Posts by AnneB

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Help needed: Killing the 'The light gets brighter' argument?

by jah1914 in

so after the revelation study last night where the paragraph was talking about how russell's interpertation of revelation basically didn't work and got discarded, my wife comments with the same old,"the light gets brigther, that's why i respect fds because at least they will change when they figure out something is wrong.

" (insert vomit here) afterwards, me and the book study conductor(i have to at least give him credit, he is someone i can talk to freely about my questions and he has not,as of yet, turned me in) got into a discussion of what 'the light gets brighter' really means.

he basically says so the brothers have made changes, so what?

AnneB

Did anyone else notice that most of the responses have discussed the analogy instead of the poster's question?

Getting a person to stick to the point goes a long way in demolishing false reasoning.

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HUUUUGE Earthquake in San Jose, CA just now!

by AnneB in

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and there's nothing on the news here about it!.

if anybody sees a news report would you please post the magnitude and damaged areas?.

thanks...we're all fine where i live..

AnneB

We were at one of the 5 weekly meetings crucial to our survival when the quake hit.
Of course someone had to make the comment: "Well at least we're in the safest place we could be."

Many years ago this story was popular: In a Latin American country an earthquake occurred during the meeting. The elders at one Hall gathered in the back and, after offering a prayer, advised the congregation to stay in the Hall. When the meeting ended and they headed for home they saw that the Kingdom Hall was the only building left standing on the street. At another Hall in the area the elders did a similar thing, they prayed and advised the congregation to head for the street. A few moments later that Hall collapsed.

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HUUUUGE Earthquake in San Jose, CA just now!

by AnneB in

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and there's nothing on the news here about it!.

if anybody sees a news report would you please post the magnitude and damaged areas?.

thanks...we're all fine where i live..

AnneB

Now there's news....they're still saying 5.6...I think it was worse. The epicenter is about 10 iles fro where I am. Some of my neighbors lost cable service and cell phone service. All the elderly people are trickling downstairs to the Community Room now. I guess they're worried about aftershocks.

i've been through many earthquakes in CA. This one was strange; it sounded like thunder the whole time! The building rocked side to side, reeeeeally rocked!

Ah, well.....back to your regularly scheduled programming!

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HUUUUGE Earthquake in San Jose, CA just now!

by AnneB in

jw
friends

and there's nothing on the news here about it!.

if anybody sees a news report would you please post the magnitude and damaged areas?.

thanks...we're all fine where i live..

AnneB

and there's nothing on the news here about it!

If anybody sees a news report would you please post the magnitude and damaged areas?

Thanks...we're all fine where I live.

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They used me as a warning to the faithful

by spiritboi in

an elder overheard a brother talking about me dealing with spiritism and made a warning to the cong.

"look at xxxx, he is now possessed by the demons!

we must put on the complete suit of armour from god....never leave the truth....satan is waiting to devour us.

AnneB

"Look at xxxx, he is now possessed by the demons!"

That's a lawsuit waiting to happen!

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High Def TV ..This is bad

by Connaughty in

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i recently attended our special assembly day and the visiting speaker put down hdtv because he didn't think we needed it.

he said that we've been watching tv for many years now without it.

i don't know what bethel is going to do when the tv networks switch to that system.

AnneB

I went to a circuit assembly years ago and the CO spoke against kitchen gadgets, especially the little electric coffee grinders (Braun is one brand). He said they weren't necessary, they cost money that could be put to better use, etc. A sister I knew had just given me one but I proceeded to get rid of it.

A few years ago Awake! had a whole article about..guess what??? Coffee grinders! The one in their picture looked just like the one I had been guilted into giving away!

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Worlds most Amazing Instrument YouTube...

by zeroday in

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although animated it is pretty cool.... .

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mkyh8b1yof8&mode=related&search=.

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AnneB

That's Animusic. http://www.animusic.com/

You can get it on Limewire.

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OK back to fluff for a change...has anyone had success making icecream?

by restrangled in

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i bought one of those new fangled devices, by cuisenart...pour the stuff into a prefrozen container and watch it turn into your dream homemade icecream....not!.

it comes out soft and soupy.

if you put it into the freezer it hardens into 1000 year old glacier like material.. it tastes good, but the texture is never where you want it.