Topics Started by Skimmer

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Coming soon to a District Convention near you, it's the Aposto-Blimp!
by Skimmer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
coming soon to a district convention near you, it's the aposto-blimp!.

be on the lookout for the latest technology for telling the truth about the truth: a five meter long, helium filled blimp which will cruise about the hapless fools at a district convention.

made from tear-resistant mylar with propellors powered by lightweight lithium power cells, the blimp will be guided by a small computer with gps assistance and will follow its flight path in and around the stadium for hours at a time.
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Pro-life arguments
by Skimmer in
1. jw
2. friends
a thoughtful series of twenty six pro-life arguments specifically against abortion can be found at: .

http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10229 .

through (following down the links the left side of each page) .
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A funny response from cartalk.com
by Skimmer in
1. social
2. humour
on national public radio, there's a weekly hour-long program called "car talk with click and clack the tappet brothers".

it's been around for twenty years and is one of the most popular programs on npr.

it's website is http://cartalk.com (there's a podcast, too) and one of the features of the site (and program) is a puzzler where the audience is challenged with a (usually) automotive related conundrum.
Do a little "publishing" on your own
by Skimmer in
1. social
2. humour
do you have a little extra cash?

do you have some digital images of the past wtbts presidents?

(easy to get.
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Freddie Franz in the Afterlife
by Skimmer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
here's a question from readers that we'll never see: .

q: given that fred franz was the wtbts chief theologian for over sixty years until his death back in 1992 and that since then just about everything he taught including just about all of his chronological fantasy has been discarded, how do you explain the following: .

1) if he's ruling in heaven along with a good chunk of the 144,000 fds class, how come he's allowed his life work to be tossed in the trash?
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Chuckie Russell would have loved this
by Skimmer in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
why settle for a two meter high pyramid cemetery monument when you can have one a couple of hundred times taller?

see: http://www.thegreatpyramid.org/ .

chuckie might not have wanted to share his space, though.
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A couple of comparisons: the WT of today vs the early 1970s
by Skimmer in
1. watchtower
2. bible
the other day i happened to make my monthly stop at the local fast food joint when i usually borrow one of the community newspapers for an afternoon read.

this time around i see a couple of wt magazines.

as always, my concerns for my fellow man caused me to grab these toxic items for a later meal -- a meal fed to my cross cut shredder at home.
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Spoilers for _Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows_
by Skimmer in
1. social
2. entertainment
spoilers for _harry potter and the deathly hallows_: do not click on the following link unless you really, really want to see the spoilers about who dies and who lives.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=251717&cid=19896869 .

i've verified the above information; it's not based on fan fiction.
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For the Macintosh fans
by Skimmer in
1. social
2. humour
http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/829.html
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Munch munch yum -- Cannibal JW
by Skimmer in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=cannibal-munched-pensioner-s-thumb--&method=full&objectid=18860588&siteid=89520-name_page.html .

a slovakian worker who ate the thumb of a pensioner during a savage attack was yesterday held indefinitely under the mental health act.

jan ometak, 28, broke into doug morgan's house at 4am and attacked him like "an animal", gnawing at his face, arms and chest.