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  Update: So I've been going to some meetings (and other things)

  by WingCommander in

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  i've been absent from this board from some time, as i've been through alot the past few months.

  firstly, my mother passed away after complications from her surgery.

  so i've lost my entire family since 1999. i'm an only child.

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  So sorry to hear about your Mother's passing, time truly does heal always remember the good times you had with her.

  Don't be mad at me. I'm in part trying to get over being bitter about my upbringing....and the more I think about it, the more I feel it is something that should be left in my past, to be forgiven and for me not to make the same mistakes.

  I for one don't judge you for the spiritual journey you are taking, we all have to come to our own conclusions and ones that we can live with for life to be congruent and meaningful to us. I wish you well in this journey and peace of mind.
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  Your limits on pet sleeping quarters!!!!

  by restrangled in

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  i know you are all tired of hearing from me about dogs, but i need help.. our one dobie sleeps where he is suppose to after being tucked in, kissed, and his head laid down on a pillow.

  his older brother after experiencing the same, after about an hour, quietly gets up and sneaks down the hall way, begging to get into bed with us.. here is the problem, the boys are 100 pounds each.

  when the older one sneaks in he promptly lays down between us with his head on the pillows.

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  dogs belong outside.
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  So....What Do You Think Happens When We Die???

  by minimus in

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  are we going to heaven hell, purgatory?

  are we able to sense anything?

  do we really die??

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  bikerchic

  the worms crawl in the worms crawl out....the worms play pinnacle on you snout......

  Eh worm bait that's what happens.
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  God is a Metaphor

  by nvrgnbk in

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  god is a metaphor.

  dr. khalid sohail .

  being a secular humanist i do not believe in any god or organized religion, but as a poet i am fascinated by all the languages and metaphors human beings have created over the centuries to understand and explain the mysteries of life and nature.

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  Great article nvr!

  The other need religion purports to satisfy is our need to know about the world in which we live. It tells us how the world came to be and why - but it doesn't give us the real answers, it gives us answers that were made up by people who knew a lot less about the universe than we do. That is why even most religious people have abandoned religion's explanations of how we got here.

  Nailed it funkydude!
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  Just popped in to say...

  by mrsjones5 in

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  hi!

  how ya'll doing?.

  josie.

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  bikerchic

  Hi Josie! Good to hear from you, take care and hang in there!
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  todays watchtower/marriage counselors

  by aquagirl in

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  today at the watchtower study,they said that marriage counselors encourage folks who are having issues to divorce..is that the stupidist thing that youve ever heard?

  like,how many of them have gone to marriage counseling lately?.also the thing about the man being the head,the decision maker,that aint'jus' aint'a settin' right w/me...so,i assume if i get reinstated,i cant be an elder?like,because i dont have a penis?..um,hello,its 2007!!

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  Edited by me, cause I know the mods would..........

  But my remark had to do with something that could be purchased to take care of having no penis!!!!!!!

  I wonder if that would take care of the penis qualification prob?!?!

  LMAO! No.....I knew of plenty sisters™ who had purchased unsaid object and it didn't help qualifiy them!
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  Jehovah Witnesses and inheritance

  by sweetums in

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  i am not a witness but i would like to ask you a question.

  is it common practice for jw's to will all of their "worldly" possessions to witness relatives only?

  are they encouraged to do so by the borg?

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  Awe sweetums don't let this sucky religion divide your family any worse than it obviously has after all it's their money and they are doing with it now what they want why not after they die?

  I have a friend who always says how much he will inherit when his parents die as if that money will still be there regardless of the funds needing to be used for long-term health care of his elderly parents. It frustrates me because it's not his now and he shouldn't count on it ever being his, his parents worked hard for that money not him!

  It's just money, here today gone tomorrow, and can be replaced by the living......I would rather celebrate the life behind the money which cannot be replaced, not the money, but thats just me.

  When I confronted her about it, the first thing she said to me was, "Satan must have helped you find this out"... (no actually, it was the clerk of court who to knowledge doesn't go by the alternate name of Satan).

  Although someone calling me the Devil's helper might make me a bit cranky!
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  Jehovah Witnesses and inheritance

  by sweetums in

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  i am not a witness but i would like to ask you a question.

  is it common practice for jw's to will all of their "worldly" possessions to witness relatives only?

  are they encouraged to do so by the borg?

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  Just wondering if this is typical behavior.

  Hello sweetums and welcome to JWD!

  I can only imagine the thinking behind this is that the JW's don't want any monies being used for anti-JW stuff at least that's all I can think of. Myself and my brother who are the only two non believers in our family were recently notified that we are not inheriting any funds from our Mother when she passes away and that the estate will be handled by our sibling who is an Elder and dispensed to the care of our other living sibling for health care concerns. I mostly saw this as a theocratic move on her part.

  I understand the *coff, coff* logic behind her wishes and have no problem with it as it will all go to the care of my sibling not so much to the WTS, we aren't talking loads of money here......sigh.
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  The new funkey keyboard layout they are trying to sell

  by Elsewhere in

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  anyone try the new funky keyboard layout that most keyboard manufacturers are selling now?

  the one where the delete key is tall, the home and end keys are moved next to each other and and the arrow keys are moved to the left under the shift key.. .

  i recently bought the logitech 510 (the one shown on the bottom) and i absolutely hate it.. years ago i learned how to touch-type, which means i type without actually looking at the keyboard.

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  Interesting reading on the Dvorak keyboard and why it came into existence. Big drawback for me:

  Easy to Learn : The logical arrangement of the letters makes Dvorak easy to learn. It has been proven that the Dvorak keyboard is easier to learn than QWERTY, and so speed can be accumulated more easily. In one study, only 52 hours of Dvorak practice had brought a group of typists up to the speed to the speed it took them 3 years to accumulate on QWERTY!

  No thanks, no way do I have that amount of time to spend learning something I hardly have a use for I'll stick to what I know QWERTY is fine for me and I would hate to think of all those years in school learning how to type were waisted! LOL In the business world I can clearly see an advantage. It would be good to see this keyboard system offered in public schools especially for those student who are moving on into a career where they absolutely use a keyboard daily.

  Here is a pic of the Dvorak layout and a website of useful information on it:

  http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/
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  Lurkers! Watchtower Tells You How to Get Out! (7/15)

  by metatron in

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  the july 15 watchtower tells you how to fade ( pg.28) it seems that many are "faithfully" serving.

  despite depression, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar issues and phobias.

  this sort of article.

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  depression, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar issues and phobias

  The real amazing thing is how quickly these issues clear up once you quit going to the meetings!