Viola, she used to type letters to me. She would correct them with ink pen. She sent me a subscription to a girls magazine called Ingenue. She would put little things in her letter like a silver book mark, monogrammed with an F for the family name, which I still have.
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Hold me, thrill me, kiss me..... a tribute
by FlyingHighNow inhave i ever told ya'll about my grande ma ma?
my daddy's mother?
i can't recall.
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WT Study Article Counsels JWs To Be Humane Towards Disfellowshiped Ones
by baldeagle inwt august 1, 1974 pp.
467-468 maintaining a balanced viewpoint toward disfellowshiped ones.
5 it is right to hate the wrong committed by the disfellowshiped one, but it is not right to hate the person nor is it right to treat such ones in an inhumane way.suppose, then, a member of a christian congregation boating on a lake were to see another boat containing a disfellowshiped person capsize, throwing the disfellowshiped one into the water where he struggled to stay afloat.
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My sister told me that even if she, her husband, my brother or his wife are dying or dead, she will not be contacting me or my children, nor will contact her sons.
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What Drew You To The Witnesses?
by minimus ini did believe for the first 30 years of my life that they had been picked by jehovah god to dispense the truth as best as imperfect humans could.
then, everything became questionable.
i had read anti jw books in the past but franz's books really got to me but not immediately.
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My brother had a lot of doubts about his eastern beliefs when he died. He was 22 and I looked up to him a lot. I was left with a lot of painful questions when he died. I didn't think that his death influenced my decision to study a couple of months later, but probably it did.
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What Drew You To The Witnesses?
by minimus ini did believe for the first 30 years of my life that they had been picked by jehovah god to dispense the truth as best as imperfect humans could.
then, everything became questionable.
i had read anti jw books in the past but franz's books really got to me but not immediately.
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I wanted to know the real truth, from the time I was a child. I also dreamt up a world like the song Imagine, long before Imagine hit the radio waves. I did not believe the Bible at the time. I teetered between diest and the eastern lines of thought on spirituality. I was 17. It took many months of them talking to me and answering questions I didn't think there were any answers for. My brother died in there somewhere. I was living with my sister, who was studying. I did myself in really, because I felt they'd be happy if I asked questions.
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Hold me, thrill me, kiss me..... a tribute
by FlyingHighNow inhave i ever told ya'll about my grande ma ma?
my daddy's mother?
i can't recall.
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Pap in front of the cannon, Daddy behind it and my beloved, late, oldest brother Cory.
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Hold me, thrill me, kiss me..... a tribute
by FlyingHighNow inhave i ever told ya'll about my grande ma ma?
my daddy's mother?
i can't recall.
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Pap, loading one of his cannons:
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Hold me, thrill me, kiss me..... a tribute
by FlyingHighNow inhave i ever told ya'll about my grande ma ma?
my daddy's mother?
i can't recall.
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She was. My grandpappy was, too. He just wasn't so vocal. He was a session musician on some big band 78s. He had a vast collection of antique guns and swords. He built cannons, steam engines and even from scratch, a steam train, complete with engine and various cars and the track, which sits in a museam to this day. He had a dental/surgical practice on the 7th floor of a building in Mobile, overlooking Mobile Bay and the USS Alabama. He smoked a pipe, drank whisky and said well, okey dokey, a lot.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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FlyingHighNow
Nobody is saying god caused the tsunami - well apart from Unstop and Pat Robinson.
I got that. It's about God not intervening to stop the tsunami or to save everyone and all their things from the tsunami.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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bohm, you are speaking of the little picture, the life we are living right now. There is a bigger picture.
Why didn't the US, France or other civilized countries scramble the radio waves when the Tutsis were being slaughtered in Africa? You'll more easily answer that question than you will the lack of divine intervention when the tsunami victims were going to be be drowned. We can investigate what happens here on earth, to a degree.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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The question is simple. That doesn't mean the answer will be simple. Even in science, there are mysteries. By mystery, I mean things we don't have the answers to right now. That doesn't mean there aren't answers. It means we don't have them right now. I don't understand every scary or sad thing that happens. That does not bring me to the conclusion that there is no god or gods or self aware life besides us. It doesn't bring me to the conclusion that god or gods do not care. It brings me to the conclusion that we all have a lot to learn and some of it we may never learn or understand, at least not in this short life we know of. I don't have exact beliefs about god or gods. I don't believe the universe is godless.
If someone is driving along alone, like my brother, then wrecks his vehicle into a tree causing his instant death, we are left wondering what made him go partially off the bridge and hit that tree. There were no witnesses coming forward and the investigation couldn't give us an explanation. Did he look away for a crucial second? Was someone coming towards him, off the bank, causing him to panic? His death involves some mystery. We know the tree killed him. We don't know why he hit the tree. It is what it is.
