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  To kill an American

  by LovesDubs in

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  i really thought this was poignant.. .

  written by an australian dentist....and too good to delete..... .

  to kill an american.

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  F#&$in' A, bubba!

  Brandon
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  Peace and Security to follow some day

  by Sherwood in

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  1 thessalonians 5:1-11 .

  5 now as for the times and the seasons, brothers, you need nothing to be written to you.

  2 for you yourselves know quite well that jehovahs day is coming exactly as a thief in the night.

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  ?: What is the problem with reality hitting agnostic/atheistic types right between their eyeballs!
  
  
  A: It hurts their pride.

  It has nothing to do with pride, and everything to do with EVIDENCE!

  Do you have any EVIDENCE to support your belief that the scripture you quoted is true?

  Secondly, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Would you state it more clearly?

  Brandon
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  Panhandlers piss me off!

  by Nosferatu in

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  yesterday, my brother and his son were in town visiting.

  me and the wife decided to go out and get some pizza to bring back for supper.. when we pulled up to the pizza shop, a guy came up to the car window and gave us his sob story about how he had cancer removed, how he refused to stay in the homeless shelter, and presented a stack of papers stapled together along with his mb health card.

  he asked for any change that we may have.

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  Regarding the lady panhandling and driving a BMW:

  This is nothing new, one of the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories, "The Man With The Twisted Lip", was about this exact thing. A hunched over beggar who "sold" matches during the day in the high brow busines districts of London, quoting poetry and great writers. Come to find out, during the course of the story, that he lived like a gentleman in the country, had a wife who thought he was a businessman in London, etc. All his money was from panhandling and investing his panhandling money. The whole hunched over beggar thing was a disguise he would put on after getting to London every morning. Cool story.

  I personally don't give money to any panhandlers, because there is plenty one can do to EARN enough money to get by, or there are social programs to take advantage of. I have personally been out of work and abandoned by friends and family (while exiting the JW's), where we lived in a cheap motel and I did odd jobs for enough money to buy some food and pay the rent on the weekly hotel room. I never had to panhandle, ever. I EARNED every dollar I got. We delivered phone books, did odd cleaning jobs, etc. Whatever we could find until I was able to find another job. So I have no sympathy for, or patience with, beggars.

  I have done the same as another poster mentioned above, when confronted with someone offering to "work for food", I've offered them a job, for cash and food, to clean up a yard, or mow a yard, or help paint something. Guess how many of these folks every accepted my offer of work? You got it, NONE. Every one of them had an excuse why they couldn't do whatever job it was I was offering. Sorry, but this is a wealthy country (USA), and there is enough work to find if you are willing to work.

  Brandon
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  (poll) Kut it or Keep it?

  by IP_SEC in

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  1. why the hell do you think i care?.

  2. gross, get rid of it!

  3. keep it.. 4. eh?

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  3. Keep it, looks good on ya.

  I'm a goatie guy myself, wife love's it.

  Brandon
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  Out of Bethel and still recovering

  by livingalie in

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  hello to all im new to the site i have been looking for about two weeks now .i was at brooklyn bethel from 1994 -1999 and i worked in the barber shop office blgd.

  (25 columbia heights ) .i just wanted to say hi and that many of your post have really been helpful to me as i have gone though some tough times on all levels .

  thanks for letting me just state that .

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  Welcome!!!

  Would love to hear your story.

  Best regards,

  Brandon
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  What is your town or area's claim to fame?

  by free2beme in

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  every where you live, the local area has something about it that is either famous for something good or something bad.

  as an example, you go to one town and it may have the historial site of a famous war battle.

  you go to another an it might be the place something was invented, or the birthplace of someone famous.

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  Fire hydrant capital of the world.

  We have a silver coated fire hydrant monument in the center of downtown, it was the 1,000,000th hydrant produced at the fire hydrant foundry located here. They are shipped all over the world. I have seen fire hydrants manufactured here on the streets of Manhattan (during a visit to Bethel, arrgh), Dallas, etc.

  A town about 15 miles away is the sock capital of the world, Fort Payne, Alabama, including a sock museum. For more than a hundred years, up until about five years ago, more socks were produced here in the textile mills than anywhere else in the world. NAFTA and China have all but killed the textile industry there, but other industries have taken up the slack. Fort Payne is also the home town of the country music group "Alabama", also with a museum.

  Sadly, this general area which incorporates several towns, known as Sand Mountain, has also been infamous as a KKK and segregation stronghold. Even after the civil rights movement of the sixties, it was well known all over the country as a place a black man did not want to be after sundown. Even up until the mid to late 80's, the KKK would hold public fundraising drives where they would stand at the highway intersections with buckets, in full KKK dress including hoods, and solicit donations from drivers. Thankfully, the nasty bigoted old-timers have gradually died off and the area has improved significantly.

  Well, that's about it...

  Brandon
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  Be Honest: Did You ACTUALLY Report Accurate Field Service Time?

  by minimus in

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  i bet most people did not.

  i think nearly everyone counted time spent on breaks.

  or sitting in the car for an hour and a half while the elders did a "shepherding" call.

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  I was a "true believer" so of course I never faked hours. The worst I ever did was round up to the nearest hour at the end of the month.

  I grew up in a congregation of old timers, who counted their time by the minute. I'm Not kidding. When I helped count the time at the end of the month half of the totals on the time slips would look like this:

  15 hrs 47 min. or 11:18 or for some elderly ones, 52 minutes.

  There was one sister (my grandmother) who would not start her time until she herself talked to a human at the door (she did not start her time if her first door was a not at home). She would stop her time at break, and wouldn't restart it until she talked to someone again. She was quite vocal about how others counted time.

  Of course, we didn't hear any of those comments anymore, once she started pioneering after she retired.

  Brandon
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  JWs and Small Business Outsourcing

  by Stephanus in

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  i was struck by a thought last night: if you had a small business and needed window or other cleaning service, instead of looking up the appropriate section of the yellow pages, you could just call the local kingdom hall and ask for recommendations for someone to do the job.. what other services could you ask about, while you're still on the phone?

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  Auto trim and detailing. Anyone else remember the TrimLine days of the 80's?
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  Would you fight and possibly die for your country?

  by free2beme in

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  i want to put this in the right frame, as what is happening in iraq is not about dying for our countries.

  so this is what i mean by this question.. if a foreign government were to suddenly invade your country.

  would you be willing to join the arm forces to fight for your country, knowing full well that you may die having never been able to reap the benefits of any possible victory?

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  The purpose of a soldier is not to die for his country, but to make the other poor slob die for his.
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  Anyone Close to North Florida?

  by Synergy in

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  i live in tallahassee and i'd love to meet other exjw's that i knew before or that are from around here that i've never met.

  please get in touch with me if you are close by.

  also anyone that wants to do demonstrations let me know.

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  Brunswick, Georgia here! :-)

  Born and raised in North Alabama, over here in Brunswick for a construction project. Looks like we're about 3 hours away from Tallahassee, but would love to meet up some weekend.

  Brandon