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  Intenational DC in Seattle

  by tresdecu in

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  anyone here being forced to go to the int dc in sea.

  it is july 4-6 at university of wa stadium.

  my wife unfortunately just booked airfare to sea yesterday.

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  JeffT

  For those in need, legal marijuana should be on sale by then. Might be one way to get through the DC if you can't get out of going.
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  The only thing in this world we have complete unquestionable control over is our own mind, and our own thoughts, and how we choose to frame (or think about) things.

  by RunAsFastAsYouCan in

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  the only thing in this world we have complete unquestionable control over is our own mind, and our own thoughts, and how we choose to frame (or think about) things.. and when you throw away all of the layers of constructs.

  religious mores,.

  agendas,.

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  Don't go to the bathroom for two days then see if you can control your thoughts well enough to think of something else for an hour.
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  Intenational DC in Seattle

  by tresdecu in

  1. jw
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  anyone here being forced to go to the int dc in sea.

  it is july 4-6 at university of wa stadium.

  my wife unfortunately just booked airfare to sea yesterday.

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  Anybody who wants to go sightseeing is welcome to look me up while you're here. If I'm free I'll show you around.
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  Intenational DC in Seattle

  by tresdecu in

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  anyone here being forced to go to the int dc in sea.

  it is july 4-6 at university of wa stadium.

  my wife unfortunately just booked airfare to sea yesterday.

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  JeffT

  Interesting, I went to several in the Kingdome and Tacoma dome. The bigger venues certainly make it seem like something important is going on. I wonder if anybody looked at traffic patterns in the area, I'm sure making it impassable will be a great witness to the citizens of Seattle.
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  Any Amateur Astronomers Out There?

  by cofty in

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  i have recently revived my interest in the night sky.

  there are a lot of great sights you can identify with just a pair of binoculars.

  i am currently relearning how to navigate my way round all the constellations and find some of the best objects.. i live out in the country so we get almost total darkness right outside my front door.

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  I had a four inch reflector as a kid, alas the mirror pitted over the years making it unusable. We're thinking of buying another telescope of some sort. I noticed last night that the moon will pass very close to Jupiter tonight, they'll be right overhead approaching midnight.

  I hear you about about relearning to navigate the night sky. I've forgotten almost everything I used to know. Being a city dweller doesn't help, when I was young we lived out in the country.
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  Jehovahs Witnesses to morph into a Tele-evangelical religion .

  by smiddy in

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  JeffT

  BTW: anyone know if you can block TV channels?!

  Simon, obviously I don't know what cable system you're on. I just looked and I can do it on Comcast (its a parental control code). I expect other systems have something similar.
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  Taking Back The Kingdom Halls.

  by RunAsFastAsYouCan in

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  thesis: the kingdom halls as a real estate entity could be couped; coup d'etat.

  a group of 3 elders as trustees could sell the kingdom hall out from under mother watchtower corporation.

  spread the money to the community or non profits, or just give it as a distribution to the congregation who paid for the kingdom hall.

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  The Watchtower has plenty of lawyers. I suspect that no matter how the land is titled the Watchtower Society has a lien against it, which would make transfer of title impossible without paying off the lien.

  Edited to add, I think the society could also foreclose on the property if the agreement between the local congregation and the Society is breached. A few years ago a bank served my boss with notice that he was in default of his loan agreement due to crime in one of his apartment buildings. We were current on the loan, but violating other terms of the agreement is still a breach of the contract.
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  Read a tribute to Ray and Cynthia Franz and leave your condolences at this webpage:

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  a webpage tribute to cynthia & ray can be found at http://www.commentarypress.com/.

  on the bottom of that webpage is a place that you can leave your condolences and thoughtful commentsfor the families of cynthia and ray.. for more information about cynthia's death, see http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/270338/1/cynthia-franz-died-december-29-2013#.utl16zdnbl8.

  barbara and joe.

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  Thank you, Ray and Cynthia were great people, I wish I could have met them.
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  Next time I see a JW

  by JeffT in

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  'm going to ask a question:.

  since you believe that people of multiple ages overlap to form one generation, why can't you believe that three dieties (father, son, holy spirit) overlap to form one god?.

  might provoke an interesting reaction..

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  JeffT

  'm going to ask a question:

  Since you believe that people of multiple ages overlap to form one generation, why can't you believe that three Dieties (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) overlap to form one God?

  Might provoke an interesting reaction.
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  This will be fun. What is your generation count?

  by Defianttruth in

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  the wbts teaches a overlapping (generation) will not pass away since 1914 right?.

  what is your personal genealogy.

  (1) my great grand father was born in 1901. he became active with the bible students around 1910. .

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  JeffT

  Dad was born in 1920, me in 1951, oldest son in 1975, grandaughter in 2004.