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  JW Grandma Sentenced For Dog Attack Death of Granddaughter

  by ValiantBoy in

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  woman sentenced in dog attack case.

  by heather leskanic .

  the clarion county resident was ordered to serve six days in jail in connection with the death of her granddaughter.. clarion - a 62-year-old lucinda area woman was sentenced wednesday for her negligent conduct related to the 2003 dog-mauling death of her young granddaughter.

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  Oh but the Grandmother isn't worried........she has the hope of seeing the baby again in a paradise earth.
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  My Mormon buddy

  by AloneinOh in

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  i felt compelled to post this to kind of stick up for my buddy a little bit.

  i'm not sticking up for mormons....only sticking up for a friend that happens to be a mormon.

  some may say he is secretly trying to convert me, but he really is, just a friend that happens to be a mormon.. i am in no way endorsing mormons or have any desire to be one.

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  Maybe you should change your screen name? You aren't alone. Sounds like you have a very good life long friend.......so does he.

  Thanks for the insight.
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  Sorta freekin' out here?

  by kaykay_mp in

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  i feel it occasionally, and i just felt it a minute ago (get your minds out of the gutter).

  i'm talking about this little pin-prick sensation i feel at the end of my finger like someone wanted to come along and poke me (hey!

  ) just for the hell of it.

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  Is it just like one pin prick? or several at once? If it is in one distinct spot it could be a sliver of metal (using steel wool pads?) or more likely glass (pick up any broken glass? ) imbedded deep. It could be trying to move itself out everynow and then. Or when you type or do other things it could be pressing the point deeper. Glass can stay in your body for years but will usually try to work its way out. My Cousin went thru the windshield of a car over 25 years ago and she is still getting glass out of her forehead.

  If it is more like tingly then it sounds like it could be a nerve.
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  Blondie . You are amazing

  by littlemike in

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  blondie i cant help but think how long it must take you to do all your posts.

  are you a full time messenger on here!

  i dont think i knew as much as an elder with all the pre-study and preparation for all my items.. how do you put together all the references.

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  I also am amazed at how knowledgeable she is and how well she says what she knows. Blondie take a bow, you deserve it for all the times you have come to the rescue.
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  "Do what I say, not what I do" witnesses

  by JH in

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  i remember elders giving talks and giving good advice they didn't even keep themselves.. saying, don't listen to this or that kind of music, and when they get in their cars, that's exactly what's playing on the radio, or when they said to obey the law and then they go faster than the speed limit and say it's ok, i'm just following the other cars.. do you have any other examples of "do what i say, not what i do" witnesses?

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  At my cousins wedding years ago my very, very, very tipsy JW aunt told me I should'nt be smoking.
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  Help: I have a dispute with a JW and don't know how to proceed.

  by kouzelna in

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  i have a serious business dispute with a jw and it is getting out of control - i need to know if there is any procedure for seeing mediation that he can trust (through your organization, for example).

  i am also a serious practicing christian believer, although i am not a jw.

  i have no reason to believe that this man is not exactly who he claims to be, as he has always acted honorably, apart from our business together, regretably.

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  It does sound like you maybe screwed if it is to late to back out of the contract (3 Days in the USA). You signed your name to what was on the contract, not what he may have said before that. If nothing else you could bring it up to his elders that he deceived you but even they need 2 witnesses. Yep sounds like he got you. Get a lawyer.
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  Self love

  by Cath in

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  is there anyone out there who remembers being taught by the wt that love of the self was sinful?

  if so will you please point me to a piece of literature which contains that teaching, preferably a scan if possible.

  i have a vague memory of hearing something along those lines as a child and don't know if it was part of jw teaching or just something my family taught us.

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  Cath,

  I don't know how to find it anywhere but I think my JW aunt heard about it 40 years or so ago.

  I had a cousin who was about 11 at the time, she loved her long blond hair. She spent time taking care of it. I guess she spent too much time looking at it in the mirror and didn't do something she was suppose to do because one day my aunt dragged her by it and took sissors and hacked it all off very short saying it was a sin to love herself that she was conceited. It broke my cousins heart.

  It took me many years to even start to forgive my aunt for all the mean things she did to me and my cousins. I thought of her as a Witch. She was a strong JW, but a horrible person.
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  Prayer scam...

  by Celia in

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  has anyone received this mail too ?

  on the back of the envelope it says:.

  dear jesus,.

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  Celia,

  I received one of those months ago. I figure they want MONEY. Prayers shouldn't cost any thing. I threw it in the garbage with the rest of the junk mail.
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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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  ((((((((To Ian and family))))))))

  That is fantastic news. Keep up the good work and we'll keep prayin and sending our Tuesday vibes. We'll concentrate extra hard on the swellings for you.
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  Be Gentle With Me - Virgin Poster

  by TheEdge in

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  chanced upon this website a few days ago, and perhaps spent most of my waking hours (since then) reading, and certainly identifying with, quite a lot of it.

  i have also learned a few things i was unaware of - i know this is ''old hat'' to all of you, but i wasn't aware of the un ngo thing.. i was saddened reading many posts - mostly trying to get human compassion (from elders who hold the trump cards - dealt by....?).

  i read with interest josephus's post no.313, and goldminer's 1st posting - both drawing attention to how lives have been wasted due to false prohesy - and i thought (after reading how the society is claiming compensation for surviving - or dead!

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  Welcome to the board "The Edge" glad you found us. Not a bad post at all for a VIRGIN. Hang around I think you'll like it here.

  Wouldn't that be something if all the disgruntled "ex-employees" got together and could sue for back wages, overtime and benefits. Hiding behind a non-profit religion, shame on them. Maybe I could get workmans comp for that time I got bite by the dog. It would be great if some legal eagle could find some loop hole to go after them with. False advertisement? Selling a defective product? They are passing it off as something it is not.