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  Bicycling

  by Cygnus in

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  as i am without an automobile, i am going to buy a cheap bicycle tonight.

  anyone here use a bicycle as a primary means of transportation?

  any comments are welcome.

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  Eyebrow2

  I have been doing a bit of research on this, since I want to get a comfort bike for commuting around town (errands, quick trips to grocery store for those things you end up buying mid week like milk, etc).

  Here is a good forum for you to check out:

  http://www.bigbikeforums.com/

  Also, someone pointed me to a really cool site:

  http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/

  Someone used google's maps so that you can plan a walking/bike riding trip...just trace your route and it will give you the mileage...this is handy, I think, because you don't have to have ending address, and usually when you look up directions on maps.google.com or others, it will give the best driving directions, that are not usually the best walking or bike riding directions.

  Good luck...I hope you find a good bike. Your local bike shop will usually let you do a layaway plan if you need to. Worst case scenario, if you have to get one at Walmart, if you don't have the knowledge to do it your self, take that bike to be tuned up at a bike shop, because they usually are not put together too well at walmart (or put it together yourself).

  I may just go get a cheap walmart one, and put a really nice bike on layaway in a few months because I don't want money to stop me from getting back on a bike.
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  Does anyone who Left Jehovahs Organization, still......

  by defd in

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  read the bible daily?

  honestly do you?

  or is it collecting dust on a table or shelf somewhere?

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  Eyebrow2

  well, I don't read it as much as when I was a JW, because I don't have 5 meetings a week forced down my throat...oh wait, there was morereading the WTS publications than the bible.

  I do still read the bible, and started reading it again a few months ago. I have been going slow, and enjoying it for what it is...a piece of literature...I don't believe it is "inspired" by God...but I think it has some interesting points to offer.

  Have to agree with Cygnaus on the Tao of Pooh...that book is just is beneficial as the New Testament. Now the old Testament is fun to read for all the action (violence, drama, sex, genocide...all the stuff that makes up a good thriller). Numbers and Leviticus...those are not too exciting though....

  I think the better question would be this:

  "Since you left the Kingdom Hall, have you found yourself applying more of the things Jesus taught, so that you act in more of a Christian way?"

  I am no longer in Christian....but since leaving the KH, I act more in a christian way towards others than I did at the hall. Why? Because I have been freed of worrying about being in accordance with the WTS doctrines and heavy burdens. I try to be good to others because it is a good thing to do. Not because I am worried about not living through Armageddon.

  Tsk on you Dfed, for talking to us like we are some casts offs that cannot operate with the WTS.
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  A stranger (JW) called me

  by Rayvin in

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  i got a message on my machine from some lady.

  she says "hi.. this is ' ' i was just calling to see how you are doing.

  i go to ' local congo'.

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  You can either call back or not call back...but if you do call back, tell her your number is registered on the Do Not Call List Registry, and would appreciate it if she were to notify the powers that be, so you are not called again by a complete stranger.

  I wouldn't get all huffy and threaten suing someone for harrassment until it got to that point. Why give them any ammunition?
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  Shirts for Quotes

  by RichieRich in

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  hi again kids!

  i was thinking last night about what i could do to help quotes out, and really, to help everyone fight back and support quotes in his time of need.

  so, i came up with the idea of tshirts.

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  cafepress is an awesome site...I have one over there that I just started.

  I wanted to put up some Apostate in training shirts...but there are others over there that have beat me too it...hahah...I haven't put any shirts in yet.

  Its a good idea.
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  Where were you on the a.m. of 9/11/01?

  by rebel8 in

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  i was at work -- a manager in a hospital that is the regional treatment center for one medical specialty...region includes nyc.

  someone came & grabbed me hard by the arm and pulled me into a room, where i saw every single mgr.

  sitting silently watching tv.

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  I was at home. My husband called me on hist way to work, and told me to turn on the tv...something bad was happening.

  The first plane had already hit....and then I saw the second plane hit live on tv. It was awful.

  We had just driven through part of NYC on the way home from TX a few weeks ago. I was living in NH at the time, and many people I knew, knew someone that was in the Towers, or on the plane. My brother lost a surfing aquaintence, my friend's husband's cousin, whom they had visitied with at a wedding a few weeks earlier was in one of the towers, but was luckily evacuated because he had severe burns. I used to work for a company that lost one of the founding owners. (I only met the fellow once).

