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  When you Can't Decide What to Celebrate

  by Jang in

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  when you can't decide what to celebrate.

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  philo

  Luv it. Now why didn't I think of smoking firecrackers?

  philo
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  Commentaries perrleez.

  by philo in

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  below is a paragraph from march 1st, 2001 watchtower.

  as has been well said by homer simpson, "it works on so many levels.

  " comments anybody?.

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  philo

  Below is a paragraph from March 1st, 2001 Watchtower. As has been well said by Homer Simpson, "it works on so many levels." Comments anybody?

  Today, the "interior rooms" have to do with the tens of thousands of congregations of Jehovah's people around the world. Such congregations are a protection even now, a place where Christians find safety among their brothers, under the loving care of the elders. (Isa 32:1,2; Heb 10:24,25) This is especially true in view of the nearness of the end of this system of things when survival will depend on obedience. Zeph 2:3.

  Philo
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  Urban Legends!

  by ISP in

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  its amazing the extent these circulate in the wt world.

  i am not so sure, but it develops a powerful folklore amongst jws....often with a moral at the end!

  typically these circulate as experiences given in talks and are then adopted by the masses as truth.. for example, anyone hear the ul about the married couple where the wife had to have a routine blood check.

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  philo

  Comf,
  "Was that for real, or were you just entertaining us in the first person?"

  Retracted. I have my answer.
  It made my hair stand on end.

  philo
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  Urban Legends!

  by ISP in

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  its amazing the extent these circulate in the wt world.

  i am not so sure, but it develops a powerful folklore amongst jws....often with a moral at the end!

  typically these circulate as experiences given in talks and are then adopted by the masses as truth.. for example, anyone hear the ul about the married couple where the wife had to have a routine blood check.

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  philo

  I just read your bit, Comf. ----- Jesus H Christ!!! Was that for real, or were you just entertaining us in the first person?

  We had a DO called David Carter. A big man with a rubbery face and a dome so polished he had an aura. He came with a CO to visit our congregation. His assembly talks were always so HUGE: gestures, faces, belly laughs, funny walks. So we were on the edge of our seats for his congregation visit. But nothing. If he gave a talk at all, I can't remember him. On the field service his meeting was … nothing. And when I worked with him on the doors, he was nervous, offered the magazines like a rookie, and hardly said a word to me. My impression was: this guy is a actor.

  That was confirmed when I attended two assembly days in succession (I wasn't supposed to be there on the Sunday). Every face, every joke, every funny pause while he found his scripture, even playing with the electric lectern, all the same, to perfection. It was not a talk. It was a performance.

  philo
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  Unconditional Love

  by TR in

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  "i love my parents more than anything.

  they gave me unconditional love.

  they said, 'son, we love you whether you succeed or fail.

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  I'm not sure as there really is such a thing as unconditional love.
  But I am in love with it all the same. I definitely agree that love
  gets badly cramped in dubdom. I'll drop the measure. Hell, it gets ridden over with a coach and six, for God's sake. And most of us know something about it from personal exp.

  I also think (off topic) that romanticism is non-pauline in the extreme, and so un WTBTS. But that's another beef.

  philo
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  prodigal philo - hello to everyone

  by philo in

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  i have been an inactive poster here for months now.

  present in spirit, watching the house filling up as more h2o refugees like me trample the border.

  reading your great posts, laughing and crying with both anger and mirth, getting off on all the sex-talk.

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  Thanks for the welcomes and compliments.

  I will work hard to manifest my repentance. All the world's a stage…

  Six of nine: Sorry, I'm not the Witnet storyteller, honest. But I'll try to spin a few yarns.

  Hippikon: The power is back. And so is the cat. How's that for a coincidence?

  Philo

  "God this, God that, and God the other thing -"
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  prodigal philo - hello to everyone

  by philo in

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  i have been an inactive poster here for months now.

  present in spirit, watching the house filling up as more h2o refugees like me trample the border.

  reading your great posts, laughing and crying with both anger and mirth, getting off on all the sex-talk.

