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  Favorite JW Urban Legends

  by Christ Alone in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  what are your favorite urban legends that you heard as a jw?.

  here's mine:.

  a brother, through his work, was asked to give a speech to the united nations.

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  mamochan13

  The John Denver story is an old one - I first heard it from a Bethelite in about 1985, who claimed that she was actually at the concert.

  I was at the Vancouver convention when the Glen Campbell story went around, too. I seem to recall someone afterwards discovered that there was a person on the baptism list with that name, but it wasn't "the" Glen Campbell, of course.

  There was a bizarre story going around during the Malawi days. We had done this major letter-writing campaign. The rumour then came back that the high bishop who had been responsible for ordering the abuse of the witnesses who would not buy a membership card had been arrested as a result of our letters and had been seen chained to a wall in the prison.
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  Cedars...I took you up on the song challenge....

  by diana netherton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  billions and billions of corpses,.

  each one deserved to die.. billions there are on billions, .

  billions and billions of dead ones,.

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  mamochan13

  I've emailed you a vocal track, Cedars.
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  Confused in choosing a career. What would be a better choice?

  by will-be-apostate in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i had started a topic like this a few months ago but i thought it might be usefull to ask you again.

  i really need advise from persons who live in the following countries: usa, canada, uk.

  australia.

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  mamochan13

  One university in Western Canada (I don't recall which) offers a scholarship that pays the whole undergrad tuition for a foreign student, including living expenses.
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  Cedars...I took you up on the song challenge....

  by diana netherton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  billions and billions of corpses,.

  each one deserved to die.. billions there are on billions, .

  billions and billions of dead ones,.

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  mamochan13

  the only base track I can find is the "official" piano track. I don't see it in the other instrumentals. But it should work for laying down vocals, true?
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  Cedars...I took you up on the song challenge....

  by diana netherton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  billions and billions of corpses,.

  each one deserved to die.. billions there are on billions, .

  billions and billions of dead ones,.

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  mamochan13

  I'll contribute a voice - the reason I suggested Audacity is that it's open source and anyone can download it and use it without needing professional sound equipment. There might be better possibilities. I've kind of been out of the singing/recording field for a while, but I did a fun rap parody for my day job last year using Audacity. I couldn't believe how well it turned out just using a generic back track and dubbed vocals with my PC microphone.
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  A Tribe’s Epidemic of Child Sex Abuse, Minimized for Years - NYTimes

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  september 19, 2012a tribes epidemic of child sex abuse, minimized for years .

  by timothy williams .

  spirit lake indian reservation, n.d. the man who plays santa claus here is a registered child sex offender and a convicted rapist.

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  mamochan13

  The biggest factor in allowing child sex abuse to continue is secrecy. And you are correct Rip - no community is safe. It exists everywhere. But it is more rampant in some places and I wonder why.

  I recently counselled a native woman who was raped by a chief. He was also the religious leader of the community and had sexually abused many women. She is a highly educated community advocate, so she laid charges. She had also been sexually abused as a child, and she wanted to make a difference for her people by raising awareness of how rampant the abuse is in the community. She lost her case, unfortunately, but the worst part was that she was actually ostracized and shunned by her own community. Their viewpoint was that "white man's" laws should not be followed, and that "white man's" justice had no place on the reserve. Any crimes, rape, murder, were to be kept completely within the community and nature/god would take care of the matter.
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  Cedars...I took you up on the song challenge....

  by diana netherton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  billions and billions of corpses,.

  each one deserved to die.. billions there are on billions, .

  billions and billions of dead ones,.

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  mamochan13

  ya know - there are some interesting possibilities. If someone created a basic back track, several of us could contribute vocals or other pieces via Audacity.
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  A Tribe’s Epidemic of Child Sex Abuse, Minimized for Years - NYTimes

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  september 19, 2012a tribes epidemic of child sex abuse, minimized for years .

  by timothy williams .

  spirit lake indian reservation, n.d. the man who plays santa claus here is a registered child sex offender and a convicted rapist.

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  mamochan13

  Sickening.

  This problem is endemic in many native populations in Canada as well.
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  What my life was like when I was in high school (a very short read)

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i went to high school, we had mostly white students but in my nearby congregation, we had mostly black congregation with some very few white folks.

  i felt different back then.

  the other deaf brother in my congregation can't read or write.

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  mamochan13

  So not only were you forced to be separate from the rest of the world, you were isolated within the community. That must have been very lonely for you and very difficult, particularly when you think of how teenagers want to fit in and be accepted.
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  What did God accomplish with the flood?

  by jam in

  1. social
  2. humour

  the purpose of the flood, because man grieved him to.

  his heart, so he started over.

  did his plan work?

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  mamochan13

  Wow, Jam. That would be amazingly cool to see. I'm jealous.