sparky1
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What music are you enjoying today?
by ZindagiNaMilegiDobaara in1.just been listening to this lady's innovtive tool as music instrument.
incredible story too.. https://youtu.be/_nlmm9kcbks.
2.listening to this gives me so much peace and relaxes me .
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At Least 73 Aftershocks After 6.4 Earthquake in Southern California
by APieceOfShitNamedTate instory developing...
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Neil Young debuted this song in 1973 on his Time Fades Away tour. Southern California has been supposedly going to fall off the North American the continent ever since I can remember. (No disrespect intended to anyone killed or harmed in any earthquake.)
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Holiday field service
by All or nothing intoday is 4th of july in my part of the world- the us- and i was reflecting how we were strongly encouraged when we were still in to go out in the ministry on holidays.
i just mentioned this memory to my husband and we reflected on how cult like this was.
anyone else have thoughts on this?
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Back in the '60's and '70's I remember consistently going in 'field service' on the 4th of July, Thanksgiving day , Christmas day and New Years day. And Tuesday night before the Book Study during peoples supper time. One guy on Thanksgiving told me to 'leave his family the hell alone...don't you realize that today is a holiday?!'
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Miscellaneous highlights from 10/2019 WT
by neat blue dog inokay sorry, just a few more things that grabbed me in this issue:.
the magazine starts with an article dedicated to the 100th anniversary of that all important year on which the gb's authority hangs, 1919. the article ends with several rapid fire assertions:.
by the end of 1919, jehovah’s peoplewere reorganized and energized.
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"By the end of 1919...Jehovah's people had been released from their symbolic captivity to "Babylon the Great" ".
Except of course, after this date they still celebrated Christmas, still believed in the symbol of the Cross, and still celebrated birthdays. More rewriting and white washing of the true history of the Jehovah's Witness religion. -
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1914 Prophecy
by Acer21 ini am having trouble locating what is the 1914 prophecy?
jw.org states that the jw's accurately predicted the events of 1914, but do not indicate what the predictions were, or the specific fulfillments.
what do jw's think they are (predictions/fulfillments)?
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Welcome Acer21. Stick around. Lot's of intelligent people with a long Jehovah's Witness history post here. There is a lot to learn. In regards to 1914, you may search the archives here on this site. In the upper right hand corner is a search function. Just type in 1914 and you are off to the races...
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My little Speech on Patriotism
by Terry inmy july 4, speech on patriotism.
the last person in my family to serve in the armed forces was my uncle jack during the korean war.
he suffered a skull injury but fully recovered.. .
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I enjoyed your speech, Terry. It seems in this day and age that many people are confusing patriotism with Nationalism. A very slippery slope indeed. Nationalism is a corrosive, collectivistic, polarizing ideology that can destroy a nation. Patriotism builds up the individual and his country but not at the expense of creating and enforcing 'tribalism'.
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Withholding My Information!
by The Fall Guy inover the past few days i have twice visited screwfix - a uk nationwide company which sells tools & fixings.. on my first visit, i informed the store assistant of the item i required.
she immediately said, "post-code?".
i informed her that it was a cash sale and there was no need to give information.
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Here in the US many stores now ask for your cell phone number. The company that I am affiliated with does this surreptitiously. They issue you a rewards card and the pin is your cell phone number. Now they have your cell phone captured and use it in 'geo-fencing'. They follow your movement through the cell phone and can tell when you are purchasing from a competitor. FU@K THAT! I threw my manual on this procedure in the trash!
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Why do CO's refuse to strip Elders of their position?
by Tenacious inin several congregations i attended many elders were downright evil and flat out drunk with power.. many times i personally knew of things done by them that would have been a disfellowshipping offense had they not been elders.
and even though many times these issues and spiritual atrocities were reported to the co's and hq they would many times (if not all the time), get off with a mere slap on the wrist or a forced apology.. why do you believe elders are so protected?.
my theory is the authority integrity within the congregation.
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"The NY maggots..." Tenacious, every time you write that phrase, I can't stop laughing.
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Famous Movie Quotes You Like
by The Bethelite inthe last lines from the movie platoon.
"i think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves, and the enemy was in us.
the war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days.
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"What the hell am I grabbing this thing for? Why am I trying to become something I don't wanna become when I all I want is out there waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am?" - Biff Loman Death of a Salesman
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NBA Player Retires to Serve as Jehovah's Witness
by 720Reddog inhttps://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27078092/collison-retires-nba-31-focus-faith .
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Dave Meyers died in 2015. He never got to see the Great Tribulation, Armageddon, or the New System of things. But he is of the 'Overlapping Basketball Players Generation' with Darren Collison...so maybe Darren will see these things in his lifetime. As an interesting side note, I was regifted a gold watch from a friend of mine that received it from Dave. It was stolen from me in 1977.