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  Things Learned Along the Way

  by blondie in

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  i have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.

  i will post a few every day.

  if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie

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  Carl W. Buechner

  Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
  
  

  Unknown

  After all this is over, all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other.
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  Things Learned Along the Way

  by blondie in

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  i have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.

  i will post a few every day.

  if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie

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  Life goes on.

  Thank you Blondie, for reviving this for the newbies (including me). Glad to see you posting. Take care.
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  WTBTS Now hinting at having LARGE families?????

  by annalice in

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  ok so i don't know if this means anything but, i was just over on the watchtower official web site.

  ( i like to keep up on the crap they write).

  anyhow there is a article titled "large families united in god's service".

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  One of the goals set for each family member is to read all articles in the Watchtower and Awake! magazines. Recently, they added daily Bible reading to their routine. By talking about what they read, family members encourage one another to continue the habit.

  How nice - they even added reading the Bible to their routine, now that's spiritual.
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  Book: Captives of a Concept-... Illusionary Concept That Holds JW's Captive

  by Lady Liberty in

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  good evening everyone,.

  just started reading the book by don cameron a former elder called captives of a concept-understanding the illusionary concept that holds jehovahs witnesses captive.

  holy cow!

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  Don- Thank you for the book, you have helped so many people wake up.
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  This good news is being speard...by this site

  by lesterd in

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  you know before this marvelous age of communication, you would say that i had to go looking for dirt on the society, but i was thinking about that.

  isolationizm was a great thing for the society, because no knew what was going on, the people who study and questioned were put out with no one ever to hear from them again, what were they to do?, take out an add in the local newspaper to be heard and have a fair hearing?

  but now people can compare and learn from their research and inspiration.

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  I've said it before and I'll say it again; this site has saved me from a miserable existance. Has it saved my life? Maybe not literally, though it has improved the quality of my life. It is a depressing state to be in when you feel like you are the only one who has trouble swallowing the false teachings and control of the FDS. Not to mention the lack of love in the congregations. Even the guilt for doubting has been replaced with trust in my own thinking abilities.

  I log on to this site and can feel the unconditional love and support, from people I've never met, that I was falsely promised I would feel from the "brothers and sisters".

  This s ite has exposed me to some brilliant minds that have examined and dissected the insane un-biblical teachings of the WTBTS. I am grateful to find that I am not the only one to have issues with the lack of logic and blind acceptance of these man-made doctrines, with no room for an independant thought.

  I don't agree with everyone else here and I don't have to. That to me, is indeed good news.
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  Amazingly Simple Home Remedies

  by Jim_TX in

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  amazingly simple home remedies.

  1. if you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic.

  simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto.

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  Laughter is the best medicine, thanks Doctor Jim, I needed that.

  Monthly Mind Power Topic

  July 1999

  The Laughing Doctor

  Out of nowhere they appear, hoisting a banner that proudly displays their name in neatly embroidered letters, "Juhu Laughter Club," and below that their slogan:
  HO-HO, HA-HA - LAUGHING IS THE BEST MEDICINE

  I'm in Bombay and the sun has not yet risen on Juhu Beach. I have come to see firsthand the work, or rather should I say play, of a most unusual doctor.

  Each morning forty or fifty men, women and children come to the beach for their daily dose of laughter. These people are members of one of India's almost 500 "laughter clubs"; groups which hold outdoor sessions that are free and open to everyone who believes in the therapeutic value of laughter.

  Madan Kataria, affectionately referred to as Dr. Laughter, is the founding force behind India's laughter therapy. A general practitioner and yoga expert, two decades ago he became interested in the physical and psychological benefits of laughter, and he has been meticulously researching its effect on the body ever since.

  Three years ago, when he set up his first laughter club, he was met with ridicule and bewilderment by his medical fraternity, but that did not stop him. Nor did it prevent the idea from spreading like wildfire. This year he is embarking on a worldwide "Laughter Tour" which will include Europe and the United States.

  "For many people stress has overtaken their lives. We have forgotten how to laugh," Dr. Kataria says. "We are living a very foolish life and we are not at peace with ourselves. We need to remember how to laugh. Laughter is a way to inner peace and relaxation."

  I watch as he takes his followers through their routines. It begins innocently enough, with hand clapping and a chorus of ho, ho, ho, ha, ha, ha. Then everyone forms a big circle and people take turns laughing, flapping their arms like a bird and performing other inane antics which, before long, have everyone giggling. And of course laughter is contagious; it feeds on itself. It lasts less than a half-hour but everyone, me included, has laughed a lot. And how does it make us feel? Well, great.

  Laughter is serious business to this Indian doctor. He has taken his clubs into factories where workers from the poorest city slums toil. They start the morning shift with a laughing session right on the shop floor. He takes it into schools, colleges, senior citizens homes. "There is no one who can't be helped by laughter," he points out. Laughter has become a science to him. He has already evolved 25 different types of laughter, including the Hearty Laugh, a deep, loud chuckle; the Gradient Laugh, which starts off as a smile, breaks into a titter and ends in a full-blown roar; and the Cocktail Laugh, emitting polite titters while moving the head from side to side, to name but a few.

  "The only factor in the therapy is that the laughter must be unconditional, like the laughter of children. We laugh because we can, not because of some outside stimulant. We want to liberate laughter from conditions," he says.

  Encountering Dr. Kataria only reconfirmed in my own mind what I've known for years. Laughter, fun and joy are highly therapeutic. When you're having fun, the body produces enzymes that actually help to fight disease. It is well known that depressed people fall ill far more often than those who are happy. Having fun is good for your health. So if you want to be healthy, there's no excuse-get out there and have fun. Laugh at yourself, laugh at your boss (not to his face), laugh at life's absurd moments, or, as Dr. Kataria teaches, laugh simply for the sake of laughing. Laughter is available to everyone. Any time. Any place. It is life's mysterious health tonic.

  John Kehoe
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  September 11

  by lavendar in

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  I was getting ready for work when my friend ran in to tell me the first plane had hit. We turned on the T.V. and saw the second plane hit.

  I had been going back to the hall since June and was trying to get re-instated and kept

  I just thinking that I had waited too long to go back to God's organization.

  At the time I was selling cable door to door and decided that there was no way I was going to work that day.
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  I, David Carter of Roanoke, Virginia ...

  by WTNightmare00 in

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  after careful consideration and after i have found a lot of backing, i have decided to sue the watchtower bible and tract society of new york, and i, david carter will not agree to a gag order of any sort.

  please do not take offense and please do not judge me.

  time tells all!.

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  You've got my backing, keep us posted and come back here for support anytime.
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  A third class of jws?

  by logic in

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  i was sitting here thinking of the crazy things that the society keeps dreaming up and changing at their whim, and also reading several articles by the society and secular on the greek words hieron and naos, the outer temple and the sanctuary etc.

  the society has been flip flopping on this alot.

  my idea is that the society could finally admit that russell was correct in the first place, that the great crowd is also in heaven.

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  Sounds like new light to me.
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  Is it The Truth? Does this answer work?

  by jwfacts in

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  i know that a jw that wants to believe in the wts will not listen to any form of logic or reason.

  however, could the following reasoning reach the thinking ability of a few jehovah's witnesses?.

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  AWAKE&WATCHING

  Have you removed part of your post? There is no "following reasoning".