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  I got an e-mail for a long-lost dub friend

  by Mackin in

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  there is this woman i used to correspond with back in my dub days but lost contact with several years ago.

  anyway just the other day she sent me an e-mail out of the blue.. she wanted to know if i was "in" or "out" as she was planning a trip to australia and if i was still "in" possibly we could meet (obviously i would have to travel to oz).

  she had heard i wasn't going to the meetings any more.. i replied that i was definitely not "in" any longer but that i wasn't da'd or df'd and if she wanted to read my story i provided her a link to my story on this site.

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  WELL, the next day I had a brief and very curt message back from her that since I was obviously now an apostate she wanted nothing more to do with me and that she was going to delete all the e-mails I had ever sent her as well as destroy the gifts I had sent years ago that she still had. And she was going to delete any references to my e-mail address on her system. As far as she is concerned I am now dead. So even though I have not been DF'd, she has decided to shun me anyway.

  Same kind of "Christian love" that my family shows towards me! Sad, really. But, there are always surrogate family members to help take up the slack. Glad I'm "out", too! Sheesh - almost 10 years, now - not once have I gnashed my teeth!

  -- Mike
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  nagging doubt

  by JNS2 in

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  my journey from lurker to poster was pretty quick.

  all the posts are addicting to read, this is worse than being a couch potato.

  i've been fortified to make a clean break & them the little inner voice starts talking back.

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  Welcome! Many of us were where you are right now - including me. Here is a web site that helped me quiet those nagging little voices:

  http://members.aol.com/beyondjw/

  Enjoy!

  -- Mike
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  Elephants Yeah!!

  by expatbrit in

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  my cultural contribution for the weekend, for pavarotti fans:.

  http://www.rathergood.com/elephants/.

  expatbrit

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  Michael3000

  Please tell me that this has a sound file!? No sound card on my work comp

  -- Mike
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  My First Post - OK, I'm In Now.

  by TheItalian in

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  i apologize in advance for the length.

  when i finally resolved myself to choose a nick, after a year and a half spent as an infamous lurker, i very likely thought to be the only one from this vaticanland interested in this weird net-place and its inhabitants.

  but yesterday i found out it's not this way.

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  Michael3000

  Benvenuto, J J !

  From a fellow Italian (OK - only on my Dad's side - Mom's German; now THAT was an Axis of Evil, I tell I ya!). Where in Italy do you reside? Don't answer, if you think you'll get in trouble. My paternal grandparents came from the Malfa provence on the island of Salina, just northwest of Sicily.

  Again, welcome to the board, now as a non-Lurker.

  -- Mike Sidoti
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  Question for Americans

  by bay64me in

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  i have just got the address of an old friend that moved to the states some time ago.. is the name frederick a town?

  and do the letters md, in the post code mean anything?.

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  Michael3000

  Yes Maryland is quite large. It is considered a suburb of Washington DC.

  ...and folks wonder why Americans are so bad at geography!

  Maryland is a state unto itself: Washington D.C. is a district, crammed between Maryland, Virginia & Delaware. My wife is from Baltimore, Hon.
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  I Want to Paint a Portrait of Comforter, but...

  by Stephanus in

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  ...i've run out of yellow!

  lol.

  actually, i do have something left called "lemon yellow hue", which has the chemical name "nickel titanate".

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  Michael3000

  My aunt painted her unit the Lemon Yellow colour on the top left there.

  Hey, Prisca - I painted my unit Yellow once; but my wife didn't like it. She said if she wanted to be violated by a fruit, she'd buy some of those Richard Simmons exercise videos!

  -- M

  Edited by - Michael3000 on 6 January 2003 15:27:5
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  OOOOO, this is gonna hurt, and I put the hurt on..

  by Jesika in

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  i don't know if everyone knows, but my boyfriend (alex) bought me a health club membership for my birthday(i asked for one).

  so, the package deal he got was a buy 1yr get 2 free deal including 5 free personal training sessions.

  well, the first one was easy---------------measurements,weighing in,goals,new diet, and so forth.

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  Well, Jessika - at the risk of sounding like a perv - I did meet you at the Silent Lambs march in Brooklyn last year, and... you are quite a cutie and I'd guess that whatever your training goals are, you don't have far to go! Good luck with everything.

  -- Mike, of the Boy - do I have a ways to go! Class

  Edited by - Michael3000 on 6 January 2003 15:20:19
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  Suspicious death?

  by Nathan Natas in

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  a 20 year old jw dies on the day after his birthday.

  coincidence?

  http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?brd=2035&dept_id=238099&newsid=6557380&pag=461&rfi=9

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  Michael3000

  I'll say that's suspicious - who ever heard of death from "pending"? Now, I don't know what "pending" is - but I'm against it!

  -- Mike

  Edited by - Michael3000 on 6 January 2003 15:22:38
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  Posted my pic

  by kelsey007 in

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  just seeing if my pic posted on my profile---- lol.

  cant seem to get pic on screen.....edited by - kelsey007 on 3 january 2003 22:17:42.

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  Michael3000

  Kinda looks like Mickey Mouse in a peg-leg pirate outfit...???
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  Merry X-Mas Everyone!

  by Kent in

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  merry x-mas folks!

  i'm finally finished tormenting myself for this year, and i'm leaving for 14 days holidays with my wife to a place in the sun :) .

  a little information as well.

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  Michael3000

  KENT -

  WT Observer was one of the first sites I stumbled across after I had already left the Kingdumb Hall & all of its wackiness. It helped me confirm that I had escaped from a publishing company masquerading as a religion - rather than anything approved by, set up by, or "organized" by God.

  Hope your Holidays (and your holiday/vacation) went well.

  YAKKI-DA!!!

  -- Mike