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  Tax Phobia?

  by Carmel in

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  anyone afraid of doing their taxes?

  i just helped out a lady that is scared to death to do her taxes.

  she won't use an accountant (doesn't really need to) and won't try to do her own so i sat down with her and showed her how to use turbo tax on line.

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  Anyone afraid of doing their taxes? I just helped out a lady that is scared to death to do her taxes. She won't use an accountant (doesn't really need to) and won't try to do her own so I sat down with her and showed her how to use Turbo Tax on line. We spent most of the time looking for receipts and documents, but even at that, it only took two hours to do her federal and state taxes. She's getting over a grand back and it cost her $39 to file. My own were done in less than an hour, but I had all the documents ready in one place... Love that Turbotax! carmel
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  What was the biggest secret that you kept from everyone

  by TheCoolerKing in

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  what was the biggest "secret" that you kept from everyone when you were a witness?.

  i thought would could have some fun with this topic on a friday afternoon.. back when i was an active witness i started "secretly" dating a "worldy" girl.

  there was a shortage of single sisters at my hall.

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  Like I'm gonna tell you and the whole world......NOT!

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  What are YOU passionate about?

  by lonelysheep in

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  ok, so we all know the wt used to be our passion till that died!.

  what are you passionate about today?

  kids are an automatic, and so are spouses for some people.. i'm referring to your interests that make up the core of you..

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  After my faith, my fish research, then my Kawasaki Vulcan....

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  don't tell my wife!
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  WHO IS THE INJURED PARTY? What is wrong with this doctrine?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  who was the injured party?

  in the garden of eden when both adam and his wife, eve rebelled against instructions from their landlord, jehovah.. "in the day you eat of it (the fruit) you shall surely die.".

  adam and eve ate of it.

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  Sure attests to the power of myth. It's still spinning in the minds of those that reject their literal understanding...

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  If you had to, what religion would you choose to be?

  by Crumpet in

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  you can answer this as seriously (lt) or as inanely (buttlight) as you like!

  i was reflecting having read someone's thread about blowing off non jw family that actually it would have been so much better if i had a larger family, preferably not completely jw saturated and this random train of thought led me to thinking that if i could choose i would be catholic, because then i would have a huge family, go to really nice gothic churches with lots of candles and tortured saints and be able to go to confession (instead of lt's mobile).

  also the colours of the whore of babylon always were a lot more enticing to me than the mild blues and undistracting beiges of the khs.. i think we all have religions which would suit our personalities so much better.

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  One that is inclusive rather than exclusive, one that recognizes the divinity of all the other religions, one that recognizes the essential unity of all mankind, one that dissallows prejudice of any kind, one that promotes unity in diversity, one that works toward unity, not uniformity, one that allows questions, in fact encourages them, one that engages in the promotion of equality between the sexes, supports the notion of family being the building block of a healthy society, one that is optomistic about the future and defines divine intervention to be the visition of God's Messengers, one that values the physical and metphysical, one that avoids partisanship, rancor, hate and envey, one that engages in moral education of children having more value than academic achievement yet values education as humanities path to his glory, one that seeks bonds of friendship with all races, creeds, and members of all tribes, and nationalities...... Guess, I'm pretty content with what I've already chosen... carmel
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  Is it just because i was raised a JW?

  by helncon in

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  2. bible

  yesterday (sunday) we went to our daughters church for family service as they have these at the end of each term for the kids club (sunday school) and if you don't know about my beliefs that i don't have any and i am one not wanting to have anything to do with any religion.. anyway there are a few things that caught my attention during this service as i normally tune out but they were talking about how jesus was telling a parragul (sp?

  ) about sowing the seeds and then it all came flooding back of the memories about how the jw used this, and you know it was strange as this church was saying things almost identical to what the jw would say.. this is not what i was wanting to mention but i thought this was interesting.. so after all the service they have a morning tea for everyone afterward and i got talking to the minister/father/pastor (don't know what the head person called) wife and the subject come about christmas and i told her that this was not as important as when jesus died and that he wasn't even born on 25th december she was taken back that he was not born on this day as i told her he was born earlier in the year and i explained how this is the reason, she was gob smacked!.

  i thought this was common knowledge so i wonder if she will go back to her husband and ask questions if this is true.. so i ask the question is it common knowledge that jesus was not born on this day and it is a pagan holiday or is it a jw thing.

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  Hmmm, so I'm to understand that Jesus' dying is more important to humanity than how He lived and what He taught? carmel
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  Introduction

  by White Dove in

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  i might have posted an intro in the wrong place so i will try again.

  i have two kids, a girl and a boy, and am in college full time studying sociology (at least that is what i'm supposed to be doing instead of talking to you.

  i prefer talking to you).

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  WHERE'S runnin Bear? carmel
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  My Dad died on Friday

  by littlemike in

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  i dont often post on here but lurk everday.

  i was an elder for 11 years, raised as a witness from birth and eventually left in 2002 aged 42.. my dad died on friday aged 87. he was a witness baptized in 1940. he was congregation servant and then elder in hull, england.. we were arranging his funeral tonight with my 2 brothers who are still witness elders.

  all they were interested in was what he had done in the "truth".

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  First Mike, I applaud you for writing down exactly why you left and second that you waited until your father passed so as to avoid an unnecessary burden on him. If I were you, I would go right a head. The rumor mill of the society needs a kick in the gut as often as possible. It may trigger another soul to seriously look into the truth about the "truth".

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  WAR in IRAQ: Is this about Religion or Oil???

  by Kudra in

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  my mom says that one of the reasons that the wtbts is the true religion (after i told her many things they were wrong about) is that: .

  only they told of this "war between governments and religion" and she can see "things coming to a head" in recent years and that this proves so much that this war is just part of the "sign" that the society has always pointed to.

  she gives as example also the strong conservative christian leanings of bush and his regime.

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  The religious fervor of the Islamist terrorists is simply an effective vehicle to accomplish political and materialistic aspirations. Yes it is about oil for much of our leaders, but it is more about control of society amongst factions that are alligned on historical divisions, not all of which were based on religion.

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  Death, is death our only destiny?

  by Blueblades in

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  soon after we arrive on this earth, we become aware of the most fundamental fact of our existence, that we won't be here very long.

  an average life span lasts less than 30,000 days.

  we sleep a third of that time, so the days we experience number less than 20,000. we may try, but we can't ever completely deny our mortality.

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  Now let met try again...!

  Kid A, I think you are projecting in that "if you" believed in an afterlife it would be out of YOUR fear of death. I consider myself religious and don't fear death. Don't like pain and suffering but death holds no fear over me. Didn't as a dubbie, an agnostic or as a believer.

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