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  what do you REALLY want for christmas?

  by missylissy in

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  if you could have anyone thing for christmas, what would it be.

  it can be, an actual object, or sumthing you'd really like to happen.

  but, what do you really want for christmas?

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  Coop Man

  My "missed childhood" back.....

  The time I missed getting to know my Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins etc....whom I couldn't see because they weren't dubs...

  The chance to go back in time and play organized sports in high school...
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  So you think I'm a hypocrite?

  by dothemath in

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  ........reply to joker 10.

  .......i just noticed your post........can't say i blame you for thinking that.

  i mentioned i'm currently an elder and don't plan on leaving the organization...........but i probably won't be an elder much longer......as i'm not exactly the "ball of fire" they want.

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  Coop Man

  I USED TO BE INDECISIVE, NOW I JUST CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND...

  Welcome to the fence brother! You and I both are now what the ones at my hall deem "fence sitters", not on one side or the other. Difference is, I haven't been to a meeting for almost a year now, and I haven't really decided whether or not to go back yet. The more discrepancies I see, the more irritated I get. As an example:

  My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. For years she knew she was going to get it, as all of her sisters and her mother had it, losing all but 2 of her siblings to the disease. She started giving money to breast cancer research, but was warned by the elders that this was incorrect, a disease could only be fought by Jah, and she was supporting mans' way of handling problems. So the charity stopped, and approx. 2 months later she was diagnosed. Here we are a year later, and the cancer is all but gone, after a rigorous and exhausting regimen of chemotherapy, radiation, and double radical masectomy. The brothers in her hall praised the doctors who worked with mom, and mom in turn accepted the fact that without modern medicine, she would have surely died as her mother and 5 sisters had. Once again she started giving money to fight cancer, and AGAIN was admonished against doing so, as she puts it "the money I was giving to research I was told could better be used within the organization" (as if WTBS has a research center somewhere).

  A mind is a terrible thing to waste, yet even more terrible is a mind that fights with a consciensce.
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  Heart is seed of motivation?

  by Coop Man in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  quick question, or please someone straighten me out!.

  the bible refers to the heart as the seed of motivation.

  is this the literal heart?

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  Coop Man

  Quick question, or please someone straighten me out!

  The Bible refers to the heart as the seed of motivation. Is this the literal heart? If so (as I was taught) then do people with artificial hearts have no motivation at all?
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  Anyone from Cincinnati?

  by Coop Man in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello to all, just trying to find a few old friends of mine from the cincinnati ohio area.

  i haven't been around for a while, as my job took me to colorado for a while, but now i'm back and trying to catch up with a few pals.

  i am not currently disfellowshipped, though i am inactive.

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  Not too far away at all! Is Monty anywhere close? I really enjoyed spending time with your brothers, one can only imagine the trouble we would have gotten into had we not been dubs. The last I seen Matt, he really liked this girl, I believe her name was Carrie, but she had really long straight blonde hair and was short/thin. I hope those two eventually got together.

  I don't know if you knew the Snyder sisters at all, Tamar and Sarai, but believe it or not, Tamar was dating my younger brother for a while, about 5-6 years ago. Seems kind of funny, because when I was younger, and she was a LOT younger, we were an item. ( I was 18 or 19, she was only 15 ! ) STUPIDITY on my part!

  I know for a fact I could still drive out to your place, in the dark! I spent soo much time there, it was like a second home.

  Hope to hear from ya soon!

  D.C.
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  Marking.

  by Englishman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've heard the expression a few times here but have normally not taken much notice.

  i've been exited for 31 years and 4 months, well before the onset of elders, reproofs and marking.. i understand the first 2 but am all at sea about the the third.

  someone please tell me exactly what "marking" is and how one becomes marked or a marker.. or markee!

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  Coop Man

  Just a question,

  Can ANYONE find the practice of "Marking" in the bible? I know it is mentioned, but I don't recall of anyone in the bible ever being marked, or any mention of how the organization back then should give a sermon on a weak person and have them marked.

  Just wondering.
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  "Worldly" Celebrations

  by Coop Man in

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  nowhere in the bible is it stated to celebrate your wedding anniversary, yet j.w.

  baby showers are acceptable, but not birthdays.. correct me if i am incorrect, but doesn't the bible say to "honor the father and mother of your youth", yet mothers day and fathers day are unacceptable to celebrate.

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  Coop Man

  I'm sure if the WTS found some information with regards to Wedding Anniversaries being of some incredulous background, it would suddenly become a "conscience matter". I never could understand why somethings are absolutely a huge no, and others are a conscience matter. Take R-Rated movies. A huge NO, but PG-13 is a conscience matter. What in the world is the difference? If you hear the "F" word once in a PG-13, you may as well hear it 10-15 times in an R-Rated one.
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  "Worldly" Celebrations

  by Coop Man in

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  nowhere in the bible is it stated to celebrate your wedding anniversary, yet j.w.

  baby showers are acceptable, but not birthdays.. correct me if i am incorrect, but doesn't the bible say to "honor the father and mother of your youth", yet mothers day and fathers day are unacceptable to celebrate.

