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  the bizarre things religious people say and believe

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i sat in the community garden tonight and talked with one of my neighbors, an old lady in an electric wheelchair.

  she was telling me she won't be able to garden next year, it's getting to hard for her since her stroke.

  so we talked about her stroke.

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  well said!
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  trying to keep my brain alive

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm retired now and worried about losing my mind!

  you have to keep exercising your brain to prevent dementia and similar stuff.

  use it or lose it!.

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  BOC - I like that idea. Maybe I'll subscribe to a French magazine, so I can try reading and translating. Something simple like a French version of "People" magazine.

  Or find a French version of a book I've already read.

  Thanks you all for the ideas!
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  David Splane stares at school children

  by VM44 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  may 11 2013, zone visit; brother splane visits ireland.

  brother splane spoke on the subject should you wear sauls garment?.

  .... "bro and sis splane were once assigned to a fanatically catholic town.

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  Kinda creepy, eh?
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  The Orwells are so naughty! Filthy little apostates we are.

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my husband has started playing violent samurai video games again!

  he's grown a beard!

  he watched lord of the rings!.

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  It's fun, isn't it? No one to criticize if you have fun, no one to imply you ought to be worker harder at being a JW, no dreaded meetings or boring field service.
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  trying to keep my brain alive

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm retired now and worried about losing my mind!

  you have to keep exercising your brain to prevent dementia and similar stuff.

  use it or lose it!.

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  I looked at Rosetta Stone, but a friend recommended Pimsleur and I was able to get the set at a pretty good price on ebay.

  I never thought about Montreal -- Canada is a LOT closer than France, isn't it? I'm in northern California.

  Anyway it's kind of fun, and instead of horrible songs going round and round in my head, I'm counting in French over and over. At least that's more useful!
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  trying to keep my brain alive

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm retired now and worried about losing my mind!

  you have to keep exercising your brain to prevent dementia and similar stuff.

  use it or lose it!.

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  I'm retired now and worried about losing my mind! You have to keep exercising your brain to prevent dementia and similar stuff. Use it or lose it!

  So, I decided to try to learn French. "Try" is the operative word. What a hard language. For one thing, I keep expecting the words to be pronounced as they would be in Spanish, because I'm much more familiar with Spanish since I grew up in San Diego. It reminds me of going to China and trying to learn Chinese. It was so different and often I'd try to say something in Chinese and a Spanish phrase would come out of my mouth.

  So I got the Pimsleur tapes and I practice with them. There are thousands of "learn French" videos on youtube, and I'm watching them. I'm starting to figure some stuff out, like not pronouncing consonants at the end of a word unless the next word starts with a vowel. That explains a lot.

  But I'm not getting very far very fast. I've been faithful spending some time on it every day for about a month. And of course, not a soul around here speaks French. I'm never going to have any reason to use the French I learn. But because it's hard, I think it's good for my brain and I keep trying. But when I try to watch a French newscast or French movie clip on youtube, I don't understand one word in 20.

  So,

  Bonjour! Je ne comprends pas la francais. Ce que vous parlez l'anglais? Ou est la rue Saint Jacques? Je veux la carte. Un cafe et l'addition, s'il vous plais.

  Not even sure if I'm spelling them correctly, but it's kind of fun!
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  the bizarre things religious people say and believe

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i sat in the community garden tonight and talked with one of my neighbors, an old lady in an electric wheelchair.

  she was telling me she won't be able to garden next year, it's getting to hard for her since her stroke.

  so we talked about her stroke.

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  Good points, all of you. Punkofnice -- that picture says it all very clearly. Once you get over the idea that the entire world is evil and deserves death, you come to know many many kind people, good people. To think they deserve destruction because they don't worship this particular god, out of many gods, is stupid.
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  What course are you on?

  by Separation of Powers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  reading julia's comment about how she and her husband have become the epitome of evil (lol) moved me to post.

  i have several family members and close friends that have faded or simply walked away.

  each of them has chosen a different course.

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  I partied a bit, went to other churches, that sort of thing 30 years ago when I got out of the org. It didn't take long to settle down to the real me, a hard worker with an inappropriate sense of humor who enjoys every day minute by minute. Of course, I'm not a hard worker now. I'm retired!
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  the bizarre things religious people say and believe

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i sat in the community garden tonight and talked with one of my neighbors, an old lady in an electric wheelchair.

  she was telling me she won't be able to garden next year, it's getting to hard for her since her stroke.

  so we talked about her stroke.

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  Hortensia

  It's amazing to me, too, that they'll thank Jesus, but not the person who actually did the good deed. "well, no need to thank you, you only helped me because jesus made you help me because he likes me best."
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  My sister almost died.

  by redvip2000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  ever since i was a little boy i've been aware of this vague story about my older sister having some issues at birth, but never knew the details.. yesterday i was having a conversation with a much older cousin, who is a non-practicing jw about different watchtower issues.

  while discussing the blood issue she totally came out with the story about my sister, which i never knew before.. when my sister was born some 40 years ago, my mother had the delivery at home with the help of a midwife.

  i'm not entirely sure why this decision was made instead of going to a hospital.

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  Wow! Good for your uncle!