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  If you don't respect the integrity of WORDS your thoughts are crap

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  there once was a world--a long time ago when there was no printing press, no computers or newspapers or technology for instant communications.. something extraordinary might happen a few miles away and nobody would find out about it for weeks!.

  and the details?

  could you trust the details?

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  zeb

  "A gentleman should be able to spell most well, for if he can not spell most well then is not sure what he thinketh, and a gentleman should always know what he is thinking." quoted by TE lawrence
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  Hug Your Babies

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am so sad to see this terrible school tragedy.

  it makes me well up everytime i see it on tv.. i am going to see my 34 year old baby girl tonight.

  it's her birthday.

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  zeb

  what happened?
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  Will 2013 be the Year of Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims - both Jehovah Witness and non Jehovah Witness survivors in the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York?

  by Sol Reform in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  " now, virtually every religious organization has had to deal with this issue in some form.

  and those with theological beliefs that require them to keep scandal from seeping outside the organization, like the roman catholic church, the orthodox jews, the jehovah's witnesses, and the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints, have had pronounced problems.".

  http://verdict.justia.com/2012/12/13/the-year-in-review.

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  dont forget ...australia.

  The Prime Minister earlier this year announced the intention to hold a 'Royal Commission' into institutional child abuse.
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  Latest AWAKE claims most College students consider Prostitution/Stripping to pay for education!!! What the?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  "watching the world" in awake has always been used as a tool to promote certain doctrines like blood, the u.n etc.

  in the new "step-parents" awake magazine, it has an article claiming how 1 in 3 college students would consider stripping or sex work to pay for it!!!

  anti college propaganda????

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  zeb

  and where did they get their figures from?
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  mental and bodily health.

  by zeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have just watched an address by a dr,.

  and he talks about the brain and the importance, the vital importance of.

  nutrition.. most jw in my experience are traditional (as 'my mother used to do') or poor eaters.

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  zeb

  I have just watched an address by a Dr,

  www.PaulNussbaum.com

  and he talks about the brain and the importance, the vital importance of

  Nutrition.

  Most JW in my experience are traditional (as 'my mother used to do') or poor eaters. They take little interest in nutrition and for many unless food advice is in the wts publications will never read it.

  socialization.

  Yes JW socialize but under strict rules. "Not with murmerers", "Not with the worldly" and so on hence there socializing is 'in-bred'

  Mental stimulation.

  Take the queue from the last item. Few witnesses ever engage in out of house activitys. Sport for the young is a no-no. Often i have been in jw homes and never seen another book other than the wts publications. Education is frowned upon. Scholarship is discredited and actual world scholars have been deliberately mis quoted by the WTS to support dogma. Studying is supported provided it is of the WTS own publications and nought else. Do a reading of the scriptures in another trans lation of the Bible other than the JW bible and watch the reaction!

  Spirituality.

  The wts and jw themselves have confused this profound trait with direct obedience to every call and order from the WTS. How you dress, how you answer up at meetings and who you are seen associating with and the hours you log doing the door to door work .The brother who sexually abused my offspring and many others was a model of all the above. The jw definition of spirituality is performance based on things that can be seen.

  Physical Activity.

  In my long life I conclude that JW are and I stress as a group the unhealiest of peoples because as has been published and said a thousand times at as many conventions all that matters is the ministry work and the meetings attendance.

  Please take a look at Dr Nussbaum site extremely interesting. The observation above just jumped out at me as I was watching.

  Peace love and harmony to all.
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  Preppers and prepping.... thoughts?

  by EntirelyPossible in

  1. social
  2. current

  what do you guys think of preppers?

  i have been watching doomsday preppers on natgeo (it's just a trainwreck, i can't stop watching) and while those guys are a joke, i think have a few weeks worth of supplies and water on had is a good idea (tornadoes, hurricane, freak snow/ice storm, etc.).

  however, prepping years worth of food, 5000 rounds of ammo per gun, building a fortified bunker.... what for?

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  zeb

  In the WW2 many mothers had prepared to kill their kids if the Japanese landed in Australia including.. mine. Most homes had a .22 rifle.

  If you are sitting there with wonder on your face get the book "The Knights of Bushido" x Lord Russel of Liverpool , or a history of the "Rape of Nanking" and you might understand. The mothers were here mostly alone as the men were in far off countries engaged in the war.

  'preppers' I can understand why they do what they do.
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  Preppers and prepping.... thoughts?

  by EntirelyPossible in

  1. social
  2. current

  what do you guys think of preppers?

  i have been watching doomsday preppers on natgeo (it's just a trainwreck, i can't stop watching) and while those guys are a joke, i think have a few weeks worth of supplies and water on had is a good idea (tornadoes, hurricane, freak snow/ice storm, etc.).

  however, prepping years worth of food, 5000 rounds of ammo per gun, building a fortified bunker.... what for?

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  evr been around a dept store super price cut riot?

  ever been there when the petrol is rationed?

  evr seen how people(!) react when bread is rationed or milk?

  Some years ago in a sleepy Canada the Police went on strike. For 12 hours nothing much happened. Then the reality set in and wholesale looting and wilful destruction was let loose and much of it by people who would normally never break the law.

  Civilization is but a veneer. Ask the NRA about 'concealed carry'.
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  When Will The Watchtower Org, Pick Up The Tab For Traveling Overseers Apartments?

  by ÁrbolesdeArabia in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  we have a tiny apartment attached to our kingdom hall, a retired "traveling couple" now lives in.

  the society did not pay for the materials, labor or fees to build their little home they appreciate.

  you all should see how happy, "all smiles :)" this old couple is, to have a home after forty years on the road.. .

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  zeb

  because them who reside in a monastery rarely look beyond the walls
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  Nostalgia of the Unknown

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "the nostalgia of things unknown, of lands forgotten or unfound, is upon me at times.

  often i long for the gleam of yellow suns upon terraces of translucent azure marble, mocking the windless waters of lakes unfathomably calm; for lost, legendary palaces of serpentine, silver and ebony, whose columns are green stalactites; for the pillars of fallen temples, standing in the vast purpureal sunset of a land of lost and marvellous romance.

  i sigh for the dark-green depths of cedar forests, through whose fantastically woven boughs, one sees at intervals an unknown tropic ocean, like gleams of blue diamond; for isles of palm and coral, that fret an amber morning, somewhere beyond cathay or taprobane; for the strange and hidden cities of the desert, with burning brazen domes and slender pinnacles of gold and copper, that pierce a heaven of heated lazuli.".

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  zeb

  Dear CC, habe you read

  Gilbrahn.."The Prophet"

  me thinks you would like same.
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  He is the hearer of prayer..

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what are my chances of getting the elders to hold regular congregation prayers for me with suspect cancer.

  with the view to be healed, not "made strong".

  i have never heard of any prayers offered up for a sick or dying individual.. .

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  what are my chances of getting the elders to hold regular congregation prayers for me with suspect cancer. with the view to be healed, not "made strong"

  I have never heard of any prayers offered up for a sick or dying individual.