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  Do You Take Flu Shots?

  by minimus in

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  i never have.

  i seldom get the "flu" and if i do, it usually happens after everyone else has gotten it.. i know of many people who regularly get the flu shot and they seem to always still get sick..

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  james_woods

  I don't take them either.

  I have always suspected that they don't really work, and might just be a vast commercial exercise at our expense.

  I usually don't get the flu either.
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  Dec.21st and the countdown to the Mayan Apocalypse

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  december 21 marks the winter solstice and the end of a cycle called the 13th b'ak'tun.. 1.will we see a few who want to join the celestial parade ala those who wanted to hop on a comet a few years ago.. 2.should koolaid and vodka be banned dec. 20th.. 3.will the wt.

  come out with an article making fun of those who 'falsely predict the end of the world' .

  i'll take bets on #3.

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  james_woods

  I just watched a show on NatGeo which used this comparison: December 21, 2012 is like the day your car's odometer turns over from 999999.9 to 000000.0. We could have watched this eagerly but not expecting our car to disappear when it does.

  They used to only go to 99,999.

  The end was an order of magnitutde closer in those olden days.
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  Which of the 5 weekly meetings did you hate the most?

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it was always stressed that the five weekly meetings were like the fingers on your hand.

  each one was just as important as the next.

  which of the meetings were the most boring,bothersome and difficult to listen to?

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  Without a doubt: Service Meeting/Ministry School.

  It was a totally worthless expense of time and effort.

  I do have a funny Service Meeting story:

  The Congregation Overseer was holding forth: "I have a word I am thinking of. It is something we all want. This word begins with 'P'" ...

  blah-blah-blah - (he is obviously thinking of Paradise). "Now - who can guess the word?"

  I was a young MS who had the job of timing the talks on the school, so I was sitting on the front row with the School conductor - who could not stand this blowhard of a CO. He had a dictionary - so he flips it open - points to the word "Panties" - and shows it to me.

  We both nearly died from the effort of constraining ourselves from laughing out loud right there on the front row.
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  First time back to the king dumb hall in a year!

  by BreathoftheIndianNose in

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  hey everyone,.

  so it's been over a year and this saturday i'm going to the hall.

  can you help to prep me for what sort of emotions and feelings might come rushing in?

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  james_woods

  Odds are it will be fine - unless, of course, somebody deliberately tries to cause a scene.
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  First time back to the king dumb hall in a year!

  by BreathoftheIndianNose in

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  hey everyone,.

  so it's been over a year and this saturday i'm going to the hall.

  can you help to prep me for what sort of emotions and feelings might come rushing in?

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  james_woods

  I am just hoping that this does not somehow go terribly wrong.
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  An Interesting Question for the Board...

  by AGuest in

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  i just saw this done on a tv show and was intrigued by the answers (almost unanimously yes).

  "yes, but my husband is about to retire so i'm going to have to start telling him the truth!".

  "ohhh, yes - if my husband knew the truth he'd need medication!".

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  james_woods

  Regards,

  James
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  What was it about Bethel that woke you up?

  by cognisonance in

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  one the how many exbethelites thread it was mentioned that some think one either leaves down the path towards apostasy or as a 100% true believer.

  i'm curious what experiences did you face at bethel that woke you up (or started to at least)?.

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  james_woods

  Someone else may have already linked these threads, but...

  I found them to be very revealing, since I never went to Bethel.

  Zid - those may be some of the most important threads ever written here.

  How much I miss old double-owe-six.
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  Call Me Smiler

  by Terry in

  1. jw
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  call me smiler.

  they none of 'em seem to figure out how bad it's gonna be when they play it.

  a pastor, hurt hands and a smile...that's all you really need.. the doc knows what he's talkin' about, as usual.. like he says, "people only look at you once and then never see you again.

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  james_woods

  There is no catfish in this story.
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  Middle School Incident today

  by skeeter1 in

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  2. family

  my middle schooler came home to tell me that the police officer assigned to the school arrested a 6th grade girl.

  the rumors (from those who knew her and were in the bathroom with her) were that she was cutting herself and said that her family didn't love her.

  she had drugs and birth control.

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  james_woods

  His reason for doing this was, and this is his word, “To see how far I (his mother) would go with this.”

  And this is exactly what I have read on this syndrome: this is a strange way to cry out for help or attention.
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  Middle School Incident today

  by skeeter1 in

  1. social
  2. family

  my middle schooler came home to tell me that the police officer assigned to the school arrested a 6th grade girl.

  the rumors (from those who knew her and were in the bathroom with her) were that she was cutting herself and said that her family didn't love her.

  she had drugs and birth control.

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  james_woods

  From what I have read, this cutting fetish is usually an attempt to call out to parents or others for attention because the child does not feel they have a solid support system.

  Once it is started, it can become quite addictive.

  A sign of great emotional disturbance, not necessarily a sign of mental illness.