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  Glass Art Gallery

  by OpenFireGlass in

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  hey - haven't been around for a while - mike and i have set up a gallery at glassartists.org, and i wanted to link it here.. it's glassartists.org/mikewarren.

  check it out.. hope you are all doing well.. peace,.

  naomi and mike.

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  Okkkkkkay.

  Uhm this is what I'm wondering.

  Could he make a glass paper weight type thing in an I Love You hand sign and if so could ya'll pm me the details?

  mwahh
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  Glass Art Gallery

  by OpenFireGlass in

  1. jw
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  hey - haven't been around for a while - mike and i have set up a gallery at glassartists.org, and i wanted to link it here.. it's glassartists.org/mikewarren.

  check it out.. hope you are all doing well.. peace,.

  naomi and mike.

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  Mike (or Naomi )

  Do you ever do any sort of custom made type things?
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  Professional Pregnancy Photos

  by Es in

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  hello all, a friend of mine came over yesterday she is a professional photographer, and took some pregnancy photos for me, here are a few of the many she took, once i get the disk i will upload more.. .

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  Beautiful pics Es!!!
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  IF THIS IS TRUE, IT MAKES NUKES LOOK LIKE MINOR THREATS!

  by wonderinwanda in

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  warning!

  the information in the linked article is of the sort that could cause one to be overwhelmed by fear.

  i do not want to cause that and i feel like i need to apologize for even posting this, but it needs to .

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  Oh by the way they sorta did a movie about this. It had Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, Dan Akroyd, John Candy, it's really sick... I've got it on dvd somewhere I can't think what it's called though... damn... The town thats the inferno in it is called potsolvania or something... Demi Moore is SOOOO hot in it.

  
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  IF THIS IS TRUE, IT MAKES NUKES LOOK LIKE MINOR THREATS!

  by wonderinwanda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  warning!

  the information in the linked article is of the sort that could cause one to be overwhelmed by fear.

  i do not want to cause that and i feel like i need to apologize for even posting this, but it needs to .

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  Hmmmmm and how does this fit in with the well known fact that Prince William is the Anti Christ?

  http://www.grailcode.net/
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  401 Keg Plan

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  retirement planning for 2008. .

  if you had purchased $1000.00 of nortel stock one year ago, it would now be.

  worth $49.00.. .

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  RETIREMENT PLANNING FOR 2008
  
  If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be
  worth $49.00.
  
  With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00.
  
  With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
  
  If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left
  
  But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all
  the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, You
  would have had $214.00.
  
  Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily
  and recycle.
  
  It's called the 401-Keg Plan
  

  
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  How could an ex-Jw become Catholic

  by My Struggle in

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  i don't mean this to be offensive to any catholics in any way and believe that they can have true salvation unlike the jw.

  also, i know little about the in's and out's of practicing catholicism, as i have never had any interest in being one.

  regardless i am always surprised when an ex-jw says that they have found the real truth in catholicism.

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  I haven't published a conversion story yet on any web site. I've given an in-progress one to a few friends, but have been working on how to tell the story concisely and correctly. I still have a lot to learn, but I may have a brief telling of the story before too long.

  Well than I shall keep my eye open for it. I would be most interested to read it.
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  A drunk

  by worldtraveller in

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  gotta love a drunk!!.

  a drunk walks out of a bar with a key in his hand and he is stumbling back and forth.. .

  a cop on the beat sees him and approaches "can i help you sir ".

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  LOL
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  How could an ex-Jw become Catholic

  by My Struggle in

  1. jw
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  i don't mean this to be offensive to any catholics in any way and believe that they can have true salvation unlike the jw.

  also, i know little about the in's and out's of practicing catholicism, as i have never had any interest in being one.

  regardless i am always surprised when an ex-jw says that they have found the real truth in catholicism.

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  Tom, I was searching the net for a conversion story into Catholicism for ya, and I can't find one. For some reason, I had thought catholicxjw had one for you.
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  How could an ex-Jw become Catholic

  by My Struggle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't mean this to be offensive to any catholics in any way and believe that they can have true salvation unlike the jw.

  also, i know little about the in's and out's of practicing catholicism, as i have never had any interest in being one.

  regardless i am always surprised when an ex-jw says that they have found the real truth in catholicism.

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  BlackSwan of Memphis

  I don't mean this to be offensive to any Catholics in any way and believe that they can have true salvation unlike the Jw. Also, I know little about the in's and out's of practicing Catholicism, as I have never had any interest in being one. Regardless I am always surprised when an ex-Jw says that they have found the real truth in Catholicism. To me it seems that they are falling into the belief that they are in the one chosen religion and all other religions and subsequent denominations are wrong. The Catholics also seem to have fairly strict ordinances regarding detailed aspects of your life and are very liturgical....and these things seem to be reasons that some left the Jw's. Catholicism also has it version of the Bible....again something that turned some Jw's off. Catholic history is steeped in 'new light' like teachings and the leaders hold their authority far above the average catholic member, believing that without their direction they would be totally lost on how to understand the Bible....again things that made ex-jw's say 'Wait a minute...you mean to tell me.....'.

  Again I mean no offense, and I am sure that there are plenty of things that I am either off about or just dead wrong. So, please correctly me where I am wrong.

  Actually, truth be told, I have found Fundamentalism to be much more strict, and Catholicism to be based much more on conscience.

  As far as the Catholics considering themselves to be the one and only way, this has been answered pretty well. My studies have shown that the Church tends to be incredibly loving, almost bordering on universalism, but I have been corrected in the past on that.

  As far as the issue of the Pope and Mary being worshipped....yeah, ya know, I have met people that go so far over board on the matter of the Pope and Mary to the point that they completely miss the point, that being Jesus. But for the most part, I really don't see the whole Pope worshipping thing too often.

  How could an ex-JW become Catholic?

  Head trauma.

  Just kidding, ex-JW Mary-worshippers.

  Er.

  I mean Pope-lovers.

  Sincerely,

  Born-only-once-God-nonrecognizer

  funny