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  After 44 years I finally found and spoke to my old prison buddy!

  by Terry in

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  2. experiences

  i have had very few mentors in my life.

  i love each of them dearly.. one such was a man a bit older than me named tollie padget.. .

  tollie was the rarest of rare birds.

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  BizzyBee

  Terry, I too, communicated with an old JW friend in the past year. I really thought that after nearly 50 years (!) surely some lighbulb had gone on. Her hubby was an educated non-JW and she had 4 children and they enjoyed a privileged lifestyle. She enjoyed material advantages but I thought surely the odds favored some change in her circumstances and therefore enlightenment on her part.

  A very nice e-mail from her disabused me of my wishful thinking - she and her hubby and children (save one) and grandchildren are dedicated witlesses. I haven't had the heart to answer her and it has been 6-8 months now.

  It makes me kind of sick.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo
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  Bye Bye Love. Bye Bye Phil Everly.

  by rip van winkle in

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  2. entertainment

  just heard that phil everly passed away from copd at the age of 74.. so sad.

  rip.

  love the everly brothers.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwmmks6w4q&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

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  BizzyBee

  Loved the Everly brothers. 74 is too young.
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  Hold me, thrill me, kiss me..... a tribute

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  have i ever told ya'll about my grande ma ma?

  my daddy's mother?

  i can't recall.

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  BizzyBee

  Great song.
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  Utah man goes on hunger strike to the death to protest same-sex marriages

  by adamah in

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  2. current

  you can't make up this kind of religious nut-job fanaticism:.

  http://www.4utah.com/story/utah-man-fasting-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/d/story/k9sjvlgmmeuberqg9aeobq.

  although in retrospect, it's no more extreme than those jws who die refusing blood.... adam.

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  BizzyBee

  His alternative ploy was to hold his breath until his face turned purple.

  "Mommeee! Make them stop itttt nowwww! I just peepeed my big boy pants!"
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  Utah man goes on hunger strike to the death to protest same-sex marriages

  by adamah in

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  2. current

  you can't make up this kind of religious nut-job fanaticism:.

  http://www.4utah.com/story/utah-man-fasting-to-stop-same-sex-marriages/d/story/k9sjvlgmmeuberqg9aeobq.

  although in retrospect, it's no more extreme than those jws who die refusing blood.... adam.

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  BizzyBee

  Now that's some serious hate right there.
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  If they changed their blood ban…would their be a floodgate of lawsuits?

  by Londo111 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i know nothing about legal matters, but there are those here who are quite keen at these things.. if they changed the no blood teaching, would this open the watchtower society up to litigation?.

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  BizzyBee

  I heard a few years ago from a reliable source that this is exactly why WTS legal department adamantly refused to let the GB let go of the blood doctrine.

  Nevermind the lives at stake.
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  Do You Give A Sh*t About "Duck Dynasty"?

  by minimus in

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  when i see them on chia pets, i'm thinking--- has the world gone mad?.

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  BizzyBee

  I apologize in advance, but I have a dilemma I know you can set straight for me.

  Mr. Robertson compared homosexuality to beastiality. And people were up in arms. But here is my question:

  Some of the same arguments apply: Is it about loving whom you love? So if you and your horse love each other and want to have relations, who is to say you nay (or neigh)? Is there a judgment that loving an animal is somehow wrong or - unnatural?

  How does one counter the argument that if loving a member of the same sex is "natural" then loving a member of the animal kingdom can be as well? Where is the line drawn?
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  Merry Christmas

  by jhine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi, i have not been on much lately due to family circumstances , but i would like to wish everyone on jwn .

  a very merry christmas .

  please use this thread everyone to add your own christmas greetings .

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  BizzyBee

  Nicely done, Lisa!

  
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  What are you doing on Christmas day?

  by Jen1 in

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  any one out there doing field service?

  i have not gone out on that day in years.

  and have no intention of ever doing that again.

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  BizzyBee

  Christmas Eve with family in Newport Beach - a lovely dinner as usual, I'm sure.

  Christmas Day - golf with hubby in Palm Springs, then on to Arizona to visit friends and - surprise!- more golf. I'm looking forward to it!
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  The Feeling Good Handbook -- by David Burns

  by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my psychiatrist recommended this book, the feeling good handbook by david d. burns, md, to me a couple years ago.

  this book has been mentioned on the forum several times before, but i thought i found some things threadworthy in it.

  it's a big book of 732 pages.

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  BizzyBee

  A classic. My boss, a psychologist, recommended this to me many years ago. It helped.