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  JW "Prince" buys mansion in Toronto

  by Scully in

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  just heard on the news this evening that musician-turned jw 'formerly known as prince' has purchased a mansion in the bridlewood neighbourhood of toronto.. purchase price is reported at $5.5 million (canadian$).. but, will he come to the next apostofest??.

  love, scully.

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  Just think of the amount of Jws he can have over for book study and Sat. field service!!!!
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  For those who've left - any regrets?

  by starfish422 in

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  i left almost nine years ago at age 18; my only real regret was that i was good friends with a young brother and i never said goodbye to him, or even let him know that i was planning to leave (had to leave my parents' home secretly while they were at the meeting one sunday; they had such a hold over me that i could never have stood up to them and told them beforehand).

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  i have no other regrets about leaving; i'm am now happily agnostic and so thankful that i found the strength to break free.. anyone have any similar regrets?

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  After reading COC, I stuck around awhile. After reading ISOCF, I realized that the doctrines were lacking also. I got out of dodge, pronto. DA.

  I regret not “sticking around” longer to plant some seeds. However, some still come around, and I try my best!
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  Divine?

  by Adam in

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  you know, i'm no bible scholar.

  but from the stories i've heard apostle john was apparently thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil, stranded at sea for two weeks after his ship went down, stoned by followers of artemis, and was suffering several years of isolated banisment on patmos when he wrote revelation.

  having taken into consideration his traumatic past, in view of his state of mind while writing the book, and (probably most damming) having read what is actually written in revelation, has anyone concidered the possibility that this book was the work of someone not quite in his right mind and not a book of divine prophesy?

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  sorry for the typo's could not correct for some reason.......
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  Divine?

  by Adam in

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  you know, i'm no bible scholar.

  but from the stories i've heard apostle john was apparently thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil, stranded at sea for two weeks after his ship went down, stoned by followers of artemis, and was suffering several years of isolated banisment on patmos when he wrote revelation.

  having taken into consideration his traumatic past, in view of his state of mind while writing the book, and (probably most damming) having read what is actually written in revelation, has anyone concidered the possibility that this book was the work of someone not quite in his right mind and not a book of divine prophesy?

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  ThiChi

  The writing style of the book of Revaluation has raised some questions. Some suggest that it was not the Apostle John who wrote Revaluation. Reading John’s earlier writings, one can see the difference.

  My current viewpoint is that another John wrote the book of Revaluation. Also, this book closely mirrors the book of Daniel. You make some very good observations....
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  Bizarre

  by ThiChi in

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  i was a photo journalist in the so cal area for fifteen years.

  i have seen/photographed many things.

  however, this story takes the cake.. bizarre details of man's death revealed.

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  ""I kept getting a creepy deja-vu, it reminded me of someone lying in a hospital bed being denied treatment needed to remain alive.""

  Very good! Never looked at it that way...........
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  Bizarre

  by ThiChi in

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  i was a photo journalist in the so cal area for fifteen years.

  i have seen/photographed many things.

  however, this story takes the cake.. bizarre details of man's death revealed.

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  I still can’t believe it........
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  Bizarre

  by ThiChi in

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  i was a photo journalist in the so cal area for fifteen years.

  i have seen/photographed many things.

  however, this story takes the cake.. bizarre details of man's death revealed.

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  ThiChi

  I was a Photo Journalist in the So Cal area for fifteen years. I have seen/photographed many things. However, this story takes the cake.

  Bizarre details of man's death revealed
  Hit-and-run victim lived for two days while trapped in windshield
  By DEANNA BOYD
  Star-Telegram Staff Writer

