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  I HAVE GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by Jesika in

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  i am still shaking from the phone call!!!!!!

  i just go off the phone with a reporter from the dallas morning news(paper).

  she is a reporter for the religion section of the paper and she was interested and disgusted with what i told her--about the 2 witness policy.

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  Jesika,

  I sure hope you get 1 more reporter because without 2 reporters the Witnesses won't pay any attention to it.

  (just kidding! congrats!)

  Tammy
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  Just Someone To Talk To

  by Larryf01 in

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  i've had a hard time finding a place just to chat with jw's.

  i'm not baptized...only studying.

  yet, i know this is truth and jehovah is the true god.

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  Hi Larry. You certainly are welcome to stay if you would like. Our board won't shun you before you are even baptized! We won't shun you even if you do get baptized! Please feel free to discuss anything that you may be studying that doesn't sound right. You know what they say about things that sound to good to be true.

  Tammy
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  Pack your bags - we're going on a GUILT TRIP!

  by Scully in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=35901&site=3 .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=35828&site=3 .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=35861&site=3 .

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  Good thinking myself!
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  this just isn't my day, [:(]

  by orangefatcat in

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  today has been as rough day for me.

  i got up this morning hoping our van would pass the ontario emission tests for clean driving.

  we put 400.00 dollars to make sure it would pass and it didn't pass it failed and to beat that we are at our daughters home a couple of hours away from our home.

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  We grieve and grieve and think it is all done, but then years later some little reminder can come along and we grieve all over again. It is so hard and it is so unfair and we miss them so much. I'm so sorry for your loss.

  Tammy
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  1 Star Review of Crisis of Conscience

  by Swan in

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  i have just finished reading crisis of conscience and thought it was great.

  never before has the gb been exposed as a bunch of men turning their personal opinions into law for millions like this book has.

  instead of being a group of men transformed by holy spirit into bible scholars devoutly pouring over the scriptures, they are just bumbling men, inferior to the great philosophers of humankind that they put down for their "empty teachings.

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  I have just finished reading Crisis of Conscience and thought it was great. Never before has the GB been exposed as a bunch of men turning their personal opinions into law for millions like this book has. Instead of being a group of men transformed by Holy Spirit into Bible scholars devoutly pouring over the scriptures, they are just bumbling men, inferior to the great philosophers of humankind that they put down for their "empty teachings."

  I was browsing Amazon.com and wondered what kind of reviews it had gotten from the general public. Mostly they were very good reviews. This one star review, however, was absolutely flabbergasting! I wondered if the reader actually read the book? Then a funny thought occurred to me and I read the scriptures again with Judge Rutherford in mind. Which one do you think this review better describes, Ray Franz or Judge Rutherford?

  This is a book about a bitter old man!, April 23, 1999
  

  Reviewer: A reader from u.s.a

  Below you will find direct bible based facts that sum up Mr franz-

  1 Tim. 4:1: "The inspired utterance says definitely that in later periods of time some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons." 2 Thess. 2:3: "Let no one seduce you in any manner, because [the day of Jehovah] will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness gets revealed, the son of destruction."

  Acts 20:30: "From among you yourselves men will rise and speak twisted things to draw away the disciples after themselves." 2 Pet. 2:1, 3: "There will also be false teachers among you. These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them . . . Also, with covetousness they will exploit you with counterfeit words."

  Matt. 24:45-51: "Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time? . . . But if ever that evil slave should say in his heart, 'My master is delaying,' and should start to beat his fellow slaves and should eat and drink with the confirmed drunkards, the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and in an hour that he does not know, and will punish him with the greatest severity and will assign him his part with the hypocrites."

  2 Tim. 2:16-18: "Shun empty speeches that violate what is holy; for they will advance to more and more ungodliness, and their word will spread like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of that number. These very men have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already occurred; and they are subverting the faith of some."

  2 John 9, 10: "Everyone that pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God. . . . If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him." Rom. 16:17, 18: "I exhort you, brothers, to keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them. . . . By smooth talk and complimentary speech they seduce the hearts of guileless ones."

