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  Smell like a jock strap or like a perfumed girl? Shower Soap ?...

  by Little Drummer Boy in

  1. social
  2. humour

  on the strength that my recent post concerning cheetos went to 3 pages and was referenced in at least 3 other threads, i feel that the time has come to discuss another most important topic: shower soap.. this thread topic most definitely falls under the category of intellectual starvation topics, so you should be forewarned that terry will not approve.

  heh...(just funnin' yah terry).

  to the point: i here refer to a liquid soap meant to be applied to a wet shower poof and then scrubbed onto the skin.

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  I routinely use bar soaps - but I rub them into a shower pouf to generate lather. My husband likes Yardley's English Lavender - a sharp scent which leaves him smelling clean. We haven't been able to find it for a long time, so we're using green-tea-scented Dove at the moment - a nice light neutral scent - but only because the drugstore didn't have Pears's Soap last time we needed some. Pears's has a rich, dark, not-femmy fragrance.

  Or you could use Kirk's Castile, which smells faintly of the olive oil it is made of.

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  Witnesses are getting so disconnected from the Doctrine, but won't let go!

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so i am not going to meetings, but am a fader.

  the wife and i get invited to a wedding.

  by friends from years back.

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  AK - Jeff,

  Of course if someone drops a nuclear bomb in the middle east - the damn KH's will overflow again.

  Wait, now. 9/11 was only 6 years ago. Big boost in jaydub activity – and now we're talking about decline again. :)

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  The Kingom of David never existed!

  by 5go in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  david and the kingdom of damascus.

  the city of damascus is at least 4000 years old.

  it is recorded as being conquered by pharaoh tutmosis in the 15th century bc and it became the capital of an aramean kingdom from the 11th century bc.

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  5go, I'd really like to see citations for all this stuff. You only provided about two or three, I think. I ask in the most respectful possible way, because I'd like to track down your sources and read as much of them as I can understand.

  Oddly enough, this might help reclaim the Bible for me. One of my main quarrels with scripture as it is commonly understood is its insistence on one true religion, one chosen people – if the Bible actually draws heavily on the whole world's religious wisdom, that would blow religious separatism to bits as a viable doctrine. Rather than taking one "out of the world," it would reconnect the reader to the rest of the human race.

  And if the genocides of the Old Testament can be verifiably dismissed as revenge fantasy, well – that sweetens the whole picture considerably.

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  Help . . . any cooks out there?

  by sandy in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have think chicken breasts, mushrooms, seasonings, water crests .

  anyone have any ideas or recipes?

  i can't find anything in my one cookbook.

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  Here's what I found on epicurious.com by searching for watercress chicken breast mushrooms quick & easy

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  My mom got disfellowshipped.

  by reneeisorym in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my mom called tonight to tell me that she got disfellowshipped!!!!.

  of course to me this is like the greatest news ever and to her its the worst ever so i'm seriously having a hard time being sympathetic.

  i just know this could mean she's out for good and it definately means i've got my mom back.

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  deaconbluez,

  Most people that get disfellowshipped see how fast they can get reinstated

  Not "most," according to David Reed's Blood on the Altar. Only about half of DF'd Witnesses attempt reinstatement. Only half of those stay for good.

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  Jehovah's Witness Children are Kept Alienated from the rest of the world!

  by Gill in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the watchtower continues to encourage jw parents to alienate their children from people who are not jws and therefore discourage a more balanced view of the world and the people in it!.

  september 15th watchtower, 2007 says on page11:.

  'of course, our children's attitudes can be influenced both for good and for bad.

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  Dragonlady76,

  Oh let's not forget that JW's are strongly encouraged to home school their children.

  Is this a recent tendency, or perhaps a regional one? I remember clearly that, when I was preparing to homeschool my children (not strictly for religious reasons), that it scandalized about half the congregation. Who would witness to the poor benighted school children, if my children were not there? And if they were not taught by credentialed teachers, would not their future illiteracy and ignorance be a poor witness for Jehovah™?

  But I was, for once, something of a trendsetter: within a couple of years, nearly all the children in my congregation were being homeschooled. Some of their parents were seriously underqualified (one mother was trying to teach pre-algebra and did not know what a least common multiple was). To their credit, most of them returned their children to school within a year – because they saw it was too much work to do the job right, and they really did want to do right by their children.