  It was such a sad day.

  You know though, I think the country is doing a good job of healing itself.
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  Entire JW family going to college! (even the parents!)

  by TresHappy in

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  a family affair: parents, daughter seek college education together .

  the atlanta journal-constitution .

  shavonne richardson, 21, never thought she'd be starting her freshman year of college with her parents.. .

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  Good for them!
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  Honest fading a myth?

  by Fatfreek in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  is honest fading possible?.

  i've thought several times that if i had it to do over again, living in this age of jwd with all its online support and encouragement -- along with the huge resource of the internet -- that i'd have faded slowly instead of allowed the disfellowshipping because of apostasy.. on the other hand i wonder if that's all stupid speculation, wishfully thinking it would have prevented the cutting off and the shunning of the remaining family members, especially the children.. i know you'll correct me if i'm wrong on the following premise but i suspect if a person is honest, he cannot prevent the disfellowshipping -- in a great many cases.

  i believe that it all depends on the vigilance of the local elders and how penetrating they are in their questions, and how perceptive they are with your answers during sheparding calls.. "um ... brother, we've missed your presence at the meetings and in the field ministry and we're certainly here to help you, but wonder if you've actually lost your faith that jehovah's earthly organization is the correct one.

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  I faded...but "I'm just a girl" and NOT a pioneer...just a single mom at the time...I treid to get my 10 hours in a month, but my best friend and her family had already moved out of the congregation about a year before, so only one other real friend I had there cared. And I told her after the Memorial 1998 that I just didn't believe it any more.

  I just stopped going. It was tough at first, because my mother who is a witness owend and lived in the duplex I lived in. About 6 months later I moved away for about 7 months to be with my fiance, and then when we moved back, I was "unevenly yoked" to an unbeliever. I was never d'fd...and if I ran into a witness at the store I wasn't shunned. But my friend would tell me more than once that if I wanted to see her, to come to the KH. She literally lived around the corner from me.

  Anyhoo..we moved 2 years ago 2100 miles away. My mother visited the KH when she came to visit, and stuck the local elders on me. (cruzan knows the hall)...I politely told them I knew where the hall was, thank you very much. No one has come since...I think if I walked into the KH in my hometown today people would talk to me.

  I would like to DA myself actually. I never have out of respect for my mom, and at first, because I didn't want my "friends" at the hall to lose the option of speaking with me. But now, after being out and not talking with any of them for a few years, I am starting to really desire being more vocal about what I believe. I always said I would lay low until my mom dies..but besides that being a horrible though (my mom dying) I really am tired of hiding.

  I think it is possible to fade away if you are not high profile in the KH. If you are, you may want to take baby steps...all of sudden stepping down from being an Elder maybe because you have to take care of your family needs....etc....I wish you the best...it isn't easy, but it can be done.
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  Suggestions Please: Wrongful Termination

  by Aude_Sapere in

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  my father (df/ex-elder) was recently terminated from his job of nearly 10 years.

  i don't want to give too much info at this time but am looking for insight, suggestions, comments to help point him in the right direction.

  he works (oops!

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  Eyebrow2

  I would suggest your father not only contact coporate HR, but also the other store that had said they had a position for him. That manager may not be aware of the full situation, and may be able to convice HR to give the go ahead to hire him at that store.

  Let us know how he makes out.
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  Watch Tower sues Quotes for $100,000 plus plus plus...

  by Quotes in

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  2. scandals

  court file no.

  superior court of justice.

  watchtower bible and tract society of .

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  Eyebrow2

  My advice to Quotes… if the WTS does not submit the entire contents of the CD-ROM as evidence, then YOU should. Time to warm up the ol' printer and put it to work!

  Ahhhhhh...very clever.
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  Why do the leave without telling us ..............?

  by vitty in

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  do you worry when posters go missing?.

  on minute there posting everyday the next nothing.

  i was thinking of jez, but there are many more.

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  Eyebrow2

  It is just another school yard with the popular kids getting all the attention, and rest of us just observe...................

  exactly...you said it much better than I could.