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  Pennsylvania witnesses shot at

  by Siddhashunyata in

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  http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20110501/news90/105010338/-1/news.

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  SOME VERY OLD JW VIDEO'S. FOR THE OLD TIMERS.

  by whereami in

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  ah the good ol' days.

  i'm sure there must be some among us that remember this.. .

  http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43578.

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  Did you ever experience caution or fear at being introduced to a brother with a beard?

  by cattails in

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  did you ever experience caution or an uneasy fear when being introduced to a brother with a beard?.

  for years everytime i met someone introduced to me as bro so-and-so who might have a beard (and there weren't that many times), my here-comes-trouble radar turned on.. .

  i would be very cautious in talking to this brother.

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  JW 's , the boasting continues...

  by Siddhashunyata in

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  i don't know if this has been posted .

  the president from trinidad & tobago attends the memorial.... the president of the nation (george maxwell richards) attends the memorial at a local kingdom hall in trinidad & tobago .

  everyone is wondering well, who invited him & how?.

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  GIVE ME YOUR INFORMED OPINION........

  by Terry in

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  as you well know, the chief difference between the left (democrats/liberals) and the right (republicans/conservatives) comes down to one thing.. the size of government and the role of government.. with that in mind i ask for your informed opinion.. 1.what does government do that isn't wasteful, inept and costly that the private sector can't do better?.

  2.why do people disagree on the role of government when there are thousands of examples of where government fails to provide?.

  3.do you think government automatically becomes efficient, orderly and manageable when your preferred party takes office?.

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  Is "consciousness" overrated?

  by Narkissos in

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  disclaimer: this is the rambling of a french mind, where the single word conscience embraces what the english language distinguishes as "conscience," "consciousness," "awareness," and is closely related to connaissance, "knowledge".. to this french mind "consciousness" appears as a wonderful yet bittersweet product of reflection (the specular or "mirror" metaphor being central to it).

  although it is objectively related to animal sentience, our view of consciousness, i think, is entirely dependent on the seminal technique (the "technique of techniques," as french theologian gabriel vahanian put it) of language / symbolism (the ability to point to "things" even though absent or non-existent) and imagination (representing "things" on our inner and cultural "mind map"), from which both memory and anticipation as we know it derive.

  functionally it serves a practical purpose, which is precisely technique: through this way of dealing with "things" we can "change" them.

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  So What Happens for 8 months at the Book Study ?

  by Siddhashunyata in

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  any ideas about how the dubs will deal with the reality that for the next 8 months what they are doing at the book study is basically defunct ?

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  Odic force - the interface between the spiritual and physical worlds

  by truthseeker in

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  i've been reading johannes greber's "communication with the spirit world" - a fascinating book indeed.

  how much truth there is in his encounters with the.

  spirit realm, i don't know.. .

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  The necessity of failed prophetic dates

  by proplog2 in

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  it is very tempting to ridicule the jw habit of setting dates for the end of the world/ armageddon/ great tribulation.

  but prophecy has been a significant part of the judaeo-christian panorama.

  there has also been a great deal of tension between "prophets" and "preists".. .

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  "The American Religion"

  by onesong in

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  i posted this a while ago, thought i'd repost as some newbies might find it interesting.. .

  "the american religion" by harold bloom.

  he reviews and critiques american born religions and has a chapter on jw's.

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