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  Dear Dr. Laura; Why Can't I own a Canadian? Some thought provoking questions for Jehovah's Witnesses and the blood issue. :)

  by Balaamsass in

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  why can't i own a canadian?october 2002dr.

  laura schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show.

  recently, she said that, as an observant orthodox jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.

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  What a funny way of looking at the Old Testament! I love when people see things in a new way, things that Can be really funny when they were supposed to be serious, like the OT.
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  News Follow-up on 2002 Beheading and Kidnap of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  by Balaamsass in

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  witnesses fail to identify abu sayyaf suspectsphilippine daily inquirer.

  4:41 am | tuesday, december 4th, 2012 <span class="postauthor">posted by <a href="http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/author/besguerra" title="posts by besguerra" rel="author">besguerra</a></span>0665start share this /metas suspected abu sayyaf terrorists wrongly arrested for the 2002 abduction of several jehovahs witnesses in patikul, sulu, may be released before the end of the month.. twenty-one accused claiming innocence were presented at a hearing on the reinvestigation of the kidnap-for-ransom case conducted by the department of justice on monday, but eight of them were pointed to by two witnessesone of them a former hostageas being members of the terror group.. it was the third reinvestigation of the aug. 20, 2002, abduction of four women and two men who were members of the religious group in patikul.. the two men were beheaded by the abu sayyaf while the women were rescued by police and the military.. at the start of the hearing, senior assistant state prosecutor peter ong said it was the prosecutors themselves who pushed for the reinvestigation.. we noticed, for instance, two persons being arrested under one name and we noticed an injustice there, said ong, adding that the pasig rtc ordered them to conduct the reinvestigation in 60 days.. all 21 abu sayyaf members who were handcuffed were made to line up for identification in batches to face two of the three witnesses who were brought in, their faces concealed.. of the 21, the eight who were pointed to by two witnesses denied the accusation.. one of the eight, julhassan a. jaani ybanez, was identified by the female witness as the one who beheaded her husband.. but ybanez denied this, saying he was an imam (muslim leader) and an assistant of col. akho san juan, the military chaplain of the western mindanao command.

  he said he was arrested in 2006. christine o. avendano.

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  They went into dangerous territory by boat if I remember right, and tried to pass themselves off as Avon reps in order to preach the word. The local Muslims were not duped and the group was kidnapped, and then several were beheaded.
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  Hi guess i may have to introduce myself

  by rickisteel in

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  hi im from the uk im 42 years old , i was brought up as a witness from birth to 12 years of age i left the meetings with my parents ,.

  i had a wild youth was a bit of a rebel involving alcohol ,drugs , heavy metal and motorcycles , i was thrown out of home at 17 my sister was 14. and was discarded as my parents remarried and neither of there new partners wanted us (baggage) , anyway by the time i was married and 21. somebody spiked my pizza with lsd (cant remember the flavour ) and for the next 3 days i thought the world was ending , i called my dad and rambled some stuff to him ( cant remember exactly but the world was ending in my head) a little while later i got a witness call briefly , i found out where he lived and went and asked him for a bible , he suggested i have a bible study me and the wife took the offer and so it began again , i was baptised in 93 and went from strength to strength in the truth , aux pioneering , volunteered for everything , talks , cleaning , meeting parts etc was soon appointed and moved on giving public talks , assembly parts , shepparding calls etc , then in 1997 my wife fell down a kerb and damaged her cruciate ligaments several operations later and disabled ( by the way the brothers /sisters in the cong were great at this point ) my wife began to act odd 1n 1999 she tried to take her own life and over the next several years took 26 overdoses and spent much of her life in phychiatrict hospital in 2001 she was bi polar disorder type rapid cycling (not the common oh i feel a bit low type bi polar but the full blown rollercoaster ride bi polar) .

  the thing that struck me was i began to feel like a leper and despite a couple of close friends nobody in the cong or on the circuit( long time friends) seemed to care , i brouht up the kids on my own visiting my wife in hospital and caring for her at home , i felt so alone , when i used to take the kids to the meeting / assembly on my own i just got tutts and sad headshakes "she not come" ?

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  welcome!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses dismayed by new magazine format from Watchtower Society.

  by Balaamsass in

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  wow.

  i was surprised this week by calls from active jws complaining about the new magazine format, and more begging for money from the platform.. frankly i was surprized by this reaction since this is old news to jwn members.

  i guess actually shuffling to the bookroom and grabbing the new "awake tracts" minus the inside cover forward ...awakened many sleepy, catatonic, bored jws who never read the things or go on the internet anyway.. any feedback from other areas?.

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  I remember the old Dodger Stadium days that ran well into the nights! As a little kid, it was a nightmare that never ended!!!
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  newbe

  by emperorslaundrist in

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  thank you for this forum.

  thank you for your stories which helped wake me up from my delusion.

  thank you for letting me join you.

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  Welcome! I'm glad you are here, and that you found out the truth about the truth while still young. Welcome to life.
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  My mother passed away this morning...

  by Tatiana in

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  for any old-school ex-jws here that remember my many posts about my abusive jw mother and my sister committing suicide because of it...she passed away this morning because she began to bleed out and refused a transfusion.

  she had been in the hospital for a month.

  it appears she suffered a stroke and wasn't found by the brothers & sisters for three days (they missed her at the meetings).

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  Tatiana, I am so sorry for your loss. I just saw this thread, and apologize for not posting sooner. I hope that you will have a decent trip to your mom's funeral. Love to you and your niece.
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  Invited to Attend a J W Kangaroo Court Proceeding: Tell Them to: Put the Reason for Requesting Your Presents in Writing Along With Any Alleged Charges of Wrong Doing, So You Can Give it To Your Lawyer.

  by frankiespeakin in

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  by doing this the elders have to contact hq to get further instructions.

  in many cases they will think it just not worth the red tape to proceed any further.

  unless they concider you a real bad apple or threat that needs to be delt with in which case it should hold them off for a couple of months till they get direction from hq.. the wt is being threatened with law suits, they have to deal with big legal concideration of child molestation and other areas as the public is become less and less tollerant of wacko religions with abusive behavior.

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  Marking for later.
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  Which book of the Bible creates the highest number of awakenings?

  by NeverKnew in

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  so, it has been agreed that i will be reading the bible with my jw friends.

  straight bible no wt.. we tried to start with matthew and move through the new testament.

  i insisted on using the esvs i purchased from amazon for $.49 a piece so we could write in them.

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  Jonah, to be told to believe that crazy story is true is very hard to SWALLOW! hehehe!
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  Hello

  by Benjie in

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  this is my first time now that i'm registered.

  i've been reading here for a while though.. it's been a long journey to get here, but now i have turned my back on everything i've known for such a long time, but a new road lies ahead, and this is one of the first steps on it.. .

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  A very warm welcome to you and congrats on getting your family out.
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  When mothers "mother" too much

  by skeeter1 in

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  what do you suggest?

  one day, all of this will "try" to be dumped on my household.

  i am now hearing rumblings of it.. my in laws have their almost 40 year old daughter living with them.

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