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  Songs

  by lola28 in

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  to make you try to feel ok. and nothing you could do.

  to stop me feeling the way i do.

  and if the chance should happen.

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  nilfun

  Three is a magic number.
  Yes it is, it's a magic number.
  Somewhere in the ancient, mystic trinity
  You get three as a magic number.
  The past and the present and the future,
  Faith and hope and charity,
  The heart and the brain and the body
  Give you three.
  That's a magic number.

  It takes three legs to make a tri-pod or to make a table stand.
  It takes three wheels to make a ve-hicle called a tricycle.
  Every triangle has three corners,
  Every triangle has three sides,
  No more, no less.
  You don't have to guess.
  When it's three you can see it's a magic number.

  A man and a woman had a little baby.
  Yes, they did.
  They had three in the family.
  That's a magic number.
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  Strangest Local Needs?!?!?!?!

  by thepackage in

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  what was the starngest local needs topic you ever heard???

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  nilfun

  Apparently there was a "petting problem" going on during the meetings. I didn't even know what "petting" was until that particular talk. As a child, I didn't need to hear or have explained to me in explicit detail what petting was. Idiots.
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  Whose been ripped off financially by his JW brother?

  by Spectrum in

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  i posted this in another thread but it is more relevant here.

  i worked for jw doing back breaking work for a while only to be told by another jw that he was ripping me of - he was paying me half the going rate.

  i was only 17 and naive didn't know anything about the world of work.

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  Yes, as minors my younger siblings and I were exploited by a sister and her worldly husband because we were desperate for the money. The work was manual, sometimes backbreaking in nature. At the end of the workday, we would pool the money and buy food.

  In another instance, a pioneer sister ran a daycare, and when she found out how much the family was hurting for money, she offered for us kids to run the daycare so she could pioneer. In that instance I never saw any money ( I think it bypassed us and went directly to my mother??), except for a five dollar note she pressed into my hand a few weeks after we had started working there. What actually happened was she lined us kids up and handed out a dollar each to my siblings. I guess I got "the jackpot" with the five bucks. What I remember being the most difficult part of that job was feeding time for the daycare kids. We were not allowed to eat the daycare kids' food, and since we didn't have any of food of our own to eat, we just had to spend the day without anything to eat. Boy, that was hard -- our mouths would literally be watering as we fed them their meals, with nothing for us. Boy, I haven't thought about that in a long time...
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  What do your kids say about shunning? Let's get a list going

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  i talked to zachary (my 7-year-old) about shunning.

  i brought it up out of the blue, in the hopes of getting his real thoughts and not leading him into anything.. me: "hey zach.

  if god told you to never talk to me again, what would you do?".

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  Q: What if we went to a church that told you:

  "God says you shouldn't talk to your Mom anymore."

  child 2:

  That's not nice. I wouldn't believe them and I wouldn't do it because I love you.

  child 1:

  That doesn't sound very good. I would quit that church and keep talking to you because you're my mom.
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  "BIG NEWS" made Forbes magazine

  by DevonMcBride in

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  http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/feeds/ap/2006/01/26/ap2479474.html .

  associated press .

  religion today .

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  Wow
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  My Husband

  by mrsjones5 in

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  on the 12th of this month, around 9:30pm, i was getting ready to leave for work.

  running around, putting on clothes, making sure i had everything ready and the kids were settled in bed.

  my husband, shawn, was laying aross our bed, resting, he stood up and suddenlly put his hand to his chest.

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  Glad to hear he's doing better. Best of luck to you both (())
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  My husband had a heart attack

  by MsMcDucket in

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  hello all, the last 24+ hours, i've been at the hospital.

  i took my husband in because he was having chest pains.

  come to find out his cardiac enzymes were elevated and his ekg was abnormal.

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  Sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery (())
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  Would you???

  by BlessedStar in

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  you've heard about jesus.. you've choosen to believe or not to believe.. you've accepted jesus or you haven't.. let's say jesus came down now for his people.what would you do or say to jesus if you now know he is true?

  (keeping in mind that god is the judge and some people will go to heaven and most will burn in hell!!).

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  nilfun

  And ask him why he did not succeed in having one clear message for mankind . Because we could not follow what we did not understand ...

  ..yes. Saying that those who do not submit will be tortured forever and ever (even John Wayne Gacy eventually killed those he sadistically tortured) is likening Jesus' words in the bible as a "Requiremento" of sorts: believe or face unspeakable torture (but the conquistadores who implemented the requiremento eventually murdered many of those they made suffer).

  So some followers of Jesus believe that if we do not submit -- that Jesus will send us to a place where we will be tortured gruesomely (much like a serial killer inflicts horrific injuries on its victims) not for an hour, not for a week, not even for a year, or a lifetime, but for all of eternity.

  Sounds pretty sick to me. But to each, their own.

  If Jesus came... if Jesus came -- I am sure he would enlighten me -- as to why so many of those who have taken up his banner seem to especially relish this particular belief.
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  requiem

  by bebu in

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  i feel the need to update the ending to my mother's story.. after her surgery last september, when no tumor was found, she went home to enjoy happy visits from family (constantly), recovery, and two new kittens.

  one month of happiness at her home, which she had designed herself 20 years ago.

  my parents were reading and preparing her for living with ms, which was her new diagnosis.. .

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  A poignant remembrance, Bebu. You have my heartfelt condolences (())
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  heard back from my dad - you won't believe it!

  by freedomlover in

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  2. experiences

  hey all you great people - in case you read my letter i sent to my dad the other day you may be interested in his reply.

  (see topic history for letter to my dad) .

  i am so happy and relieved.

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  nilfun

  Hey, that's just phenomenal -- one of the most touching letters I've ever read on here.