Hortensia

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  My early exposure to jw's

  by marriedtoajw in

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  i havn't posted in months but have still lerked and read other posts, just never have time enough to do much of anything really.

  in reading posts for the last few months i began to realize how much i empathize with thoughts expressed here.

  i feel the need to clarify my situation because my previous posts don't really convey a complete picture regarding my experience with the jw world.

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  tough background -- esp. with no father and schizophrenic mother. Then add JWs to the mix.

  I'm glad you can hang out here now and then, see that others feel the way you do and you're not alone.
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  I be a walkin......

  by out4good3 in

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  across that stage tommorrow dressed in graduate garb picking up a masters degree.. .

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  Wonderful!
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  sasquatch

  by Hortensia in

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  had a long conversation with one of our local mount shasta denizens about sasquatch.

  he says he has heard sasquatch, but hasn't seen one.

  says there is a law in oregon against shooting sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail.

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  Who knows. No real evidence so far, but that doesn't necessarily mean there is no such animal. I still think it's unlikely. I saw a UFO once, a strange flying object. My husband saw it too. We didn't know what it was, but I didn't immediately assume that meant it was from some other planet. I assumed the military were up to something. It was near a huge air force base.

  I saw something strange many years ago way the hell out in Utah at the back of beyond. I found out, much later, it was a stealth bomber being tested out in Utah.

  UFO just means unknown -- doesn't mean ET is scanning us.
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  A Mansion for the Resurrected, in Kensington

  by dynamiterose77 in

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  i was roving around the internet looking for articles about a completely different topic, when i came across this one.. i found it very interesting.. here's a quote.. "in a 1920 book called "millions now living will never die" he'd predicted that biblical leaders like abraham, isaac and jacob would be resurrected in 1925 and become "the visible, legal representatives of the new order of things on earth.".

  while this didn't occur, rutherford still chose to be prepared for the return of the patriarchs.

  he moved into the newly built house in kensington around 1930, calling it beth sarim (house of the princes).

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  The neighborhood is called Kensington. It's part of San Diego. I used to live a few blocks from Beth Sarim. It's a nice neighborhood, wouldn't mind visiting there again. Loads of used book stores, antique stores, good Mexican restaurants, good Korean restaurant, good Italian restaurant when I lived there.
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  New Job

  by LouBelle in

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  i was fortunate to be recommended for a sales position by a former colleague.

  the company phoned me and we set up an interview.

  i accepted their offer - it is nearly double what i earn at the moment.

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  Such good news! I'm very happy for you.
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  sasquatch

  by Hortensia in

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  had a long conversation with one of our local mount shasta denizens about sasquatch.

  he says he has heard sasquatch, but hasn't seen one.

  says there is a law in oregon against shooting sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail.

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  I am sure there are more animals out there to be discovered, but it seems to me all the recent discoveries are of small critters. I don't see how something that large could escape detection very well. So, I doubt there's really any yeti or sasquatch. But who knows? I think it's more likely that there may be large unknown creatures in the ocean, since the earth's oceans are so huge.
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  What would you say to the world if everyone listened?

  by LogCon in

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  if you had 5 minutes to give the world your personal message and everyone listened, what would you say?.

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  Stop all the killing. Learn some other way to handle problems.
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  sasquatch

  by Hortensia in

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  2. humour

  had a long conversation with one of our local mount shasta denizens about sasquatch.

  he says he has heard sasquatch, but hasn't seen one.

  says there is a law in oregon against shooting sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail.

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  Had a long conversation with one of our local Mount Shasta denizens about Sasquatch. He says he has heard Sasquatch, but hasn't seen one. Says there is a law in Oregon against shooting Sasquatch, $500 fine and a year in jail. I asked if he thinks Sasquatch is a big ape, a relative of humans. He said no, and he doesn't think it's some kind of large bear, either. So I asked him why they don't seem to have found any dead Sasquatch bodies anywhere and he asked me when was the last time I saw any animal body in the forest. Fair point. The wild animals clean things up pretty well in the woods.

  I asked what he thinks Sasquatch really is. He said it's a projection into our space/time from another dimension. What we see (except no one has really seen Sasquatch!) is just a three-dimensional representation of a multi-dimensional being.

  I said the law in Oregon is interesting, but if someone shot Sasquatch he/she'd be really rich and famous in spite of a year in the pokey. He said that person would be infamous, an entirely different thing. I mentioned that the local Indian tribe, a hundred years or so ago, had a word for short little people they claimed lived on Mt. Shasta. I can't remember what the word was right now. I said I wondered what they meant, did it refer to some sort of animal like a raccoon, or did they really see some little race of people. This guy reads a lot, I thought he might have come across some interesting story, a bit of local lore, but suddenly it was all about Lemurians and Telos.

  These conversations leave me dizzy, sometimes. This little guy, who looks incredibly like Humpty-Dumpty, seems to be carrying on an intelligent conversation and making an interesting point or two, then suddenly we're in outer space.
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  Do you still keep in touch with the Witnesses?

  by Iamallcool in

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  No.
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  Contemplating a Major Life Change.

  by Joe Grundy in

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  never was a jw, but been here long enough to have made some friends and respect opinions.. retired in 2004, lived in cyprus 2005-2010. back here in wales since then.. just back from a holiday in france (most recent of many).

  love the country, the lifestyle, can get by in the language.. just seen an advert for a country estate (british-owned) they want someone to live on site, do a bit of handyman stuff, etc., look after (mainly brit) holiday visitors in return for zero rent (only utitlties).

  family would be abe to come and stay for free.

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  Be sure to get a clear understanding of their expectations, how much work and specficially what duties in return for rent. The clearer your agreement with them, the more likely it will turn out to be a dream deal.