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  Any Van Morrison Fans?

  by Guest with Questions in

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  2. friends

  i couldn't find some on youtube but here some of my favourites that i could find.. someone like you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvpgim37rkw.

  into the mystic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycwe1nd6-is&mode=related&search=.

  have i told you lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rq0l8phg70.

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  Shepherd Book

  My favorite Van Morrison song is "Kingdom Hall". No joke. It's available for 99 cents on iTunes. I just bought it yesterday.
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  this video

  by arc123 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4mwiqkgy-y

  what do you think if this guy??

  not sure how he gets away with his stuff......

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  I think he's my new hero. I like how he takes each question and turns it around on believers. This is especially fun to do with JWs.
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  Funny comments made at a meeting

  by REBORNAGAIN in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i once heard an older dub, *godresthissoul* while reading a scripture say, "parents do not be irrigating your children!

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  linda.

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  One brother (an elder) commented how in the new system he hopes to be able to fully understand how it is that people can live in Australia without falling off the Earth. Another elder said that the placebo nourishes the fetus when it is in the womb. Another elder said that humans were created about 6,000 years ago.
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  Active JWs—A Birthday Was Used to Preserve the Lineage of Jesus

  by AuldSoul in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  joseph was imprisoned because of false accusations made by potiphar's wife.

  he had at least two cell mates, a cupbearer and a bakerwe do not know the charges against either prisoner.. joseph's cell mates had dreams.

  by god's power, he interpreted the dreams, including which day the dream prophecies would be fulfilled.

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  Shepherd Book

  If they insist that the mention of birthday parties makes them bad (even thought the scrptures don't say that), the what about braiding hair?

  Hair braiding is specifically forbidden in the scriptures, yet JW ladies see no problem braiding their hair.
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  When Meetings Went Overtime, What Did You Do?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  i used to start looking at the clock behind me, look at my watch, look at the speaker or person handling the part and give obvious facial expressions expressing my dissatisfaction.

  it was a pet peeve of mine!

  a few times when i had the last part in a service meeting, i'd say, rather sternly,"this originally was a 15 minute part but because we are running out of time, we will dispense with (whatever).".

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  Shepherd Book

  minimus-

  Because I made a mistake. I was trying to say that the bookstudy was SUPPOSED to go from 7:30 - 8:30, but that ours lasted from 7:35 - 8:45. Guess I mashed the two thoughts together.
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  When Meetings Went Overtime, What Did You Do?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i used to start looking at the clock behind me, look at my watch, look at the speaker or person handling the part and give obvious facial expressions expressing my dissatisfaction.

  it was a pet peeve of mine!

  a few times when i had the last part in a service meeting, i'd say, rather sternly,"this originally was a 15 minute part but because we are running out of time, we will dispense with (whatever).".

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  This often happened in a bookstudy I was "priviledged" to attend. The bookstudy was supposed to go from 7:30 - 8:45, but Brother Tardy invariably showed up at 7:32 and would leisurely say hello to everyone and pass out the books to his kids. He'd finally get started at about 7:35. He'd spend about a half hour on the first paragraph, then half-heartedly pick up the pace as the time escaped him.

  Since I was often the assigned reader, once the meeting began running overtime, I would read as fast as I could and refuse to offer any comments. If he asked me to say the closing prayer, I would say the quickest one I could.
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  When Meetings Went Overtime, What Did You Do?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i used to start looking at the clock behind me, look at my watch, look at the speaker or person handling the part and give obvious facial expressions expressing my dissatisfaction.

  it was a pet peeve of mine!

  a few times when i had the last part in a service meeting, i'd say, rather sternly,"this originally was a 15 minute part but because we are running out of time, we will dispense with (whatever).".

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  Shepherd Book

  This often happened in a bookstudy I was "priviledged" to attend. The bookstudy was supposed to go from 7:30 - 8:45, but Brother Tardy invariably showed up at 7:32 and would leisurely say hello to everyone and pass out the books to his kids. He'd finally get started at about 7:35. He'd spend about a half hour on the first paragraph, then half-heartedly pick up the pace as the time escaped him.

  Since I was often the assigned reader, once the meeting began running overtime, I would read as fast as I could and refuse to offer any comments. If he asked me to say the closing prayer, I would say the quickest one I could.
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  More Silly Speech ...

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  with thanks to clam for getting the rall bolling:.

  1) magnificence: big coins.. 2) cantaloupe: inability to run away with paramour.. 3) familiar: truth-challenged relative.. 4) majority: smallish military officer.. 5) lollygag: candy stick down one's throat.. 6) lohengrin: squat squab smiling.. 7) noachian: absence of pain.. 8) lordship: noble boat.. 9) parapets: man's best friend times two.. 10) adverse: to increase length of poem.. .

  please join in!.

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  Paradox: Two physicians
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  How Many Have Written a Book? Or Are Considering it?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  2. experiences

  i have the budded starts of maybe 4 of them in my hard drive.

  i have been encouraged to finish them, but don't know if i ever will.

  some of my writing was cathartic in purpose, and that cathartic crutch seems less needed these days.

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  Shepherd Book

  I am writing the story of my life as a Witness. It's not really a book, per se, just a collection of Word files. But it is over 300 pages long, so I suppose if printed out it would be considered a book.

  Not sure what to do with it when I am do, or even how to do anything with it. But it is cathartic. I found myself obsessing over many inconsistencies and discouraging experiences that I had to gloss over when I was a Witness ("cognitive dissonance"), so I had to write everything down. A few close friends are reading it as I go, and I enjoy the conversations it affords.
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  WERE THERE ANY ZOONOTIC DISEASES ON NOAH'S ARK?

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading the latest national geographic magazine, it talks about zoonotic disease.. now if he different animals were slapped close together,wouldn't pathogens have jumped rom species to species?.

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  Since Noah was commanded to take 2 of every kind of living thing, he must have brought all the diseases with him. So every animal on board (including the humans) must have been suffering from numerous debilitating ailments.