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  What song would you dedicate to the borg?

  by krejames in

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  zed's thread on powerful albums got me listening to darren hayes after ages and i decided i would like to dedicate this song to the borg.

  http://youtu.be/nwvtdt9mntw.

  step into the light.

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  cobaltcupcake

  "Take This Job and Shove It"
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  It is Saturday morning. How many are thrilled that they are Not going d2d today?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  me - me - me!!!.

  just lois.

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  cobaltcupcake

  Ah, sweet Saturday mornings.
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  Korah's Parable

  by DT in

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  i was doing some research when i found korah's parable on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/korah.

  korah incited all the people against moses, arguing that it was impossible to endure the laws instituted by the latter.

  he told them the following parable: "a widow, the mother of two young daughters, had a field.

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  The Mosaic Law is just slightly less complicated than the American tax code.
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  40 years on - and still in Damage Control mode!

  by Bungi Bill in

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  2. experiences

  earlier this morning, i posted off to the the institute of engineers an application for membership as an "engineering associate":.

  - today being just over 40 years since the congregation's retards elders made me abandon my apprenticeship.. (in this part of the world, the pre-1975 hype was taken to that level.

  not being content to prevent young persons attending university, they went one step further and treated with hostility any youngster who would "tie up five years of their lives" by entering into an apprenticeship.

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  Best of luck! I'm in that position too. I know I could easily perform well at any number of jobs, but nowadays you need a degree to mop the floor at McDonald's.
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  w92 7/15: "It is the obligation of all JWs to hate apostates"

  by cedars in

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  2. beliefs

  today i was doing some research for a new article, and i came across the following quote which succeeded in raising my eyebrows.... "the obligation to hate lawlessness also applies to all activity by apostates.

  our attitude toward apostates should be that of david, who declared: 'do i not hate those who are intensely hating you, o jehovah, and do i not feel a loathing for those revolting against you?

  with a complete hatred i do hate them.

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  Well, we are mentally diseased, after all. An illness is a disease.

  By that benchmark should they hate schizophrenics? What about the passive-agressives? The clinically depressed? Lord knows, the WTS is teeming with people who are mentally ill to some degree.
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  Carl Sagan quote about WTBTS saying " They announced that the world had in fact ended in 1914,"

  by notjustyet in

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  i wanted to find out where carl sagan got this info from.. i know they, the wtbts thought that the end would be in 1914, then 1915 but do not remember reading where they made the statement that it did end.. .

  thanks, njy.

  here is his quote:.

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  cobaltcupcake

  That's very interesting. Didn't the Society quote Sagan frequently in the literature?
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  10 Years Japan losses 5,400 Publishers and 638 Kingdom Halls! Why?

  by Witness 007 in

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  japan had a handful of witnesses after ww 2....this number skyrocketed to 222,912 by 1998!

  then something happened.

  publisher figures didn't stop, they dropped by thousands over the next decade!.

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  As BluesBrothers mentioned, I remember back in the '80s almost hating the Japanese brothers. They were getting more press than that fictional pioneer sister with an unbelieving mate, 5 children under the age of 10, a full-time job, and a wooden leg.
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  2013 District Convention Program: ‘God’s Word is Truth!’

  by bats in the belfry in

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  unlike god's word, that jws believe to be absolute truth, any one of their directives given at the 2013 district convention could be subject to misinterpretation.. .

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  Wow! We get our own talk! They are so freakin' threatened.
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  Question about future enthusiasm of the congregations.

  by Fading Begins in

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  i was the store manager of a large furniture store - part of a national chain.

  we had large sales once month, and giganic four day sale every quarter with a large amount of print and tv advertising.

  for these quarterly sales we would have conference calls every morning with our directors to report our numbers, contests for the salespeople, and target goals for each salesperson, individual store, and the national district.

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  That's an interesting analogy!

  You can see the GB consolidating their power and withdrawing into their ivory towers, throwing the elders to the wolves, and squeezing the R&F for every penny they have. It's pathetic. They don't have an impetus like 1975 at their disposal. That was the ultimate fire sale. I don't know how they're going to keep enthusiasm up or hold onto the minds of the R&F now that they have the Internet to contend with.
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  More connect-the-dots madness...

  by cedars in

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  that's right, a knife and a baby in close proximity.... .

  http://www.jw.org/assets/m/ijw13fr/502013178/ijw13fr_id-502013178_e/502013178_e_cnt_1.pdf.

  anything goes, so long as you're proving how "wise" king solomon was.. .

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  That would be Amnon raping his sister. Good choice!