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  I AM THE PERSON OF THE YEAR!

  by Yerusalyim in

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  according to times magazine...the american soldier was selected as the person of the year...i'm one of them.

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  Eric

  Time magazines cover in Canada is a bit different.

  Newsmakers of the year are Michael Stark and Michael Leshner, the first gay couple to be legally married in Canada.

  So, congrats, Yeru.

  Eric
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  What do you do?

  by Big Tex in

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  i've got a quick temper.

  not proud of it, but there it is.

  the good thing is, it goes away just as quick.

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  I try to air the difference out as quickly as possible, say my piece, listen to their piece, do what it takes to resolve it and then (this is the important part, at least for me) forget the whole thing.

  Harboring a grudge is like picking at a nasty scab. Leave it alone.

  Eric
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  What's your Phobia?

  by ApagaLaLuz in

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  i tend to be a pretty wild soul.

  i have eaten the grossest foods.

  i don?t get sea sick.

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  I have this fear that I'll look into a mirror and somehow, it won't be me looking back.

  It's not with me all the time. Most mornings I can just walk up to my bathroom mirror and start shaving like any normal man. But there are those odd days when my view of the world around me seems to have slipped and I must approach the mirror in darkness, and cover my eyes before I turn the lights up full. Behind the cover of my own hand, I will my eyes to open fully and with my jaw firmly set to encounter any new reality, I throw my hand aside!

  And there I am. Normal. Whew.

  "I've changed my hairstyle, so many times now, I don't know what I look like..." From the 80's Talking Heads song, Life During Wartime. My friends used to dance to this, mocking me...even as the lyric fed upon my private fear, my groping towards insanity.

  Eric
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  Page 2, of the 2004 yearbook."the great tribulation".

  by Blueblades in

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  page 2 introduces the 2004 yeartext.. "keep on the watch...prove yourselves ready.

  "-----matthew 24:42,44.. consistently,god's word reminds us that jehovah's day will arrive with shocking suddenness.hence,our yeartext for 2004 reflects jesus' deep love for his disciples,whom he wants to preserve through "the great tribulation.

  how do we remain spiritually watchful and ready?by allowing nothing to distract us from our study of god's word and from our privileges of sacred service.this yearbook contains many examples of loyal witnesses,who took to heart jesus' loving admonition.may you imitate their faith.. feel free to comment on this introduction to the new yearbook of 2004.. my comment is that they still believe that fear of the great tribulation will still work to keep the rank and file in line.and it is only by our study of god's word ( notice our study is not explained to say,through the interpretation of the governing body ) and from our privileges of sacred service ( again notice,how do they define sacred service,full time ministry ,bethel life,pioneering and door to door work is all a privilege along with meeting attendance is left out ).

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  Yeah, Brother Western Samoa must have filled his pants when he realised that he had read too much into the "divine portents" of the year 1975.

  Shmuck.

  Eric
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  Page 2, of the 2004 yearbook."the great tribulation".

  by Blueblades in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  page 2 introduces the 2004 yeartext.. "keep on the watch...prove yourselves ready.

  "-----matthew 24:42,44.. consistently,god's word reminds us that jehovah's day will arrive with shocking suddenness.hence,our yeartext for 2004 reflects jesus' deep love for his disciples,whom he wants to preserve through "the great tribulation.

  how do we remain spiritually watchful and ready?by allowing nothing to distract us from our study of god's word and from our privileges of sacred service.this yearbook contains many examples of loyal witnesses,who took to heart jesus' loving admonition.may you imitate their faith.. feel free to comment on this introduction to the new yearbook of 2004.. my comment is that they still believe that fear of the great tribulation will still work to keep the rank and file in line.and it is only by our study of god's word ( notice our study is not explained to say,through the interpretation of the governing body ) and from our privileges of sacred service ( again notice,how do they define sacred service,full time ministry ,bethel life,pioneering and door to door work is all a privilege along with meeting attendance is left out ).

