Posts by poppers

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AUSTRALIA - Prime Minister Gillard has just announced a National Royal Commission into Child Abuse within Religions

by jwleaks in

australia's prime minister julia gillard has announced a national royal commission into child abuse within religions and religious charities (not-for-profit sector).

julia gillard announces royal commission will probe child sex abuse.

royal commission to probe child abuse.

poppers

God bless the atheist.

Funny, but I bet she'd prefer to have your vote.

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Hello, I Am New Here

by arrakis1 in

jw
friends

was a jw for 40 years.

stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.

awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.

poppers

Nice quote, Pubsinger.

Edited to add: I had to look it up to find where it came from and was surprised. I had no idea.

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Who Am I?

by Hortensia in

never mind.

my name is written on the label inside my shirt.

whew!.

poppers

If your name wasn't on your shirt's label, or if you didn't rely on thoughts of "me", then who are you?

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Hello, I Am New Here

by arrakis1 in

jw
friends

was a jw for 40 years.

stopped attending 2010...resigned officially in 2011. still a little shell shocked but beginning to feel much better now.

awesome revelation....people in the world are not all that bad.

poppers

Welcome to freedom, arrakis1, and welcome to the board.

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memorial day - Vietnam

by Glander in

jw
friends

they called me in to the draftboard for an interview shortly after i turned 19 in 1964. i had registered at 18. got married at 18 yrs.

and 10.5 months.. i sat at a long table before five uniformed officers.

they asked me if there was any reason i could not serve.

poppers

I will fly the flag tomorrow as I have been doing for almost 30 years.
I truly respect our armed forces.

Thank you, Glander - Cpl. Poppers

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Badge of honor - for apostasy!

by Vidqun in

today, i have attended my jc meeting, courtesy of three local elders.

all three had their "shepherd"-books on their laps.

i carefully and meticulously proved to them that their interpretation of dan.

poppers

One of you creative people on the board should design an "official" Apostate Badge of Honor.

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My wife and I bought a bar !!

by elder-schmelder in

i think that we are a little crazy but we bought a bar in wisconsin last week.

here is a picture of my wife behind the bar.. .

i still work for my jw family, but my wife is going to run the bar.. .

poppers

That's only about an hour from my home. I'll try to stop by sometime.

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The Man Who Saved the World - October 27, 1962 (bet U never heard of him)

by fulltimestudent in

october 27, 1962. a soviet submarine was being bombed with depth charges by us warships who had detected the submarines presence in waters off cuba.. in the emergency the soviet submarine captain ordered a torpedo attack on the american warships.

problem was, the torpedo's were fitted with nuclear warheads.

the submarine could not contact moscow for authorisation.

poppers

I remember the Cuban missile crisis vividly even though I was 11 at the time. -I was scared out of my mind, and couldn't sleep for weeks. Thanks for the history lesson, fulltimestudent. It's reassuring to know that there were some level headed people on the Soviet side when it mattered the most.

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Yet another intro letter

by problemaddict in

to the mod, if this is posted in the wrong place please feel free to move it to wherever is appropriate.. so here is another lurker turned community member.

i might write up a life story at some point, but for the sake of time here are the abc's of me.. raised a jw.

friends for the most part are all jw's.