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  A recent Awake that said earth's population would fit in T

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  2. friends

  i bumped into a jw at the store the other day.

  he doesn't know i'm df'd (apparently) and i didn't decide to enlighten him.

  he banged on for a bit about people we both knew, how service was that morning, etc.

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  Will Power

  Maybe this Vitality Magazine is where Brooklyn gets its ideas for their educational AWAKE! articles.
  
  quote:
  
  Healthy Food, Healthy Planet
  
  The Bad News: According to a group of scientists in the July 22, 2005 issue Science, world land use is the most important environmental issue currently facing the planet.
  
  “Short of a collision with an asteroid, land use by humans is the most significant impact on the world’s biosphere,” according to Jonathan A. Foley, lead author of the Science paper.
  
  The current rate at which conventional agriculture is sucking up resources, and natural ecosystems are being converted to agriculture could prove catastrophic to the planet.
  
  
  .....It’s a crazy mixed-up world, or so it seems in this year just drawing to a close. Earthquakes, hurricanes, wars, record heat waves, you name it, this year has witnessed it . . .
  
  here's the link http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/index.php
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  A recent Awake that said earth's population would fit in T

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i bumped into a jw at the store the other day.

  he doesn't know i'm df'd (apparently) and i didn't decide to enlighten him.

  he banged on for a bit about people we both knew, how service was that morning, etc.

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  Will Power

  did you subtract the 6 million JWs? - they are not part of this world.wp
  
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  heard back from my dad - you won't believe it!

  by freedomlover in

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  2. experiences

  hey all you great people - in case you read my letter i sent to my dad the other day you may be interested in his reply.

  (see topic history for letter to my dad) .

  i am so happy and relieved.

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  Will Power

  absolutely great news freedomlover
  
  ..... wouldn't it be funny if your dad had been "staying in" all these years because he didn't want to upset YOU?
  
  there is a God!
  
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  My Dad died this evening

  by Mulan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i thought i would let you know that my dad, passed away a little while ago, tonight, january 23. they called me at 6pm to tell me.

  he had been failing rapidly for the past month, and had completely lost his hearing and was totally blind.

  the dementia was extreme too, and he still knew me on thursday, but didn't wake up to know me in the following days.

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  Will Power

  My condolences Mulan to you and your family.
  A dad is a special man in a daughter's life
  I found this poem
  
  Fathers and daughters have a romance
  That goes on for the rest of their lives,
  Destined to ripen and age as they dance
  Through the days of their husbands and wives.
  
  Up near the surface their love is distinct,
  Like a garden surveyed in the sun,
  In which seedtime and full bloom are credibly linked
  By a consciousness shared and hard won.
  
  Deep down below, where the world is a dream,
  And the dream is a world of its own,
  All manner of memories the moments redeem
  In a place where one's never alone.
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  20/20 tonight - talk about an icebreaker

  by Will Power in

  1. jw
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  they did a piece on that guy who does infomercials about drug companines that don't want you to find out that there are lots of cures using natural stuff that is of course in his $30.

  book - trudeau .

  turns out he's been in jail twice for scamming, using other methods, and that his quackery book is making him the most money so far!

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  Will Power

  I'm going to send the JWD Quotes link along with some thanks & praise for "telling it like it is"
  Maybe he'll GIVE US A BREAK! ha
  
  here is the link to the story about twisted truth
  http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Entertainment/story?id=1528377
  
  some highlights.
  
  "Even though truth has become this kind of flexible construct that people are, you know, feel free to handle and manage in whatever way they will, the truth is still important. And when people are misrepresenting factual matters, I think that's troubling," he said.
  
  The Bigger the Lie, the Easier to Swallow?
  Hitler believed in telling enormous lies because, as he put it, "The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one."
  
  "I think there's a real sense that reality and truthfulness is a kind of self-invented phenomenon. That it's something that you can manufacture or construct in all these different ways. And so it's given people a sense that the truth is permeable or creatable or constructable, and that, I think, is new," Winn said.
  
