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  How Many Remember the Mass Skating Rink Parties of the Late 70's ?

  by Perry in

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  they were a hoot weren't they?.

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  Designs: Do you mind if I ask you as to which rink or rinks that you went to? I remember back in the last 60s and early 70s, it was popular for JW youngsters to go to an ice-skating rink in Anahiem, the Glacier Falls Ice Rink. Around 1971/1972, an ice rink was built in Costa Mesa, the Klondike Ice Rink, which later became an Ice Capades Chalet. It was there, in the late 1970s that I first set foot upon ice. I kept at it for many years after, evenaully buying my own figure skates, and skated just for recreation, for many years. I completely lost interest in the activity about 12 years ago, so I have beome a "skating fader", too! So, anyway, which roller rinks or ice rinks do you go to?

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  Christmas Field Service

  by NeverKnew in

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  on another thread, i read that a few adherents may be traveling (cough-cough) to other cities and wouldn't be able to make field service on christmas day.. what is the likelihood that going out on christmas will be encouraged at the weekend services at the khs?

  ...or do most halls stay neutral on this?

  given what i've read on this forum, i have the impression that disrespecting a day of other's celebration wouldn't be discouraged which annoys the heck out of me..

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  Well, if you are in a situation in which you MUST go out on Christmas Day, approach the door, and just do the "invisible presence" knock. In other words, VERRRRRY lightly, so that your presence would not even be detected.

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  Finally decided to introduce myself here

  by cookiemaster in

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  hey guys !

  i've stopped believing the watchtower crap a few years ago.

  i achieved this on my own, despite being raised as one.

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  Cookiemaster (or, Cookiemeister, perhaps): Welcome to this forum. If people give you dirty looks because of your own individual choice to attend college, well, then that's THEIR problem, not yours. As a radio talk-show host here in the California area once said. "Deal with it." Enjoy those cookies!

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  Do you look like the apostate they warned you about?

  by Angus Beef in

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  after waking up and wanting to get out of this nightmare, the word apostate is really bothering me.

  if i quitely become inactive, fade away will i just be looked at as "always weak".

  i want to scream out how big a fool i was.. and now telling my poor young daughter how wrong i was to bring her up as a jw.

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  I dont think that I look like a member of the so-called "evil slave class". Anyway, thinking about the term "apostate", Ive thought about some other, different nomenclatures, if a label is to be used. How about "Transformationist". That's right, I have---and you have---made a "transformation"---from one bellief structure, belief system---to a different belief structure or belief system. Thus, a "Transformationist.". Or, how about this: A Consciencioius Objector. If you are a person, whose conscience no longer allows you, permits you, to abide by the belief system of the Witnesses, then you are a Consciencious Objector. Your own conscience objects to the teachings of the JWs. So, those are two ways of thinking of yourself, if you want to use a "label." Best Regards, everyone. :0

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  1973 "Divine Victory" International Assemblies

  by Bungi Bill in

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  how many here attended the "divine victory" international assembly that was held 12- 16 december in christchurch, new zealand?.

  the venue was lancaster park.

  if the truth be known, that stadium was probably a casualty of the february 2011 earthquake?.

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  I was at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. And, Zoos, who knows, our paths could have crossed at some time while there.
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  knockout game, what the freak!

  by unstopableravens in

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  Yep, I've read about that elsewhere. It reminds me of what a local TV station in the Southern California area reported on a few years ago. Apparently, a stupid prank that local junior-high or middle school boys were doing to other boys. They would come up, unexpectly, to another boy, and punch him---hard---in the gonads. And, all the while fiilming it for putting on YouTube later on, the kid , the victim of the stupid prank,would double over in pain on the ground. That prank went too far in one instance---a kid had to have one testicle removed, so much damage was done. So, local medical professionals were urging, pleading with kids to put a stop to this dumb, asinine prank. Not good, not good...

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  WTS overboard w/suggested presentation

  by doinmypart in

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  the nov 2013 km contains an article that is ridiculous in its level of minutae.. they focus on the word "because".

  they tell jws to use the word "because" when explaining why they're at the homeowner's door.

  writing department, you wrote an article on the use of the word "because"?

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  "I am here because I'm trying to earn a few more 'brownie points' with God."

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  Amazing Video - The Little Blue Dot

  by Fading Begins in

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  http://truthseekerdaily.com/2013/11/the-single-most-mind-altering-photograph-humanity-has-ever-taken/.

  i hope this comes up - if not you can copy and paste.

  very humbling and eye-opening to see ourselves in this perspective - how arrogant, self-righteous and oblivious we are as a species.

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  Yes, indeed, the "Pale Blue Dot." It puts thins into perspective, doesn't it? I mean, before you begin thinking that your own polictical, or economic , or religious system is so superior to others, watch that video, and think about the words of Carl Sagan, that are in that video. We are, after all is taken into cvonsideration, such a small, insignificant planet in the vast blackness of the Universe/Cosmos. Best Regards, eveyone

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  How men become homosexuals...

  by Calebs Airplane in

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  finally, i've found the reason why some men become homosexuals.. the 1976 book "your youth: getting the best of it" explains it here in great detail.... .

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  Interesting that that same book never touched on the subject of why Lesbians become Lesbians.

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  Could this be an evidence that God exists

  by His Excellency in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3qezbvn1be.

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  Well, no, not really. I've seen a few TV interviews with him in the past. And, I DO respect his tenacity in life, and his ability to enjoy it despite his unfortunate disabilities But, the only thing that it does for me is to confirm my belief that one's life, one's existence,on this planet, is all just one big "crap shoot" a huge "roll of the dice". Nothing more, nothing less. Best Regards to one and all. And, Happy Festivus Season.

  Titch.