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  Women

  by qwerty in

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  searchfothetruth

  Excellant....sounds just like my missus
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  Do you think you will ever experience terrorism yourself?

  by freedom96 in

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  i bet the people in the twin towers never thought they would be the victims of a terrorist attack.

  sometimes the stuff that happens overseas seem so far away.

  i look around my community and find it hard to believe that anything is going to happen here.. i live in southern califonia, near san diego, and who knows?

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  Bush using terrorist attacks to manipulate nation

  June 1, 2003

  Re. May 24 Forum letter by Kristopher Villiger, "History will salute Iraq war":

  Mr. Villiger was right about one thing: "The Hitler movie on CBS could not have come at a better time." But here’s why. It’s well-known that the producer of the Hitler movie was fired because he dared to remark that the freedom-killing tactics of the Bush administration are similar to things Hitler did to gain power. Time magazine stated that the producer’s firing for warning Americans of the dangers in our own country just proves his point.

  In the movie, after the Reichstag was set on fire by Hitler’s own agents, Hitler used the event to manipulate the German people: "This, this is a signal from God! We are under siege! The terrorists have opened fire - and we will fire back!" When legislators objected to his override of the Weimar Republic Constitution, he pushed for totalitarian control: "These are troubled times, the Constitution could not anticipate them. . . . Our democracy is under attack. If we are to wage war on these foreign infiltrators, certain civil rights must be suspended."

  Most chilling of all, when German legislators reacted to that with outrage, the Nazis drowned them out by singing patriotic songs. This is exactly what happened at the Rockford College commencement recently. When the anti-war speaker explained that people suspend their conscience during unjust wars, a woman tried to drown him out by singing "God Bless America."

  Anti-war protesters are not "ashamed and embarrassed." Bush rolling over Iraq reminds them of Hitler rolling over Poland, which started a world war. We are, however, appalled at the mass grave found at Basra, because Bush the First did not protect those people as he promised, and Saddam murdered them for trusting that American leader.

  At least the current President Bush does not have the mesmerizing speaking skills of Adolf Hitler. So what excuse do the American people have for letting him use a terrorist attack to manipulate our nation into many overrides of our Constitution, and perhaps endless war?
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  WoMD ... so where are they?

  by Simon in

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  now, the war is over, the weapons were not used and of course have not been found.. how threatening could they be if they did not even use them when being invaded by a massive force (of the countries they hate)?!

  perhaps, as many suspect, they didn't use them because they didn't have them?.

  now we're being told that we'll have to be patient and give them time to find them.

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  Terry.

  The reason the replies have dried up is because you know we were right before the war, that there were NO WMD and have been proven right.

  I would have loved to be proven wrong...but I wasn't.
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  WoMD ... so where are they?

  by Simon in

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  now, the war is over, the weapons were not used and of course have not been found.. how threatening could they be if they did not even use them when being invaded by a massive force (of the countries they hate)?!

  perhaps, as many suspect, they didn't use them because they didn't have them?.

  now we're being told that we'll have to be patient and give them time to find them.

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  As has been said...our pro-war friends are awfully quiet on this thread, aren't they?

  HELLO.........is there anybody there?
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  Simply the COOLEST commercial ever

  by pr_capone in

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  its a bit of a big file folks so if you either have a high speed internet connection or if you have a lot of time... i suggest you take a peek at this.

  http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html.

  kansas district overbeer

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  The coolest ad. ever?....agreed.
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  Witnessism's........

  by integ in

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  i know some have posted similar topics like this, but i thought it might be kind of fun (for the new ones that are coming here in droves) and others, to give some examples of catch phrases etc, that are unique to the jw world.

  here's a few to start:.... "muster up boldness", "sound down into our hearts","satan's crafty acts", "paradisaic", "young ones"," discernment".....these are just a few of the more irritating.

  add yours if you'd like.. integ.

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  The 'faithful and discreet slave'........anything but.

  The 'new system'.......another delusion.

  'New Light'........as opposed to new lies.
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  Political Compass Test

  by Aztec in

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  i'm sure this has been posted before but i really enjoyed it.. http://www.digitalronin.f2s.com/politicalcompass/questionnaire.pl?page=1.

  i think like the dalai lama...lol!

  economic left/right: -3.62. authoritarian/libertarian: -5.33.

