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we keep in mind peter's words: "it when you are doing good and you suffer, you endure it, this is a thing agreeable with god.
I wonder, if after carefully studying this article, witnesses at a convention that gets disrupted, by, say, an eager apostate (heh heh), if those witnesses would choose to flee!
I mean, this apostate is persecuting them, right? And the only acceptable responses are to flee or to roll over and take it - I bet I could start a DC stampede!
CZAR
was it jw related?
a death?
a friendship gone bad?
Wow. Got a new perspective.
The worst things that have happened to me are usually my own damn fault - so I'm just going to shut up and try to be a better person.
Brave people out there. I salute you!
CZAR
on many occasions at the kh brothers are seen hugging sisters and i wondered how that would make you feel and would you tell your husband about it?
on several occasions i knew of this married sister who was constantly approached by a married elder and he would hug this sister to the point it made her feel uncomfortable.
upon speaking to her about it on many an occasion i said to her if you feel uncomfortable then it he is in the wrong.
Never hugged anybody. I try to avoid all physical contact, especially at the kingdom hall. I would wear a hazmat suit out in service. People tend to listen to Armageddon presentations from someone in a hazmat suit.
CZAR
I now have three times as many Bible studies, and have doubled my RV's - with a 100 percent increase in WT placements since last month alone. And I have a new peak of meeting attendance.
CZAR
this email was sent to me awhile ago, but i wanted to share this with every one.
> use the third letter of your first name to determine your new first name: .
> a = poopsie .
Stinky Girdle Chunks...
CZAR
don't know if this has been posted:.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3275065.stmmurder police find alicia's body police have found the body of missing devon teenager alicia eborne.
the discovery was made by search experts on a thickly wooded slope near denham bridge at buckland monachorum on dartmoor.
Sadness...
Is there anybody close to there who can convey our sympathies?
CZAR
http://www.ffrf.org/fttoday/dec01/other.html
multiplying sorrow.
women who are jehovah's witnesses have a 44-fold greater risk of maternal death due to obstetric hemorrhage than do other women.
I can't actually think of ANY witness women who died in childbirth. I don't think this is a valid stat. the sample might be skewed.
CZAR
i was at my parents today for the first time in a while.
i noticed that they have removed all photos of my brother and i from the walls and furniture.
we are disfellowshipped.
I think my parents did the same thing, now that I think about it.
Ha! I don't care.
CZAR
" if the watchtower said it, and the men on the platform preached it, then it must have been true.
so it was very hard to accept as an adult, that they were wrong.
i blame myself.
I think that jst2laws has found the compromise statement that resolves our differences. I agree completely.
Now, the question is, what is this newfound assignment of responsiblity going to motivate us to do in the future? Should the WT be "allowed" to continue its domination of its people? Or shall we take action in some way, to either discredit, disprove, or overthrow them?
CZAR
fox news is putting out a report that the senate intelligence committee has a sixteen page memo detailing the links between iraq and al qaeda going back before the first gulf war.
this includes monies...weapons...and training going to aq, atta meeting twice with iraqi intelligence (1994 and 2000), and a possible visit by ubl himself to baghdad a few years back.
it'll be interesting to see how this pans out...even more interesting to hear what the oppossers have to say if this all proves true...you know...the ones who keep saying there's no link between iraq and a q.
He is the biggest dumbass liar in the world
Just wanted to point out the amazing contradiction. Are you claiming he is a dumbass and was therefore "tricked" into attacking Iraq, genuinely believing that he was seeking WMD and Al-Qaida camps? Or are you crediting him with Machiavellian abilities to scheme, connive, and manipulate the nations of USA, Britain, and Australia into attacking a government innocent of those crimes, for purposes somehow related to re-election, financial gain, oil supplies, or machismo?
You can't have both. According to your analysis of his actions, Bush must be an honest idiot or a cunning liar. He CANNOT be an idiot liar - he could not have the intelligence to lie if he was an idiot.
I believe he is cunning AND honest, ergo, after the Democratic Primary and the dems pick their general who will run on a Vietnam-flashback platform - Saddam and OBL will be caught and the WMD will be found and the troops will be mostly pulled out of Iraq, thereby guaranteeing re-election for a good guy. A man vastly underrated for his intelligence and moral character.
CZAR
