I am so old , that I learned to read using the rosetta stone.
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I learned to read with Dick and Jane and Sally. How about you?
by Fatfreek ini can hardly believe the prices they're getting for pristine copies of those books they handed out to those of us with scalps populated with lice, hands and fingers encrusted with bits of jelly and dried mud.
they're getting between $100 and $200 per copy.. thanks to google images, i couldn't resist taking another peek between some of those charming colored pages as a reminder to what we were actually exposed to in trying to make us literate.. most of these look contemporary to when i went to school -- the 1940's.
one of them may go back into the 1930's.
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If we were alone together in the woods 100 miles from nowhere
by John Doe inand a tree fell on me, pinning me to the ground, and all you had was a dull pocket knife, would you perform a field amputation of a leg or arm to save my life?
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Mr doe you are in luck, I am trained to do just that type of feild surgery. I happen to always carry around my field kit with me. As long as you have your insurance card with you we can procede at once. Of course I had to modify the kit just a bit (correct blood type no extra charge).
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Spain Branch of Watchtower Society must pay 60.000
by JHK inspain branch of watchtower society must pay a compensation of 60.000 (sixty thousand) to spanish photographer's relatives agustin centelles, by publishing without license a photograhp in the watchtower, january 15, 1994 page 3.. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/centelles/reclaman/testigos/jehova/60000/euros/elpepucul/20100208elpepicul_5/tes.
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You still must have the copyright owners permission to use the image comercially. This is true even if the source is sited.
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Yes ANOTHER song thread. What song best describes you?
by awildflower inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlptb6qgflk.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxiq-qvaseo.
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In memory of my brother Tom , and Tish and John Maur the witnesses have their blood on their hands
Well I see him on the TV
Preachin' 'bout the promise lands
He tells me believe in Jesus
Steals the money from my hands
Some say he was a good man
Lord I think he sinned, yeah
Twenty-two years of mental tears
Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country didn't want him back
Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon
Our lawyers took his wife and kids, no regrets
In a time I don't remember
In a war he can't forget
He cried "Forgive me for what I've done there
Cause I never meant the things I did"
Chorus:
And give me something to believe in
If there's a Lord above
And give me something to believe in
Oh, Lord arise
My best friend died a lonely man
In some Palm Springs hotel room
I got the call last Christmas Eve
And they told me the news
I tried all night not to break down and cry
As the tears rolled down my face
I felt so cold and empty
Like a lost soul out of place
And the mirror, mirror on the wall
Sees my smile it fades again
Chorus
Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then
Road you gotta take me home
Solo
I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
Like bodies in an open grave
Underneath the broken old neon sign
That used to read JESUS SAVES
A mile away live the rich folks
And I see how they're living it up
While the poor they eat from hand to mouth
The rich drinkin' from a golden cup
And it just makes me wonder
Why so many lose, and so few win
Chorus
You take the high road
And I'll take the low road
Yes Sometimes I wish I didn't know now
The things I didn't know then
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Yes ANOTHER song thread. What song best describes you?
by awildflower inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlptb6qgflk.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxiq-qvaseo.
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My wife got very nervous about me being on this sight
by recovering inmy wife walked in while i was on this site.
she saw the header jehovahs witness.
net and exclaimed what are you doing, you are going to be brainwashed.
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My wife walked in while I was on this site. She saw the header Jehovah’s Witness. Net and exclaimed “what are you doing, you are going to be brainwashed”. It gave quite the chuckle. You see my wife has never been a witness and is opposed their belief due to the child abuse and shunning that she is aware of. So why was she opposed to me being on this sight you ask? My lovely wife thought that this was pro witness sight. She was getting nervous thinking that I would even consider going back to the cult. I had to explain what this sight was all about. She was more than relieved afterwards.
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Elders dont know much !!
by leo999 inone of the reasons that i started to 'wake up' from 50 odd years of slumbering in the 'truth' was the realization that the elders just do not know very much at all .
in fact they are so very ignorant !.
2 years ago , i was trying to fill in the advance blood directive form , or whatever it is called and i had the km insert on the allowable fractions to refer to .
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It is not only medical issues that they are uniformed about. I once was publically reproved for going to juice bar with my boss. I was working for an educational institution when i was 17. They had a juice bar on campus. My boss invited me and the other 2 young employees to have a juice after work. My crazy mother reported me to the elders for going to a bar. I tried to explain to them what a juice bar was to no evail (no alcohol is served in a juice bar, just fruit and vegitable juice). These brilliant men had it in their heads that a juice bar was a bar you went to to get "juiced" (drunk) . I eventually gave up trying to explain, but I never looked at the elders with any respect after this incident.
Oh the brilliance
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Ever Heard Of Someone Being Disfellowshipped For Talking To A DFed Person?
by Quillsky ini haven't.. i propose that a shift, a change, begins here, spearheaded by those who are still "in".
what's the worst thing the organization could do to you?.
show some love to the next vulnerable disfellowshipped person you meet and speak to them, show them some humanity, some understanding.. if you're disfellowshipped yourself write an email today to someone you love who is not "permitted" to speak to you.. report back on here if it makes some kind of difference..
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ray franz was disfellowshipped for this
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my mum taught us very valuable lessons about Jehovah in her special way. Any other parents out there as psycho?
by God Chick inok before i start i know my mum was um "special" and had some, well...... bizzare training ideas.. .
i was one of 7 kids, dad didnt help much coz he was sick, so my mum was left to run the 'ship' and she did it with an iron fist.. .
we were never late for a meeting we sat, parents and 2 kids in one row the other 5 in row in front.
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Wow so much of this brings back terrible memories for me. The witnesses have so much to answer for . they use the scripture about sparing the rod to justify child abuse.
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Is Smoking Pot Harmful?
by minimus indo you think it's bad?
is it no different than alcohol?
a little in moderation is ok?.
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here is where i got my info from. I quoted it word for word.
this website is an online reference for all medications and not a drug abuse website