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  What is your favorite memory of your Mom

  by joelbear in

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  mine would definitely have to be coming home from school and smelling hot pecan cookies that mom was just taking out of the oven.

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  Just me an my mom...and the afternoon ritual before my younger sis was born. She'd lay me down for a nap...when I got up, she was finishing up with watching "As The World Turns". She'd make me some Tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich...then it was time for my shows...Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street and The Electric Company. I'll always treasure that time I had mom to myself. My older bro & sis were off at school and my little sis was still unborn. Those were great memories that I still treasure. Mom and I are still close. I speak to her at LEAST every couple of days.

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  Witnesses Sell Stolen Furniture to Feed Circuit Overseer

  by TMS in

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  i'm nena, the wife of tms, who used to post in this forum.

  i'm posting a letter i wrote to my younger sister yesterday.

  i caught her and my one-year older sister selling my furniture at a garage sale.

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  CoonDawg

  Nena,

  Sorry to hear about your trials w/ family. I know from experience how difficult this can be. To me the most galling part is that they profess to be "christians" the whole time that they are doing these things. My baby's momma does stuff like this. She continually looks for ways to adhere to the letter of the law, all the while completely disregarding the spirit of the law. It disgusts me.

  I could go on and on...but just suffice it to say that I feel for you and your family.

  Ern
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  City person or Country person

  by JH in

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  i travelled alot recently and i passed through many major cities, and i saw the contrast between nice small quiet towns and huge cities with so much traffic.. so, where would you rather live, in a quiet small town where there isn't much to do,but where it's quiet and there is not much stress, or in a big city with lots of traffic jams, where life is more expensive, but where there is more to see?.

  i like the smaller town life.

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  CoonDawg

  I like a small town...and if it's only an hour or so to a large city....so much the better. I get plenty of big city in my weekly travels. In fact, I was through Syracuse, NY the other day...last time I was there was in 1976. It's sure changed since then.

  I live in the burbs of Nashville, TN. It's only 15 or 20 min. to downtown (when there's no rush hour traffic)...but our community is pretty quiet.

  Ern
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  Searching for the GREEN SONG Book...Over 30 years old....

  by Burden in

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  i want to find a copy and the name of the green song book.

  not the pink one, nor the brown one.

  my grandfather told me once how much fun it was to sing from the green song book.

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  CoonDawg

  Nahh....they aren't going to put out a new song book anytime soon. All the bros who had any talent w/ music are long gone.

  Ern
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  A Great JW literary reference

  by CoonDawg in

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  i nearly fell out of my chair when in reading the novel "the innocent" by harlan coben.

  i came accross this hillarious reference to jw's.. the character referred to is a washed up stripper from vegas...now playing dive joints in reno.... .

  the doorbell rang.....kimmy dale threw on a robe and opened her bedroom door.

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  CoonDawg

  I nearly fell out of my chair when in reading the novel "The Innocent" by Harlan Coben. I came accross this hillarious reference to JW's.

  The character referred to is a washed up stripper from Vegas...now playing dive joints in Reno...

  The doorbell rang.....Kimmy Dale threw on a robe and opened her bedroom door. The front room had no such sun protection. The glare assaulted her. She sheilded her eyes and blinked. Kimmy did not have a lot of visitors - she never tricked at home - and figured that it was probably a Jehovah's Witness. Unlike pretty much everybody else in the free world, Kimmy did not mind their periodic intrusions. She always invited the religiously rapt into her home and listened carefully, envious that they had found something, wishing she could fall for their line of bull. As with the men in her life, she hoped that this one would be different, that this one would be able to convince her and she'd be able to buy into it.

  She opened the door without asking who it was.

  "Are you Kimmy Dale?"

  The girl at the door was young Eighteen, twenty, something like that. Nope, not a Jehovah's Witness. Didn't have that scooped-out-brain smile. ...

  I just got the biggest charge out of this. Thought I'd share it with y'all.

