I spend between $1,500.00 and $2,000.00 a year gambling. All my bills are current and some are even prepaid. No religious council has the right to tell me how to spend my discretionary funds. Anyway, I do it for fun but view it as an investment.
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WT Article on Gambling completely dishonost
by Lore inhttp://download.jw.org/files/media_magazines/wp_e_20110301.pdf.
in fact, the new catholic encyclopedia.
says that gambling is not considered sinful.
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My Father's Last Words
by Terry inmy father's last words_______in 1972, i was 25 years old following a strong impulse carrying me 1,500 milesaway from home in fort worth, texas.i intended to find him - my dad.
he’d left when i was about half a year old.his home in detroit, michigan had been the first house i lived in at age zero.
i knocked on his door and he answered.
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'To do a great right, do a little wrong.' - William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
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If You Criticize A Person of Color Are You A Racist?
by minimus inseriously, it’s getting to a point that you can’t make a negative comment about someone without being charged as a racist, homophobe or sexist!
if you criticize a female, you are obviously sexist.
if you criticize someone who happens to be gay, you must hate homosexuals.
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I don't like Donald Trump one bit. And since I have never met the man, it would be incorrect of me to categorically say that he is a racist just because the news media prefers to paint him as such. Donald Trump treats anyone who disagrees with him with disdain, disrespect, derision, disparagement and disgust. He is an 'equal opportunity' insulter. Just ask Joe Biden, Jeb Bush, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Chuck Todd, Adam Schiff, Mitt Romney, Jeff Sessions and on and on...All of them are White Anglo-Saxons. (Of course, you can't ask John McCain)Yet no one seems to accuse Donald Trump of being prejudicial against the White race. I'm not defending President Trump, just pointing out that I don't think he is necessarily prejudiced against any particular race.
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The Old New Boys
by The Bethelite ina blast from the pass.. top left row.. demetrious barmetler and his wife.
jimmy kennedy who was killed at ruby falls and his wife who was pregnant at the time of his death.. bottom row left.. me, gary kennedy at his wedding, jack sutton my bethel roommate and his wife hedy, who died for refusing a blood transfusion.. .
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Jesus...Keith! One 'good' thing that we all had way back then as Bethelites was a certain level of comradery and male bonding. I miss my old 'war buddies' from my Bethel days. Imagine that a religion that once united us in a common purpose is now the cause of our estrangement from one another! The nostalgic feeling that I get from looking at that photo puts a lump in my throat and a twinge in my heart.
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AM3 sighting
by neat blue dog init's not much but anthony morris the turd had what i believe is his first official post-whiskeygate sighting, in a jwdotorg article that mentioned him giving a talk at a convention.
getting quite a paunch there!.
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I agree HappyDad. I can't stand the sight of him!
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“I got two ticket to paradise!”
by Dagney inand i don’t mean eddie money’s paradise.... you just can’t make this stuff up.
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"Flight JW1914 now boarding at Gate 1975. All passengers agree to fly on Jehovah's Witnesses Airlines at their own expense and peril. Please leave a donation when you board and when you disembark. Hang on tight...it's going to be a bumpy ride full of turbulence, twists and turns, flip flops and reversals as we try to keep up with Jehovah's Chariot!"
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One In A Thousand!
by The Bethelite ini was in new york city last week.
the first time in many years.
one couldn't help but notice how many people there are in the world, thousands, millions....billions.. any major city in the world can give you this sense of the vast sea of humanity.
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'I am human : nothing human is alien to me.' - Terence
'I am human : everything human is alien to me.' - The Average Jehovah's Witness
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Did being raised a Jehovah's Witnesses result in psychological damage? An interesting read in the New York Times.
by Balaamsass2 ininteresting read in the new york times book review.
food for thought on a subject 3rd gen and i have discussed between ourselves and with our daughter.
in our case, the answer is yes.
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"I often ...nurture the little girl that was physically abused and forced to behave like a mini-adult." - 3rdgen
When I was in the fifth grade, Christmas was a big deal for my home room class. My mother never came to school to explain the holidays or the flag salute. My siblings and I were left to explain our 'Christian stand' as Jehovah's Witnesses by ourselves. I was so frightened and physically sick to explain about Christmas to the teacher that she took me outside into the hallway. She urged me to 'calm down, relax and don't worry'. 'You see', she said, 'we have something in common. I am Jewish and I don't have Christmas, either. Everything will be fine.' I knew if I didn't explain 'my stand' properly, my mother would slap me around and eventually, Jehovah would destroy me. To me, it seemed as though my teacher cared more for me than my own mother. Yes, I would say that many raised as 'mini-adult' Jehovah's Witnesses have deep psychological scars.
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Rollo May
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thomas Szasz
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What is the longest distance you drove to attend a summer Convention?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inhere is a photo of the milwaukee brewers ( american baseball team) county stadium.
for some reason, we were assigned this outdoor stadium for our 1975 four-day summer convention.
our congregation was located 90 miles away on the north side of chicago.. some congregation members stayed at milwaukee hotels for the four-day convention.
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In 1969 my family drove from Massachusetts to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles for the convention; a distance of over 3000 miles. We camped about a 2 hour drive from the assembly! That was the original 'long, hot summer.' We spent a month traveling and visiting relatives. If it weren't for the time wasted at the assembly, it would have been a great vacation.