bamboo into it i was thinking endorphines and adrenaline, yet it kept going into a second round, how he was able to walk after that and carry a cross, seemed a bit ludicrous, comments??

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Kingdom Hall Spankings
by JH in
1. jw
2. friends
most meetings i went to, children were brought to the washrooms in the back to be disciplined.

often i could hear a child yell or cry due to the spanking given by the parent.

people in the hall would have that look on their face meaning that it was alright to discipline a child by spanking him.
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Disfellowshipped for Being Raped!
by UnDisfellowshipped in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
march 8th 1974 issue, pages 13-16:.

"scream!

scream!
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Have you read my experience in the Awake?Read this
by ELON14 in
1. jw
2. friends
many of you already know my real name.i'm the one whose experience was published in the sep 8 1994 awake mag.

i would like to stress that although i have good reason to be angry and bitter, nothing i say here is said in anger but only in sadness.

i write this to say that if i could take back many of my words i said in that experience , i would.
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Childhood Misconceptions
by Big Tex in
1. social
2. humour
when i was a kid, i kind of lived in my own world.

i thought i knew everything, but as i grew older i realized my biggest problem was that i only halfway paid attention to the world.

and the bathroom was on the right of what?
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Did the 1914 Generation Die Anyway?
by JanH in
1. jw
2. friends
did the 1914 generation die anyway?

ver since the beginning of the watchtower movement, they have had some sort of deadline for god's activities.these activities could be the rapture of the saints (which jws today do not believe in), the destruction of "false religion", ie every other religious group, or the final end of this world.

earlier, these deadlines were explicit dates.
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Good news for modern OBVEServers
by unclebruce in
1. watchtower
2. bible
hey obves,.

goodnews - i just crunched your numbers with biblemans numbers and broke the mathmatical equations down to iir2 .. let me double check the algebra ... x2 + x + 41 = prime number - xerxies x nabonidus + daniel 360 = jesus pies are squared.

.. yep works every time .. break an equation down far enough and out pops old iir2.
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BEAT that Child!
by Farkel in
1. jw
2. friends
this is sort of a continuation of threads on dubs and how they are conditioned to discipline their children.

someone questioned whether the society actually encouraged dubs to whup their children.

i only had enough time to dig up a few salient quotes from the wt magazine.
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WHO SURVIVED...."75"..?
by OUTLAW in
1. social
2. relationships
who survived..."1975"...,i`m just curious,how many of us,are there?those of us that lived though this,will know what i mean.
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Are you Ex's still Christian?
by joel in
1. jw
2. friends
whassup guys.

i've spent most of my web time over the last 2 years at another site full of ex-jdubs...i'd say about 50 people post there on occasion...many of that number regularly.. what struck me from the beginning, as i got to know the people posting there was...how many were now atheists...non-believers in god...the bible...pretty much anything they once held sacred as jw's!.

i dare say...90 some % do not consider themselves christian now!.