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  Independence Day

  by Texman55 in

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  2. friends

  martina mcbride: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg4tohn9ulg.

  well, word gets around in a small, small town .

  they said he was a dangerous man .

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  for all you evil smokers

  by bigdreaux in

  1. jw
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  i just got back from an expo show and wanted to tell everyone about a product i bought i think is really cool.

  i don't have a vested interest in it, i just want to share it with others.

  it's a smoke free electronic "cigarette" it's a vapor that doesn't smell and gives you a nicotene fix.

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  For those with a personal relationship to God....How did you get there?

  by digderidoo in

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  2. friends

  as some of you are aware i have been going to aa meetings since the new year.

  the "god thing" linked to the aa was a real dilemma for me.. since this time i have researched well the jw doctrines and come to the realisation that to have a personal relationship with a higher power i do not need to believe in the witness doctrine.. i am at a point where i have been considering how i personally would interprate a higher power.. i have met someone within the aa who is an ex jw and have just had a conversation with him on the phone, which has got me thinking about this.. now he has said that his faith now has been built by replacing one brick at a time so to speak.

  giving an illustration of his faith being like a building, he can replace an old brick with a new one until he gets a new building all of his own making.

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  Your thoughts on Wicca?

  by Texman55 in

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  somebody who's become a friend is an ex catholic....pretty knowledgeable on all the mainstream christian doctrines and history etc....now into wicca beliefs....not a actual member, but in tune with the ideas....mediation, incense, being close to the earth yada yada.

  not real wound up with it, not pushing it on me.....and theres no way i would ever go there.....just not my style, and think i am over any organized religion at this point.. a good friend, good person.....he cant really explain why he's into all that except it feels good....but i'm a little uncomfortable.....sad to say i think it's a holdover from the jw fear and loathing of anything remotely "demonic"......i'm a good researcher, and in 15-20 minutes on the internet i know i could dig up all the lowdown on wicca beliefs/practices/history etc.....and i know without looking it up that its all just a made-up job like so many other groups we know.....but i hold back because i'm afraid if i knew more i'd feel really uncomfortable with my friend.....i know, i know that's so lame....lol.

  just wondering if any of you have any experience with the wicca thing, and what you think about all that.

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  A fine way to act, according to James Taylor

  by Lady Zombie in

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  just shower the people you love with love .

  shower the people you love with love .

  better to shower the people you love with love .

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  The Cry of "Peace and Security"

  by B_Deserter in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i remember as a kid president bush (the first one) was on tv and he was talking about the international day of peace or something like that.

  then he said the phrase "peace and security.

  " my dad got excited.

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  Do you remember Febuary 25 1990?

  by IreallydidwalkoutofaKH in

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  i remember it as the "great disapointment.......it was a date broadcasted during the "service and school" and was to be a moment families should be together when the "instructions were provided"!...........

  realize everyone........ reading.....this was 1 year and 56 days after the january 1st 1989 wt was in circulation.

  this had to be the "begining of doom!

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  Homosexuals are human also...

  by zeroday in

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  pretty much living my entire adult life in jw land i had such a one sided biased against the world including gays...in my own family there were a number of gay members that i thought i was so above them and better than them because the bible said so...i had a cousin die of aids in the early 80's and felt no remorse at all...since my departure 4 years ago i have redirected my priorities in life to include those of not my way of life...i currently have a gay cousin about my age and see the world in a whole new light...i no longer feel superior to anyone and accept those for who they are...this has been a long and hard road back to simplicity i'm just sorry it took so long...

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  a thinking man, or just the founding borg ?

  by recovering in

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  you decide.

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  Anybody remember when southern congregations were integrated?

  by Texman55 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  as i think i recall, this happened in the fall of 1972. i was living in atlanta at the time, where it was a nonissue, there was a very pretty black girl who was very popular in the congo there.

  but back in my much smaller hometown, there were still black congregations when i started studying in 1970....totally separate khs, totally separate circuit assemblies.

  not sure if they had a separate co...probably not.. in fact my great uncle, the eccentric old guy nobody in my family had much to do with....been a jw for ages but not very popular in the kh either....had a little house directly across the street.....moody, cranky old cuss, but very independent thinker too in a weird kind of russelite way....he got df'd around that time and i think it had something to do with the integration issue.

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