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  How do we remain spiritually watchful and ready?By allowing nothing to distract us from our study of God's Word and from our privileges of sacred service.This Yearbook contains many examples of loyal Witnesses,who took to heart Jesus' loving admonition.May you imitate their faith

  Well, sure it does. Like this one from 1971:

  WESTERN

  SAMOA Population: 140,000

  Peak

  Publishers: 92 Ratio: 1 to 1,522

  A brother with a family of eleven, including an adopted daughter and pioneer living with them, wanted to get all of them overseas to the international assembly in Fiji. Only one source of finance was available. His employers kept a superannuation fund to be withdrawn on retirement or in very exceptional circumstances. Having worked there many years, the brother figured he would have enough in it to get the family to the assembly. Reasoning that integrity and faith in Jehovah will get one through the coming tribulation whether one has money in a fund or not, he resolved to invest his fund toward guaranteeing his family?s future spiritual survival.

  It was not until the week of travel to the assembly that he was able to contact his managing director. Naturally, his director felt as many would. He wondered why a family man would wish to withdraw his only security against the future and chance leaving nothing for them if something happened to him. The brother explained the importance to him and his family as Jehovah?s worshipers of attending the assembly and that this was the only way for them to get to Fiji. His being a respected and trusted employee, his director favorably granted the request and made an unprecedented exception in letting him withdraw his superannuation fund in full. Happy and thankful to Jehovah for this blessing, he went the following day and paid his family?s ship fares to Fiji. The family then joyfully prepared to leave.

  Later that week, however, the brother was informed that the ship was strike-bound in another country and would not be sailing as expected. The only other way out of the country, so as to be at the assembly in time, was by air at greater expense. Suffice it to say that the brother and his family enjoyed the assembly, with no regrets. They know that only spiritual steadfastness, faith and obedience to Jehovah will preserve them. in the future and not transient material possessions.

  So, is there finally any news in the 2004 Yearbook as to how this poor deluded sod, who squandered the financial security of his family of 11 is getting along?

  No? Didn't think so. Maybe next year, huh?

  Eric
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  I am so pissed

  by Vivamus in

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  i am turning into a cranky bitch.

  this whole week i have been anything but fun company, people can get me angry beyond reason by doing absolutely nothing.

  and the bank isn't the only one undergoing my wrath, every one around me complains about my bitching-mood.

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  Viv,

  WHO do these sardines think is sneaking around, forging your signature so that you can pay for your car stereo? Who are these bandits, these criminal geniuses who are working this scam to keep your credit payment record clean? Sheesh.

  I'd be cranked up too if the bank was acting quite so dense. Sorry about your luck.

  Eric
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  When do you think it is the right age for body contact?

  by morty in

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  in hockey that is.....

  this is my concern as a mother in the sport...i have 2 boys that play hockey...one is a competive 12 year old player and the other, well, he know longer plays because of a hockey accident,that almost cost him his life a year ago..he is 15 years of age, but at the time of the accident, he was 13...to make a long story short, he was hit from behind and the other player broke 3 of his ribs and rupchurd his spleen....he was in the hospital for 2 very long weeks and transfered from one hospital to another via air lift....he is now almost back to a full recovery but is not aloud to play because of the body contact in the sport.

  ( doctor will not give him the ok to return yet and i dont feel right about it either)..when he started hockey, he was 9 years old...they had no body contact till he became a "a" player, which happened the following year...now, he was experencied in body checking by the time he played with the other kids.

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  Mortons,

  The problem as I see it is two-fold.

  1. At the age your son was injured, some boys are hitting puberty, some are not. You can have some lads who have hit their growth spurt and are really starting to gain mass playing against kids who are still every bit little boys. But this was not such a problem until...

  2. The equipment changed from what it used to be. When I was 13, some 30 years ago , the shoulder pads were just thin little bits of quite flexible plastic attached directly to just some felt pads. The elbow pads were more like what you'd wear today to go out rollerblading, no plastic, just leather or vinyl over, again, some felt padding. The equipment was as likely to soften the impact to the receiver of the hit as it was the deliverer. You had to be tough and more important, skilled to really hit hard, or you could get hurt just as bad as your target.

  Today, those shoulder pads are great re-inforced orbs of thick rigid plastic suspended from contact with the wearer by a system of taut internal straps, the elbow pads are the same way. You could smash your elbow repeatedly into the boards wearing those things until you make a huge dent and never feel a thing.

  The parent may feel their child is well protected, but too much of the risk of delivering a hit has been eliminated, transfered to the target.

