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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,

  "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago----never mind how long precisely---having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever it is I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off---then, I account it high time to get to the sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings toward the ocean with me."
  MOBY DICK or The White Whale, by Herman Melville, CHAPTER 1, Loomings, p. 21

  When, DD, will I again set my foot into the sea? Not necessarily as a sailor upon a ship, who aways to a distant port of call. Merely to touch the wet stuff, to wade in the surf till it overwhelms me. Ishmael is correct, DD---'most men in their degree'---long for the sea.

  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 to my movie, "It Came From Outer Space" - 1953; Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush, not Dana Wynter, as I had thought. It's in 3-D, but I don't remember where I put my glasses. A big deal, DD, when we were kids. Yeah, that and a 5-cent candy bar at the movies. Twenty-five cents admission for a double-feature, a newsreel, a couple cartoons. I remember us kids going to a matinee and seeing something called "Macabre," in the '50s. Well, it ended up being some dorky "horror" flick about a mysterious entity in a bottle. We got in trouble with Mom for watching this child-warping weirdness. No such thing as parental guidelines then - and she sent us! Do non-JW kids walk out on "objectionable" movies? Funny that I should think of this now, 50 years later. Can't find the title in video guide.

  C...
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  THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE WTS.

  by Mary in

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  i wonder how many more years it'll be before we see two tablets out front of patterson or inscribed in the secret elder's manual:.

  we are your lord and god.

  you shall not have other gods before us, including jesus or jehovah.. you must not question anything we say or do.

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  Empower not your conscience for any purpose. All you will ever need to direct your path are 1177 Rules/Regs-BOP. Love them or leave!

  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,

  Just returned fromma walkabout. Lovely late afternoon to a rather nice day. Love the "quiet" personal messages I get, DD. Could never deal with the blare of the telephone's ringing itself off the hook. Heard from a few dear ones today. It lifts the spirits. And of course, B's 3rd. Gonna watch a 50s Sci -Fi, or more correctly, SF, movie with Richard Carlson and Dana [pronounced "Donna"] Wynter.
  Check back later with some research - or maybe just "regular" reading - I've done.

  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,
  
  What a difference a day makes! With a little help from my friends and Beethoven's heroics, I will get on with the remains of the day by washing up the b'fast and luncheon dishes. Bought MRS. DALLOWAY, by Virginia Woolf, and MOBY DICK, by Herman Melville:

  "If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it [MD]."

  What glorious stuff! To the sink, DD! Wish me a whale of a time!

  C...
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  "Apostates need to grow up and get over it...they're adults!"

  by restrangled in

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  that was the comment from my mother yesterday.

  70 years plus a jw ....her own mother a follower of rutherford.. after mentioning to her the amount of people on this board including the co's do's, life long pioneers, etc, their hurt from families from shunning, the reasons for hanging in quietly....... the above was the only comment she could come up with.. i was outraged.

  she told me to start reading the new testament.......i told her it bored me.......and i quietly said mmmmm.

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  Dear Rest,

  Just came through the last major dissonance of the "Eroica" - 18 minutes into the piece. It has the feel of troops soldiering through in battle to the lone, long-sustained blare of a brassy clarion call. Exquisitely unsettling. Not quite the same pleasure, however, with yer Mum's dissonance. So sorry. Do we somehow extract ourselves from the potential emotional blackmail that only a parent can impose and cooly say, "Enough - your little games no longer work!" It is so difficult, perhaps with ANY person who has hold of our heart. I am now in a much better position to understand how some whom I've hurt avoid me. I am detached - objective - about whatever malice they may bear me. Weird spot to be in, to sympathize with the enemy - LOL! Don't know how else to put it.

  I guess there's no getting through with the mind-set you describe, Rest! Hope you get through the emotion of it all. "Eroica" is concluding - some 50 minutes long! Hope you haven't minded my sharing it with you....................

  Love,

  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.

