Athanasius

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  Do you tell your friends your were a JW?

  by eljefe in

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  last night i was out with my friends and i ran into another ex-jw.

  based on the conversation with this ex-jw, my friends could tell that i was hiding something.

  i think i will have to tell my friends that i was a jw.

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  So far nobody has asked.
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  Who's Read Crisis of Conscience More Than Once?

  by minimus in

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  i've been re-reading it again and i'm definetly getting more out of it the 3rd time around.

  i wonder why that is....

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  Athanasius

  I've read Crisis of Conscience twice, and agree with the others that you do get more out of the book the during the second read.
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  What is your personal "Top Story" of 2004

  by confusedjw in

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  mine is the red sox winning the world series.

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  Getting engaged and completing Russian 50 with an 'A.'
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  Anybody have their tree/ decorations still up?

  by Sunspot in

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  we just took ours down last night!

  the first "after-wts" year that we celebrated christmas, i left everything up until the 7th of january!

  it doesn't seem like we've enjoyed them long enough!.

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  Tree and deocrations are still up. My fiancee is Russian Orthodox and their Chistmas is January 7, so we will take the tree down next Saturday.
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  How many here grew up JW but had worldly friends?

  by Jez in

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  my best friend was worldly all through elementary to high school.

  we are still good friends.

  i wonder if that led to our being a tad bit more open minded and aided in our exit???

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  All my friends in elementary school, high school, and college were non-JWs.
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  Do you and your significant other share religious beliefs?

  by MelbaToast in

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  sometimes, i think my husband is much more church oriented than i am.

  i still get upset when i attend church, but lately he has been putting the push on me for us to go back to his church where he grew up in.

  he would like to start taking our daughter so she has a somewhat structured religious belief.

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  My fiancee and I are both Christians, though we belong to different church families. She is Russian Orthodox and I am Anglo-Catholic (Episcopalian). Because the Orthodox observe Christmas and Easter a few weeks after we do, it enables my fiancee and I to attend services at both churches as a family.
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  Author Claims Abraham Lincoln was Gay

  by Kenneson in

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  there's a new book coming out next year, "intimate world of abraham lincoln," by dr. c.a.

  tripp which claims that abraham lincoln was gay.

  he asserts that lincoln was predominantly homosexual and only incidentally heterosexual.

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  What is even more confusing Insomniac is why every close relationship is made to appear sexual.
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  Why Americans Hate Democrats?A Dialogue

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://slate.msn.com/id/2109218/

  why americans hate democrats?a dialogue

  the unteachable ignorance of the red states.

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  Perhaps it is because Judge Rutherford, the founder of the Jehovah's Witness religion, was a Democrat. And everybody hates the Witnesses.
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  What do you do when you cant sleep?

  by pr_capone in

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  i have been sick for the past few days and i havent been sleeping right until last night.

  i took a few tylenol pm and they knocked me right out.

  i slept most of today and now that its night time again i cant sleep.. so my question to you is, when you cant sleep... what do you do to finally go to sleep?.

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  Read.
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  WHAT DO YOU KNOW THAT NOBODY ELSE KNOWS?

  by Terry in

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  i happen to think quite a few intelligent people have cornered the market on certain information.. when you are around other intelligent people you find in talking with them that you are incredibly more well informed about certain subjects than other people are.

  in fact, you might know things that nobody else knows anything about.. tell me what it is that you know.. i have some really quirky things i know.

  but, what do you know that sets you apart?

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  Athanasius

  If I told you then everybody would know.

  Hi Terry,

  Interesting that we have both read a lot on Thomas Edward Lawrence. I visited Clouds Hill in October 1998. Also toured the Bovington Camp Tank Museum, St. Martin's Church, the Wareham Museum, and the cemetery of St. Nicolas Church in Moreton. Saw the accident site too. I think Jeremy Wilson's book is the best biography of Lawrence.