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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

  not so easily in writng.

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  humbled

  Ha ha !! Bruja! you have a children's book!

  English you second language?!!!!???

  I'll tell you something about this morning (add to your story?)

  Goldie has been showing them how to "scratch" for feed and so thoroughly has messed up the feed and water for this past week by throwing wood shavings around that----(wicked me) ---I put her out of the house :(

  the chicks were dispondent. they cried. then were silent. They sat like stones.

  I poured my coffee and felt like the sh*t I truly was.

  Goldie would have none of it and had come up the steps. I heard here clucking at the door! My conscience made me open it. She didn't waste a glance at me and marched in. She forced me to open the lid of the chick house, passed in front of it twice and jumped to the rim and --PLOP! In she went---

  You know the rest! You have it all now!

  (shamme on me, I know)

  If you draw--DO IT!
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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

  not so easily in writng.

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  humbled

  Thank you, Bruja. I will look up Paolo Cuelo--

  (You-know-who has a little froth of a tail just emerging.)
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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

  not so easily in writng.

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  humbled

  Great fun! I wanted to fix some stuff but Husband came for lunch and I had to punch"submit".

  You are an inspiring bunch!

  Prof. CoCo--thanks for the prompt! It IS a challenge to do what you said.
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  Please write: show but not tell.

  by compound complex in

  1. social
  2. humour

  greetings, fellow posters!.

  movies can easily show emotion on an actor's face, or depict what he's thinking by his actions.

  not so easily in writng.

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  humbled

  She trudged behind the old man over the rough clods of the field. Stout legs and bare feet, hers tough but his were beast-feet. He punched the earth with his planting stick and she dropped the yellow kernels into their dark womb of earth.

  The spring morning had given over its chill to send a patch of heat spread across her sweater and threadbare dress. She was come to the field like a big girl, yet ached to see the older children wind down the dirt road from their staggered row of earthen huts to the ochre-walled school. "Someday,I will too," she thought...

  Distracted thus, she stumbled. Grains of seed corn fell from her pouched apron and she shot a glance to see abuelo's whiskered jaw tighten. She flushed, stooping quickly to pick up the precious grain.

  But he too had marked the children thronging to schoolyard. And as she sought the lost seeds in the broken ground she didn't see him turn and raise his hand over her.

  Rough as a dog's paw the hand hovered and then lit where her gleaming black hair was cleaved by abuela's fine-toothed comb. With the gentleness of the hen on her eggs he felt the heat of the sun on the child's head as she staightened to seek his face.

  His hooded eyes were glossy with moisture. The taciturn face under the perennial shade of his hat could not hide that he felt for her what she did for him.

  She would plant now and she without longing. "Someday" would come soon enough for abuelo and soon enough for her too.
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  My wife and i, cake for our daughters...hm

  by Jon Preston in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so recently it was my daughters b-day and my wonderful wife thought of a great idea....lets get her a cake.

  so some family came to town and we did cake and a few gifts.

  interesting developments as my wife and i have not been to the meetings in abouuuuuut a month....and have been incredibly irregukar in attendance the past six months.

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  humbled

  I learned to do something to keep pressure off my children. (It also might help your wife examine the coercive attitude of the Corp. on children to force them into the WT)

  Because I didn't want to force my children and also my husband would not tolerate strong-arm techniques, I would talk to each teacher to let them know that the child came from a family in which they were pulled by the conflicting forces of the JW religion. I let the teacher know that the child might have some confusion and inconsistencies in behavior during holidays. That it would be kind of them to respect the child's conscience in whatever they were struggling to do.

  Although i was a JDub at the time, I discovered after that that the teachers were very sympathetic to the child not to embarass or humiliate the child (as I know has happened to some children).

  this approach may give rise to your wife thinking about matters pertaining to freedom of choice--an essential to "love free from hypocisy".

  It empowered the children. They retained freedom of mind sufficient to resist complete indoctrination. None of my seven children stayed with the Witnesses.

  Good job! Good LUCK! And enjoy your cake.

  Maeve
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  BOTR- Announcement

  by Band on the Run in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  law school is obviously not the hardest program to follow.

  it isn't something that can be replicated on the internet.

  a first year student can find the law.

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  humbled

  Steve,
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  BOTR- Announcement

  by Band on the Run in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  law school is obviously not the hardest program to follow.

  it isn't something that can be replicated on the internet.

  a first year student can find the law.

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  humbled

  Metatron makes a good point. A lack of civility.

  Edit:If JWN has lost people for that reason, is that not a concern?
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  BOTR- Announcement

  by Band on the Run in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  law school is obviously not the hardest program to follow.

  it isn't something that can be replicated on the internet.

  a first year student can find the law.

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  humbled

  BOTR,

  It may be futile to post anything to you if you are done with us all, but I will say something anyway.

  It can be frustrating to attain the status and competence that you have, one that you expect would garner respect or at least a respectful disagreement in a discussion. In court that may be the rule but out here "in the streets", so to speak, you are liable to be treated without regard for your attainments and experience.

  That said, you have marked that some of us have no such status and no professional competence. Nevertheless, when we post on the forum we would like that same respect accorded to us. A direct rebuttal, a contrary remark to a given point is fine. But condescension is not helpful. Adhominems are wrong as are snide remarks.

  You are incensed that someone has disrespected your legal expertise. Let it go.

  But are your feelings hurt? Then work to create a more civil environment on JWN.
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  This JW video tour is disturbing......

  by WingCommander in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i found this video on youtube.

  apparently a loyal jw put it together as a kind of "video tour" to show their friends, etc.

  i don't know what's worse, the creepy music (is this what we've been hearing about?

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  humbled

  I couldn't see this through. The video is more sterile and lifeless than I remember them to be when i was "in".

  Is is just me? Or does it seem that the videographers have distilled the antiseptic and mindless qualities of the past to make this one extremely and especially creepy?
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  One Can Be Spiritual With or Without Religions!

  by exWTslave in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  behind all the details in the bible lies the absolute truth: love is the true religion.

  (james 1:27) [conversely, self-serving is false religion.colossians 3:5] that means god is not a factor in the true worship.

  (habakkuk 2:4) his attitude is that if you are good, it is good for you; and if you do bad, it is bad for you.

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  humbled

  May be I don't understand the OP, exWTslave.

  Are you proposing that the reasons we are loving, ethical, sympathetic are not important as long as actually we are these things with other people?