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  My Email to a Jw supporter

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  he has never been a jw, officially.

  i know of people of all religions/faiths/ideas that claim such a thing.

  this we know is real.

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  That was very well written Jeff. I really liked the points you made. Thanks for posting it.

  Hope it makes the splinter in his brain a little bit harder to ignore.

  All the best

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  Irony just came to my door

  by twinkle toes in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just downloading the 1969 awake article that proclaims the end is giong to be in a few years and youth should expect to not grow old.

  as i was reading it i was reflecting on all the people who are around my age (mid 30's) who were not even born when this article came out.. then my dog started barking.

  i looked out the window and seen a mini van group full of 30 something jdubs preparing to call on me.

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  That was priceless outlaw!

  You know when I was reading this thread for some reason the nursery rhyme Mary had a Little Lamb popped into my head.

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  OUTLAW is My Hero

  by daniel-p in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  talk about a man who always gives it to you straight, and with a sense of humor, too.

  never too gruff, but just gruff enough to ruffle some feathers and have a laugh with others as long as they don't take themselves too seriously.

  the source of sage advice that's just too simple to be complete bullshit, he is actually more balanced than most.. he's the kind of guy you miss not knowing in real life.. .

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  Outlaw I've always enjoyed reading your posts right from when I started lurking on here over a year ago.

  Love your sense of humour and love your dog - so glad he's back.

  All the best

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  Everybody, I love you.

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i tell you i love you, you can believe that it's true.. (this is a lovefest thread.

  come join the lovefest.

  share the love.

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  ONLY LOVE IS REAL - Carole King

  As I bask in the glow of a just-lit fire
  Feeling the warmth as the flame grows higher
  I think it's true that nothing is really new under the sun
  Watching a new love grow from old love's embers
  Yesterday's gone but today remembers
  Doesn't it seem to come down the same for everyone
  
  Only love is real
  Everything else illusion
  Adding to the confusion of the way we connive
  At being alive
  Tracing a line till we can define
  The thing that allows us to feel
  Only love is real
  
  Childhood dreams like muddy waters
  Flowing through me to my son and daughters
  Everything I ever thought is confirmed as truth to me
  Even as I see the way that I want to go now
  Still I wish I had known what I know now
  Maybe I could have spared you giving your youth to me
  
  Only love is real
  Everything else illusion
  Adding to the confusion of the way we contrive
  To just stay alive
  Tracing a line till we can define
  The thing that allows us to feel
  Only love is real

  As I bask in the glow of a just-lit fire
  Feeling the warmth as the flame grows higher
  I think it's true that nothing is really new under the sun
  Watching a new love grow from old love's embers
  Yesterday's gone but today remembers
  Doesn't it seem to come down the same for everyone
  
  Only love is real
  Everything else illusion
  Adding to the confusion of the way we connive
  At being alive
  Tracing a line till we can define
  The thing that allows us to feel
  Only love is real
  
  Childhood dreams like muddy waters
  Flowing through me to my son and daughters
  Everything I ever thought is confirmed as truth to me
  Even as I see the way that I want to go now
  Still I wish I had known what I know now
  Maybe I could have spared you giving your youth to me
  
  Only love is real
  Everything else illusion
  Adding to the confusion of the way we contrive
  To just stay alive
  Tracing a line till we can define
  The thing that allows us to feel
  Only love is real

  I don't actually like the song itself - just the words

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  Anybody's Story

  by Hopscotch in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this is a story of four people: everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody.. there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure somebody would do it.

  somebody got angry about that because it was everybody's job.

  anybody could have done it, but nobody realised that everybody wouldn't do it.

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  Just so Everybody knows, I did not write this. Nobody really knows who did. It could have been Anybody. All we do know is that is that is was Somebody.

  But it wasn't me.

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  Anybody's Story

  by Hopscotch in

  1. social
  2. humour

  this is a story of four people: everybody, somebody, anybody and nobody.. there was an important job to be done and everybody was sure somebody would do it.

  somebody got angry about that because it was everybody's job.

  anybody could have done it, but nobody realised that everybody wouldn't do it.

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  This is a story of four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.

  There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could do it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Anybody could have done it, but nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.

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  the full english

  by highdose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my privious thread about sunday mornings i noticed alot of people , including me sited having a full english breakfast.

  but the contents of that seemed to change with every person.

  so just what exactly does make the traditional full english?.

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  Yes I love that menu jookbeard.

  It's funny how many Scottish and English posters have responded to this thread. Even though I am in Australia I am Scottish (Glasgow) by birth.

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  the full english

  by highdose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in my privious thread about sunday mornings i noticed alot of people , including me sited having a full english breakfast.

  but the contents of that seemed to change with every person.

  so just what exactly does make the traditional full english?.

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  jookbeard after reading your weekly menu I want to know do you take in boarders?

  If we ever have a cooked breakfast (maybe twice a year) it is:

  bacon, fried eggs with runny yolk, fried tomato, baked beans and toast with coffee and juice

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  ..New Blood Transfusion Discovery!!..

  by OUTLAW in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  canadian medical association researchers have made a .

  remarkable discovery.

  it seems that some patients needing blood transfusions may .

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  Did You Ever "Enjoy" Being A Jehovah's Witness?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  one thing i've realized is that witnesses love feeling better than their fellowman.

  did being a witness make you feel better about yourself?.

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  Oh for sure minimus I am now ashamed to admit. I was brainwashed from 5 years of age that JWs were God's Chosen People. I mean we were The Elite of the world. For a long time (about 30 or so years) I loved that exclusive feeling, that righteous feeling of belonging to such a special group, that feeling of knowing something the majority of the world didn't.

  But that feeling started diminishing over the last 10 years of being a JW and now I look back and see that feeling for what it really was. It is a clever tool that is used and encouraged by the mind controlling manipulators of the WTS to try and keep you in.

  I now love just being a normal everyday 'worldly' person like everyone else.

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