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here's the link, you may have to cut & paste it into your browser; http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&category=16710&item=5577875725&rd=1.
an individual mag' on a cd?
Just to be totally painfully nitpicky... that is an audio CD version of the Watchtower. There is also an MP3 version; for some reason they offer it in both formats at the present time.
I only know this because I saw a stack of these recently and noticed the two different formats, both types were current issues.
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so what's the last fantasy/scifi book that you read that was just so good you could'nt put it down until you were done reading it?
i need a few recommendations, i'm in the mood for a good book.. for me the last really good scifi book was orson scott card's "ender's game".
for a long time i avoided this book because i thought it was aimed at a younger audience, but after hearing so many people praise it i finally took a chance on it.
I just finished re-reading Ender's Game (first read it many years ago, might have been just a short story back then); now I am working through the rest of the series, almost finished with Speaker for the Dead. Its good too, but quite different from Ender's Game. I am looking forward to the books that go back and pick up the story on Earth- Ender's Shadow and its sequels.
Before that I started reading Stephen Baxter, awesome hard sci-fi stuff. Then there was Harry Turtledove's Worldwar and Colonization series, also very good. I see he has just written a follow-up which I hope will wrap it up.
Also read Peter Hamilton's Reality Disfunction/Night's Dawn series... more goodness...
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hey gang!
i apologize for my absence of a few weeks.
i have been very busy with work lately, and i hate to write something that i haven't been able to research properly, so i haven't posted anything in this series for three weeks now.
Now for the JW response:
First of all, the Bible speaks of animals reproducing according to their kind. The Bible's 'kind' is not the same as what a scientist refers to as a 'species'. Although there can be much variation within a kind, it still remains as the same kind.
So yes, although there may be several different species of this cichlid fish, for example, the fact remains that they are all still fish. They have not turned into reptiles or amphibians.
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clearly stated that christ is not the mediator for christians today, not even jehovah's witnesses.
but that he is only the mediator for the faithful & discreet slave class.
it then follows that most of the bible was not written for the rest of us who must rely on the eartly organisation as our mediator for salvation.
Gary,
I still don't see any change re the other sheep... just the timing of the separating of the sheep and the goat. My understanding is that the 'other sheep' is the group of 'honest-hearted ones' who began to be gathered around 1935 and who would see the great tribulation.
*** w95 10/15 p. 26 What Future for the Sheep and the Goats? ***
15 How have Christ?s brothers and the millions of other sheep united with them as one flock been eated?
So they still refer to this group as the other sheep.
What's interesting is that the Society claimed that the great crowd did not begin to be gathered too soon, that some of the original members of the great crowd would be around to see the the great tribulation. This was in one of the pocket-sized books from the late eighties... don't have it on hand. So again, another date that is an albatross around the Society's neck.
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clearly stated that christ is not the mediator for christians today, not even jehovah's witnesses.
but that he is only the mediator for the faithful & discreet slave class.
it then follows that most of the bible was not written for the rest of us who must rely on the eartly organisation as our mediator for salvation.
Gary,
This is before the other sheep were eliminated as an already identified earthly class in 1995. Now, either the great crowd has to be separated from the other sheep, and if it is the great crowd has to be a heavenly class. If it is an earthly class and tied to the other sheep, it can't be identified yet.
Can you expand on this? What changed in 1995 in regards to the other sheep?
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the may 2005 km (us branch version) is a bunch of tripe.. in the first article, jehovah's day is near, the writers are feeding the r&f more gloom-and-doom-the-end-is-near.
the 3rd family article is family schedule-family field service.
the 4th family article is family schedule-the family study.
Heathen,
They demonize everything else in the world so we know sports is out , they aren't even allowed to play tennis with the concept of actually winning .
Then how do you explain the Williams sisters????
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Will wrote..
Born 1927 !!!!! Couldn't they find anyone older? Geez the guy is almost 80, he will only be in there a few years, kick the pucket and have to do this all over again. What do those ones that picked him have for brains? I am sure there was someone just as quailified that is a lot younger. Reminds me of the WT GB. Will
Thats the reason they picked him..they want a 'transitional' pope, not another guy who will be in there for a quarter century.
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thats what i heard, is it true that there is no more theocratic ministry school review?
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The parts after that are supposed to mimic a Service Meeting.
Ah yes, the "fake" Service Meeting!! I only remember this happening within the last few years. They would have the opening of the Service Meeting complete with bogus announcements!!! I remember thinking WTF????
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is it the pedophile thing, ngo, generation change, blood issue?
what do you think it is?.
Krystal,
1914 was 91 years ago... and the last I heard some ppl of that "generation" were going to live to see the end.
If you factor in the "age of understanding" even being generous and saying it is like 10years old... how many ppl do you know who were 10 years old in 1914 are still alive now?
You apparently have not heard the New Light on this topic. They dropped the idea of some from the 1914 generation being alive to see the end back in 1995... wow its been 10 years. Although dont' feel bad, I don't think a lot of current JWs have even comprehended what a big adjustment this is.
Also, I dont know about every where else in the world but in Montreal, QC they are loosing control of their young people. I left to be with a non-witness and since then I have seen about 6 different young people from the same congergation engaging in "inappropriate behavior". (and those are the ones I happened to run into!) None of them were disfellowshipped... they are acting. There is a serious epidemic of "double-life" going on.
Ok this along with the Internet, is their biggest problem, and not just in Montreal. The kids ain't just buying into it. And they know how to work the system so they can avoid DFing.
It will be very interesting when 2014 rolls around, will there be more or less JWs than there are now...
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my local upn station keeps moving enterprise around.
sometimes it's on friday, sometimes it's on wednesdays, sometimes it's not on at all.
so as a result i haven't watched more than a couple of espisodes this season.
Enterprise needed to be put out of its misery. It suffered from the same affliction Voyager had, interesting concept, horrible execution. Like Deep Space Nine, each show started out with a premise that was a variation on the standard Star Trek format. Deep Space Nine, however, actually dared to try new things, like marrying off main characters, a slightly darker vision of the Federation, adversaries that were not 2-dimensional bad guys, limited use of technobabble as a way of resolving a crisis, etc. Voy andand Enterprise squandered their uniqueness and turned into clones of Next Gen by the end of the first season. Both shows also suffered from some incredibly lame acting(Harry Kim, Captain Janeway) and/or lack of serious character development(Mayweather, Hoshi). Deep Space Nine not only developed the main characters, they worked in almost a dozen supporting characters, each with their own backstory.
So let Trek rest, I am enjoying the new Battlestar Galactica, and Stargate is still somewhat entertaining.
Um, yeah I am a sci-fi nerd, what can I say?
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