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  My mother

  by MsMcDucket in

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  2. medical

  she's still in a coma.

  she's in cardiology icu.

  the hospitalist was giving me and my family the run around, not there, not telling us much; so, i fired him.

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  kgfreeperson

  Hospitalists. Grrrr. Hope your mom is doing better soon!
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  NEW BOOK Questions - Request for information.

  by rassillon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have a couple of things i want to cover so i may edit this post but first.

  can i get a complete quote for prof brian wilson as used in the first paragraph of chapter ten in the "jehovah's day" book?

  i think it is from this book of his but i don't have a copy and i did not see it in my scan of the sample pages.

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  kgfreeperson

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_R._Wilson
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  Do you dare post your most embarrassing photo? Shall I post mine?

  by nicolaou in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i've changed my avatar - again!

  i don't know what's wrong with me at the moment, i can't seem to settle on one picture for more than a week!

  anyway, the current pic' is one of me when i was 7 or 8.. thing is, it's just a facial crop from the one photo i am perhaps more embarrassed of than any other.

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  I'm sorry--you and your brother are impossibly precious in that picture!You can't run away from it! Adorable is what you were!
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  BoE "Porn" Letter... what if it isn't "convenient"?

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was just reading the boe letter dated june 7, 2006 regarding pornography.

  here's an excerpt that made me go "hmmmmm".. next, the body of elders should determine whether the brother still qualifies to serve.

  he may continue to serve if his involvement consisted of (1) a few brief viewings, (2) he displays a heartfelt desire to desist from looking at pornography in any form, (3) the elders are convinced that he will refrain from viewing pornography, (4) he continues to retain the respect of others who are aware of what he did, and (5) his conscience allows him to do so.

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  kgfreeperson

  You make excellent points, scully.
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  grief & jw's?

  by carla in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  reading the other thread made me wonder, do jw's ever truly grieve at the loss of a loved one?

  i can see in front of other jw's they feel the need to maintain the party line, but in private?

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  I think at least some "protect" themselves from grief by avoiding any deep connections with any body. Anything that makes 'em nervous--they just disengage, whether it is "suspect behavior" or somebody getting sick.
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  It could be worse!

  by kgfreeperson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just came across this at salon.com.

  http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07/06/lost_boys/index.html .

  do you suppose jws could ever have an off-shoot like this?

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  kgfreeperson

  I just came across this at Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/07/06/lost_boys/index.html
  
  Do you suppose JWs could ever have an off-shoot like this?
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  Just returned from the 2006 (Armageddon's here) "Deliverance At Hand" DO

  by apocalypse in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  how much can one person gag?

  it is interesting to note that clive thomas (canadian branch office) spoke during his part in such a way as to betray the fact that he was personally aware that what he was saying was false.. it's one thing when a local onion gets exuberant about parroting the gb's nonsense.

  it's quite another when a bloodsucker like clive comes from the branch and does a "bait 'n switch" the way he did.

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  Yes, thanks very much for the inside Bethel story.I suspect Suiter had had that treatment earlier in his career and accepted it as a lesson of how these things are done. What a hellhole.
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  Behind the Scenes: An Elders Point of View

  by WTLies in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been a member of this fourm for quite sometime although i rarely post.

  i do however, have my story posted on shauns' site http://jwfiles.com/jws-leaving/william.htm i also wrote and article for that site comparing the prophecies of 1925 and 1975. http://jwfiles.com/1925-1975.htm just a little background on me: i served as an elder in philadelphia.

  i was the cong sec.

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  The last time I saw a witness offering magazines was in an airport. The people who took them didn't give any money and it didn't look as if any way asked for. Which suggests that it's the peddlars who are the buyers which is an even neater trick.
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  UPDATE: Alive and Kicking... ASS

  by RichieRich in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm joining everyone from the bowels of the sun princess, a ship belonging to the princess cruise lines.

  about an hour and a half ago, we left the port of seattle for alaska.

  my grandmother sent me and my grandfather on this trip for a graduation present.

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  thanks so much for checking in! Have a great time.
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  DaVinci Code & "Mankind's Search for God"

  by proplog2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the watchtower doesn't want its members to see the da vinci code.

  probably for the same reason they don't want its members to read their book "mankind's search for god".

  they went to the trouble of researching and publishing this attractive well illustrated book.

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  This is the only JW publication I've read. I was making notes to discuss with the person who gave it to me from the first page! It was presented to me as "the best researched and written of the Watchtower publications." Silly me, with no experience of knowledge, sat down to read it from that perspective. And my eyebrows were up and my jaw down almost immediately.
  
  I thought it was interesting that this "best of the best" immediately revealed the writers to be people with no intellectual integrity whatsoever.
  
  Needless to say our conversation about the book was exceedingly short.