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  Shark photography

  by MegaDude in

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  now that you have time on your hands because you're not a jw anymore, here is an amazing experience to add to your to-do list before you take the dirt nap.. video by super photographer eric cheng.. http://echeng.com/video/tigerbeach2-480-low.wmvhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4021480117524944318&q=eric+cheng&hl=en.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7559571710800445125&q=eric+cheng&hl=en.

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  MegaDude

  C'mon, Mary! The Bahamas beckon, hon! ROFLMAO!
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  Shark photography

  by MegaDude in

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  2. friends

  now that you have time on your hands because you're not a jw anymore, here is an amazing experience to add to your to-do list before you take the dirt nap.. video by super photographer eric cheng.. http://echeng.com/video/tigerbeach2-480-low.wmvhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4021480117524944318&q=eric+cheng&hl=en.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7559571710800445125&q=eric+cheng&hl=en.

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  They're just so friendly and petable.

  This trip leaves out of Miami with Jim Abernathy and hangs out around the Bahamas.
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  Shark photography

  by MegaDude in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  now that you have time on your hands because you're not a jw anymore, here is an amazing experience to add to your to-do list before you take the dirt nap.. video by super photographer eric cheng.. http://echeng.com/video/tigerbeach2-480-low.wmvhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4021480117524944318&q=eric+cheng&hl=en.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7559571710800445125&q=eric+cheng&hl=en.

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  MegaDude

  Now that you have time on your hands because you're not a JW anymore, here is an amazing experience to add to your to-do list before you take the dirt nap.

  Video by super photographer Eric Cheng.

  http://echeng.com/video/TigerBeach2-480-low.wmv

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4021480117524944318&q=eric+cheng&hl=en

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7559571710800445125&q=eric+cheng&hl=en
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  What song do you listen to... to brighten up your day?

  by daystar in

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  brighter than sunshineby aqualungi never understood before .

  i never knew what love was for .

  my heart was broke, my head was sore .

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  MegaDude

  Any uplifting good piece of jazz music:

  "This is the Season" by Ronnie Jordan

  "Let's Fall in Love" by Diana Krall

  "Love's Like That" by Boney James

  "Indian Summer" by Chris Botti

  "Have You Heard" and "Minuano (Six Eight)" by Pat Metheny
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  Stockpiling?

  by girasole in

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  my mother said that the society sent a letter out to all congregations recently saying that they should keep a few days of food and supplies stored up in the case of a disaster.

  anyone else heard this?

  apparently it has stirred a lot of discussion about the fast approaching end of the system.

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  Yeaaaaah, right.
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  Sting Rays Being Slaughtered and Mutilated in Irwin backlash

  by Crumpet in

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  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/12092006/140/irwin-backlash-stingrays-slaughtered.html.

  at least 10 stingrays have been found dead and mutilated on australia's eastern coast since crocodile hunter steve irwin was killed by one of the animals last week.

  the killings have prompted fears of "revenge attacks" against the normally docile fish.

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  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6738224824814787656&q=stingray+city&hl=en

  This is a cool place I have been to play with stingrays and pet a morray eel.
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  Five years posting!

  by LittleToe in

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  it doesn't seem two minutes since i first joined this site.

  on the other hand it feels like i've been here forever, accumulating about 15,000 posts in the process.. it was a wednesday (12 september 2001) on a small island off the west coast of scotland .

  in recent months i had experienced a spiritual awakening of such proportions that it caused me to question one after another of the beliefs that i'd been raised with as a jw.

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  MegaDude

  This is off topic but no Texan can match Ballastic when he says in a Southern drawl, "Ahm a gonna open up ah can of whup asssss." LOL. Great avatar.
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  Five years posting!

  by LittleToe in

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  it doesn't seem two minutes since i first joined this site.

  on the other hand it feels like i've been here forever, accumulating about 15,000 posts in the process.. it was a wednesday (12 september 2001) on a small island off the west coast of scotland .

  in recent months i had experienced a spiritual awakening of such proportions that it caused me to question one after another of the beliefs that i'd been raised with as a jw.

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  Ross,

  I'm really glad you're a prolific post-writing whore. (LOL) Your insight and advice have been invaluable to me. You have that rare balance of positive spirituality and compassion for people.
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  IS MAN INHERITEDLY GOOD OR EVIL?

  by Mary in

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  all of us were raised by someone and even though our cultures vary greatly as to what constitutes "good" and "evil", there's some pretty basic guidelines that people are generally raised to believe.. if there were no set guidelines as to how we should act, would humans grow up good or evil if there wasn't someone else telling them what to do?

  what is our inherited nature?

  to be like ghandi or hitler?

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  The common denominator to me seems to be that we are species that enjoys peace and goodness but that we are not cohesive, prone to easily slip into insanity in varying degrees which leads to evil.
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  Who, on this board, go to church now???

  by mama1119 in

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  i wondered how many abandoned going to any kind of church.

  or, if there are some who go to a church now.

  was it weird at first to go?

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  MegaDude

  I felt like a rudderless ship when I left the JWs and decided to just go visiting and see how the other half lived as it were. In that respect I was a tourist visiting different denominations and experiencing firsthand what the people and community were like: non-denom churches, Baptists, Church of Christ, charismatic, the Unity Church, et cetera. I read a lot: history of Christianity, about Islam, about Buddhism, about Scientology, Catholicism, atheism, positivity, Satanism, the New Age and agnosticism and atheism. Talked to everyone and anyone that was willing to talk about their views.

  People are generally easily led and have a strong desire to be told what to do and believe. Combine that with the sad fact there are people who wish to exert influence for personal gain, be it for financial reasons, egoistic or to reinforce their own culture, and it's no wonder that "truth" can be an elusive search. You have to do your own thinking, your own reasoning. And after being conditioned for decades like a JW Marine it was a challenge.

  One thing that helped is I paid attention to people I would generally rate as happy or had that sense about them. I was forward in asking them questions about their views and their life.

  It finally seemed logical to me that if there is a creator, an intelligence that made this reality we call life, that no matter who we are, where we are, that we should be able to connect to it by just simply asking to reveal itself in our life. Then paying attention to what shows up. I have found that to be true in my own experience. That's why I believe.