  Prov. 11:9: "By his mouth the one who is an apostate brings his fellowman to ruin." Isa. 32:6: "The senseless one himself will speak mere senselessness, and his very heart will work at what is hurtful, to work at apostasy and to speak against Jehovah what is wayward, to cause the soul of the hungry one to go empty, and he causes even the thirsty one to go without drink itself." (Compare Isaiah 65:13, 14.)

  2 Pet. 2:1: "These very ones will quietly bring in destructive sects and will disown even the owner that bought them, bringing speedy destruction upon themselves."

  Heb. 6:4-6: "It is impossible as regards those who have once for all been enlightened, and who have tasted the heavenly free gift, and who have become partakers of holy spirit, and who have tasted the fine word of God and powers of the coming system of things, but who have fallen away ["if they then commit apostasy," RS], to revive them again to repentance, because they impale the Son of God afresh for themselves and expose him to public shame."

  This is him in a nutshell!

  I vote for Rutherford! How about you?

  Edited by - Swan on 3 September 2002 20:57:0
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  I'm new!

  by Tzu in

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  hey everyone, great site!

  at last ex jw's can express themselves and be heard!

  i came out of the watch tower about four years ago, best thing i ever did.

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  Why do men have nipples???

  by Celtic in

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  i always did wonder about this, i mean, what function do they have and further, if, just supposing that we are made in the image of god, does god himself have the equivalent of nipples?

  any insights proffered?

  celty .

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  Derrick wrote:

  An all-female dinosaur theme park to prevent uncontrolled reproduction was based on the theory, proposed on Jurassic Park, that species could not cross gender. However, Ian Malcolm proposed that "life finds a way," and indeed some of the female dinosaurs transformed into males in order to breed. (It turned out the frog DNA that had been used to fill in gaps in the dino-DNA code was from a rare African frog that could switch genders if the species became imbalanced sexually.)

  We all start out in the womb as female, then male hormones take over prenatally and about half of the babies are born male. When I went to Hawaii in 1991 I saw a tropical fish called the wrasse. These fish are all born female. They swim around for quite a while until one day, the most aggressive wrasse turn into males.

  I have since discovered that this sex change is common in many animals, including shrimp, oysters, sow bugs, parrot fishes, groupers, angelfishes, humbug damselfish, Red Sea anemonefish, coral goby fish, and the paketi (or spotty) of New Zealand.

  For sea horses, the female leaves her eggs inside the father, who raises the brood inside of his belly or pouch, and then gives birth to them at the appropriate time, ejecting them from his pouch into the sea.

  The diversity of nature is truly a fascinating thing, which made the movie even more thrilling. You never knew what to expect next because the storyline wasn't that far away from what science and nature may one day accomplish.

  Tammy formerly UglyDuckling
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  Pack your bags - we're going on a GUILT TRIP!

  by Scully in

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  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=35901&site=3 .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=35828&site=3 .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.aspx?id=35861&site=3 .

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  "Jehovah sees everything you children do."

  "Jehovah knows what is in your heart."

  "Jehovah can tell what you are thinking about."

  "Think of the poor brothers in prison in China who don't have the Watchtower."
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  UglyDuckling grows into a Swan!

  by Swan in

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  my screen name was uglyduckling but today i grew into a swan.

  my screen name was changed by simon (thank you!

  tammy (swan) .

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  My screen name was UglyDuckling but today I grew into a Swan. My screen name was changed by Simon (Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! ). So if ever you felt like an ugly duckling while you were a JW, take heart and have hope; you too could one day become a beautiful swan.

  Tammy (Swan)

  a.k.a. UglyDuckling

  Edited by - Swan on 29 August 2002 15:25:41
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  Just joined up!

  by scooter in

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  i've been looking for something like this for the last 7 years.

  i am not a jw or an ex-jw but my wife is and so is her father and her sister.

  brief history.

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