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  Coop Man

  Doesn't make sense to me what-so-ever! It would seem that following the bibles' direction on honoring your parents would take precedence over manly thoughts or inclinations...
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  "Worldly" Celebrations

  by Coop Man in

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  nowhere in the bible is it stated to celebrate your wedding anniversary, yet j.w.

  baby showers are acceptable, but not birthdays.. correct me if i am incorrect, but doesn't the bible say to "honor the father and mother of your youth", yet mothers day and fathers day are unacceptable to celebrate.

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  Coop Man

  Nowhere in the Bible is it stated to Celebrate your Wedding Anniversary, yet J.W.'s do this. Baby Showers are acceptable, but not Birthdays.

  Correct me if I am incorrect, but doesn't the bible say to "honor the father and mother of your youth", yet Mothers Day and Fathers Day are unacceptable to celebrate. Why?
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  Anyone from Cincinnati?

  by Coop Man in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello to all, just trying to find a few old friends of mine from the cincinnati ohio area.

  i haven't been around for a while, as my job took me to colorado for a while, but now i'm back and trying to catch up with a few pals.

  i am not currently disfellowshipped, though i am inactive.

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  Coop Man

  I never thought he was gay, just not very nice to you, I always thought you deserved better than that. Glad to hear you got it now!

  Good to hear Chris is still doing o.k., and yes, I always felt him and your mother were kinda "weird together", but I always did like your Mothers big heartedness.

  I'm glad to hear Matt is happy again, he's a really nice boy. Monty was always my favorite to pal around with, he had a wild streak just like I did.

  I had no idea so many had left the "Great Crowd", anything in particular make you quit? My breaking point was when I was D.F'd for kissing a married lady ( here in Cincy ), but my younger brother in Colorado had an affair with a married pioneer sister on, of all nights, after the memorial. Both were drunk, one thing led to another and before ya know it the deed was done. A lot of people knew about it, because it was on a camping trip immediately after the Memorial. There were about 6 or 7 couples there, but of course the double standards kicked end and nothing happened to either of them. Her husband left the truth, and 3 of the 6 or 7 couples are now no longer going. My younger brother has not been going for a while now, he has too big of a career in Country Music to think of going back to the hall.

  Where in Ohio are you located? I'm in the Tri-County area, Forest Park to be precise.

  Great keeping in touch with someone familiar!

  D.C.
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  Anyone from Cincinnati?

  by Coop Man in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hello to all, just trying to find a few old friends of mine from the cincinnati ohio area.

  i haven't been around for a while, as my job took me to colorado for a while, but now i'm back and trying to catch up with a few pals.

  i am not currently disfellowshipped, though i am inactive.

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  Coop Man

  OMG! I believe your x-husbands name was Eric? Blonde fellow, short, thin build? I believe you lived in Lexington at the time...until I know for sure this is your x or not I will leave all opinons to myself : )

  Ya know, time has a way of changing everything ( not to get all philisophical ). When I was younger, all I cared about was my image among my peers in the hall, the "badder" I was the better, so I threw parties at my place, ( I was kicked outta my home at the age of 17 by my father for dating a Mexican Sister, a big no-no!!! ) told lies to make me look "cooler", skipped all around the country and basically made a big mess of my life there for a while. Now that I'm older, wiser, I fully realize how stupid I was. If I could only get back 1 tenth of the time and money spent on foolishness....

  The point is, I do know you, your entire family, Diana ( how is she by the way? ). I don't know you very well, I only met you 2 or 3 times. But you were way too cool, and I was way too stupid. I made up some story of you and I one night in Colorado when my Chris Hagen and myself had more than enough Jack Daniels. I was and still am very sorry for all the B.S. I caused. Maturity for me didn't set in until around 24 or 25, if only I had it when I was 17 or so.....

  There is no good excuse for what I done, just trying to make myself look cooler than I was, so I showed Chris a picture of you and made up some story of how you massaged my back one night with some lotion or some B.S. like that, trying to be some type of playa ( at the time being a playa was cool, I on the other hand was wayyyy from cool ).

  Dale Cooper is the name, been a while since I have seen or heard from any of my old friends. My life is totally different than before...Been married once, divorced. Remarried, have 3 children which make me unbelievably happy, but a wife that doesn't. Too much arguing and fighting. For the past 2 years she has had clinical depression. She is supposed to take Zoloft, but refuses to, so I have to live with these unbelievable mood swings, It's either "Hey, how was work today?" or "Where the FU*# have you been?!!". Story of my life in a nutshell...always wanted to get married, now that I am, I wanna be single! Ha Ha, funny how that works! Gotta do what I gotta do, as long as my children are happy and food is on the table, I can put up with all the bad times the wife and I have. As they say, when it's bad, it's really bad, but when it's good, it's really good!! How true that is!

  If you never wanna reply I would understand, seeing how I was such a prick when I was younger. But it has been really nice talking to a familiar person!

  Hope to hear back!

  Dale