Posts by amicus

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7,
Thanks, now I can stop stopping,tilting my head to the side, and thinking....Me-catch-da-ship-for-cross-da-sea....????? Me-sail-da-ship-all-alone?!?!? I had the tune right for the first line but kept trying to fit the second into Sloop John B.,I probably wouldn't have ever gotten it.
Richard Berry must have been Jamaican? It's not really patois, but it is Jamaican slang (or maybe Carribean slang?).

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How do you feel about smacking at K Hall?

by Latte in

personally, it upsets me very much.

or are there any other parents that found better, alternative ways of getting young children 'trained'?.

i am not anti -smacking by the way,(except at the kh) but it is always the very last resort.. latte

amicus

Ok, I've calmed down.
Latte,
Thanks for not taking my humor the wrong way and thanks for the compliment.
Prisca,

I hated that brother

I wonder if it ever crossed that jerks mind to tell your parents that disciplining you was THEIR job, not his? I would have hated him too.

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Humility

by Gozz in

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words of wisdom on humility.

forgiving.

some people have difficulty saying, im sorry.

amicus

Humility.
Terms like this have much more meaning when I make personal applications.
To me humility is forcing myself to admit, at times, that I'll encounter people who know a little more that I might (even with my vastly superior education-major in Awake!, minor in Watchtower, phd in Kingdom songs) about some subjects.

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How do you feel about smacking at K Hall?

by Latte in

personally, it upsets me very much.

or are there any other parents that found better, alternative ways of getting young children 'trained'?.

i am not anti -smacking by the way,(except at the kh) but it is always the very last resort.. latte

amicus

Latte,
I didn't mean to trivilize this subject. I have no experience in this area and didn't realize how serious of an issue it is. After reading these posts I started to remember the crying or screaming kids in the back of the KH or outside as their parents "diciplined" them. It always bothered me.

My father was an elder when I was little and because my mother apparently couldn't handle me, they had a brother assigned to take me out of the Hall to discipline me. I still remember being smacked by him!

THIS makes me clench my jaws and tighten my muscles. This is SICK!
Latte,
If you haven't done so, go to Main/What should the WTBTS do?/LDH. You'll get a better idea of how some of us here feel.
I think I need to go burn off some of this adrenaline. Grrrrrrrrr

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Jesus apostate?

by thinker in

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the following is from a post at w.o.l.. identifying counterfiet christianity .

before becoming an interpreter i worked in a bank.

part of our training included how to identify counterfiet bills.

amicus

Red and Sass,
I’m whaaaaaay behind both of you. I don't think I'll be able to catch up either. Usually I read books so rapidly I sometimes wonder what I’ve read?? This guy makes me want to go slow, and savor every drop of humor. I don’t always mark my place either. Bookmarkers aren’t really necessary when ya don’t mind rereading old passages.

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Jesus second coming in the first century

by Jr in

this discussion will be quite extensive.

so, i have broken it up in to subtopics.

it will be shared by myself and associates in the faith.

amicus

“ May, 12
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We live according to rule. Some men are bed-ridden; all men are world-ridden. I take my neighbor, an intellectual man, out into the woods and invite him to take a new and absolute view of things, to empty clean out of his thoughts all institutions of men and start again; but he can’t do it, he sticks to his traditions and his crotchets. He thinks that governments, colleges, newspapers, etc., are from everlasting to everlasting.”
-The Heart of Thoreau’s Journals

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Jesus second coming in the first century

by Jr in

this discussion will be quite extensive.

so, i have broken it up in to subtopics.

it will be shared by myself and associates in the faith.

amicus

Trevor,
Offended?
Far from it, if you were my neighbor I would invite you out for a drink, or a cup of tea to discuss in more depth this wonderful creation that we are privileged to experience.
When I was a child I spent every possible moment observing nature at work. I still enjoy this as an adult but have also come to enjoy talking to others about this intricate, amazing, and sometimes unfathomable universe.

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Another WOL "Gem"

by thinker in

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first a quoted post from w.o.l.

why we sometimes adjust our beliefs .

when a watchman is posted on the watchtower, he must report all perceived approaching threats.

amicus

eyes_opened
Thanks for the time you spent on this research.
I shouldn't have made my comment without proof. I should have said "I remember reading something very similar to that.". What you found is close, but I believe I read something much closer to the WOL statement. It could have come from a public talk outline? The WTBTS has a lot of proprietary information that isn't available to the public or even the rank and file.

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H2o humor

by amicus in

i occasionally go to h20 and lurk.

this guy is one of the reasons i visit.. (lifted off of h2o- posted by "unclebruce").

it is said that cows blood or at least parts of it are quite alright for transfusing to human beings.

amicus

Seven,
Thanks. I haven't spent much time at h20 and have read very little of "unclebruce". Reading these compositions I see images not words, experiences rather than sentences.
I really didn't know how to respond initially- silence was the only thing that seemed appropriate.
I'm one of the lucky ones that have never seen these horrors. One of my best friends and neighbor was less fortunate. 30 years later he still has nightmares from his stint in Vietnam. Occasionally he'll phone me and ask, "Do you have anything to drink?". That means he needs to come over and talk. After a few drinks too many, he'll start to talk of some of the things he lived back then. Some of his stories give me nightmares. A few times I've made the mistake of saying something foolish like, "I know" or "I understand" and he'll fix me with a haunted stare and say, "No you don't, you don't have any idea....".

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I used to get so very angry...

by SixofNine in

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http://www.witnessesonline.com/ubb/forum18/html/000009-2.html.

http://www.witnessesonline.com/ubb/forum1/html/000068.html.

http://www.witnessesonline.com/ubb/forum1/html/000072.html.

amicus

Now I mostly just feel very, very sad for them...and still a bit frustrated.

SixofNine,
I went to WOL after you posted these links. I'd never visited that site before.
At first I laughed at what I read, then I started to get angry- angry at the WTBTS. I felt like grabbing and shaking the posters. I wanted to yell "HEY! WAKE UP!". It's like they're drugged- the WT drug (thanks, JT). As I continued to read I began to feel sorrow. I couldn't stay much longer...it wasn't all that long ago that I was under the influence of the WT drug. After I logged off I started thinking about the posters, and about the witnesses I still know. Most of these people are good, honest, kind and sincere. They have been tricked into believing that they are serving the God of the Bible, when in fact they are serving men- the Brooklyn autocrats.
I think, like you, I feel mostly saddness at this waste of human lives. Coupled with that saddness is disgust for the men that are perpetrating this deception.

Edited by - amicus on 30 January 2001 18:39:42

Edited by - amicus on 30 January 2001 18:41:38