so today after the meeting an older pioneer sister was outside as people were talking about the wonderful experience from the yearbook of the family in nigeria or wherever that went to the meeting and the plane destroyed their neighborhood.
but since they were at the metting they lived..... .
so she says, "you heard about the ones that died in a bus crash on the way to the convention????
If your talking literally, the Memorial would be the perfect place for them to pull this off.
If they EVER come up with a reason for ALL to drink the wine and eat the bread, you need to make a hasty exit.
Not that it would ever happen, but if it would, that would be the perfect place and time.
NJY
wearing ear spirals (ear cuffs) traces back to the ancient times.
it has been found out that most egyptians wear them based on the paintings found on the pyramids.
ear cuffs and other jewelries are only worn by royalties back then.. is this scriptural?.
As long as he can write big checks, he can show big cheeks.
NJy
i remember reading a very good letter sometime within the past 6 months.
i have been looking for it and can't find it.
i don't even remember who wrote it but they didn't send it at the time.
Free2beme,..
Loved it, is there more?
More is better,. cause we want more,.. (att commercial here in USA)
NJY
londo has written a great article (imo) about how apostates are a figment of the jw imagination, fomented and concocted by none other than the watchtower.
not necessarily the dictionary definition of the word apostate, which simply means a person who leaves their religion, for by that definition everyone who leaves any religion to become a jw is an apostate.
no, it is jw conception of the apostate, both as an individual and as a group that is imaginary.. .
"Than what the organization CURRENTLY teaches,......"
I mean that kind of says enough right there,... CURRENTLY!!
NJy
i must admit, i feel rather like winston smith from orwell's 1984. i sit here in front of the image of a blank piece of paper on my computer screen.
i am alone in my study, alone, but like winston, i am hesitant to write on this blank piece of paper, fearful that i am under the watchful eye of the telescreen.
it is a form of paranoia, i guess, a paranoia that is synonymous with being in the organization; an organization that worries more about perception than substance.
Dang, SOP../
I like your style,... glad you are making it out of that craziness we used to call the "Truth"
You tried to get the user name Winston Smith didn't you, come on,...
NJY
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Here is a part one of Penn and Teller debunking a ouija board.
There are some great videos on youtube that show children how to get started, here is the first in a series.
Also, Richard Dawkins has a book, or ipad app, "The Magic of reality" that does a good job of explaining how to think properly.
has anyone ever thought about paying for a billboard close to either an assembly hall or a kingdom hall during memorial season?
for instance i would probably pay for a billboard for a week or 2 displaying jwfacts.com on the highway or a nearby road that witnesses travel on heavily.
has anyone ever tried something like this?.
a few years ago i became interested in the subject of neuro-linguistic programming (nlp).
while the core concepts of nlp have been largely discredited as new-age pseudo-science, there is no doubt that there is at least some validity to the idea.
words and images remain the key way we communicate.
For some examples of NLP, see Derren Brown with some of his youtibe videos/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befugtgikMg
NJY
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escape from the watchtower part iihttp://pathologicallyintellectual.blogspot.com/ .
Enjoyed it also, east to read and I remember reading in the past about a wife coming out with a copy of COC and stating that this was hers, glad to see that again.
NJY
