Well now I'm looking for Makena. I met him like two and a half years ago on Beyond JW and we clicked pretty well. I just found out (thanks to princess) that I live like 15 minutes away and work in the same town that he lives in. So Mak, I sent you an email on this board but don't have your email address. Anyone who does have it, please tell him that I'm looking for the guy.
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Reunion? Pt. 2
by Adam inwell now i'm looking for makena.
i met him like two and a half years ago on beyond jw and we clicked pretty well.
i just found out (thanks to princess) that i live like 15 minutes away and work in the same town that he lives in.
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Doctor, doctor!
by Englishman inok, it's almost the weekend, let's all have a bit of fun.. how about we tell our favourite "doctor" joke?.
here's a couple:.
"doctor, doctor, i keep imagining that i'm a set of curtains / drapes!".
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This lady comes into the hospital in a coma. The doctors try but they can't seem to do anything for her so they keep her on life support and monitor her vitals. A nurse comes in the next day to give her sponge bath and notices that whenever the wet sponge gets near her "jade gate" her vital signs pick up. She gets the doctor and shows him. He gets an idea and calls the woman's husband to the hospital. He explains to the husband that he has an idea and asks if the husband would be willing to "do oral" with his wife. It might be nothing but it's worth a shot. So the hubby says "sure" and they close the curtain around the couple. A short while later the vital signs go flat and the doctor yells thru the curtain, "What happened?" The husband replies, "I think she choked."
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What search engine do you most often use and why?
by berylblue invery curious...there's a reason for this question.
does anyone perceive if there is a proclivity toward a certain engine if one is, say, computer savvy?
college grad?
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I use yahoo because when I first gotta email account, it was at yahoo and I guess I just got in the rut of making yahoo my homepage to get to my email easier.
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In Your Opinion: Who Was The Greatest Person That Ever Lived?
by minimus inmy answer: jesus christ.....yours??
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Why thank you Aztec. I can't immagine the burden that he was under. To march out from your home knowing full well that only your end awaits you in some far off place. To have to choose the 300 souls that you will condem to certain death. To have to face their families as their king after having made the selection. To stay at the battle ground day after day having been lucky enough to postpone the reaper for another few hours. To keep your troops advancing to the line of battle instead of fleeing. And to lead from the front like that in such a circumstance is amazing. Truely a man's man. Interesting to think of how the world would be different without that supreme sacrifice.
Tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,that here obedient to their laws we lie.
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In Your Opinion: Who Was The Greatest Person That Ever Lived?
by minimus inmy answer: jesus christ.....yours??
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Leonidas, King of Sparta.
He lead three hundred brave Spartan hoplites to stand and die at Thermopylae against the invading Persian myriads. Their heroic self sacrifice 1) allowed the allies at Thermopylea to retreat and fight another day 2) gave precious time for the forces of other Greek city-states to organize and form an effective defense 3) gave inspiration to the remaining free armies of Hellas by showing them that the Persian war machine was in fact capable of defeat and suseptable to resistance 4) helped to preserve the birth of western civilization from dying in the cradle.
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A question of culture
by Adam inlast year my girl's daughter was in 3rd grade.
we lived in cupertino, ca.
this area has a lot of newly immigrated families from (mainly) the middle east, asia, and mexico.
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Last year my girl's daughter was in 3rd grade. We lived in Cupertino, CA. This area has a lot of newly immigrated families from (mainly) the Middle East, Asia, and Mexico. The teacher sent the little one home with a notice that there was going to be a "culture day" in her classroom. The kids were to wear "cultural" clothing and bring "cultural" food to share. My girl is white, her daughter's father is black. Both sides of the family have been in America for as far back as anyone can tell. We decided that the little one's culture was American. She was going to wear jean shorts and a t-shirt, both with American flags and sentiments on them, and bring burgers and fries to class. The teacher responded that we could not do this because it wasn't "cultural."
Does anyone else think that the teachers reaction was wrong? Does anyone else think the teacher's response is symptomatic of a general disregard and/or dismissal of American culture in this country today?
P.S. We fought it and sent the little one in the garb and with the food of her rightful culture anyway.
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Do you post elsewhere?
by ikhandi in.
i have been here for a little over a year now(most of that is time i lurked) i would like to branch out and see what is discussed on other boards.
is this forum the main place you do most of your posting?
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I have contributed to this site:
http://www.geocities.com/citizensforsanity/
I'm also an admin for the message forums associated with the site.
http://pub27.ezboard.com/bcitizensforsanity
It is a very conservative site designed with the purpose of gathering people who want to do something about some of the more insane aspects that the left has brought into our modern society. So if you're a staunch liberal, I suggest you don't go. It's not designed to be a place to debate with the left but to do something about it. Some of the people are even a little too conservative for me.
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Forgiving & Forgetting
by StinkyPantz income on, can you really do it?
and is it really necessary?
i don't know about ya'll, but i often feed off my hatred, fear, anger.
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I forgive if I can, forget nothing.
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..you can fool some of the people
by yesidid indid anyone on the board have a sudden; this is it, its wrong, wrong all wrong moment.
mine was an interesting one.
we, [my husband and i] were having questions and doubts for many years.
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Mine was not a single moment, but occured over the time we spent studying the Revelation book. By the time we were done I was still going to meetings, but in my heart I had decieded that the JWs weren't for me. All these quotes they took and said "the words mean this which is representative of this event." They gave no explanation other than "we know this because the faithful and descreet says it is so and they get thier info from Jehovah." I needed more proof than that and they had none. I also realized and that there were hundreds of people and organizations out there that had very different interpretations for that wacky book (I personally think john had lost his mind by then or had etten the brown acid) and their own set of explanations as to why their interpretations were right. But no one had incontravertable proof that their version was the right one.
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Has The Internet REALLY Hurt Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus inthe watchtower society tries to "demonize" the internet.
what damage do you think the internet has caused on the jehovah's witness religion??
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You'd have to be questioning your beliefs to even be here as the WTS frowns on these sites.
The WTS frowns on a huge chunk of what is available on the internet, not all of it ex-JW sites. That's because there is a lot of information on the net, and not only directly regarding the WTS. Information and knowledge that can get current JWs thinking and asking questions which is bad for the WTS. When they say that you have to be extremely careful about internet usage, what they mean is that there is a whole lot of material that contradicts their view of the world and they want JWs to be very careful not to be exposed to any information that shows that they are wrong.