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  WE SHALL OVERCOME ! WE ARE NOT AFRAID !

  by Phizzy in

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  dear old pete seeger has passed, bless him.

  what an influence that man had on so many different aspects of life !.

  his most famous anthem, "we shall overcome", taken from an old slave song, has especial resonance for us, we have left the w.t, many of us have taken the "underground railroad", but the slavery of loved ones continues.. i really do believe, that with the internet and our efforts, we shall overcome some day .. the most important thing though, is to be as the verse that was added to that song says, "we are not afraid", .... for "we shall overcome some day".. we have no reason to fear anything the wt may do, they are now a toothless tiger.. if someone can embed a really good version of this song, or several, please do so, i beg you.

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  Singing it NOW!

  Maeve
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  I went to church today.

  by quellycatface in

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  and it was good!!

  everyone dressed differently, some casually, some smart-a real mix.i would say there were 70 or so in attendance, all ages.nice atmosphere.ladies behind introduced themselves.young couple in front also.nice songs.toys for the kids.refreshments after.had a little chat with the lady vicar, she asked if i would come again.i felt welcome but not overwhelmed.jesus focused more predominantly than at the kh.i really enjoyed it..

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  I am soo happy for you. Grab the Joy, Quelly.
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  Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm & Being "Straight" Would Be The Minority!

  by Dis-Member in

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  imagine a world where being "gay" the norm & being "straight" would be the minority!

  [short film].. .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnojgdw0gpi.

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  Moomanchu--didn't you know, when women shave they don't shave their chins.
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  Imagine A World Where Being "Gay" The Norm & Being "Straight" Would Be The Minority!

  by Dis-Member in

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  imagine a world where being "gay" the norm & being "straight" would be the minority!

  [short film].. .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnojgdw0gpi.

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  Can we infer that Dis-member's motive in proposing some questions are homophobic?

  I am not sure of that. His postings tend to elicit that reaction. But let the matter get threshed out.

  It is disturbing to see ad hominem attacks of any sort.

  Moomanchu and rubadub make repellant comments that are not helpful or insightful.

  speaking of which--Wearing chaps?

  Wasn't there a thread a while back that in essence making the point that virtually every man with an internet connection viewed porn? Have you never seen porn that featured young women in skimpy french maid's uniforms?You are comedic.

  what are you about, fellows?
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  Private meetings banned??

  by franticfran in

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  i have just spoken to a brother who is part of a group of single brothers and sisters who meet together once a week to discuss bible topics and he has been told by and elder that the organisation "banned" these private meetings years ago.

  i told him i remember that article but he is adamant that the society would never do that (!

  ) now i am fairly sure i remember that article whether it was in a km or one of the mags i cant recall but i am sure i remember them saying we needed nothing more than the food that the slave class provided (another means to control us),does anyone have the details of that article because i have said i will find it and let him have it.

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  Only one of my sons got baptised in his early 20's. But he DA/DFed soon after.

  He said one very disturbing and revealing moment for him was after our Watchtower study hearing an unbaptised friend of his receive "counsel' for supplying in his answer a scripture not supplied by the paragraph--yet completely applicable!
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  The yuk factor and others

  by jgnat in

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  will you share with me an interesting discussion on what morals we all may have in common?

  my recent reading has resulted in a fundamental shift in my worldview.

  it feels like my house of cards have reshuffled themselves yet again, and everything i see, hear and smell is put in a new context.

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  Agreed, Phizzy.

  The horror of a sexual appetite that hurts and robs a child of simple innocence. That is a monstrous greed. There is no allowance for it in my world.

  Maeve
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  The yuk factor and others

  by jgnat in

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  will you share with me an interesting discussion on what morals we all may have in common?

  my recent reading has resulted in a fundamental shift in my worldview.

  it feels like my house of cards have reshuffled themselves yet again, and everything i see, hear and smell is put in a new context.

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  I read the link for lame, Jgnat.

  I get it on the yuck factor for eating animals we live with. The problem of the yuck factor has been a life-long reshuffle for me, too. Made even more problematic by the fact that I, as so many civilized people do, was raised on prepackage meats by a family with a high yuck-factor threshold: NO ORGAN MEAT. And only chicken, pork and beef allowed. Turkey on a holiday. Dad bought a dressed duck home once. Mom did cook it but not one of us (then 7)kids would take a bite.

  Then I moved to the farm with my husband.

  YUCK!....and sorrow.

  The thoughts that come to you when you take any animal's life for food goes beyond yuck, I have to say.

  But maybe that goes somewhere else.
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  The yuk factor and others

  by jgnat in

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  will you share with me an interesting discussion on what morals we all may have in common?

  my recent reading has resulted in a fundamental shift in my worldview.

  it feels like my house of cards have reshuffled themselves yet again, and everything i see, hear and smell is put in a new context.

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  I identify with the points raised on observing certain proprieties.

  to quote Emily Post:"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use(no matter who you love)."

  I have no more reason to dwell on what the intimacies of the bedroom consist of between my gay friends than I do my heterosexual friends. That it has no appeal to me personally is beside the point.

  But I do feel uncomfortable when a couple's intimate moments are set in front of me. They open their bedroom door, so to speak. Not sensitive awareness. Not proper. Whatever their orientation.

  We are free to choose sensitive friends.
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  The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday

  by cofty in

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  yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.

  we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.

  they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.

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  humbled

  Along these lines of thought, Jgnat, Apog, Miss.fit and DJS,

  Dr. Tyson in a conversation with Bill Moyers this past month spoke of the unfortunate necessity of appointing a "name" for phenomena before science knows exactly what a particular phenomenon consist of--Before they know what a thing actually IS. The naming of it presents into the minds of the less knowledgable layman a misleading expectation/description of what may actually constitute thing so named:Black Hole, dark matter were a few(if memory serves).

  A problem in discussing GOD also has to do with the problem of naming a perception many of us have of a thing that draws us like gravitational force. How can we talk about that sense of the unseen and inexpressible THING(possibility? unknown-or-unknowable?) and how it relates to searching for, needing, and improving on what is good? To name it is to create prejudice in the minds of ---all of us--laymen all in the matter.

  Personally, to ignore a pull that is as strong as gravity seems as wrong as those who in scripture and theology may have invented "GOD" definitions and attributes out of ignorance.

  Maeve

  and,speaking of gravity--Where does it come from? why does it work? Science says it is a mystery yet.
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  Private meetings banned??

  by franticfran in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have just spoken to a brother who is part of a group of single brothers and sisters who meet together once a week to discuss bible topics and he has been told by and elder that the organisation "banned" these private meetings years ago.

  i told him i remember that article but he is adamant that the society would never do that (!

  ) now i am fairly sure i remember that article whether it was in a km or one of the mags i cant recall but i am sure i remember them saying we needed nothing more than the food that the slave class provided (another means to control us),does anyone have the details of that article because i have said i will find it and let him have it.

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  First thing I was asked when a CO had an interview with me about a burdensome matter I had researched for some years."Have you been meeting with others? Is that why you have this concern?"

  It seemed a strange line of inquirey then. But I got to understand how nervous the Org. is/was about independent study. especially in groups.