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  Aluminum Poisoning by Charles T. Betts - download link

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  charles truax betts was a dentist that wrote about the dangers of aluminum poisoning.. many of his articles were published in the golden age magazine during the 1920's and 1930's.. he wrote a book with the title "aluminum poisoning", the second edition being published in 1928.. it may be obtained at this webpage:.

  file name: betts_aluminum_poisoning_2ed.pdf.

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/h8wuuz.

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  NeonMadman

  Thanks, VM!!
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  sex offender wants chaperone to kh

  by nelly136 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5jvfmefxqjo3kj0srix3w_8n5jtkwd9geetog3associated pressconcord, n.h. a new hampshire sex offender is asking the state's highest court to allow him to go to church with a chaperone.the case of 35-year-old jonathan perfetto of manchester marks the first time the new hampshire supreme court is being asked to rule on whether a probation condition that effectively bars church attendance violates a person's constitutional rights to religious freedom.. perfetto was convicted in 2002 of possessing child pornography.

  a condition of his probation is that he have no contact with children.

  a lower court denied perfetto's request to attend jehovah's witnesses services with a church elder acting as a chaperone.. the new hampshire civil liberties union and perfetto maintain the chaperone would eliminate any risk to children.

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  NeonMadman

  So are we to understand that the court order for him to 'have no contact with children' actually prohibits him from being in any public gathering where children might be present? Can he go to a movie? To a park? A restaurant? How about for a walk? Is he supposed to stay in his house alone all the time because he might accidentally encounter a child if he goes out somewhere? That seems to me to be an unreasonably broad interpretation of the order. Of course, if he were in jail, he wouldn't be able to do those things (though there would still likely be a provision for him to attend religious services if he wanted). But the court seems to have decided that he isn't dangerous enough to need to be locked up - that's why he was granted probation.

  Also, it doesn't seem unreasonable that going to a religious meeting with a chaperone might be a way for him to be able to still have a spiritual life (though I would question his choice of religion and would be seriously skeptical about a JW elder as the choice of chaperone). In principle, however, he should not have to give up his religious freedom completely because he has been convicted of a sex offense, though effective measures should be taken to assure that he does not have an opportunity to interact with children in a way that violates his court order.

  With as little regard as I normally have for the ACLU and its daughters, I'm not sure the NHCLU is so far off the beam on this one.
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  So, you blew your chance to go to college because of JWs? Don't give up!

  by cabasilas in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i got the jw "bug" as a teenager.

  witnesses called at our door when i was nearly 11. my parents are deaf and i was the oldest hearing child, the default interpreter for them in that era before relay services and professional interpreters.

  they had no interest in jws, but it started to spark an interest in me.

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  NeonMadman

  I received my Bachelors degree last year at the age of 57. It can be done.
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  Aluminum Poisoning by Charles T. Betts - download link

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  charles truax betts was a dentist that wrote about the dangers of aluminum poisoning.. many of his articles were published in the golden age magazine during the 1920's and 1930's.. he wrote a book with the title "aluminum poisoning", the second edition being published in 1928.. it may be obtained at this webpage:.

  file name: betts_aluminum_poisoning_2ed.pdf.

  http://www.sendspace.com/file/h8wuuz.

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  NeonMadman

  This link seems to have expired. I'm preparing some material on this topic to present at my church and I'd love to get a copy of this material. Does anyone have a current link?
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  Is It Possible That Obama Is The Antichrist?

  by minimus in

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  NeonMadman

  I think that if Obama were the Antichrist, he'd be more effective at what he does.
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  Illustration To Explain "This Generation" Change

  by sd-7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just had this idea for how a speaker might illustrate the much-discussed 'overlapping generation' doctrine.. "imagine a series of lamps, placed in order from left to right.

  as you turn each of them on, what you ultimately have is a set of overlapping lights, that, when combined, form one composite light, so that even if, by some chance, one of the lights gets turned off, you still have the remaining lights which overlap with each other.

  in the same way, the current generation of anointed ones have long, faithful records of service to jehovah alongside the past generation of anointed ones who saw the events of 1914. they have served as an overlapping light of spiritual nourishment for jehovah's people in this time of the end.

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  NeonMadman

  As I posted a little while ago in another thread on this topic, if this article is true, then we are still living in the same generation as Abraham Lincoln, by Watchtower definition.
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  generation overlap

  by cskyjw.sun in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in 1914 say an anoited was 14 years old lived up to 80years old in 1980;and then another jw became anoited say at age of 20and lives up to 100 years old,then "this generation" would stretch to1980+80=2060.so the end would extend for another 50 years.

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  NeonMadman

  If this article is true, then we are still living in the same generation as Abraham Lincoln, by Watchtower definition.
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  Oral Review Answers Oct 2010

  by JWFreak in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just to really wind up the teaching committee.

  no pdf as this is a preproduction copy.

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  NeonMadman

  There are only 10 questions on the Written Reviews these days?
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  Would Witnesses REALLY drink the "Kool-aid" if the faithful slave told them to? Yes or no?

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. experiences

  a "spiritual leader" tells his followers the must put on rebok running shoes and "drink the cool-aid" to join a ufo in the tail of a comet and "go to a better world" so, afew dozen young people do just that to get "beamed up" to the mothership.

  heavens gate cult 1990's.. my mother says "she is faithful to the organisation till her death" which makes me wonder if they ordered a mass suicide like the reverend jim jones did to escape a "great tribulation"....how many witnesses would really drink the cool-aid?...

  without a gun pointed at their head of course!.

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  NeonMadman

  I asked my ex one time whether she would drink poisoned kool-aid if the org told her to, and she said yes. I was horrified, and asked if she would also feed it to our (then) infant daughter. She thought better of it from that perspective, thank God.
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  The Witnesses are freaking out

  by Sour Grapes in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i still go to a few meetings a month just to keep members of my family happy.. the witnesses seemed to be getting all worked up about how close the end.

  it sorta feels like the 1975 era only 35 years later.

  the brother who gave.

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  NeonMadman

  You know how the old mechanical alarm clocks would click a split second before the bell rang? That's where we are in the stream of time...between the click and the ring. At least that's where they said we were 40 years ago...