  Of course, non-isolationists get all panicked about homeschooling and socialization™. My son came through all that unscathed – he is a solid, well-connected member of his community today. My daughter, not so much similarly – but her community is all online. She had some traumatizing experiences which short-circuited the whole 3-D thing. Things that could have happened even if she had been in school, and probably would've been no less disturbing. We're working on it.

  gentlyferal

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  WHAT do YOU know about JESUS... and His teachings?

  by hibiscusfire in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i am interested to know what you know about jesus and what you really think of his teachings.. the bible says there is only one way to heaven.. jesus said: "i am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father but by me.

  " (john 14:6) .

  the lord jesus was crucified and shed his precious blood to wipe away our sins (revelation 1:5).

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  I was attending a Religious Science church for a while. One of their teachings that still sticks with me (because it works) is: "The only real sin is to believe that you are separate from God." Now, we are not talking about the old white-haired Ancient of Days in the sky; no, we are talking about the entity whose body is the entire universe, of which each human is a part. We are talking about the source of love itself, wherever Its center might be. If this makes any sense at all, then sin = alienation; hell, or damnation, is a state we wander into and can escape from at any time. And I think it implies that any search for community is a search for God. Any nourishing community is a link to God, whatever It is.

  Wrap your mind around that, and the Jesus prayer (for instance) can be rendered: "God, be merciful to me, an alien."

  gently feral
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  Does the news still scare anyone else?

  by YoungAmerican in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was just wondering how many of you still get a quezy feeling in your stomach after hearing someone on the news use the phrase "peace and security" or after reports on the news of all the large earthquakes that have been reported this last week or so?

  i know we can all rationalize that there are always earthquakes and wars etc.... but i swear, no matter how hard i try to shake the sick feeling in my stomach when i hear all this stuff i can't seem to do it.

  i still have visions in my head of what armagedon will be like from all the pictures i grew up seeing in the publications, talk about scarred for life.

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  What nvrgnbk said:

  Study History.

  And do read A Distant Mirror -- one of my favorite books.

  Global warming is about the only news topic that scares me these days. I was worried about colony collapse disorder too, until I read that it was mostly a matter of "bad beekeeping."

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  Although you may not practise any religion anymore do you......

  by JH in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  although you may not practise any religion anymore do you still defend what the bible says to your best, when someone of another faith says something you know is completely false...

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  Well, although I have gone a long way at reclaiming my spirituality over the past dozen years, I have come around to the apparently cynical view that the Bible is like a fiddle on which you can play any tune. That is to say, you can be mean-spirited with it, or you can dip into the Psalms or the words of Jesus and concede that what they have to say about "the love of God" might actually have some reality in it.

  I found the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary to be of some use in this reclamation process. There, I learned to substitute "The Great I AM" for "the Lord", or "The Love Supreme" for "The Most High". After you do this for a while, it becomes second nature to do it in your head (or heart), so that you don't need to do it aloud, at least not all the time -- as the Jews substitute Adonai for Jehovah. Maybe it's about time to dip into that book again.

  But I have strayed from your original question. Personally, I think anything is powerful as the Bible can d*** well itself. My stepfather tried to convince me of this when I was in the process of becoming a Jehovah's Witness. Too bad it took me 30 years to get the message!

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  Black magic / witchcraft.

  by Awakened07 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  not sure how much you know about these things, but i'd just like you to guess (not google) which black book i copied this text from:.

  "then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, .

  and the priest shall say unto the woman, the lord make thee a .

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  Here's a magico-historical tidbit for you:

  If you read the preceding verses, you will note that one of the ingredients that goes into this magical potion is a pinch of dust from the tabernacle floor -- which consists of, as Ms. catherine yronwode once explained it, "dried blood from animal sacrifices and the foot tracks of priests". I am hard put to think of any more spiritually powerful combination -- how about you?

  African folk magic relies heavily on dust from footprints. This isn't the only tantalizing similarity between Jewish folk magic and African folk magic. If there is any solid historical connection between the two cultures prior to their meeting in the New World, it is lost to history -- for the present.

  And another thing, if you are a magic worker: this technique of writing down a prayer and washing it into a potion to drink or an elixir to bathe in is incredibly useful. You could even use it to bless someone; simply prepare a prayer of blessing instead of cursing, and follow the same technique.

  gently f eral