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  alittle 5 7 5 action

  by not interested in

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  ive ben hearing alot of ads on the radio that contain poems hiku, highcou,hycu, or how ever that word is spelled, so i was thinking how many can we come up with on jwd, so her is mine:.

  i like to drink beer.

  beer beer beer beer beer beer beer.

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  SpiderMonkey

  Spidermonkey plays;

  eight limbs and prehensile tail

  all for your pleasure
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  Yo-a, Mr. Moe-a.... Goa?

  by SpiderMonkey in

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  mr. moe, a little bird told me you know something about goa trance... what gives?!?

  (this is a fairly obscure musical genre imo... i dj goa, or at least i have in the past)... i'd love to hear from you about this .

  simon posford rules .

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  Obie: good to hear from you I can't comment on BT's "in person" personality, but I have to say that when he plays live he is a mad freak! An absolute nutter! Not that these are bad things Last time I saw him play, in SF, I just couldn't believe the energy (both creative and physical) he puts into his music. Very beautiful, & at the same time very kick-ass.
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  Sunday Morning District convention notes

  by crownboy in

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  here are the notes for the sunday morning session of the zealous kingdom proclaimers district convention, the "fine spiritual food" that jw's are fed .

  sunday.

  a people zealous for fine works- tit.

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  Youths should not put of baptism if they are "qualified". (what is qualified?)

  -Ja. 4:17: if one knows something is right but does not do it, it is a sin (if you can read a Watchtower, get in the pool!!!!)

  LOL... good points, crownboy & Stealth... "Qualified" means "wanting to please your dub parents." I know it's been pointed out here before, but what court, in what nation, would hold someone to an oath taken under the age of 18?
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  New book pisses active Witnesses off!

  by Intuit39 in

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  my sister just called me at work to let me know that her husband (until recently, unsympathetic to her doubts) is thoroughly confused and pissed off by the new 'worship' book!.

  he has been comparing it with the 'united' book, has noted the obvious differences (3 missing chapters), and has begun examining it word for word...now he is raving looney about it.. to top it off, they were at bethel within the last few days, somehow ended up in brother larson's personal office, and were astonished to find a model spanish galleon replete with huge crosses, and a huge portrait of good ol' max towering over the watchtower itself.

  she said her husband thought it looked like a propaganda poster for 'big brother'..... finally!

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  It was shortly after a "morning worship" segment about the "dangers" of reading comic books. LOL, they even showed an X-Men comic on all the TV screens to show what they were talking about!

  Men & women in scandalously painted-on outfits exhibiting superhuman powers. Obviously from the demons.

  Violence. Human beings elevated to the status of gods - YES, that note about the picture in Max Larceny's office DOES piss me off, esp. when I think about it in this context... I didn't know about that, or the Galleon with the crosses... wonder how he rationalizes that crap!!!!!! Never mind that I learned the greatest lesson of my life, ever, from Spider-Man... "With great power comes great responsibility."

  Anyway, back to the topic at hand... I don't want to hijack this thread either!
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  The wailing wall of the Jews

  by docpalo in

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  recently some hassidic jew who stands and rocks like a catatonic shizoprhenic at the wailing wall in jerusalem noticed some water stains up near the top of the wall.

  immeadiately he summised this to be some holy sign of the messiah.

  but the deputy director of public works says that it most likely is a ruptured pipe or drain.

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  SS: Thank you for posting that timeline. I don't disagree with your facts, per se, but I still don't think Israel or any group of Jews has a chance of ruling the world, ever. I *do* agree that they control American media to an extent, and even our government to an extent... Otherwise, our "alliance" with Israel would have gone by the wayside years ago, or never even happened in the first place. As someone pointed out (heathen, I think), what good is Israel to us? It's a pathetic attempt to alleviate worldwide guilt over 1000's of years of suffering inflicted on the Jewish people. By inflicting suffering on Arabs

  I don't really see W as being one who's fighting the Jewish lobby in our gov't... I think he's about as right-wing Christian as they come, and I think right-wing Christians should just get the hell out of politics (no pun intended). They can look on the "reestablishment" of Israel as the Will Of God all they want; just don't inflict the consequences on the rest of us IMO.

  But I believe the stereotype of Jews as the money- and power-brokers of the world is very exaggerated when it comes to this kind of speculation. Israel has become a nation in its own right, but it has done so by basically crossing the line in the eyes of all its Arab neighbors. Actually, Israel crossed the line by coming into existence in the first place, in 1948, by stealing Arab land. And I don't think it can survive forever with leaders like Sharon in charge, even with U.S. support. It's all speculation, on my part as well as yours... I just don't see it happening. If Israel makes a move, Israel gets fried... That's what seems most likely to me.
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  A question for believers in God

  by expatbrit in

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  if you believe in god, then i'll make the assumption that you think god is a force of "good", and his commandments reflect this "goodness.

  based on that assumption, would you say that god's commandments are good because: god commanding them makes them good?

  orgod has knowledge of the inherent goodness of certain commandments, and selects them because of this goodness?.

