GLTirebiter

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  Miraculous news about my daugher, Ali

  by coffee_black in

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  it's a little over a year since my daughter was diagnosed with end stage congestive heart failure due to a virus.

  her dr. was talking heart transplant then.. i almost lost her 3 times over the past year due to complications.

  2011 was a tough year to put it mildly.

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  Fantastic! I hope Ali continues to heal.
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  2012 Commercial - "Looks Like We Made it"

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  Yes, "Looks like we made it" sure looked like a Watchtower cover!
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  When will world realize zero population growth?

  by N.drew in

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  metatron in your opinion do you think the world will see it soon?

  how soon?.

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  Planet earth will need a plague like the Black Plague if earth is to survive. That's just a fact.

  The Earth itself should do just fine for a long time to come. The question is life on this planet, human life in particular.

  Plague and natural catastrophes (super-volcanoes, asteroid impacts, etc.) are natural events that could permanently zero out human population growth. Large-scale warfare, genocide, and resource depletion are human-caused ones. Widespread famine has both natural and human causes. Plagues have both sources too: natural evolution of new pathogens and pests; human hygiene practices and over-use of antibiotics, pesticides etc. (i.e., selective breeding of more virulent pathogens and pests).

  We need to pay more attention to what we humans can control; less to those things we cannot stop.
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  Is it possible to be friends with a devout Jehovah's Witness?

  by losthobbit in

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  just wondering if it's possible for a non-religious person like me to be friends with a devout jehovah's witness.

  as i understand they don't like to mix with us lower life forms.

  any thoughts?.

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  The friendship tends to be one-sided. You see them as a friend, a person whose good qualities you appreciate, one whom you enjoy associating with. They see you as a person with potential--if only you'd go to their meetings and KNOW THE "TRUTH". Until you do, they're advised to not get too attached, because Armageddon is coming Really Soon Now, and unless you're IN THE ARK when that happens, you're going to be BIRD FOOD.

  A romantic friendship is probably trouble as in TROUBLE.

  Yes, sometimes very expensive trouble (as in divorce lawyers, alimony, etc.).
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  Wondered how I would handle the JW's at my door

  by troubled mind in

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  2. scandals

  wish i had been more prepared to say something intelligent like others i have read about on here .

  usually the witness by-pass our house ,so i was not even thinking it might be them when someone knocked an hour ago .

  it was a young man ,maybe 17 , and a subsitute co i remember from yrs ago .. the young man started talking right away about reading me a scripture ,he already had it open in his paperback bible (tacky looking if you ask me ).

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  Nice job--that was a polite but clear "No thank you". What a good witness it was for that young man, to see the CO not recognizing "lost sheep" from his own "flock"!
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  JW Child Abuser Must Warn Parents of His Conviction

  by jamiebowers in

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  2. child-abuse

  http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/news/child-abuser-is-locked-up-26012012.htm.

  paul wood, 40, assaulted the girls, aged between 10 and 15, at his home, in a car and at a disused airfield.. wood, of station road, woodville, was found guilty of nine indecent assaults but cleared of a rape allegation made by one of the girls.. the sex offender, who committed his crimes while living in suffolk in the 1990s, claimed his two victims had made up' their evidence.. judge david goodin, sentencing at ipswich crown court, said: "you were a young man but they are most serious offences.".

  prosecutors claimed during wood's trial last year he had forced himself on the underage girls in sudbury, suffolk, between 1993 and 1998.. steven dyble, defending, told the court wood was a man of previous good character who had done his best to live an industrious life'.. wood's last offence was committed in 1998. mr dyble said: "during the last 14 years, there has been no suggestion of any inappropriate behaviour.".

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  He is also banned ... from carrying out work at any school or voluntary organisation.

  Hmm, would that include "service"?
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  do you have 100 watt heartfelt zeal?

  by hoser in

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  this is an interesting quote from the april 15 study edition tower page 17 par 15. .

  if satan succeeded in reducing 100-watt.

  heartfelt zeal for jehovahs service to.

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  The Noo Lite is just a CFL?
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  Facebook mandatory timeline- good or bad?

  by moshe in

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  just curious about what others think about it.

  i never set up timeline, as i felt it was too intrusive.

  facebook is now telling us they will set up your timeline whether you like it or not- everyone is getting it..

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  They act as though they own the people who use FB rather than providing a service.

  As far as they're concerned, they do own you (at least, everything you do on their site). They provide a product (information about you) to their customers (advertisers). When you remember that, the things that Zuckerberg does to Facebook users makes sense!
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  "You should never look for/expect happiness in this world"

  by ilikecheese in

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  my jw boyfriend says this all the time whenever i'm venting about life and some of its disappointments, career aspirations and how hard they are to make happen sometimes, problems with friends/family, or just random stuff that gets to me.

  i'm not a negative person or anything; i only get moody occasionally.

  i am a woman; it's kind of required.

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  "You won't find happiness in this world, and you shouldn't look for it."

  That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you're so convinced that you will be miserable that you don't even try to do something about it, you will indeed find nothing but misery. But when you're seeking the good in a bad situation, just making the effort improves your disposition. On one hand there is despair; on the other hope. Where in the Bible does it say "Doubt, despair and loathing: these three remain"?
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  Nothing More To Say

  by Farkel in

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  i really have nothing much more to say, except to say thank you to all the people who have contributed to me in my threads and all the people whom i battled over the years.

  the battles have been most entertaining and enlightening.

  i've learned a great deal from them, and i've laughed a great deal from the idiotic attempts of fools to make a coherent argument (think "dubs").. it's been a roller-coaster ride for me over a decade and it has consumed a huge amount of my time.

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  Reading posts from you and other thinking folks has been more help than you could ever imagine. Thank you, Farkel--live well!