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  Someone else new & could do with as much help as they can get.

  by Mr. Majestic in

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  i would like to say hello and introduce myself.

  i have read this forum for a while, didnt know that it existed till some one showed me it, (fellow rebel) about a year ago.

  now the only way that i will get help is to go into it, something i really dont wish to do but know that i have to.

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  erandir

  Howdy, Mr. M.,

  Thanks for the introduction and welcome to the forum. I have to say this is the best forum out there for people like us. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to vent and work through your problem. Keeping it all inside with no outlet is certainly not healthy. I am so happy now having gone through the process of leaving the organization and reintegrating with the rest of the world once again. Sounds weird to say it that way, but that's what it is...reintegration from the Society's cocoon into the world into which you were born.

  Good luck and keep posting and interacting!

  Erandir
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  What's YOUR Favorite Weird Al Yankovic parody?

  by Gopher in

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  mine is amish paradise.

  hilarious!.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfvw9xxony.

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  You all mentioned some good ones already, so I'll mention another I like: His polka version of Bohemian Rhapsody: "Bohemian Polka"
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  JW Illustrations Ripped off from Secular Sources

  by neverendingjourney in

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  first, let me apologize for my extended absence.

  i was out of the country and took a vacation a while back.

  when i came back, i realized that i had inadvertently broken my jwd addiction.

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  erandir

  That CO was probably using the illustration to kill two birds with one stone. (1) He gets to use a cool illustration to impress people and make them remember it. (2) He can find out who watches R-rated movies if anyone tells him from where the illustration came.
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  Favourite 80s video game

  by 5thGeneration in

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  just in some crazy posting mood today.. mine was galaga.

  man, was i good.

  http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/arcade.htm.

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  erandir

  Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo, Pac-Man for Atari
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  Who's Paired Off On This Here Board?

  by snowbird in

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  let's if i can put them together.. bobbi/para bumble bee/memario exwitless/ldb blondie/irreverent angharad/simon missanna/bigdreaux sweetpea/pubsinger.

  did i miss/mismatch anyone?.

  sylvia.

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  erandir

  Bonnie and Clyde count, right?
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  Funny comments made at a meeting

  by REBORNAGAIN in

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  i once heard an older dub, *godresthissoul* while reading a scripture say, "parents do not be irrigating your children!

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  linda.

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  erandir

  WT study conductor looking out towards the back of the hall, "Let's hear from Sister Payne in the rear."

  I thought this was true when it was told to me, but I heard a "worldly" person telling it as a joke a few years later.

  Bonnie/Clyde, this supposedly happened in our congregation, too, according to an elder there. I guess could happen. Many people have that last name and some of them could sit in the back from time to time.

  Editted to add: Sorry, Auldsoul, I didn't read your post before I commented. You mentioned Columbus, OH, having a sister Payne. That could very well be the same sister I'm talking about. She could have visited my Ohio congregation.
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  Spanish Congo's--You just aren't chic if have not switched yet!

  by oompa in

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  it seems like all around me goody types are leaving english and going spanish.

  whats the deal?...one told me he loved it cause he did not understand anything for 3 years!!!!

  !....oompa

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  erandir

  Learning a new language and experiencing a new culture can make the drudgery that is the life of a JW just a little bit more bearable.

  nvr, not to mention that you get to learn a new language and experience a new culture for free. No need to pay high prices at a college or spend a lot on traveling. Well, I shouldn't say free, of course. There are still the meetings to attend (although fun at first) and the field service to go out in. But free, as in no money spent.
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  New Yorker Cartoon

  by Sobeit in

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  in the latest issue of the new yorker, october 8, 2007, on page 69 is a cartoon of a kingdom hall with a "no soliciting" sign in front of it.. this is the issue with seymour m. hersh's article on iran..

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  erandir

  Heh...good one!
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  What kind of tea do you like?

  by averyniceguy in

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  After watching the Alton Brown "Good Eats" episode on tea, I've been turned on to loose leaf tea. Wow...what a difference between that and tea bags.

  I love Earl Grey, Chamomile, Black Pekoe, Orange Pekoe. Don't like green much at all.
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  Suicide

  by Nicolas in

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  i know it's a touchy subject, but anyone here has ever thought of suicide while they were still in the organization?

  it seem to me that jehovah's witnesses have a much higher rate of suicide than the rest of the population.

  i contemplated suicide myself when i was struggling to get piece of my life back together after being raised as a "perfect little jw" when i was young.

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  tijkmo, what a heartless thing for an elder to say!

  'well other people seem to manage'

  Jerk! So much for living up to their own WT message of not comparing one person with another in matters of spiritual progress. Hypocrites!