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  WEIRDO SINGLE 'HOVAH DUDES

  by TR in

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  were you a "weirdo single hovah dude"?.

  some examples i know of:.

  single 'hovah dude, 40ish, mic handler, non-elder/ms, huge pot belly, rotten teeth.

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  Lives in small cramped, dirty 1 bed house, never been cleaned. WT rags and litter-ature lying all over the place.

  Ugh. My son, the JW. And I made him what he is. I live with that every day.
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  Hollywood and Silentlambs

  by Derrick in

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  it takes but one major star, producer or hollywood executive to take the tragic silentlambs saga to heart.

  imagine kevin costner as bill bowen.

  i'm still trying to decide the actors who should play each of the governing body members... .

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  How about walter Mattheau and Jack Lemon for GB members

  I'm thinking Laurel and Hardy. Or Moe, Curly and Larry.

  Edited by - COMF on 8 August 2002 8:57:21
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  OK, I was a wuss today.....

  by Mimilly in

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  i have seen my share of horrors in my life; my own; others when i worked on the ambulance and in the funeral home.

  i've come home covered in someone else's blood and dealt with death on numerous times.

  i have been to the dentist five times in the past month.

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  I like going to the dentist. They always give me a Vicodin prescription afterward. Supposed to carry me through any residual pain for two or three days. Ahhh, hydrocodone! Life is good. :)
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  Owe You All An Apology

  by Francois in

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  there was a longish post here yesterday, i think it was, or maybe the day before that outlined a pretty comprehensive summary of all the dos and don'ts and associated acceptable usages for this site.. i realized to my horror that there's one in particular that i fear i violate all the time and i'd like to briefly address it.. one of the "don'ts" was all about starting a thread, or - by extension - participating in a thread, and then not going back there to respond to others who have taken the time to remark upon what you've had to say.. i'm afraid i'm guilty of that; and guilty a lot.. i'd like to offer the following in defense of my former bad: as many of you know, about four years ago, i sustained a very serious injury and damn near died.

  it was a close thing there for about a week as to whether or not i'd be pushing up daisies.

  anyway, to make a long story miserable, i've been on a fairly whopping daily maintenance dose of a particularly powerful narcotic.

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  COMF

  Francois, when you post, two little icons appear along with your pic and info on the left. They're those "paper" icons with the dog-ears. One of them is a link to "threads started by Francois" and the other is a link to "threads with posts by Francois".

  Next time you're reading a thread with a post by you, click on that "threads with posts by Francois" link. When the page opens, go up to the menu and add it to your favorites. If you're using IE and add it to the "Links" subfolder, it'll show up on your toolbar.

  Then, whenever you come to the forum, at some point you can click on that link to open a list of all the posts you've been active in. No matter how far back they've scrolled on the regular threads list, you can still easily find and read them, and respond if you need to.

  Edited by - COMF on 8 August 2002 8:16:28
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  Can't Get it Through Their Thick Skulls

  by dobby in

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  my husband and i have been pulling away from the jw's for almost a year now and we have had very frank discussions with family and friends as to the reason why.. however, they can't seem to get it through their heads that we are unhappy with the wt beliefs, doctrines, essentially the "truth".

  this despite our voicing strong opinions on the blood issue, child abuse issue, generation, false predictions etc.. even today my mom-in-law said, "you just gotta serve jah despite the people" you see about four years ago we had a terrible falling out with some mean and deceitful elders and everyone thinks that is why we are inactive.

  but it's not, we kept going to the meetings for three years after that event.. and if it is not the elder thing, my friends blame my dysfunctional childhood (namely stepfather) for turning me against the truth, "it's not the truth you can't blame jah, you just didn't have a happy family, blah, blah, blah...".

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  At least they're still talking to you. It could be worse.
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  Narcism

  by Satanus in

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  narcism is a stage that children go through.

  i don't remember the age exactly.

  i'm sure larc or some other person who has studied psychology would know.

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  Narcism is a stage that children go through.

  Yep. I remember being narked on a time or two.
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  Whatever!!

  by LuckyLucy in

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  what is your favorite one word saying..

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  Eh...
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  Local Paper

  by silentlambs in

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  this is an article for the local weekly newspaper.

  silentlambs .

  witnesses expelled bill bowen.

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  COMF

  Neither Bowens attorney, Rush Hunt of , nor members of the disfellowship panel could be reached for comment.

  I've mentioned this before, but didn't get a response. I've seen the editing often enough now to realize that it is editing, done with the intent of removing locations or other specifics that might reveal too much information about someone. That's fine; I suppose it's a good idea. What bothers me is the method of editing.

  Neither Rush Hunt of , nor

  ...looks like a major typo. I have to stop and study it to try to figure out what it is. It takes a deal of figuring to finally realize that it used to say,

  Neither Rush Hunt of Sometown, nor

  It would be much more readable if something were inserted in place of the deleted text:

  Neither Rush Hunt of [deleted], nor

  ...for example. During the time that I'm trying to figure out what it's supposed to say, I've lost my concentration on the subject being discussed. It's distracting and detracts from the reader's grasp and enjoyment of the post.

  FWIW
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  From the mouths of babes (post your funnies)

  by Cappuccino OC in

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  a couple of years ago during the km meeting the day of the memorial was announced, location and time.

  the announcement was followed by a km article review re: the memorial (question & answer).

  my daughter was 5 at that time and had been dozing off & on.

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  Not too long ago he asked me this question that I also had a hard time answering,
  Anyone have any ideas?

  Um... cuz he's not there?
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  Personal Ads: What Not to Say

  by COMF in

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  living in dallas, i've found that personals ads usually list an abundance of folks within reasonable traveling distance... i can turn up about 220 who have posted a picture, don't smoke, and live within 25 miles of me.

  it's a great resource for a single guy who enjoys female company.

  i've read many hundreds of personal ads.

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  Bendrr, I do understand your sentiments, believe it or not. But I venture an educated guess, here, that you haven't been doing this as long as I have, or you wouldn't be advocating instant monogamy upon answering the girl's ad. You write back and forth for a week or so, decide you're interested enough to meet, agree on a place, drive there in separate cars, have a nice dinner, agree to go out on a formal date next weekend, she relents and tells you where she lives, you pick her up, you go on the date, you have a nice time, you decide to go on another date, and on this second date you realize there are more than a couple of things that bug you about her. Midweek, you discuss them with her on the phone. Her reactions are not particularly favorable, but you go out again anyway because you've got such an investment in this thing now. It doesn't work. You drag it out for another couple of weeks, and then admit defeat.

  Now, you can do that one person at a time if you wish, meeting an average of one person every two months, if you like. I don't like.

  We don't have the foggiest idea, going in, how much compatibility we're going to find in these people we meet. About all we really know is that we're both looking for companionship of varying degrees. I'm really, strongly interested in meeting people I mesh well with, people with whom there's no work involved in being comfortable. I don't care to tick the possibilities down one at a time spread out over months. I prefer to date three to five at a time until one meshes so well that I'm willing to cut the others out in the interest of cultivating this special one to see where it goes.

  Whatever works for you, man, but I do believe if you start dating around in a scene like the Dallas personals, you're going to find that what I say is true: you don't have the time it takes to devote yourself exclusively to every princess to see whether she turns into a toad.

  What I say is as true of men as it is of women. I don't feel threatened or betrayed by some other guy dating a woman I'm dating. If we're a good match, she'll ditch the other guy in time. In the meantime, it's not like we were virgins when we met...