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  First encounter with a Scientologist

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  i was on a mad-dash daytrip to edinburgh today, and in the morning we were up on the royal mile.

  being the fringe we quickly attracted about eight trees' worth of advertising.

  most of the people flyering were dressed in costumes or in t-shirts advertising the shows, but some were in ordinary clothes.

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  Laptop scammer gets OWNED

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  http://www.amirtofangsazan.blogspot.com/

  enjoy!

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  Need advice and support :(

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  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mum has been inactive for the best part of a decade.

  the other week, the daughter of the woman my mum studied with to become a jw popped over to see mum (they are good friends).

  the daughter was saying how she probably won't get baptised herself as there is too much she doesn't agree with, but that she thinks jws are right.

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  Aunties and Uncles?

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  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here in north england it's very common for children to call close friends of their parents aunty or uncle even if they're not really related.

  this also happened at the kh with all the kids calling adults aunty or uncle.

  is this standard jw practice or is it just a northern thing?

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  Have JWs abandoned my mum?

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  my mum has been inactive for over 10 years, but for almost as long as that an elder has been bringing her magazines and books so she's up to date.

  she gets tapes of talks indirectly through another person.

  the elder's not been in a while.

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  Female elders

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  2. friends

  when did you first realise the society wouldn't allow women to be an ms or an elder?

  i remember being seven or eight and playing dolls with an elder's daughter in her bedroom.

  my doll was meeting up with her doll at the convention after not seeing each other for a long time.

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  Christian Fundamentalists and Adam and Eve

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  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  how do people who believe a "day" of creation is a literal 24-hour day ("because the plants would have died") get around adam and eve not dying the same literal 24-hour day as eating from the tree?

  jws say that the "day" didn't equal 24 hours and that adam died within a thousand years and a day=1000 years.... but then you have the plants with no light!

  it's almost like it's made up or something!

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  "Fleshly" brothers and sisters

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  2. beliefs

  i hate how the wt makes a member's family seem less important than their jw "family" by conditioning them to add the "fleshly" qualifier to "sister" or "brother" when talking about their siblings.

  it just always made me shudder.

  did this really bother anyone else?

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  Usenet

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  hi, can someone who is all clued up about usenet please pm me - i have a question that i don't know if allowable on the board (nothing dirty :)).

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  Russian seige over

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  it's over - russian troops stormed the building after 2 militants blew themselves up.. .

  the news is saying the monsters took the children's clothes away when they asked for water, soaked them in water and threw the back at them and told them to suck on their clothes - so the kids who are outside are all in their pants or are naked.

  they refused to give them water, food, blankets and medicine when the army and negotiators asked for them to be brought in.. .

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