Happy Harvester

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  "Taking the lead in the Congregation"

  by MinisterAmos in

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  the po talked about "obeying those who take the lead" one too many times last night so i point-blank asked him who was the leader of christianity during biblical times.

  i couldn't get him to say "jesus" which is of course the correct answer, so i had to answer for him.

  i then added that he would have had assistance from the apostles making them de facto "leaders" as well.

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  Happy Harvester

  That was beautiful. I wish I could have been there to see the look on his face and to see all the others fidgeting, secretly agreeing, squirming, or balking to themselves.
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  Look who's talking!

  by mrsjones5 in

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  my youngest son joshua had autistic tendencies and speech delay, he's four.

  he can't start a conversation and he often does not respond when someone tries to talk to him.

  but he's been repeating more words and he can read quite a few words too.

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  Happy Harvester

  That's very exciting, Josie! It's such a joy to see progress like that. He will continue to progress with love, patience, and care, I'm sure.
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  Enough favorites! What did song/band did you HATE?

  by JeffT in

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  you know the one that made you think of fingernails on blackboards.

  we all have some.

  i'll check back in later with a couple of my own.

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  "Big Girls Don't Cry"
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  My mom just called

  by Elsewhere in

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  my biological family has been shunning me ever since i daed back in 1998.. my mom opened by saying that she's been thinking about me lately and then we chatted a bit to catch up on news.

  i told her about my toilet training my two cats, my recent nose surgery, my running and how things are going well at work.

  she told me about how my dad had a medical issue come up in july and how it was treated.. normally my biological family will only contact me when someone dies.

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  Good luck, Elsewhere. I hope your mom is coming around to a healthier way.
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  To my friends that are not in the US: Do you get this kind of propaganda?

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  i know a lot of brits, aussies, canadians, etc, always marvel at the arrogance, haughtiness, and cockiness of us tourists visiting their countries.

  or how mainstream us citizens just fall in line with anything that comes out of the government's mouth, accept any policy as "good", believe all that stuff about how "america is the greatest nation on earth!"..

  how it gets ingrained into the being of most us citizens?.

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  The most patriotic thing one can do is stand up and fight injustice and lies. Criticizing a lying and unjust government that is supposedly democratic - that's patriotism at its core.
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  You have three wishes

  by John Doe in

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  no wishing for more wishes.

  no wishing to know what to wish for.

  i, the genie, have the authority to grant your wish or not to grant your wish as i so choose.

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  Happy Harvester

  I wish your avatar would pull up his pants.
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  Parents smoked pot !

  by indahsempurna in

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  so my parents said they aren't going to be at my wedding.

  i called my uncle to try and talk them into it.

  being since he isn't a witness.

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  Happy Harvester

  Hypocrisy and emotional blackmail can go two ways, but I have no advice.

  I've been in similar predicaments with my family, and didn't handle things so well myself.

  I wish I could say, go ahead with the kneejerk reaction, but been-there-done-that and it did not help me really.

  I don't know what to tell you; just sorry and good luck and congratulations and have a very happy wedding and marriage, with or without your parents.
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  JWs Were At Sept.-Oct. 2007 Org. For Security & Co-Op In Europe (OSCE) Mtng

  by Justitia Themis in

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  this osce conference occured just this month.. .

  http://www.osce.org/conferences/hdim_2007.html.

  scroll down to ngos.

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  Happy Harvester

  It never fails to amaze me (at least since coming to this board) how much hypocritical sh*t this organization can step into, and still come up smelling like roses to my family.

  It's understandable that it pisses you off.
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  O% Containment of Fires in SoCal

  by purplesofa in

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  i don't think this is a hoax.. i have been watching this am the wildfires in socal.

  they have already lost some beautiful buildings.

  it does not look like things will let up soon.. i was in malibu a few yeares ago, horrible to see.. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303799,00.html.

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  Happy Harvester

  Good luck, Matty! I am sorry this is happening. What a scary thing!
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  Same DNA as Christ

  by JH in

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  my mother is studying with the baptists.

  it's her 2nd weekly study with a woman about her age, and today she told me this.. "did you know that those that have "accepted christ", have the same dna?.

  then i told her, where did you see that?

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  Happy Harvester

  If you want some more laughs, google up "jesus' dna"

  Imagine if scientists could clone him.

  I'm getting a good laugh out of this thread and the google search.

  Edited to add, interesting question here:

  http://www.molecularstation.com/forum/science-religion-forum/1310-where-did-jesuss-dna-come.html