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  Christmas gifts and cards received checklist

  by LDH in

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  well i know mine got where it was supposed to go....i saw the tracking number this morning.. merry christmas!

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  I got mine today!

  Snakes, did you participate in Secret Santa?
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  IMAGE: The Ham Sandwich Blood Policy

  by V in

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  i have always thought the "ham sandwich" was an apt simile for the jw policy of allowing blood fractions but not whole blood.

  i created the graphic below to illustrate this in the watchtower comments video "question jws: blood" (see below).. i had a request for this image and thought i would share it with you all.

  right-click to download.

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  PS that is one good looking ham sandwich!
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  IMAGE: The Ham Sandwich Blood Policy

  by V in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i have always thought the "ham sandwich" was an apt simile for the jw policy of allowing blood fractions but not whole blood.

  i created the graphic below to illustrate this in the watchtower comments video "question jws: blood" (see below).. i had a request for this image and thought i would share it with you all.

  right-click to download.

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  yeah the havarti part cracked me up too.

  thanks V.
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  Christmas gifts and cards received checklist

  by LDH in

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  well i know mine got where it was supposed to go....i saw the tracking number this morning.. merry christmas!

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  Well I know mine got where it was supposed to go....I saw the tracking number this morning.

  Merry Christmas!
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  I can't believe what I did.

  by reneeisorym in

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  so yesterday i was watching the news and i saw something about secret santa.

  there is this movement of people who hand random strangers $100 bills at places like laundry mats and thrift stores.

  so i was "moved" and decided to give it a shot.

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  The last time I went to Walmart was in March of this year. There was a woman who had her kids out selling candy bars for money. No, not for an organization, just for money. It was around 9 at night and my son had already been in bed for an hour.

  These dirty little rag-a-muffins should have been doing homework and getting a bath. Instead mom was pimping them out.

  I stopped and spoke directly to the children. I asked them if they had done their homework, they said no. I just kept walking and went inside the store. I was moved to buy each of them a toy...it was two little boys and a little girl. I took it back out to them and gave each of them their toy and told them how important it was to do homework and to get good grades in school, I then gave mom a lecture about if she was going to have them out here doing that shit the least she could do is bring their homework with them! Told her she needed to get them home and in the bathtub and in bed.

  She was so happy for her kids, she made sure they each said thank you about a million times.....they left after that.

  So to answer your question, I am frequently moved to commit kindness to complete strangers and no I do not think it makes you crazy.
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  My Uncle Passed Away a few Hours Ago

  by orangefatcat in

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  a couple of hours ago when i got home from shopping the telephone rang my son answered it he said, "mom, aunt mary just called and uncle richard just passed away", i was just devasted.

  it isn't sinking in.

  my mind isn't somewhere else.. i believe i mentioned about him in a post a few days ago that he was just diagnosed with pulmanary fibrosis, i am in total shock, as the doctor told him he had about one to three years to live.

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  OFC I'm really sorry to hear this.

  What a shock to have him gone so soon after you all were given hope. I'm really sorry.
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  Google Gives Employees Lousy Christmas Bonus

  by leavingwt in

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  2. current

  nothing says merry christmas like cold, hard cash.. this year, google is giving its employees an iphone wannabe:.

  http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/12/21/google-shares-the-holiday-spirit-with-employees.

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  yes, it does blow away the iPhone, which my daughter just returned home from Japan with hers, brand new, $499, extremely glitchy.

  I think an enterprising employee could sell this on ebay if they chose to.

  Google doesn't owe them anything--it's too bad people couldn't be grateful for receiving a GIFT, which is what a bonus is.
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  Raising children as JW's

  by lancelink in

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  tonight my wife and i attended a christmas play held at a local church.

  it was really cute, 4-8 year olds recreating the whole christ story, when suddenly this totally empty feeling hit me like a punch to the face.

  i realized how much we missed out with our own two kids by raising them as jws.

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  I frequently thought of it from the other perspective once I had children.

  I felt sorry for my parents, that they missed out on all the things that other parents enjoy with their children. Cheering at games. Helping out during holiday parties in the classroom. Watching the kindergarten Christmas program. Cooking for 200 people for an out of town high school competition.

  Now that I'm a parent for almost twenty years, I feel that I can speak on it intelligently. There is no way in hell I would miss those memories with my children.

  The JWs take away all the fun things from parents and children, and all that's left is rote memorization and blind obedience and the ever present opportunity for the parents to be frustrated and angry at their child because a six year old can't sit still during the meetings. It's no wonder so many JW parents hit their children. The pressure of getting children ready for the loving 5 meals per week spiritual indoctrination sessions, plus the door to door sales pressure, it's almost impossible for that relationship to thrive.

  I have heard of very few, if any, JW child/parent healthy relationships.

  They are all built on subterfuge.

  And I do give you credit for saying you made a mistake. Most are too stubborn to admit that to themselves, much less to others.
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  How many jws go door knocking christmas week?

  by badboy in

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  any ideas?

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  I went out on many a Christmas day and thought it was the HEIGHT of disrespect that these fools wouldn't even listen to me on the one day a year they're supposed to be caring about Jesus.

  They were much too busy doing useless things like spending enjoyable time with their families to interrupt themselves to listen to my cult dialogue.
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  "Milgram Test" Repeated; People Still Willing to Torture

  by leavingwt in

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  more information on why your friends and loved ones can treat you so horribly, at the request of an authority figure -- watchtower.

  decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure.. us researchers repeated the famous "milgram test", with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor.

  even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the american psychology study found.

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  I can think of a bunch of old Pharasees I wouldn't mind carrying out this experiment on. Do you think they would ship this equipment to 117 Adams Street?