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  Hello Everyone

  I have been an inactive poster here for months now. Present in spirit, watching the house filling up as more H2O refugees like me trample the border. Reading your great posts, laughing and crying with both anger and mirth, getting off on all the sex-talk. But not once did I post up.

  Sitting at the back now, I symbolize my fallen status from the regular poster that I once was. Too <sob> too shamed I have felt, even to supplicate the Jedis for their warm oily hands to soothe that … part of me which cries out for expression.

  But I have been changed of late. My partner has left me to live in the mid-west with her folks.

  "I need space", she pleaded, "and space needs me. Where else can I hope to be abducted by the Borg for a third time?" And so she flew.

  The electricity was cut off through my negligence, and at exactly this time I lost my black cat Thomas. A near fatal bout of acute hypochondria promised to give me the romantic death I longed for, and then reneged on its demonic contract. And through all this, my dog E'hud has made it clear to me that he despises my intelligence.

  And so here I am - what you see. Begging for undeserved attention and enough space to park one bony spiritual buttock on the bench of life. Though I am not worthy of being a full-time poster anymore, please make me one of your hired hands.

  philo
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  WTS Pollution! April 1 2001 WT

  by ISP in

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  discarding of plastic objects by the thoughtless creates problems and is handily pointed out by the wts and besides it must be a real pain to trip over plastic bottles and stuff , particularly if youre in the countryside...................... *** w93 2/15 3 paradise or garbage dump-which do you prefer?

  ***crossing the spacious sand dunes bordering the seashore, he carefully picked his way through a litter of discarded bottles, cans, plastic bags, chewing-gum and candy wrappers, newspapers, and magazines.

  clearly irritated, he wondered if this was the paradise he had traveled to reach.. but witnesses are different......................... *** w93 2/15 5 rooting out pollution from heart and mind ***what motivates jehovahs witnesses to be different, while the world in general shows such little appreciation for cleanliness and order?

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  philo

  Nice point you've made, ISP. If I were in the watchtower now, I would use your point to counter anyone who insisted I take WT 'counsel' too seriously.

  philo
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  Afghanistan's Taleban: Fundi news

  by philo in

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  three press stories from afghanistan.

  the country is mainly under the control of the tabeban, a muslim fundamentalist authority.. the first, is about the taliban ordered destruction of the giant buddhas at bamiyan... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1196000/1196363.stm.

  the second story (back in july, 2000) also features their top religious leader.

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  philo

  Three press stories from Afghanistan. The country is mainly under the control of the Tabeban, a Muslim fundamentalist authority.

  The first, is about the Taliban ordered destruction of the giant Buddhas at Bamiyan..
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1196000/1196363.stm

  The second story (back in July, 2000) also features their top religious leader. He blames the Afghan people for the drought, the consequential famine of which then threatened 1.6 million of their population (UN estimate).
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_860000/860067.stm

  In the third, the Taleban have been preventing food reaching this threatened region because it's controlled by one of the armed factions that make up the anti-Taleban alliance.
  http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/despatches/west_asia/newsid_32000/32546.stm#top

  Why have they been destroying the Buddhist statues? The Taleban have replied simply: "they are UNISLAMIC".
  Why did this leadership blame the people for the drought? Answer: "they lacked faith".
  Why have the Taleban been preventing international famine relief? Because they are more afraid of their enemies than of starving Afghani people.

  IS IT JUST ME, or does anybody else see similarities with WTBTS leasdership style and policy?

  philo
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  About those who "love to speculate"

  by MacHislopp in

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  how about this one to refresh the memory?.

  *** w52 2/1 80-1 jehovah's theocratic organization today ***.

  the folly of speculating.

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  philo

  Ditto to all the remarks so far. But do you have to have an open line between each good one?

  philo (sincerely)