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  Do you still remember the date of your baptism?

  by JH in

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  i do.

  july 9th 1988

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  Robert K Stock

  November 25, 1973 Woodland Hills, California.

  Brother Kite (I am not sure of the spelling but he was famous for giving a talk known as "Kite's Quake" Repeated over and over that we should never forget the date of our baptism. He said we would be 100,000 years old in the New System and remmmeber November 25, 1973 as the most important day of our long, long lives.

  I was 15 years old and a true believer.

  July 1, 1988 was the date of my second and final disfellowshipping. I was nearly 30 years old and still a true believer intending to mend my ways and be reinstated for good. I read Crisis of Conscience a year later and have never looked back.
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  Sam Cooke

  by avishai in

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  i've always loved his music, and was shattered that there was so little of it, due to his untimely death at 33. now i've just discovered his music with the gospel group the soul stirrers.

  i'm so stoked.

  it's fantastic.

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  Sam Cooke was my mothers favorite singer. You Send Me was my parents "song."

  My favorites are, Cupid, "Draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to my lover's heart for me"

  Only Sixteen, "But she was too young to fall in love and I was too young to know"

  I asked my karaoke DJ if Cooke's Bring It On Home was among the 35, 000 songs and was very disappointed to be told no. I really wanted to sing that song that night.

  The movie, "The Buddy Holly Story" has some great scenes where Sam Cooke helped Buddy Holly when Holly first came to New York from Lubbock, Texas.
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  Questions for God

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  let's say that a being appears to you claiming to be god.

  what questions would you ask it, or what miracles do you tell it to preform in order to determine whether this being is god?

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  I would not ask anyone claiming to be God a question. I would make a statement instead. I would tell God, "I do not need You. I can decide what is good or bad on my own. Now go away and leave humanity alone."
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  C.S. Lewis statement....

  by Shining One in

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  lewis says jesus' claim to be equal with deity leaves us only one other choice: .

  a man who was merely a man and said the sort of things jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.

  he would either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg or else he would be the devil of hell.

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  I love C S Lewis. My favorite books are the Space Trilogy, 1) Out Of The Silent Planet 2) Perelandra 3) That Hideous Strength. The first book is kinda of hokey but each one gets better and the third is my favorite Lewis book of all time. The Great Divorce is also a great book by Lewis.

  I have no problem accepting the existence of Jesus. He was a nice Jewish boy who became delusional and in his diseased mental state imagined he was the Messiah.

  I agree with Lewis. Jesus was either God or madman. Jesus was a madman.
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  Ever had someone threaten to kill you, and mean it? Just happened to me.

  by wanderlustguy in

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  i just had it happen for the second time in 3 years, today.

  the first one wasn't that bad, because the guy didn't scare me.

  the one today...i think might really try.

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  Amen.
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  Ever had someone threaten to kill you, and mean it? Just happened to me.

  by wanderlustguy in

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  i just had it happen for the second time in 3 years, today.

  the first one wasn't that bad, because the guy didn't scare me.

  the one today...i think might really try.

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  I hope it helps keep him alive. I have known several people who have been murdered and an equal number who committed suicide. Death or the threat of death is a downer and I have have experienced more then my fair share. This should not be taken lightly. Be carefull and never expect the police to protect you. They only get involved after the fact. Take precautions and be carefull.
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  Ever had someone threaten to kill you, and mean it? Just happened to me.

  by wanderlustguy in

  1. jw
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  i just had it happen for the second time in 3 years, today.

  the first one wasn't that bad, because the guy didn't scare me.

  the one today...i think might really try.

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  Take it seriously and be carefull. That is just the kind of guy who will lie in wait for his chance to get you.

  Years ago when I was a Witness a sister told me that her unbelieving husband had killed someone. Her husband did this while working as a police officer in Palestine, Texas. Using his knowledge as a policeman he knew how to murder this person without any evidence pointing to himself. No one ever suspected him.

  She told me this because she was leaving him and he accused me and her of being lovers and would kill us both if he ever saw us together. He did kill her. He was tried and the jury hung for lack of evidence. He got off scot free. The very day he walked out of the courthouse he sent me a message via a Witness friend, if he ever saw me on the street he would kill me.

  It was seven years before I stopped looking over my shoulder.
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  What musical instrument do you play?

  by anewme in

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  i spent many many years peforming on the cello before becoming a witness at 18 and being encouraged to quit all my symphony associations etc which i obediently did.

  i was a soloist once with a community symphony and it was a wonderful experience!

  i have a recording of the concerto i performed.

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  I play guitar and was forming a Western Swing band in the 70's. The Elders met with me and told me to stop. Being a professional musician would lead me straight to Satan and eternal death. Since I was a good little Witness I broke up my band. One of the biggest regrets I have from my years as a Watchtower slave. Did you hear about the confused orchestra conducter who coudn't tell his brass form his oboe?
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  Bridgitte Bardot is HOT

  by troucul in

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  anyone know if she's still alive?

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  Robert K Stock

  Time and gravity takes their toll on each of us. In the the 40's Ingrid Bergman was the most beautiful woman on the planet. In the 80's it was her daughter Isabella Rosalini. In the 60's I liked Tuesday Weld. The 70's belonged to Britt Eckland.
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  Who's the best actor working in movies today?

  by Preston in

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  johnny depp?

  ian mckellan?

  morgan freeman?

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  Johnny Depp is the greatest actor in the world. Depp is what Brando was.