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  I swam with Judah Benjamin Schroeder

  by joelbear in

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  i went to the beach once with a friend of mine and judah ben schroeder.. i was not attracted to him sexually.. i was not attracted to my friend sexually.. the water was warm.

  my friend's mother was there but is dead now.

  he married an english girl.

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  joelbear

  i sat in the sauna with 2 gilead students once.
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  I swam with Judah Benjamin Schroeder

  by joelbear in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went to the beach once with a friend of mine and judah ben schroeder.. i was not attracted to him sexually.. i was not attracted to my friend sexually.. the water was warm.

  my friend's mother was there but is dead now.

  he married an english girl.

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  joelbear

  well i hope you are right about Judah Ben. i do remember seeing his name and even a pic of him in one of things on TV about silent lambs, so you must be on the right track.
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  Brokeback mountain

  by InquiryMan in

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  i finally got to see it tonight.

  actually i wanted my wife and me to see it yesterday, but we were both too tired.

  it was very touching, well-made.

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  joelbear

  Brokeback Mountain was voted number 1 gay film of all time by viewers of logo online. number 2 was A Beautiful Thing. these two movies have a lot in common and i agree wholeheartedly with them being number 1 and 2 on the list. while the characters in brokeback are grown men they are still just facing their orientation. in BT the kids are regular teenagers who live in the projects in London. all 4 are just real people. homosexuality kinda snuck up on all of them as it does most homosexuals. all 4 fight it to some degree and all 4 accept it as part of themselves in the end. i would have chosen Maurice as number 3 on the list, i think it was like 14.

  fair mind and those of his ilk are getting nastier because they are losing. rationality is winning, its a long slow hard road ahead. the key is education. in fact the key to all the world's problems is education. why don't government's spend more on education? uneducated people are more likely to believe everything they say.

  rationality will win. we must not wait on schools to educate people, we must educate them ad hoc as best we can. all on issues.

  coming out is an important form of education.

  educating ourself about any situation will ensure that we react to it more rationally than emotionally.
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  Other brushes with greatness

  by joelbear in

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  worked in subscription department with sister knorr, we both collected odd names of people.. shook hands with freddie franz.

  i was awe struck.

  kind of like when i shook hands with michael dorn except for totally different reasons..

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  joelbear

  man, michael dorn is so hot. i waited in line for like an hour and kept thinking of some way i could flirt with him without getting smacked but when i got in front of him i froze. my god his hands are big, his fingers, wow. fingers say a lot about a man.

  may i see a hand shot slugga?
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  What would make you jump on a couch?

  by jojochan in

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  2. friends

  i read this question in people magazine and lol'ed at the question.

  i guess one of mine would be:.

  to know that i won the lotto and that i don't ever have to work again, and to know that i can share the wealth to those that have none.. any one else?.

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  joelbear

  a good looking guy laying there? Hoss Cartwright specifically, or Sean Astin. being able to see even one of my old witness friends for an evening the ability to live off on an island nation far away.
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  Other brushes with greatness

  by joelbear in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  worked in subscription department with sister knorr, we both collected odd names of people.. shook hands with freddie franz.

  i was awe struck.

  kind of like when i shook hands with michael dorn except for totally different reasons..

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  joelbear

  worked in subscription department with Sister Knorr, we both collected odd names of people.

  shook hands with Freddie Franz. i was awe struck. kind of like when I shook hands with Michael Dorn except for totally different reasons.
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  I swam with Judah Benjamin Schroeder

  by joelbear in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went to the beach once with a friend of mine and judah ben schroeder.. i was not attracted to him sexually.. i was not attracted to my friend sexually.. the water was warm.

  my friend's mother was there but is dead now.

  he married an english girl.

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  joelbear

  i didn't keep in touch with him. its just kinda weird, him being about the same age as me. when i was about 6 i was shown his picture by an annointed couple in our congregation who bragged about how smart he was and he could speak 7 languages and quote the whole bible etc. etc. and then we just kind of chance met on that day going to the beach. i'm sure that must have been through the McCumbers who were the JW biggies on the westside of Jax. The Belloits being the biggies on the east side.

  gee our paths diverged in the wood somewhere.
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  I swam with Judah Benjamin Schroeder

  by joelbear in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went to the beach once with a friend of mine and judah ben schroeder.. i was not attracted to him sexually.. i was not attracted to my friend sexually.. the water was warm.

  my friend's mother was there but is dead now.

  he married an english girl.

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  joelbear

  i went to the beach once with a friend of mine and Judah Ben Schroeder.

  i was not attracted to him sexually.

  i was not attracted to my friend sexually.

  the water was warm

  my friend's mother was there but is dead now

  he married an English girl

  i did not

  i never saw Judah Ben again after that day.

  the end.
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  Mankind's sufferings who's to blame?

  by greendawn in

  1. jw
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  there is and always was a lot of suffering in the world since the beginning of history, so who is to blame?

  is it a god that doesn't care or a mankind that refuses to be reconciled with god and through that find salvation?

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  joelbear

  genes are to blame, they are responsible for everything, well genes and the laws of physics. yep, that's about it.
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  Have any been attacked while in FS?

  by Check_Your_Premises in

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  how many times were you attacked physically?.

  how many times were you attacked verbally?.

  how long were you a jw?.

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  joelbear

  i have been attacked by dogs and a pig.

  i had a gun pulled on me once.

  i was never physically injured cause i kept my mom in between me and the pig.