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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

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  i used to be here a real lot.

  now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

  per day and read a few other threads that interest me.

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  Dear Diary,

  Is it wrong, DD, to be true to one's self...you know what I mean...to thine ownself be true? Why is it so blasted difficult getting to believe in oneself? Doing your own thing - like being a musician or an artist - is demonized because it diverts attention from God. Do you feel that way, DD? Independent thought, creative license...Is every man who aspires to something greater than himself setting out to build a tower reaching to the heavens? Well, the truth sets one free, Dear Diary! Stepping to the beat of a different drummer, being a maverick, doesn't consign me to the realm of the godless, does it? Why is obsession, no - let's say PASSION - so reprehensible, when I personally choose my own path toward humanity and God? St. Francis declared humility and service toward one's fellow the recipe for joy. Do you find it curious, Dear Diary, that one who was about to give up on life and love, got ambushed and assaulted by apostates, and actually acquired an affirmation, an achievement? It's a whole new life out there and I'm goin' for it! Are you with me, Dear Diary? There's a new leather jacket in it for you!

  C...
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i used to be here a real lot.

  now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

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  Dear Diary,

  I'm back again after ANOTHER nap and my fix of Manuel de Falla's "El Amor Brujo." Ah, Love the Magician! Love is like the will-o-the-wisp, fades and is gone. Why I am feeling this way? The fire burns, the river rumbles, but the waters do not put out the fire! Oh, de Falla and that flamenco music and dance make me passionate about getting home, DD! I miss Espana so much. The crackling heat of those intense summer days in the city square, the vast rolling lawn spreading its verdure before the Villa Montalvo. The cypress trees, twisting their gnarled arms skyward toward the azure skies. I am so homesick, Dear Diary, that I must not allow Senor Falla to beckon me further to what I have left behind...and lost...forever? I better leave off Recuidos de la Alhambra...too much.........
  Maybe, though, Dear Diary, it's all good now! So much that is good has crossed my path. Unc Gary and Honest Abe said something about thinking very carefully about what you are about to say, especially what you put on paper. But what if your first thoughts were totally spontaneous and out of love? Scully said that apathy, not hate, is the opposite of love. Did I recall that correctly, DD? Surely you'd remember that...you're the one with the memory. If the dear, little puppy that loves you so much wets on your foot, are you going to kick him? I think NOT! You'll pick the little drip up and give him a big hug. Never be afraid of spontaneity. I will not live my life in fear! WT facts are not reliable but I sure'd go along with jw-facts.

  C...
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
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  i used to be here a real lot.

  now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

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  Dear Diary,

  Had my nap, dinner and a "bathe," as say the British, well, in the flicks, anyway. Hadda lotta thoughts pass thru the skull of late, but someone mentioned jealousy. Recall thinking about being a victim of jealousy, a la Bette Midler and Barb Hershey in "Beaches." They were jealous of each other, but none was the wiser. What a waste of energy. Well, had my share of rottenness to the bones. Goes both ways. We all want what the other fella's got - his brains, his looks, his girl friend, his money......... Are you ever envious, Dear Diary? Like you want a leather cover or more pages, maybe? Do you wanna be published???.....No way, Jose'! You're not makin' a peep 'bout what goes down from pen to parchment. You are sworn to secrecy! I'll chain you to a post if you get outta hand!

  C...
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  Persecution Wanes/Banning Blood Garners Publicity

  by compound complex in

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  sheer madness --- perpetuated by two madmen who prevailed over the judge [almost].

  "after the judge's death, as world war ii was ending and persecution against the witnesses began declining, along with the attendant drop in news-media publicity, hayden c. covington told the author [of the four presidents] that fred franz saw the prohibition against blood transfusions as a way to accomplish two things: to continue to publicize the religion, and to create an uproar in the community.

  this reaction would convince the membership they were being "persecuted" and "suffering for righteousness sake," a sure sign they were "in the truth.".