  Ern
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  President Kennedy's assassination: big conspiracy or lone gunman?

  by greendawn in

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  do you think that john f kennedy was killed in dallas in 1963 by a lone psychopathic gunman -lee oswald- or by a large conpiracy that included the cia, the mafia, the military and many others.

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  hundreds of books were written on the subject and 85% of americans believe that it was a conspiracy though the mass media world always believes that a lone gun man did it.

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  CoonDawg

  Conspiracy...don't know the details...but it was a setup.

  Ern

  (back and to the left....back and to the left.)
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  Any XJWs from the St. Louis, Missouri area?

  by anaperfection in

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  just wanted to know if i was the only one on the board from metro st. louis.

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  CoonDawg

  I lived most of my life in MO. I was born in Rolla....as a young child...went to the Carondalet Park Cong. did time in Cedar Hill, High Ridge, the old House Springs cong. Lived out in Dittmer, MO...and had a tour in DeSoto. I also had some time in the early 1980's in Springfield...the Ozark Cong.

  I still know lots of people there.....and I still have family in the Rolla / St. James area.

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  What Movie?

  by Legolas in

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  ok, god says you can't go to heaven or stay on the earth but he will put you in a movie forever to be who you want to be.ok so what movie do you choose?

  and who are you in the movie?

  just bored so i thought i would ask!

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  Steve McQueen in Le Mans .... or Peter Faulk in the original version of "The In-Laws"

  Ern
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  sweet home Kansas-balama...

  by tetrapod.sapien in

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  lol .

  a true story from snopes:.

  http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/wright.htm.

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  I lived in Liberal, KS and Dodge City....what a sucky part of the country to grow up in. The best view of SW Kansas...is the one in your rearview mirror as you are leaving. Even the JW's are hardliner conservatives there. No get-togethers. No dancing at wedding receptions. No anything fun. It was like living the story line of "Footloose". It sucked more than anything has ever sucked before.

  In the words of Bart Simpson "I never knew anything could blow and suck at the same time."

  Ern
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  Inappropriate "shepherding" calls.

  by avishai in

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  how many have recieved calls by the elders that were under the guise of "shepherding", but somehow inappropriate, i.e, you were a woman alone with only one elder showing up, or you felt physically intimidated by both.

  or say they show up at like, 10:30 at night for a shepherding call.

  and you say "hey, i appreciate the visit but please call first!

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  CoonDawg

  Two occasions stick out in my mind.

  1) My first wife and I were having a FAMILY disagreement with my parents. People in the congregation knew some about the whole thing and they began taking sides. My dad, being an elder, was pretty well liked...and me, being a young go getter also had my crowd. Well, one night my dad and one of his (YOUNG elder) admirers show up on my porch wanting to have a shepherding call. We let them in, but I hadn't spoken to my dad for quite some weeks. It was a clear misuse of his position to force me into discussing the situation with him. I dressed him and the other elder down for showing up unannounced at a fairly late hour and then for using this, not to "shepherd" my wife and I, but to hash out a family dispute.

  2) My wife (now ex) had been pursued by a married elder who used his confidential communications with me about the problems in our marriage to exploit the weaknesses in our marriage. This came out and that was the beginning of my decline as a JW. This guy was kind of a whacko and the problem dragged on for years. I had only a month or two before told the elders involved that I wanted no more to do with their meetings (judicial or whatever) unless it was a JC to kick me out. I knew that this wasn't coming because I'd never done anything to merrit one, other than call the offending elder a "bastard". Well, one Saturday afternoon, these clowns decide to stop by. My policy was "if you're going to visit, call ahead" Since I wasn't expecting visitors, I took what at the time were normal precautions. You should have seen the looks on their faces when I met their car with a very mean looking assult rifle with a 40 round magazine sticking out the bottom and a 9mm in a holster on my side. They asked why I was so heavily armed. I just told them "Hey, I've told you before to call before you come. If I'm not expecting anyone and someone comes up my drive, I don't know who it is or what they want. You should have called." They still wanted to stay and chat. I told them I didn't have time that day and they should remember...I'm done with meetings about this matter.

  It was priceless.

  Ern