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  Jigsaw puzzles anyone?

  by Lady Lee in

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  i love them.

  there was a time when i always had one on a large cardboard that i could push under the sofa when i needed the table.

  believe me they helped my sanity during my last few years as a dub.. i had to give them up when i got cats because they thought all those nice little puzzle pieces were cat-sized hockey pucks.

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  I love jigzone and have been going there for years.
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  LIFE IS GOOD!

  by Dansk in

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  what the heck.

  i'm sitting here with idle time.

  ok, so what's so great about that?

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  Flowerpetal

  Dansk,

  I agree; thanks for your inspiration! I have a best friend who borders on being atheist/agnostic. Her and her hubby have lots of religious/spirtual discussions (he was raised by JW parents, but never got baptized). But I think she is on the spiritual side as well. Saw Christopher Hitchens on Real Time With Bill Maher and decided I want to read his book too.

  Good luck to your hospital stay.
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  My JW Friends Visited My Daughter & Wanna Keep It Quiet From Other JWs

  by minimus in

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  my daughter is at home with her new daughter and an older couple visited them in her home and brought some lovely outfits for the baby.

  they stayed for about a half hour and ther company was very much appreciated.

  the following day they were at a jw get together along with my mom.

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  I think the way a person behaves is partly their inherited personality and partly the way they were raised. You have the "A" personality and "B" and maybe variations of those in each group. IMHO, It's got nothing to do with what religion one has embraced. However, the way people act once they have become JWs, enhances their already inherited and programmed behavior.

  If a druggie decided to rob a bank, yet realized afterwards how much he screwed up his life, is he a bad person because of his behavior? Was he only a bad person when he carried out the robbery? Can you know FOR SURE whether this person is "bad" or not???

  Exactly--there are lots of circumstances in the past which brought this druggie to the point of robbing a bank.

  Getting back to JW behavior, I couldn't even call a JW who is in a position of authority bad, except for those who know they are deceptive and full of malice. That is pure evil. The ones who are controlling---who knows? I worked for an acupuncturist once, and she was controlling and she knew it. She would change for a few days, and then go right back to her controlling self. I say she couldn't help herself; there was more to her life than what I saw.
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  Killing time during meeting...

  by brunnhilde in

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  i used to balance my checkbook sometimes.

  another favorite was unsticking the pages of a new bible or folding back the dogears of an old one.

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  I would doodle in the margins of the WT magazine, make grocery lists, read other passages in the Bible, or lots of times read the context of the scripture the brother would be reading on the platform, applying it the way the society wanted it applied; otherwise unless there was a really good speaker, I would just "zone out". I used to wish I could bring my knitting; but that would have been too distracting.
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  Do you remember this saying...?

  by Flowerpetal in

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  regarding worldly associations:.

  "the worst jw in the org.

  is better than the best person in the world..".

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  This bothered me alot about the religion, so many good non-JW people, yet they were all considered bad association...stupidity.

  Absolutely!

  My favorite visual was at an assembly where the speaker said all worldly people should be considered dead right now...fall in love with one, kiss him, and it will be just like kissing a corpse...sometimes the things they say are so crazy it works against them eventually.

  I remember something similar to this as well. I also remember an analogy about a young woman who fell in love with a guy to the point where they were going to get married, and on her wedding night she discovered he had leprosy. "Imagine her heartbreak!" they said. Point being, no matter how wonderful a worldy person "seems", they are spiritual lepers and to be avoided. EXACTLY, Blondie!
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  Do you remember this saying...?

  by Flowerpetal in

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  regarding worldly associations:.

  "the worst jw in the org.

  is better than the best person in the world..".

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  Flowerpetal

  regarding worldly associations:

  "The worst JW in the org. is better than the best person in the world.."
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  Leolaia's Scenic Travel Photos

  by Leolaia in

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  well, i thought i'd start a fluff thread for once, so i'm posting here some of my favorite photos from my many trips over the years.

  i hope you enjoy them and they inspire you to take awesome pictures on your own travels (or even your own backyard).

  [edited to add...let's hope this formatting helps...jgnat].

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  Thanks Leolaia! Beautiful pics. There is a big, wonderful world out there!
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  Theremin music

  by Nathan Natas in

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  it's not just for "the day the earth stood still" anymore!.

  a cover of "crazy" by gnarls barkley.. http://laughingsquid.com/theremin-cover-version-of-gnarls-barkleys-crazy/.

  what's a theremin?

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  Flowerpetal

  I believe on the Ed Sullivan show there was a guy who would come on and play this instrument. Was a kid then, and didn't pay attention to what it was called, but I thought it was neat.
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 6-24-07 WT Study (Youths Goals Honor God)

  by blondie in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  comments you will not hear at the 06-24-07 wt study (may 1, 2007, pages 24-29)(youths goals honor god)(notepad).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  How many families where both parents are jws meet weekly to discuss the bible formally? One CO noted that few "family heads" (to include single parent families) were doing this, at least they weren't reporting it. That MS and elders should set the example and it would add 4 hours to the preaching totals each month from each of them if only one attending was not baptized. So was it the eternal life of the children or the hours on a time slip that mattered? I knew several who never did this even after this "encouragement," just reported that they had (per the testimony of the children involved).

  It was the hours on a time slip that counted, most definitely. We felt guilty reporting the time on our children, so we stopped and didn't care.
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  Has your idea of how you want to be disposed of changed?

  by sinis in

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  of course i'm talking about death.

  i know in the borg, since most people are cheap, or don't have money, there was always a push for cremation.

  i know my grandmother was cremated, as well as my father in law, and i think the issue was more for finances.

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  Flowerpetal

  I would love a Viking send-off: a little boat with a sail--me as the corpse, and set afire as the boat sails off into the water. For the funeral though, I'd love a New Orleans Jazz funeral--always did.