  How do deal with this? I have no idea. Except to say that the no hitting from behind rule is a good one, and needs to be rigidly enforced. Intentional boarding, which has always been on the books, should be a suspendable infraction in all junior leagues.

  I'd love to see the hockey equipment at all levels of the sport go back to the state they were in when, say, Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau were playing. Those guys were not only damn tough, hard players, they had to respect each other because they weren't swathed in equipment that could withstand a good crack with a baseball bat.

  Eric
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  They have nothing to loose by shunning

  by garybuss in

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  if my attitude toward the shunners is to be waiting for them with a full pardon, waiting for them to quit shunning me so i can shower them with love as their reward for being jerks, they have nothing to lose by continuing the shunning.

  they don't have a dog in the fight.

  if children who shun parents were notified by the parents that they will loose their inheritance if they continue the shunning, all of a sudden they have something to loose by shunning.. .

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  We have taken all the pain and discomfort of the shunning and put it on our side so it's easy for them to continue. So how can we be surprised or unhappy when it continues?

  Gary,

  I can tell you that for my parents, and especially for my mother, to initiate the shunning of one of their children was an emotionally debilitating decision to HAVE TO MAKE, and a constant onerous weight to maintain.

  It didn't matter that I accepted the shunning, made no overtures, allowed the shunning to be on the easiest possible terms, it still tore away at my mother's psyche, it was against her strong natural instincts.

  I have to say that I can't believe that my experience is unique.

  As for cutting off grandparents from their grandchildren as some sort of retaliatory strategy, well shame on you. If the JW grandparents aren't a serious threat to "inculcate" the grandkids, then I can see nothing to be gained or proven by sinking to these depths.

  I had a JW friend who once proudly told me that he was going to go to the 'letter of the law' on his nonDF/DA but inactive Dad and cut him off from his grandchildren unless he got his act in gear. That absolutely adorable older man doted on his grandchildren. He was inactive because his retirement was insufficiently funded and he was working incredibly hard at getting a small kitchen and bath renovation business up and going.

  That was the last dealing I ever had with my JW friend. It's not that I "shunned him". I just have no room in my life for friendship with anyone who can be so petty as to use emotional extortion force their vision of the way things ought to be on the lives of those they have no business meddling in.

  Do what you want, Gary, but the whole idea of shunning back harder than they can shun doesn't help them to see you in a positive light, and closes the the door on they day that they just might have decided to call you, just to talk.

  Eric
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  I dread Christmas this year.

  by Vivamus in

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  i dread christmas this year.. i have no-one to celebrate it with.. .

  i mean, sure, i could invite myself to join in the merryment at some friends places.

  but all my friends are celebrating with their parents, and so i won't do that.

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  Vivamus,

  I have a two-and-a-half foot tall hollow ceramic Xmas tree that has all these red, green and gold bulbuous lenses projecting out of it at weird angles. It has a light bulb inside so that the goofy lenses glow.

  I'm plugging that baby in just for you, Viv.

  Eric
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  What do you prefer?

  by SheilaM in

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  i have been in an avatar changing mood.

  i wonder what do you all prefer, a personal pic so you know who your posting to or do you prefer a avatar that reflects an aspect of the persons personality?

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  I prefer when people have there own pic up, I think I can tell which ones might obviously be fake, either that or we know some modelling type geeeorgeous people here on JWD. Of cousrse, due to the nature of this board and some people's situation, an actual picture is out of the question.

  I never thought of what my avatar says about me, it's a picture that fills me with a really great memory about my life. I am at the beginning of a very long cross-country trip in that picture, the potential is there, right there with me as I start to roll the first metre of 13,000 kilometres for a great adventure, or a great disaster.

  As it turned out, every single roll-of-the-dice I could imagine for my journey resulted in an overwhelmingly positive outcome. Some of the amazing coincidences I experienced on my trip beggar belief. The trip of a lifetime that continues to affect me now, months later. I'm been compelled to review and rewrite why I do things this way, not that way, why I want the things I want.

  If I were to look at my avatar from the point of view of a reader, now what would I see? Hmm, possibly: "Here I am the real me up front. Of course, I'm hiding here under a full-face helmet with a mirrored faceshield."

  And I guess that says something about me as well. Hadn't thought of it that way before.

  Eric

  p.s. And Sheila, don't change your avatar on my account. You look great!