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  ...What do you Do,when People Ask You for Spare Change?...

  by OUTLAW in

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  .. .........................some people are truly in need..some are not... a man passing by on his 10 speed bike,asked me for $2.00 for a cup of coffee... .................................................."uhhh,no"... ............another asked me for spare change outside a super market... ......................................i said i didn`t have any... ...................so he say`s "how about a credit card?!"......lol!!...

  .. ....................what do you do,when people ask you for spare change?...

  ..... .. ..........................................whats the most outrageous thing... ......................................you`ve been asked forby a stranger?...

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  Violia

  I give money if i have it. I once bought food for a homeless man who was hanging around the 7-11. I just felt sick looking at this poor man. There were some guys taunting him and so I bought him food and stayed with him until those guys left. He was so hungry he ate like an animal. I just left and cried for a while. I could not really help him. Any money I gave him would have been stolen from him. I talked to the local police later that day and they said they'd check on him.
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  Private meetings banned??

  by franticfran in

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  i have just spoken to a brother who is part of a group of single brothers and sisters who meet together once a week to discuss bible topics and he has been told by and elder that the organisation "banned" these private meetings years ago.

  i told him i remember that article but he is adamant that the society would never do that (!

  ) now i am fairly sure i remember that article whether it was in a km or one of the mags i cant recall but i am sure i remember them saying we needed nothing more than the food that the slave class provided (another means to control us),does anyone have the details of that article because i have said i will find it and let him have it.

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  Violia

  late 60's or early 70's the wts did not support private group study or private group studying for the meetings. recall very well. It occurred much earlier than the 80's, some areas were becoming aware that certain folks were conducting basically "meetings" under the guise of a study.
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  What If the Soul Sleeping Doctrine is False?

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when god breathed life into adam, adam became a living soul.

  moments before he had been only a concept...an idea; a lump of clay if youre a literalist.

  now he was a complex living and breathing being.

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  Violia

  I think a lot of jws would believe they were under demon attack if they awoke in heaven after death.
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  Laughing with Mrs Brown & the Mormons

  by clarity in

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  tgif ........ here are some laughs for friday nite.

  at home.

  enjoy!.

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  Violia

  love the Brits / aussie comedy. I have been hooked on TV from outside USA since PBS started showing " up stairs /down stairs" .
  At that time I don't think you could see Monty Python anywhere else here. Now it is wonderful, the BBC and I get to watch some great TV

  I saw this episode with Mrs. Brown and the Mormons some time ago. I also enjoy Doc Martin and the Vicar of Dibley and the show The Red Green Show ( from Canada).
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  Were you 'alive in '75' and how was that year for you?

  by punkofnice in

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  2. experiences

  i was a junior borgite in 1975. i remeber looking at the calendar at work in october and thinking: 'armageddon isn't here yet.....and it doesn't feel like it will be here anytime soon either!'.

  i was surprised that jehovah hadn't obeyed the superior command to bring the big 'a' as instructed to him by fred franz.

  how dare god disobey the jw leader!!!!!.

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  Violia

  It was a big deal in the area I lived in. I heard many a fiery sermon about 1975. We never believed it but had to publicly state we did or else you were not with Jah's Celestial Chariot - you were being left behind. I had heard enough of 75 and was glad when it came and went. I had been hearing about it since I believe 67 or 68. One of the books that was published was where they got the date and so the jws were beating the drums for quite a number of years. It was publicly embarrassing to many and then the jws started denying they ever really thought 75 was the end. Trouble is - there are so many of us who were at least teenagers then and remember they said " stay alive till 75"
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  Pete Seeger, the great peace activist and folk singer, has passed

  by designs in

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  pete seeger wrote songs that became the heart and soul of the civil rights movement- where have all the flowers gone, if i had a hammer, turn turn turn, waist depp in the big muddy, we shall overcome.... we traveled to the newport folk festival, which pete helped establish, and got to sing with the great man himself.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2siieqy34.

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  Violia

  These were the songs of my youth that I fondly recall. They called for peace justice and kindness. . He wrote the soundtrack of so many of the boomer's lives.

  RIP
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  Dead pregnant woman forced to stay on life support, due to TX State law

  by adamah in

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  there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.

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  166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.

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  Violia

  the words of Leonard Cohen " the Future" come to mind,

  Destroy another fetus now
  We don't like children anyhow
  I've seen the future, baby:
  it is murder
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  Another young ex-JW musical duo

  by kneehighmiah in

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  this is a brother-sister duo from austrailia.

  they are 22 and 23 years old.

  they even made a song about leaving the religion.

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  Violia

  Great song and powerful words on the wall. This is an excellent way to let jws young people know there is a future and they don't have to spend it waiting for Armageddon.
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  THE GB/WBATS ARE RATTLING THE FENCE...

  by ADJUSTMENTS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for all those who are still hanging on to the figurative fence, the gb/wbats do not like you.

  with the many recent successive adjustments, changes, new light and new bible, fear tactics and the new meaning of gods name, many who were on the fence have went to their respective sides of the fence.

  wether that side is the brainwashed, cult following, ultra jw side, or the eyes opened, i can see ttatt, i want out side, this is what they want.

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  Violia

  The WTS has done this several times . It is true they don't care if they lose members. They did this pre 75 and then the Great Apostasy at Bethel fallout and the Child abuse issues and Generation changes. This is the way the WTS works and so far they seem to survive. They only want " company" people.

  This is the way business works to stay alive and get rid of troublemakers.
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  The music that moves you....

  by FlyingHighNow in

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  once when i was profoundly sad for too many days, my brother in law sent us a mix tape.

  he named each song after a person in our family.

  this is the one he named heather.

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  Violia

  Poncho & Lefty ( written by Townes Van Zandt ( RIP ) , sung by Wilie Nelson & Bob Dylan

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd41cVwl9FY