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  Caleb and Sophia have some competition

  by usualusername1 in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nmyoqiidqo&sns=em

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  Mirror, mirror, on the wall.
  
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  I don't like the person i am becoming...

  by SpunkedTeen in

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  i have not been active here lately just lurking mostly but i have no one to talk to and i need some help i guess.i started working out and became friends with my personal trainer(we went to school together).i started going out with him(lying to my mother about what i was doing,another thing to add to the list of lies,it's becoming too easy!

  ) and i notice i'm slowly becoming the worldy people that the jw's described.i've become very selfish and rude and very apathetic towards everything and everyone.i always thought the values that jw's taught were really good.if i cut ties with the only friend i have now , i would probably slip into a deep depression and i that is something that i want to avoid at all costs.i start university in january and my plan was to stick it out in the organisation until i got my degree and became fully independant but as of late a elder told me i am being considered to become a m.s and told me what i need to work on and since then the other elders have been nagging me to work on the same things.i'm trying to rid my self of my 'priveleges' in the cong but nothings working...if anyone has experienced a similar situation what advice would you give?

  , oh and my mom was always super into the religion having been a pioneer and bethel worker for years but we went to the regional convention two weeks ago and now she is even more exasperating (for example a sister asked my why i was 19 years old and not a ms or serving at bethel yet, which is fine i've learnt how to deal with these questions but when i told my mother whom has always been content with me just being in the religion and never pushed me towards anything asked me if i was happy with what i was and if i would not be happier at bethel or regular pioneering.

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  Village Idiot

  OUTLAW,

  That`s what happens to JW`s..

  When they leave the Watchtower/Gods Organization..

  Then they either become..

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  .................BANK ROBBERS ........OR...........................RODEO CLOWNS..
  

  Which one are you Outlaw?
  
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  BIG news Trump...His lewd conversation leaks.

  by James Mixon in

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  if he get pass this, america deserve him...... conversation 10 years ago..

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  Sanchy,

  That leaves me with Hillary, a lying, corrupt nag, who will only take our country further into socialism and political correctness.
  

  Get real folks, Hillary is a centrist who will simply keep the status quo without disturbing the oligarchy. No 'socialism' just more of the same-ism.
  
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  How to start a blog

  by Holden Caufield in

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  i want information on how to start a blog called the mad prophet.

  this blog will encourage the freedom of ideas..

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  Village Idiot

  You can go to Wordpress.com and get their free program. As a blogger who uses it I can say that it's great for beginners.
  
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  Internet restrictions

  by goddidit in

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  2. bible

  i'm trying to locate an article from one of the jw publications.

  not sure which one, but i'm wondering if anyone can help me locate it.

  something along the lines of "we do not read their [apostates?

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  Village Idiot

  This link is from the 2011, 7/15 Watchtower. The 7th paragraph sums it up.
  

  http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011524

  7 What is involved in avoiding false teachers? We do not receive them into our homes or greet them. We also refuse to read their literature, watch TV programs that feature them, examine their Web sites, or add our comments to their blogs. Why do we take such a firm stand? Because of love. We love “the God of truth,” so we are not interested in twisted teachings that contradict his Word of truth. (Ps. 31:5; John 17:17) We also love Jehovah’s organization, through which we have been taught thrilling truths—including Jehovah’s name and its meaning, God’s purpose for the earth, the condition of the dead, and the hope of the resurrection. Can you recall how you felt when you first learned these and other precious truths? Why, then, allow yourself to be soured by anyone who would denigrate the organization through which you learned these truths?—John 6:66-69.
  
  
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  22 fascinating maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US

  by blondie in

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  http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/smart-living/22-fascinating-maps-that-show-how-americans-speak-english-differently-across-the-us/ss-bbwqtug?li=bbnb7kz&ocid=iehp .

  everyone knows americans don't agree on pronunciations.. that's great, because regional accents and dialects are a major part of why american english is so interesting.. josh katz, a former ph.d. student of statistics at north carolina state university, published a group of awesome visualizations of professor bert vaux and scott golder's linguistic survey, which looked at differences in american dialects (via detsl on /r/linguistics).. his results were first published on the abstract, the nc state university research blog.

  the complete set of katz's maps, updated with the results from more than 350,000 new survey responses, are compiled in the new book "speaking american," publishing october 25 from houghton mifflin harcourt.. katz gave business insider permission to publish some of the coolest maps from his collection..

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  I heard somewhere that the mass media was homogenizing speech throughout the nation partly obscuring local accents. It's nice to know that such accents can survive but without a common media we might, in a hundred years, become like China where regional dialects make each other's speech incomprehensible.
  
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  Feeling very lonely

  by BlackWolf in

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  the past few months i've been feeling really depressed and kind of hopeless.

  the few people that actually were a little bit friendly to me at the hall recently moved away, and i'm feeling like more of an outcast than i already was.

  every meeting i just stand by myself by the wall and nobody cares, i feel really lonely and unloved.

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  Village Idiot

  Don't know where you're from but local libraries have computers that can be used by the public.

  Also, if you can drive that will give you some independence. Ask your parents to pay for driving classes. Public schools give driving classes - I know you're homeschooled - but you can ask them if they'll accept you.
  
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  What is the purpose of life?

  by slimboyfat in

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  2. beliefs

  while reading the magazines the other day it occurred to me that jws never really had a very good answer to that question.

  because it was aimed at young people and it said something along the lines, "if you believe in god you have a purpose, but if you don't believe in god your life has no purpose or meaning".

  i think that is a faulty analysis of the situation.

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  Does the god of the Bible ever play by his own rules?
  
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  Is This Crap For Real? FREE SPEECH CRACKDOWN: EU orders British press NOT to reveal when terrorists are Muslims

  by freemindfade in

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  2. current

  how has offending become the worst crime of the 21st century?

  actually, forget being offensive, just telling the truth that may be uncomfortable or offensive.

  http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/717627/free-speech-crackdown-eu-report-british-press-hate-crime-violence-terror.

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  Village Idiot

  From Wikipedia:
  

  The Daily Express is a daily national tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom. It is the flagship title of Express Newspapers, a subsidiary of Northern & Shell (which is wholly owned by Richard Desmond). The tabloid was launched in broadsheet format in 1900. In May 2015, it had an average daily circulation of 432,076.[1]

  The Daily Express has become a supporter of UK Independence Party (UKIP),[2][3][4] acting as a financial backer and closely follows the party line.

  The UKIP is a radical right party.
  
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  Young Ones Leaving

  by pale.emperor in

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  2. experiences

  in the congregation that i grew up in there were about 30 children under 16 (myself included).

  as time went on they one by one slipped away from the meetings and most never got baptized.

  of those 30 children only myself and two other girls stayed and got baptized.

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  Vidiot,

  A lot of anecdotal evidence suggests that they don't even really want intelligent minds.

  During my Judicial Committee appeal I had one elder tell the others that I was intelligent. One said "Good, we need more intelligent people in the organization." I wonder why.