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  If you could have written any piece of music what would it be?

  by azaria in

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  maybe teejays thread inspired me.

  (in the family section) maybe because the church service this morning was especially inspiring.

  there are so many beautiful songs.

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  J.S. Bach's Mass In B Minor.
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  "I Guess We Won"t See It In This System Of Things..."

  by minimus in

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  that is a common jw statement.... what could they be referring to??

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  It means they have pretty much become comfortable with the concept of dying on "this side of the new system(TM)", and have resigned themsleves to sticking to the party line, no matter what. Sounds like my 70-something parents.
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  Bethel Memories Good and Bad

  by joelbear in

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  dave inspired me with his story of his week at bethel.

  the fish in the pond outside the e building at the watchtower farm would eat out of your hand, very cool.

  the fall colors of the mountains with the morning sunshine on them outside the dining hall at the farm were spectacular.

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  Hey, Jeff - who was that overseer? I seem to remember you & I being at Brooklyn around the same time (I was there from 1986 - 1989). My best friend at the time got dismissed from the Commuter Bethelite program (after four years!) for not smiling enough. What a bunch o' blowhards.
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  Hunkalicious!!!

  by Frannie Banannie in

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  i can tell that this guy has a great sense of humor....what more could ya ask for?

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  Yep - Hunkalicious, right there, on the right.
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  Weed anyone ?

  by NEWWORLDSLACKER in

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  let me make this very clear from the get go , i am neither for or against the use of marijuana .

  but it has just occurred to me that many of my life long friends have either had periods in there life where they have or continue to smoke it .

  what if anything has your experience with pot taught you either about yourself or someone you know , was it a positive or negative infuence .

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  Weed anyone ?

  Yes, please!!
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  Hopefully, this means Bush won't get re-"elected"...

  by Michael3000 in

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  from the san francisco chronicle's mark morford:.

  = mark's notes & errata ==.

  where opinion meets benign syntax abuse .

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  Reborn and BadWillie, I thank you.
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  Well, my little brother is heading back to the Dark Side...

  by Michael3000 in

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  this is so frustrating - just wanted to vent a bit.. .

  my younger brother, who has been "inactive" for about 8 years, has decided that everything wrong about his life is due to his not being "right with jehovah".

  arrrrrrgh!!!

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  WOW! What a response to my post! Sorry I took so long to read & reply.

  Thanks, everyone! I really appreciate all the support and kind comments. My brother had been inactive for 7 or 8 years - so I thought he was all done with the Dub life. I do think (and many of you mentioned this) that he may have been going through a rough patch in life, and went back to what we grew up with. After attending meetings for "only a month" , as some of you pointed out, I'm sure the elders and the "friends" smothered him at the first sign of his wanting to return. I am sure I'll get an e-mail from him within six months or less, after all the love-bombing has stopped, and realizes what a load of crap they're trying to feed him.

  Thanks again to all you! You have made me feel much better about htis situation.

  PIERCED ANGEL (Anne) - where have been!?!?!?!? We missed you!

  SIMON - what happened to the e-mail function, where I get a message when people reply to my post? Has this been done away with (since the board's updated, new look)? Or am I just a dense git for missing the instructions on how to enable it here? Thanks!
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  smoking paraphanalia question

  by smack in

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  it's bugging the hell out of a workmate.

  does anyone know the name for those long cigarette filter thingies posh women used in the old moofies?

  and did i spell paraf'nalia rite?

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  How about "cigarette holder"?
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  JWD maps

  by Lady Lee in

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  a while back a map was done of the uk listing all the posters there.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/28455/1.ashx.

  and then jgnat did one for canada .

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  New York, NY 10004
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  Well, my little brother is heading back to the Dark Side...

  by Michael3000 in

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  this is so frustrating - just wanted to vent a bit.. .

  my younger brother, who has been "inactive" for about 8 years, has decided that everything wrong about his life is due to his not being "right with jehovah".

  arrrrrrgh!!!

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  This is SO frustrating - just wanted to vent a bit.

  My younger brother, who has been "inactive" for about 8 years, has decided that everything wrong about his life is due to his not being "right with Jehovah". ARRRRRRGH!!! YOU MANIPULATIVE SONS OF BITCHES!!!

  Out of my five siblings, he was the only one that I was in regular contact with. I could get news about the family, etc., through him. We are (were) also the closest while we were growing up, all the other kids in my family were older than the two of us, so we naturally were each other's playmates & friends. I have included his e-mail bombshell below, so you can see how creepy it is. Sounds like a robot wrote this, but here it is:

  I have something to tell you and you probably won't like it very well. I've been going back to the hall for the past month now. I'm working on getting myself back to Jehovah's standards and pleasing him with my whole heart and mind.

  I've been studying and building myself up spiritually with the help of Jehovah and the Brothers at the Hall. I have been hating the way I've lived my life for a while now, and I don't want to be like that any longer. I know that I was happier when I had Jehovah in my life before. Only till recently have I understood that. I have grown to love Jehovah and bring him into my heart and mind. I want to live my life by him and obey his word.

  Which also brings me to this. I won't be able to converse with you any longer because of your leaving Jehovah and his teachings. But I'll always pray that you will come back to him whole heartedly.

  The times are arriving as Jehovah planned, you can see it everyday getting worse.

  I'm sorry to drop this on you all at once, but this is how it has to be.

  Your brother,

  Dave

  Yikes.

  - - Mike