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  Anyone watching the venus transit?

  by darthfader in

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  http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/webcasts/nasaedge/.

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  Fantastic view from my backyard here in Australia for about 4 hours till the cloud came.

  Got some nice video of it as well on my Flickr page And Venus was her name. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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  New Light @ 2012 District Convention???

  by WildeLover in

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  have any of the conventions started yet?

  any word if there will be any new light?

  wildelover.

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  Yes all the old bulbs are being replaced.
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  Question for you atheists...

  by MrFreeze in

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  or agnostics too.

  are you open about your beliefs (or lack thereof i should say)?

  when people talk about anything religious, do you mention that you don't believe in god?

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  I have zero christians friends.

  The last one was a neighbour who was a Catholic single mother of 7 but that was years ago and she knew I was a non believer.

  We had a falling out over her barking dogs.
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  The bible, seriously?

  by Inisc in

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  so i've been reading the bible, (for the fist time ever and i was a born in) i stopped going iilike 3 years ago and i wanted to have a good understanding of the bible and not just the wt.

  but holy crap that's some 18rated stuff!

  i mean i'm still in genesis and it's all vengeance this, condemn that and genocide everything else!

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  How Come I Rarely See People In Field Service, Vs The 1980-1990s Doing House2House?

  by Bubblegum Apotheosis in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  field service hours have hit new records each year, but i am seeing less people working the territory.

  where is all the time spent, that people are putting in the field ministry?

  it's been close to ten years, since i have seen people working certain territories.

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  Who's to say the numbers aren't fudged right at the top. After all they wouldn't wanna discourage the brothers with numbers going backward..

  All religions are struggling these days. I drove past a catholic church the other day after service and ever single person was over

  60 years of age. This generation aint buying the fairytale anymore.
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  A little example of how severely the contributions for the Society are drying up

  by sir82 in

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  just a little tidbit from the congregation i attend..... the congregation has approximately 120 publishers.. well over 1000 magazines per month are picked up, not to mention all the books, brochures, and tracts that are picked up.. there was a "local needs" part on the service meeting recently, asking for more contributions.. it seems our congregation has averaged just about $300 per month contributions to the "worldwide work" over the past year.. .

  assuming 1500 magazines / month, that's just 20 cents per magazine - and that completely ignores all other literature that is picked up.. the last price the magazines had, 20+ years ago, was 25 cents per issue.

  with inflation that would have been about 50 cents each now.. just another sign of how severely the contriutions to the society are drying up..... .

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  This is where the Mormons got it right by getting 10% of your wage and rapid breeding brings the numbers ups.
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  evolution question

  by outsmartthesystem in

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  it has taken me almost 2 years to get to the bottom of the watchtower society rabbit hole.

  being fully convinced that i was duped....i am still a little ashamed of myself for being so narrow minded.

  i have vowed never to close off my mind like that again.

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  Why is it so easy to believe a talking snake made a naked woman eat a piece of fruit but evolution is impossible?
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  Music that's sooooooo gay

  by littlerockguy in

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  you know what i mean, that gay music that you may like that you know that's got to be in every gay man's music collection, lol.

  i think i just outted myself on facebook posting this one i used to hear in the clubs years ago.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym6ptlnkvp4 .

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  Future camp classic.

  VERONA - Hey Boy - YouTube
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  I'm sorry, but I have to say this re Katy Perry (fluff thread, sort of)...

  by rebel8 in

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  [stealing aguest's title.

  i don't think she has a good voice.

  in fact i have a very bad singing voice and she sounds like me.

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  Katy Perry rulez.

  I made a mix of her greatest remixes last month http://www.mixcloud.com/DjBj_/the-katy-perry-mix/

  No dud tracks there.

  Ozbrad aka DjBj
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  For the board atheists....

  by Jack C. in

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  this is a personal observation and certainly not representative of all atheists.

  i enjoy discussions with folks of this persuasion; in general they appear well read and somewhat more educated than many believers.

  as a group most atheists cringe and become insensed when discussing the existence of a deity with believers especially fundamentalists.

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  Lets see what's on which side.

  On the christian believers side you have.

  Jw's

  The Pope

  Fred Phelps

  Ted Haggard

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Talking snakes

  Worldwide floods

  Living inside fish

  Losing you superpowers getting a harcut.

  Beating your slaves.

  Marrying your rapist.

  Hating gay people.

  6,000 years of human existence

  On the non believers side you have.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sir Richard Attenborough

  Stephen Hawking

  Carl Sagan

  Science

  Evolution

  I know which sounds more credible to me.