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  I'm going to be published!!!

  by Lady Lee in

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  a couple of years ago i was part of an on-line writers group.

  a few of us got together and wrote an anthology of xmas stories called tales of christmas.. i wrote a story about my first xmas after leaving the dubs.

  the book is being published.

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  How wonderful!!!!!! Big Panda kudos because you deserve it. Congrats
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  What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?

  by minimus in

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  are you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?

  you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?

  there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.

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  smooches
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  Pagel's latest "Beyond Belief"

  by Panda in

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  elaine pagel's recent work beyond belief, the secret gospel of thomas gives some excellent examples of questioning what we have been taught and looking into all of the interesting historically "hidden" books of christianity.

  i especially appreciated her explanations of why so many interesting writings never made it into the sanctioned bible.. what i got from this book was that power is/was the road to acceptance.

  the leaders of the church who were accepted by the emperor (read that as constantine) got to manipulate the holy writings into their own form.

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  Yes I've read about Mary Magdalene and the gospels of Mary Magdalene. How incredible that we have lost the wonderful lessons she taught as Jesus had taught her. And since she saw the ressurrected Jesus, well w/o her would there have been this Christianity we have today? I doubt that.
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  Kennedy Speech on the House Floor

  by Yerusalyim in

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  attached is "swimmer" kennedy's attack on bush recently, my comments...which i sent to him in the format below...are in red.. .

  http://kennedy.senate.gov/index_high.htmli have heard many of my colleagues today discussing my remarks on this administration's go-it-alone policy in iraq.

  the administration has not had a "go it alone" policy in iraq.

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  TeeJay, Professional polititians don't have, use, or write their own words. Jusy like any professional business man, a qualified speech writer from Harvard or Yale writes those speeches. So in that casr the President just needs another speech writer. Kennedy displayed no courage when he chooses to denigrate the President after he'd voted for the war in the first place. If he didn't think he'd want to stick it out he should've done the brave thing and voted no.
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  The Watchtower Superstore,Paradise For Sale

  by Voyager in

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  good morning everybody:.

  i have been doing some more investigating, and found that the reason that k-mart is closing down, is because the watchtower has opened it's doors.

  for those that haven't seen this web, it is truely a mind blower.

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  Panda

  When you state something which you lack facts to support that is your opinion and not a fact. I seriously doubt (IMO) that the WTS had anything to do with K-Mart (except for owning stock) or the scoops people. If the corporation wanted to make and sell these items ,so be it. But I see no clear evidence. In my lifetime I've been in plenty of KH and Bethel's. If you had clear evidence fine, but you don't. It's like the lack of evidence proving the evidence, and that doesn't work.. it's something the WTS has used to bamboozle us for years.
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  Anti-Americanism

  by Englishman in

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  how do you define someone as anti-american?

  if you strongly disapprove of, say, america's foreign policies, yet basically have an affection for american people, does this still make you an anti-american?

  is it possible that people are being accused of being anti-american inaccurately?

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  E-man,

  If you use the word Anti-American as a noun then that would be an oponent or adversary; possibly a rival, foe, or enemy. So if I said "you are an anti-American." I would mean you are the enemy.

  Now if we use anti-American as an adjective , as in "I am hindered by anti-American forces." So then in this sense the anti-American as adjective is adverse to American, antagonistic towards American, impeding American interests, obstructive to American interests, hostile to anything American (including policies or people), or unfriendly towards American interests.

  By these definitions terrorists are definabley anti-American as a noun or adjective.

  So if you say you are a little bit Anti-American well, that's like being a little bit pregnant. I'd suggest finding another less disagreeable phrase. Something like "I sure do like American people.", or "I sure don't agree with all US gov't foreign policy." Because the foreign policy which kept the UK solvent in the 1980s was something you'd probably like. While going to war to save anyone but Brits asses would be policy you wouldn't agree with, right? I'm just asking.

  As we say here in Texas "Them's fightin' words hun."

  American Panda
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  Kennedy Speech on the House Floor

  by Yerusalyim in

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  attached is "swimmer" kennedy's attack on bush recently, my comments...which i sent to him in the format below...are in red.. .

  http://kennedy.senate.gov/index_high.htmli have heard many of my colleagues today discussing my remarks on this administration's go-it-alone policy in iraq.

  the administration has not had a "go it alone" policy in iraq.

