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  Publications for your library

  by MadTiger in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  1990 yearbook of jehovahs witnesses (1990) d excellent .

  1991 yearbook of jehovahs witnesses (1991) d excellent .

  1992 yearbook of jehovahs witnesses (1992) d excellent .

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  MadTiger

  Some people burn theirs.
  
  Some sell theirs.
  
  I could never burn a book. That's me.
  
  JWDF people get first shot.
  Please PM with an offer. After a few days, I am auctioning the lot off.
  
  
  The letters are just designations of the size/weight of the books. The adjective is the general condition of the pages and covers.
  
  Comprehensive Concordance (1973) A Great
  
  The Emphatic Diaglott (1942) C Great
  
  Revelation (old) (1988) B Poor
  
  Reasoning from the Scriptures (1989) C Good
  
  Jehovah’s Witnesses – Proclaimers (1993) A Great
  
  Insight on the Scriptures, Volume I (1988) A Great
  Insight on the Scriptures, Volume II (1988) A Great
  
  Draw Close to Jehovah (2002) C Excellent
  
  Holy Bible – King James 1611 version (------) C Excellent
  
  Worship the Only True God (2002) C Excellent
  
  1990 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1990) D Excellent
  1991 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1991) D Excellent
  1992 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1992) D Excellent
  1993 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1993) D Excellent
  1994 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1994) D Excellent
  1995 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1995) D Excellent
  1996 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1996) D Excellent
  1998 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1998) D Excellent
  2002 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (2002) D Excellent
  
  Bible - NW Trans. of the Holy Scriptures (1984) B Great
  
  Assorted brochures (Blood, Trinity, etc.)
  
  Defending and Legally Establishing (1950) D Excellent
  the Good News
  
  Sing Praises to Jehovah’s (songbook) (1984) B Excellent
  
  Drama – Jehovah’s Name to Be Declared (1981) D Excellent
  in All the Earth (cassette tape)
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  A big thank you to Simon

  by Caedes in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i thought i should write a big thanks to simon for this board, not only has it been a big eye-opener to me regarding my past and helped me realise how many people have been through the same stuff as i have, but it's through this board that i've met a wonderful woman, michelle (calico ethel).. michelle is beautiful, intelligent, funny and luckily for me has terrible eyesight, i feel very fortunate to have met her and hopefully (presuming i can keep on hiding her glasses!

  ) we shall be very happy together in the future.

  she has rather recklessly and bravely agreed to move in with me and is moving over at the beginning of february.

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  Simon needs to sesh me with some of that.
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  My daughter had a showdown with her aunt

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my daughter's aunt (my x sil, and a jw) moved into my daughter's neigborhood recently.

  she has had nothing to do with my daughter in over 15 years.

  my daughter was never baptized, but her aunt chose to basically ignore her existence for all these years.

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  Tell your daughter to give "Maude" one warning, then a restraining order.
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  Lessons Learned from Captain Jack Sparrow

  by zagor in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've found this article that rang so true to me.

  i share as sacred just about everything described, though in last few months i've found myself betraying my own values.

  so i'm glad i found this reminder, these are defintely going on my wall as my own 20 commandments.

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  Depp = one of the greatest nonconventional actors EVER!!!
  
  Great post. I just finished watching both movies in the last week, and thoroughly enjoyed them.
  
  I am eagerly anticipating the next one.
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  Meditation, letting the demons in

  by free2beme in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i remember asking an elder once, "what do you think about meditation?

  " he responded that we should not relax and open our minds, as opening our minds can let demons in.

  i thought that seemed like a odd response, and looked it up in the watchtower, and sure enough he gave the societies views on meditation.

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  MadTiger

  Meditation
  
  1) Prepare a quiet spot for your meditation. Meditating regularly in the same spot can help your mind to form a habit of relaxing. Sit in a relaxed, cross-legged position, Indian style. If you are not comfortable that way, lean against a wall or sit in a chair. The main idea is to simply be as pain-free in your body as possible, so that you can focus your mind without strain.
  2) Begin your meditation session by taking some deep breaths. Bring your awareness to the space between your eyebrows or to your heart area. Choose a phrase that is relaxing or uplifting, or you may simply choose to observe your breath.
  3) When your mind starts to drift away from the chosen phrase, gently bring it back to center, repeating the words. Gradually, you may be able to notice an increasing sensation of peace during and after the time you sit to meditate. It is this peacefulness that is the physiologic aim of meditation.
  
  Meditation induces a hypometabolic state, with increases in serotonin, endorphin, and enkephalins.
  
  Visualization
  
  1) Depict the “problem” or goal.
  2) The best time to perform visualization is after deep relaxing. You are then relaxed and calm, and can focus your mind most effectively.
  3) Use general imagery. Breathe in healing, breathe out pain or disease.
  4) Choose specific imagery.
  5) Open visualization.
  6) Depict solution.
  
