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  I have been gone for a couple of months - My husband passed away

  by Gram in

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  i have been awol for a while.

  i lost my husband to cancer after a long couragous battle of 5 years.

  i honored his wishes with a catholic mass.

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  chickpea

  bless your heart, mate

  godspeed you to a place
  of manifest comfort....
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  Just started Internet gambling...tired of putting on a disguise to place bets!....anyone else?

  by Witness 007 in

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  yeah it was kinda pathetic wearing my "startski and hutch" sun glasses and a huge serial killer hat just to place some bets during melbourne's horse racing carnival!

  a guy nodded at me as i left.... i dont see anything in the bible about gambling...."goddess of goodluck" crap just doesn't make sense, and greed well everyone who works an extra saturday could be disfellowshiped for "greed.

  " i can now bet from home.....awesome.

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  chickpea

  my oldest son has told me the cheapest
  night out on the town is to go into a casino
  with $40.... he said he can play all night, eat
  provided snacks, buy a few drinks, usu the
  music is decent ....

  anything he walks out with is net...
  he says you cant get dinner and a
  concert for the price, so he sees it
  as win-win.... even if he loses!
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  The homeless sister and the $60,000 RV

  by HappyGuy in

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  i was in a congregation once which had a large number of desperately poor people in it.

  there was an elderly sister, she lived near me, a sweet woman, who became homeless because her ramshackled old house caught fire.

  around that same time one of the overseers (imagine that using a slavery term), i forget if it was district or circuit overseer, came to town wanting a new rv/truck combo.

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  chickpea

  way to be a mensch!!!

  way to heap the coals!!!

  way to be a decent human being!!!

  welcome to the boards!!
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  Newly Engaged to Be Married ! Posters : Mincan & ChelleChelle !

  by flipper in

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  my wife and i have some young friends in eastern canada , mincan & chellechelle have announced their engagement !

  so congratulations you two !

  hope you have a long , happy life together !

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  chickpea

  such a darling couple!!!

  
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  Do You Support Freedom Of Religion?

  by minimus in

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  i think most religions have their good and bad points about them.

  some religions (most) teach if you're a "bad" person or a sinner who doesn't become "born again", that you're going to burn in hellfire forever and ever!

  some religions teach intolerance toward "infidels" or "apostates".

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  chickpea

  i support the advancing forces of reason
  and rational thought that will result in the
  ultimate erosion of the basis for institutions
  that rely on mysticism and belief in a deity
  whose "revealed" whims are used by an entrenched
  heirarchy to acquire wealth and manipulate its adherents....

  until then, like undercover and others have already said....
  as long as they play nice and stay the hell out of arenas
  in which they have no business, like legislation, policy development
  and actual government of populations that include non-adherents
  then i dont give a rat's rear end if they fail or flourish...
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  WT Hypocrisy: Pick Your Jaw Up Off The Floor

  by metatron in

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  from the dec. 15 "let's take a swan dive off the temple mount in regard to employment" issue, page 28.

  "teenagers have experienced opposition from unbelieving parents.

  some have even been ordered out of the home, but they were taken in by kindly witnesses.

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  chickpea

  un-frikkin-believable....
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  Shunning inactive JW? I never heard about it before....

  by Albert Einstein in

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  from many of your posts ive noticed some of you, who never were df or da are practicaly shunned by your family memebers or congregation memebers.

  does that really mean they wouldnt talk to you or greet you, if they meet you on the street or if you call them?.

  i live in eastern europe and i never in my life heard about such attitude.

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  chickpea

  as far as i know i have not been DF'd
  but as recently as wednesday, i actually
  saw a JW from the KH i had attended
  peeking at me thru a display case while
  i was in the checkout line! it was the
  goofiest thing i have seen from them...

  i suspect i am marked, but damned if i know
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  I've changed my mind... Keep marijuana illegal!

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.filthyrichmond.com/2009/04/keep-marijuana-illegal.html.

  keep marijuana illegal!as a married woman and mother of four, you'd probably expect me to support the current state of marijuana laws.

  it may surprise you to learn that i'm a regular marijuana smoker.

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  chickpea

  20 years out of a 20 year habituation
  i am pretty sure i wouldnt be a consumer....

  but as a taxpayer HELL YES
  i want that crap legal and regulated....
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  Have you made your Xmas cake yet?

  by highdose in

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  and if so any tips?plus i have no idea how to decorate it....

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  chickpea

  johnny carson said there is only one fruitcake
  in the world... it just keeps getting passed around
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  My daughter (JW) just called .......

  by mouthy in

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  after all these years!!!!

  she is 63 yrs old still a jw.. has shunned me for years.. she lives in montreal me in ontario... .

  last week i got the urge to send her a lovely card just to tell her i love her .

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  chickpea

  sat down for that afternoon

  and now i am

  thanks for sharing your news