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  Would you....

  by HadEnuf in

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  today i decided that people on this forum need some bragging rights.

  (of course this is just a veiled disguise for me to claim some of my own bragging rights.

  good things happen all the time to my friends on this site and we never hear about them.

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  CoonDawg

  At the age of 25, I successfully ran a 2.5 million dollar/ year store...then abruptly changed careers. I married a great woman who, though still a JW, is the best thing to ever happen to me. I have made DRASTIC improvements in money management skills ....no small feat...and now own my own home as well as a rental home. I have passed security clearence checks for the Department of Justice (also no small feat) and have my first job that pays really well. I took the plunge and began hobby racing a couple of years ago...finally realizing that it was okay to spend some money on myself. I also have a great grandson who is almost 4. He is my constant companion when I'm in town and he forever is emulating me. There's no greater compliment than to have your grandchild make you a birthday card with their own hand drawn pictures.

  I helped my brother in law recently with a benefit charity auction to support his branch of the YMCA. We raised over $40K...and to think that not long ago, I was basically forbidded to even go swimming at the YMCA. Pretty cool, huh?

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  Just wondered......watching a movie...

  by anuva in

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  just yesterday nite, i watched "tears of the sun" * ing bruce willis.....and wondered sitting....that .

  how by being a jw i have to condemn "peacekeeping forces"..who save many homeless, and hungry people, from evil .....as the ones who are evil and will be killed by god at armageddon...until.......they accepted wts..and baptised as jw.

  what would have happened had i surrendered my conscience to get the love of jw girl ..........?

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  yep, the WTS way seems to be "milk the system dry of anything you can....just don't fulfill any of your civic responsibilities"

  Tears of the Sun is a definite keeper in my collection. It's very touching, yet gritty.

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  Any one here from Memphis Tennessee????

  by SallySue in

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  i attended the whitehaven cong.

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  CoonDawg

  last year we had our international convention for SNAP/LIMK/SILENT LAMBS in Nashville. How far is taht from you?

  I know this wasn't addressed to me, but Nashivlle is about 200 miles from Memphis. Almost exactly, actually. It's about a 4 hour drive if you count the traffic. I've talked to Junction Guy on the phone. He's a good guy in my opinion. He's almost exactly 200 miles the other way.

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  It is official-Awake to be monthly-PDF scan of KM for your review....

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  i will post this as a link for download, it's about 3.5 meg (searchable!).

  http://members.cox.net/captainschmideo/km-e_us_3-05-march%202005.pdf.

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  CoonDawg

  I just love the way they dress up the idea of all those donations and the benefits getting cut....LOL...

  They like to sugar coat it by saying..."lucky you....now you won't have to see that pesky magazine servant...he's an officious prick anyhow...twice a month for your awake. Now you can schill with it ALL month....not just for two weeks."

  That's about like my car club cutting out my newsletter subscription but still raising the dues. Poor schleps.

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  Members of JW family arrested in wide-ranging identity theft probe

  by Wild_Thing in

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  the plight of the gullible!

  "guess what, honey!

  some of the "friends" offered to do our taxes for free!

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  CoonDawg

  We used to call them "Bilk your Brother" scams. Too bad for the gullible victims trying to get something for nothing. As one of my favorite authors was always fond of saying T.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. or.... "There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch".

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  Any one here from Memphis Tennessee????

  by SallySue in

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  i attended the whitehaven cong.

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  Nope, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once....

  J/K.... I am over in Nashville...but am intimately familiar with metro memphis...although I never attended any meetings there. I got aquainted with Memphis post-JW.

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  Men and Their Tools (I finally get it)

  by hemp lover in

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  bought my first drill today, oh, boy, .

  took a drive down to mcrae's hardware.

  and though my tool is rather small.

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  Now for corded tools the more expensive stuff has absolutly proved better but it's funny because no one company makes the best off all tools ie milwaukee makes great recips, big drills, and circuler saws but they make kinda crappy routers! Porter Cable makes a pretty good router and jig saw but their drills kinda blow!

  Yep, Milwaukee's cordless stuff isn't all that great. Their commercial duty hammer drills and worm drive saws kick butt...but their right angle drill was beat out by DeWalt in a heartbeat. I have a Porter Cable Tiger recip saw and one of their top of the line general use 7 1/4" circular saws that I would't trade for any other. Their drywall finishing equipment is great too.

  I have a wide range of brands...each good in their own area. I plan on buying Porter Cable's router too. One of the high H.P. plunge jobs.

  So now that I no longer do construcion work how do you convince your wife that you NEED a $700 Bosch demolition hammer or a $400 Porter Cable compressor with 6 different Hitachi nail guns that cost $250-350 apiece and that you can't possibly even consider selling ANY of you tool on ebay...

  Come on...use your imagination. I had to put in a new receptacle upstairs requiring the installation of an old work electrical box in the drywall. That translates to a new Roto-zip to cut the hole. Wife wanted shelves and pictures hung...well, I can't put my name on a shoddy and uneven job....that required a new laser level to get it just right. The bathroom door was sticking a bit and needed trimmed....a new Bosch portable power planer was just the ticket.

  I can't wait....my next project is getting the exterior of the house in shape. It looks like it's going to require a new Honda 7 1/2 h.p. 3200 psi / 4 gpm power washer to do the job right....hehehe

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  Great Books.. Lets hear your favorites!

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  just wondering what your favorite books are guys.. any and all genres would be cool!

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  Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

  Job: A Comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlein

  Pretty much anything by Nelson DeMille or James Lee Burke

  Dangerous Fortune - Ken Follett

  The first two, I read as a teen, and they are still a couple of my favorites. They had a real influence on me and made me start questioning the whole idea of religion and god.

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  So What Sort Of Woman Is "Queen" Camilla?

  by Englishman in

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  this is from todays "times":.

  solid and relaxed but with a sense of fun.

  penny wark .

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  CoonDawg

  My brother in law calls her Camilla Packher Bowels, Duchess of Cornhole. LOL

  She and Charles will have ugly little urchins together.

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  How would you reply??

  by chrissee in

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  i have been fading for over 2 yrs and recently visited my folks.

  (see my first post at http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/81356/1.ashx ) i did tell them when i got there that i would not be attending any meetings.

  and they accepted it at the moment and didn't say much.

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  CoonDawg

  My angle to my mom...after her expressing similar sentiments as your parents, was to tell her that you are having a crisis of faith and that they just need to bear with you while you get things sorted out. For me, it's worked because it got her off my back and gave her more time to realize that I ain't comin' back. But it also opened opportunities to express some of the other things that you wish your parents could realize, namely that other than your choice not to go to the KH, that you haven't changed. You disagree on this ONE thing. You still live a principled life and you don't discount the moral lessons taught by them, and your love for them hasn't diminished.

  If they really want to tangle though....remind them that being self righteous doesn't guarantee a spot for them post armageddon.

  Good luck.

  Ern