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  Osama Bin Laden is dead !

  by troubled mind in

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  too bad his ideology isn't.
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  ...Were Trump`s comments about Obama Racist?...

  by OUTLAW in

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  more backlash: david letterman considers banning trump for his racist comments.

  by colby hall | 8:16 am, april 29th, 2011 video .

  david letterman and his guest dr. phil discussed donald trumps recent allegations that barack obama was.

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  Trump's comments about Obama were the verbal diarrhea of a collossal asshat.
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  Two J.W. women shot at while going door to door by "devout" Catholic

  by StoneWall in

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  saw this on facebook so followed the news link and thought i'd share it with you guys/gals.. notice in the story how many times during the year they were supposedly called on at their home.. how does this rate in regards to the pepper spray incident?.

  notice the date on the webpage is may 1,2011 to see that it is recent.. here is the link to the news article.

  http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2011/05/post_61.html#cmpid=v2mode_be_smoref_face.

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  when did danny hazzard move to pennsylvania?
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  BIG-JW Sues over Blood demand

  by Refriedtruth in

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  jehovah's witness battles in kansas court for bloodless transplant .... kansas city star - brad cooper-1 hour ago.

  but she also would have to compromise her jehovah's witness principles, because she would receive a blood transfusion, something she believes violates god's ...transplant case pits religion, medicaid rules -kansas.com.

  get in and comment expose deadly watchtower dogma shows how unpractical bloodless elective surgeries can be wants $250.000 k for operation.

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  I'm wondering why the WTS doesn't set up a medical trust fund for its adherents who followed its admonition to abstain from higher education, and are thus not financially in a position to afford bloodless surgery or insurance premiums that would help JWs who need bloodless surgery for organ transplants.

  Oh, that's right... they don't do stuff like that, the way False Religion™ does.

  @$$hats.
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  News from Spain: WT in court soon for unlawful use of a photograph

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  this morning, i received the following email through my website, watchtowerdocuments.com.

  i have no information other than what is stated in the email.

  (the information provided in the links has been translated into english.).

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  What I don't understand is why the WTBTS doesn't settle this quietly and quickly, before it goes to court? Is it because the penalty is more than the WTBTS is willing to bear?

  Funny how they forced the Quotes site to shut down over a copyright infringement allegation, knowing that the site owner was not in a position to fight a long, drawn-out and expensive legal battle.

  It just goes to show how they aren't interested in doing the right thing - issuing an apology and making restitution to the copyright holder - just in utilizing their in-house Legal Department to prevent money from leaving their bank accounts.
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  my lesbian jw relative...sad but true 4-some...and penance

  by oompa in

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  yeah i thought the 4-some thing would hook some of you guys in lol!.

  she is about 24 and has three other gay jw roommates and has for a few years.

  virtually everyone knows they are gay.

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  Maybe they should rename their apartment to "Vegas", so what happens there, stays there!
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  Do you find some famous "attractive" people unattractive?

  by Iamallcool in

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  i do not find cindy crawford and julie roberts attractive.

  it is just me.

  dont throw rocks at me.

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  Brad Pitt

  Sarah Jessica Parker
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  Will you attend the Kingdom Hall for a funeral of parents who are still JW's? If not, do you tell them beforehand?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  i was recently talking to an ex witness whose elderly parents, and in law parents, are still witnesses.. as shocking and incomprehensible as it may seem to both sets of parents, this ex witness believes that, just like every other human throughout human history, they are going to die.

  now this ex witness has expressed to me that he won't ever step foot in a kingdom hall again.. he is in a dillemma as to what to do about their funerals.

  he does not want to attend any service held at the kingdom hall as the service will be heavily controlled by the seven members of the governing body that reside in brooklyn and who don't know his parents at all.. he is quite willing to stand outside the hall, or attend the crematorium or gravesite or funeral home and also any wake that takes place afterwards as people are more free to express themselves in a less formal setting.

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  At the funeral you are showing others that the person meant something to you.

  Which would be fine, imo, if the service itself showed that the person meant something to the Organization™ represented by it. The whole WTS Funeral Discourse™ is an exercise in disrespect for the deceased, from the "need not exceed 30 minutes" clause down to the scripted paragraph dedicated to the deceased's memory, which is followed by a sales pitch directed to the non-JWs in attendance.

  I can show what the person meant to me by planting a tree or a rosebush in my garden. I really don't need to show "others" that my parents meant something to me. That should be clearly evident by strenuous lengths we've gone through to maintain the relationship despite the JW nonsense. If all I have to do is show up at their funeral, then are all those efforts to respect them and maintain a relationship while they're still living a waste of time??
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  Will you attend the Kingdom Hall for a funeral of parents who are still JW's? If not, do you tell them beforehand?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  i was recently talking to an ex witness whose elderly parents, and in law parents, are still witnesses.. as shocking and incomprehensible as it may seem to both sets of parents, this ex witness believes that, just like every other human throughout human history, they are going to die.

  now this ex witness has expressed to me that he won't ever step foot in a kingdom hall again.. he is in a dillemma as to what to do about their funerals.

  he does not want to attend any service held at the kingdom hall as the service will be heavily controlled by the seven members of the governing body that reside in brooklyn and who don't know his parents at all.. he is quite willing to stand outside the hall, or attend the crematorium or gravesite or funeral home and also any wake that takes place afterwards as people are more free to express themselves in a less formal setting.

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  My parents told me - when I was still living under their roof - that if I ever married out of The Truth™ they would not come to my wedding. Apparently they've softened over the decades since then, and have three times attended non-KH weddings (all civil ceremonies, not held in a church) for my siblings.

  I don't see why I have to tell them that I'm not going to their KH funerals - they are the ones who set the standard and should not be surprised if I don't show up for their infomercial funeral. I've seen the what qualifies for a JW Memorial Service™ (a brief paragraph mentioning the deceased, the remaining 19 minutes of WT propaganda) and feel that it doesn't adequately respect the dead or the living who attend. Besides, their beliefs claim that the dead are conscious of nothing, so it shouldn't make a difference to them.
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  Why is sex suddenly pure and holy after you receive a marriage certificate?

  by doubtful in

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  ...but gross and detestable any time before marriage.

  if a witness couple who are engaged to one another, decide to express their love toward each other by engaging in sexual intercourse just weeks or even days before they're officially married, they are considered to be loathsome, unclean people.

  the witness girl would be seen by others in the hall as a dirty little whore...and the guy would just be thought of as a horny young man who couldn't keep it in his pants.

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  The background on the "tradition" of sexual abstinence before marriage has to do with how marriages were arranged way back when. It was customary for the bride and groom to meet on the day of the wedding, at the wedding - so they would have been unable to engage in sexual activity prior to the wedding. There was no chance of pregnancy out of wedlock if the bride and groom were kept apart before the marriage took place.

  Also, there was the issue of the bride's virginity - it was a valuable commodity - and the father could exact a higher bride price for a virgin daughter than if she was not a virgin - in fact if she was not a virgin, she would bring shame on the family and likely nobody would take her as a wife.

  Women were property in those times - they were given in marriage to form alliances with other families, traded like cattle to whomever provided the father with the best advantages. Romantic love wasn't part of the equation in most cases. The girl's virginity was her father's property to trade and barter with, she had no say in it.

  I'm so glad those days are over for most women on the planet.