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  Here's mine....wonder what it means.....

  Your political compass

  Economic Left/Right: -5.75
  Authoritarian/Libertarian: -3.13

  Authoritarian
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  Libertarian
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  WoMD ... so where are they?

  by Simon in

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  now, the war is over, the weapons were not used and of course have not been found.. how threatening could they be if they did not even use them when being invaded by a massive force (of the countries they hate)?!

  perhaps, as many suspect, they didn't use them because they didn't have them?.

  now we're being told that we'll have to be patient and give them time to find them.

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  Sunday, Jun. 01, 2003 Weapons of Mass Disappearance The war in Iraq was based largely on intelligence about banned arms that still haven't been found. Was America's spy craft wrong — or manipulated? By MICHAEL DUFFY

  How do take your country to war when it doesn't really want to go? You could subcontract with another nation, fight on the sly and hope no one notices. But if you need a lot of troops to prevail and you would like to remind everyone in the neighborhood who's boss anyway, then what you need most is a good reason — something to stir up the folks back home.

  As the U.S. prepared to go to war in Iraq last winter, the most compelling reason advanced by George W. Bush to justify a new kind of pre-emptive war was that Saddam Hussein possessed nuclear, chemical and biological arms — weapons of mass destruction (wmd). "There's no doubt in my mind but that they currently have chemical and biological weapons," said Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in January. "We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons," said Vice President Dick Cheney in March. That Iraq might have WMD was never the only reason the Bush Administration wanted to topple Saddam. But it was the big reason, the casus belli, the public rationale peddled over and over to persuade a skeptical nation, suspicious allies and a hostile United Nations to get behind the controversial invasion. And while that sales pitch fell flat overseas, it worked better than expected at home: by late March, 77% of the public felt that invading U.S. troops would find WMD.

  But eight weeks after the war's end, most of that confident intelligence has yet to pan out, and a growing number of experts think it never will. Current and former U.S. officials have begun to question whether the weapons will ever be found in anything like the quantities the U.S. suggested before the war — if found at all — and whether the U.S. gamed the intelligence to justify the invasion. For now, WMD seems to stand for weapons of mass disappearance. Smarting from the accusations that they had cooked the books, top U.S. officials fanned out late last week to say the hunt would go on and the weapons would eventually be found. CIA officials told TIME that they would produce a round of fresh evidence for increasingly wary lawmakers as early as next week. After dispatching dozens of G.I. patrols to some 300 suspected WMD sites in Iraq over the past two months, only to come up empty-handed, the Pentagon announced last week that it will shift from hunting for banned weapons to hunting for documents and people who might be able to say where banned weapons are — or were. But it is clear that the U.S. is running out of good leads. "We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad," Lieut. General James T. Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said last week. "But they're simply not there."

  For full article go to: http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0%2C8816%2C455767%2C00.html
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  Do you think you will ever experience terrorism yourself?

  by freedom96 in

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  i bet the people in the twin towers never thought they would be the victims of a terrorist attack.

  sometimes the stuff that happens overseas seem so far away.

  i look around my community and find it hard to believe that anything is going to happen here.. i live in southern califonia, near san diego, and who knows?

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  Just a hypothetical question...

  do you think that the government would exagerate the terrorist threat (i.e. false orange alerts...closing down airports for no apparant reason etc) to heighten the threat in the public's mind so that they can bring in more restrictive regulations (i.e. Patriot act II) to supposedly protect the people, while eroding the civil liberties.?

  Without these terrorists, these new laws would NEVER have been passed.....just asking.
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  What's The Worst "Encouragement" That You've Recieved From The Brothers?

  by minimus in

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  after reading nina and sadie's experience, i couldn't help but appreciate hearing how the brothers are always trying to "encourage" ones.

  how did they try to encourage you?

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  After giving an Elder who had come to visit a good 'spiritual kicking' regarding false prophecies, the UN scandal, the blood issue and birthday celebrations, he admitted that he had no answers to the questions I asked and then proceeded to say that I should have a study of the 'Draw Close To Jehovah' book.

  I asked him why I would study that book with him if he can't answer the fundamental questions that I had asked.

  He said that I should just forget the questions, study the book with him, and Jehovah would give me the answers in time.!

  So I asked him to go away, get me the answers to my questions, and if he did, I would study the book with him.

  Still waiting.....