  FORT WORTH - When Gregory Glenn Biggs' body was found in October in Cobb Park, evidence pointed to a hit-and-run.
  But in the past two weeks, police have learned that Biggs lived for two or three days after he was hit, lying on a car hood in a southeast Fort Worth garage, his body trapped in the windshield.
  Despite Biggs' pleas, police said, the driver refused to help and left him to die. Afterward, the body was dumped in the park.
  "I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say. Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined inhumanity here," said Richard Alpert, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney.
  What happened to the 37-year-old Biggs, police said, was not a simple case of a driver's failure to stop to help an injured man. It was homicide, they said.
  "If he had gotten medical attention, he probably would have survived," traffic investigation Sgt. John Fahrenthold said.
  Wednesday, police arrested Chante Mallard, a 25-year-old nurse's aide, basing their case primarily on Mallard's confession about four months later of what happened on an October night as she drove near the East Loop 820 split with U.S. 287.
  Mike Heiskell, Mallard's attorney, called the woman's arrest on a murder warrant premature.
  "I think this is overreaching on the part of the prosecution and the police, and in the end, I believe the law will shake out that this was simply a case of failure to stop and render aid," Heiskell said.
  By Mallard's account, as told to police, she had been drinking and using Ecstasy that October night and was driving home when she struck a man. The impact hurled him headfirst through the windshield, his broken legs protruding onto the hood.
  She panicked, she said, and with the man lodged in the windshield, she drove a few miles to her home. There, she parked her 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier in the garage and lowered the door.
  Biggs pleaded for help, she told police.
  He got none. Not then, or for the next two or three days, as he remained lodged in the windshield, bleeding and slowly going into shock, police said.
  Mallard told police she periodically went into the garage to check on the man. She said she apologized profusely to him for what she had done but ignored his cries for help.
  When the man died, several of the woman's acquaintances helped remove his body, putting it into the trunk of another car and driving to Cobb Park, where they dumped it, police quoted the woman as saying. Two men found the body Oct. 27.
  "This goes so far beyond failure to stop and render aid because she did more than not render aid," Alpert said. "She made it impossible for anyone else to do so."
  Mallard first surfaced in the investigation last month when police received a tip that she might have been involved in a hit-and-run accident, Fahrenthold said.
  Mallard had recently told a friend "bits and pieces" about an accident when questioned at a party about why she was no longer driving her car, Fahrenthold said.
  "Within the next day or so this girl came forward and told what had happened because she couldn't live with that," he said.
  On Feb. 26, police obtained a search warrant for Mallard's house in the 3800 block of Wilbarger Street. Inside her garage, they found the damaged Cavalier. Blood, hair and other trace evidence was visible inside and outside the car, he said.
  The car's seats had been removed and were found in the back yard, one of them burned, Fahrenthold said.
  Mallard agreed to go to the police station for questioning. There, she gave a statement and was arrested for failure to stop and render aid.
  She was free on bail when officers arrived at her home Wednesday morning and arrested her on the upgraded warrant charging her with murder. Later in the day, she was released on a $10,000 writ bond.
  The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office has told police that Biggs suffered no internal injuries and apparently died from loss of blood and shock, Fahrenthold said.
  The investigation is continuing and other arrests are expected, he said.
  "We think there are other people involved, at least after he had passed, in taking the body and putting it in the park," he said.
  Biggs' mother, Meredith Biggs, said she and her son had been estranged for several years. Medical examiner's records listed Gregory Biggs' address as 1415 E. Lancaster Ave., a homeless shelter.
  Meredith Biggs said she and her daughter, Janeen, had recently begun looking for him. They were frightened when a search on an ancestry Web site a couple of months ago indicated that he had died. They prayed it was a hoax.
  Wednesday, she learned it was not, and was told the details about her son's death.
  "How could she just leave him like that to die?" she sobbed. "Drugs and alcohol wear off, so why didn't she get him some help?
  "I should have prayed more."
  Deanna Boyd, (817) 390-7655 [email protected]
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  The Clergy- Laity Watchtower Lie

  by metatron in

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  i get sick and tired of hearing the watchtower lie that they.

  have no 'clergy- laity' distinction.. the hypocrisy in this is almost incredible.

  the society wants.

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  Gozz:

  You did not address my question. Paul worked and still conducted the Lords work. Why not follow his example? Also, food was collected for the Poor, not for supporting a publishing empire. Why does the WT not follow this course?

  Yes I did complain. I remember as an elder at the Elder’s meeting for the Assembly, approving money for a separate apartment for a single CO. And his furniture and on and on. Why not stay with the friends, like Jesus and the other apostles did?
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  The Clergy- Laity Watchtower Lie

  by metatron in

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  i get sick and tired of hearing the watchtower lie that they.

  have no 'clergy- laity' distinction.. the hypocrisy in this is almost incredible.

  the society wants.

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  Gozz: Who said that giving is wrong? Why does the Jws not use Paul as an example. He still worked as a tent maker so as not to place a burden on the brothers. Why not follow that example in the circuit work?

  That way, a lot more money could go to what James calls the “acceptable form” of worship, namely, looking after widows and orphans. When the apostles took up collections, it was for the poor, not for the fat cats who, because of their insulated world, have no idea what it is to make a living.
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  The Clergy- Laity Watchtower Lie

  by metatron in

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  i get sick and tired of hearing the watchtower lie that they.

  have no 'clergy- laity' distinction.. the hypocrisy in this is almost incredible.

  the society wants.

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  ThiChi

  Very true. All the Jws friends that still come around, I have asked this question: The Bible says to confess your sins to who? And I always get: “To the Elders!” Wrong. I reply that the Bible says to confess your sins to: “One another.” most the time I then see a surprised look on their face. However, from a WT perspective, they are right!!