Josie, if you have me in that "older woman" category I'm making a road trip. Gas prices be damned.
Well, I'm not Josie; but I do have you on the music lover list! It's Melinda!
MsMcDucket
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Top 5 posters you'd like to hang out and have a beer with...
by tresdecu ini'll start:.
awakened @ gilead .
billy the x bethelite.
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Top 5 posters you'd like to hang out and have a beer with...
by tresdecu ini'll start:.
awakened @ gilead .
billy the x bethelite.
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All of the queens (You know who you are!) Rob are you a queen?
All of the older women (You know who you are!)
All of the depressed ones (You know who you are!) Troubled Mind, Sad Emo
My favorite Moderator (You know who you are!)
And all of the music lovers (You know who you are!)
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Some pictures...
by amama2six inmight take me a few tries to get this right but here are some pics of me and the kids.
:d i'll add more over time, i have tons (obviously, with six kids...lol).. .
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MsMcDucket
I don't see any pictures.
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To Mrsjones5, Freudianslip, snowbird and other folks of color
by donny inbased on the material below from the faithful and discreet slave, i was wondering if any of you experienced any of this "enlightment" during your jw sojurn.
based on your pictures, i would have to say you must have been weak in the faith.
what is puzzling though, is why did michael jackson dissassociate himself just before reaching perfection?
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If one of you helps me clean my home or yard, it gives you joy of the purest form?
Donny only if you were a friend in need; and if ,I had the energy to do it; because you couldn't do it yourself.
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To Mrsjones5, Freudianslip, snowbird and other folks of color
by donny inbased on the material below from the faithful and discreet slave, i was wondering if any of you experienced any of this "enlightment" during your jw sojurn.
based on your pictures, i would have to say you must have been weak in the faith.
what is puzzling though, is why did michael jackson dissassociate himself just before reaching perfection?
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MsMcDucket
Matthew 7:21-23 "“Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will.
22 Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’
23 And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness.
________________________________The Watchtower has historically viewed blacks in general as having less interest and intelligence concerning the Bible then other races. A Zion's Watch Tower of April 15, 1900 stated that "There are probably as many as a hundred colored brethren on the Watch Tower lists, some of them very clear in the truth, and very earnest in its service, financially and other-wise", but they were not allowed to participate in the "pioneer work" then because,
although we have received letters from several of these, who had intended engaging in the volunteer work, expressing surprise that in the call for volunteers in the March 1, 1900 issue we restricted the inquiry to white Protestant churches. They rightly realized that we have not the slightest of race prejudice, and that we love the colored brethren with just the same warmth of heart that we love the white, and they queried therefore why such a distinction should be made in the call. The reason is colored people have less education than whites--many of them quite insufficient to permit them to profit by such reading as we have to give forth. Our conclusion therefore is based upon the supposition that reading matter distributed to a colored congregation would more than half of it be utterly wasted, and a very small percentage indeed likely to yield good results (122).
If the problem was "less education" it would seem that the solution was the opposite to what the Watchtower recommend here. Education programs should have been established, as was often done later so as to provide this "humble race" with the skills needed to make use of the reading matter in question (Cole, 1953). They also argued that although "the negro is not a beast" whites were clearly superior to them, and based this conclusion on the following logic:
The secret of the greater intelligence and aptitude of the Caucasian undoubtedly in great measure is to be attributed to the commingling of blood amongst its various branches; and this was evidently forced in large measure by circumstances under divine control. It remains to be proven that the similar commingling of the various tribes of Chinese for several centuries would not equally brighten their intellects; and the same with the peoples of India and Africa (Zion's Watch Tower, July 15, 1902:216).
Jehovah's Witnesses today are not taught about this history of the Watchtower organization. The few Jehovah's Witnesses who are aware of the above often excuse their organization's historical position with the words "the light was dim in our early history, but the governing body is now more enlightened". The Watchtower, though, has not fully shed their old mentality. Bethel headquarter's worker, Watters, while in charge of the printing of the Watchtower's Bible encyclopedia called Aid to Bible Understanding was told that it was not going to be translated into Spanish partly due to the "lack of interest" of Spanish Jehovah's Witnesses in the "deeper things of God's Word"! The conclusion of the Watchtower administration was that this scholarly work would be wasted among the Hispanics (Watters, 1988:2).
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To Mrsjones5, Freudianslip, snowbird and other folks of color
by donny inbased on the material below from the faithful and discreet slave, i was wondering if any of you experienced any of this "enlightment" during your jw sojurn.
based on your pictures, i would have to say you must have been weak in the faith.
what is puzzling though, is why did michael jackson dissassociate himself just before reaching perfection?
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MsMcDucket
I sympathize with the sentiment, but I honestly do not think any of the GB members are racists, and have not been for a long time. They are mostly true believers, and they believe Jehovah loves all people equally. Just my 2 cents.
They are the ones saying you must worship God "in spirit and truth". Many will come to me and say but didn't I do this and didn't I do that....
Matthew 24:4-6-"And Jesus answered and said to them: 'Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, "I am the Christ," and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."
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They're not right! They're wrong!
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Vioxx Settlement info
by Junction-Guy inis there anyone on this board currently involved with the vioxx lawsuit?.
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MsMcDucket
Oops! My bad! I thought about the wrong medication. Not the impotence med; but the pain med! I don't know why I thought of Viagra?
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Vioxx Settlement info
by Junction-Guy inis there anyone on this board currently involved with the vioxx lawsuit?.
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MsMcDucket
I don't think any men will come forward about being impotent.
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To Mrsjones5, Freudianslip, snowbird and other folks of color
by donny inbased on the material below from the faithful and discreet slave, i was wondering if any of you experienced any of this "enlightment" during your jw sojurn.
based on your pictures, i would have to say you must have been weak in the faith.
what is puzzling though, is why did michael jackson dissassociate himself just before reaching perfection?
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MsMcDucket
That's one reason that I don't want to have crap to do with religion. "God's only going to save White people."
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To Mrsjones5, Freudianslip, snowbird and other folks of color
by donny inbased on the material below from the faithful and discreet slave, i was wondering if any of you experienced any of this "enlightment" during your jw sojurn.
based on your pictures, i would have to say you must have been weak in the faith.
what is puzzling though, is why did michael jackson dissassociate himself just before reaching perfection?
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MsMcDucket
When I was studying, I remember asking a "sister", who happened to be Black "Why did the Mormons think that 'we' were cursed"? She explained that Noah had a Black son. I can't remember which son (Shem, Ham, or Japheth) was Black??? Anyway the Mormons thought that this son had "laid down with Noah" while Noah was drunk. So Noah cursed the sons whole family. But it turned out that it was Canaan and that's why all the Canaanites were destroyed.
Years later I was to find out this crap about the Watchtower saying "We were dumb and ignorant" and that "We could not be publishers" because "We were not smart enough to be publishers".
I was too pissed. How come the "sister" didn't tell me about the Watchtower's beliefs on Black people? Was it because she didn't know? Or because she knew she'd lose a study?