Jourles

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  Which meeting goes first ?

  by 5go in

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  if the gb.

  me the school because it would allow more time for brow beating in the service meeitng wihch would be one hour.

  then no one would complain about thier kids being up way past thier bed time on school nights..

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  One hint. Which of the meetings do not have a contribution box?
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  UN downgrades man's impact on the climate

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  old news, but.... .

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  Sounds like we need Babyface Nelson from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou to take care of a few cows for us...
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  Lets keep the "X" in X-Mas!!!

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  how do you feel about some christians getting all hot and bothered about "keeping christ in christmas"?

  last time i checked most people just do the holiday because their kids get excited, they have some time off to hang out with friends and family, and getting wasted becomes socially acceptable.. gbl.

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  Christ could not have been born at this time of the year, as we all should know. Why then was his birth date moved to this time of year?

  I have always found it amusing that even in the Catholic Encyclopedia it says:

  Inexplicable though it seems, the date of Christ's birth is not known. The gospels indicate neither the day, the month, nor the year.

  So what caused Christmas to be tied to Dec. 25th? The CE continues:

  Though the substitution of Christmas for the pagan festival [Saturnalia] cannot be proved with certainty, it remains the most plausible explanation for the dating of Christmas.

  There ya go. From the originators of Christmas themselves.
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  DOES ANYONE STILL NOT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS???

  by chuckyy in

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  just wondering if anyone still does not celebrate xmas since leaving jws.....or like me do you think"to hell with it", and join in the festivities.

  if you do celebrate it, do you still have pangs of guilt for celebrating this "pagan" festival???.

  chukky.

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  Not here. Even if I were part of a family that did, I wouldn't care to participate. Everyone says that it's all about family getting together and other such wonderful bliss, but I see it for the commercialized reality that it actually is. Case in point -- We've all heard of Black Friday, right? The day after Thanksgiving. Did you ever wonder how that Friday came to be called Black? It marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season that tends to put most retailers into the "black" - black, meaning turning a profit.

  If much of the world's economy is dependent on a psuedo-religious holiday for monetary gain, there is something definitely wrong with the world. I'd be willing to wear a pair of underwear for a week and then eat them if Christmas was to ever go away. But since our global economy is so closely tied to Christmas, the powers-that-be would never let this happen. And so it goes, I wouldn't have to eat my shorts. But I'll stand by this self-made bet until I die.
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  Lets keep the "X" in X-Mas!!!

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  how do you feel about some christians getting all hot and bothered about "keeping christ in christmas"?

  last time i checked most people just do the holiday because their kids get excited, they have some time off to hang out with friends and family, and getting wasted becomes socially acceptable.. gbl.

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  Link that is very applicable to this topic. (Just read the first two paragraphs and then click on the video to the side)
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  "An Inconvenient Truth".. JW's are deluded

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  hi everyone, hope you all are doing ok!

  long time no talk.. .

  have any of you seen the new dvd "an inconvenient truth"?

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  this JW thinks theres really no point in even trying because, quote, "one person can't change anything".

  I wish they applied this same reasoning to field service.

  That's why they go out in two's...
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  How old will you be....

  by Scully in

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  when you will have been an exjw for as long as you were a jw?.

  i was raised in the jws from before the age of 10, and stopped going to the kh at the age of 31. i was involved with the jws for a total of 23 years.

  i will be 54 years old by the time i have spent more of my life as an exjw than i did as a jw..

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  I'll be three years shy of getting nothing from Social Security.
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  What do you do in your free time?

  by zagor in

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  just want to get some ideas.

  i haven't had much of a free time in last two years particularly last year or so, well till last week anyway.

  recently, i've tried taking latin dancing lessons but managed to get only to first session (well i'll go again this week but have already skipped two) this morning i've visited local sport center and tomorrow night i'm restarting my old flame as it were :) martial arts.. why am i saying that?

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  Let's see....

  • Volleyball about four days a week, and on some weekends(tournaments)
  • The gym on off days
  • When it's +50 degrees out, the motorcycle gets to run around
  • 'Diabolically Hard' Sudoku during spare time either in a book or on my cell phone
  • School work - but I do this during my work hours cuz there isn't a lot going on around here from 8-5
  • Stream KNAC.com during my "work" hours

  But as my avatar shows, I wouldn't be able to go on living if I had to give up vb. It is a huge part of my life and who I am. You know it's bad when you have to decide between getting shoulder surgery(out for at least 3-4 months) or trying strengthening excercises with cortisone injections to see if that will help ease the pain from a tear. As of right now, I'm opting for the least invasive procedure to see how it turns out.
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  Is your avatar you?

  by Swamboozled in

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  i always assume that people with real pics for their avatars are pics of that poster.

  obviously that's not always the case.

  i'm curious about whose pic is really them.

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  I sure hope it is.
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  Someone from Oregon "ME" - View on this James Kim event

  by free2beme in

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  i spent last saturday about 10 miles out of grants pass bring some supplies to a friend who was in the search and rescue for james kim, and talking with people who were looking for him.

  being a long time resident of oregon, i can tell you exactly where he was, as i have been down that road many many times.

  it is a remote location, at best, and locals mainly use it for hunting a fishing access, or maybe a chance to go motorcycle riding through the mountains.

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  This story reminds me of a time back when I was living in CO up in the mountains. One of our cell sites was located at the top of a ridge over Glenwood Springs. Next to our site was an AT&T long distance microwave station. They would use a helicopter to get in during the winter. I had four modes of transportation to use throughout the year - Bronco, snowmobile, atv, and an Argo. During the winter, I pretty much used the snowmobile for most of my sites.

  At this particular site, you have to park off one of the dirt roads and snowmobile the rest of the way. It's probably a 3 mile ride in to the site. YOU CANNOT DRIVE. Anyways, during one pretty frigid day, I was leaving the site and heading back to my truck when I come across two young guys, their dog, and a stuck Jeep Wrangler. They had been trying to dig their way out to get turned around. The snow depth varied all along the road, but I would say they got caught in about 2-3 feet of snow. There was no way they were getting out that day. I had to ride three up on my sled with their dog running along(and about to collapse from exhaustion) all the way back to my truck. If I hadn't been there at that particular time on that day, they would have been in a world of hurt. They didn't have any cold weather gear, no gloves, nada. Just their jeans and ski coats. If they would have walked out, I don't know what shape they would have been in. And there's no telling how long they would have stuck it out in their Jeep.

  I ended up driving them to one of their homes and told them good luck on getting their Jeep out. I gave them my number to let me know how they were going to get their Jeep back. They ended up having to hire a guy with a large snowcat to go up there and get their Jeep pulled around and then towed it down back to the main road.

  I'm not sure what the Kim's were driving, but it's quite possible that James Kim thought he could drive through anything. I have two other personal stories(where I got stuck on closed roads) that I'll have to relate some other time. I too thought I could drive my way through the snow to get to where I was going. Dumb dumb dumb.