if anyone was under the illusion that all baptized jw children become dedicated solely of their own volition, then hopefully this new video should be a wake-up call.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plgbjdgoj-u.
(unfortunately, due to the soundtrack i've chosen, this video is apparently banned in germany.
My brother got baptized at the ripe old age of 12.
6 months later he figured out he was 100% gay.
Fought it until his mid-twenties, then got himself DFed, fully believing God would soon destroy him.
Took about a year for him to see the WT for what it really is.
Such a healthy, family-friendly religion.
BTW, excellent video Cedars. Thanks for sharing it.
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they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .
thoughts?.
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@ Finkelstein: Oh Wow!
Thank you for posting that. I wonder if they got "counseled" later?
Probably not.
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they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .
thoughts?.
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@ Quendi, wish I could see it live. (I'm too cheap.) Let us know how it turns out?
@ gl tirebiter, yeah, she really dodged the question, IMO.
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edited: FOX sports is keeping live scores posted here,
http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/basketball/gametrax/Lithuania-vs-United%20States-20120804-1221213
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they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .
thoughts?.
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I'm sure you're calling it spot on, Quendi.
As long as she doesn't buy the equivalent of a $.50 Malawian Social Security card, she should be safe from the men in suits.
All WT snarking aside, she played amazingly strong today. Good for you Serena!
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they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .
thoughts?.
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Anyone paying for full coverage including medals presentation?
I've just got plain old NBC.
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they're playing right now and serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.. .
thoughts?.
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They're playing right now and Serena is ahead 6-0, 5-1.
Thoughts?
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p.s. She just won!
gore vidal's death tuesday in los angeles got me to thinking about writers.
i am a writer myself and i know there are many other writers on this forum.
i wanted to open a discussion on writing in the twenty-first century and get other thoughts, opinions and experiences on this.
Christopher Hitchens summed up my chances of ever creating the Great American Novel with these words:
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there are a lot of interesting people that frequent this site.. sometimes, we get an idea of what the posters are really like in "real life".
and i'm sure i could be easily surprised by some that you think might be strong personalities because of their board presence, and in reality, they might be shy in a face to face setting.. i would enjoy meeting simon.
simon used to be terribly annoyed by my posting and now i think he's accepted with tolerance my being here.. farkel seems like a grouchy cantankerous fellow but i think he'd be very interesting company!.
Very happy to have had a luncheon with Da Farkel and my children a couple years ago.
(We'll have to do it again next time we're in your neck of the woods Doug.)
And since I always want what I cannot have:
hillary_step
maximus
AlanF
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p.s. Oh, and of course, the whole lot of the rest of you.
no, not 'made in taiwan,' but actually in taiwan.. i thought you might enjoy some photos of yours truly engaging in heathen activities while wearing my new sparlock t-shirt.
i'm not really a taoist/buddhist, but sporting the warrior wizard shirt while burning incense in the temple made me feel like some kind of naughty double-apostate .
the one-hundred+ year-old wu fu ("five fortunes") temple, near my apartment.
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sal, it's funny but things were much more shallow in the dubs.
i noticed some of the ugliest blokes getting pretty little trophy wives so long as they had a job or were the sons of elders.
my dad (an elder) even went so far as to encourage me to come back to the dubs because i would easily pull a good looking wife .
Yes, before my surgery.
