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  Hurting so bad here in Ohio...don't know where to turn to

  by FreedomFrog in

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  does anyone know of a forum i can go to to get lots of support?

  cheeko's death has hit me pretty hard.

  i'm looking for a forum for ones who have lost close pets.

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  JW's UNDERGROUND

  by kwintestal in

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  as a kid i remember hearing about other parts of the world where the preaching work is banned and it had to be done "underground".

  i always pictured people in suits and dresses going through tunnels in peoples basements and knocking on doors.

  i wished we could preach underground.. kwin

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  607, 607, 607

  by Pole in

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  hi scholar!

  is that your phone number?

  pole - ba and ma in linguistics

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  Brownnose or Scholar

  by stillajwexelder in

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  just a quick pole - who gives you the biggest laugh on this board - you have only two choices brownnose brownboy or scholar?

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  BB nop SCHOLAR nop BB nop SCOHOLAR nop
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  FOND FAREWELL TO THE BI-MONTHLY AWAKE!

  by steve2 in

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  with the jw congregations about to be informed that the ubiquitous awake!

  magazine is to be issued just once a month from january 2006, now is an apt time for interested parties to share brief memories and/or impressions about the bi-monthly awake!

  magazines, whether poignant, hard-hitting or humorous.

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  ROFLMAO
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  Jehovah Hates Foreskins!!!!!!!!!

  by gumby in

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  moses is preparing his "make my brother do it " speech to jehovah cuz he's ascard to have to talk to pharoah about lettin his people go from eygpt.

  the lord butts in and goes bi-polor on moses ass and tells him he's gonna kill his sorry arse cuz moses kids dinger still looks like an anteater and the lord wants then damn thing snipped off pronto or he's gonna kill em!

  4:24 and it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the lord met him, [ moses ]and sought to kill him.

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  The sages of the Talmud, as interpreted by Rabbi Yosef Karo's 16th-century Code of Jewish Law, set down three criteria for male conversion, the latter two applying to females as well: circumcision, immersion in a mikve (ritual bath), and the acceptance of the commandments (Shulhan Aruch, Yoreh Deah, 268, 3). The removal of the foreskin connotes the casting off of gentiledom, and symbolizes the separation of the Jew from the licentious practices (especially in the sexual realm) which characterized the pagan world. (Interestingly enough, the rabbinic sages understood women as "naturally circumcised"). Ritual immersion represents a legal and spiritual rebirth into a new family-nation - after all, every fetus is encompassed in fluid, and birth is heralded by the breaking of the mother's water. (A similar ritual was adopted by Christianity in the form of baptism.) And acceptance of the commandments signals the entry into a religion - a faith community bound together by common adherence to a network of ritual, moral and ethical laws.
  So it becomes clear that we are a nation as well as a religion, a nation with its own language, culture and homeland, and a religion with a unique code of law defining our prayer rituals, feasts and fasts, life-cycle celebrations and ethical behavior.
  Fascinatingly, the Torah records just such a process of development, a "national conversion," as it were, in the portions we are now reading. By participating in the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelites were separating themselves from the Egyptians, the Egyptian enslavement, the Egyptian concept of slavery as a societal norm, and from the immoral Egyptian lifestyle. And the Torah suggests that the Jews symbolized this removal from pagandom with circumcision, since the Paschal lamb can only be eaten by one who is circumcised (Exodus 12:48).
  Precisely when did the circumcision take place? The Torah describes the Israelite preparation for the Exodus, commanding each household to take a lamb on the 10th of Nissan, to guard it until the 14th of the month, and then to sacrifice it to God (which in itself amounted to a disavowal of Egyptian idolatry, since the lamb was one of the Egyptian gods) and place its blood on their doorposts. On the night of the 15th they were to eat the lamb - the first Seder - and then exit from Egypt.
  The Midrash asks: Why take the lamb on the 10th and wait until the 14th to sacrifice it? It answers that the male Israelites were to have themselves circumcised during this time, and by merit of the twofold blood - of the sacrifice and the circumcision - they would be found worthy to be freed from Egypt. (Exodus 12:6, Mechilta and Rashi ad loc). Indeed, in Temple times, a male convert would be expected not only to have himself circumcised, but to bring a sacrificial offering as well (Maimonides, Laws of Forbidden Relationships, 13,1).
  The ritual immersion of the Israelites took place just before the Revelation at Sinai, either when God commanded Moses to see that the people be "sanctified [through ritual immersion] and their clothing be washed" (Exodus 19:10, see Maimonides, Laws of Forbidden Relationships, 13, 2-3), or when the Israelites jumped into the Reed Sea before it split ("and the children of Israel entered into the midst of the waters on the dry land..." Exodus 14:22). And of course the acceptance of the commandments came following the Decalogue: "...And the entire nation responded with one voice and declared... 'All that the Lord has spoken, we shall do and we shall internalize'" (Exodus 24:3,7).
  Indeed, prior to the formula of acceptance, the Torah not only recorded the Ten Commandments as well as the major civil and ritual laws, but also outlined the eventual borders of the Land of Israel (Exodus 23:20-25). In effect, therefore, the Israelites were accepting both Jewish nationality and the Jewish religion. We were to be bound together (am, im) by common genes, land and destiny, as well as by a unifying system of laws, values and lifestyle.
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  Ok, I got the call. I am going to be DF'd February 3rd

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  just got off the phone with the judicial committee, the same one that i blew off last sunday.

  i wasn't even sure they'd call, but come to think of it, i think that's just what they're supposed to do if i don't show up.

  they called as a conference call (none of them has been willing to talk to me on the phone alone!

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  Got An Award Today

  by Valis in

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  sincerely,.

  district overbeer "moss is gathering" class

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  BRAVO
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  Vigil for my daughter, please.

  by outnfree in

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  as mentioned in my other thread, my daughter lena is having brainsurgery on monday, jan 24. the surgery will last 6-7 hours, so i'm hoping the board members will be willing to make a special effort tomorrow to send positive thoughts, healing energy, good wishes and prayers her way.

  we are asking that the surgeon's hands be delicate and skillful and that lena does not bleed overmuch and that brain damage be minimal (if not non-existant).

  surgery begins at 8 am eastern standard time (us), but we have to have her to the hospital by 6 am, so this is "good night!

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  Great news
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  Never agian after 60 yr the holocaust

  by z in

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  when they were young, they fought the nazis, and then bore witness to the extreme depravity of which human beings are capable.

  now in or nearing their 80s and 90s, the allied soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of .

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  Yes my good friend?s mother had this tattoo on her arm she will not talk about it but one day she did and cried as she reviled her horror she was in Auschwitz and Mangle the angel of death was experimenting on her and other she told us one time he injected her gasoline to see how long will take her to fill the effect and how long she will suffered she did all her life she was a living death