Posts by Open mind

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c'mon USA !

by Simon in

hoping you beat portugal and make it through to the last 16 !.

go usa !!

!.

c'mon USA !

by Simon in

hoping you beat portugal and make it through to the last 16 !.

go usa !!

!.

hay out there.. wife got back from her thursday meeting & now she's setteled down with the dog, a v large g&t (maid be me) & watching terminator 2 on the telly with her ipad on her lap looking up places to go for our holiday (& googling symptoms of to many antibiotics as my 16 year old is getting signs of ibs).

so now is a good time to say hello.. well hello.

my name is phats & i'm an ex jehovah's witness.. there, i've said it.. this must be like it is going to your first aa meeting.. i've already used up some of my posts for a newbe but i'm not in to the whole long story thing.. basically i've been out now for 8 years (mentally out for all but four or five of those years of my life when i made the commitment, got baptized & married.).

Open mind

Q: What would you call them if Phats was able to influence his ENTIRE FAMILY to wake up to TTATT?

v

A: Phat's Dominoes!

(Groan, rimshot.) I'll be here all week.

Oh, and, WELCOME TO JWN!

om

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"Keep Seeking First God's Kingdom! Regional Convention 2014 - releases and info

by OwnAccord in

info from someone at the regional convention:.

(sorry about the format).

matthew 6:33 keep on seeking first the kingdom.

Open mind

Thanks ownaccord!!!

marking

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The Venting Thread

by minimus in

jw
friends

this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.

Open mind

Welcome aboard phats!!!

And to answer the OP, here goes:

People who make the committment of getting a dog..... but think it's OK to let it poop all over the place.

(Never go out the door without two poop bags in your pocket or a permanent poop bag dispenser on the leash.)

om

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The Venting Thread

by minimus in

jw
friends

this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.

Open mind

Red dots.

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My Experience and how I finally let myself see the truth

by OneEyedJoe in

first off - for those lurkers who feel guilty just for being on this site and reading this (even if you don't read any further, as it is your right to choose that course) i want you to know that you're not alone in what you're going through or in what you are feeling.

if you read on, i hope my experience may be of some small help to you.. this may be long, but i'll try to organize it in a way that doesn't make it painful to read.

to start, i feel it is most beneficial if i'm upfront and honest with my goals from posting this, which are (in order of the degree to which they motivated me):.

Open mind

Join a gym together and go to a group class.

Lots of nice "worldly" people there who will eventually be destroyed.

Try to make some good friendships there.

om

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Article: To save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients die

by AndersonsInfo in

to save trauma victims, doctors may swap blood with cold water till patients diedoctors at the university of pittsburgh medical center plan to treat trauma patients with an experimental procedure that induces hypothermia by replacing their blood with freezing saltwater.. .

by kate murphy.

the new york times.

Open mind

If this becomes an established ER protocol, I bet they'll cobble together some version of a dialysis machine, except it won't actually be doing any dialysis, it'll just be "circulating" the blood. And, lo and behold, this new machine will take about an hour before the highly diluted blood starts making its way back into the JW's body.

Hey, if it helps save some otherwise death-sentenced JWs, I'm all for it.

om

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JUSTICE #4a - Blind Guides & Molesters

by Amazing in

ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

matt 23:24 (kjv) .

jesus' style of illustrations often employed the use of extremes.

Open mind

Not sure how you define "traction", but almost 2300 views isn't bad.

Jay Walters, aka Amazing, hasn't posted here in a long time, but his strategy of awakening his family gradually by keeping his elder hat and using the family study to plant seeds of critical thinking skills was a blueprint that also worked well for our family.

Thank you Jay!

om

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Handing in '' Field Service Report '' even if you're very ill.

by RULES & REGULATIONS in

my mom has not been to any meetings or participated in field service since august 2013. she cannot walk due to all her medical conditions.

she is either in bed or sitting in a wheel chair.. our family hired a caretaker monday - friday to help her eat, take her to the bathroom and sit with her in case she needs anything.

in the evenings and weekends, we have family members take care of her.

Open mind

I remember when the "15 minute" option was put into effect. For someone like my aging Mother with multiple health problems, it truly has been a "loving provision". (I can't believe I just typed that.)

What's unloving is the whole hour-reporting, number-centric approach to FS and the labels (regular publisher, irregular, inactive) and guilt that go along with it. I'm pretty sure my Mom has always been able to get in at least an hour or two a month, but for her, it's comforting to know that the 15 minute option is there if she needs it.

The only way she will ever miss a month of FS is if she's in a coma. At this stage of her life, it's an integral part of who she is.

om