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  :Ahem: If you could imbed one scripture or short message into...

  by SixofNine in

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  ....the concrete of a turkish bath to be used by the pope, what scripture or short message would that be.

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  ps... need your responses in the next 6 hours or so ;)

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  1914 + 144K = 666
  
  ~Sue
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  Apology to all

  by wozadummy in

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  this is an apology to all for my recent posts, i did'nt mean to upset anyone .

  just coping with leaving the org ,and the past ,and trying to support my wife who, as some know from my prevoius posts has tried to deal with her pedophile elder(past) father for many years now thru the org ,and then being badly treated by them and her large extended family (most are witnesses and are trying to silence her), made me hit rock bottom.

  we are now taking action via the police and court system and she is barely coping ,and me being bi-polar does'nt help matters much and i fell into to an unreal state for a while as we don't have much support of any kind.

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  wozadummy,
  
  Peace be with you and your wife.
  
  ~Sue
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  :Ahem: If you could imbed one scripture or short message into...

  by SixofNine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ....the concrete of a turkish bath to be used by the pope, what scripture or short message would that be.

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  ps... need your responses in the next 6 hours or so ;)

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  betterdaze

  When you spread out your hands in prayer, ?I will hide my eyes from you; ?even if you offer many prayers, ?I will not listen. ?YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD.
  –Isaiah 1:15
  
  This is the way of an adulteress: ?She eats and wipes her mouth ?and says, 'I've done nothing wrong.'
  –Proverbs 30:20
  
  Stop judging that YOU may not be judged;
  for with what judgment YOU are judging,
  YOU will be judged; and with the measure that
  YOU are measuring out, they will measure out to YOU.
  –Matthew 7:1,2
  
  But nothing can top MENE MENE TEKEL PARSIN.
  
  ~Sue
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  colporters/coporters

  by pobthespazz in

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  what was the correct pre war term the wts used for pioneers was it colporters or coporters?

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  colporteur
  
  n. itinerant seller or giver of books, especially religious literature.
  
  Etymology: French, alteration of Middle French comporteur, from comporter to bear, peddle : a peddler of religious books.
  
  ~Sue
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  Need some decorating advice

  by hambeak in

  1. jw
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  i have been in my townhouse for 3 1/2 years now and still no pictures on the wall.

  i have a 10 x 14 living room small , beige walls and carpets living room furniture is new green sofa and loveseat wooden tables i can't seem to find the painting i would like over the sofa.

  my living room and dining room adjoin and get little to no sunlight.

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  • If you favor a particular artist or style, allposters.com has it well, all.
  
  http://www.skyimagelab.com/
  
  Breathtaking images of outer space, if that's your thing.
  
  http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/gateway/121/105.html
  
  National Geographic, self-explanatory.
  
  • On a canvas, arrange "found" things... leaves and branches, or nuts and bolts, for example, and spray or splatter paint over them... when dry remove the thingies. You can underpaint the canvas so the reverse images don't all need to be white.
  
  • An arrangement of beat-up, empty picture frames from garage sales... all sizes and shapes... spray paint in metallic colors... shiny gold can look tacky but think bronze, copper, verdigris. You can start with a few and just keep adding over time. Put little ones inside larger ones, or make a sunburst pattern. You could flow a wavy trail from the living room into the dining area to tie those together.
  
  • Jazz/blues, or beer/wine, or ethnic festivals often produce lively and colorful posters each year, sometimes free for the taking.
  
  • Maps... AAA members can get all sorts of maps...cut 'em up and have fun. If you have traveled a lot you can put big pushpins or stars where you've been. Or show the path from where you were born and locations you've lived, attended school, etc. and where you and your partner's lives intersected.
  
  • Have some personal photos scanned and blown up at Kinko's. They have wide-format, high-resolution printers.
  
  • Or, hang a quilt. Textiles always add warmth.
  
  ~Sue
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  Do you like SPAM? (The food, not the junk mail)

  by free2beme in

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  i know, it is america's most hated food.

  people hear the name, and instantly they say, "that stuff is so sick!

  " yet in the state of hawaii, it is the most popular food, bare none!

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  Soon they'll be breeding us like cattle! You've got to warn everyone and tell them!
  
  SPAM is made of people! You've got to tell them!
  
  SPAM is people!
  
  ~Sue
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  Cheap-ass Watchtower tapes!

  by Nosferatu in

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  i recieved 4 tapes of kingdom melodies from lee (thanks lee!

  ) so, i shoved one into my tape deck so i could hear "stay awake, stand firm, grow mighty" for the first time in ten years (man, that sounds like a song about my penis).

  however, i discovered that the pressure pads have gotten crusty and fell out of two of these tapes, and the cheap bastards at watchtower didn't put screws in their tapes so i could easily fix them!

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  ***Sorry if I offend but criticizing the Society for their tape quality is funny.***
  
  Actually, the WT does not manufacture the tapes, only record them. When I visited Walkill in 2005 our tour guide related that analog cassette tapes would be discontinued soon due the the fact that there were only a few manufacturers left in the world. Digital recordings killed cassettes years ago; the demand just isn't there so neither is the quality.
  
  At least CDs/DVDs are a step in the right direction. The paperback NWT? Now that's cheap!
  
  ~Sue
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  Who denied holidays first - WWCOG or JW's?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
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  another thread indicated that wwcog had been ahead of jw's in saying that holidays were 'verbotten' - and that the wts then picked up on the cue as additional ammunition to keep witnesses under control and 'seperate from the world'.. can this be confirmed with dates/times ?

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  One of the Worldwide Church of God offshoots, the United Church of God, keeps the Sabbath and other Hebrew holy days and practices tithing.
  
  They claim to "trace their origins to the Church that Jesus founded" YET they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter either.
  
  http://www.ucg.org/
  
  ~Sue
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  Tom & Katie's Scientology Wedding

  by rebel8 in

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  kinda shocked no one else started a thread on this, unless i missed it.

  surely we cannot pass up this opportunity to dis scientology and misogynists, now can we?.

  one of many of the same news stories: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/entertainment/4336437.html.

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  LOL! I have clothes, food, tender happiness, frills, a pan, a comb AND a cat. His name is Lassie.
  
  Guess that makes me a "girl" in Scientology circles?
  
  And I didn't have to marry Tom Cruise to get them? YAY!
  
  ~Sue (of the definitely not a Shulamite Maiden class, either)
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  Farmers Branch Tx. assault on illegal immigrants (Mexicans)

  by hambeak in

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  the farmers branch city council ( a suburb of dallas, tx.

  ) has voted unanimously to make english the official language of the city.

  also to fine landlords that rent to such ones.

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  The point is: There is no "factually fair" comparison, apples for apples.
  
  The dilemma is not unique to the U.S. Please identify another country that provides all these "services."
  
  ~Sue