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  Your daughter's dress is too short

  by Dutchy in

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  this is my very first post on this site and i am happy to be here.

  i would like to rely a little experience to everyone.

  recently, i went back to the kingdom hall after an absence of almost thirteen years.

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  Adam

  You ask:
  "Wouldn't it have been better if after having gone to the meetings for a while and she had her consciousness raised and then took it upon herself to drop her himlines instead of someone dictating to her that she should drop them?"

  The answer is no. It would have been better to have not gone to the kingdom hall in the first place. If anything, I would thank that elder for perminantly saving your daughter from the degredation of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. There is nothing wrong with medium to high hem lines and anyone who tells you otherwise has an agenda.
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  Ethics and morality,

  by Norm in

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  in the west we are rightly very concerned with child labour and other such matters.

  western consumer groups boycott firms that have their clothes made by factories using children.

  i know this is usual in europe and i guess it is in the us too.. in other areas we see no such concerns.

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  Adam

  Jan, you crack me up dude. Me American, me neadrathal, me like big guns, me can't spell for shit! You're gonna catch it from the sensitive people for that last post. Wish I knew some Norway jokes.

  To the point of the original post:
  I agree with the sentiment of it. But it ignores the reality of how the world works and throws practicality out the window. Also it singles out the USA for blame. I'm sure many Western European countries have dealings with countries that have policies contrary to their own. Sure the USA, along with the rest of the civilized world, would like things to change in various parts of the world. But different parts of the world progress faster than others. We just have to find a happy, PRACTICAL medium.
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  Best National Anthem

  by Mulan in

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  okay, let's do a poll.. since it looks like many of us are watching the olympics, let's vote on which country has the best national anthem.. i love canada's.

  i find myself hoping a canadian will win, so i can sing along to their song.. when the russians win, i get a cold disquieting feeling, since they adopted the old soviet anthem again.

  too many memories of the old ussr.. marilyn (aka mulan).

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  Adam

  I like Cuba's the best.

  "Row, row, row your boat."
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  Main now Friends?

  by Outaservice in

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  i noticed the 'main' part of the board is now called 'friends'.. didn't the witnesses use to refer to each other as 'the friends'?.

  maybe we ought to change it to 'ren.dez.vous brothers and sisters'?.

  just a thought!.

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  Adam

  Outa, you are very observant. New changes to be implimented soon:

  1) The site name will be changed to "The Kingdom Hall"
  2) The distinctions of Junior Member, Newbie, etc. will be replaced with Publisher, Special Pioneer, etc.
  3) The icon of a burning folder for hot topics will be exchanged for an outline of a Watchtower, similar to the one used in the magazine of the same name.
  4) The term "live chat" will be replaced with "witnessing forum"
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  What would YOU do?

  by Adam in

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  the california super lotto plus is up to $131 million.

  our office has 35 people buying a single ticket together.

  since the organizer picked the "cash now" option instead of the "over 20-years" one, there will be a stiff penalty.

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  Adam

  Mind, like you I would go to a money man as soon as I found out that a check was coming my way (after recovering from the celebratory hang over of course). I hear that 75%-80% of lottery winners end up filing for bankruptsy in a few short years after they win. Unfortunatly you must choose "now" or "over time" when you purchase the ticket. Personaly, I would choose the "over time" option. That would keep me from spending it all right away and I'm only 25 so I could spend the rest of my life in semi-retirement if I was smart with the money. Maybe instruct skydiving once in a while for a few extra bucks. Perhaps I could pay someone to teach me how to spell.
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  What would YOU do?

  by Adam in

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  the california super lotto plus is up to $131 million.

  our office has 35 people buying a single ticket together.

  since the organizer picked the "cash now" option instead of the "over 20-years" one, there will be a stiff penalty.

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  Hey, I just had a great idea for any Canadians out there. You could buy a figure skating judge or two. With a couple judges in your pocket you could make sure that the Canadians don't get the shaft in 2006 like they did this year.
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  What would YOU do?

  by Adam in

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  the california super lotto plus is up to $131 million.

  our office has 35 people buying a single ticket together.

  since the organizer picked the "cash now" option instead of the "over 20-years" one, there will be a stiff penalty.

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  Adam

  The California Super Lotto Plus is up to $131 million. Our office has 35 people buying a single ticket together. Since the organizer picked the "cash now" option instead of the "over 20-years" one, there will be a stiff penalty. With that penalty, divided up among 35 people, and after taxes, each of us would get somewhere in the ball park of 1 million in pocket.

  Would you take the "partial cash now" or the "all of it over 20- years" option?

  What would you do with $1 million?

  What would you do with $131 million?
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  No Speaka Da English? No Live In England!

  by Englishman in

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  should the uk toughen up on it's immigration policies?

  should immigrants be able to speak english?

  this is clipped from today's guardian:.

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  Adam

  Perhaps I should have wated for a little while after I read the day worker article before I posted so that my wording would have been more civil and I could have gotten responses like this. I think it's obvious that I'm all for the proposal in Britan.
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  "Some people claim that the government is trying to foist British culture onto immigrants, potentially at the expense of their own cultures. "
  If they want their own cultures so bad, then stay where that culture extist. If they want the benifits of living in Britan, then they should accept the whole package.
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  Okay Fess Up: What's Your Handle Mean?

  by Mindchild in

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  okay fess up: whats your handle mean?.

  my handle: mindchild comes from computer scientist and futurist dr. hans moravec: who wrote the book, the future of robot and human intelligence which is a book about when we will be able to construct machines capable of human intelligence and raises the possibility of uploading ourselves (every thought we ever had) into an android body much superior to the human ones we have now.

  i entertain the hope that not only will i live long enough to see this happen, i will transfer myself (the complete essence of what is me) into a body of my own choosing and become immortal if i so choose.

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  Adam

  I was directed to this site from someone I met on another exjw site. On that site I saw a bunch of people using aliases. I thought, "Why the hell would I want to do that? I'm not going to pretend to be someone I'm not on the boards and in the chat room, I want people to know who I am for real and right away. So why defeat that purpose by putting anything but my real name?" So here is Adam as Adam.
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  It's the little things.....

  by Adam in

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  you know, i've been out of the borg since '94 and still, once in a while, it pops into my head that something i am doing or are planning on doing is something that i would have been denied me if i had decided to stay in.

  this time it's seeing the lord of the rings movie.

  i love those books so much and can't wait to see the film over and over.

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  Adam

  You know, I've been out of the Borg since '94 and still, once in a while, it pops into my head that something I am doing or are planning on doing is something that I would have been denied me if I had decided to stay in. This time it's seeing the Lord of the Rings movie. I love those books so much and can't wait to see the film over and over. I can imagine myself still a JW, secretly sad that I wouldn't be able to go see it, but having to hide it, and also feeling guilty for wanting to do something that is "wrong." Oh how wonderful and joyous to say "Fuck the govenring body, I'm goin' to the movies!"