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  Can the Truth survive the Internet?

  by Dogpatch in

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  virtual experiment

  the truth vs. the truth.

  by stephen cox.

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  Top article. WBTS survival tactics will probably work too, when all the old guys die (lets say starting next year).
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  friends

  by John Doe in

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  henry adams once said one friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  anyone experienced in life knows the truth of this statement: a true friend is one of lifes rarest commodities.

  [...]life is a road traveled by many--long and twisting are its pathways.

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  Absolutely. A friend is a very precious thing. Shame that people are willing to lose one over their life choices.
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  I have got a..........................

  by defd in

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  taste for some crab legs.

  mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................... with some shrimp scampi and a lobster tail.

  salad and a bottle of wine.

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  If somebody brought me a hot chocolate pudding with caramel sauce and ice cream, I'd be all over it.
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  What's the most recent compliment you've received?

  by lonelysheep in

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  let's hear it.

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  Mr Frass likes my bottom
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  Judicial Committee experiences....

  by sinis in

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  i have been in a few jc/"conferences" but nothing really happened to me (not da'd or df'd).

  the worst one was when an elder kept slapping the back of his hand to me and my wife in a derogatory manner (looking back i should have kicked the crap out of him) telling us to drop the fact that my wifes brothers wife (who no one liked) was sleeping around with everyone (he was probably "taking his turn" as well, and thus the lack of motivation to do anything).

  i was thinking the other day how i should have handled myself differently, grew some b@lls (most of the jc/committees was when i was younger and intimidated) and told the elders what i really thought.

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  But we weren't judged during our JC, they only decided whether or not we are repentant.
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  What Glory in War? / The Next Greatest Generation

  by prophecor in

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  war is hell !

  that is the basic premise.

  the blood, the gore, the fear, the dead, and those who will be.. as the united states of america goes deeper into the war on terror, a crusade of its own, as it were, there seems to be an unending response of those, willing to risk losing thier lives for the sake of something far larger and greater than themselves.

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  I was thinking about this the other day, particularly with regards to 'celebrating' war heroes. When I was six I came home from school with some homework requiring me to colour in a picture of a laurel wreath as a remembrance day thing. Motherdarling told me that we don't get involved in hero worship, so I felt guilty and tore it out of my exercise book.

  Twenty years later I learned about my grandfathers captivity as a POW of the Japanese and researched how horrific it would have been. I also talked a lot with a refugee of post-war Japan and realised that war is just ugly for everybody. Nobody wants it, and those involved in it are pawns in the big game. Anybody who touches war is profoundly affected and changed for life - usually for the worse.

  When Saving Private Ryan came out a witness friend refused to see it because it was 'war hero worship'. I asked her how she knew that, since she wouldn't see it, and of course she just knew it was. I see it and the TV series that Hanks did, Band of Brothers, as something entirely different - just an honest portrayal of the ugliest and most horrific thing that humans can do - go to war. A couple of hours of that is all you need to realise that it's not like those guys wanted to be there, doing that. But they were, and here's the thing; because somebody had to. So I realised that I'm okay with a country defending itself against invaders....

  Korea, Vietnam, Iraq... to be honest they're different stories for me. Probably best we don't go there - but let's just say that I'm not so much grateful that the soldiers were sent there to fight for that; just that I'm really sorry that they were used to fulfill some guys deluded political dream, just like the Japanese and German invaders.

  I was just trying to explain why I'm very grateful that Nazi Germany and Empirical Japan don't run this planet, and so I'm respectful of the people who gave up their happiness and innocence to make it so. When I meet a veteran these days, I try to get their story, as much of it as they're willing to share. I think that people join an army thinking that there is glory in battle, but return realising that they were were just fodder. It doesn't matter what your particular generation is angry about; the ugliness of war will put it in perspective for you.
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  That education I didn't get....

  by sass_my_frass in

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  yeah, so instead of moping about being discouraged from pursuing higher education i've decided to take advantage of this new freedom and have enrolled myself in an undergraduate degree.

  i'm going to start on it part-time, and study via correspondence.

  the materials for my first unit arrive next week and i've been gearing up for it for a couple of months starting with some short study skills practice; trying to get my dried-out brain working again.

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  Yeah, so instead of moping about being discouraged from pursuing higher education I've decided to take advantage of this new freedom and have enrolled myself in an undergraduate degree. I'm going to start on it part-time, and study via correspondence. The materials for my first unit arrive next week and I've been gearing up for it for a couple of months starting with some short study skills practice; trying to get my dried-out brain working again.

  I already know that on meetings nights I'd learn far more sitting on the couch with a new book and Mr Frass. I suspect that this will be the final factor in convincing me to stay the smeg away from the kingdom hall, and stop trying to get reinstated already.

  I'm really excited about finally knowing where I want to put my energy! And the chosen field: Economics! Well I'm hoping to focus on international aid eventually but for now I have to understand the basics of money.
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  The Quirky Alones/Solo Survivors

  by Frog in

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  solo survivors

  october 26, 2005

  http://radar.smh.com.au/archives/2005/10/solo_survivors.html

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  sass_my_frass

  Precious Frog! I wish you a future with the Prince (or Princess) of your choice!
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  Jehovah told man to kill, court hears!

  by Atlantis in

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  http://www.dailypost.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3660186&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= local news email story print story .

  jehovah told man to kill, court hears.

  by abigail caspari in rotorua .

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  sass_my_frass

  Gee a mentally ill man that nobody in the congregation bothered to deal with or help, and a woman that nobody listened to, who'd have thought?
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  ok i think i finally have made a decision

  by Cordelia in

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  soooooo any of you thats been following my threads thanks (and poor u) i have changed my mind so many times.

  i have finally decided that i must stop trying to get reinstated, basically i got dfed 9 months ago had a boyfriend i felt i loved, was married tho still to my hubby who is only just starting to divorce me, (hes waited coz he keeps saying we could try again for the sake of our daughter but he would expect me to be completly in the 'truth') i hid the bf from my family coz they were so heartbroke and i decided to please them i would get reinstated and then fade, but as time went on i realised that wasnt an option as with a family like mine it would be so hard to do, plus there was the bf still hidden poor guy, anyway we spilt up several times, i was a complete physco i kept blaming him for everything,.

  anyway last month i put my letter of reinstatement in and sat there scared stiff that they would reinstate me (as that would defo mean the end of the bf) they didnt reinstate me, and i blamed the bf and we spilt for good;.

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  You know, now that my family aren't around any more I'm surprised at how VERY happy I am! Life is so great in spite of them not being there! And because they're such loveless folk I barely miss them at all. They treat me so badly I don't want them back, and I am focussing on other things that make me much happier than their interference in my life ever did or ever would.