Hortensia

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  Shepherding call

  by lostinthought in

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  so, on sunday i left the meeting and was sitting in my car putting my keys in the ignition, an elder pulled on my door handal and opened up.

  i rolled my eyes, this man is annoying...anyway he asked if i was going to be around wednesday.

  i told him i should be.

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  "Oh I'm having such a struggle, dear elder. Your wife has turned out to be the most egregious gossip, and I'm so discouraged now. I'm trying to forget and forgive, but, it isn't easy when someone I looked up to turned out to be so unkind. I hope you'll understand."
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  Hypocritical comments by JWs regarding the Catholic Church in light of the new Pope.

  by Theocratic Sedition in

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  i'm curious, what can you expect to hear from jws this week?

  or have you heard anything already.

  since awakening, i find it to be hilarious when jws badmouth catholics and the pope but are completely oblivious to how hypocritical they are considering the gb and other wt heavyweights..

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  I'm amazed that someone could escape the wtbts, and then bend over and kiss the pope's ass. Out of the frying pan into the fire.
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  Anyone else having a bad week? Thought I was going to die!

  by Newly Enlightened in

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  so, this week has been hell!!!

  it's been bad enough that all of our jw friends & family having been shunning us, 'unfriending' us on facebook and sending nasty emails to gojira...

  so i have a dog, zoey that likes to tattle on the others, even humans.

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  Kiss that little Zoey!
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  New Girl

  by Gypsy Sam in

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  hope everyone is having a lovely day.

  i ended up here after spending the past few months researching jw, without the blinders on.

  i was a born-in, baptized as a teen, pioneered out of high school for a couple years (turning down a 4 year scholarship).

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  Welcome, and congratulations for an easy fade.
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  Could the JWs sway you back...?

  by new22day in

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  2. experiences

  op based on mr. freeze's topic - could attending the meetings/studying again sway any of you back to the org.

  hearing the propaganda over and over again is pretty powerful i'm sure.

  (i'm a non-jw, non-christian (no offense), stubborn as a bull and even i had moments of pause based on some of the doctrine (lasted 30 seconds) but i never had family/friends at stake or a background in this.

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  They'd have to capture me first and keep me tied up and gagged. I'd rather stab my eyes out than go to a meeting. Unless of course something really funny was going to happen like a bunch of protesters storming the KH and going up and down the aisles with signs and megaphones.
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  second law of thermodynamics

  by Hortensia in

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  so, i've been reading stuff online trying to understand how a heat pump works.

  my apartment is heated and cooled with a heat pump.

  how does the heat pump pull 70-degree heat out of the 40-degree cold outside air?

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  YOUR REFRIGIRATOR HEATS YOUR HOUSE, COOLES ITS CONTENT.

  I see it! The stuff I read kept saying it's like a refrigerator, but you said how it's like a refrigerator. At the moment I think I have a grasp of it.
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  second law of thermodynamics

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
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  so, i've been reading stuff online trying to understand how a heat pump works.

  my apartment is heated and cooled with a heat pump.

  how does the heat pump pull 70-degree heat out of the 40-degree cold outside air?

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  So, I've been reading stuff online trying to understand how a heat pump works. My apartment is heated and cooled with a heat pump. How does the heat pump pull 70-degree heat out of the 40-degree cold outside air? I'm not stupid, but nothing I've read makes any sense.
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  A Wonderful British Song (Warning: Very Naughty)

  by metatron in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsiuf2hd6io.

  a great song!

  i love it!.

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  That's not all that naughty! It's cute, and a nice dance rhythm, and the sign language is cool.
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  Hello

  by newdawnfades in

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  i am a long time lurker who has finally decided to post.

  i am still in along with my wife, kids and extended family.

  i am in my 40s and was raised in the org.

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  Hi! Welcome!

  Do what you have to do, it's your life. But I hope you and your family become free one day. You're already mentally free.
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  Douglas Adams, 11/3/1952 - 11/3/2001 - "So long and thanks for all the fish"

  by cofty in

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  today is the anniversary of the death of douglas adams.. adams was one of the most insightful skeptical thinkers and the author of the fantastic series, "the hitchhiker's guide the galaxy - a trilogy in four parts".. professor dawkins said on his death "science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender.".

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  "The long dark tea-time of the soul."

  That is my favorite book title of all time. Better even than my other favorite: Dwarf Rapes Nun, Flees in UFO!