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  I'm gonna have to contradict your assumption here. I do believe in "God," but I see him/her/it differently than most do. I think that God's commandments consist of the laws of gravity, electromagnetism, and the like... Not anything written in a book by men who claim to have seen or spoken with God. These commandments aren't necessarily good or bad; they just "are" (in the physical reality that we interact with, at least). They seem good, because they're what we know, and can prove, and live our lives with confidence that they'll always make X happen if we do Y. There could be a whole different set of commandments, and they'd seem good to us, because that set of commandments would be all we knew. I find it impossible to accept any god who would issue "commandments" that were not known to, and accepted by, all of creation. Too arbitrary, IMO.
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  Is Jehovah Irresponsible?

  by Amazing in

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  if i as a parent were to keep a pit bull or poisonous snake in my house, and it killed one of my children, what would the civil authorities do?

  what would the media pundits and experts say about my parenting skills?

  how would child services act had they known about the situation in advance?

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  Amazing, did you see this? I loved Farkel's take on this very subject:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=30150&site=3

  cheers, Spidey
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  New book pisses active Witnesses off!

  by Intuit39 in

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  my sister just called me at work to let me know that her husband (until recently, unsympathetic to her doubts) is thoroughly confused and pissed off by the new 'worship' book!.

  he has been comparing it with the 'united' book, has noted the obvious differences (3 missing chapters), and has begun examining it word for word...now he is raving looney about it.. to top it off, they were at bethel within the last few days, somehow ended up in brother larson's personal office, and were astonished to find a model spanish galleon replete with huge crosses, and a huge portrait of good ol' max towering over the watchtower itself.

  she said her husband thought it looked like a propaganda poster for 'big brother'..... finally!

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  Spice & jwsons: thank you VERY much for posting those 2 threads; I probly would have missed them otherwise. For years, I've just "written off" my JW family; now, though, I think I might have some "food [for thought] at the proper time" for them

  With warmest apostate greetings , Spidey

  edited to add: Intuit39, Max Larson has always been a raving zealot looney. I "credit" him with being the one to discover my comic book collection while I was at Bethel. "Thanks" to him, I had to throw out 100's of fairly old comic books which would probably be worth 1000's of dollars now

  Edited by - spidermonkey on 8 July 2002 21:55:22
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  The wailing wall of the Jews

  by docpalo in

  1. watchtower
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  recently some hassidic jew who stands and rocks like a catatonic shizoprhenic at the wailing wall in jerusalem noticed some water stains up near the top of the wall.

  immeadiately he summised this to be some holy sign of the messiah.

  but the deputy director of public works says that it most likely is a ruptured pipe or drain.

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  docpalo & SaintSatan: as I mentioned before, there is no love lost between myself and any self-proclaimed Chosen Ones. I'll expand that now to include Israel itself as a national entity; I think the creation of the modern day Jewish state was a hideous mistake. But I have no personal beef against any form of Judaism, or against Jews in general or individually. I've looked into Kabbalah a bit myself, and I must say that I missed the "Satanic" origin (I guess because I didn't get "deep enough into it," right? Whereas you did, through some internet research). Please, at this point, feel free to post links to any verifiable information on the web which backs up your views (which you must already know, without proof, look a great deal like conspiracy theory, and like the mad ramblings of all the anti-Semites for the past 1600 years or so). In particular, feel free to prove that Israel has any chance of controlling the world in the next 100 years or so. Think they'll do it through oil? HAR. In another 25-50 years, oil will be passe. If Israel really does wish to gain control of the Middle East's fields of dinosaurs' remains, Israel itself will become the most irrelevant dinosaur on the planet in short order. Seriously, though, post your proof. I have an open mind.
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  Yo-a, Mr. Moe-a.... Goa?

  by SpiderMonkey in

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  mr. moe, a little bird told me you know something about goa trance... what gives?!?

  (this is a fairly obscure musical genre imo... i dj goa, or at least i have in the past)... i'd love to hear from you about this .

  simon posford rules .

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  I've probably heard some of Oakenfeld's stuff; my best friend in Oregon plays some (he plays progressive trance)... I'm not enough into that style to know many of the artists by name... Have you heard of BT though? BT is verrrrry good! Same kind of music, a little more "dreamy" sounding than most goa... But he tends to put a "bite" into it every once in awhile that I really like. Spice might like one of his records that I have, "Blue Skies"... Tori Amos vocals on that one

  & now that you mention it, I've always done my best meditation while dancing. I'll let y'all know when I come up with the tape... Half of it's done already; I just need to get off my keister & do side B!