How terrible. The Benedictans that I know are some of the the most contributing members of our community(really quality people). Sad-Sad-Sad. om
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3 Killed in Missouri Catholic Monastery
by Lee Elder in.
in a developing story, at least 3 people were killed when someone opened fire at a remote benedictine monastery in missouri today.
no motive is yet known.
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My Honor Student
by TR inlast night at the high school was honors night.
various and sundry honors were handed out all over the place for the honor students.. my daughter received honors for:.
presidential award for educational excellence and gold honor chord- must have grade point average above 3.5. ospi washington state honors- received academic index rating which places her in the top 10% statewide.. aa degree- 2 year degree from sfcc.
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Larc - thank you. My writing teacher said the same thing about this short essay (I wrote it as a creative writing assignment) ...maybe Ill look into it. om
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My Honor Student
by TR inlast night at the high school was honors night.
various and sundry honors were handed out all over the place for the honor students.. my daughter received honors for:.
presidential award for educational excellence and gold honor chord- must have grade point average above 3.5. ospi washington state honors- received academic index rating which places her in the top 10% statewide.. aa degree- 2 year degree from sfcc.
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GF yes use it. om
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just a thought about baptism......
by scootergirl ini have been reading (...and reading...and reading) about how many of us were baptized at an early age (early teens) and how many of us have suffered the consequences of leaving the "truth" because we were baptized..... if it is such a major comittment why are young people allowed to be baptized?
i mean, at 13,14 or 15 if many of us would have told our parents that we wanted to get married-how many of our parents would have allowed it?
hell, i could have taken a written test about marriage and passed and been ready for marriage, right?!
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Unfortunately, I was baptized at 15 because my incompetent parents (and I use the word parent loosely here) allowed 30 something witnesses (really small cong) to "study" (brainwash) with me. I am an "achiever" by nature and these people were the only ones I received any strokes from. I naturally excelled in athletics and since sports were a no-no(I still HATE any and everyone that stood between me and sports(directly or indirectly)...yes Hate), I was screwed from the get go and if I had my way (with normal people who understood child development), I'd have went straight to college on an athletic scholarship like the rest of my contemporaries. Oh well, better late than never, I graduate from university in December and I play in 3 different city leagues. Then it’s off to graduate school(MBA). -om
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My Honor Student
by TR inlast night at the high school was honors night.
various and sundry honors were handed out all over the place for the honor students.. my daughter received honors for:.
presidential award for educational excellence and gold honor chord- must have grade point average above 3.5. ospi washington state honors- received academic index rating which places her in the top 10% statewide.. aa degree- 2 year degree from sfcc.
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As a young man I never really took the time to get to know any children until I had my own. In the ten years since high school, I have been graced with one child and here is what I have learned. They are engines of incalculable joy and agonizing despair. They are comedy machines. Their language is their own and the order of their new halting words has never been heard before in the whole history of the world. They are headlong and hilarious. Their hearts are enormous and sensitive beyond calculation by man or machine. Their pride is vast. They are cruel, and move in herds and gaggles and mobs, and woe unto the silent one, the one who looks funny, the one who speaks awkwardly, the fat one, for she will be shouldered aside, he will never get the ball, she will never be asked to jump rope, he will not be invited to the pool party, she will weep with confusion and rage, he will lash out with sharp small fists. Yet they are endlessly kind, kind by nature, and among them there is often an artless democracy, a linking of arms against the vast puzzle of the long people. They search for rules and rank, for what is allowed and what is forbidden, and poke the rules to see which bends and which is steel, for they wish to know their place in the world, where they might walk, what they may wear, which shows are allowed, how far they can go, who they are. They rise early in excitement and return reluctantly to barracks at night for fear of missing a shred of the daily circus. They eat nothing to speak of but grow at stunning rates that produce mostly leg. They are absorbed by dogs and toast. Mud and jelly accrue to them. They are at war with wasps. They eat no green things. Once they learn sarcasm they use it with abandon, slashing here and there without control and wreaking havoc. When they weep they weep utterly from the marrows of their lonely bones. They will not speak of death but when it comes, a dark hooded hawk on the fence, they face it without fear. They are new creatures hourly, and what you think you know of them is already lost in the river. Their hearts are dense books no one can read. They speak many languages of the body. To them you are a stone who has always been and will always be. When they are ill they shrivel. To father them is not a brief noun but an endless verb that exhausts, enrages, edifies, elevates, educates; I am a slower and gentler man than I was; and closer to joy. They frighten me, for they will make a new world on the bowed back of the one I love; but they delight me, for to have loved them is to have tasted the furious love the maker has for what he made, and fathers still, and always will. -om
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What's the one thing you miss about the WTS?
