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  Does the INSIDE of your vehicle reflect your personality?

  by Gregor in

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  a garbage can on wheels or neat, clean and tidy?

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  I'll admit it...mine looks like I'm a psychotic hoarder...well, maybe not that bad, but I am obviously a junk food/diet coke junkie with lots of hobbies and interests...

  and Mulan, my mom TRIED to teach me that...just must not have soaked in.
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  What Are Words Or Expressions Peculiar To JWs???

  by minimus in

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  jws have their own terminology.

  it's a characteristic of a cult.

  here's a few: "new system", the friends" and the "body".......can you think of more?

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  Don't forget my least favorite, the noun version of 'worldly':

  WORLDLING
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  When you pray to God, who answers your prayers, Jesus or Jehovah?

  by JH in

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  13 also, whatever it is that you ask in my name, i will do this, in order that the father may be glorified in connection with the son.

  so is it correct to say that if we ask jehovah something in prayer, it's jesus that will grant the prayer, since he said "if you ask in my name, i will do it"?.

  i always thought that it was jehovah whom we pray to, and he was the one who would answer our prayer, not jesus.

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  http://www.pcentral-online.net/pray.html

  Here is a link to a Catholic site of prayers to the Holy Spirit. The one that starts "Come, Holy Spirit, and fill the hearts of your faithful...." is also used in our Methodist Church some.
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  "Hemophiliacs are like vampires!"

  by rebel8 in

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  as i have talked about before, i have a serious bleeding disorder, not hemophilia though.

  back in the dark ages of the '70s, the medical term used was "pseudo-hemophilia".

  because i did not get appropriate medical care (thanks to the wts), i spent many hours during meetings sitting in the smelly ladies room at the kh trying to control my nosebleeds.

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  Excuse me, jw, but you would recommend fish oil???? That is exactly the kind of non-educated, non-medical advice that witnesses give. I am pretty certain you are not a hematologist, and you do not know what clotting factor this particular type of coagulopathy involves. This poster is not asking for pseudo-medical advice, but is recalling a painful part of her childhood.

  Rebel8, I so wish you had not been told such things as child! I hope you are well managed now. I can remember some folks from our hall who were capable of saying things like that.
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  Preaching trip to Minnesota

  by NoMoreMeetings in

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  just returned from minnesota.

  i was invited to preach the sermon and take questions during sunday school about how to reach jw's with the simple truth of christ.

  a number of mennonites from a local church also were there.

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  I think it's fantastic that you are speaking to church groups about the witnesses! Most of the people who hear you have come into contact with a witness. Think of it as inoculating them against being baited in--as well as giving them the tools to reach out. That's putting some positive use to your negative experience.

  I know my church friends looked at me like I'd lost my marbles when I tried to explain the two witness rule and pedophilia. And earning salvation...and blood...and field service quotas...

  Hats off!
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  Good-bye, Sylvester

  by AudeSapere in

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  today i must say good-bye to a friend i have known for 14 years.

  sylvester was only four months old when he and his brother scout moved in with me - a dog person - and my australian shephard.

  the kittens were supposed to be pets for the 10-year-old.

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  Denise, so sorry about your loss. We have a sick cat, too, and will soon have to make that decision. Pets can we wonderful friends and comforters in the tough times, can't they? Hugs to you, I know you are grieving....
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  How did you get out of sitting through the Convention?

  by Confucious in

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  someone else wrote a good thread about the naughtiest thing you've ever done at a convention.. ok... what did you do to "legally" get out of your chair?.

  for me, it was easy, because i got to volunteer at some desk so i had 'permission' to be walking around in the hallways.

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  My life got much better as a teenager when I volunteered to work in first aid. Lots of activity, exploring the stadiums, adrenaline/cowboy mentality. I'd get partnered with a paramedic fireman. Man, I learned so much and absolutely confirmed that I had to work in emergency medicine somehow. Best one was at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.
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  What nice, interesting thing did you see today?

  by Lady Lee in

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  so often we are stuck in the negative part of life and see so much of the bad.

  the news is full of it.

  i look for the things that are nice.

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  I went out to my daughter's place and collected the eggs. One egg was a quarter of the size of the others, but same color...not sure which chicken gave that one, even though I announced "fess up, girls!" That made me smile.
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  Did anyone experience that feeling at the end of assemblies, or C/O visits?

  by dido in

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  i`m new on here so don`t know if this subject has been covered, but i was wondering if anyone else experienced that overwhelming feeling at the end of assemblies, or when the c/o visited and gave his talk, there was a different feeling in the air, and i always thought it was `jehovah`s spirit`.

  now i`m out and have learnt a lot about the borg, and know all their dastardly deeds, i can`t understand what that feeling was.

  it can`t have been his spirit, as i don`t believe now that the borg is the `truth`.

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  I can remember having such overwhelming anxiety during the assemblies, and the RELIEF that it was about over and we could get shoved through the crowd to the parking lot and start the long drive home (don't forget I had severe back seat car sickness) From the time we left on these oddessies until we turned on our alley days later, I was white knuckled and intestinally miserable. I never felt like that on vacations that didn't involve an assembly.

  As for the spiritual afterglow thing, I have experienced that after some religious concerts and retreats. Kind of scary because your emotions are being deliberately manipulated. Part of me is analyzing whether it is 'safe' and whether is it God vs just a really good motivational speaker.

  Think of the frenzy the crowd gets in with music concerts--screaming, mobbing the stage, biting off bird heads......

  My favorite was a Billy Graham crusade on teen night. The music was upbeat and worshipful, and all the kids knew the songs and the guest musicians. In my opinion, Rev Graham is a calm, sincere, dedicated minister that moves people with his honest concern. Watching all those kids go foreward, having their big emotional experience, was fantastic. But I thought about how Marilyn Manson can whip up a crowd even easier...
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  For cat lovers: How to decide when to put the old sick cat down...

  by nsrn in

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  i have an almost 18 year old cat, a manx calico named spunky.

  at birth, she was rejected by her mother and so my mom dropper fed this kitten until it was big enough to eat from a bowl, and then the cat moved in with us.

  my daughter was about 3. she's always been my cat.

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  By the way, Uncle Bruce, is that your cat? Fantastic!