first off, i love sarah vowell.
i wish i could write half as brilliantly as she does.
(so full of wit, humor, and intelligence!
Joanna D -
You are a very wicked apostate!!
New Lies reveals that the end came invisibly in 1874. Those who say it was 1914 1919 1925 1975 or sometime soon are not looking at it from a theocrappic viewpoint.
Enjoyed this such a lot. I only have to hear the words "Mark Twain" to start laughing myself to death. Even funnier than the new kids book...
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P.S. My end is nearer than yours.
one of the big issues affecting ex-jws is being shunned by their close relatives.
this can be especially painful for parents, children or siblings.
the jw relative may even make some exceptions to associate in the name of "necessary" business, but then later on their conscience "pricks" them, and they realize that they have pushed the envelope too much and they withdraw their association altogether ... or ... the society comes out with some article or the co comes to town, and manage to ding on some issue that make jws feel guilty about associating with df'd and da'd relatives.
Recent "Kindumb Miseries" have given the Witlessness New Lies on this.
As in all things a Witless is free to exercise his right to choose any course of action, but the Witchtower will exercise its right to punish you their way. Now they can announce your actions show you have dissociated yourself, and if you ask what? they can say it is confidential and tell you nothing. And there is no right to appeal.
"You are free to eat the apple, but I will shoot you in the head if you do..."
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and, in your crank news update for this week, here's a very interesting little article...it seems bogus to me, but the question had to be asked by somebody.. i know that there are a few people on this site who will take this ball and run with it, so to speak, so tell us what you think.. my personal theory is, won't the plutonium on galileo be dispersed by it's re-entry into the atmosphere long before fission can take place!
but, i'm no nuclear physicist!.
Has this guy been reading "The Golden Age", or perhaps "Consolation" Magazines?
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Ain't it strange that those at the top always want to stop us little folks finding out anything for ourselves?
Solomon, who reputedly penned these words, was by his own confession a hedonist and had tried every pleasure and diversion (including worshiping his wives' idols).
The problem with books for him was probably that they stopped him eatin' drinkin' huntin' and having sex with his two hundred wives and four hundred cucumbers..
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jehovah's witnesses must "believe" whatever the watchtower bible & tract society publishes.
now that you aren't forced to accept beliefs that you might not have wholeheartedly endorsed, there must be many different things that you don't accept.....what comes to mind?
I don't believe that consulting oriental oracles is a sin.
Neither should you - see above RE: I CHING. This experiment could prove something really worthwhile and give us something to discuss for MONTHS!!
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years ago, i began to research eastern philosophy.
i discovered the i ching.
i have found its answers so un-nervingly accurate that now i am wary of asking any questions.... .
Valis:
Work out a question that is very important to you. A HOW WHY WHAT question.
I Shall do a reading - let's see what turns up... and it will be ALL OVER CYBERSPACE!!! What priceless moments we have together!!!
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years ago, i began to research eastern philosophy.
i discovered the i ching.
i have found its answers so un-nervingly accurate that now i am wary of asking any questions.... .
By the time you have ordered the book and worked out how to use it it will be at least a week.
How many posters here are willing to do this experiment???
A couple of personal things, a couple of family and local things, and maybe a worldwide thing...
Or why is the WT in such big trouble over the Child Molestation thing...
or Why is the WT keeping its shares in RANDCAM arms manufacturers?
What answers will we get? As a board let us all see, and post our answers...
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years ago, i began to research eastern philosophy.
i discovered the i ching.
i have found its answers so un-nervingly accurate that now i am wary of asking any questions.... .
Now I've had my dinner- I think it is high time we asked some questions:
Why don't we all ask what (X) will have on the WBTS future??
Why has the WT dug itself into such a hole?
How can we as former J-witlessness be happy??
What will the I Ching tell YOU?
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years ago, i began to research eastern philosophy.
i discovered the i ching.
i have found its answers so un-nervingly accurate that now i am wary of asking any questions.... .
Try asking a question yourself.
I have done it so often that I am now convinced it is something beyond the traditional JW demon stuff.
Do you have a copy of the I Ching? Have you read Jung's study of it??
How can a book of ink and paper tell you that you are having an affair?
There is a lot of literature on this - look at it then come back, because I am absolutely amazed by what I have got from this.
You are not consulting a medium or tarot - yet the answers are so relevant.
I SUGGEST - ask a whole series of questions yourself - analyse the answers then come back and say what you think.
That is what I did 20 years ago - and I am still asking questions and wondering....
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years ago, i began to research eastern philosophy.
i discovered the i ching.
i have found its answers so un-nervingly accurate that now i am wary of asking any questions.... .
Years ago, I began to research Eastern philosophy. I discovered the I Ching. I have found its answers so un-nervingly accurate that now I am wary of asking any questions...
In the time I have been visiting this site, nobody has mentioned I Ching - yet it is an uncannily accurate source of answers.
Everyone posting here should get a copy and ask questions relevant to the WBTS and see what happens...
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