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  Hope for prisoners. Or, why not commit suicide?

  by easyreader1970 in

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  this is copied from a post on reddit.com.

  while i don't (yet) have the urge to remove myself from life, i can understand the hopelessness part of this.. .

  the reason i am making this submission with this title is because i find my life to be mostly similar to a prisoner.

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  snakeface

  When I was a MS I was involved in the prison ministry and I worked with many prisoners, including death row inmates in the state's most secure supermax facility. I had direct contact with them, not separated by glass or bars. One particular death row inmate wanted to be executed and get it over with. However as his case was going through the appeals process there was the possibility that his sentence would be commuted to Life Without Parole. He did not want to spend the rest of his life in prison so he killed himself. I don't blame him! And I'm sure there have been other cases like this.

  Also, Luo bou to posted: "I don't see why suicide can't be a rational decision" I thought of the example of the Twin Towers on 9/11. Some who were trapped inside realized they were going to perish in the flames, and therefore decided to jump to their death.
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  What Are "Feel Good" Songs That You Like?

  by minimus in

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  "i love you more today than yesterday" by the one hit spiral staircase always makes me feel good when i hear it!.

  what's a "feel good" song that makes you smile or brightens up your day?.

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  snakeface

  "Pink Shoelaces". It's from 1959 or something.
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  I am still a green blob!

  by GrandmaJones in

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  i have followed everyone's advice.

  i went to the gravatar site.

  i registered, got an email with a link to active my account, clicked on the link, got a further response that i was registered, went to my new account, yes they had me under my email,emptied my "cache", i chose a picture, gave it a g rating, and confirmed my photo and email together.

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  snakeface

  Shall the clay say to the potter, "Why did you make me into a green blob?"

  Be thankful. Green blobs are easier to find in a crowded parking lot. Green goes with everything. Imagine if you had to be a purple blob! What would your life be like then? Scarey thought, huh? All the other blobs would laugh and call you names, and never let you join in any blob games.
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  Angels are all male?

  by sabastious in

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  genesis 6: 1, 2 - 1 when human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of god saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.. so angels are only attracted to female humans.. anyone else find this extremely telling?.

  -sab.

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  I have the same thought as Blondie. I don't think it really has to do with these angels wanting to experience sexual pleasure at all. It has to do with the ability to reproduce. Angels cannot yet they observed lower forms of life - animals - reproducing. The only other being they knew of who could bring living things into existence was God himself, who also brought them into existence. I can understand why they'd be jealous.

  Add to that, because of the rebellion in Eden Satan and all the angels who sided with him received a death sentence with no hope of a resurrection. Yet, Adam and Eve sinned, but although they too received a death sentence they at least were allowed to procreate. In that sense, Adam and Eve would get to live on. In addition, as human society grew man began to rule over one another whereas Satan was punished for trying to rule over humans.

  These angels figured out a way to get around all this. Materialize as "super" men, bully the human males, take their women, and create a hybrid race. Maybe take over rulership of the planet? But then God found a way to ruin their plan. By bringing the flood, the only way these offspring could survive was to dematerialize again. So essentially God killed the women and the hybrid children, but not these angels. However these angels weren't able to bring any women back with them.
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  JW gets attacked by police dog and bites back!

  by pr0ner in

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  where in the world was the holy spirit?

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  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39978891/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/.

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  snakeface

  If she was being disobedient to her parents they'd probably show her the scripture that talks about the wild beast attacking the harlot, eating her fleshy parts and leaving her devasted and naked.
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  Reporting time

  by serein in

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  has any of u ever put a report in and added time u didnt do on it.

  i have ......just so theyd stop bugging me its like every time i sat down have u put ur report in thats all they talked to me for,.

  then id get ignored rest of the time,.

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  snakeface

  I always thought of it this way. What if the ministry was my job, something I was charging the society an hourly fee for? I would expect to be paid starting when I arrived at the Hall, just as I expect my employer to start my time as soon as I show up at the office whether the computers are down or not. At my job I don't punch out when I go to the restroom or get coffee in the breakroom. So it was the same with field service. If we met at the Hall at 9AM and then at noon we were back in the kingdom hall parking lot, I'd count 3 hours. It didn't matter if we drove 30 minutes to the territory, worked an hour, took a 15-minute break, then I sat in the car for 15 minutes while others were on a return visit. I made myself available from 9-12 so I counted the 3 hours.
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  cause some commotion with elders book

  by TheLoveDoctor in

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  how about pringting 2 or 3 selected pages from ks book say from judicial section.

  make 3 or 4 copies of those pages and plant them in diffrent spots in the kingdom hall.

  then watch.

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  snakeface

  Put them in the stalls of the ladies rooms at the Halls and at conventions. One in the drawer of the magazine counter, one in the territory book, one under the sound system controls.

  One at each not-at-home.
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  Every publisher must pay for assembly costs???

  by sacolton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just saw this posted on watchtower uncensored .... .

  want to hear the latest debacle?

  the po in my mom's congregation told them that at the next 1-day-assembly it will be the responsibility of every publisher to put 3 in the box towards the running costs at the assembly hall.

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  snakeface

  It certainly does cost money to have these assemblies and conventions, even if the building is owned by the circuit or the society and already paid for.

  Let's take for an example an assembly hall that was built 20 or 30 years ago and is paid for, and there is a 2-day assembly there 50 weeks out of the year. There is an electric bill, water bill, let's say the parking lot has to be resurfaced every 5 years, seats need recovering every 3 years, the carpeting replaced every 10 years, toilet seats replaced every 5 years. All those costs can be broken down and averaged out, and divided by 50 weeks. Then they can estimate how much $ it costs to operate and maintain the building for each assembly. it does make sense that each congregation or each circuit should pay for their "share" of the expenses. But many JWs can barely afford the gas to get there, let alone the motel rooms.

  A more cost-effective idea would be not to have such large meetings. Cover the material on a congregation level, perhaps in special study articles or special Sunday talks. Each congregation has to support itself anyway; why add to that burden?
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  Every publisher must pay for assembly costs???

  by sacolton in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  just saw this posted on watchtower uncensored .... .

  want to hear the latest debacle?

  the po in my mom's congregation told them that at the next 1-day-assembly it will be the responsibility of every publisher to put 3 in the box towards the running costs at the assembly hall.

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  snakeface

  Why don't they just sell tickets to get in, like a movie theatre?
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  So am about to take a shower...

  by sabastious in

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  ...and i see this ant on my floor with another ant (dead) in his mouth and he's carrying him across my floor.. ?.

  -sab.

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  snakeface

  Mary is right! She must be a prophet! Promote Appoint her to some position of responsibility. Give her something, someone, to oversee.