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  Remember these old tales?

  by DanielHaase in

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  does anyone ever remember hearing that white lion's song "when the children cry" was written after the singer read the "truth" book?

  or all the wonderful stories about the demons attacking those who left "the truth"?

  i remember many sleepless nights as a kid worried about the demons because i just haad watched a metallica video.....

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  I remember the rumor about Led Zeppelin. That the song "Stairway to Heaven" was written about a JW girl after dating her.

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  A BIG Thank You...

  by think41self in

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  to simon and angharad for making this place possible.

  to all of the wonderful people i've met here.

  when my husband was posting on h2o, i would read over his shoulder, and he would read aloud to me some of the controversial subject matter.

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  closer2fine

  Congratulations!!! And thank you for your last 1000 or so posts!!

  Now, bend over for your congratulatory spanking :o)

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  I was scared of apostates.....

  by terafera in

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  the only experience i've had with 'apostates' was when i was 7 years old.

  i was visiting family across the states and we went to a district assembly.

  i remember a group of people outside with signs and billboards.

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  closer2fine

  I was inside at a district assembly & a guy friend of mine was surrounded by 'brothers' from our hall. My friend was visibly upset (we were 17) and the brothers were consoling him. Apparently his dad was outside as one of the "Apostates" picketing. He hadn't seen his dad in over 8 years (dad was a jerk [not apostate related])

  What was so ironic about it was that normally the elders in our hall wouldn't give him the time of day - but they were getting all kinds of attention because of this & even met with the CO to help encourage my friend.

  Oh, also when I was 14, a friend of my mothers who had been DF'd years before was labeled an apostate because she was seen regularly going to another church and being critical of the WTBTS.

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  Special Dub Words That Make You Go YUK!

  by Englishman in

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  for me, the word was "loving".. great "loving" kindness.. great undeserved "loving" kindness!.

  disfellowshipping is a "loving" provision.. when the wtbts want their accolytes to swallow another bitter pill, another restriction, another rebuke, another demand on time, the buzz word is "loving".. the "loving" word, is, to the average jw, the same as the mccabe nod is to the salesman.

  the mccabe nod is used by salesman all the time to get the prospective customer to agree to something that he doesn't care for too much.

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  closer2fine

  "the Friends"

  The Friends helped provide the meal for the pioneers.

  ick.

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  Tell Old School Friends That You've Left?

  by Englishman in

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  2. friends

  some of the uk national newspapers have been referring to the web-site at http://friendsreunited.co.uk/, where thousands and thousands of brits have been getting back in touch with old school friends.. just out of curiosity i decided to take a peek.

  well, i was stunned.

  many long-forgotten class-mates had my mind leaping back to the early 60s, particularly when they mentioned the weird nicknames that we had given to our teachers.. the french master, froggy fleuriot, mousy mclaughlan with his rats teeth, bummer burrell well, i will leave that one to your imagination.

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  http://www.classmates.com is a pretty good one. You don't have to pay the $$ - but you don't get email addys if you don't.

  I was contacted by a classmate. I called her and started out with a great conversation, she asked if I was still a JW. I said no! And briefly explained why. She said that was too bad, she was now one & hoped we could be friends. OUCH!!

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  Submissive Houston Sisters Are Quite Useful

  by Englishman in

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  it beats me what this is all about.

  i recognise the style though, i think it's from the 50's: http://www.jwrelief.org/hrc/wnu/wnu%2001-14-02englprint.htm.

  englishman.. ..from the scepter'd isle kept free by 2 fins and 4 merlins.

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  Well I'm guessing that it is in response to the charge that the JW's weren't helping Houston recover after the hurricane.

  
  
  Semi-trailers and cars float on I-10 west of downtown Houston.

  
  
  An unidentified man on a jet ski passes submerged trucks on Interstate 10.

  http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/topstory2/942846

  $2.14 billion in damage estimated
  Mayor: Storm city's biggest disaster ever
  By RACHEL GRAVES and MIKE TOLSON
  Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle

  The tab racked up by Tropical Storm Allison continued to rise today, topping $2.14 billion in the city of Houston alone.
  The total includes $1 billion worth of damage to 27,000 homes, $960 million in damage to at least 526 commercial buildings and $122 million in damaged business inventory, said Jim Robinson, chief appraiser for the Harris County Appraisal District.

  Damage to vehicles, the contents of homes and the contents of medical, government and arts buildings have not yet been tabulated. Neither has damage to property in Harris County outside the city limits.

  "This is clearly the most expensive, the most devastating disaster we've ever had," Mayor Lee Brown said Wednesday.

  Allison first hit Houston on June 5, but the brunt of the storm came last weekend when it killed 21 people and turned neighborhoods into lakes and roads into rivers.

  Among other losses, research valued well into the millions was destroyed in Texas Medical Center buildings.

  Downtown theaters lost irreplaceable instruments, some of them hundreds of years old. The Houston Symphony's library of musical scores was inundated, as were ballet costumes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Damage to equipment for cellular telephone companies reached $30 million.

  Workers are still pumping water out of basements and parking garages in skyscrapers and hospitals, a process that costs about $1 million per building.

