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  Why I get out of bed every morning.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
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  because someone needs my help.. as a jw -- you can relate -- i truly believed that what everyone really needed was the kingdom hope and its eventual reality.

  you know, the hope that does not lead to disappointment.

  of course, if anyone needed practical help with a task or getting through some difficulty, most of us realized that was part of being a helpful and caring friend (or family member).. at nearly seventy years of age -- no, i didn't enter the promised kingdom in my healthful and vibrant youth -- my getting out of bed isn't so bad.

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  You're welcome, scratchme1010, and thank you for that reminder.

  All of us need to remember that, like a meal, it's not just the content but also the presentation.

  Have a great day.
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  Why I get out of bed every morning.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because someone needs my help.. as a jw -- you can relate -- i truly believed that what everyone really needed was the kingdom hope and its eventual reality.

  you know, the hope that does not lead to disappointment.

  of course, if anyone needed practical help with a task or getting through some difficulty, most of us realized that was part of being a helpful and caring friend (or family member).. at nearly seventy years of age -- no, i didn't enter the promised kingdom in my healthful and vibrant youth -- my getting out of bed isn't so bad.

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  I am grateful for your replies, Alive! and sparrowdown. They mean so much.

  Appreciation; it costs nothing folks but it can pull someone back from the brink. -- sparrowdown
  
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  Why I get out of bed every morning.

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  because someone needs my help.. as a jw -- you can relate -- i truly believed that what everyone really needed was the kingdom hope and its eventual reality.

  you know, the hope that does not lead to disappointment.

  of course, if anyone needed practical help with a task or getting through some difficulty, most of us realized that was part of being a helpful and caring friend (or family member).. at nearly seventy years of age -- no, i didn't enter the promised kingdom in my healthful and vibrant youth -- my getting out of bed isn't so bad.

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  Because someone needs my help.

  As a JW -- you can relate -- I truly believed that what everyone really needed was the kingdom hope and its eventual reality. You know, the hope that does not lead to disappointment. Of course, if anyone needed practical help with a task or getting through some difficulty, most of us realized that was part of being a helpful and caring friend (or family member).

  At nearly seventy years of age -- no, I didn't enter the promised kingdom in my healthful and vibrant youth -- my getting out of bed isn't so bad. It's mustering strength for work that's the challenge. Fortunately, the required jobs I continue to do aren't too strenuous. Walking a dog, feeding a Guinea pig, picking up a client's mail, etc. are all small but needed services. My clients really do appreciate me and I appreciate their trust in me.

  What I really wanted to get to was how we support one another, here on the forum and outside, one-on-one, with flesh-and-blood human beings. I appreciated the replies to my two recent threads on suicide and had to tell you that our words do matter.

  A friend, on the verge of ending it all due to monumental familial dysfunction, told me that she has reconsidered that permanent solution to a temporary (?!?!?!?!?) problem because of a conversation we had had. Like me, she is responsible for the well-being of others, some of whom show a gross lack of concern for her needs and feelings. In any event, we both concluded that we have to hang in there and do our jobs. It was so gratifying for her to tell me that she had received the needed wherewithal to carry on.

  Blessings and peace to all of you, my dear friends.
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  The Musician and the Fan

  by compound complex in

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  the fan's request: .

  why, my love, have you played upon my heart as you .

  would four strings set at intervals apart?.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGJHAQqoN0
  
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  The Musician and the Fan

  by compound complex in

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  the fan's request: .

  why, my love, have you played upon my heart as you .

  would four strings set at intervals apart?.

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  A thousand pairs of eyes were fixed intently upon Roberto and as many ears attuned to what lush tones were presently to surge forth from his violin.

  There was talk, fervid speculation and scarcely bridled anticipation over what might surely become the musical sensation of the decade. The timid and unassuming young man, who had long since captured the hearts of his peers as well as those uninitiated into the music of the spheres, was ready. His nervousness, certainly typical for many a young musician making his debut, was not evident to the expectant patrons in the now darkened music hall.
  
