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  Lesson learned...never assume...

  by Makena1 in

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  thinking of a topic for this post was difficult - but in the end i kept coming back to the "never assume" theme.

  a bit of backround.

  my mother's family settled in texas in the late 1800's.

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  We don't get to choose our families.

  We do get to choose out friends.

  !!!!!!!!! Choose Wisely !!!!!!!!!!!!
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  FARTING IN THE KINGDOM HALL.

  by nightwarrior in

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  i was lead to beleive that cleanlinness was next to godliness,that jehovah is a clean god, .

  as we as a family sat down behind ( being the operative word ) a couple of elderly sisters ,arriving late we took the only seats available,even then we caused disruption as we even i were fighting over the seats as to where one would sit ,sure enough i allways seemed to end up in the firing line of these elderly fat arsed sisters,whom allways ended up farting in your face,the smell was so strong that you could actualy taste the stench it in the air 10 minutes later,i allways felt sick ,my children grinning .

  how did you cope yourself

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  <sarcasm>
  What were guys doing looking at other people or even smelling the air!?!
  

  You should be ashamed! You were supposed to have been paying attention to the talk!!!

  </sarcasm>
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  Weekly Food Bill Survey

  by patio34 in

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  after reading the thread on portion sizes, it'd be interesting to see what folks spend weekly on their groceries.

  one of my new year's resolutions was to improve my finances and groceries are coming under scrutiny.

  i spend about 30 a week (now), but when i wasn't paying attention and stopping in all the time, i'll bet i was spending double that.. so, what do you spend?

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  In 1997 I spent $3475 for a family of 3. I kept every reciept for food, including eating out, in a box for the entire year and at the end of the year I took them all out and added them up. That works out to about $100 per month per person. By preparing things from scratch and not using a lot of pre-prepared items, along with shopping sales, we ate pretty high on the hog as the saying goes.
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  BIG SURPRISE at upcoming International Conventions

  by Smiles in

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  has anyone else been told about this...... word out of hq bethel has it that the upcoming special international conventions will contain some kind of major information or releases.. we know the gb has been rather quiet the last couple years after their 'reorganizing'.

  perhaps because they are facing the sex abuse scandal..... but also likely they have been working on some fancy surprises for the upcoming special international conventions, to excite their masses......... and also try to detract them from the scandals.

  it would be good timing of their part.. this should be interesting......... .

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  Quote "upcoming special INTERNATIONAL conventions will contain somekind of majorinformation or releases.

  Thats the exact same thing they said in the spring of 1968.
  Better not miss it. All faithfull Jehovah's Witnesses will be there during the same week. That's so they will be easier for the Angels to protect. While GOD destroys the rest of the world. The only thing that happened was NH said the end would come, and Christ would be completely in charge before the fall of 1975

  But they did sell a lot of books ( including the Aid Book ) that were not even important enough to still be in print.

  What a bunch of greedy liers
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  What we have now is a "corpocracy:"

  by footprints in

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  found this here information in one o those radical uncontroled freepress things: hope you find it interesting.

  over the phone, michael toms sounds a lot different than he does when hosting his nationally syndicated radio show, "new dimensions.

  " as host, he tends to speak in soft-edged, gentle tones, offering a kind of sonic beanbag for both guests and listeners.. outside the studio, however, toms bristles with a fiery passion when discussing his latest book, titled "a time for choices: deep dialogues for a deep democracy.".

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  Found this here information in one o those radical uncontroled freepress things: hope you find it interesting

  Over the phone, Michael Toms sounds a lot different than he does when hosting his nationally syndicated radio show, "New Dimensions." As host, he tends to speak in soft-edged, gentle tones, offering a kind of sonic beanbag for both guests and listeners.

  Outside the studio, however, Toms bristles with a fiery passion when discussing his latest book, titled "A Time for Choices: Deep Dialogues for a Deep Democracy."

  What began, he says, as a search for new perspectives in the wake of Sept. 11, is now being published as a collection of interviews. Along with presenting a range of voices, Toms offers his own call for a renewal of American democracy.

  Instead of a government "of the people, by the people, for the people," described by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address, Toms says what we have now is a "corpocracy:" a government stolen from its citizens and sold to the highest bidder; a system where power is increasingly consolidated in the hands of the executive branch, with decisions based on the will of corporate campaign donors rather than common citizens.

  In the days following the attack on the World Trade Center, Toms says he found himself "compelled to start talking to people. I started calling people I know and people I didn't know and asked them how they responded to the changed landscape after 9/11.

  "I didn't start out to write a book," he adds. "I just (wanted) to find out what people were thinking because I was struggling to get my mind around what happened, and I'm still working on it."

  That struggle has led Toms to a number of conclusions, the first of which is that the American public is being spoon-fed a highly restricted view of the world.

  "What I have come to realize beyond any shadow of a doubt," he argues, "is that there are myriad of choices we have, and these choices are not being presented in the mainstream major media."

  Seeking alternatives

  For instance, he argues, now that Osama bin Laden has mysteriously "morphed" into the figure of Saddam Hussein in the eyes of the media and the White House, "essentially, what we are hearing is a one-dimensional view of what we have to do. We have to take out Hussein this building momentum toward a war with Iraq.

  "What is not being said," Toms continues, is that in taking out Saddam Hussein, "who clearly is a dictator and not a good guy," the U.S. will also be "killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians."

