phg - i'm a wine drinker too and south africa has some of the best wine and best big open sky! it is a beautiful country.
That is so right, LouBelle! Until I can return to South Africa I will make do with Deerhorn Valley.
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Ever just want to run away.
by LouBelle injust give up the job, the house and go somewhere where life moves at a slower pace and there are not as many electronic intrusions?
only thing to get to a place like that costs money.. if i had my way, give all of this up for a quiet life on a little small holding that can look after my needs..
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So.... who won?
by tec indo you guys (americans) know who won between obama and romney yet?
how long does it take?.
i listen to you guys so much on your political debates, that i feel very invested, lol.. peace,.
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kurtbethel
Sorry. These two asshats are the finest America could come up with
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Has anyone else seen this?
by OneDayillBeFree ini don't know how to paste images from my smartphone but take a look on page 11 from today's watchtower (study edition) september 15, 2012.... .
is it just me or does jesus look like mitt romney???.
haha i have to read so i have no more time to talk but please let me know what you think!
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kurtbethel
I see they are peddling their "Club Jah" memberships again.
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Have the British military invaded your country - see map for details
by besty in.
every schoolboy used to know that at the height of the empire, almost a quarter of the atlas was coloured pink, showing the extent of british rule.. but that oft recited fact dramatically understates the remarkable global reach achieved by this country.. a new study has found that at various times the british have invaded almost 90 per cent of the countries around the globe.. .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/british-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-luxembourg.html.
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kurtbethel
That map is misleading.
It shows invaded countries in their current form, not the size and territory they were at the time of invasion.
Brits never invaded California.
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Whitney Heichel - first hand account from congregation member on Facebook
by sir82 inwhy, he even has gone to some meetings at their kingdom hall!
someone calls with a large wedding tent that they would like to donate and set up in the kingdom hall parking lot for the public memorial on friday.
i was amazed how people who came that didnt even know whitney, but simply felt a need to be here and comfort the family.
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I have been asked ... to clarify that the so-called timeline from Alan on Facebook contains some inaccuracies, and is not approved by the family. I know for a certainty that 1 inaccuracy is about the status of the murderer in the congregation. He was baptized, but his actions show that he was not a JW as JWs do NOT act this way.
The denial is strong in this one...
In one sentence he clarified that Holt was baptized, but then deluded himself into beliving that Holt couldn't be a JW.
Yes, I saw that and decided he should win the circular reasoning award for that one. If you accept his reasoning, then anyone who is baptized and then masturbates, lies, steals, slanders or anything else is not a JW. So that means the count of members is off, and there are about maybe 5 JWs in the world.
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good old apocalyptic science fiction
by Hortensia inhave you ever read "no blade of grass," "on the beach" or "the satan-bug?
" i have a feeling it wouldn't hurt to reread those old novels.. folks around here argue about gmo foods, for instance, without realizing that one of the main problems with gmo is lack of diversity, dangerous if a disease comes along that kills the main crops of the world.. and people seem to have forgotten that humans could indeed destroy themselves completely, if someone starts a nuclear war.
they always seem to think there could be survivors of an all-out nuclear war.
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kurtbethel
When Worlds Collide - saw the movie, available here, have the ebook of it and the sequel, After Worlds Collide.
Alas, Babylon - read it when I was 14, read it again early this year. It holds up really well. I have an ebook of it now so I will give away the hard copy.
One Second After is a great updated version of that kind of story.
The William Johnstone Ashes series is good for the first 10-15 books, but gets really lean for ideas by around #25 of 35. Whole sections of dialog and plot get lifted and repeated with different characters in later books. Events get retconned so that different characters are remembered to have done things than what originally happened. The author was ill late in the series, and I suspect some ghost writing was going on. I started reading them about 20 years ago, and got half way through. Early this year I got the whole set of ebooks, finished reading the series, and sold off my hard copies for a tidy sum.
Since I am such a great and wonderful guy, I will share a free full length movie of another favorite, the Last Man on Earth, with Vincent Price. Enjoy!
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So utterly hurt.
by LouBelle intoday something happened that hurt me more than the jwks, more than the shunning, more than my sexual molestation, more than my hellish years at caxton and more than the year i've just had.. the moment i was told this, i felt like my insides had been ripped, torn, shredded and my heart squeezed of it's very life.
i put my head in my hands and for the first time in my life let out a primal gut wrenching wail.. my father had asked my gran why she has been treating me the way she has (which hasn't been very nice).
he though it strange considering how in the past i have helped her and given her so much.
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kurtbethel
LouBelle, there are several good points made that I have nothing to add to, except to send you a <<HUG>>
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Has anyone else seen this?
by OneDayillBeFree ini don't know how to paste images from my smartphone but take a look on page 11 from today's watchtower (study edition) september 15, 2012.... .
is it just me or does jesus look like mitt romney???.
haha i have to read so i have no more time to talk but please let me know what you think!
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kurtbethel
I was wondering what's with the rolled up trousers behind his head that Cobalt managed somehow to cut out in her rendition but Irondork left in...even if it's clear in the original magazine, it does look really funny here!
What rolled up trousers? I think you are one of those subliminal image seers who claim the Watchtower is full of them.
No rolled up trousers here folks.
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REALITY may not be what you think
by Terry ina counterfeit $100 bill looks virtually the same as a genuine bill.
ask yourself what actual difference exists between them?.
a really good elvis impersonator may look and sound pretty darned close to the real elvis--but, is "close" the same as genuine?.
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kurtbethel
When reality has the possibility of causing too much trouble, it can sometimes be dealt with by using unreality as a workaround.
My example, a favorite cat went missing. Reality is likely that a coyote had a good meal. My unreality workaround is that some lady started feeding him better food than I could afford, so he bailed.
I suspect that these unreality patches, so long as they don't obscure real danger, help us survive and be more sane.
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Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 11-04-2012 WT Study (THOUSAND YEARS)
by blondie incomments.
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kurtbethel
The Bible long ago stated: “Man has dominated man to his injury.” (Eccl. 8:9)
Much to their credit, the Watchtower governing body has made great efforts to fulfill this scripture.
