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  Uniting American Families Act

  by eisenstein in

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  dear friends,.

  i am posting this for a close friend who is very involved in trying to get equal rights for everyone including marriage for homosexuals.

  we have talked deeply about spiritual things and how we both escaped mind-controlling cults.

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  How is you all? Mouthy!

  by mouthy in

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  well after a lot more gray hairs & frustration.

  i am back .

  i hope all is well.

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  Another great loss in my life..I hesitate to post this ,,

  by LyinEyes in

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  [edited: links have been removed from this post.].

  i hestitated to write this on xmas day and i hate to get anyone down, but i hope you understand and maybe send prayers my way.. .

  dear friends i don't know how to even put my pain in words, or my great loss.

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  Does Anyone know # of Witnesses Worldwide now?

  by eisenstein in

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  i am doing an essay on the topic of disfellowshipping for an english course i am taking.. .

  does anyone know the current number of witnesses worldwide?.

  or is it still the "over 6 million worldwide" in over 230 lands, i couldn't help myself.

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  Gods rests in the 7th part of the 7th day?

  by Hellrider in

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  the wirdest thing about jw-doctrine is the calculations and the numbers: .

  genesis: 2:1 the heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.2:2 by the seventh day god finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

  2:3 god blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

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  An oil pastel for Robdar and this forum

  by eisenstein in

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  when i first found this forum it was a year after september 11. i had recently seen the dateline special on the pedofiles in the organization and was completely dismayed.

  everyone on this board has inspired me through the last couple or so years, especially robdar.

  she told me to start doing my artwork again to express my thoughts.. here is something i did when i was younger, but scanned it in to the computer and in photoshop and retouched it some.

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  What song reminds you of your first crush/lover?

  by JH in

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  probably you'll have to go way back in time... .

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  Explosions London Buses & Trains

  by Crumpet in

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  i can';t get through to any of my friends at liverpool street including my ex.

  am really worried!

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  Watchtower Votes in United Nations Affairs

  by Dogpatch in

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  watchtower votes in united nations affairs

  after clicking on each one of those symbols listed and matching under the (watchtower) name, the reader found u.n. resolutions with a vote of (yes) located beside the words (voting summary) in scans #4 and #6. scan # 4 listed a vote of (yes) u.n. meeting no.

  scan #5. if we had clicked on the 2nd un symbol that was located back on scan # 3, then we would come up with this page, which shows another (yes) vote by (total voting membership) or 015---------see scan # 6 (this scan)------------then scan # 7 will show what was voted on (found by clicking on (full english text) see this scan and last scan # 7----coming after this one.. .

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  Do you sense "a sense of urgency" in the congregations?

  by truthseeker in

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  now that we're in the 21st century, and all those pre-millenium worries that a few had about armaggedon seem to have gone, everyone seems to be getting on with their lives, buying homes, going on cruises and planning for their retirement.. not everyone does these things, but there is so little talk about the great tribulation, armaggedon and the new system, you can't help but wonder if they are just going through the motions.. i see young people at the hall - they couldn't care less about spiritual things, although they may comment and go out in service.. i see people in the 30s quietly getting on with life - a few are building their own homes from scratch, others are planning on moving and some have bought new cars.. nothing wrong with this, but each of these things show an investment in the future.

  a car has to be paid for (if its a lease), a home needs a 15/25/30 year mortgage and this all takes time.. time with a capital "t".. let's face it - the urgency is gone.

  no one thinks about the "time of the end" and everyone does their own thing.. families are still having children.. one of my college professors once asked me: "how do you know that people have confidence in the future?".

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