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  Dear Diary,
  
  It is high noon and I am just now returned from the garden on Walden. Morning cafe from the carafe is still warm. Don't want to bother nukin' it. Cremora rather than moo-jus. As I trimmed back 20-year's growth and shoved the juniper slash into the waste bin, I looked upward to "see" the zephyrs jostling about the crest of the giant lodgepole pine. The sky is sufficiently blue to garner a grateful sigh from this weary husband of the grounds. A crackling, electric blue it ain't. That's all right. Beethoven's 3rd on later: "Eroica" [Heroic] - Out of admiration for the leader, Ludie originally dedicated the great work to Napoleon. When he learned that Bonaparte had the gall to crown himself emperor, Beethoven, in a rage, scratched out the dedication, cutting through the score.
  Will return later, as my cheer has been sufficiently restored by the "flabbergasted" one and my friend of the tropics. Gratitude is but a paltry word to express how I truly feel....

  C...
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 1-21-07 WT Study (Day Near)

  by blondie in

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  2. bible

  will try again, getting error message.

  says posted 6 hours 3 minutes ago which is not true, less than ten minutes ago.

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  Dear Friends,

  Please heed a most urgent warning and be advised of the following recommendations:

  "But we cannot be far from our change; and we advise that all of the Lord's people live day by day just as though this was the last day on this side of the veil, and that tonight or tomorrow would usher us into the glorious things beyond the veil."
  "While we are not certain that all the dire calamities of the day of the Lord will befall the earth within the next eleven months, nevertheless, there seems to be sufficient possibility of this to warrant us in making certain provisions against the distress of the time - in the interest of our families, our friends, and our neighbors. We recommend those having dry, clean cellars, or other places suitable and well-ventilated, to lay in a good stock of life's necessities; for instance, a large supply of coal, of rice, dried peas, dried beads, rolled oats, wheat, barley, sugar, molasses, fish, etc....Do not sound a trumpet before you, telling of your provision, intentions, etc..." - Cell phones [?].

  For our day, our children's day........ whose day???

  C.T. Russell's words from 1 November 1914, THE WATCHTOWER [reprints], pp. 5569, 5572.

  Be careful that no one learns "of your provision, intentions, etc..." You might be forced to share.

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

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  Dear Diary,

  Two little streams join in the mountains - one warm, one cold - to form the Moldau, hence Bedrich Smetana's orchestral work: "The Moldau." Its true name, however is "Vltava." The work colorfully depicts the river Vltava's wanderings from the source, through the countryside as it splits, and meets up again to flow past the castle in Prague. I wasn't aware that, like Beethoven, Smetana too went deaf. Beautiful choral piece by Estonian composer Arvo Pert (sp?) about OT/NT, Adam/Jesus, contrasts. Title eludes me. Dvorak has just begun. Seems we are exploring that part of the world today. What is the name of that region - Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Bohemia...? Eastern Europe?
  A new and brilliant day emerges, DD. Whatever shall we do? I must get out, even for a bit. Mornings are so slow and difficult. We shall see what we shall see. Is anonymity such a good thing? When it comes to fading, yes - maybe so. I need to concentrate on the work at hand and not allow emotion to impinge upon what I must do. It has held sway for too long a time already....
  Must brew anew a pottacafe, DD. An imminent return? Que sera sera - Doris Day.

  C...
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  League of and United Nations Prophetic Speculation

  by sf in

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  < http://user.tninet.se/~oof408u/fkf/english/un.htm.

  the league of nations and the united nations in prophetic speculation .

  "and many false prophets shall arise, .

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  Dear Skally,

  BTTT for many of us who were NOT aware of these many details. I was lurking, having no intention of replying to anything just yet. But you, among a few others, have inspired me to move ahead with passion. Even we perennially cheerful-types do get down and need reassurance.

  Thank you for putting this up again. Will re-read it when I'm awake!

  Peace and love,

  CoCo