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  Being a jobo. It's not the same as it was.

  by punkofnice in

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  i've been hearing this from what i'd call 'dyed in the wool' type jobos.. 'it's not the same as it was a few years ago.....'.

  i believe from what comes back to me via my spies -.

  the dyed in the woolers are referring to how the gb are now blatantly pontificating threateningly it seems, about wanting money even from children, all the time.

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  compound complex

  Although I have already mentioned this on similar threads in the recent past, I will repeat the following:

  Before anyone here, on the forum, or those active in the "Truth," had an inkling of the widespread changes about to occur, Randy Watters had printed a quotation, in THE FREE MINDS JOURNAL, from a certain "Br. Morris" (I believe that was the surname). That declaration was culled from a District Convention talk, wherein the speaker said that certain changes were forthcoming and many JWs would not be happy with those changes.

  Oh, really?
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  Bye, Bye Love

  by compound complex in

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  heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs .

  your aching need for my full and loving devotion.. i spend myself willingly on your behalf because,.

  truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.. if i were young and wiry man, for you .

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  Dear Muddy Waters:

  Thank you so very much for your post. Allow me, please, to express my own sympathy for what you're currently enduring. We have all gotten older and sicker and now face the inevitable. My past brushes with the Grim Reaper woke me up to my own mortality, as you wrote. Fortunately, for both of us, he approached our doors, ready to knock, but reconsidered and turned on his heel and sought out someone else.

  I hope the following poem offers you some consolation. My detachment from the former sadness that inspired hundreds of poems and stories has faded away. Sure, I have my moments, but now it's like, "OH! Did I actually write this?"

  Blessings and peace.

  MY DAY'S LONG AND ARDUOUS JOURNEY winds down.

  Infinite night gracefully descends and takes me into her

  Welcomed embrace.

  I have no reason to fear the inevitable,
  

  That transition into a higher and

  More glorious state

  Than allowed me upon this

  Beautiful but angst-filled

  Habitation.

  I rejoice in what has been

  Prepared from early on.

  I await the call . . .
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  ...another "I" phone this one from apple..

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good grief thats all we need..... these phones take so much concentration from the world about them for their users they are dangerous.. i was out on my bike on a bike path and nearly skittled two teen somethings who just meandered out in front of me in 'convo' and with buds and oblivious to traffic about them.

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  not just teens either the law here gives heavy fines for anyone phoning or texting while driving..

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  LV101:

  Excellent analysis -- thank you! You state your points so beautifully and clearly. Speaking of points, to write with an unsharpened pencil is pointless . . .

  Best regards.
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  Bye, Bye Love

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  heavy, heavy upon my failing heart weighs .

  your aching need for my full and loving devotion.. i spend myself willingly on your behalf because,.

  truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.. if i were young and wiry man, for you .

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  HEAVY, HEAVY UPON MY FAILING HEART weighs

  Your aching need for my full and loving devotion.

  I spend myself willingly on your behalf because,

  Truly, your needs and wishes outstrip my own.

  If I were young and wiry man, for you

  I'd scale a rock and brave a torrent.

  Yes, that is what I do, no thought of self,

  To save my love from daily peril.

  Strength and life escape my soul while

  Succor I offer your own failing heart.

  It is no loss I gave my all to grant

  You life and bade my own adieu.
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  The Lesser God

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  like the night before, and so many others too numerous to count, i am awake.

  widely and wildly.. stumbling to my crowded desk, i sit like a spineless lump upon my ladder back and settle in for the duration.

  i light a new candle, earlier fitted into a brass holder, and, by fits and starts, i commence putting pencil to paper.

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  Nancy:

  Saw a few movies about JV and loved them. Might've been the same movie where a modern-day artist recreated Vermeer's work. Astounding!

  THANK YOU!
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  Their interest in us is self-serving.

  by compound complex in

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  why these war-beasts have kept me on i haven't a clue.

  perhaps my ruddy complexion is a reminder of the basic hue of a home deserted yet scarcely forgotten.. .

  i cannot by any stretch of the imagination -- and there's been a great deal of such "stretching" lately -- attribute to these coarse and loathsome creatures any delicate sentiment characteristic of our gentler race.

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  compound complex

  Your writing, Nancy, is so clever, so good!

  THANKS!
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  More on Punctuation

  by compound complex in

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  2. child-abuse

  jd souther ... is most widely known for his part in writing somber, elegiac songs that the eagles and linda ronstadt made famous, such as "new kid in town," heartache tonight," and "faithless love.

  " the new yorker, february 13 & 20, 2012, troubadour, page 36.. .

  "i've never made a record in new york, start to finish," he went on.

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  compound complex

  Please punctuate the following:

  Have you visited Washington D C
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  Their interest in us is self-serving.

  by compound complex in

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  why these war-beasts have kept me on i haven't a clue.

  perhaps my ruddy complexion is a reminder of the basic hue of a home deserted yet scarcely forgotten.. .

  i cannot by any stretch of the imagination -- and there's been a great deal of such "stretching" lately -- attribute to these coarse and loathsome creatures any delicate sentiment characteristic of our gentler race.

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  Why these war-beasts have kept me on I haven't a clue. Perhaps my ruddy complexion is a reminder of the basic hue of a home deserted yet scarcely forgotten.

  
  

  I cannot by any stretch of the imagination -- and there's been a great deal of such "stretching" lately -- attribute to these coarse and loathsome creatures any delicate sentiment characteristic of our gentler race. These Martians are scorpions. They are malefactors to the most extreme degree.

  
  

  Upon first sighting of the alien beings, we humans found ourselves both inescapably transfixed by their revolting semblance of a face and, subsequently, retching with violent abandon, overcome as we were by their unimaginable hideousness.

  
  

  My viewing INVADERS FROM MARS, when a child, could not have prepared me for what started out as a little boy's nightmare. Now-extinguished friends had earlier tossed off the initial radio contact from the Martians as a higher power's benign interest in an inferior intelligence.

  
  

  Such fatuous naivete has cost us all dearly.
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  ...another "I" phone this one from apple..

  by zeb in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  good grief thats all we need..... these phones take so much concentration from the world about them for their users they are dangerous.. i was out on my bike on a bike path and nearly skittled two teen somethings who just meandered out in front of me in 'convo' and with buds and oblivious to traffic about them.

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  not just teens either the law here gives heavy fines for anyone phoning or texting while driving..

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  It's not that I'm unfavorable toward advanced technology, but the TIME and EFFORT and MONEY involved is beyond my ability to handle.

  I have an old Canon Powershot that works great, but the photos must be loaded to my ancient (ten years old) laptop before I can send them out. It's a bummer, sure, that I have to keep the batteries in with a rubber band. Small worry there. Not as instant as Instagram, but must everything we do be instantaneous?!?!?!?!?

  I carry several paper notebooks with me and write down needed info WITH A PENCIL. It works. The worst deal is my lead breaks. I carry a small pencil sharpener with me at all times. I am prepared!

  All of the above is cheap and problem free. Well, my pc is rather slow, but, then, so am I!

  CHEERS!
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  In love, and my life is . . .

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  the tender of the flock.

  what manner of adversary are you, o cupid, my newest enemy and cleaver of a heart.

  rent in two by love's dart unwanted?scarce would i seek your quiver emptied of all.

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  compound complex

  Thanks, LV101 and Diogenesister!

  Love your comments!