  One result is that people are often simultaneously cynical and gullible about what they believe. Some cynics who believed the government had covered up information about a flying saucer crashing in Roswell, N.M., in the late 1940s fell for one of the most publicized hoaxes of the 1990s — a television special claiming to show 50-year-old secret footage of an autopsy performed on an alien being in Roswell.
  ..... some of the subtle ingredients of what makes us vulnerable to such a hoax: the alien reflects us.
  
  And there are moments when we want so desperately to believe that we always will be susceptible.
  
  In a time when there is so much embellishment and re-invention, accomplished with such ease, the stakes go well beyond money and power and pretense.
  
  Winn sums it up well. "[If] people really become so cynical that everyone is lying, that everybody in government is lying, that everyone in business is secretly you know, an Enron executive who's just waiting to bilk investors or, or the public in some way, then yeah, I mean, we'd lose the kind of trust that makes a society run and that, that we need in order to operate. If the public detaches itself completely from trust not only in officials, but in one another, then, you know, that's really alarming. It's a corrosive trend in society."
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  20/20 tonight - talk about an icebreaker

  by Will Power in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  they did a piece on that guy who does infomercials about drug companines that don't want you to find out that there are lots of cures using natural stuff that is of course in his $30.

  book - trudeau .

  turns out he's been in jail twice for scamming, using other methods, and that his quackery book is making him the most money so far!

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  Will Power

  they did a piece on that guy who does infomercials about drug companines that don't want you to find out that there are lots of cures using natural stuff that is of course in his $30. book - Trudeau
  Turns out he's been in jail twice for scamming, using other methods, and that his quackery book is making him the most money so far! - Thats because its free speech etc - but slowly the word is getting out how he is misrepresenting & even lying, misquoting..... :-O - nerve eh? People are dying, and he's been banned from doing infomercials.
  They then expanded with how people are gullible - wishing to believe what they want - it was great.
  I wanted to post the website link, but its so busy now, I'll try later.
  There were so many good parallels, descriptions of truths - a real conversation starter if you know what I mean. wink wink
  any one else see it?
  
  John Stossels might be ready for the Blood Tort & the Quotes fiasco!!
  
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  WALKING IN THE PATH OF INCREASING LIGHT - WT STUDY

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those of you not "keeping up with the organization"botchtower deals soley with all the bullshit instances of "increased light" on this joke of a religion god's organization.

  it asks many drone-like thought-provoking questions as i've listed below.

  incredible that these guys claim to be the sole ownership of what is absolute "truth", yet change doctrines like i change lipsticks.

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  Will Power

  Maybe they are preparing the R&F for questions regarding QUOTES website, the lawsuit the WT attacked Peter with and the obvious embarassment.
  
  They are supplying them with ready made sentences to combat the reality of their own history that is out there for all to see. (except them)
  
  They will need to print a new book "Reasoning from Our False Prophecies"
  a Vindication of the Watchtower's Name
  
  
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  WALKING IN THE PATH OF INCREASING LIGHT - WT STUDY

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those of you not "keeping up with the organization"botchtower deals soley with all the bullshit instances of "increased light" on this joke of a religion god's organization.

  it asks many drone-like thought-provoking questions as i've listed below.

  incredible that these guys claim to be the sole ownership of what is absolute "truth", yet change doctrines like i change lipsticks.

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  requiem

  by bebu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i feel the need to update the ending to my mother's story.. after her surgery last september, when no tumor was found, she went home to enjoy happy visits from family (constantly), recovery, and two new kittens.

  one month of happiness at her home, which she had designed herself 20 years ago.

  my parents were reading and preparing her for living with ms, which was her new diagnosis.. .

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  Will Power

  Beautifully told bebu, my condolences.
  
  I'd post flowers here if I could
  
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  Tell the Watchtower - "I Want My Mother Back!"

  by jgnat in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  here's you chance, tell the organization how you really feel about the shunning arrangement.

  merry magdalene has inspired me, and a fresh, right-off-the-press group has been formed, .

  http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/comebackmom/.

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  Will Power

  That was a great letter., thanks for posting.
  
  I am one of those family/friends who has had relationships forever damaged because of a corporate survival policy backed by a twisted scripture.
  
  I think the 5th estate might be set for some updates. - they are updating their story on "bountiful"
  
  wp