Phantom Stranger

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  My sincere thanks to "scholar."

  by yesidid in

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  scholar please accept my heartfelt thanks.

  i was reading some of your replies in dawn?s thread

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/58618/1.ashx

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  I have to thank scholar for some of the heartiest laughs I have had in years. After reading this thread, I looked at his post history.

  OMG. I think I just hurt my pancreas - no that's on the other side, it was my transverse colon.

  He actually used the word "brilliant" to describe a chronology of the WTS. As if a chronology could be brilliant! Look, it's right, or it's not. We're not talking about a fricking novel, we're talking about a hsitorical timeline - shouldn't require brilliance, and obviously didn't.

  Are y'all sure this isn't just a troll?

  If it's not a troll, it's a huge ego masqerading as a humble servant of the Lord. And since he comes here to serve his ego and feel as if he's defending the Truth, even though he's been directed not to by the WTS, that makes it even more entertaining.
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  Are you going to HELL???

  by happyout in

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  my score was 78.. http://www.madblast.com/funflash/swf/helltest.swf .

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  Woohoo! 111!
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  Death anxiety......ever happen to you?

  by shotgun in

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  the other night i'm in bed trying to fall asleep with my tornado of thoughts swirling this way and that and for no apparent reason i started to have an anxiety attack thinking about death.

  it was easy to accept so many things about death when you believed it's never going to happen or that if it does i'll be back..just like arnold.. when i speak to non-dubs they don't seem to experience it as much because death has always been an accepted part of life to them.. i can't go back to thinking like a dub and i admit i'm a non-bible believer now and not even sure about the existence of god..at least not the biblical one.

  so i guess i can only look forward to a long healthy life and hope that the last thing i see before i die is the face of my daughter holding her grandchild.. have many of you had this anxiety attack after leaving the borg?.

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  Not to be a smartass, but no, I haven't had this experience. I was far more terrified of f*cking up and letting my family down when I was in the WTS than I have ever been since.
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  World Series picks

  by heathen in

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  it's getting down to the nitty gritty in the world of baseball .

  so who's gonna win it all ????????

  i say yankees .

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  For free... I'll take the Cubs.

  For money...I'll take the Cubs and the points.
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  He had three and a half years.What about YOU!

  by Blueblades in

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  for those of us who had a lifetime of trying to do it right under all kinds of very difficult tests of faith while imperfect,how do you think jesus would of done if he had to be tested for a lifetime of say 70 or 80 years and not just three and a half years.. what if you had only three and a half years to prove faithful knowing that in just three days after you died you would live again in heaven and would that have been easier than having to spend a lifetime trying to be faithful through all the years of 70 or 80 yrs.. just asking,it's something that i was thinking about today.. blueblades

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  Well, to look at it from another angle, most of us have successfully avoided being nailed to a tree. So, as Bill Murray said in Caddyshack, we got that going for us there.
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  Moving to Bend, Oregon.......GAH!! Help!!

  by Xander in

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  well, wife got a transfer to bend, or.. this is good - we've been trying to move out there for a while.

  we're in ne ohio now.. only problem is....well, *i* don't have a job out there yet!

  also, we need to find a place to stay, need to sell our house, have a ton of things we need to get rid of..... uggghhhh....never moved this far before.

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  X, try www.oregonlive.com. It's the 3rd-party website for the Oregonian, and anyone in Bend looking for IT workers will take out a classified ad in it.
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  OK My turn to be down in the dumps

  by Lady Lee in

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  well i had a lot of good news like no cancer and that was great.

  i am healing well from the surgery.. i finally got my wheelchair and that has allowed me a bit more freedom.

  but winter is coming and the wheelchair won't be very useful.. the orthotics.

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  If the orthotics are a pain in the ass, LL, they are definitely making them wrong :)

  In the meantime can you go to a hiking store and get some Superfeet insoles molded to your feet? Just an idea - they won't be as custom as orthotics but they sure help me a lot... I now use them in every shoe and boot. Not everyplace that seels them has the molding station, though. Here I would get them at REI.

  Take care of you,

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  Thirdson has left...almost

  by Thirdson in

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  the family thirdson are off on vacation saturday for a week.

  two years after 9/11 mrs thirdson feels ok about flying again but i know she won't be at all happy until we touch down again.

  i chose a direct flight, even if not the cheapest, so as not to prolong the stress.

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  Welcome to Oregon (been saying that a lot lately).

  I guess it's warm if you're from Minnesota - but I'm from Cali originally, and beaches are supposed to be warm darnit.

  Spend some money while you're here, we can use it:)

  Safe travels, and enjoy our beautiful airport.

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  What resurrects, the person or a perfect copy?

  by JH in

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  i remember my boss asking me once this question, since he knew i was a witness.

  he asked, "what resurrects, the body, the soul, what?.

  he knew that witnesses believe in the resurrection of the dead on earth, in a different physical body during the millennium.. i told him that it won't be the same physical body, and maybe won't be identical, but it's the same person.

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  Actually, I've just been informed by the Justice Department that resurrection is being viewed as a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and anyone who is resurrected will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  Thanks for the props, Mav.
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  Moving to Bend, Oregon.......GAH!! Help!!

  by Xander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, wife got a transfer to bend, or.. this is good - we've been trying to move out there for a while.

  we're in ne ohio now.. only problem is....well, *i* don't have a job out there yet!

  also, we need to find a place to stay, need to sell our house, have a ton of things we need to get rid of..... uggghhhh....never moved this far before.

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  Phantom Stranger

  Don't neglect Terminator Stout... and Black Butte Porter and Obsidian Stout from the local Deschutes Brewery

  http://www.deschutesbrewery.com/