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  New site: www.watchtowerwiki.org

  by nicolaou in

  1. watchtower
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  many here will be familiar with wikipedia.org.

  i took the same software and installed it at www.watchtowerwiki.org.

  for those who are unfamiliar with wiki's the idea is very simple, anyone can add or edit any content at the site.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Goodonya Nic!
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  What is the most money you have spent on one item?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today i bought the most expensive thing i have ever bought.

  i bought a laptop computer for just under 500 - about $1000 i guess.

  it was on 12 months interest free credit so technically its not mine.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Jourles, to me vacations are a necessity! But Kevan and I have VW taste. We love to go to Mexico or Hawaii or... but not bother with the high end stuff. Gimme a rooftop room in a house on a small bay in a small village in Mexico for $25 a night and I'm happy! So what if I have to drink bottled water.
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  What is the most money you have spent on one item?

  by Crumpet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  today i bought the most expensive thing i have ever bought.

  i bought a laptop computer for just under 500 - about $1000 i guess.

  it was on 12 months interest free credit so technically its not mine.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Solo or joint?

  Joint it would be the house Ex#3 and I bought. $11,000 down incl closing costs. Total sale price $111,000

  Solo would be the $22,000 I paid back to Kevan for his support and owsies over 4 years while I was working on getting SSD.

  Next, it would be my pickup: $3400 down

  Worst was $2,500 for a dry hole in the ground... drilling for water on property ex#1 and I owned. 250 feet of gravel and basalt.... no water.

  Someone elses money? The house Kevan bought in Hawaii. Down and closing was taken out of home equity line of credit on his condo.
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  Aged parents...........

  by vitty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you have an elderly parent live with you.

  my inlaws drive me mad, we had my fil stay for 6 days a couple of weeks back and gee was i glad when he went back home!.

  the problem is my mil is going in a home shes very ill and he is all alone, hes quite fit at the moment but he is 87 years and we live a couple of thousand miles away, id love to offer if the time came but i know in reality id hate it, especially as id be home with him all day while my husband was at work.

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  BrendaCloutier

  ((( Vitty )))

  If you had a separate apartment that elder parent(s) could live in, it would't be quite so intrusive nor frustrating for both parties. Unfortunately that is a luxury that most cannot afford.

  Kevan's parents are moving into a senior assisted living residence this coming spring. They took in and supported her mother, and his parents in their last days. The swore they wouldn't do that to their kids. Sadly they are only in their late 70's. Helen has alzeheimers and is in need of the structure of the home. Dick is fully there and functional and I know is going to hate it. They are keeping the farm for a while until a friend is ready to buy it and move down.

  Tough sad stuff.

  Hugs

  B
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  Are Most Folks Here Agnostics and Atheists?

  by Nate Merit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's the overall impression i get from reading the posts.

  i'm very new here, so i could be mistaken.

  if i am, my apologies.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Yet I touch the Mystery every day.

  Good term. I call that the Universes. Plural.
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  Are Most Folks Here Agnostics and Atheists?

  by Nate Merit in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  that's the overall impression i get from reading the posts.

  i'm very new here, so i could be mistaken.

  if i am, my apologies.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Hi Nate and welcome!

  I'm an agnostic. I believe there is a top-god-entity, but this god is not worthy of nor desirus of our adulation and worship.

  I believe in Christ and Buddha, but I consider myself neither Christian nor Buddhist.

  I believe in other sub-dieties like the Masters Kwan Yin, Dwal Kuhl, etc., including Hawaiian Dieties (I owe Mdm Pele an obeysance).

  I am very spiritual in my actions and opinions and beliefs.
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  "It is finished"; Now What is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Now What? in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just thought that i would hop on real quick to share the news.

  my fade was going very well, but i decided to end the charade.

  i started feeling deceptive, letting them think i was still a good dub when i didn't believe anymore, so i decided to initiate a meeting with the elders.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Instead I had a feeling of overwhelming peace.

  The aftermath of a spiritual insight or revelation that you worked to achieve. Good goin'

  Now you can go forward with your life.

  Hugs

  B
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  Pat Robertson tells town, "Don't expect God to help you"

  by sir82 in

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  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9995578/

  i thought evangelism was supposed to make god more appealing to people?

  the irony is, most jws will point accusing fingers at this representative of babylon the grape, but not realize that their own message preached every saturday morning is essentially the same: "worship god our way, or don't come crying to us when armageddon comes"

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  BrendaCloutier

  I heard part of the speech on the news last night. The guy is nutz! That, wanting the US to assasinate the Venezuelan Prez, etc., etc. And there are those who believe and follow! They're as nutz as he is.

  Sad.
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  Have we just given up

  by Frogleg in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  if i speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, i am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

  if i have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if i have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, i am nothing.

  if i give all i possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, i gain nothing.. love is patient, love is kind.

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  BrendaCloutier

  Reverend Drummond wrote a sermon, later published in a book called "The Greatest Thing In The World" that breaks down that passage on Love in Corinthians. It's beautiful. It's complexly simple. It's something I think everyone should read, religious, bible believer, athiest, everyone.

  Love is. It is greater than the sum of it's parts.

  Bren
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  Don't be hatin' .... my avatar ....

  by ithinkisee in

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  why all the hatred towards my avatar?

  i think it is kinda sexy .... -ithinkisee

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  BrendaCloutier

  Itis, I love your avatar. I still wonder how your wife took it when she saw where her pink bikini went....