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  Kate Wild

  by quellycatface in

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  i've been given permission to post news of our friend.. kate hasn't been very well.

  not well at all.

  i think much of it has been a delayed reaction to her df'ing, the general fallout when leaving the wtbs and family issues.. i just wanted to give you guys the heads up and give you a chance to show how much we care about her.. thanks for listening..

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  Hortensia

  Take good care of yourself -- and I hope you feel better soon.

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  "You don't pee next to a cop," and other rules from the mens room that women don't know

  by GrreatTeacher in

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  i was recently at a baseball game with friends and family when i learned something new.

  beer had been drunk and the men made their way to the men's room to relieve themselves.

  when they got back i asked them what took them so long.

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  Hortensia

  grreatteacher - hi! Very funny thread
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  OSCAR WILDE'S BROTHER

  by The Searcher in

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  oscar wilde the famous writer & poet, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oscar_wilde) had a brother called toby.. after oscar made his name in london, toby decided to follow his brother to the u.k. however, he chose to settle down north of london, in the market town of bourne which is in lincolnshire.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bourne,_lincolnshire.

  he became well known for his song writing, and his most famous composition - which reflected his life - is still popular today - "bourne toby wilde"!!

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  Hortensia

  I don't know what to say!
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  received text from my mom

  by GoUnion in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so my wife and my parents are at their convention today.

  this will be the first time in my life that i will not have seen a drama or baptism.

  i will miss the public address, i will not see many of my lifelong friends that i have moved away from.

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  Hortensia

  Hang tough -- it makes a difference in the long run. I grew up in a staunch JW family. Mom and that generation have died, and NONE of my generation is still a JW. Not my sisters, not my cousins. Woohoo!
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  The Venting Thread

  by minimus in

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  2. 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!.

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  Hortensia

  I banged my forehead really hard against a door last night. My neck and right shoulder hurt now. I'm tired of people, especially people who can never ever not even one stinking time keep their mouths shut. Negative people who can never keep a negative opinion to themselves. I'm tired of not being perfect, and of being gracious about criticism, and being reasonable and nice, dammit. Or at least, I'm tired of trying to appear reasonable and nice! See, I have to be reasonable about being unreasonable. Grrrrr. Would bang my head against a door, except, of course, that I already did that and it hurts!
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  Muhammad Ali fought the US Draft 47 years ago today, June 20th, 1967

  by designs in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  with the help of jw attorney hayden covington the supreme court ruled in favor of muhammad ali's exemption status to the draft.

  i admired him for taking his stand.. meanwhile we young jw guys were being hung out to dry by the wt.

  goons- knorr, franz and schroeder.

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  Hortensia

  I agree, although boxing is a sick sport, I admire Ali for refusing to go to war.
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  "Hello from Phats"

  by phats in

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  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.).

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  Hi from northern California!

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  An old Watchtower offshot in Africa

  by Londo111 in

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  2. scandals

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religion_in_the_democratic_republic_of_the_congo#kitawala.

  a much more radical product of the synthesis of african and christian elements is the kitawala movement or so-called "watchtower movement", which appeared in katanga province during the 1920s.

  influenced by the black american missionary activity in south africa of the watch tower bible and tract society (jehovah's witnesses), the movement converted miners who then spread elements of the movement northward from their south african base into the katangan copper belt.. the british "reverend" james booth and his african associate elliott kamwana, both black, used watch tower publications but did not limit their preaching to the bible students message of charles taze russell (it does not seem that russell understood this at the time).

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  Hortensia

  Interesting -- thanks for sharing.
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  I've become bold

  by skeeter1 in

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  2. experiences

  i totally discovered ttat in 2004.. at first, i told my jw relatives each & every thing i found out.

  they didn't appreaciate it.. then, i read coc and realized that that was the wrong approach.

  so, from about 2007-2013, i rarely said anything to them abou the jws.. well, i just don't care any more to pussy foot around them, making nice, and smiling.

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  Hortensia

  Yeah, I don't care what they think. If they leave me alone, I'll leave them alone. But if they start preaching, I don't hold back what I think.
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  Ad Gefrin - The Ancient Capital of Northumbria

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. physical

  last sunday my wife and i went walking in the cheviot hills in the beautiful northumberland national park not far from our home.

  we have walked a lot of the cheviots in recent months and intend to get around a lot more over the summer.. this week we decided to go up a few of the smaller hills in the north of the park so we headed for a peak known as yeavering bell.

  it was used as a hill fort since the iron age.

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  Hortensia

  A walk in the Cheviot hills -- sounds so wonderful. I get to walk in some beautiful places here in northern California, but they don't sound as good, somehow, when I describe them. I think if I got to go for a walk in the Cheviot hills I'd feel like a character in British fiction.

  Cool historical info, too, I enjoyed reading it.