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  My Uncle(JW) shot 8 buy Pennsyl. State Police.

  by D wiltshire in

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  my (favorite)uncle(bud) was shot eight times at almost point blank range by the pennsylvania highway patrol officers.. he is my uncle from my fathers side there were four brothers alive when i was young, and ever single one seem to be fearless.. they did pretty much as they pleased and got away with alot.

  none of them to my recollection seem to fear death(at least never showed it).. i remember picking out buckshot from my father's hand that my uncle bud(as we called him his real name was the same as my grandfather elmer).. my uncle roger was in the rodeo and was also a blacksmith.

  one time he lassoed my cousin and myself when he was drunk and gave us rope burns around our neck.

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  Well it's about 1989? May and I'm headind home from a long driving trip in a 1971 Ford truck that someone gave to me to fix and keep.
  This driving trip lasted about 3 weeks from Connecticut to Arizona, Mexico, California, Wyoming, and many other states and finally back home to Connecticut.
  I helped my my step daughter and her husband move their belongings to Tuba, Arizona they move their to serve where the need was great for JWs, it was right on the indian reservation and there was a very small double wide trailor for a kingdom hall right on the reservation, mainly Hopie and Navaho. One of the elders was Sue indian but he got DF'd.
  My 18 year old rusted truck pulled their car and I built a little camper on the truck that was way over loaded with their belongings.
  The truck made it thru this trip and many more trips.
  My plan was since the truck cost me nothing that if it broke down and I couldn't fix it cheaply that I would just leave it on the side of the road somewhere and rent a car or uhaul truck for the rest of the trip.

  Well while comming home and going thru Pennsylvania the fog was so thick you could see maybe 10 or 20 feet ahead of you. You had to keep you eyes on the painted lines that's the only way to be able to drive in that weather.
  If you ever driven in that type of fog for a couple of hours going 25 miles per hour max, you know how fatigued you can get, my wife was really mad at me for pushing myself to keep on driving, and had stop talking to me, she was giving me the silent treatment. So it was a very depressing ride home those last few days.
  I'd say it was just about 2 or 3 am in the morning and I'm the only one awake. So I turn on the radio for some company, and I hear this announcement about a man that was shot on the Pennsylvania turnpike by the state police, the announcer gave it the slant of police brutality.
  And then they gave the discription of the man and his name.
  They said he has 67 years old and his name was Elmer Wiltshire.
  Being 2 or 3 am and the fact that I was totally exausted I wounder if I heard it right?
  Any way since I was driving I lost the station,(signal) and figured that it was just a coincidence that this person had the same name as my uncle.
  I think I made it home on thursday between about 7 or 9 am.
  As soon as I got home I went to sleep till about 2pm that afernoon.
  Since I was an elder I was at the meeting that very same day and my mother came up to me before the meeting started and told me my uncle had been shot near Scranton, Penn. and they didn't think he was going to live much longer, and that his sons, and daughter where there in Scranton staying at a Mcdonld's halfway house near the hospital where there father was.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  Revealed: Prisca the pyromaniac!

  by ozziepost in

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  it came as a surprise to those gathering for the sydney apostofest bbq today to find that prisca is a pyromaniac.. this previously well-concealed aspect of prisca's personality was seen by all as she broke free from all previous guidelines and laid waste to that wood!.

  arriving early, perhaps to show bbq expert older tom a thing or two about lighting fires, she gathered the plentiful supply of wood and underbrush.

  lit them with fire-sticks (did she cheat by using some flammable liquid?

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  Oz,

  I liked your writting style on this one, made feel like I was there.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  "WHO REALLY IS THE FAITHFUL SLAVE"?

  by Bill Parker in

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  the bible!

  the things that are will be brought to nothing.

  is that really the way jehovah teaches today?

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  Bill,

  I too am searching for truth.

  You will find the search in it self to be enjoyable, I don't think you are going to find anyone on the board that will be able to speak with absolute authority on Bible interpetation.
  Like in Pauls day we have only a "hazy outline by means of a metal mirror" of the truth.
  I think the reality is much grander than what we know about truth.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  I Love You......Life

  by DannyBear in

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  imagining the beauty of a loved ones face, long departed.

  remembering a single moment in life that causes your spirit to sing.

  having that sensation that you just awakened to a whole new world, filled with that tingle in your stomach feeling, you had when kissing your very first lover.

