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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  a little more on the horses--- used Amish horses tend to have high rates of ringbone (high and low) bowed tendons and other leg problems... and they tend to die at 10 or so.....

  Amish trainers use the same methods EVERYONE used back in the day...Their using horses are dead broke to task and very reliable... Good trainers use a little of the 'horsewisperer' mumbo-jumbo and a little bit of firm hand.... a must if you plan to use a 1000 pound critter to pull the wife and kids in traffic.

  The pathology is very similar to ALL horses prior to 1920 or so... WE all have an easy life today.

  ----------Hill ( i ride my ponies and shoot my guns class)
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  Hey Girl....those ones in Tejas are likely Mennonites... they are a little more progressive than the Amish.. like they will by a tractor and put it on steel wheels and drive cars etc. Ohio is full of em!

  ----------Hill
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  Amish Reality Show...

  by Country Girl in

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  for those that were raised in an authoritarian religion, this ought to be a very interesting show.

  i think the jw teenagers should get rumspringa too!

  'amish in the city': nobody drives buggies in l.a. .

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  hillbilly

  I can drive about 10 miles from the house and see all the Amish Reality I care to see here in Mid Michigan, too.

  They are shrewd business people, "real horse traders". About the horses.... ah, If you Work a horse, they will be a little "ribby". Look at any old pictures of work horses and none are the fat "lawn ornaments" we see on white fence stables owned by the "english" today.

  Like any other groups there are good and bad...I know the ones I deal with really (really) like to drink!

  "Soap, smell, deoderant"... obviously, whoever said that has never pumped water for a family of 4 or more.

  Bathing is out of a wash bowl and full baths are weekly. Back in the day everyone (except the rich) was in this mode. Clothes doesnt get washed every wearing either. Takes a good day to boil and wash a family full of clothes by hand. Ever milk 30 cows twice a day....by hand... you tend to take a odor that sets a spell.

  Pick up YOUR towns1880 newspapers at the local archive and the Amish ways won't seem so harsh.

  __________Hill ( 2 generations from an outhouse myself class, and great grandpa was a college man)
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  When being polite is pathetic

  by Brummie in

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  ran over a hedgehog tonight, i wasnt driving but i coulda saved it but i waited too long to tell the driver that the hedgehog was walking towards the car, i saw it, they didnt see it because they were talking and i waited for them to finish their sentence before interupting, then bump, i looked back and saw blood and guts, how stoooooooooopid am i. i was just about to say "watchout hedgehog in road" but hesitated so that the person could finish their sentence...silly fck am i.. .

  ever run over or hit an animal?.

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  Yep-

  birds, racoons, possums, snakes... have missed all the deer so far.(in my state the deer hits are the biggest claim category)

  Live in a rural area and drive 750,000 miles in 28 years your bound to get a "free meal" or two!

  -------------Hill (road kill, yum! class)
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  Red Sox or Yankees?

  by confusedjw in

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  if you could only root for one or the other, who would you root for?.

  red sox.

  yankees

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  hillbilly

  The Cubs! (oh that wasnt the question was it) Ok --- go Sox Go!
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  Wasasister

  by notperfectyet in

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  wasasister you rock!.

  just got off the phone with her.

  you are great.

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  hillbilly

  I'll be you're brother, mother, sister, uncle, aunt ...whatever

  brummie

  NPY-- I guess I could be adopted family but I'm too damned busy being my own grandpa. -------------Hill
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  Who's been around the most?

  by blobby in

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  how far travelled are you?.

  how many different countries have you visited in your life time.......................can't name the same country twice ....even if it has changed names.. countries on other planets don't count !.

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  Yeru-- OK how may of those LZ 's did the chopper "actually" land on? Wading up on the beach, does that count?

  (my grandad always said he wanted to see Euorpe without getting his pants wet)

  --Hill (doesnt dig any country that greets him with gunfire class)
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  Is It Possible To Reason With A Typical Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  from what i can see, it's nearly impossible to reason with a witness, even if you might consider them somewhat intelligent.

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  hell yea! You can reason with a witness..... but it's like pissin' up a rope.

  Hill ( I do ok 'till their eyes glaze over class)
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  Baptism questions

  by BeelzeDub in

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  it was 1977 when i had to answer these questions before getting baptized.

  i just received a call that my son will be getting baptized this weekend.

  does anyone here know if there is a questions about 1914 in the baptismal questions that he would have had to lie about to pass the test?

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  hillbilly

  See the post on Oral contact- I moved back to the top
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  Why is the WTBTS Dumbing Down?

  by hillbilly in

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  have you noticed the watchtower's slow drift into another self-destructive trap of their own design?

  i know i will get a couple of responses from some.

  the opinions will generally come from two camps: the society will never die because there will always be ones willing to write a mental "blank check"and embrace "god" through his "orginization".the society will prosper because it is god's orginzation in our times.. .

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  For some of the newbies---Btt