  "Nine percent of the media in this country is owned by major corporations: Disney, AOL/Time Warner. Clear Channel alone has 1,400 radio stations in the United States," Toms added.

  With the Bush administration working to remove restrictions on how many media outlets one company can own in a single area, Toms says, freedom of the press is increasingly under threat.

  "I go back to Thomas Jefferson, who said when people have the information they will make intelligent decisions. That is what he meant about the free press."

  His book, says Toms, is all about offering "alternative choices" to those provided by the government and corporate media, both in terms of going to war, and in terms of our daily lives in a consumer-driven society that stresses what we own above who we are. The two are intertwined, he argues, particularly when it comes to America's unquenchable thirst for oil.

  "We have to become aware that as Americans we are consuming upwards of 40 percent of the world's natural resources," he points out, adding that it is no coincidence the second largest supply of oil in the world is in Iraq.

  Optimism, not pessimism

  While some of the insights offered by those interviewed are of dubious value such as the man who compares the scene of the World Trade Center attack both to a "spear ramming through Christ's chest" and to "a woman breaking waters to give birth" others offer an unusually sharp-edged and uncompromising view of the gap between what our leaders say and what they often do.

  In one interview, MIT linguistics professor and policy analyst Noam Chomsky notes that while the U.S. justifies a potential invasion by arguing Iraq has supported terrorism and defied the will of the international community, it is guilty of the same thing.

  As one example, he cites the Reagan administration's covert war against the government of Nicaragua in the 1980s, a war that violated both U.S. and international law and included attacks on non-military targets and the mining of Nicaraguan harbors.

  Despite what some may see as a dire state of American democracy, Toms argues this is a time for optimism and reaffirmation, not pessimism.

  "Deep Democracy," he says, noting his book's subtitle, "is going back to the universal core values which launched this nation."

  The more information citizens have, he argues, the more they'll be able to change things for the better. And while the history of our government is far from pure, he said, the ideals on which it was founded remain eternal and ever evolving.

  "At its core," Toms says of the Declaration of Independence, "it is a spiritual document...

  "The Declaration and the Constitution are part of an unfolding process; they are not complete. People fought for those things just like we have to fight as citizens today for civil liberties and our democratic rights.

  "We are the sovereign voice of government in the United States...And we need to speak up and to engage in our rights as citizens. Questioning authority is inherent in the formation of our government. The American Revolution was about dialogue and dissent. Dissent is not unpatriotic. Dissent," he insists, "is as patriotic as you can get."
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  Do you remember this???/

  by footprints in

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  2. friends

  many on this site were busy with meetings and fieldservice from 1980 until the mid 1990,s so i would like to share this reminder of what was happening in the world.

  the writer used a lot of rough language so if the f___ word offends you maybe you should skip it.. .

  http://www.bartcop.com/kissmyass.htm.

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  footprints

  Many on this site were busy with meetings and fieldservice from 1980 until the mid 1990,s so I would like to share this reminder of what was happening in the world. The writer used a lot of rough language so if the F___ word offends you maybe you should skip it.

  http://www.bartcop.com/kissmyass.htm

  P.S. If you do not have medical insurance register to vote.
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  Do you know who this is?

  by footprints in

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  2. friends

  while going through old pictures and scanning them into a database i found this?

  i cannot remember his name.

  my email is open feel free to contact me.. thanks

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  Thanks very much Athanasius and Gopher
  I knew who he was and what he did I just couldnt remember his name. I am sad to hear that he is still in. He seemed Honest.

  Honesty is more than just making change correctly at a cash register. It also requires admitting when something is a lie.

  I feel strongly that all the honest peope have either come out or will be out shortly.

  Thanks again for the information
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  Do you know who this is?

  by footprints in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  while going through old pictures and scanning them into a database i found this?

  i cannot remember his name.

  my email is open feel free to contact me.. thanks

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  While going through old pictures and scanning them into a database I found this?
  
  I cannot remember his name. Does anyone out there know him.
  
  If so please let me know. Also do you know if he is still in or has he also excaped.?

  My email is open feel free to contact me.
  Thanks
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  Thread for support of diet and exercise...tips

  by LyinEyes in

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  last nite in chat i had a good time talking about different weight loss strategies and exercise.

  i am trying to get myself in shape ,start walking and my diet is in need of a major overhaul.

  what do you think is the best way to get in shape?

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  It is said that walking burns the same number of calories per mile as running, but without the stress on knees and other joints. This is the location of an calorie calculator that some may find helpfull.

  www.runnersworld.com/home/0,1300,1-51-58-1069,00.html

  Hint: To loose a pound of fat a person must avoid eating or work off about 3,000 calories

  Haven't decided which one I'll do. I love food and hate exercise.
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  OJ makes me sick

  by hannibal in

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  did anyone see oj simpson on espn last night?.

  dan patrick interveiwed that scumbag.dan asked him... .

  ya, so do you still spend money trying to find nicoles killer?.

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  Quote "He went into that courtroom presumed an innocent man."

  Yup and he was still an innocent man after the criminal trial. Declared so by a jury.

  Some juries refuse to met out any justice. Some juries take the law into their own hand.

  Either way there could only be reasonable doubt if there was another reasonable explanation.

  I would like to hear all the reasonable explanations of other ways she may have died. Might make great reading.

  By the way, the last jury, the civil jury ,declared him guilty of causing her death and levied the largest punishment they could. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$