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  Love Affair with Books

  by compound complex in

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  truest love, ever near, from my spring till winter.. your warm, supple skin is sheer delight to my touch.. gliding fingers up and down your spine tell me .

  that, truly, heaven’s gates have opened to me.. treasures long hid from me cause my heart to.

  melt as your trove of precious thoughts works .

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  I hate reading.

  No, it's not that I hate reading itself because I love stories. Stories that take me somewhere outside of my miserable life. Life in Montrose is as boring as it gets and since Mom hardly ever lets me out of her sight since "it" happened. Granny lives with us and she's blind but loves the Good Book so guess who has the lovely job of reading Scripture to her EVERYDAY? That would be yours truly. Well, she's sweet to me though she's not too keen on Mom as Adela -- Granny -- is my loser father's mother. He walked out on us six months ago and Granny blames Mom, but I don't feel that's entirely fair.
  

  Anyway, I read to her after the breakfast dishes are cleared up and put in the sink. We're in the Psalms now and Granny says she loves my voice and how I put feeling into the laments of David, who was probably a bigger sinner than me but God spared him. I try to focus on the Lord's words for Granny's sake because she has nothing but Mom and me and she calms down when I take her by the hand through the Valley of the Shadow of Death but we come out on the other side.
  

  She loves me so much, so she says. I can't let her down because she talked me into staying alive after my bad sin. I can't help it. I see them out there while I'm reading words of peace and love and they want me to follow them to do bad things. I couldn't help it one day and put the Bible down and said to my granny that I had to go check on something outside.
  

  I followed them . . . we went into the woods. . . .
  
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  Love Affair with Books

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
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  truest love, ever near, from my spring till winter.. your warm, supple skin is sheer delight to my touch.. gliding fingers up and down your spine tell me .

  that, truly, heaven’s gates have opened to me.. treasures long hid from me cause my heart to.

  melt as your trove of precious thoughts works .

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  compound complex

  That's all right, Nancy! What matters is that you are inspired to write.

  Best Wishes!
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  Love Affair with Books

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  truest love, ever near, from my spring till winter.. your warm, supple skin is sheer delight to my touch.. gliding fingers up and down your spine tell me .

  that, truly, heaven’s gates have opened to me.. treasures long hid from me cause my heart to.

  melt as your trove of precious thoughts works .

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  compound complex

  Truest love, ever near, from my spring till winter.

  Your warm, supple skin is sheer delight to my touch.
  

  Gliding fingers up and down your spine tell me

  That, truly, Heaven’s gates have opened to me.

  Treasures long hid from me cause my heart to

  Melt as your trove of precious thoughts works

  The wheels of my mind, inspiring and feeding it.

  Your message is not a useless tale but an ardent declaration

  Meant for people of the world to read, to ponder, to act upon.

  Men and women seek what lies between your covers, though,

  At first glance, they may not recognize your inherent worth.

  Not until you, O cherished Book of books, reveal what you
  

  Offer to mankind's newly opened eyes and waiting hearts.

  You are my delight, the essence of my being, my will to live.
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  What is Nature's most perfect food?

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, gourmands of the forum!.

  i agree with garfield, but mayo comes in a close second.

  slathering my pasta with an inch of best foods real mayonnaise (hellman's, east of the rockies) is close to heaven for me.

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  When I was in Australia, 20 years ago, I had fish and chips daily.

  The fish was in different forms -- loved the poached. Could not get enough of it! The smell wafting through the salty air had me doing handstands and somersaults . . .

  Well, sort of.
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  What is Nature's most perfect food?

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, gourmands of the forum!.

  i agree with garfield, but mayo comes in a close second.

  slathering my pasta with an inch of best foods real mayonnaise (hellman's, east of the rockies) is close to heaven for me.

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  Thanks for sharing, fellow enjoyers of all things delectable to the palate.

  I had no realization there were delicious aliments outside the realm of pasta, a staple for us from Middle Earth!

  
  
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  How do the foreign language Congregations find people to call on?

  by UnshackleTheChains in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok. i had a fascinating conversation with one of my polish colleagues at work.

  she knows i'm a jdub and an activist as have filled her in warts and all about watchtower.. she came up to me today explaining how a couple of polish witnesses came to her door.

  she was curious as to how they knew to call on her door knowing she was polish.

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  In New York City (Manhattan) and Brooklyn, we Bethelites in the French Congo took the subway and chatted up the French-speaking Haitians. The French themselves showed little interest.

  The former were enthusiastic and readily had us over to their apartments. They would invite friends and family over and we had hours-long Bible discussions, and, often, food! It started with about a dozen and ended up numerous congregations and circuits. We even went upstate NY and started new groups, called nuclei.

  The Haitians were loving and friendly. We lonely Bethel brothers found our niche.
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  What is Nature's most perfect food?

  by compound complex in

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  2. entertainment

  greetings, gourmands of the forum!.

  i agree with garfield, but mayo comes in a close second.

  slathering my pasta with an inch of best foods real mayonnaise (hellman's, east of the rockies) is close to heaven for me.

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  What is Nature's most perfect food?

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  greetings, gourmands of the forum!.

  i agree with garfield, but mayo comes in a close second.

  slathering my pasta with an inch of best foods real mayonnaise (hellman's, east of the rockies) is close to heaven for me.

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  Greetings, Gourmands of the Forum!

  I agree with Garfield, but mayo comes in a close second.

  Slathering my pasta with an inch of Best Foods Real Mayonnaise (Hellman's, East of the Rockies) is close to heaven for me. Problem is, I'm of stocky Mediterranean ethnicity.

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  The Key Text on JW.Org Leaves Out The Most Important Part!

  by steve2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  perhaps the one scripture most often quoted by jws is matthew 24:14: "this good news of the kingdomwill be preached in all the inhabited earth and then the end will come.

  " even after decades away from the kingdom hall, i can still rattle off that verse.

  i daresay all 8-plus million "active" jws can also recite it, plus the untold millions who have left or become inactive across the decades.. it is among the top cornerstone texts used in jw communications.. but now there's a significant shift in the use of that text: jws often focused heavily on the part of the scripture about the end coming.

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  steve2:

  I just wrote a friend who's been out 40-plus years and told her she wouldn't recognize the religion anymore -- nor do I. That sacred touchstone -- our one-time mantra -- may be in a state of flux. Interesting, Russell said light is added to, not displaced by new light.

  Maybe we should reconsider the founder's philosophy.

  Well, maybe not . . . didn't the end come in 1914?!?!?!?
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  New "Annointed" Brother In My Old Hall...

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i've only just stopped laughing.. in my old hall there's a brother who's now claiming to be of the anointed.. he's 28.. i do wonder if he's doing this for attention, if he's awake and messing with them, or if he really is that deluded.

  when i was in he was an ms. which surprised even me because only a year earlier than that he was "a bit of a lad", is rubbish at talks and relies on his elder uncle to get him out of trouble all the time.. i guess this now means he's get his pick of jw sisters.

  he's been after the same one as the rest of his peers since 2014..

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  Like the apostle Paul, I was caught away to the "third heaven" but fell back to earth with a thud.

  Going to Bethel takes you to the sublime and leaves you with the ridiculous . . . I was "anointed" for about a week, woke up to reality, and found New York and my pitiful life there a real downer. The foreign language congo gave me some sense of worth and community.

  I am so grounded and sensible now that I can't recognize myself when I look in the mirror.