Quendi-You are a true friend. Very, very kind of you to offer to check on Mark's mother while he can't. I wish you were one of my friends, as we all can use an extra friend! Wishing you the very best there in Colorado.
PaintedToeNail
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Trying to Salvage a Friendship
by Quendi inmy friends,.
i need your counsel on a personal matter, and i hope you will give it in love.
as some of you know, i was disfellowshipped six years ago, but it wasn't until june 2010 that i made up my mind never to return to the wts.
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Does anyone here believe that things are worse than they were in the past?
by Trismegistus ini still hear this crop up every once in a while, so i figured that i'd open it up to a wide audience.. things are looking pretty good to me..
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PaintedToeNail
Most things are probably better now, if you live in a developed country. One thing that does concern me right now is rampant population and all the strain that brings to earth natural resources...of course I'm not volunteering to jump off the planet to reduce this problem...
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After 44 years I finally found and spoke to my old prison buddy!
by Terry ini have had very few mentors in my life.
i love each of them dearly.. one such was a man a bit older than me named tollie padget.. .
tollie was the rarest of rare birds.
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PaintedToeNail
Terry, I'm sorry you were misled about your friend and mentor. You are right, yet another piece of your life stolen.
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Has the WT ever said slavery is wrong? Last Sundays WT seems to say no.
by BU2B inin last sundays wt there was a paragraph talking about how the 1st century christian congregation was united despite differences.
rich and poor, jew and gentile, and get this.. slave and slave owner!
the wt has admitted that not only slaves were a part of the congregation, but that slave owners were as well, with no sanction on their behavior.
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PaintedToeNail
BU2B-It is unlikely that the WTBTS would ever condemn slavery, as Abraham was a slave owner (as well as others, such as David) and his slave is praised for finding Isaac a wife. Also, the 'faithful and discrete slave' is often referred to, and they would have to condemn themselves. Slavery was a fact of life at the time the bible was written, and long after it was finished. It is interesting to note that slavery being wrong is a new notion, within the last 200 years or so. It is one of the oldest institutions out there. It is still tolerated in many areas, think of the sex slaves in the Far East, the children being forced to make bricks or carpets in developing countries, the news worthy busts of slave rings in the USA and the UK. Slavery is alive and well, unfortunately.
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introduction
by monis ini am 39 years old.
i converted to the jws when i was in middle school due to a witness in school and my family having issues at that time.
i found instant friends and family at the kh.
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PaintedToeNail
Welcome monis! Your family must be relieved that you woke up! I hope your husband does too.
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Part Two: The non Bethel alternative.
by Giordano inafter i had graduated high school in the early 1960s i decided to make a commitment to pioneer.
for my mother even pioneering was not good enough.......... her first choice was bethel.
pioneering in my home area.....boring.
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PaintedToeNail
These are so interesting and dare I say it, entertaining. Keep them coming!
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Harold Camping is Dead. Who now will issue Judgement Day predictions?
by PaintedToeNail inso, harold camping has died at the age of 92. no more end of the world predictions from him.
he apparently went into hiding after his last predictions didn't come true..
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PaintedToeNail
rebel8-Scary true!
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Harold Camping is Dead. Who now will issue Judgement Day predictions?
by PaintedToeNail inso, harold camping has died at the age of 92. no more end of the world predictions from him.
he apparently went into hiding after his last predictions didn't come true..
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PaintedToeNail
So, Harold Camping has died at the age of 92. No more end of the world predictions from him. He apparently went into hiding after his last predictions didn't come true.
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Do you frown upon tattoos?
by confusedandalone ini am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.
i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.
today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.
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PaintedToeNail
True story-There is an attractive Greek man in my town who owns a diner. He is handsome, older and a tab bit vain, so he makes sure to dye his hair and work out at the gym. He was impressed with all the tattoos on the young guys there and was leaning towards getting one...then he saw an old guy with a tattoo stretched out into a green blob and was horrified to think that if he got one, it would eventually turn into a blob as his skin got older. He started sporting fake tattoos with pride. He went to the gym with one of his fakes, and the arms rolled up on his shirt. Walking up to the guy who worked there, he said in his delightfully thick Greek accent, "How do you like my tattoo? It's fake." The attendant said, "We know, we talk about them all the time." When he told me that story we both laughed. Now he shows me his 'new' tattoos whenever I go to his restaurant.
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My sister died
by poppers injust got word that my sister died.
she had surgery for heart valve replacement about 5 weeks ago, and when they opened her up for it they found cancer.
we had an extra special relationship since i was her "birthday present" when she turned 10 in 1951. this is my second sibling to die of cancer in 14 months..
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PaintedToeNail
Poppers-So very sorry for your loss. Too sad.