Posts by NeonMadman

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WT publications questions

by Aussie Oz in

can anybody tell me how much jws 'donate' for the magazines, 192 page books and bibles at the k/hall?.

are subscriptions still available to the mags?.

can you get the study wt by sub or only if you are a jw at the hall?.

NeonMadman

Many of the older magazines and other publications are available on CD-ROM from www.researchapplications.org.

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Science Fiction recommendations

by JeffT in

so i have my daughter (a 33 year old choreographer turned psych student) reading rah.

so far she's read double star and tunnel in the sky, she stayed up all night friday night finishing tunnel.

she's working on the moon is a harsh mistress now.

NeonMadman

Anything by Harlan Ellison. Prepare to have your mind twisted.

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Funny... My auto-Google search brought me this Times Mag Archive.... 1969 "Witnessing the End"

by Bryan in

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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901074,00.html.

i can't seem to insert the page.. .

sects: witnessing the endfriday, jul.

Sigh, I was there. That was the assembly I got baptized at. They herded almost 3000 of us into standing-room-only school buses and proceeded to bus us across the Bronx (on the Cross-Bronx Expressway) in extreme summer heat (no A/C in school buses in those days) for about a 2-hour drive each way because of heavy traffic (which would have been about 20 minutes each way without the traffic). We missed the entire lunch break and part of the afternoon session, but by golly, we got dunked. The beginning of my 30-year misadventure.

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Another JW email making the rounds: Stay in the Beehive

by truthseeker in

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yawn.... .

stay in the beehive.

one day a young boy was riding in a horse-drawn buggy down a country lane with his father.

NeonMadman

I know some Orkin technicians who can take out the entire hive just about as quickly as the guy with the whip can flick away the individual bees.

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Apostates and others meeting in the Blue Ridge Mts. Pa. see video

by the research lady in

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a live webcast of the witnesses now for jesus convention will start friday morning oct. 16,2009 and many parts of the program will be broadcast through sunday oct. 18,2009 for you to enjoy on your computer screen.

the upper room ministries website will act as host and staging agent for getting you the right links to receive the webcast.

www.upperroomministriesnewengland.com information regarding a schedule of events and when they will be taking place will be posted on this site by monday oct. 12,2009. during the convention if you have any questions while viewing on line, you will be able to e-mail them to [email protected] please be advised that in webcasting events there can be many technical issues , especially from rural areas where signals sometimes are weak.

NeonMadman

Hey, that's me at the very beginning!

I've embedded this video on the front page of my website, at least until the convention is over: www.dispelthedarkness.org.

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Stupidest JW meeting answers

by GapingMouth in

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i was thinking about some stupid non-sensical answers i have heard over the years.

"we all know the blue whale is the biggest fish"

"we were on the ministry and met a coloured couple.

NeonMadman

The answer was supposed to be Shadrach, Meshach and Abendnego. --- The answer given by a child, "I shack, You shack, and Away we go!!!

I thought it was, "my shack, your shack and a bungalow".

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Stupidest JW meeting answers

by GapingMouth in

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i was thinking about some stupid non-sensical answers i have heard over the years.

"we all know the blue whale is the biggest fish"

"we were on the ministry and met a coloured couple.

NeonMadman

From a talk (must have been working on illustrations): "Suppose you were running a store, say, one that sold...um...things and...errr...items?"

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1976 Questions By Jehovah's Witnesses

by cabasilas in

back in 1976 a network of jws began discussions on some subjects and were surprised their questions about the wt society were similar.

they sent out thousands of copies of a 20 page letter to kingdom halls in several countries.

i remember hearing about it from a couple of elders when it happened.

NeonMadman

I remember receiving this document. It was instrumental in dislodging a lot of "JW-think" from my mind. Glad to see it here, since I no longer have my original copy.

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Is Atheism a Form of Blind Faith?

by passwordprotected in

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if god is outside of nature and therefore cannot be proved or disproved by science, is atheism a form of blind faith?

after all, it cannot be defended on the basis of pure reason.. steven jay gould said;.

"science simply cannot by its legitimate methods adjudicate the issue of god's possible superintendence of nature.

NeonMadman

I found this book to be very interesting on the topic of atheism, and the style pretty edgy for a Christian writer. You can download it for free (or offer a donation if you prefer).

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"One of" Jehovah's Witnesses

by NeonMadman in

any thoughts on that particular phrasing?

personally, i think the wts uses it as another form of mind control.

by calling the individual "one of jehovah's witnesses," it lends a generic feel to the wording.

NeonMadman

Any thoughts on that particular phrasing? Personally, I think the WTS uses it as another form of mind control. By calling the individual "one of Jehovah's Witnesses," it lends a generic feel to the wording. Like, 'oh, this isn't the brand name of a religion; it's what they are...Jehovah is God and these people really are his witnesses.' I try never to use the term. When I need to speak about having been a Witness, I usually say either, "I was a Jehovah's Witness" (which I know is not the best gramatically, but it avoids the usage that I find annoying) or sometimes, "I was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses."

What do you guys think?