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  Buddhist Monks form Mobs

  by Hortensia in

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  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22356306.

  interesting discussion of religion in general, how their parasitic relationship with government leads to them doing anything they can to maintain the status quo, including attacking people of other religions violently.

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  This confirms a point I made in another post -- all religions are crap.
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  MIL letter to my wife

  by AggieNostic in

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  background: my wife and i are inactive, we stopped attending in 2005. raised as jws, were pioneers, i was elder etc... .

  our kids are in college, also inactive but are baptised.

  my wife went back to college, getting her degree this month at age 48!

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  During a recent dust-up with my dub mom, she wrote me a truly vitriolic letter in which she elaborated at length on all my character "defects," the most prominent of course was my turning away from The Truth.

  After reading the letter, I put it into an envelope and mailed it back to her with no comment whatsoever. We didn't talk for almost a year over that.

  I finally made the overture to reconcile and she agreed. She then told me she showed the letter to one of her dub friends at the hall and asked her if she thought it was "hurtful." This friend read it and told her quietly,"That's pretty mean, Sister ---."

  Even another braindead dub realized how vicious my mother could be. Yet I was the one who had to make the peace.

  I often wish I hadn't.
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  Disgusted with JW Funeral Today!

  by time2keepmoving in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my son grew up with one of the young brothers in the kingdom and after graduation both him and my son left the kh.

  the young man who left the hall fell into the wrong crowd and i mean a really dangerous crowd and as a result of him getting involved in illegal activity he was murdered.

  i really feel for this young man, because he was a decent kid.

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  When my dub father died, I had my husband time how much of the "eulogy" actually focused on my father.

  Father - 10 minutes.

  WTS -- 35 minutes.
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  How to Recognize Counterfeit Christian Religions

  by smartwater in

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  by their fruits you will know them.

  a good tree (religion) does not bear bad fruit, neither can a rotten tree bear good fruits.

  true faith is followed by good fruits/works.. dead faith is followed by bad works or no works at all.. 30 bad fruits/works of counterfeit christian religions.

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  Counterfeit Christian religions can be identified by just one thing -- they call themselves Christian.
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  Ex-JW who thinks he's Jesus Christ

  by Tiktaalik in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  an interesting article in an australian newspaper about aj miller, an ex jw who now believes he is the reincarnation of jesus.

  he keeps predicting the end of the world and has gathered some zealous followers around the world.

  he lives on a large property bought for him by his disciples.

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  AJ Miller (aka Jesus) versus Larsinger (aka Jesus).

  Lock them both in a padded room and see who comes out victorious (aka the real Jesus).

  Then lock him back up in another padded room.
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  Ancient mystery in New Mexico desert- Ancient Paleo-Hebrew stone

  by Brother of the Hawk in

  1. social
  2. current

  if anyone is interested in archeology and mysteries, here's one for you.

  the university of new mexico cannot explain this one.

  but here is a short youtube video that will blow your mind.

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  The Mormons are right! The Garden of Eden really was in Jackson County, Missouri!
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  What used to worry you the most about the great trib and Armageddon?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i worried most about losing my dear family, but i also had silly worries like, what would happen to my pets?

  say i didn't have a chance to let the cats out, they would starve inside my house.

  and what if people were so starving because of the big gt famine and stole my chickens!

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  I don't remember ever worrying about Armageddon when I was a braindead, reluctant dub teenager. I don't think I ever really believed it would happen.

  Now that I've been out of the cult for more than 30 years, I'm very worried about humanity's future -- not in the dubs' sense of it, but because of all the very real threats to our existence -- nuclear, viral, environmental, etc.

  There may very well be an "Armageddon" but, guess what, dubbies? You'll be wiped out along with the rest of us.
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  Mount Everest Punch Up

  by *lost* in

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  3 european climbers and sherpa's have fist-i-cuffs high up on the mountain at camp 3. .

  lol norty boys.. .

  anyone read the book .

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  3 European Climbers and sherpa's have fist-i-cuffs high up on the mountain at Camp 3.

  lol norty boys.

  Camp 3 is way above 25,000 feet, well into the "Death Zone" where the body begins to die from oxygen shortage, which happens even when one uses bottled oxygen. Chances are the climbers became hypoxic, which causes personality change, poor judgment, and high-altitude sickness. If the climbers were sent back down, it was to save their lives.

  Everest is not a walk in the park, even though it's not a "technically" difficult mountain to climb (you don't need a lot of rock-climbing experience). But the high altitude can be, and often is, deadly.

  Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" relates just how wrong things can go high up on Everest, where even experienced mountaineers can and do die very easily.

  Anyone read the book

  Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

  A great book.

  Coincidentally, Jon Krakauer also wrote a book about Greg Mortenson, called "Three Cups of Deceit." Good read.
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  Awake 1980- Movie "The Exorcist 1+2 will cause demonic attacks and murders!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  awake 1980 had a mission.

  attack these two movies!

  voted: "the scariest movie of all time," this is what was said about "the exorcist" and the sequel.. awake 1980 12/8 p.11 "since the release of "the exorcist some years ago, many reports are on file of the adverse effects it had on many who saw it.

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  The Filthy Critic's review of "The Exorcist" (one of the funniest movie reviews I ever read):

  http://www.filthycritic.com/index.php/old-reviews/horror/item/159-the-exorcist

  Over the years, I've watched the movie maybe four times -- it loses its scare the second time. But still an interesting story.

  Demons? Believe the movie? I've got some real estate in the Everglades for sale. A real bargain.
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  New Magazine says birthdays will kill you

  by RayPublisher in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  new july 2013 awake says this on page 3:.

  "there is a 14 percent greater probability that a person over 60 years of age will die on his birthday rather than on other days.".

  wow, they have now proven that birthdays are pagan and not fit for christians!.

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  I wonder what the percentage is of dubs who die at the Memorial.

  It's gotta be pretty high, considering all the great food, celebration, and music that accompany that joyous holiday.

  Or maybe they just die of boredom.