  Deep Relaxation
  
  1) Lie flat on your back, placing your feet about shoulder-width apart; if lying flat is painful to you, you can practice this in a chair or raised bed. Your hands should be slightly apart from the trunk of your body, with palms turned up. Close your eyes. Gently move your arms, legs, trunk, and neck.
  2) Focus on your body, part by part. First, think of your right leg. Inhale and slowly raise that leg about one inch above the floor. Hold it fully tensed with the breath held. After five seconds or so, exhale forcibly out of the mouth, and relax the muscles of the right leg at the same time, allowing it to fall to the floor on its own. Shake the right leg gently from right to left, relaxing it fully, and then forget entirely about the existence of this leg. Repeat this same process for the left leg, then buttocks, stomach, chest muscles, and shoulders.
  3) Roll your neck from side to side. Squeeze your face muscles tight, open your mouth as wide as you can, stick out your tongue, and roll your eyes back; then release. Once again tighten your face muscles; imagine squeezing all of the tension in your body out of the tip of your nose. Take some deep breaths and feel your whole body relax.
  4) Now use your mind to relax each part of your body, beginning with the toes and moving slowly up the body. Feel each body part relax even further, using your mind. Finally, focus on your breath. Observe it, and keep your concentration there. Then observe your thoughts. See how they come and go, but don’t follow them out, just witness them, and stay centered. Then go beneath the waves of changing thoughts, to the peace and stillness that doesn’t change, and just feel that peace. Stay there for some time, then deepen your breath, roll your arms and legs, give a good stretch, and sit up, alert yet relaxed.
  
  Breathing Exercises
  
  1) Three-part breathing: Let the abdomen expand, then the lower chest, finally the upper chest, feeling the clavicle rise. Exhale in the reverse order. Count to 10 breathing in, and then to 20 breathing out.
  
  2) Bellows breathing: Rapidly and forcefully exhale, then have an easy inhalation, for a 20 count. Rest, and repeat 3-10 times.
  
  3) Alternate-nostril breathing: Breathe in to the count of 10, then out to the count of 20, alternating nostrils by using an index finger on the unused nostril.
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  No Limit Texas Hold ' Em.

  by Blueblades in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  read some books on this card game, played some home texas hold ' em.

  watched them on tv.

  the new bond movie casinoe royale has a great texas hold ' em game in it.

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  Played a LOT online, and now I am too busy to play as much as I used to.
  
  GREAT GAMES. I play all of the main variants. I won an online HORSE tourney, and
  a No Limit tourney, for small stakes.
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  Would you risk your life?

  by pratt1 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  innyc yesterday a man saved a strangers lfe by jumping on the train tracks and rolling both himself and the injured man under a small crawl space in the tracks.

  fortunately both escaped harm but at least 2 train cars had rolled over them.. the man had fell on to the tracks after suffering a seizure.. what a heroic act of kindness.. would you have risked your life to save a stranger?.

  is your answer the same answer you would have given if you were still in the borg?.

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  MadTiger

  In high school, without a hesitation, I ran to place
  
  myself between a little girl and a dog running loose
  
  that charged toward her. Anyway, it turns out, the
  
  dog was an old cur who was just being an asshole, but I
  
  didn't know it at the time. I was happy with my conduct.
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  "You are starting to sound like an apostate!"

  by MadTiger in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  where does the line form to pick up my medal?

  hahhaahha!

  this is what my best friend said.

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  UPDATE #2: I decided that I am going to help my old friend get reinstated. I am not going to call him. You see, he isn't supposed to associate with me whether I am "apostate" or not, since he is disfellowshipped, and wants to get reinstated. I miss him a little, but I will live.
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  Tragic Bush Administration Failure

  by DebSmithLopez in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  up here, in the northern plains, we just recovered from a historic event--- may i even say a "weather event" of "biblical proportions" with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 mph that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed all roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.. .

  fyi:.

  george bush did not come.. .

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  MadTiger

  ==============================================
  "it seems that...in general minorities..."
  
  If what you are saying is true, what does this mean?
  Is it something genetic that we can get some of you to
  splice out? haha.
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  I could go on all day with history lessons, but then I caught myself.
  What would be the point? You are totally aware of your own past
  actions and thoughts on minorities, and seem to be reasonably
  lettered, so I would assume you have at least a basic knowledge of
  U.S. history. Why should I recount everything from 1865 onward? Concentration
  camps in this country, water hoses, sit-ins, etc. Nah, I am not feeling like it.
  Why should I even give my own personal examples illustrating my points?
  
  You would still be Rush Limbaugh, Jr. after it is all said and done.
  
  They need a Politics/Current Affairsthread to let this plop into.
  
  
  
  
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  Tragic Bush Administration Failure

  by DebSmithLopez in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  up here, in the northern plains, we just recovered from a historic event--- may i even say a "weather event" of "biblical proportions" with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 mph that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed all roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.. .

  fyi:.

  george bush did not come.. .

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  MadTiger

  Anytime I can predict a poster's color and political leanings by their post,
  that is a shame.
  
  
  Damn Rush Limbaughs in this place lately.