GLTirebiter

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  NFC & AFC Championship Games - Who Wins & goes to Super Bowl ?

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  great time of year for us football fans !

  so let's have your picks !

  now that we know it will be baltimore ravens vs. new england patriots in the afc championship and atlanta falcons vs. san fransisco 49ers in the nfc championship - what do you think ?

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  GLTirebiter

  Pizza and wings in the oven...

  Cold beer in the fridge...

  Hours-long pre-game show...

  The preliminaries are done. Here we go!
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  Chris Kyle murdered in Stephenville, Texas

  by sooner7nc in

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  chris was a 4 tour sniper in iraq with well over 160 confirmed kills and an $80000 bounty on his head.

  he was known as the devil of ramadi..

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  Background

  For his deadly track record as a marksman during his deployment to Ramadi, the insurgents named him 'Al-Shaitan Ramad' -- the Devil of Rahmadi -- and put a $20,000 bounty on his head.

  'I thought to myself, “Oh, hell yeah!” It was an honor,' he told Texas Monthly magazine when Army intelligence told him about his infamy.

  But his Navy SEAL companions gave him a different name 'the Legend.'

  His most legendary shot came outside Sadr City in 2008 when he spotted an insurgent with a rocket launcher near an Army convoy -- 2,100 yards away.

  At that distance, 1.2 miles, he fired a shot from his .338 Lapua Magnum rifle. It struck home, knocking the man over dead.
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  I HAVE NEVER MET A JW WHO WAS NOT HAPPY...

  by OneStepOut93 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  says a woman on a y!a forum.

  of course no witness would say they weren't happy .

  by the waaaaaay.... .

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  To admit you are not happy as a JW is "to bring reproach on Jehovah and his organization," which in the WT world is the worst sin imaginable.

  "Jehovah's people are the happiest people on Earth...

  ...but I'm not happy...

  ...maybe I'm becoming weak in The Truth...

  ...I don't want to be seen as weak...

  ...so I'll put in more hours and auxiliary pioneer this month!"

  See how it works?
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  Does this some up the problem?

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to paraphrase martin niemoller is this how it is in the congregations?.

  first they came for the adulterers ,?and i didn't speak out because i wasn't an adulterer.. then they came for the smokers, ?and i didn't speak out because i wasn't a smoker.. then they came for gamblers, ?and i didn't speak out because i wasn't a gambler.. then they came for the brazen,?and i didn't speak out because i wasn't brazen.. then they came for the apostates, ?and i didn't speak out because i wasnt apostate.

  then they came for me,?and there was no one left to speak for me.. or to put it another way: .

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  GLTirebiter

  Clock Click the pencil on your post. Hurry, you must do it within 30 minutes.

  Like I just did!
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  Why have 3 people unfriended me?

  by compound complex in

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  2. friends

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  so says the ad.. i'm taking it personally!.

  cc.

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  Really, only three? My Ex, her mom, her dad, her brothers, her sisters...they must not be counting carefully!
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  Blood Issue on Grey's Anatomy Tonight

  by jamiebowers in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  at 9 pm on abc.

  previews in last two videos on this link:.

  http://www.wetpaint.com/greys-anatomy/articles/greys-anatomy-season-9-episode-13-spoilers-7-things-we-learned-from-the-sneak-peeks-video.

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  "We are juggling all kinds of alternative measures, but nothing is as good as blood."

  Hats off to the script writer!
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  Sickening Dilemma

  by ItsMyLife in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i would like to have your opinions on what i should do about a situation please.. i have recently discovered that a 'brother' in the congregation (which i no longer attend) is a child molester.

  i've seen documentation from his psychiatrist dated a few years ago, stating that he doesn't feel that this person is likely to offend again.

  the 'brother' has said to the elders at some point that he has it under control but cannot be 100% sure it won't happen again.

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  Is he on a registered offender required to avoid contact with children? If so, report to the authorities that he is involved with a woman who has young children. They have the power to intervene.
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  Would you read your child's diary?

  by DATA-DOG in

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  this is obviously a question for parents.

  i have made my decision, but i am interested in your views and feelings.

  if you are a young person, i would be interested in your thoughts and feelings too.

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  I'm also with Tec on this issue. Unless there's something dangerous going on, leave it alone. If you need to read the diary to realize there is a problem, the problem is a bigger than anything they wrote.
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  Old People Should Hurry Up and Die - says the New Japanese Finance Minister

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  the newish japanese government is conservative in bent, and its finance minister recently raised eyebrows with the above statement.

  japan, as you may know, is a rapidly aging society as the long falling birthrate bites into the demographics.. here's how the english guardian reports this tale:.

  let elderly people 'hurry up and die', says japanese ministertaro aso says he would refuse end-of-life care and would 'feel bad' knowing treatment was paid for by government.

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  Sounds like he'd make a great republican candidate here in the USA.

  Sounds like a real-life democrat I remember. Richard Lamm said essentially the same thing. From Time Magazine:

  Colorado's Governor causes a furor on the issue of dying

  The words seemed calculated to provoke an uproar. Elderly people who are terminally ill "have a duty to die," declared Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, 48, at a meeting of the Colorado Health Lawyers Association last week in Denver. "Like leaves which fall off a tree forming the humus in which other plants can grow, we've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts, so that our kids can build a reasonable life."
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  As a JW, how did you feel about shunning?

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am interested in the answers for a new poll.

  also, feel free to suggest other options, wording etc.agreed in full with the watchtower guidelinesagreed with shunning in general, but not for familywas stumbled by this practice but shunned as instructeddid not agree with the practice and secretly associated with disfellowshipped people .

  for me personally, i did not agree with the practice and secretly associated with disfellowshipped people, even whilst at bethel.

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  GLTirebiter

  GL Tirebiter, as a non-believer, did you ever discuss with your ex that you found his behaviour peculiar?

  No, it was difficult to discuss anything related to the WTBTS with her, essentially impossible. In her eyes any disagreement merely showed that I "hate the Witnesses."

  Separating your regard for someone as a person from your opinion of their behavior was something she did not fathom. I think that has much to do with shunning: if a person fails in some way, they must be A Bad Person. Never mind that "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).