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  Crazy statements from JWTalk

  by Jehovah lol in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm sure many of you are aware of the jwtalk site, a message board which has yet to succumb to apostasy (give it time).. some of the forums there are visible to the public, and i've seen some crazy stuff.

  here is a sampling:.

  "satan is really trying his best to make things worst for the witnesses, knowing the 6,000 years is almost up, from eve's creation!".

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  I don't need Jerry to send me a copy of the Revelation book because I have Mom's copy, seriously underlined, with her own commentary (valuable to me since she was of the anointed and now is directing matters on earth from heaven):

  11 What, then, can we deduce from the fact that one of the 24 elders identifies the great crowd to John? It seems that resurrected ones of the 24-elders group may be involved in the communicating of divine truths today. Why is that important?

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/171939/governing-body-channels
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

  cc.

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  In terms of self-assessment, Smith made various pronouncements on what he considered his best work. These included the six stories in [The] Double Shadow (i.e., "The Voyage of King Euvoran," "The Maze of the Enchanter, " "The Double Shadow," "A Night in Malnéant," "The Devotee of Evil" and "The Willow Landscape") and the individual stories "The Eternal World" and "The City of the Singing Flame." He named "The Uncharted Isle" as the best "or at least favorite" of his "straight science fiction" stories. Toward the end of his life, Smith considered his "masterpiece" to be the blank verse play, "The Dead Will Cuckold You" (1951, 1956) set in Zothique, one of his last completed works. Of his Zothique story cycle taken as a whole, Smith said it was "in no wise inferior to Dunsany and Cabell." Regarding his poetry -- which he took the most seriously of all his creative work -- Smith felt (writing in 1936) that he had produced his best work in the years 1913-23.

  http://alangullette.com/lit/smith/sorcerer.htm

  Note: Book titles are italicized -- The Double Shadow -- whereas, individual stories or poems -- "The City of the Singing Flame" -- are placed within quotation marks.
  
  
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  It Seems Some People Don't Listen

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  my dad's phone rings.

  its a secretary from his dermatologists office.. her:.

  "just calling for "mr. wasa sr." to remind him his appointment is next wednesday at 2pm.".

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  Regarding phone or any other sort of good manners, a friend called one day, ever her cheerful, friendly self. As usual, she went into her usual lively tale about her comings and goings. Never a "how're-you-doing?" interchange. Never, then or in any past conversation (always one-way).

  I gently interjected, "Mary, when we talk you never ask how I'm doing."

  Being a kind and aware soul, she realized her penchant for barging right in, apologized, and we went from there.

  Sometimes, people need little reminders that it's a conversation, not a soliloquy.
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  It Seems Some People Don't Listen

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. social
  2. current

  my dad's phone rings.

  its a secretary from his dermatologists office.. her:.

  "just calling for "mr. wasa sr." to remind him his appointment is next wednesday at 2pm.".

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  Thanks, smiddy!

  Don't know why both were deleted. Try again . . .

  In the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a caller started chatting up Judi Dench about a service in her deceased husband's name. Ms. Dench said her husband was dead. The agent kept talking about the service, totally oblivious to the poor widow's lament.

  Later, as the story unfolded, Ms. Dench became an adviser on proper phone etiquette in that very company.
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  November Is The Cruelest Month

  by JRK in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been going through old papers and photographs since my mother passed away.

  it has reminded me of some of the reasons that i really hate november.

  this year has added to it obviously.. thirty-four years ago, my father passed away in early november.

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  My first thought, Dorothy McGuire.
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  It Seems Some People Don't Listen

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. social
  2. current

  my dad's phone rings.

  its a secretary from his dermatologists office.. her:.

  "just calling for "mr. wasa sr." to remind him his appointment is next wednesday at 2pm.".

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  double post
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  Unbelievable KMS example

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been to the kingdom ministry school (for elders) recently and can report that it is mostly the usual mix of cliches and platitudes.

  several letters where basically just read through one line at a time.

  one point early on though almost made me laugh out loud.

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  But didn't Jesus advise that going into the kingdom maimed (minus eyes and hands) was better than being tossed into Gehenna? Given our current understanding (it's all a myth), wouldn't it be sad to be a sightless double amputee?

  Although I am, by nature and nurture, a puritanical prude, I'm still human . . .

  Maybe a bit more self-flagellation . . .
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  November Is The Cruelest Month

  by JRK in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been going through old papers and photographs since my mother passed away.

  it has reminded me of some of the reasons that i really hate november.

  this year has added to it obviously.. thirty-four years ago, my father passed away in early november.

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  Dear JK:

  My parents are both similarly situated.

  Wish they were here . . . alive.

  Wishing you peace. I know it's difficult.

  Love,

  CoCo
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  Unbelievable KMS example

  by Saltheart Foamfollower in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been to the kingdom ministry school (for elders) recently and can report that it is mostly the usual mix of cliches and platitudes.

  several letters where basically just read through one line at a time.

  one point early on though almost made me laugh out loud.

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  On my computer, I get ads for what a friend buys, clothing specific to his health needs. Never have I looked longingly at compression stockings!
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

  by compound complex in

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

  cc.

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  This is one time when you don't have to feel ignorant because you don't understand what Shakespeare really meant. Although he invented "sticking place," and though our usage derives directly from this scene, Shakespeare never explains what the phrase means.

  Macbeth still has cold feet; he and his wife have agreed to kill King Duncan of Scotland, but he can't stop thinking of all the consequences the deed might not trammel up [see THE BE-ALL AND THE END-ALL]. Lady Macbeth, after impugning her husband's manliness, urges him, as we might say, to "screw up his courage." The OED suggests that Lady Macbeth's original words refer to the twisting of a tuning peg until it becomes set in its hole. The editor of The Riverside Shakespeare, on the other hand, suggests that a "sticking place" is "the mark to which a soldier screwed up the cord of a crossbow." Whether the metaphor is musical, martial, or otherwise, Lady Macbeth's meaning is obvious though her words are obscure: "tighten up your courage until it is fixed in the place necessary for the murder of Duncan."

  https://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/screw-your-courage-sticking-place