Posts by sooner7nc

looking at the gopher thread............. we got us some good old fashioned redneck gun afficiandos................ just curious......... whats your top ten wish list.... pairs dont count as two.

) a pair of les baer srp's built on a para ordinace p 14.45 frame......... all stainless but with baer coat im thinking olive and i want the light rail.

) a pair of consecutive sn ruger vaqueros in .45 colt w/ extra .45 acp cylinders rebuilt by gary reeder or doug turnbull..........4.5 barrel.

sooner7nc

(1) Minigun

I think that will be all I'll need

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I think I am an Atheist (current JW)

by Robert7 in

jw
friends

i am writing this group to discuss a topic that as you can imagine i really cannot discuss with too many people, at least as of now.

i am a married male jw, married to a another jw, and she's content with being a witness, and in fact, i don't want to change that if she's happy.. for a very brief history, i was baptized at 19, and have been a jw for 10 years.

fact is, i 'believed' in everything in as much as a lot of it 'made sense' and i was wrapped up in the whole thing.

sooner7nc

The pressure that will be released from telling her will make you a much better person. No more living the lie.

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For any who were raised a JW...

by rache31 in

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friends

do you find that most of the ones you grew up with left?

i looked around while still active and saw numbers dwindling from my generation.

i pioneered while in late teens/early twenties and several from my class that were friends of mine left years ago.

sooner7nc

Out of the 6 or 7 close friends I had when graduating from High School 1 passed away and the rest left, and rather rapidly I might add. And yes, we were considered trouble.

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What are you going to teach your children about relgion?

by reneeisorym in

) take them to your church and encourage them to learn about other faiths too..

) don't teach them anything about religion..

) encourage atheism..

sooner7nc

I have an 8 year old son and I'm not going to teach him s@$t about any religion. I will not teach him about faith. I will not teach him about any of the "isms" that I've heard mentioned here. But I will strive with all my heart to teach him this one thing. How to be an objective, sensitive, and loving person who knows how to think independently. Teaching children anything else is patently absurd.

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Beards and dress clothes...

by B_Deserter in

i often wonder about the unwritten rule in kingdom halls that a witness should be in dress clothes and brothers cannot have beards (the beard rule i think is pretty much us-only though).

sure, they won't stop you from coming to a meeting in your work clothes and they might even treat you fine.

but, if you want to go anywhere in the congregation (i.e.

sooner7nc

I haven't been to a meeting in 4 months, so imagine the surprise on the face of the elder who saw me this morning. I work at a hospital, and the aforementioned elder was bringing his wife in for a procedure, and had decided to go to our cafeteria for breakfast. When he first saw me his eyes got real big and I saw him say something to her, then she looks over, and her eyes get big as well. I wave to these two big-eyed visitors and sit down to eat my breakfast. Sure enough, here he comes, and don't get me wrong, I actually like this guy a lot. He's always been the one brother in the cong. that I could always stand to be around, so I didn't mind talking to him, except for the fact that I'm 3 weeks into a heavy beard-growing session. Even though he didn't say anything, it was obvious that he couldn't keep his eyes off of it. I kinda feel sorry for the poor dumb bastard cause he can't grow one.

sooner7nc

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