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  Interesting conversation with a well known Elder in Brooklyn

  by pratt1 in

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  on my way home last night from work i ran into a prominent elder from brooklyn.

  this guy is always featured at circuit assemblies and his family was presented as the model witiness family in the 80's.

  well imagine my shock and surprise when i realized that this dub had just bought a lottery ticket.

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  Ok RunningMan that last comment made me LAUGH OUT LOUD! Good one
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  I need help - Do I go to the ceremony or not?

  by Sprocket in

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  i really need some good advice.. i have been dissasociated for 7 years--an ex:elder.

  i have three children, none of them have spoken to me since i left other than my son saying that they would "welcome me back with open arms if i return, but until then they would have nothing to do with me".

  this at the hospital bed where my mother (their grandmother) died less than a month later.. my middle daughter got married 2 years ago and for some strange reason i did not get an invitation.

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  When I married at the Hall, my best friend was DF'd. She came to the Hall and watched and made sure I saw her. We both started sobbing and it made my day to see her.

  Now we are both faded and happily divorced!...love each other dearly and would never let anyone seperate us again.

  Go...it may just be the one thing that touches that ice wall the WTS tries to build around our families hearts.

  Peace and love on your journey.
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  Favorite Long Song

  by Nosferatu in

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  what is your favorite long song?

  here are some of mine:.

  kashmir - led zeppelin (over 8:00).

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  Any song any time anywhere by.... Tom Petty
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  How much harm have you caused your congregation?

  by Joker10 in

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  how much harm did you cause to the people in your congregation?

  everybody complains how the witnesses did this and that and in the process caused so much harm.

  but what you don't say is how much pain you caused others while you were in.

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  Joker,

  Your entire post made me tired. I suppose in the end it would be up to the individual person to define "harm". As my father likes to say, accidents don't happen, they are caused. Harm doesn't work the same way because it is such a personal thing. What may cause great harm to me would not do the same to you and vis versa.

  On top of that how are some of the friends who post here supposed to know for sure when their families and/or congregations won't speak to them.
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  Problem recieving Watchtower & Awake "again"

  by Dolllie in

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  2. scandals

  i posted earlier in the summer about some "racist" witnesses who told me that i could not recieve the watchtower & awake magazines, or attend the kingdom hall, because i was black & blacks were not able to understand the bible, "it was not for them".. i wrote a letter to the watchtower society & got a response!.

  i moved out of that immediate area, a couple of towns(about 40 minutes away).

  i contacted the watchtower society after moving here to have someone bring me the watchtower & awake.

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  3rd generation borg once removed...I have never ever even seen something close to racisim. My local congregations are 80% African American. My best friend gowing up in the borg is African American. I think this poster is trolling.
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  How bitter are you?

  by Joker10 in

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  Why oh why did Joker have to hit my biggest nerve. I am so sad and yet filled with hope that some day my dreams can be fullfilled and I can be good enough to see it all come true.

  I am and will forever remain....

  A Cub fan.
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  Spybot Search & Destroy, need to fix your computer ??????

  by run dont walk in

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  2. friends

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/77810/1.ashx

  thought i would post this, if you are having any computer problems, strange windows popping up, computer saying you have errors (that you probaly don't have), or if you have picked up viruses, try downloading spyboy search and destroy, fixed my computer, i almost went out and bought a new one, now its like having a new computer.. and most important the program is free !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

  takes about 15 minutes to run the whole program, found over 900 errors the first time i ran it, now my computer is a 1000 x faster and no stupid errors popping up when on the internet.. anybody else use this program ??????

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  Be careful when using Ad-Aware especially with XP. I can run it here at home but I ran it at work on one of the computers and it crashed. Since I am the IT person...all my fault. We use a T3 line and many programs that hook up into our main frame which is in NJ. Gotta be very careful where you use it.
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  What grammatical errors bug you the most?

  by poppers in

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  for me it's the use of : .

  it's as a possessive - it's means "it is", so if you don't want to say "it is" don't use the apostrophe.

  there are others that bug me but this one is the worst.

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  Know and now, there and their, hear and here

  On behalf of myself....you are already doing it when you are speaking

  Continue on to...you continue to

  your and you're...this one has been beaten to death in the thread

  cakes are "done" people are "finished"

  less vs fewer is probably my biggest pet peeve There are fewer people here this week at the Watchtower study. There is less water in my glass.

  But honestly I only correct my son and hubby. Hubby doesn't care for it. Son is rolling his eyes as I type.
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  Got this email out of the blue the other day

  by mkr32208 in

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  2. friends

  mark,.

  at one time in my career i was exposed to an apostate tape.

  i found it very unsettling and began to wonder about the truth.

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  LOVED IT!!!! Good reply. Keep us up to date with any responses.
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  how we get trapped!

  by the mole in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my dad and i spoke over lunch the other day about our religion.

  he told me that he bumped into two of my cousins who are pioneers at the auburn congregation..he told them he was disapointed and was not invited to their party...after he told me his conversation with them he repeatedly kept on saying "the truth".

  i finally corrected him and told him that was one of the ways to suppress him buy using words like that to inflict guilt and that there is no other truth when there is.

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  I caught myself doing that the other night in a conversation with my sister. It sounded so odd coming out of my mouth. I agree with you.