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  Are they really waiting for us to die?

  by iknowall558 in

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  this is something i've thought about over and over in my mind.

  anyone df or da are viewed by active jws as "dead when armageddon comes".

  are they waiting for us to die?.

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  Gadget

  This is similar to something I've thought about before.

  When I was disfellowshipped the only question my parents asked was if I was going to try and get reinstated. 8 months later when I said that I was no longer trying to get reinstated and was no longer going to any meetings they asked why, to which I replied that I didn't believe jw's were right.

  Its now 6 years on and they've never mentioned anything about it since, and after the first few months I never experienced any shunning from my parents like some on here have done. But if they honestly think I'm going to die any minute at armegedon (and they are true believers) then why have they done nothing to try and save my life except for 2 questions that probably took longer to type out than the original conversations lasted.
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  Ever got counseled for your haircut?

  by Albert Einstein in

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  i allway wore very short "military" style haircut.

  allways was viewed as a bad association by dubs, once one dub told me directly: well i think your hair is rather to short brother!

  i told him i dont think so and left.

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  I always had my head shaved short, and never got any comments on it aprt from when I wet shaved it for charity. It caused a bit of a stir in the meeting.......

  I got there late, and a local elder was giving the public talk. He lost his place in the notes when he saw my head. After the meeting a different elder came up and asked 'whats all this in aid of?', I told it was in aid of 'northeast aid to orphans' in Lithuania and asked if he would like to sponsor me. He just muttered something I didn't catch and wandered of.

  Paul
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  665 JW's in US prisons...

  by digderidoo in

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  the federal bureau of prisons does have statistics on religious affiliations of inmates.

  the following are total number of inmates per religion category: .

  catholic 29267 39.164% protestant 26162 35.008% muslim 5435 7.273% american indian 2408 3.222% nation 1734 2.320% rasta 1485 1.987% jewish 1325 1.773% church of christ 1303 1.744% pentecostal 1093 1.463% moorish 1066 1.426% buddhist 882 1.180% jehovah witness 665 0.890% adventist 621 0.831% orthodox 375 0.502% mormon 298 0.399% scientology 190 0.254% atheist 156 0.209% hindu 119 0.159% santeria 117 0.157% sikh 14 0.019% bahai 9 0.012% krishna 7 0.009% .

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  Gadget

  WT spin: those in jail were once the "muderers and thieves" but have found da Truff and become a follower of JC.

  gag

  The thing is, its not just people like that who have been recruited in prison. there are a lot of peodophiles and sex offenders getting recruited too. It always amazes me just how many JWs there are in UK english prisons at any one time.
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  RIP Dansk (aka Ian), 18.12.1953- 20.12.2008

  by faundy in

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  have posted this on the other thread but just making this one as well:

  i need to let you know that dad passed away this morning at 8am.

  he fought so hard but in the end they could not get his blood pressure to rise and he died of heart failure.

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  Ian was among the nicest of people I've ever met. Online he came across so caring and compassionate, but in real life I found him much more so. I'm sorry for Claire and the familys loss. Paul
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  *BBC News Platelets are a vital part of treatment for premature babies*

  by truthseeker in

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7758706.stm.

  son's memory inspires donations .

  by jane elliott .

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  Gadget

  I'm a platelet donor. We need more!!!!!
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  Would jws obey a curfew during a flu pandemic?

  by badboy in

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  any ideas?

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  Gadget

  I'm not sure about meetings, but in 2002 we had a foot and mouth outbreak here and field service was cancelled. It was in a big farming area and although there was no legal restrictions on moving as long as you used the disinfecting points for your vehicle/feet/etc, field service was cancelled because the people who's doors we were knocking on would be too upset about the possibility of us spreading the disease to their are to hear the message.
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  Secret Santa 2008 - sign up!!!

  by Angharad in

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  as promised !.

  for those that are new since last year we have done this for the last few years, what it involves is that those who want to join in will post to this thread and then pm me their name and address.

  i will then collate the names and addresses and assign everyone a person to buy a gift for.

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  I want to take part too! Paul
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  WHY I CAN'T USE BIODIESEL

  by wozadummy in

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  in another topic here ethanol is being discussed and it made me think about car fuels, enviro stuff etc ,and because there is so little ethanol used where i live there is few options to source a cleaner fuel.

  we have two cars and one runs on liquid petroleum gas (i've had cars on this for the past 20 years as i think of the lower emission levels and cheaper price).the other is my work car and is a 4wd dual cab ute with a 2.5litre diesel engine ,and is 3 years old now.

  in the city there is a manufacturer of biodiesel but there are very few outlets and it is 50kilometres away.

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  The website I listed shows info on running cars on bio-diesel, straight vegetable oil, and waste vegetable oil. I initially was going to buy bio-diesel for my car, but like the first poster found my nearest supplier was too far away to be economically viable. I could have bought my own bio-diesel plant for £300, or made my own for a fraction of that. But after looking at the processes involved I thought it would be much easier to convert my car than to run a bio-diesel plant. Sorry if I muddied the waters a bit, but I thought I thought I would give the solution I found to a similar problem to the first poster. And sorry for the formatting, for some reason Googlechrome comes out with no paragraphs!
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  WHY I CAN'T USE BIODIESEL

  by wozadummy in

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  in another topic here ethanol is being discussed and it made me think about car fuels, enviro stuff etc ,and because there is so little ethanol used where i live there is few options to source a cleaner fuel.

  we have two cars and one runs on liquid petroleum gas (i've had cars on this for the past 20 years as i think of the lower emission levels and cheaper price).the other is my work car and is a 4wd dual cab ute with a 2.5litre diesel engine ,and is 3 years old now.

  in the city there is a manufacturer of biodiesel but there are very few outlets and it is 50kilometres away.

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  Gadget

  There are a few UK based forums where people have done a lot of research into biodiesel and vegtable oil. I used to have an old diesel 106 that I was going to convert to run on standard vegtable oil but the engine blew before I got to do it.

  From what I remember, the main concern is the diesel pump. In the UK there is a mix of Lucas and Bosch injector pumps fitted, sometimes even mixed on otherwise identical models (The puegoet 106 uses both depending on the supply available to the factory when the car was made). The Bosch pump is fine on biodiesel or even straight vegetable oil (svo), but the Lucas pump suffers terminal failure after only a few minutes of biodiesel. The Uk forums can help you identify what type you have fitted. You have to be careful about the fuel seals and lines too, but thats much easier to check if they are biodiesel compliant.

  I've heard a lot of the things that Ford said in their reply, but most of them are easy to get around. I believe the paint stripping is due to the chemicals used in the transformation from waste vegetable oil to biodiesel. The viscosity of biodiesel can be a problem, but I was going to get around this by installing a twin tank system similar to that used by lpg systems. You start the car on mineral diesel, and have a second tank containing ordinary vegetable oil. You need to install a heater in the vegetable oil tank to make it flow nicely, and once its up to temperature switch over to the oil. Before you stop the engine you switch back to mineral diesel for a few minutes to clear the fuel lines of oil so they don't clog up when it gets cold.

  Have a look at:

  http://www.vegetableoildiesel.co.uk/forum/index.php
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  Jehovah's Judgment UK (JW's UN rebuttal site) is down...........

  by middleman in

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  i'm sorry if this has already been addressed.

  i just tried to get on it and realized that it's no longer working.

  does anyone have any details on why this site went down?

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  Gadget

  You can still read the cached page. The address on the registration isn't too far from me. I wonder if putting what looks like home address down has lead to an elders visit......