For several years now, I have had direct deposit and have paid all my bills online using Quicken. I e-file my taxes, buy my gas with Speed-Pass, pay the tolls on the highway with EZ-Pass. I don't handle "real" money very much at all. (I put "real" in quotes since the paper money and coins we use can hardly be considered really real.)
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CASHLESS SOCIETY - HOW CLOSE?
by 1914BS inlately i have noticed very strange activity at my local gas stations that i go to in the vancouver area people are being asked to use the debit/credit cards at the pump.
the last time i tried to use a debit card to pay gas inside a gas station i got scolded by the cashier, he said "please pay at the pump!!.
i say gee i guess he is having a bad day or something..... well so i go to anouther gas station - a shell station and the same rhetoric .."please pay at the pump!
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MOUTHY'S 81st Birthday
by BenV inmouthy, is today your 81st birthday?
i saw on a post you wrote -- and it said birthday!
(don't know how these things work?).
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRACE !
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My Husband Thinks I'm an Idiot...
by cognac inhe told me that he was really attracted to how deep of a person i was before we got married.. then adds in, "but then you started questioning simple things.
things 2 year olds understand..." .
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Cognac, you are the furthest thing from an idiot. Tell that boy to start treating you with a little more respect or the doctor will have to come down there and make a house call. ;-)
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Criticism worthy of your time
by johnnyc inas i read posts throughout this site, i became amazed at some of the criticism people have actually spent time creating, reading (as i did), and responding to.
dont get me wrong, some of what i read are good issues that seem worthy (to me) of discussion, but to be honest, i find that 90% of the posts are based on ridiculous petty topics that are obviously tied to a sense of deep hatred of the wtbts.
i can appreciate that some of the people who leave such post, and have this hatred, are taking their time to discuss such things as part of a therapeutic process to combat the fact they spent a large portion of their life dedicated to an organization they feel abandoned them at some point.
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Deep hatred for something often leads to irrational behavior, and unwillingness to consider alternative viewpoints.
Those of us who were JWs obviously HAVE considered alternative viewpoints
About 2 years ago I started an active search for “God”, only to be very disappointed in what I found out there, and have been disillusioned with certain realizations I had about the subject matter altogether.
Where was the "out there" where you looked for God?
I’ve since been looking all over for information, and truthfully have been considering going back to being a JW (though have not acted upon it) based on not finding anything better out there.
Once again with the "out there" - as though the WT organization and "out there" are the only two possibilities. Have you considered that your relationship with God, like your relationship with anyone else is not so much about gaining information as it is about experiencing that person? There is a huge difference between knowing ABOUT God (or anyone else) and KNOWING them.
My wife is now pregnant, and this has hastened my desire to settle upon something. My visit to this site was based upon my deep inner desire to find a “smoking gun” on why I shouldn’t be a JW – yet most of what I have read so far seems to be rantings of an extreme position.
If your relationship with God is based on whether or not you are a JW or any other denomination, then your relationship is not with God, but with the organization. Rather than looking for some organization to "fix you up" with God, why not build your relationship with God, through Christ, and then let Him point you the body of believers He wants you to fellowship with?
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Did the WTS actually get it right in 1942?
by Olin Moyles Ghost inrecently in the book study, we discussed revelation 17:8 which says, in part, "the wild beast that you saw was, but is not, and yet is about to ascend out of the abyss, and it is to go off into destruction.
" in chapter 34, paragraphs 4-5, the revelation climax book relates that in september 1942, knorr gave a talk called "peace--can it last?
" in that talk, knorr noted that the league was in the abyss at that time as a result of world war 2. he asked "will the league remain in the pit?
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DocBob
There's an old saying "Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while."
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I just get a recording that says all circuits are busy so there must be a lot of listeners.
BFD
Interesting - I was told there was room for only 400 participants
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I'm there
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This could be the end of JWD
by skyking inat least posting without using your real name .
news article http://bigheaddc.com/2008/03/10/lawmaker-wants-to-criminalize-anonymous-internet-posts.
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If this bill goes anywhere, we could have an unlikely ally - anonymous free speech was at the center of the WTS argument when they successfully faught the ordinance in Stratton, Ohio. Maybe they would file an friend of the court brief like they did in the Swaggart case.
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I finally Left!
by The Doc 58 ini would like to give the full details of my leaving the jw's, but i don't have a lot of time at this moment.
basically i was raised in the organization and it drove me pretty insane bacause my father was an elder, mother a pioneer, sister a bethelite, etc.
so, i did the whole thing for a long time.
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As one Doc to another - WELCOME
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Jimi Hendrix - Your Favorite Songs and Albums from Him ?
by flipper inmusic fans , here we go again !
lay it on me !
this guy , absolutely one of the greatest if not the greatest guitarists in rock history , what were your favorite songs and albums from him ?
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"Third Stone from the Sun"
I loved Jimi's music as a teen in the 60's. The more I listen to his music the more I appreciate his genius. He was an original. We lost him all too soon.