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  What goes around, comes around ...... both ways????

  by outbutnotdown in

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  when most people use that expression: "what goes around, comes around", it seems to be used more in a negative way.

  for example, you find out bob just ripped off something small from work.

  you and your co-worker don't necessarily want to rat on him so you use the famous "what goes around comes around" phrase.. but how often do we say it the other way around?

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  What about in big things in life where someone is going through hell? Do we automatically think he/she is getting what's been coming to them

  oh, Brad, i never think that...i don't see how anyone could... i mean, there's so much awful suffering in the world in places like the Sudan, and those people certainly don't deserve it, and children who suffer haven't lived long enough to hurt anyone.

  IF this person deals well with this challenge, he will reap a great reward later?

  and i don't think that either. i think we make our own "karma", though, in that if we're nice to people they are nice back, and if we're mean to people, they are mean back. but only if you are genuinely nice, and not being nice to reap a reward... one day i my son and i were in line at Mervyn's buying a jacket and pair of jeans... the jacket was rather expensive, but we were also spending a gift certificate. anyway, there was a new mother in front of us with her baby girl. she was buying a bunch of novelty pails and there seemed to be a problem with the pricing, because none of them were ringing up correctly, so the clerk was getting impatient because she had to ring each item separately. the baby started getting fussy and the mother turned around and apologized to us, saying how bad she felt because of the extra time she was taking and i said that's ok it's not your fault and my son started talking to the baby, making her laugh. finally the transaction was finished, and the mother turned around and gave us two coupons...one for $10 off and one for $5 off. i think that was her way of saying thank you, although she didn't have to thank someone just for being nice.
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  Tempers A Flare at "Quick Builds"

  by orangefatcat in

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  have any of you noticed that when "quick built", kh.

  were being done that many tempers flared amongst brothers.

  some were vicious and cruel and rude.

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  i hope none of 'em are packin' staple guns...
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  What is your favorite sandwich?

  by Jez in

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  ok, mine is either:.

  peanut butter and mayo or cheez whiz and mayo

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  i don't know what it is about mayonaisse, but i just don't get it. unless it's in tuna or potato salad, otherwise i just can't stand it.

  Well I will have to vote the Denney's Moon over My Hammy

  i always loved that name... very clever. but i hate Denny's... the last time i was there was with my girlfriend and we were sitting in the seating area by the bathrooms and i said you know it kinda smells in here maybe we should go eat someplace else, but she really wanted to eat there, then about five mins later this woman comes running through and races into the bathroom and we hear her barfing all over the place. needless to say, we didn't eat there...
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  My wife it´s a JW yet and used to take may daughter to KH, what i can do?

  by Kaique in

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  my wife it s a jw yet and used to take may daughter to kh, what i can do?

  i m afraid because they may control her mind (my daughter has 3 years old).

  i don t kanow how can i manage this case.

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  True I&P......... but when both parents have equal rights thats when struggles ensue. Better to wait until the 3 year old gets older and starts to form her own opinion, before creating drama now about it all. I truly believe the Kingdom Hall will do her no harm, and like I said the child can make an informed decision later with her dads full support if that is the case. Look at it this way, I've seen countless people on here say they were better off having one parent in the truth and one out as they had more lee-way as they got older than those with both parents in. I'm just thinking of the kid.

  how is it creating drama to tell his wife privately he does not want her taking an impressionable child to meetings? you said he should wait til she is capable of maing an informed decision... what age would that be? if she is going to attend meetings, don't you think she will be expected to study and go out in FS also?

  child can make an informed decision later with her dads full support if that is the case

  why wait? why not give her his full support NOW, when she has no choice and no VOICE?

  then there's the blood issue...
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  The end is near!

  by pratt1 in

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  i went to a funeral this weekend of a much loved older brother.

  more about that on another tread.. anyway, some one came up to me and said, that these are "the last of the last days".

  i nearly fell off my chair in laughter.. what funny sayings have you heard from dubs, describing the "last days".

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  hehe "LAST last days"... oh brother...
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  "Jehovah God's Organization" (to the tune of "Hotel California")

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  this has been rolling in and out of head for weeks (as so many things do) and so i finally got it all out.. dave.

  with apologies to the eagles.... "jehovah god's organization" (to the tune of "hotel california").

  on a warm summer morning, a ring at the bell.. two nice dressed folks, claiming there ain't no hell.. makes sense to me, i thought, sure, i'll take the book.. what i read in there seemed true at the time,.

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  very clever and funny... i'm still giggling... (i noticed this line needed no modification 'We're just prisoners here, of our own device")
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  congregational cliques

  by chuckyy in

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  it was my experience during my 13 yrs as a jw that congregations usually had a social clique.

  in other words, there would be a group of people in a congregation that would only associate (and sometimes only go out on field service too) with people within that social clique.

  if you were in the clique, fine.

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  cliques are a part of human society

  jehovahs witnesses aren't supposed to be like us and they're supposed to love all of their "brothers and sisters in the truth", therefore cliques have no place in kingdom halls.
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  My wife it´s a JW yet and used to take may daughter to KH, what i can do?

  by Kaique in

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  my wife it s a jw yet and used to take may daughter to kh, what i can do?

  i m afraid because they may control her mind (my daughter has 3 years old).

  i don t kanow how can i manage this case.

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  you are the daddy, and if your wife is doing something against your wishes, why can't you talk to her (privately) and tell her how you feel? if one parent is doing something he or she feels is harmful to the child, you have a right and a responsibility to put a stop to it. permitting your child to particpate in something you are opposed to just to keep the peace is ultimately going to make you frustrated and create a conflicted environment for your daughter. if your wife wants to study and go to meetings, let her--she's an adult. your daughter doesn't have a choice, or a voice.. but she does have YOU.
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  Did YOU Ever Experience A "Spiritual Paradise"????

  by minimus in

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  the watchtower society regularly talks about how jehovah's witnesses are unique.

  so unique----they alone enjoy a "spiritual paradise".

  while you were a witness, were you ever in "spiritual paradise"??

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  no, never. not even one spiritual moment. not that i wasn't trying.

  i luv this...

  A spiritual desert perhaps.
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  First True Bionic Arm Created

  by metatron in

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  details the work of dr. todd kuiken, who has developed a bionic arm that is controlled by the mind, like the original.. next, he's gonna add a sense of touch.. "engineers and physicians familiar with sullivan's unusual prosthetic arrangement are at a loss to explain it in any way.

  that doesn't have a ring of science fiction to it" ee times jan. 17, 2005 pg.

  read and weep, bethel monitors.

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  Incense_and_Peppermints

  read and weep, Bethel Monitors

  them puny, independent, sinful, 'worldly' humans are delivering the 'pie-in-the-sky' you never could

  i'm sure they'll be first in line to get one, like every other "worldly-man-made" wonder out there...