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  Bill Maher hates religion !

  by lancelink in

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  2. friends

  some pretty bizarre stuff on this site :

  be sure to read up about holy land in florida !

  http://disbeliefnet.com/

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  joelbear69

  Organized religion is a scam and most likely the most evil entity to ever exist in the universe.
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  JW Refuses to Let Husband have Life-saving Transfusion

  by fjtoth in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  jehovahs witness refuses to let husband have life-saving blood transfusionby lucy cockcroft last updated: 6:42 am bst 06/06/2008 the wife of a man who is critically ill in hospital has refused to let doctors give him a life-saving blood transfusion because he is a jehovahs witness.john edwards, 57, suffered severe injuries when a motorist suspected of drink-driving knocked him over and medics have warned he could only have days to live if he does not have the transfusion.. but his wife sheila said he has signed a form banning any blood transfusions in the event of an accident or illness, because their religion forbids it.. it is believed she is rejecting repeated pleas from doctors hoping to change her mind.. the couple's sons, jonathan, 36 and tom, 29, do not share their beliefs and it was unclear last night whether they supported their mother's decision.. a family source said: "sheila is adamant that john must not have blood.

  she says giving him a transfusion would be like assaulting him, and he wouldn't want to live knowing he had disobeyed his god.. "she is in a terrible state, constantly in tears at his bedside, but won't give in to requests from anyone.

  her sons are both with her but her position hasnt budged.".

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  joelbear69

  one night, 10 years from now, no one will hear her lonely cries of sorrow into her pillow.
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  life

  by joelbear69 in

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  2. friends

  i've lived in florida 12 years of my life and georgia te other 38. .

  i kind of count the 7 moths as bethel as surreal time that didn't really happen.

  i've been in love 4 times.

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  joelbear69

  i've lived in florida 12 years of my life and georgia te other 38.
  i kind of count the 7 moths as bethel as surreal time that didn't really happen.
  
  i've been in love 4 times. 3 with straight men. David from high school. first love
  but deep. Rick from Bethel, surreal as i mentioned. John from Jacksonville,
  the deepest of the three. i tend to idealize my memories of John. yes he
  was beautiful but we had little in common about what we enjoyed or how we
  felt about life.
  
  then i met Mitch who is and always will be my soul mate. the memory of him
  is so deep in me that sometimes i can smell him as if he were in the room.
  
  i was in full time service for 2 years, 7 months at bethel and 17 months full
  time pioneering. 28 years working, 25 in banking and 3 in market research.
  2 years i've been semi-retired (not sleeping in a truck).
  
  30 years i lied about who i was, the last 20 i have been truthful.
  
  my big trip is coming up. only about 3 weeks to go. i'll write about it when
  its complete.
  
  i'm thinking i want to be a storyteller.
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  wandering, the world is an interesting place

  by joelbear69 in

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  2. friends

  i love to wander.

  i plan to do more of it.

  if you want to keep up with me, i will be posting

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  joelbear69

  i love to wander. i plan to do more of it. if you want to keep up with me, i will be posting my pictures to my flickr.com account, look up joelbearphotos under the category people search to see them.
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  What really is a Soul Mate? --- Is it possible Yes or No?

  by Hope4Others in

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  2. friends

  soul mate.

  n. one of two persons compatible with each other in disposition, point of view, or sensitivity.

  there seems to be a variety of defintions on the net so what does "soul mate" mean?.

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  joelbear69

  mitch and I are clearly soul mates.
  
  for us it means
  
  a feeling of oneness between the two of us.
  a desire for each other's happiness
  a compatible view of life
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  Has the mass exodus begun?

  by kool aid man06 in

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  2. child-abuse

  it's truly exciting to see all of the "rapid fire" changes taking place in the watchtower org.

  buildings are being sold, kingdomhalls are "compressing", bethelites are being sent home, watchtower format changing to public issues and private issues, more and more judicial committee meetings being held for apostasy.

  (the watchtower is dead it just hasn't fallen over yet!

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  joelbear69

  no mass exodus, just a change of social status and demographics. they will have less money to run on though.
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  Jehovah allowed 140,000 dead in Burma will they understand it was needed??

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  yes the tsunami killed 250,000 and now afew years later approx.

  140,000 dead in burma....will people understand that this was all needed to prove we needed jehovah's rule in our lives?

  he allowed this to prove a point.....not to mention the ethnic cleansing in burma which killed just as many.

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  burmese lessons will be offered during the few years of the new earth to allow the millions of resurrected burmese to be taught the truth. gee i'm a tree Joel
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  Me and My Big Fat Mouth

  by horrible life in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  got to share an experience.

  because of hippa rules, at my place of employment, i have to choose my words carefully.

  a large, boisterous, and talkative lady, was... shall we say near me, and we talked.

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  joelbear69

  its such a small world that i once ran into myself on the bread aisle of a local supermarket.
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  beanie weanie

  by joelbear69 in

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  2. friends

  this is a game that i made up that we used to play out in service all the time.

  when other witnesses were bored out of their brains sitting in the car between .

  cars, me and my witness friends were totally entertained by this game.

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  joelbear69

  this is a game that i made up that we used to play out in service all the time.
  
  when other witnesses were bored out of their brains sitting in the car between
  cars, me and my witness friends were totally entertained by this game.
  
  ok ok, here's the game.
  
  like, you are all sitting in the car right or in the doughnut shop or at
  the text reading.
  
  well you call out one of your friends' names and if they look at you
  you say Beanie Weanie and you score a point.
  
  and everytime during the day when you say someone's name and
  they look at you and you say beanie weanie, you score a point.
  
  you play separate games with everyone in your car group or
  book study or whatever.
  
  its fabulous fun.
  
  have fun with it
  
  but remember it was i who taught it to you.
  
  Hey Minimus.
  
  beanie weanie.
  
  ha ha i got a point.
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  California Court Affirms Right To Gay Marriage

  by BenV in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just got this email!.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/15cnd-marriage.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss.

  ben (celebratin' with friends).

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  joelbear69

  This is indeed good news.
  
  Its incredible how much has changed since I came out 20 years ago.