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  Moving on up

  by recoveringjw in

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  i really don't know why this seems important to me, or why it would seem important to anyone else, but i am not a newbie anymore!!!

  yay!.

  i also have a slight addiction to this place, lurking around here and reading everything!

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  At the rate you are going I see Jedi in your future. Congrats!
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  Anyone looking for a VB, COM, SQL, Web position in the DFW area?

  by Elsewhere in

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  it looks like the developer market is getting much better in this area and i'm getting emails from recruiters offering me $$$ if i can direct them to anyone who can do vb, com, sql and web development... including .net and sql dba work.

  (this is referring to several different positions).

  also note that most of these positions are contract and not perm... some do have the possibility of going perm.. i would qualify for most of these positions but i am hoping to get a perm position at my current contract..

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  I was wondering if you had heard anything about going permanent yet. You had said your boss may have had good news for you awhile back.
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  Foreign Language Users

  by Paradise Found in

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  i have been embarressed by my inabilty to express myself on the board.

  oftern i write what i mean but what i wrote is miss-understood and i come across sounding totally stupid or miss-understood.. if you are a lurker on the board (english your mother tounge or not)does your ability to write english stop you posting?.

  if you contribute to the board and your natural language is not english are you happy with how you express yourself?.

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  English is my first (and only) language (if you don't count the sign language I have been known to use while driving). I always feel stupid and mis-understood when I post (but thats just me). Your English is fine. Frenchbabyface started a thread a couple weeks ago about her English and how she wanted to get better at it, although she does make errors my brain always seems to figure out what she is saying. Practice makes perfect so they say.
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  Do you have "cold sweats"?

  by onacruse in

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  over the last 2 years, especially early on, as i was "forced" to finally face the facts about my life-long religion, i had many a nightmare, waking up in a cold sweat, fearing that i'd lost my hope for everlasting life, fearing that armageddon was just around the corner, wondering if i'd made the right decisions.. perhaps the worst of all was walking away from the bible, insofar as it being carte blanche "word of god.

  " then, of course, comes along the idea of the ransom, etc...'reject jesus, and you've rejected life.'.

  i'd be lying to say that, even now, i don't still have some little nigglings that make me wonder.. however, the days of the "cold sweat" are long gone.. you?.

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  Years ago I did. Then only occasionally. Since I came here a couple years ago, any guilt that may have lingered is gone.

  Do hot flashes count?
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  Hello all I am back

  by Purple in

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  greetings everyone after an absence of several months and being offline all that time i just thought i would pop back in and say hello.

  i dont know if anyone will remember me but for those that do i say hello and boy has my life changed.

  i am now a divorced woman living in a suburb that she has only ever dreamed of living in and am part owner of a singles club and having the time of my life.

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  Welcome back Purple. So glad that you have put yourself where you want to be.
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  Convicted JW sex offender arrested again....

  by jimbob in

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  this article appeared on komo news here in washington state.

  even though the article doesn't mention him being a jw, some of you may recall an article from the news that was posted here on jwd several months ago that told how he was released from prison after serving a term in prison for raping 4 women...one of them with a broomstick.

  while in prison, he became a witness, and i ended up meeting his grandmother out in service in 1988. she encouraged me to write to him to give him "encouragement", which i did.

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  County prosecutors argued that Thompson has a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes him likely to commit acts of sexual violence against strangers

  Seems instead of avoiding him, it would make more sense to be very friendly with him!

  I also hope that jury has a hard time sleeping at night, letting this guy out. I don't think much of the justice system as of late. Caters to the criminal.
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  An idea to help Dansk

  by Mulan in

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  hi everyone.............i have a very sweet niece, whose husband has almost the same kind of lymphoma that dansk does, and i have been showing her the board's discussion about him and his responses.

  she had this idea that i told her i would present to everyone to see what you think.

  (doesnt' have to be prayer in the sense we used to think of it, just positive thinking) she is a university of washington educated psychologist, and an ex jw (since she was a young teen) and leans towards buddhism now.. <<i have an idea for people to try that i read about in.

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  ME TOO!
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  EVIL LOUTION? Why do you still resist? Science doesn't work?

  by Terry in

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  i resisted it for years.

  i was dragged kicking and screaming into the evolution theory camp.. i would rather have had my arm lopped off at the elbow;but, facts are facts.

  i had to be intellectually honest.

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  I believe in "Creative Evolution".

  I believe the body and nature are too well thought out and marvelous to have just happened. Some higher power put some serious thinking into it all. There is a place for everything and everything in it's place (usually). If you think about it...when you watch a baby grow from a sperm and an egg, into an adult, that is evolution speeded up. If we mere mortals can put two cells together in a dish and make a human start to grow, I think God could. I also know the earth has proven to be here much longer then 6000 years, no getting around it. As a baby grows so does the human race. I think we are in our early teens right now in history (evolution).
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  This is about out beloved Dansk

  by mouthy in

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  how sorry i was to hear from dansk-he is going through a very difficult time.. i would like all prayers, thoughts, please keep this in mind ____ for me!!!!.

  the sad news he has cancer.it is lymphoma!!!

  they are waiting on the results of the biopsy before determining treatment..... he didnt want me to say anything at first- as he feels you all have your own problems & he didnt want to upset anyone-because he says "they are dear friends".

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  Been there

  Ian,

  I'm sorry for your pain and I pray for your healing and peace of mind often. I may have picked it up wrong but after your last post it felt like you were some how trying to appoligize for failing in your quest to beat this on a milder level and feeling weak somehow for having to work up to something bigger. You are not weak...Your enemy is just strong.

  I see your story as a hostage situation. You have been taken hostage by the enemy. In the beginning you know nothing of your captor, how strong or weak he is. After doing some time with him you find out he is strong and mean. Enters the negotiations. Negotiators never start with the big stuff, they start small and work their way up as they get to know the enemy and what it's demands are. The whole time the S.W.A.T. team is getting ready behind the scenes just in case it is needed. The enemy for the most part is staying calm thru negotiation but still showing it's force. You are doing everything in your power to stay calm and keep the enemy calm. The enemy is raising it's demands and you and the negotiators do what you have to, to balance the situation. The S.W.A.T. team is ready and waiting. The ultimate goal is surrender of the enemy with as little injury to the hostage as possible. As the enemy gets tired and irrational S.W.A.T. may have to come in and storm it for your survival.

  If you do have to resort to the heavy artillery you have made your body much healthier and stronger then it was in the beginning to fend off the assault. You can run faster and jump higher. You have done good my friend. I hope this makes sense.

  My continuing prayers for you and your family.
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  Curious.......

  by cameo in

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  don't know if this has been asked before (and sorry if it has).

  this is for all the "born-into" former witnesses:.

  if you hadn't been born into the religion, do you think you would have become a witness sometime in your life?

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  NO!