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  OMG!!! YOU MUST READ THIS!!!! My appeal letter worked!!!

  by kwintestal in

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  for those not up-to-date on my situation ... .

  i was disfellowshipped and i posted about it here.. i wrote an appeal letter, and wrote about it here.

  so, i just got home from a weeks vacation, i was home for 3 hours.

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  UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE
  
  Never heard of such! Maybe this will get some of the friends thinking about the type of people they've entrusted their eternal welfare to.
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  FOR THE CRITIC OF S0-CALLED APOSTATE SITES.........

  by Terry in

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  for the critic of so-called apostate sites i offer the following.

  the taste of bitter fruit.

  the watchtower bible and tract society is a publishing company with a purpose.

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  Terry!

  You're a published author now!

  http://www.freeminds.org/bitterfruit.htm
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  A Hamster named "Cujo"

  by Ingenuous in

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  ok, so when i get a little down, i have a tendency to purchase animals.

  the difficulties with my family and my leaving the org have been weighing on me.

  yesterday, i purchased two blonde dwarf hamsters, both female.. the one is a sweetheart.

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  OK, so when I get a little down, I have a tendency to purchase animals. The difficulties with my family and my leaving the Org have been weighing on me. Yesterday, I purchased two blonde dwarf hamsters, both female.

  The one is a sweetheart. She's a little uncomfortable, as expected, but she's coming around. She knaws on me a little, but doesn't bite. She almost crawled completely into my hand just now.

  The other wants blood. I thought she was nippy at the store because we woke her up, but she's done nothing but wail on me ever since. Even if I'm holding a food nugget between her and me, she'll use the nugget to climb onto my finger and try to take a piece out of me. I've learned that the skin on my dominant hand is a lot tougher than that on my other hand.

  Ideas on taming the murderous rodent I've affectionately dubbed "Cujo"?
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  Those who saw 1914...

  by OldSoul in

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  let's do a little exercise:.

  if the generation that saw 1914 will not die before armageddon, as specifically stated by the prophet class (the faithful and discreet slave, per current understanding), how many are left?.

  i'll be generous and say that a nine year old could grasp the sharp 1914 changes jws cleave to...well, cleave to religiously, i suppose.. according to the population division of the department of economic and social affairs of the united nations secretariat, world population prospects: the 2004 revision, accessed online at esa.un.org/unpp, sept. 1, 2005, there are about 265,000 persons age 100 or older (that is, who were alive in 1905) in 2005. in other words, world-wide there are fewer from the "generation" that saw 1914 than many city populations in the u.s. alone.. now, suppose for the sake of ludicrous forebearance, we say that the prophet class is allowed a mulligan (a concept flatly disallowed by deuteronomy 18:20-22 and 1 john 4:1).

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  Notice how the "passing away" of the "generation in which we live" is not linked with death from old age but with death at Armagedon. All that remained to complete this transformation is to claim that the "generation in which we live" is what Jesus really had in mind when he used the term at Matthew 24:34.

  Sure enough, one month later...

  And this is how they do it: subtly, one part at a time, until they've built up an entirely new doctrine without anyone noticing. That explains why the change created by introducing the "Nethinim" bothered me but didn't stay stuck in my craw. The pieces are far enough apart that you can't see the whole picture unless you're looking for it.

  Some have argued that the GB is so convinced by their own flavor of "logic" that they don't realize what they're doing. But this seems too deliberate to be unconscious. It's almost malicious.
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  Bad jobs in the new system

  by JH in

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  everybody pictures the new system as a paradise, but i'm sure that there will be lousy jobs, just like today.. well, some will be garbage men, picking up the trash house to house.

  not too pleasing for a new system job.. name other lousy jobs some will have to do even in the new system.

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  I always feared the job of burying hundreds of dead bodies and clearing out the possessions of the dead from buildings and homes so we JWs could use them.
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  Turn off that car alarm!!

  by jillbedford in

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  david owen rye, 48, was arrested in los angeles 10 days earlier for allegedly firing at least three bullets into a toyota camry in an apartment-house parking lot because its car alarm wouldn't shut off.. www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/08/10/man_fires_gun_at_car_to_silence_alarm/.

  comments?

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  I've always wanted to do that, but with a bazooka...
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  Then, there are the heroes..........

  by Sunnygal41 in

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  posted on thu, sep. 01, 2005

  'that boy is a hero': rescue of family is silver lining for city .

  a 13-year-old boy in biloxi, miss., rescued his entire family -- 12 people, including his twin sister -- during katrina's rage.

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  Finally - something good I can tear-up over.

  Thanks, Sunnygal!
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  Smells that evoke memories...

  by LittleToe in

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  isn't it funny how certain smells can have a strong effect in evoking distant memories?.

  i was reminded of this when i just opened my desk drawer.

  a little earlier today i bought a local newspaper (which is unusual for me) and didn't have time to read it so i stuck it in the drawer.

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  Schools have a particular smell. Whenever I encounter it, my stomach knots and my soul is flooded with the nightmares of those years of grade school. The smell of #2 pencils and new notebooks in the stationary stores around August also send me into a panic - and normally I love the smell of fresh stationary.

  It took months for me to get used to my new apartment because they clean the halls everyday with the same cleaner they use in hotels. Every time I walked in and smelled the cleaner, I had a momentary feeling of being displaced and away from home.

  If I actually do stay away from home, the smell of my own pillows is a big comfort.
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  Witnesses Gone Wild

  by DevonMcBride in

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  has anyone lurked on the jw sites on myspace.com?

  i was surprised to see how much partying goes on.

  jw's nj, pa, ny.

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  There were always parties going on around here (MD), though I usually didn't hear about it 'til after as I wasn't "kewl" enough or in the right cliques. They were usually in D.C. or PA. The folks around here were especially fond of formals.
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  "Witness Humor" *or* "Jehovah Jollies"

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  did you guys ever find that dub's laugh their heads off at the corniest stuff?

  sometimes during the meetings they would all just burst out laughing at the lamest jokes or comments.

  for the life of me i could not understand what they found humorous.

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  And all this time, here I am thinking I'm just too uptight...