The Berean

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  SMOKING

  by elder-schmelder in

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  will we be able to smoke in the "new system"?.

  i think that we would because our lungs will be perfect and can cleanse themselfs.. .

  elder-schmelder.

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  All smokers will quit and gain about 10 pounds or so a year by using food to pacify their still-addictive tendancies ... by the end of a thousand years they will have likely filled the earth .,.
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  Fun Topic...What is your decorating style for your home? Fav colors?

  by restrangled in

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  what are your favorite colors, how is your home decorated, what is your style?

  post a picture if you can.....if not just describe your favorite room!!!!!.

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  Eclectic Pawn
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  It's Amazing!

  by whathehadas in

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  it's amazing to me how many of the exjws no longer believe in god.

  i know some of you have many reasons to believe in what you do now.

  but this is a big testimony to what the wts does to people's concept of god.

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  Here's where I am:

  I'm not sure if there is a God or not. If there is, what he/she/it does is none of my business. I am not going to magnify God's soverignty, prove his rebellious childrern liars, or expect special treatment. I am happy I had a chance to live. I suspect we are all sort of God's entertainment or that he/she/it has walked away to tend to other business. Whatever happened, God has the power and right to do anything he/she/it pleases.

  Being one of Jehovah's Witnesses taught me that if you wish to you can assign significance to every move on earth. I have decided that my activities are not important ...

  Thank you God for all the happiness, pain, joy, and disappointment that goes with life. I gave it my best shot. I fear not death.
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  As a Child, Which Did You Think About More?

  by BabaYaga in

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  petting baby animals in paradise, or the fiery rain of armegeddon?.

  i can tell you which one i thought about every single day.

  armegeddon absolutely terrified me.

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  If I could just add ...

  I was somewhere around 12 or 13 years old when I was awoken during the night by brilliant flashes of light and a loud buzzing sound outside my bedroom window. Without either looking or thinking I entered my closet and carefully put on my suit, tie, and dress shoes. You see, I assumed that this was the start of the "great tribulation" that I had been warned about. Prepared to watch the world crumble, I opened the curtains to see only an electrical transformer on a pole in front of my house shorting out and burning. Talk about "inculcation" ....
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  Are only males labeled sexual "perverts"?

  by The Berean in

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  have you ever heard a female referred to as a "pervert"?.

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  I do apologize if this topic seems extreme ... yet I have found more cases of sexual perversion on the part of both males and females who claim to be religious than those who do not. Such psuedo-purists cause more pain at the end of the day than confessed sinners.
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  Are only males labeled sexual "perverts"?

  by The Berean in

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  have you ever heard a female referred to as a "pervert"?.

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  Have you ever heard a female referred to as a "pervert"?
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  gimme a break!

  by stillin in

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  it's persecution, i tell ya!

  ok, so i went out in service yesterday, ok, so i went to a meeting today.

  i'm not ready to just chunk out everything i've believed even if there's a lot wrong with the picture.

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  Solution: Please Compare ...

  +Your Pluses for Associating (add)

  - Your Minuses for Associating (subtract)

  ___________________

  = Your best course of action ...
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  Everyone lies!

  by asilentone in

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  is that a fact of life?.

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  "Just let your word Yes mean Yes, and your No,No, for what is in excess of these is from the wicked one." (Matthew 5:36 NWT)

  " In the abundance of words there does not fail to be transgression ..." (Proverbs 10:19 NWT)

  Who among us can give simple straightforward answers without sidebars expressing biased and sometimes inaccurate information?

  Truth and lies are the same color in a different light.
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  Do you eat organic food?

  by asilentone in

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  if you do, what kind of organic food do you eat?.

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  So what agency actually regulates and inspects "organic" growers? Which labs test for chemicals? What about contaminated packaging or shipping methods? It's kinda like putting pure water in a plastic container It's all marketing ...
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  Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions regarding "attention seekers"?

  by BonaFide in

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  we all love it when people pay attention to us or our opinions.

  but what i am talking about is people who crave and force attention from others.

  not just people who talk a lot, but those that force everyone around them to focus on them and them only.. in one of my classes there is a woman who raises her hand to ask a question, but never really has a question to ask.

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  "Attention seekers" should be tolerated because it is not illegal to be one ... simply ignor or avoid them ...