I thought it was to trick everyone into thinking they were a regular christian religion, so they can ease into it and then they can hit them with the weird stuff later!
lriddle80
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The reason they like to highlight the suffering of Jesus at the memorial
by Xanthippe inis so they can then use it as an excuse to make the congregation work even harder.
surely if jesus had six-inch nails hammered through his hands you can do more in field service.. if jesus could die of slow asphyxiation on the torture stake you can get to the convention even if you have four kids and two jobs or are 93 and nearly blind.. you are letting jesus down and making his agony count for nothing if you don't give until it hurts.. this is why they talk about a man being tortured to death in graphic detail in front of little children as i once was at the kingdon hall.
this is why i dreaded the memorial..
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Interesting Findings from the ESA Plank Satellite
by cantleave inthe european space agency has produced a fascinating map of the universe using the super dooper plank satelite.. by stripping out dust emissions and radio frequencies from the milky way galaxy and more distant objects to leave just the afterglow of the big bang, an image of the microwave radiation (measured over a 15 month period) has been obtained that gives an extremely precise picture of the universe just 380,000 years after the big bang.. what we have learned from this data is the universe is some 80 million years older than we thought, the universe is made up of slightly more ordinary matter than was previously thought - 4.9% of all matter, up from 4.5% - and that there is less dark energy (which cosmologists don't understand) than previously thought and also it has an axis of evil (it appears the early universe was assymetrical) and a cold spot!!.
so we need to go back to the drawing board with regard to inflation theory to account for the asymmetry and cold spot.. this is why i love science, the more we learn, the more we have to learn.
btw, god sisn't show herself!.
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lriddle80
Scientific findings remind me of the "new light" that JW are coming up with. Always changing...
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How long did you keep rooting for Walter White?
by slimboyfat inisn't this guy like the greatest anti-hero of all time?.
as the series wears on it is getting more and more difficult to sympathise with the guy.
but i must admit i stuck with him pretty far.
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lriddle80
Haha...this is our favorite guilty pleasure show! I am torn between rooting for Walter White and just really hoping he gets caught! When I found out he was the one who poisoned that kid...and how mean he's always been to Jessie and he killed Mike....I just really don't like him now. But when he said he would quit the business, I kind of started to like him again. Everyone deserves 2nd chances!
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Well... I got my 'invite'
by Jim_TX inas most know, it's that time of the year when the jws go out 'in force' and bang on doors trying to leave their litter-ature for the memorial - aka 'memorial invite'.. this morning (saturday), i was at the local coffee shop - which is normal for me.
my wife was at home chilling on the sofa, in her nightie.. i got a text message around 9:30-ish saying that jws had been at our house.. when i got home, my wife said she was sitting on the sofa when she heard a light 'tap tap' on the door.
we have a doorbell.
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lriddle80
I got a light tap tap on the door also. As I don't have a peephole on my door, I figured it was a murderer since they didn't use my doorbell. I opened the door cautiously and saw a middle aged guy and he gave me my invitation. I just said thanks and he smiled and left, didn't offer any other info! It was kind of weird, actually!
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I gave blood this week
by MMXIV innot for the first time, notched up 11 donations so far.
would have been far more but i've been declined quite a few times for various reasons such as having a cold, dental work and trips abroad.
they check for hiv, hepatitis b & c as well as some other diseases each time i give here in the uk.
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lriddle80
I don't weigh enough to give blood...but I would like to be an organ donor, they're healthy organs!
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How Many on JWNet are still JWs?
by RayPublisher ini've been wondering about this for some time.
if there are 60,000+ registered users on here, what percentage are actual non-dfed or non-daed witnesses?
if it was 1/3, that would be over 20,000 active/inactive witnesses that post and read these pages- and that's huge.
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lriddle80
Not df'd or da'd, just not a JW anymore either. Will dodge the judicial committee forever to avoid those labels!! Elders scare me, they always have!
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Newbie- Without fear part 2
by Brother of the Hawk inwithout fear.
this time i will fill in more of the gaps.
so please, pour that 2nd cup of coffee, perhaps that 2nd glass of wine, sit back relax and i will fill in the gaps.
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lriddle80
Can't wait for part 3! I could read a book of that!!
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New magazine cover from the religion that calls former believers "mentally diseased"....
by cedars inapparently "prejudice" applies only to racial equality and has nothing to do with diverse sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
it's news to me, but that's the only way i can explain this latest cover from the society.. http://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/86/wp_e_20130601.pdf.
cedars.
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lriddle80
Wow, this thread is hil-arious!! I love the photoshopped indian!! I loved the explanation about the white guy telling the dirty joke and the hispanic guy laughing just to fit in! That's some good comedy!
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Long Overdue Observation
by earthfire ini just thought this was funny when it popped into my head this morning.
funny because i should have thought of it long ago and i'm sure that i'm not the first to think this.
the big point comes after my little spiel.. so, god tells noah to build an ark because he has a lot of killing of the wicked to do and only noah and his family seem to be good enough.
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lriddle80
But I've heard that a lot of different cultures/religions have a similar flood story.....
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Goodbye the truth...
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lriddle80
I traded all my books for credit at the local used book shop!