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  My 16 year Old is Having Surgery Tomarrow

  by lovelylil in

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  boy am i glad we are not witnesses anymore.

  my son is having two large cysts removed tomarrow, they are in sort of a delicate area.

  because of where they are located, the potential for heavy blood loss is high.

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  Prayers for you and your son, Lil. I hope all goes well with his surgery.
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  Im new here

  by POWER_OF_YOUTH in

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  GLTirebiter

  Eventually even that bugged her conscience and we talked even less. Eventually what we had just faded, and we havent had a decent convo in months. She texted me about 2 weeks ago at 1 A.M. but we talked for about 5 minutes through text message and that was it.

  Chalk that one up to learning experiences. If you cannot have a leisurely, innocent phone call from another state, how would you ever learn to interact with the female of the species? Try to imagine how being under that much control would affect your relationship if you were married. A spouse burdened with guilt from a third-party is not able to dedicate themself to strengthening the marital partnership. It would be like having the world's most meddlesome mother-in-law living in your house, 24 hours a day every day of the year, dictating everything you think, do and say.

  And lest I forget, Welcome aboard!
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  First time ever - I attended my first Catholic Mass tonight...

  by ziddina in

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  2. experiences

  it was very interesting.... of course, the first thing i noticed was the building.

  very different from a "kingdom hall" - this catholic church is in an extremely modern, six-sided building.

  as one enters the building, their "holy water" font - fountain(???

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  Ah, that is very interesting... By following this "three-year cycle for Sunday readings", is the entire bible eventually read to the church members?

  The coverage is extensive, but you'd have to go every day, and even then there just aren't enough days to cover every single verse using the one-topic-per-reading format. There is an OT reading, Psalms are sung, and a Gospel reading every day, and another NT reading (usually from the epistles) on Sundays and Holy Days.

  I suspect the extensive schedule of readings carries over from times before printing presses and and education of the lower classes. For most of the church's history the only way most in the congregation could learn the Bible stories was by hearing them read.

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  @FHN: we also have what are called Catholic "CEOs": Christmas and Easter Only!
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  First time ever - I attended my first Catholic Mass tonight...

  by ziddina in

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  it was very interesting.... of course, the first thing i noticed was the building.

  very different from a "kingdom hall" - this catholic church is in an extremely modern, six-sided building.

  as one enters the building, their "holy water" font - fountain(???

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  GLTirebiter

  In fact, it's the same scriptures the same days every year.

  It's really a three-year cycle for Sunday readings, though some things are the same for each year of the cycle. The readings have a common theme, following the liturgical seasons: Advent, Christmas, the Passion, Resurrection, Pentecost, etc. Google "Catholic lectionary" if you want to know more.

  As for Lent being 40 days vs. 46: Sundays are not considered days of Lent, they are "days of rest" from lenten observances. There are six full weeks of six days, plus the partial week of Ash Wednesday through the following Saturday: fourty days total, with six Sunday breaks along the way.
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  Sounding Hi To Everyone

  by Scott77 in

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  iam just sounding aloud hi or hello to you all.

  you are all great newbies and oldies.

  bests,.

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  And a good day to you too, sir!
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  First time ever - I attended my first Catholic Mass tonight...

  by ziddina in

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  it was very interesting.... of course, the first thing i noticed was the building.

  very different from a "kingdom hall" - this catholic church is in an extremely modern, six-sided building.

  as one enters the building, their "holy water" font - fountain(???

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  See Zid, we don't bite!

  Though the part where they turn to their neighbor during the service and say "Peace to you" and start hugging, had me hiding under the pew and ducking for cover...

  You should have used my mother's trick. When that part was coming up, she would cough loudly, covering her mouth with the palm of her right hand. No embarrassing hugging, no unwanted handshakes!
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  Anti Apostate Blogspot!

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  i have no idea how this happened but i was blocked from accessing all the websites named on that blogspot.

  i was blocked by a filter placed on my computer.

  this website is one of those named so i was unable to come here either to get help.. my screen turned black with a message "website blocked by filter".

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  Also my IP address was reported to the server I access my internet through as being abusive which I definitely was not and consequently I have received a verbal warning from the server ... They were also running my computer even when I was not using it somehow.

  Whatever was going on in the background (when you weren't using the computer) is likely what got reported. They could have been using it for sending spam email, file sharing, any sort of activity they would want traced to somebody else. As HintOfLime said, it's likely that site wasn't the real culprit... their system could have been infected and controlled by somebody else, and passing it along to visitors.

  Only if you can prove that their site is the one that infected your system (proving that is not easy!), report them to their ISP.
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  I was Dubsnubbed this past week.

  by I quit! in

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  just this past week i went to see a jbub relative that was in the hospital.

  there was an elder there from her hall.

  he was probably there for support but also to make sure no blood was used.

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  Dubsnubbed! That word says it all.

  Rebel8 should add it to the Apostate Dictionary.
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  Are JW Children Set Up To Fail In The Real World?

  by PublishingCult in

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  would it be reasonable to say that children born and raised in the organization of jw's are being set up to fail in the real world?

  if so, why?

  how?.

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  If you encourage a talented "A" student to enroll in an at-home trade school instead of the state university, because she won't be able to study full-time for a professional job and have enough time to pioneer, would that be a set-up for failure? I think so!
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  I missed my own one year mark :P

  by tec in

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  i've just noticed that i've been here a year, as of a couple weeks ago.

  i missed it.

  so here is my belated party, thrown for me, by me ;).

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  GLTirebiter

  Happy anniversary, Tammy!