by Naeblis inthere are times when ilook back fondly on my days in the witnesses, especially when i think on the congregation get togethers we would have every once in awhile (not too often) people from our hall and sometimes others would show up (not too many) and good times were had by all.
this is how the schedule usually went.. 8pm: arrive at the community centre.
8:05pm: scope the room.
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Waygooder- I am laughing my ass off - oh how I can relate to that shit. -om
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What's the one thing you miss about the WTS?
by Naeblis inthere are times when ilook back fondly on my days in the witnesses, especially when i think on the congregation get togethers we would have every once in awhile (not too often) people from our hall and sometimes others would show up (not too many) and good times were had by all.
this is how the schedule usually went.. 8pm: arrive at the community centre.
8:05pm: scope the room.
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I miss walking up to a class mates door in a cheap suit on warm summer Saturday mornings as they are getting ready to head to the lake with their normal parents and family. Then getting to see them at school on Monday and not blaming them for wanting to keep a safe distance from me.
I also miss having really nice "worldly girls" ask if I was interested in going to dances and whatnot and having to make excuses like; I uh cant cause I uh have to help my um cousin sod his yard so uh maybe next time. -om
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making meetings more interesting
by openminded indo you keep falling asleep during meetings and assemblies?
long and boring home studies?
> here's a way to change all of that.. > > .
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If I was never a witness, I'd never had known what pornea was! Thanks
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making meetings more interesting
by openminded indo you keep falling asleep during meetings and assemblies?
long and boring home studies?
> here's a way to change all of that.. > > .
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YES feel free to add your own phrases perhaps(Ill get the ball rolling:
mature christian
its a conscience matter
rely on jehovah
wait on jehovah
wait on the brothers
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making meetings more interesting
by openminded indo you keep falling asleep during meetings and assemblies?
long and boring home studies?
> here's a way to change all of that.. > > .
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Do you keep falling asleep during meetings and assemblies? What about those
long and boring home studies?
Ø > Here's a way to change all of that.
> >
> > 1. Before (or during) your next meeting, or assembly> > prepare your "Bullshit Bingo" card by drawing a square -- I find
that
> > 5" x 5" is a good size -- and dividing it into columns -- five
across
> > and five down. That will give you 25 1-inch blocks.
> >
> > 2. Write one of the following words/phrases in each block:
> > a) the society
> > b) the truth
> > c) theocratic warfare
> > d) 144,000
> > e) cleaving to Jehovah
> > f) return visit
> > g) bad association
> > h) scriptural stand on blood
> > i) theocratic arrangement
> > j) last days
> > k) the world
> > l) pagan holidays
> > m) you can live forever
> > n) pioneer hours
> > o) judicial committee
> > p) head covering
> > q) Armageddon
> > r) a loving provision
> > s) spiritual food
> > t) faithful and discreet
> > u) we have no clergy class
> > v) privileges in the congregation
> > w) disfellowship
> > x) sheep like ones
> > y) earthly hope
> >
> > 3. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those
> > words/phrases.
> >
> > 4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally,
> > stand up and shout "BULLSHIT!"
> >
> > Testimonials from satisfied "Bullshit Bingo" players:
> >
> > * "I had been in the meeting for only five minutes when I won."
> > --Jack W., Boston
> >
> > * "My attention span at meetings has improved dramatically."
--David
> > D., Florida
> >
> > * "What a gas! Meetings will never be the same for me after my first
> > win." --Bill R., New York City
> >
> > * "The atmosphere was tense in the last service meeting as 14 of us
> > waited for the fifth box." --Ben G., Denver
> >
> > * "The speaker was stunned as eight of us screamed "BULLSHIT!" for
the
> > third time in two hours."