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  Many, many more thank yous to you, Skally!

  BTTT!!!!!!!!!!!

  CoCo
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

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  i used to be here a real lot.

  now i make about 15 posts , if that,.

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  Dear Diary,

  Back from the garden. Was listening to Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" on NPR. Have watched and heard bits and pieces of it in "Billy Elliot" and "The Music Lovers." Cleaned up the gravilia and the junipers - sculpted them topiary-style. Cleared out years of dead, live oak leaves and twigs. Looks great, but I'm bushed. Need a nap. After all, it IS Sunday. Backinnabit, DD.........

  C...
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  First Piano Lesson Tomorrow!! Need a littel advice.

  by BlackPearl in

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  for most of my life i've wanted to learn to play the piano and learn to write music.

  my wife got me a yamaha keyboard for christmas.

  i am finally happy to report that i have my first lesson tomorrow morning.

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  Greetings again, PB!

  Thanx for the update. I've found that adult students [you are an adult, aren't you?] are the more likely to succeed for reasons already obvious to you. I know nothing per downloading questions you've asked, but I would recommend a classical radio station in your area, if such is available. Music appreciation - in the classics - is truly the basis for what you are currently set out to do. If you have any doubt of its long range benefit [for me, nearly 50 years, ears attuned to the radio], please see Minimus' thread on How Often Do You Come to JWD?..... and look for the Dear Diary posts. All the other music that you listen to IS very important to the overall musical tableau that forms your musical experience; however, I needn't elaborate further on the classics because, surely, you're aware of their all-important position.

  CoCo
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  Fictional Teaching of Slave Class/RF

  by compound complex in

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  in search of christian freedom.

  the faithful and discreet slave.

  masking over reality - for what purpose?.

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  Welcome to the not-so-bored board, MiMiMiMi.......

  Back To The Top. Threads get lost fast, well, mine do! Relocated this one in order to answer a question on a new thread. Saves time and money.........

  CoCo
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  Kindness Toward Trolls

  by compound complex in

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  dear givers of the benefit of the doubt,.

  i recall that in discussing "love believes all things," the aid book stated that we should give our "brother" the benefit of the doubt until we have good reason to no longer do so.

  that's the gist of it.

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  Helllo Mikceal 300,

  i am nut knawing thes poeple yous talk abot but idicy is nott aloud hre onthe jW boerd. And proper, standard English is a prerequisite for an approved standing and intergradation into the system. Are you an approved publisher?

  Trolling for Trolls???

  Anonny Mouse
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  How Often Do You Come To JWD During A Day, Week or Month??? Hours or Mins?

  by minimus in

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  i used to be here a real lot.

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  Dear Diary,

  So much to tell you since we were outa touch for 24! Been going over stuff about 'who really is the YKW'! You know whom I mean, DD. You know what I'm thinking even before I put it down. It's still so cold outside, but I gotta do a lil' clean up after alla last week's pruning. Life here on Walden Pond is beyond what I ever hoped for. All those years slaving on the Estate. And for what? Enslaved I was in more ways than you could imagine...... I don't get out much anymore. I am so relieved that the toxicity of many decades past has been flushed from my system. Just heard "That Old Time Religion" on NPR - that's what I need, the genuine article, NOT the new -and-improved GN from YKW! Why doesn't YKW get the point of Galatians 1:8? What is so hard about that? Deary Diary - don't get me started on another rant. I really got to get outside... where's my long underwear?

  C...
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  If a GB member said something that wasn't ever in PRINT we would not

  by What-A-Coincidence in

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  officially believe it unless it was in a wtbts publication.

  being printed in a publication is what makes it official.

  at bethel we heard my 'special lectures', they could have been given a a gb member or some other high ranking member.

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  compound complex

  Please see "Who Actually Supplies the "Food"? [about mid-way down the thread on the Fictional Teaching of the FDS Class, response from Compound-Complex]:

  www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/125950/1.ashx

  CoCo