  The opening orchestral accompaniment provided a brief, measured entrance into the elegant fantasy for the stringed instrument whose soulful voice sings with a true heart of human emotion. It goes without saying that, in less skilled hands, the resultant caterwauling of bow to strings would have a horrified audience running for the door and demanding a refund. Surely, that rarely happens. Bad musicians -- or simply the mediocre -- do not make their entrance into the music world with the Fontanne Theatre their stage.
  
  Roberto, on cue, began his dialogue with the orchestra, employing his cherished violin as spokesman. The audience, falling upon the instrument's every word, was entranced into breathless silence. The young wizard, melding his heart and soul with the plaintive, the throbbing, the climactic crescendi of the four strings over which he possessed total but loving dominion, had his emotionally enthralled and incapacitated listeners silently begging for more exquisite pain.
  
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  Favorite Quotations from Movies

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  "the way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end.

  now you will have peace for eternity.

  " -- maleva, the wolf man.

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  Thanks, Nancy, particularly for Rod Serling's immortal words.
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  ''This good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth FULL STOP''- Matthew 24:14. JW ORG

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  2. bible

  hi.

  only just noticed on the jw borg home page that matt 24:14 is quoted with a full stop instead of a comma after the word earth then the closing quotation marks.. isn't that incorrect?.

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  From Bobcat (THANKS!):

  Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. New Living Translation And the Good News about the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so that all nations will hear it; and then the end will come. English Standard Version And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Berean Study Bible And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. Berean Literal Bible And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole earth, for a testimony to all the nations; and then the end will come. New American Standard Bible "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. King James Bible And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. Holman Christian Standard Bible This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations. And then the end will come. An Ellipsis at the Beginning or End of a Quotation In general, it is not necessary to use an ellipsis at the beginning or end of a quotation, even if you are quoting from the middle of a sentence. An exception is that you should include an ellipsis if, to prevent misinterpretation, you need to emphasize that the quotation begins or ends in midsentence. However, it is not usually necessary to do this. Here’s an example from an article about high-performing or “star” employees: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2015/05/punctuation-junction-quotation-marks-and-ellipses.html
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  House of Panes

  by compound complex in

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  it is dusk.. i think back to the spectacular sunsets i viewed from a small kitchen window in my former, beloved home-sweet-home.

  a tiny abode it was, compared to my current residence.

  no longer within a mere four wooden walls of plain aspect and diminutive scale, i now am lost in a seeming infinite architectural spread that reaches toward earth's four points, an edifice of four expansive levels that demand i walk, climb, explore every one of thousands of hidden nooks and crannies.

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  • It is dusk.

    I think back to the spectacular sunsets I viewed from a small kitchen window in my former, beloved home-sweet-home.

    A tiny abode it was, compared to my current residence. No longer within a mere four wooden walls of plain aspect and diminutive scale, I now am lost in a seeming infinite architectural spread that reaches toward earth's four points, an edifice of four expansive levels that demand I walk, climb, explore every one of thousands of hidden nooks and crannies. I am compelled to do this but find no joy in discovery. I want to go back, go back to the simplicity of my earlier life. I cannot.

    Through a multitude of panes, both large and small, I gaze upon Sol's last hurrah while I wander aimlessly about. It grows darker outdoors, The furtive, watery sun limps its pathetic course through the closing chapter of a gloomy and damp spring day. Its too brief, craven appearance created more shadow than illumination, and this tended toward my unease, prompting me to turn on each light of every room on all floors.

    I am alone -- sometimes it is good to be alone -- but not at this time. This dwelling place of loss and loneliness holds me captive, and I want only to walk out the door and go home. I can never go back.

    I have been locked up within. No one hears my cries for help. They are swallowed down whole by the grinning and cruel emptiness of an outwardly beautiful home that has no soul so has stolen mine.

    No one hears my cries for help. They are growing fainter. I am silent while watching the sun sink deeper and deeper into an eternal night.

    It is beautiful.
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  is armageddon starting ?

  by stan livedeath in

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  the sky is so dark here in the south of the uk.

  could be armageddon starting.. or then it could be dust particles in the atmosphere..

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  Has Bruce Willis signed on for the sequel?
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  Is this the secret?

  by compound complex in

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  “and now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -- the little prince, by antoine de saint-exupéry..

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  “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -- The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.