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  You Needed Me

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs your aching need for my full and loving devotion.. i spend myself willingly on your behalf because,truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.. if i were young and wiry man, for you i'd scale a rock and brave a torrent.. yes, that is what i do, no thought of self,to save my love from daily peril.strength and life escape my soul whilesafety i afford your gasping heart.. it's no loss i gave my all to grantyou life and to bid mine adieu..

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  "...If I were young and wiry man, for you
  I'd scale a rock..."

  How safe is climbing?

  According to a study published in the 2008 Volume 19 #2 Journal of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, climbing is relatively safe, especially when compared with other outdoor pursuits like snowboarding, sledding, and skiing.

  Study Conducted in 2004 and 2005

  The study found that 72.1 injuries occurred among every 100,000 Americans, with 68.2% of injuries to males and 31.8% to females. Not surprisingly, the most dangerous outdoor sport is snowboarding, with 25.5% of all injuries, and most of those to young men.

  Scaling a rock, just puppy love.

  Snowboarding. Now that's true love.
  
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  Dec 2016 study edition 'Setting your mind on the spirit.' WTF?

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so the study article 'setting your mind on the spirit means life and peace.

  ' at paragraph 9 a little pictorial lecture for anyone setting their minds on the flesh.

  brother fleshly minded talking about having a sailboat.

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  Esse quam videri

  So the study article 'Setting Your Mind on the Spirit Means Life and Peace.' At paragraph 9 a little pictorial lecture for anyone setting their minds on the flesh. Brother Fleshly Minded talking about having a sailboat. What do you want with a sailboat Br. Fleshly Minded? Keep your mind on the spiritual rewards.

  

  Now jump ahead in the same Dec 2016 study edition to the article ' Jehovah Rewards Those Earnestly Seeking Him.' Here we see Bro. Spiritual pointing to a, what is that out there he is pointing to? Oh, right, a 'sailboat.' Looks like he is telling his lady that the sailboat is A-Okay. Honey, we are going to have one of those sailboats. Yessiree Bob. That's what I want now, a 'sailboat.'

  What? Pardon? Excuse me? Hunh?????????
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  The Sea

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the sea once held this youngster's heart within its mighty bosom.i loved and cherished the sea, stretching outward beyond infinity.

  i took to the e'er dreary landscape, the dank surroundings soothing me, enveloping me in crawling mists that were more welcomed to me than the evaporating rays of a cavorting summer sun.i, however, am no longer that pensive lad who found comfort in the dark and cold and deep blue sea.

  today, a man in the physical sense, i no longer possess that childlike fascination with my former abode.

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  That must have been 'quite a boy' to grow into such an amazing man.

  Blessings on you brother!
  
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  The Sea

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the sea once held this youngster's heart within its mighty bosom.i loved and cherished the sea, stretching outward beyond infinity.

  i took to the e'er dreary landscape, the dank surroundings soothing me, enveloping me in crawling mists that were more welcomed to me than the evaporating rays of a cavorting summer sun.i, however, am no longer that pensive lad who found comfort in the dark and cold and deep blue sea.

  today, a man in the physical sense, i no longer possess that childlike fascination with my former abode.

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  "Yesterday's child has vanished from all remembrance . ."

  
  No never, never I say. Begone vile thought, begone. Your youthful experience, your wide eyed wonder at adventures imagined, your fascination with the small and the great were an important part of who you are now. They designed the boy into the man.
  
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  Elders and Attendants sing, clap and turn backs on Street Preacher after Duluth RC.

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  very strange behavior by the attendants and elders after the duluth, ga, rc.

  on the first link the attendants start to exit the arena, then line up and turn their backs on the street preachers.

  (around the 6:00 mark).. elders and attendants after duluth rc.

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  "...they say I'm bumping into them. They're bumping into me. Guess what you liars. Liars have no place in the kingdom of God..."

  Preaching, standing with backs to preacher, singing to drown out the preacher and now bumping the preacher.

  Outrageous conduct. Preacher boldly preaches on !
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  New York 1963

  by Lincoln in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear friends, "my story"?

  i lost touch with jw 1991 (i was declared "not to be associated with") and shortly after became a "born again christian".

  i was recovering a difficult divorce (my love for 10 years / we were both jw) and was recovering myself.

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  So there is a woman on stage screaming 'Jesus, Jesus' and crowd of people screaming along with her. Is this what you mean by you found Jesus? I really doubt that Jesus would want to be in that room.
  

  "Come unto me, … and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls… “ Matthew 11:28-30
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  Thank you, LifesNotOver

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for you, dear friend:.

  it seemed but yesterday though, heaven knows, .

  time has flown since i embarked upon that .

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  Esse quam videri

  My life has been the poem I would have writ

  Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

  My life has been the poem I would have writ
  But I could not both live and utter it.
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  2016 Revised bethel visitors 'dress code' pamphlet?

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anybody have a digital copy of the revised bethel visitors 'dress code' pamphlet from this year?.

  thanks.

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  Denim skirts are unacceptable.

  Denim skirts?

  DENIM SKIRTS??????????????????????????

  
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  Amazing Kingdom Hall transformation

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, on tues august 2/16 i happen to be driving down westminster highway in richmond, b.c.

  [a suburb of vancouver] and notice activity at the kingdom hall at shell ave. hmm, i say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing.

  i continue on to work.

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  Esse quam videri

  Do you think it was sold?

  That would be my guess.
  
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  Amazing Kingdom Hall transformation

  by Esse quam videri in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so, on tues august 2/16 i happen to be driving down westminster highway in richmond, b.c.

  [a suburb of vancouver] and notice activity at the kingdom hall at shell ave. hmm, i say to myself, they must be having a 'work bee' or some such thing.

  i continue on to work.

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  Esse quam videri

  Now, my question is the following. Being as the sellers of property in Vancouver feel like they have won the lottery has the Watchtower succumbed to the same fever, OR, are they just preparing to build a new, more comfortable Kingdom Hall for the brothers and sisters?