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  Did you beleive you were A intellectual when you were a JW

  by jam in

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  i am embarrass to say when i was a jw and a elder i. thought i could sit down and speak on any subject with.

  anyone intelligently.

  i felt the schooling of the wt had.

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  nancy drew

  I think that people who take chances make mistakes move on to new ideas are the real intellectuals. As long as a person is growing and courageous enough to step forward and say "i was wrong now I understand why and i don't care what the price I will not continue in something I know is wrong out of fear" than their on the right track.
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  I Haven't Much Time.

  by compound complex in

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  i haven't much time.

  conflict is on the horizon, moving ever closer toward us.

  our being a peace-loving people does not mean that we are weak and ineffectual.

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  CoCo,

  Do you remember the sci fi movie "the crawling eye" that movie really freaked me out when i was a kid.

  I loved sci fi, dracula stuff and monster movies but something about that movie scared me more than usual.
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  Dear Adela

  by compound complex in

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  dear adela,.

  i thought you so very much an english lady of refinement and poise that i am beside myself over this turn of events vis-a-vis your current infatuation.

  it is, without question, out of character for you to behave in a manner that flies in the face of convention and our british social mores.

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  All this passionate illicit love affair stuff

  "I'm amused" or are we just interested in the literary aspects
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  THOSE WERE THE DAYS

  by snowbird in

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  those were the days".

  by lee adams and charles strouse.

  boy, the way glen miller played.

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  That was a classic.
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  Will you attend the Kingdom Hall for a funeral of parents who are still JW's? If not, do you tell them beforehand?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  i was recently talking to an ex witness whose elderly parents, and in law parents, are still witnesses.. as shocking and incomprehensible as it may seem to both sets of parents, this ex witness believes that, just like every other human throughout human history, they are going to die.

  now this ex witness has expressed to me that he won't ever step foot in a kingdom hall again.. he is in a dillemma as to what to do about their funerals.

  he does not want to attend any service held at the kingdom hall as the service will be heavily controlled by the seven members of the governing body that reside in brooklyn and who don't know his parents at all.. he is quite willing to stand outside the hall, or attend the crematorium or gravesite or funeral home and also any wake that takes place afterwards as people are more free to express themselves in a less formal setting.

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  If their playing the shunning game, they should know the rules and accept them. As far as I,m concerned their on their own they choose the organization and that's what they get.
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  Today's WT Study Stupidity About Df'ing

  by metatron in

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  in today's watchtower study, towards the end, you had one of those typical comments by a former df'ed witness expressing appreciation for being shunned.

  these comments always remind me of a stalinist show trial in which the accused enthusiastically accepts being executed for the greater good (probably to save his family).. after this kind of nonsense is expressed, you will get a flurry of self righteous comments emphasizing how important it is to shun your disfellowshipped relatives, so that they can come back in the "truth".. oh, really?

  do any of these people raising their hand realize that, if the "success" of disfellowshipping depends on your shunning, then the "repentant" person is "coming back in the truth" for the sake of their relatives -and not because of fearing jehovah !!!???.

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  Sometimes when I hear that people keep trying to stay in contact with their jw relatives as if their doing the noble thing. i think it just encourages them to keep up their stance they think if you grovel back to them you might come back.

  It's best no matter how difficult to let them experience the pain of their choice, they started it by shunning you to make you come back so make sure they know you never will and say good bye and never look back

  Let them never entertain even a brief hope of your return so they can feel the full force of "jehovahs love" and what it requires.
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  what a wonderful day

  by jean-luc picard in

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  mrs picard and i have both got the week off, so we have decided to spend the day on the hollodeck.. breakfast in bed, followed by a long walk in the countryside.. not a cloud in view.. salad lunch in the garden ( some of our firsthome grown produce of the year), along with a generous glass of red wine.. then a siesta in the hamack.

  its a double hamack, but mrs picard declined to join me, prefering reading her new novel.. i didnt sleep, but lazily watched the comings and goings of the birds nesting in the trees above my head, the insects, and the sunlight flickering through the leaves.. to top it all, mrs picard has offered to take me out to the restaurant this evening.. if there is a god, i'd like to publically thank him for this wonderful day, and present my excuses for not going out in field service for the last 15 years.. and, in the words of karen carpenter, in one of her songs:.

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  It was a wonderful afternoon till Moriarity showed up.
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  Dear Adela

  by compound complex in

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  dear adela,.

  i thought you so very much an english lady of refinement and poise that i am beside myself over this turn of events vis-a-vis your current infatuation.

  it is, without question, out of character for you to behave in a manner that flies in the face of convention and our british social mores.

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  nancy drew

  Reminds me a bit of lady chatterley's lover

  D.H.Lawernce he was a little too much for his times

  CoCo,

  I'm always interested in your writings, they make me feel like I've just stepped into someone's parler and the events are taking place in front of me.
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  You'll lose your life and that of your children if you don't come back

  by truthseeker in

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  it was a beautiful, sunny day.

  i was in the supermarket doing an early morning shop when i see an old friend of the family, a jw sister.. she asked me if i'd gone to the memorial and i told her no.

  she said that the end is so close what with all the earthquakes and brother truthseeker, you need to come back to jehovah otherwise you will die and so will your children.

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  Who knows what might happen here there have been major exterminations in the past but whatever happens the witnesses wiil be in as much danger as everyone else all their field service won't amount to anything.
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  Pennsylvania witnesses shot at

  by Siddhashunyata in

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  http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20110501/news90/105010338/-1/news.

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  Many years ago I was at a door it was my turn and i gave my spiel and the person was serious faced and said "i don't want anything" so I just said ok and the person with me was strangley quiet

  after we left she said to me " he was pointing a gun at you" I never saw it so I was just saying my stuff no fear or nervousness.