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  Japan On High Alert

  by snowbird in

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  my g'daughter and her hubby are stationed in okinawa.. i talked with her a few hours earlier today, and she stated they're preparing for the worst.. young people are remarkably resilient, aren't they?.

  sylvia.

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  ShirleyW

  I eat a lot or rather a fair amount of Kimchi, hope NYC isn't on the radar !!
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  Anyone know what the special talk is this weekend?

  by charity7 in

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  2. beliefs

  non jw so thank you for bearing with me.

  do special talks happen with individual congregations or is it throughout?

  i was told by my husband that i had to go with him and the rest of his family to the special talk that was happening this weekend.

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  Now just which "special talk" is this?

  There's the special talk for all congs on a certain date across the U.S., supposedly, that's why I didn't even say worldwide, then there's the special talk that's only given in certain locations. I remember more than ten years ago some friends came from Philly and stayed with my mom in NYC because of a special talk. It was covered here on the board as well, always turns out to be a big nothing, same BS they've been blabbering about for decades.
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  What will you be doing on the evening of the 11th ?

  by Phizzy in

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  mrs phizzy and myself will be eating out, sure in the knowledge we will not have jw's using the same restaurant.. i may have a cigar along with my brandy at the meal's end to celebrate my (our) freedom..

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  I'll definitely be lifting a glass or two of the grape, but not with the same intention as those delusional ones who think they're the only ones among Jehovahs' happy people that will have a heavenly afterlife.

  I'm just waiting to hear what the attendance was like from those who attend, those days when folks used to wrapped all around hall and standing in the lobby and even renting another venue for all the attendees are over, at least from what I've heard.
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  Abandoned literature carts, maybe the end of them?

  by sp74bb in

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  an innocent picture of a city in my country, spain.

  the pic says everything.

  many jw are really disgusted about everything, even their new preaching cart.

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  As an ex jw I can peg them by their dress but the general public would have trouble playing spot the witness or "where's wally witness" in a crowd of shoppers.

  Exactly sparrowdown, we know we can spot them in the crowd,but others, God forbid someone is actually interested, cannot
  
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  Abandoned literature carts, maybe the end of them?

  by sp74bb in

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  an innocent picture of a city in my country, spain.

  the pic says everything.

  many jw are really disgusted about everything, even their new preaching cart.

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  ShirleyW

  It appears that way at some of the carts I see in the subway stations here in NYC, they set them up, then go find a bench to sit down and gossip away the rest of the afternoon, so easy to count time now, they should bring the 100 hours a month, just set up the cart, sit down and verbally tear apart the others in the Congregation and get your time in at the same time!
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  Don Rickles Dead at 90

  by minimus in

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  another old time comic gone.

  i recently saw him on an old johnny carson show.

  rest in peace!.

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  what Flipper said, except for Kinison,he was funny, but not in Rickles territory - in my opinion of course.

  Someone above mentions he has as much energy as Robin WIlliams, energy yes, but you can't say the two of them are alike in any way, Rickles was a natural, Williams was just acting that way to so folks would pay more attention to him, it was his ego, same with Jim Carrey, both of them not funny, and nowhere near Rickles, a natural, funny comedic legend.
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  Don Rickles May 8, 1926 - April 6, 2017

  by glenster in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_v9rt8ar8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzninnuu90chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_87zoeaus4https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/don_rickles.

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  my comedy mentor since I was a kid watching him on Mike Douglas and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
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  Mormon Baptizing the dead??

  by James Mixon in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  why the big controversy over baptizing the dead, they are dead folks..i know it's a quirky practice but jewish leaders are up in arms because the lds leaders are baptizing holocaust victims..what harm is it??

  ?hell jw's are preaching everyone will go up in flames no one believe that crap except jw but no one is up in arms, they know they walk a different step....the lds leaders agreed to halt baptisms specifically of jews holocaust victims in 2010 but they are at it again, baptizing jews.

  this is funny as hell to me.

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  I'd like to know just what the procedure is to baptize dead folks. I'm sure they don't dig them up and dunk 'em, do they?
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  Susan Rice Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel?

  by freemindfade in

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  2. current

  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel.

  what can we make of this?

  rice is on record being a racist and lying about benghazi, now this?

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  I hear you Sylvia, from your post I guess we're around the same shade, there will never be a color palate in the world that can represent all the different shades of African-Americans.

  Even Oprah made a documentary of "the race within the race", some of us need to get over this "color" thing.

  The old school thinking of black men marrying the lighter skinned women some how still holds true, ask some teenage guys what kind of black women they're attracted to and the answer would be the same as it was in 1937 and before that.

  I have to honestly say that the Black Power civil rights movement did help, but then some black men have the same thinking like I"ve quoted above
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  NYTimes Article - Russia Moves to Ban Jehovah's Witnesses as 'Extremist'

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/europe/russia-moves-to-ban-jehovahs-witnesses-as-extremist.html?_r=0.

  vorokhobino, russia — a dedicated pacifist who has never even held a gun, andrei sivak discovered that his government considered him a dangerous extremist when he tried to change some money and the teller “suddenly looked up at me with a face full of fear.”.

  his name had popped up on the exchangalee bureau’s computer system, along with those of members of al qaeda, the islamic state and other militant groups responsible for shocking acts of violence.. the only group the 43-year-old father of three has ever belonged to, however, is jehovah’s witnesses, a christian denomination committed to the belief that the bible must be taken literally, particularly its injunction “thou shalt not kill.”.

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  Just saw it and was going to post about it myself, front page article too, but on the right side, where they have top breaking stories listed by time