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What's Your Sign

by MrMoe in

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yes this has been done before... but there are lots of new posters soooooo... what's your sign?

do you know your whole chart?

i do astrology stuff and tarot yada yada, so if ya want i can do your whole chart for you and stuff, or compatibility charts too, but i need exact time of birth.

Patriot

I'm ignorant to all this.....what are these "charts" and what are they supposed to mean?

I saw a program on the Discovery channel a few weeks ago and supposedly in the ruble of the temple of Jerusalem (or somewhere in that area) they found a Zodiac circle made out of ceramic tiling smack in the middle of the temple floor.

This led the Theologist to beleive that when the Bible condemned astrology, it did so in the way that you are not supposed to worship the stars as you will God but that it's okay to do all this other crap about "signs".

Did anyone else see or read about that?

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Did "Bad Storms" == Armegeddon?

by LDH in

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we had quite a bit of wind here last night, and as i was up with the baby and couldn't sleep anyway, i was thinking back to when i was young.. living on the east coast, we got some of the mega storms that the southwest doesn't usually get, at least not with any regularity.. as a kid, everytime a vicious thunderstorm or violent electric storm started, i would wonder the unimaginable:.

is this armegeddon????.

lisa

Patriot

How you doin' Lisa?

Do you remember one of the final pictures in the yellow book (Biblical studies)? It was the one where Jesus and all his angels were one their horses and all had swords and the swords seem to give off a beam of light and they were riding on top of a cloud?

Well when I was about 10, my sister's' and I were getting ready to go to the Tuesday night meeting when I decided to look out of the window.

It was about 6:30pm and since it was summertime, there was still light out. Well I looked up and I swear that that image was overhead. I could not see the "angels" but It was the only huge cloud in the sky and it had all these light beams coming out from every angle. The cloud was thick too, just like in the book.

I tell you Lisa, I was scared to death. My sisters also thought that that was "the end" of things we were all trying to be good and cooperating with our mother. We were seriously expecting the big "A" to start momentarily. It never did of course but I can still see that image in my mind...It was very scary.

At least for a ten year old.

Mav.-

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Anyone else seen this?

by Patriot in

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http://www.jaybill.com/~jaybill/article.php?articleid=49

Patriot

http://www.jaybill.com/~jaybill/article.php?articleID=49

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Here Freddy My Cat

by jessicacat in

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freddy poo,.

you have been a bad cat all weekend long.

so, come to jessica so she can give you an old fashioned spanking.

Patriot

Damn Freddy, you're sick man.

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Thanks Guys

by Patriot in

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as some of you know i've been feeling like crap lately.. i've taken some days off and stopped watching the news.

it's crazy to say but i get so depressed everytime i see and hear something about the war.

i don't know maybe i am going nuts.. well i flew to la over the weekend and hung out with a friend from the chp....even suggested i should apply with them and move out there..who knows..just might do that..a change would be refreshingly nice.

Patriot

As some of you know I've been feeling like crap lately.

I've taken some days off and stopped watching the news. It's crazy to say but I get so depressed everytime I see and hear something about the war. I don't know maybe I am going nuts.

Well I flew to LA over the weekend and hung out with a friend from the CHP....even suggested I should apply with them and move out there..who knows..just might do that..a change would be refreshingly nice. I don't know if I can give up my Dog though..that would be tough.

Anyway thanks to all for your encouraging words and advice last week, it really helped.

Maverick

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I'm all torn up Inside

by Patriot in

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i've had two nights wihtout being able to sleep.

i've been turning all night.. i'm having images of my old days in the gulf.

from first being dropped in at 1500 feet to the stupid republican guard holding there ground.. i see and feel the blackening sky as the oil wells were lit on fire and the intense heat they produced in an already oven like country.. i feel so bad for my old comrades as they encounter the "new enemy" and feel as if i abandoned them.. i should be there i keep thinking...i should be there..i should..i should....*.

Patriot

I've had two nights wihtout being able to sleep. I've been turning all night.

I'm having images of my old days in the gulf. From first being dropped in at 1500 feet to the stupid republican guard holding there ground.

I see and feel the blackening sky as the oil wells were lit on fire and the intense heat they produced in an already oven like country.

I feel so bad for my old comrades as they encounter the "new enemy" and feel as if I abandoned them.

I should be there I keep thinking...I should be there..I should..I should....*

My old Unit the "Mountaineers" 10th Mountain Division out of NY are under heavy and intense fire...I cant get my mind off of it, I really can't.

"Jesus", I keep thinking.." should I go back"? "Should I re-enlist and join my old unit"?

I'm so sad right now I even have tears in my eyes....what to do?
I feel like if it's unfinished business..I should go back...but I don't know what to do.

Mav.- Thinking of my old platoon "Wolverines"

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56 and Single

by Dutchie in

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i have an aunt who is 56 years old and has never been married nor has she ever had any children.

she has been a jw all her life and she even turned down a scholarship to columbia university to special pioneer where the need was great.

she has had medical problems recently and cannot pioneer any more.

Patriot

I just think it's unfortunate for Dutchie's aunt ot have put her entire life on hold for the WT ideology.

I wonder if she regrets not getting married sooner. Now she cant have kids and must pray that she live through the big "A" or else, no marraige for her.....EVER FOR EVER.

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56 and Single

by Dutchie in

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i have an aunt who is 56 years old and has never been married nor has she ever had any children.

she has been a jw all her life and she even turned down a scholarship to columbia university to special pioneer where the need was great.

she has had medical problems recently and cannot pioneer any more.

Patriot

Lol beck.

Only one flaw, according to the society, the resurrected people will not have "the need" to marry for there is "something better" for them.

So if Elvis is indeed resurrected, noone will be able to marry him.

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Warrant to search the Kingdom Hall

by roybatty in

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back in the late 1980s, i recall being at one of my first elders/servants meeting with the circuit overseer.

at this meeting the co read a letter from brooklyn regarding the records kept at the kingdom hall and what to do if the police/sheriff showed up with a warrant to remove them.

if i remember correctly, we were told not to cooperate with them, to stall them and to contact the societys lawyers.

Patriot

If there were to be a subpoena served (at least here in NYC) the elders can kick and scream all they want but the recordes WILL be seized. They can try to stop the police or DA but that will just get them an abstruction charge.

Just like Robocop said: Dead or alive your coming with me".

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Sam Beli,undecided , beck wasaS, and grandparents

by Patriot in

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i was wondering since you guys have put some serious time in with the wt, how it felt "back in the days" when major changes occured within the org.. in recent times, it seems that only a few people stop to really think about the changes in doctrine that the wt makes, e.g.

generation theory, the voting issue and the certain parts of blood that are now acceptable.. did the same happen in your time?

did little or anyone at all complain, murmur, get "cold" or simply just leave when certain changes were made?

Patriot

Thanks Beck,

You know, I remember thinking that the "end" would come by 1988. There was so much enfasis on the end when I was in H.S. But then there was announcment mad that the WT was going to break ground on a new project (this was like in 1985).

The project was the "Sands" building on 90 sands street, part of the bethel home complex. The announcment asked every publisher to make a specific weekly donation so that the projet can be finished.

It was expected to be don by 1988!! So I thought " huh? but isnt the end coming? Why is the WT building so many new buildings and starting so many new projects ( in that time the Gilead school in Paterson was also about to start) if the end is near and we won't have to pay for the materials, let alone need a 'bethel' "?

It was crazy, the end is around the corner but in the meantime give us your money so that we can build something that is predicted to be finished in 10 to 15 years!!