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  Yeru, Excellent choice of words for swimmer Kennedy. The man has no interest in public welfare. He wants to remain a serial politician for life. If he read some of the founding fathers works he would know that political office was meant to be a part time job served for the good of the nation. AND why do we not mention that he should've gone to Vietnam. Shoot his brother started the whole deal anyway. Let's see JFK=Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, and the race for space...anything else?

  Vietnam: Someone ought to read the nearest textbook to discover the amazing truth about Vietnam. While the US was implementing the Marshall Plan in EUrope the European nations were finding it difficult to hold onto their "colonies." The French could no longer control the country and keep the communists out. If you'd been to VietNam you'd know that the Vietnamese language is spoken similar to Chinese and even more interesting the language is written in Chinese characters. It doesn't take much to translate between the two. So Perhaps the fights with the Chinese over Vietnam stretched long into the past. Perhaps. Anyway, because the French had made promises the US was asked to help them out. So our government sent in advisors while the French went home defeated. Some French did stay because they had families in Vietnam. Shoot... HoChiMinh learned all about communism in Paris where he wroked for slave wages as a dish washer and got his political education. After Kennedy then Johnson wanted to establish the typical hegemon. Didn't LBJ ask "what's wrong with those people, we just want to build them roads and hospitals?" But the people didn't want Western help to build institutions. And in the south part of the country they just wanted western money and protection. So we know none of this works.

  Today we know that free markets lead to freer politics and a liberal democracy. The old hegemon and capitalism are no longer what political science and nation building are about. So if you care to pay attention this Iraq war and post war are all about the people and stabilizing them in order to allow a hopefully continued liberal democracy and free markets. This is also the reason that the President wants the $$$ we spend in Iraq to be a gift and not a loan. Afterall, who would the loan be to when there is no government to sign. And how would we be any different than the French or Russians who didn't like seeing SH go because of the loans he owed them.

  But we are different now, we have not fought another Vietnam, and we never will. In Vietnam bombing was indescriminate. Not so in Iraq. Some of our own have died because they want to be absolutely sure before they shoot someone.

  Also, now pay attention to this one because it is the future to ending terrorism --- as Iraq democratizes the big money supporter of terrorism will go down. You know who I mean. That nation which now supports 5000 princes and their families. People who did not build schools but rather lavished themselves in the ways of sheiks and kings of the 14th century. Palaces, camel races, horses, jewels, silks, cars, gorgeous wives and strictly Islamic... now imagine them falling and the new liberal democracy next door teaching the people how to live. Then the idea may move further , maybe to Syria, Jordan, Egypt. Who knows? But we do know that now SaudiArabia has got to go.

  Patriotic Panda Ponders Petrol Prices Periodically pugnaciously praying "Porfavor" pay pennies please.!
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  Im out of here !

  by NEWWORLDSLACKER in

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  im leaving , that?s it , i?ve had enough , i cant take anymore .

  so thursday morning im leaving the job-stress and my pain in the ass jw in-laws behind me .......and im going camping near the ocean !

  i wont be here or posting until monday at the soonest , so cya guys later .

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  Relax..... Think of a world minus JWs: Imagine No religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace Then I'd say you're a dreamer , but you're not the only one .... maybe someday we'll join you, and splash around in the sun.
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  Where is everyone from?

  by God is Dead in

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  i know some of you are hiding, but i am curious as to how far around the world everyone on here is from.

  i am in sask, canada.

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  Texas --- but we are friends with non-Texans
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  The Society's View of Women

  by minimus in

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  the watchtower society has regularly spoken about the role of women.

  the publications have given strong hints that women are to be considered inferior to men.showing special consideration to a female has been expressed as "from the devil" tipping one's hat toward a female in a respectful gesture was viewed as wrong.the may 15, 1952 watchtrower stated the following: "we can be sure [jesus] did not get in any line to kiss the bride either-- so we leave such woman-exalting practices back in the creature worshipping world, where they belong".......did you feel that women were treated as equals or lesser ones in the congregation?

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  Minimus, Don't toy with us weaker vessels. It's not polite. No one listened to women. SadPanda