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  Your Favorite Plays on Words

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  1. social
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  greetings, fellow word lovers:.

  please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

  time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..

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  Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.

  Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.
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  My Belief in Prayer

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  my belief in prayer was once bolstered by my strong attachment to what i had read in aid to bible understanding.

  my having a part in its initial prep in the factory and, later, a detailed proofing of thousands of references to it made this bible dictionary an influence in my former life.

  please note this extract on jehovah's seeming delay in the answering of prayer.

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  Very erudite, Tara!
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  My Belief in Prayer

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  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my belief in prayer was once bolstered by my strong attachment to what i had read in aid to bible understanding.

  my having a part in its initial prep in the factory and, later, a detailed proofing of thousands of references to it made this bible dictionary an influence in my former life.

  please note this extract on jehovah's seeming delay in the answering of prayer.

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  P.S. CoCo, did you see what I did there with reference to the Aid to Bible Understanding publication? -- Tara N Seals

  That you read every entry, from the very first to the very last?

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  As a believing JW, I think I swallowed the explanation. I reasoned that it fit well with the JW teaching that Jah was going to fix all problems in the future and that it wasn't time yet to fix all problems (issue of universal sovereignty, etc.). -- Magnum

  Swallowed, hook, line, and sinker! Leave it in Jehovah's hands, etc.

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  Why does Jah permit this and remain silent? Why can’t he alleviate this suffering? -- EverApostate

  I'm still working on that one.

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  THANKS!
  
  

  
  
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  Learning New Words

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  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, fellow lexophiles:.

  last night, i watched a cool road movie, the trip, with steve coogan and rob brydon.

  they were counseled by steve's dad to take an "anticlockwise" route home, rather than the clockwise one steve had proposed.

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  Pretty neat, huh? -- LUHE

  YES!

  Thanks for the look into other languages.

  
  
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  Learning New Words

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  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, fellow lexophiles:.

  last night, i watched a cool road movie, the trip, with steve coogan and rob brydon.

  they were counseled by steve's dad to take an "anticlockwise" route home, rather than the clockwise one steve had proposed.

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  Thanks, pale.emperor, for your thoughts. I agree on "full stop."

  Yes, French is beautiful and so, too, Italian. Some time back I recall that the French word for twilight, crepuscule, was voted the most beautiful French word.
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  My Belief in Prayer

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my belief in prayer was once bolstered by my strong attachment to what i had read in aid to bible understanding.

  my having a part in its initial prep in the factory and, later, a detailed proofing of thousands of references to it made this bible dictionary an influence in my former life.

  please note this extract on jehovah's seeming delay in the answering of prayer.

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  My belief in prayer was once bolstered by my strong attachment to what I had read in Aid to Bible Understanding. My having a part in its initial prep in the factory and, later, a detailed proofing of thousands of references to it made this Bible dictionary an influence in my former life.

  Please note this extract on Jehovah's seeming delay in the answering of prayer. How would you, in your years as a JW, have been influenced by this explanation?

  "The seeming delay on God's part in answering some prayers is not due to any inability nor to a lack of willingness. . . . In some cases the answer must await God's timetable. Primarily, however, it is evident that God allows his petitioners to demonstrate the depth of their concern, the intensity of their desire, the genuineness of their motive. . . . Similarly, while Jehovah God cannot be pressured by numbers into acting, he evidently takes note of the extent of concern shown by his servants as a body, taking action when they collectively show deep concern and united interest. Where apathy, or a measure thereof exists, God may withhold action."

  Aid to Bible Understanding, PRAYER, THE ANSWERING OF PRAYERS, page 1331
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  Learning New Words

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  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, fellow lexophiles:.

  last night, i watched a cool road movie, the trip, with steve coogan and rob brydon.

  they were counseled by steve's dad to take an "anticlockwise" route home, rather than the clockwise one steve had proposed.

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  Never would I, should I, could I be anti-AFRIKANMAN! However, since I am older than you, I am ante-AFRIKANMAN.

  THANKS!
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  With the ramped up talk are the governing body trying to coerce Jehovah to bring on Armageddon?

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  1. watchtower
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  i loathe hypothetical questions on this forum.

  but i got the honest impression that they are so delusional they can bring on armageddon with all their talk and jehovah will have no choice but to act.

  ( not that i believe in armageddon anymore).

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  "The seeming delay on God's part in answering some prayers is not due to any inability nor to a lack of willingness. . . . In some cases the answer must await God's timetable. Primarily, however, it is evident that God allows his petitioners to demonstrate the depth of their concern, the intensity of their desire, the genuineness of their motive. . . . Similarly, while Jehovah God cannot be pressured by numbers into acting, he evidently takes note of the extent of concern shown by his servants as a body, taking action when they collectively show deep concern and united interest. Where apathy, or a measure thereof exists, God may withhold action."

  Aid to Bible Understanding, PRAYER, THE ANSWERING OF PRAYERS, page 1331
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  Learning New Words

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, fellow lexophiles:.

  last night, i watched a cool road movie, the trip, with steve coogan and rob brydon.

  they were counseled by steve's dad to take an "anticlockwise" route home, rather than the clockwise one steve had proposed.

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  Greetings, Fellow Lexophiles:

  Last night, I watched a cool road movie, The Trip, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. They were counseled by Steve's dad to take an "anticlockwise" route home, rather than the clockwise one Steve had proposed. Here in the US we use "counterclockwise." I had never before heard "anticlockwise."

  Do you have some words new (or old) to you to share?

  THANKS!
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  Does the younger generation have our work ethic?

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  greetings, you hard workers:.

  i've had enough of speaking in generalities during my time as a jw evangelizer.

  while my own experience will offer up mere anecdotal examples at best, my contemporaries and i have found that kids today lack the earnestness and drive we older folks have had since youth: setting up a lemonade stand; doing yard work without power assist; mopping floors; running errands for a dime; cleaning parking lots, etc.

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  Heavenly Father, forgive us for our falling shorts -- SBF

  WT conductor: We'll get a comment now from Sister Payne . . . in the rear.
  

  Excellent points, Stephane and Nancy!
  

  [ . . .] give me roll of butter rum lifesavers if I would go to the corner store for her.

  • Be there when it counts. If you have to work 24 hours straight to help your boss out of a mess, so be it. [hard to do when you gotta be at the meeting NO MATTER WHAT]