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  Going for walks miles deep into the woods, see animals who are free from rules and regulations.
  Seeing hawks mate in mid air(at least that's what I think they were doing.)
  Watching lizards run and chase other lizards that invade their territory.
  Having my wife by my side helping me and me helping her.
  Taking time to talk with strangers.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  My Uncle(JW) shot 8 buy Pennsyl. State Police.

  by D wiltshire in

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  my (favorite)uncle(bud) was shot eight times at almost point blank range by the pennsylvania highway patrol officers.. he is my uncle from my fathers side there were four brothers alive when i was young, and ever single one seem to be fearless.. they did pretty much as they pleased and got away with alot.

  none of them to my recollection seem to fear death(at least never showed it).. i remember picking out buckshot from my father's hand that my uncle bud(as we called him his real name was the same as my grandfather elmer).. my uncle roger was in the rodeo and was also a blacksmith.

  one time he lassoed my cousin and myself when he was drunk and gave us rope burns around our neck.

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  My Uncle Bud was kind to people despite maybe a few flaws like every single one of us have.
  When I was at Bethel he gave me a car for about the last 4 months I was there, for that I must be grateful.
  He had very good mechanical skills, could read people with great skill. I even think he knew me much better than I knew myself. He was calm all the time I ever seen him, and he never ever treated me bad, ever.
  He was a calm person who would let nobody tell him what he could, or couldn't do.
  I think his death, was a suicide by Policeman.
  I know some of my relatives who loved him would probable find my conclusion wrong and some would agree with me.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  "WHO REALLY IS THE FAITHFUL SLAVE"?

  by Bill Parker in

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  the bible!

  the things that are will be brought to nothing.

  is that really the way jehovah teaches today?

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  D wiltshire

  Bill,

  That is my standard profile signature.
  I've been using it for months.
  It wasn't directed at you.

  Relax and just reread Richies post, and you will see what I mean.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  just ordered R.Franz books

  by Doc_jedd in

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  cisis of consience and christian freedom they should be here by christmas (a gift to myself ,first one in 7 years)..im celebrating christmas this year, havent been to the kingdom hall in a month and a half and i feel real good about it!

  i do belive im going to read these books and give myself a real gift the big d.a.!

  .........jedd

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  D wiltshire

  Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas
  Merry Christmas
  Merry Christmas

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  "WHO REALLY IS THE FAITHFUL SLAVE"?

  by Bill Parker in

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  the bible!

  the things that are will be brought to nothing.

  is that really the way jehovah teaches today?

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  D wiltshire

  Bill please reread Richie's post. You didn't get what he said.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  Mere Christianity: logical reasoning

  by Rex B13 in

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  mere christianity: excerpt.

  chapter one.

  every one has heard people quarrelling.

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  D wiltshire

  Seeker,

  Because if you beleive you came from nothing.
  Why question that god could come from nothing?

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?
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  My Uncle(JW) shot 8 buy Pennsyl. State Police.

  by D wiltshire in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my (favorite)uncle(bud) was shot eight times at almost point blank range by the pennsylvania highway patrol officers.. he is my uncle from my fathers side there were four brothers alive when i was young, and ever single one seem to be fearless.. they did pretty much as they pleased and got away with alot.

  none of them to my recollection seem to fear death(at least never showed it).. i remember picking out buckshot from my father's hand that my uncle bud(as we called him his real name was the same as my grandfather elmer).. my uncle roger was in the rodeo and was also a blacksmith.

  one time he lassoed my cousin and myself when he was drunk and gave us rope burns around our neck.

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  As I mention Bud was the sheriff of New Milford, Connecticut this was more than forty years ago.
  He use to tell me stories of him Jacking(poaching) deer, and how the game warden would always be trying to catch him.
  Even his son my cousin who is a elder in the Concord, New Hampshire area told me of how his father and him(while an elder) were poaching deer and the close call they had when they almost got caught.
  He said he really didn't want to do it but his father talked him into it.
  Ann, Buds last wife was a real nice generous person. When I was in Bethel I witnessed to them and also JWs at Ann work would talk to her.
  That's how they both became JWs(1976). Soon other family members like his son Michael and her daughter Debby became JWs.
  I used to stay at their house when on vacation from Bethel.
  One time they took me for a ride and showed me some very nice places and told me some secrets that I don't think they even told Michael one was this:
  They (Ann & Bud) showed me a nice house out in the country they burglerized and how they rented a Uhaul truck and took all kinds of nice furniture and valubles. They were quite proud of themselves when telling me the story(they weren't JWs at the time they committed the burglury). And me I thought that's cool, I did things like that before becoming a JW too.

  Anyway lets get right to the incident. In a little while that is.

  If someone lived a trillion X longer than you, and had a billion X more reasoning ability would he come to the same conclusions as you?