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  SOUP HERB (A memory from 1980)

  by Terry in

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  (culver city, california 1980).

  the tiny diner was empty - and it was a minute past noon!.

  i walked into the little shop chuckling to myself, that name!

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  Actually Soup Herbally told.
  
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  A Serial Pooper Caught Defecating In Massachusetts Parking Lot!

  by minimus in

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  after at least 8 excrement findings, police in massachusetts finally caught this woman who would poop in a parking lot and leave her crap as well as some tissues.

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  i just thought you should know about this 💩.

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  Minimus ..." I just thought you should know about this."

  I don't know if you had me in mind but if you did, being as I live in British Columbia, how is it that you think I should be alerted to someone publicly pooping in Massachussets?
  
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  Notes From an Elders Meeting

  by WinstonSmith in

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  so in this past week i came across a stash of my old elder stuff.

  i've scanned a bunch of notes and agendas, and public talk outlines.. check out an agenda and my notes from the meeting here: https://imgur.com/gallery/qqmyczn.

  i’ve put an explanatory note on each image in imgur.

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  "Single incident. Honest. Told wife."

  I wonder what hell the culprit had to pay when the wife tore into him.
  
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  Which songs give you goosebumps?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?

  ', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.

  y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.

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  https://youtu.be/mlHOLK9ty5M
  
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  Pray before sex just like you do for food-W62 3/15

  by krismalone in

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  the governing body has lovingly provided instructions and reminders to couples that they should pray before having sex.

  please be obedient and follow the wise counsel from the gb leaders who never stick their noses into other peoples business and are not creepy cult leaders at all....not!.

  "had he not created the first human pair so that they could cohabit, planted in them an attraction for each other and then commanded them to "be fruitful and become many"?

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  Lord, for what I am about to give to her and she is about to get from me we thank thee.

  Amen
  
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  JW views on saving and retirement

  by neat blue dog in

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  probably one of the most common causes of cognitive dissonance many jws face is the choice to plan for retirement.

  if you're a good jw, then you should believe that the end will be coming soon, surely before you retire.

  that's what i did when i was younger, blowing decades that could've been better spent because i believed the end was coming, so any planning was a waste of time.

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  Balaamsass2

  Pioneering wife #1 went ballistic when she noticed my payroll deductions for the 401k, IRA, and various insurances back in 1985. She went to the elders and "turned me in" for my lack of faith. lol. She even had two elders come and council me for my "lack of faith" in the coming destruction of the evil system.

  (She left me 1990 ( thankfully!) saying my "lack of faith" was spiritually damaging her...and pioneered..until she ran out of that evil $$, had to work fulltime, and then decided to shack up with a wealthy attorney to support her,....who soon dumped her. She ended up a penniless bag lady in her late 60s.)

  Yes, so true. I wanted to have a savings account. My wife insisted Armageddon was coming and we would not need it. Two young daughters, a mortgage and a good paying job. We could have saved a tidy sum. But there would have been no peace in the house so I gave in. She bought lots of stuff. Then the split. 20 years later I am saving like crazy. Over $2000 a month and counting each dollar to see how long it will last me. With pensions I am at about 10 years after retirement, which is still down the road and I am 68. Good job, good pay and probably working until 72 and saving like crazy, sacrificing everything to make sure I have some money when I am 85. If I die before then the kids can have it. Where is she? How much money does she have to live on? Don't know and don't care.
  
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  Greta Thunberg...what’s your view of her?

  by minimus in

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  she certainly is passionate about climate change.

  🤔.

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  At first I was cynical but now I am enjoying listening to her. Obviously a young'un and dillusional. For a young Swede she speaks very good English. I suppose Swedish education makes learning English compulsory. Either that or they are intelligent enough to know you have to speak English in our modern world to succeed on the world stage.

  It seems to me that a foreigner who speaks good English, but with a heavy accent, can get more attention than one who only speaks English. She also speaks with a seriousness beyond her years. What the Bible may call, "Speaking with authority." Anyway, I would rather she be touring and giving speeches than not.
  
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  JW's revelling in their online statistic...

  by The Fall Guy in

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  ...that their web site is the most translated in the world.. https://www.tomedes.com/translator-hub/most-translated-website.php.

  do jw's genuinely believe that statistics prove divine backing?

  you can fool some of the people some of the time...there are lies, damned lies, and statistics!.

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  Another proof of divine favour.

  Watchtower organization has the world's largest fleet of magazine carts.
  
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  What The Fossils Say

  by cofty in

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  the old creation book had a lot to say about the fossil record.

  if i remember correctly it was some lie about all the fossils ever found would fit on a single table.

  the reality is that there is an embarrassment of riches illustrating the evolution of life.

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  Cofty - Every living thing - including the 99% of species that are long extinct evolved from a common ancestor over millions of years.

  What an amazing bullshit statement.
  
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  Just for fun...

  by Vidiot in

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  …(and for the very first time), i thought i'd post a new topic completely non-wt-related... about a subject matter i have a particular affinity for.... ..i'm a major movie geek (most people here already know that), but one of the many things i especially like are what i call "middle-finger victory lines".. they are memorable (and extremely quotable) moments of dialogue, wherein the protagonist says an extremely cool or badass comment to a very deserving defeated opponent.... ...usually (but not always) said when victory has just been literally snatched from the clutches of certain defeat, and serving as a tall, proud, and victorious flipoff to the often (but not always) shocked-at-the-sudden-turn-of-events enemy.. my ten favorites:.

  "smile, you sonofabitch.

  "sheriff brody to the shark......just before firing his last bullet into a scuba tank lodged in the charging shark's open jaws.jaws (1975).

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  Andy Devine to Fred McMurray as they ride away on horse back,

  "There's nothing that will help a man's hearing like a 45 stuck in his left ear."

  The Egg and I