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  JW Backyard Art - w/pics

  by 4JWY in

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  if you were strolling through the backyard of a zealous jw and found this erected, would you find it odd?

  what is it?

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  I think it's proof that he can't build a stone pillar or a stone barbecue, or a stone fence, or whatever it is he set out to do and then gave up on.

  Nina ~

  how insightful! You are absolutely correct on this. The yard was described as the "garden of disarray" and has a similar stone wall nearby the "pyramid".

  When we were active jdubs, I'm trying to remember if we'd ever heard about Russell and the pyramid or if that's only since we left?

  Who would want a pile of rocks & cement piled in their back yard? What a piece of crap.

  Nos ~ exactly. This brother was my father - and I, in recent years, when still JW, would ask about the "headstone" in the yard, say that it looked ridiculous out there and what the heck was it? I never really got an answer.
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  JW Backyard Art - w/pics

  by 4JWY in

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  if you were strolling through the backyard of a zealous jw and found this erected, would you find it odd?

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  Appreciated all the thoughts so far -

  Special K, what an interesting site, thank you - I think I wish that's what I thought it was.

  I have leaned towards your thought Ohiocowboy - of the pyramid. But, what do you think the significance of it would be to a brother?
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  JW Backyard Art - w/pics

  by 4JWY in

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  if you were strolling through the backyard of a zealous jw and found this erected, would you find it odd?

  what is it?

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  Special K ~ I'm not familiar with an inukchuk? Can you inform me please?
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  JW Backyard Art - w/pics

  by 4JWY in

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  if you were strolling through the backyard of a zealous jw and found this erected, would you find it odd?

  what is it?

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  4JWY

  If you were strolling through the backyard of a zealous JW and found this erected, would you find it odd? What is it?
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  August 15th WT - Eliminate your unnecessary hobbies and projects

  by truthseeker in

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  the third study article in the august 15th wt is entitled "tired, but not tiring out.".

  it is of interest that the borg are further reducing the quality of life for their members by the following paragraph (pg 24, para 11).

  sometimes what complicates our lives is, not the pursuit of more things, but what we do with the things we already have.. some may experience emotional fatigue as a result of challenging health problems, the loss of loved ones, or other.

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  When "in the world" my dad was a champion bicycle racer, and his own dad won the bronze medal in the cycling road race of the Olympics in 1912. But then- becoming a JW,- he tried to deny his past and that it had ever meant ANYTHING to him. In his late 70's he slowly brought out a photo here and there of those racing days and displayed them in the living room, yet felt ill at ease for "friends" to see them. Before he "eliminated" himself, he told my husband to keep riding his bike and for my son to keep playing golf. It was then that we realized that he really KNEW that it was wrong to have been so influenced by the WTS to give up everything meaningful to self that makes one who they are.

  Our PO told us our son was spending too much time fishing, and of himself he said that keeping balanced, he could go fishing once a year and it wouldn't even matter if he caught a fish!
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  In All Honesty, Are You A Happier Person Now Than when You Were A JW?

  by minimus in

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  jws say, "the apostates are miserable!!

  ".....do you feel miserable?

  (i don't).

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  Positively - absolutely- unquestionably - affirmative- you bet - and a big "hell yeah" -
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  JW golfs to win $ need scriptural advice

  by Beans in

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  well a jw at my work is taking a day off work to play in a golf tournament to win money.

  he has to pay $60 to enter and can win up to $2500.. now i said that is really like gambling and he said he checked it out and it wa ok, so i asked if he had asked an elder and he said he looked on the disk.. so i need any info from the bible and publications that will prove him wrong so i can council him next week!.

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  If he plays well enough to win money - he is definitely too involved with his game! (WTS view- that's what my son was told)

  If putting a couple bucks into the fishing jackpot is wrong - cash goes to the one with the biggest catch - then I'm sure they would view paying to put the balls in the hole in the same "light".
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  Suicide Prevention

  by ApagaLaLuz in

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  i just wanted to drop a quick note.

  last thursday a good friend of mine jumped off of a freeway overpass and killed herself.

  ironically it was the same overpass that just 5 years before i had stood atop and climbed the fence with similar thoughts in my head when my family had initially disowned me.

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  Chevy -

  tears and ((((hugs)))) aplenty coming your way from my whole family.
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  It's Bastille Day....

  by TresHappy in

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  and my 6th wedding anniversary!

  viva la france

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  Have a wonderful, memorable day on this your ANNIVERSARY!
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  Suicide Prevention

  by ApagaLaLuz in

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  i just wanted to drop a quick note.

  last thursday a good friend of mine jumped off of a freeway overpass and killed herself.

  ironically it was the same overpass that just 5 years before i had stood atop and climbed the fence with similar thoughts in my head when my family had initially disowned me.

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  ..... and the elders offer their own kind of "help" - that of the scripture "fix" - we witnessed a scene that was out of a sick movie in this regard at 2:00 AM with my dad ranting on about the end of the system, the importance of the preaching work, the judgement of the nations, the death and destruction of apostates/unbelievers, it's a FIGHT against Satan in these last days.... with the elder sitting there nodding his head in agreement, reading scriptures in support, and the knife on the cupboard nearby, waiting......

  edited to add after reading this: sorry for the morbidity with details, but....

  ((kls))