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  Life is a commodity

  by donkey in

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  with the advances in genetic engineering we are entering the new commercialism: patents on living things.

  due the fact that we are able to modify genes in living organisms or create new or hybrid organisms governments and corporations have been patenting evrything that moves.

  do you agree with allowing them to do so?

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  donkey

  With the advances in genetic engineering we are entering the new commercialism: patents on living things.

  Due the fact that we are able to modify genes in living organisms or create new or hybrid organisms governments and corporations have been patenting evrything that moves. Do you agree with allowing them to do so? Should the patents be internationally enforced? If we take out the financial incentive will we experience the benefits from the science?

  I am intrigued by what others think of this.

  Donkey
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  Marking.

  by Englishman in

  1. watchtower
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  i've heard the expression a few times here but have normally not taken much notice.

  i've been exited for 31 years and 4 months, well before the onset of elders, reproofs and marking.. i understand the first 2 but am all at sea about the the third.

  someone please tell me exactly what "marking" is and how one becomes marked or a marker.. or markee!

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  donkey

  "Mark" is the sound made by a dog with with a lisp.
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  Fresh 2003 statistics

  by izobcenec in

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  (from german watchtower).

  if you se just a red x, press refresh :).

  izzy

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  donkey

  Currently the world population is expected to increase by 76.5 million people a year. So every year we have nearly 13 times more people being born into this world than there are JWs in total.

  Consider then how will the preaching work ever be finished?

  How can it be finished especially if the rate of JW growth is only 2.2%?

  If this is the "last days" the preaching work is supposed to be all finished. If there are still billions of people left who never were preached to then we hear the standard JW answer: "Jehovah knows their heart condition". Well fine, then is he not cleaver enough to know the hear condition of the remaining few folk and let us off the task of preaching?

  JW...think....NOT

  Donkey
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  Fresh 2003 statistics

  by izobcenec in

  1. jw
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  (from german watchtower).

  if you se just a red x, press refresh :).

  izzy

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  donkey

  The world population is currently estimated to be growing at between 1.2% and 1.5% annually.

  So the JW's grew at 2.2%. The work is indeed speeding up, heh?
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  Fresh 2003 statistics

  by izobcenec in

  1. jw
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  (from german watchtower).

  if you se just a red x, press refresh :).

  izzy

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  donkey

  I never knew that all dubs have learned to speak German and now report in German. They are progressing at least.
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  The Elder Trap.

  by Englishman in

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  2. friends

  (i posted this on the kh thread, but that thread has descended into a squabble.

  i think it's worth a thread of it's own).. "anyone who thinks that this place is similar to a kingdom hall with elders in control has no clue as to how the commercial world operates.

  anyone who thinks that this place is like a kingdom hall controlled by persons with elder-like tendencies is probably going to struggle to hold down a job, make friends other than with those who feel the same way, and will always be struggling against the tide.

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  donkey

  For myself I have issues with human authority because I generally see the source of that authority looking to advance itself and that advancement is normally occurring at the expense of the will of those over whom it reigns.

  I have had too many life experiences during which authority was abusive to me (some of which some people here know but most don't) to the point of taking a physical toll on my health. So my nature now is to usurp authority whenever I can - I am probably to the point where I obsess over freedom because of my past experiences. Thus I agree we cannot live without being subjected to authority - most of us have to live under a government or have to work for a boss. But "if I win the lotto my boss can bite me" - thus usurping the authority at the first chance I get.

  It's not a personal thing with me - in general I have mostly formed good relationships with those who are in authority over me - all the while disliking the authority they have and trying to understand one thing:

  Do they have the authority over me because I gave it to them ?

  Knowing that I gave it to them in a strange sense allows me either to cast it off immediately or to feel empowered to cast it off at any point I choose to. So far this has proven true in every instance. The one thing that keeps happening though is that I do always find myself under authority of some sort and I now think this will be true until I die. Then I will be free of authority as I know death holds no power over me and if I am dead there is no "me" to hold power over so it becomes moot (Moot is a stupid sounding word - kinda like a dumb person who can't spell).

  So where does this leave me? In a world trying to figure out who I should give authority to. I am the enabler of authority in the free world. As long as I am not held captive again no one can claim they hold authority over me. The have it but I control it. If they use it in a way that shows respect for me I will continue to allow them to have it for a while but in due time I will always take it back.

  Donkey
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  My mommy is dying.... :(

  by outnfree in

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  i'm off to new york this morning.

  i'm fortunate that my oldest daughter will drive with me, missing class to support her mom and possibly to say a final farewell to her grandma.. my mother has has two strokes this year, and, after the first one in may, told me that she felt like she was dying from the inside out.

  she had another stroke at the end of august, and was eventually put in a nursing home.

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  donkey

  (((OutnFree)))))
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  Currently, Who Is Your Favorite Politician??

  by minimus in

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  i like bush.

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  donkey

  Favorite Politician

  Is that an oxymoron? Why not ask people whether they would rather die of cancer or of pneumonia?
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  Stupid, Illogical Belief of the JWs

  by Funchback in

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  2. beliefs

  a jw woman died a few days ago at the age of 31. she died from ovarian cancer.

  i knew her since she was a young girl.

  but her death got me thinking about the jw belief/interpretation of the resurrection.

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  donkey

  Her family should be rejoicing over her death, according to JW teaching.

  Why? According to Romans 6 the wages of sin are death. He who has died has been acquitted of his sin. The dubs use this to show that the dead person is now sinless having experienced death and will thus be resurrected.

  Now they claim that all evil is random or Satan directed. So everytime we see people dying we should rejoice that they now are safely through the big A. If they had not been baptized kingdom publishers in good standing at the big A they would have been killed. Now all the starving people in Africa have to die.

  There ends the obvious set of crapola logic for the day - dub style.

  Donkey
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  What Makes Living Worth It?

  by shamus in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what makes you alive in spirit?

  what makes life worth living?

  what is it that you do that makes life all worth it?.

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  donkey

  In the new matrix movie one of the lines says the purpose of living is to die - at least thats what I remember.