  The damage values are based on costs for repairs or, in the case of total losses, replacements.

  Robinson said he hopes to have a more definitive number for losses within the city of Houston on Friday.

  "This is a major catastrophe," said Sandra Ray, spokeswoman for the Southwest Insurance Information Service. "It rivals the hailstorms in the Fort Worth area in 1995 and the Oklahoma City tornadoes."

  The estimates put together by insurance catastrophe teams were half a billion dollars in regular insured losses and half a billion covered by flood insurance. Those estimates, Ray said, were preliminary and conservative.

  "He may be right," she said of the mayor's figure. "We know our estimate will go up."

  Insurance companies expect at least 100,000 claims, with 60 to 70 percent of those involving motor vehicles, Ray said.

  Though Brown's assessment of the financial damage likely will prove accurate, Allison has some rivals for the title of worst storm ever in the Houston area. Flooding caused by Tropical Storm Claudette in July 1979 was almost as bad, and its damage estimates topped $1.8 billion.

  (All figures have been adjusted for inflation and are in 2001 dollars.)

  Claudette was responsible for a U.S. rainfall record. A gauge two miles northeast of Alvin recorded 43 inches over a 24-hour period.

  Clear Creek expanded to a width greater than a mile, rising to 9 feet above normal. Approximately 15,000 homes and 17,000 cars were damaged by floodwaters.

  Floods from a four-day deluge in October 1994 produced a little over $1 billion in damage. Seventeen people were killed throughout the Houston area and more than 22,000 homes were flooded.

  The notorious 1935 flood, which pushed Buffalo Bayou 46 feet above normal and dunked downtown Houston, caused more than $162 million in damage and was arguably worse than Allison in overall impact. The central water plant, for instance, was inoperable for weeks. So dramatic was the storm's effect that local officials soon created the Harris County Flood Control District.

  Houston also has been heavily damaged by two major hurricanes. Alicia hit the Gulf Coast hard in 1983, killing 21 people and exacting a $3.5 billion toll on the region. Carla, which struck in 1961, was even more deadly, taking 34 lives in Texas and wreaking $1.8 billion in damage to the Houston area.

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  ENRON Suicide on news....

  by sf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the msnbc news alert has yet to go off on this, yet the local morning show just signed off with the breaking news that someone in the "case" has committed suicide.. i've got it on fox tv news right now, yet nothing has been reported.. anyone else hear this yet?.

  skally

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  Ex-Enron vice chair commits suicide
  
  J. Clifford Baxter found dead of gunshot wound to the head
  

  MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
  
  Jan. 25 — Former Enron Vice Chairman J. Clifford Baxter was found dead in his car in a Houston suburb Friday. Texas police said the cause of death was suicide.

  BAXTER, 43, WAS vice chairman of Enron when he resigned in May 2001, several months before the energy company’s collapse. Police in the Houston suburb, Sugar Land, said he was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head early Friday.
  “We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and colleague, Cliff Baxter. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends,” the company said in a statement.
  Enron spokesman Mark Palmer had no additional comment.
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  Baxter’s body was found at 2:23 a.m. local time Friday in between two medians in a residential area in Sugar Land. He was in the driver’s seat of the vehicle and a police officer stopped to check on him after noticing the parked car.
  The officer discovered what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Baxter’s head.
  Jim Richard, a Fort Bend County justice of the peace, ruled Baxter’s death a suicide mid-morning Friday.
  “We don’t have any other indication other than it being suicide,” said Sugar Land police Capt. David Marcaurele.
  Baxter had joined Enron in 1991 and was chairman and CEO of Enron North America prior to being named chief strategy officer for Enron Corp. in June 2000 and vice chairman in October 2000, the company said.

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  Special Dub Words That Make You Go YUK!

  by Englishman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for me, the word was "loving".. great "loving" kindness.. great undeserved "loving" kindness!.

  disfellowshipping is a "loving" provision.. when the wtbts want their accolytes to swallow another bitter pill, another restriction, another rebuke, another demand on time, the buzz word is "loving".. the "loving" word, is, to the average jw, the same as the mccabe nod is to the salesman.

  the mccabe nod is used by salesman all the time to get the prospective customer to agree to something that he doesn't care for too much.

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  closer2fine

  "proper headship"

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  ENRON Suicide on news....

  by sf in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the msnbc news alert has yet to go off on this, yet the local morning show just signed off with the breaking news that someone in the "case" has committed suicide.. i've got it on fox tv news right now, yet nothing has been reported.. anyone else hear this yet?.

  skally

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  closer2fine

  joelbear, lol.

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman
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  January 23 was my Birthday!!!

  by Michael3000 in

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  2. friends

  hi, folks.

  sorry i haven;t been around the board a while - work, life and lots of singing engagements have been keeping me very busy over the holiday season!.

  yesterday was my birthday - i am now 35!

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  closer2fine

  Here are your 35 birthday kisses, where do you want them?

  closer

  Solid stone is just sand and water, baby
  Sand and water, and a million years gone by - beth nielsen chapman