AWAKE&WATCHING

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  Do You Lose Things?

  by compound complex in

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  greetings friends,.

  i'm a "loser.

  " i needed a document the other day to complete a transaction and it was not in my "important papers" folder.

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  AWAKE&WATCHING

  Summer- WELCOME - love your JOhn Lennon avatar.

  Well I was going to post about losing things but I've lost my thought.
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  Calling all poets

  by dedpoet in

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  i've decided to put together an ebook of poems about the watchtower.

  and upload it to lulu.com.

  i'm not looking to make any money out of.

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  AWAKE&WATCHING

  MARK FOR LATER - GREAT IDEA
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  encouraging poem....NOT!

  by wings in

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  an email from a "loved one"....does anyone else get this kind of stuff?

  subject: when i woke up this morning (a poem) when i woke up this morning, i didn't groan or creak.

  as i reached out to the nightstand, my spectacles to seek.. i couldn't feel their framework; and much to my surprise,.

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  Then they mention briefly some we will never see.

  Their favorite part.
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  A Cool new Science Website

  by Kudra in

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  i have been wasting a couple hours here!

  http://www.livescience.com/ (can anyone make that clickable??

  it is full of really neat articles.

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  AWAKE&WATCHING

  Beautiful - thank you!

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Clouds of Color

    An example of various cloud colors. Click to enlarge.

  • NOAA Photo Library

    Over the Rainbow

    Stunning photo of a rainbow with a reflection over an Oklahoma Wheatfield. Click to enlarge.

  • NOAA Photo Library

    Moon Halo

    Shown above is a picture of a halo, which appears behind the roof of the house. Click to enlarge.

  • NOAA Photo Library

    Reflections

    The picture shows a moonrise on Hobart Bay reflecting off the water. Click to enlarge.

  • Don Brown, Utah Skies

    Sundogs

    This beautiful picture was captured at sunrise on a cold and still Park City morning. Called sundogs, this phenomenon is caused by sunlight being refracted through ice crystals. Taken by Don Brown with an Olympus OM1 and a 28mm lens, this image shows two parhelia on each side of the sun and one just visible at the top of the image. The ice crystals must be preferentially oriented horizontally and the sun-observer line of sight must be close to horizontal in order to see such a site. Click to enlarge.

  • Antandrus

    Crepuscular Rays

    The rays appear to diverge, but this is an illusion of perspective: they are actually parallel. The cause of crepuscular rays in this case is a combination of the sun rising over distant mountains, water vapor in the air independent of the clouds, and the clouds themselves. Click to enlarge.

  • NOAA Photo Library/Janet Ward

    Sun Pillar Over Virginia

    A sun pillar observed near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia at about 6:00 P. M., in March 2001. This pillar was visible in Silver Spring, Maryland, about 50 miles to the southeast at approximately the same time. Click to enlarge.

  • Joe Klein

    Meteor and Star Trails

    A meteor can create bright displays visible from miles around through the energy released as it slams into Earth's atmosphere. Joe Klein, a professional photographer and amateur astrophotographer, took this picture in September 2001, from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, outside of San Diego. Click to enlarge.

  • Vic & Jen Winters, ICSTARS Astronomy

    Stargazing

    After the sun sinks below the horizon, stargazers gather to examine the depths of the inky cosmos through their telescopes.

  • Matt Wood and Randall Perrine/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF

    Eclipsed!

    The Partial Solar Eclipse of June 10th, 2002 as viewed from Kitt Peak. Click to enlarge.

  • NOAA Photo Library/ John Bortniak

    Aurora Australis

    Commander John Bortniak, NOAA Corps took this photo of an aurora over Antarctica, South Pole Station. Click to enlarge.

  • Collection of Dr. Herbert Kroehl, NGDC. Available in the NOAA Photo Library.

    Space Weather

    Aurora borealis in vicinity of Anchorage. Click to enlarge.

  • NOAA Photo Library

    Valley Fog

    A rocky peak rises from a sea of fog in an Arizona valley. Click to enlarge.

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    Strange Disappearance

    The picture above shows the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge disappearing into the fog. Click to enlarge.

  • NOAA Photo Library

    Intense Waterspout

    The picture above shows a pair of waterspouts off the Bahamas Islands. Click to enlarge.
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  Share something funny!

  by LennyinBluemont in

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  this is a true story!

  the other day a buddy of mine told me that his friend was getting ready to go through a divorce from his wife.

  she had been goin' out on him.

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  Gopher - instead of laughing that made me throw up a little bit in my mouth.
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  What is the key that unlocks the mental grip of the WT?

  by LennyinBluemont in

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  ive wondered this from time to time, especially in trying to figure out how i finally broke free and in looking at the stories of others.

  if you asked me a few years ago, i probably would have said either seeing too much hypocrisy or suffering the last straw of spiritual and/or emotional abuse.

  but i know in my case and others, even that wasnt enough to break the mental shackles.

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  My first response was KNOWLEDGE.

  Then I read your post again.

  I completely agree that it is getting away from the indoctrination of the meetings. It opens your mind up a little at a time.

  I disassociated myself in 1990 and went back in 2001, always believing it was the truth. When I went back I saw thingsdifferently, I heard things differently, I felt things differently.

  Something was wrong and I could tell I just couldn't put my finger on it. My mind was more open and I began to read things differently in the Watchtower lessons. The hypocrisy, control and arrogance began to seep into my consiousness.

  I truly believe that being AWAY from the meetings is what saved me.
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  without looking online for the answer..........how much

  by purplesofa in

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  monopoly money is printed in a years time?????.

  take a wild guess!!.

  i just heard a figure on the history channel!!.

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  AWAKE&WATCHING

  666 gazillion dollars
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  Share something funny!

  by LennyinBluemont in

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  this is a true story!

  the other day a buddy of mine told me that his friend was getting ready to go through a divorce from his wife.

  she had been goin' out on him.

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  AWAKE&WATCHING

  A friend of mine, whom I consider very intelligent, was putting together a gift basket for a friend. She had tied balloons to the handle of the basket and they were hanging by the strings down onto the floor.

  As she was filling the basket with goodies she kept "fluffing" up the balloons. We just kept talking and I continued to watch her "fluffing". Finally she stopped, very annoyed and yelled, "Why won't these balloons stay up in the air?"

  I asked, "Did you fill them with helium?" The look on her face said it all. I fell on the floor laughing and trying not to wet myself as she asked, "You mean you can't just blow them up yourself?"

  She worked her way through college at McDonald's where she filled many balloons with helium for parties and thought it was just air! She is now going to OSU for her masters degree.
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  Mead

  by bigwilly in

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  brentr was nice enough to bring this subject up in the wine thread earlier.

  it would be fantastic if anyone is a fan of, brewer or interested in meads would pop in with their .02 .

  i don't have it here, but i'll look up the recipe for my ginger metheglin and share it with you all.

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  I had Chaucer's Honey Mead for the first time about a year ago and it was marvelous. I have never had any home brewed anything but it sounds like a delicious hobby. I hope you get some good feed-back on this Willy.
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  Am I a cool dude or what?

  by sweetface2233 in

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  check out my new avatar!

  so the opposite of a sweet face, but he's so adorable.

  i love his nose!

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  AWAKE&WATCHING

  LOL Did you switch teams? Are you trying to tell us something?