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  Fake publisher card

  by floridaborn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i've been a lurked on this site for about 15 years, thank goodness for dial up internet.... anyway my fade has been working off and on for that long but my whole family is still in including my kid.

  at this point i have started dating a worldly person.

  he is wiling to put onthe facade of being a witness so i don't have to lose my family.

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  Nathan Natas

  I would suggest that instead of having him try to "pass" as a genuine JW ( a task just a bit harder than getting an Aborigine to pretend to be an Eskimo), it would be far easier for him to pretend to be a seeker of truth who is convinced -- ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, INCONTROVERTABLY, CONVINCED --that he has found IT.

  Then he will have to submit to a free home Bible Study -- AND he will have to show signs of "making rapid progress in The Trooth," attending and participating at all meetings, etc., and continually "reaching out for additional privileges of service".

  Only ONE of TWO things can go wrong --

  1). He may actually become a witness after being so thoroughly BRAINWASHED,

  --OR--

  2) He may run screaming over the horizon, ne'er to be seen again!

  Who says "Honesty is the best policy"?
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  Maybe you can help with this?

  by vienne in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as some of you know, i'm not a witness, but i am the co-author of a series of history book that discuss the watch tower's earliest years.

  russell mentions a 'brother' van der ahe as an early days wt evangelist.

  we can't identify him.

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  Isn't it GREAT how helpful ignorant uninformed know-nothings can be?

  Why bother to use your brain when you can just blither on like a total twit?

  It isn't funny and it isn't helpful. You're embarrassing yourselves.

  Vienne, I apologize for the goon squad. If you give them a book, they eat the covers.
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  Which Watchtower publications did you keep?

  by Schnufti in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm currently cleaning up our bookcase and need to decide what goes into the trash.

  i'll keep the watchtower books that are not available online anymore (e.g.

  the brown "reasoning" book).

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  I have a bunch of them left over from my "Watchtower Bookshelf (BS)" days.

  I think I might put them into a good-sized water-tight container and innoculate them with gardening fungi I have access too (non-magic variety) along with some dilute sugar solution (fungi LOVE sugar if it is dilute), let the mycellium spread through the cellulose matrix and then put them out with my yard-waste, which goes to a local compost factory (I intentionally avoided calling it a "compost plant" because that might have been confusing).

  At that point, they will look HIDEOUS, but they are just friendly garden 'shrooms doing what they do best.
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  what is the craziest book the dubbers ever published?

  by dogon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was wondering what book is the nuttiest they ever printed?

  i know there are several in contention for first place but which is your vote for no 1?

  also if you don't mind post a bit of what is in the book you pick to show why you picked it.

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  Q.: What is the craziest book the dubbers ever published?

  A.: The next one.
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  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  by snowbird in

  1. social
  2. current

  my sister, who lives in atlanta, told me about this book today.. it is on my must-read list.. syl.

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  I left my comment before I saw the movie on HBO. I think the movie was very well done, and very moving. I feel very sad for the Lacks family, poor in so many ways, and I still feel they deserve something, but I don't know what or how much. The author of the book is a woman of integrity and a true friend to the family.
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  Guys ... Be honest here ... Do you ever Pee in the bathroom sink

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last month i got caught by my wife after a late night out with her (and some drinks).

  i guess i am evil.. just wondering if anyone else has had this misfortune.. rub a dub.

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  Snowbird said, "Urine is a good disinfectant."

  I don't think that is correct.

  To be a disinfectant, urine would have to destroy bacteria. There is no evidence that it does this.

  It is even debatable that a person who is not ill has sterile urine. Even if it was sterile, "sterile" means "free of bacteria," not "destroys bacteria."

  There have been instances in military field medicine when medics used human urine. Henry VIII's surgeon Thomas Vicary recommended that all battle wounds should be washed in urine. Urinating on a wound to clean it in an emergency has become fodder for urban legend, but new research debunks the idea that urine is sterile.

  Urine is not sterile, even before it comes out of you and gets contaminated by your skin. Bacteria are present at low levels in the urine of healthy people not suffering from a urinary tract infection.

  But if "golden showers" are your thing... take a regular shower afterwards.
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  Guys ... Be honest here ... Do you ever Pee in the bathroom sink

  by RubaDub in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  last month i got caught by my wife after a late night out with her (and some drinks).

  i guess i am evil.. just wondering if anyone else has had this misfortune.. rub a dub.

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  Nathan Natas

  HOORAY!

  The "edit post" function is working again!
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  Site Updates

  by Simon in

  1. forum
  2. announcements

  just a heads-up that i will be testing some updates this evening.. the nature of the changes means it's difficult to test every scenario in advance offline (translation: it's a lot more effort and i just can't be bothered) so i'm going to go with the "wing-it" approach:.

  deploy, check for errors, try to fix errors before anyone else notices them.. i can switch between the new and old version pretty quickly so if there are significant issues, i'll rollback and revert the changes while i work on the fixes.

  worse case is the pages won't display quite right (dates might be a giveaway) but a full page refresh should fix things.. http://www.refreshyourcache.com/en/home/.

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  Nathan Natas

  I noticed (as King of Typos) that the edit function is not available for new comments.

  I shall live in shame.
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  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  by snowbird in

  1. social
  2. current

  my sister, who lives in atlanta, told me about this book today.. it is on my must-read list.. syl.

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  The medical establishment, who took a figurative "pound of flesh" from Mrs. Lacks were untroubled by the ethics that permitted the medical establishment to profit while Mrs. Lacks was left to live as though their family name was their destiny. Is this right? Couldn't the impoverished Lacks family be provided with at least a minimal, non-zero compensation?
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  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  by snowbird in

  1. social
  2. current

  my sister, who lives in atlanta, told me about this book today.. it is on my must-read list.. syl.

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  Nathan Natas

  So. it could be said that Henrietta Lacks left an inheritance to everyone EXCEPT her family?