Posts by amicabl

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But it's alright if we do it.

by Lost in the fog in

we were talking with a friend who is in a different area and they mentioned that their present kingdom hall building used to be a church before the brothers bought it cheaply and renovated it.

"of course," john then said, "it'll be dedicated to jehovah after all the work is done so even if everyone in the community still call it the old church, we'll know it is jehovah’s place of worship.

hadn't consciously thought about it until now, but isn't it hypocrisy to (re)dedicate a church and it becomes ok for the witnesses to use.

Where I live in Aus it was never a big deal. In the 70s when we were looking to build a kh, an elder said to me that a local old church would do if the price was right. His comment was that “we would have to get the spooks out of it”.

We sold our kh in town where I live near now to the Salvation Army some 8 or 9 years ago. You can guess who now has the money and the large block of land we bought as a replacement site. Also my wife informed me recently that they are not building the new hall that was “approved” 12 months ago. No one who knows the full story is happy about it. She is even starting to ask me questions about where I get my info from. I know more about what is going on than she does.

Sorry......a bit off topic there.

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Display on Computer is Upside Down!

by compound complex in

greetings, techies:.

i'm teaching a class right now and my students' desktop computer is showing microsoft word upside down.

we share documents between our two computers but cannot because of this crazy turn of events.. any ideas?.

amicabl

Switch to Apple computers.

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suicide

by zeb in

jw
friends

who among us has known a jw who has committed suicide.

i believe this as a separate subject has not been covered..

amicabl

Years ago....two.

The first one wiped himself out on his motor cycle after his family split up and left “the truth”.

The second was a sister in the cong who had problems which “the truth” couldn’t help. I felt sorry for her. The PO went around the hall telling us not to talk about it. He eventually ate himself to death, so I will amend my first sentence.

Years ago......three

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RIP Nannette Fabray

by smiddy3 in

i`m sure many of you old timers would remember her she was in her nineties when she recently passed away .. she co-starred with fred astaire in bandwagon and also appeared in a couple of episodes of the mary tyler moore show.. and won numerous awards in the entertainment industry .

she was 97 when she passed away..

amicabl

Yes......I remember. The triplets number from the band wagon is one of my favourite musical pieces. The whole film was great. Sad to hear of her passing.

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Another School Shooting: The Gun Violence/Mental Illness Debate Continues

by jp1692 in

in the aftermath of the valentine's day school shooting in florida, i have read quite a number of articles, blogs and posts about the event.

it is disturbing--and i think inexcusable--that many people take the opportunity to use horrible tragedies such as this to push their own particular agenda.. in particularly insensitive and tone-deaf tweet, conservative political commentator tomi lahren wrote: "can the left let the families grieve for even 24 hours before they push their anti-gun and anti-gunowner agenda?

my goodness.

amicabl

jwundubbed....I was going to comment on this "mentally ill" business, but I think you have covered it really well. I fully support what you have so eloquently written and I feel that people should realise that just because a person is unwell it does not follow that they are violent and "unhinged".

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A crisis of scientific reproducability

by Outahere in

https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970.

more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.

i didn't know it was so widespread...but it's a big problem in biology/medicine..

amicabl

LUHE.....Most scientists do the best they can......That is an interesting statement! I was torn apart on my last topic posted for daring to criticise the God of science.

"scientific research" is all about money. Especially in the field of medicine. I have seen too many victims to think otherwise.

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Give Love to Receive Love ???

by IMHO in

jw
friends

please help me understand this.

over the years i have seen and have heard of many who have changed congregation due to the 'lack of love' shown in their own.

you then hear many condemning such ones as 'having a problem' and 'taking their problems with them'.

amicabl

I have had social anxiety disorder for all of my life, becoming much worse from my late twenties forty years ago.

I saw a psychiatrist for twenty years who dished out the usual benzodiazapines, which I have to say have kept me going and I seem to tolerate them, which goes against all the printed evidence apparently.

It was hard going to the hall when I was in, some evenings not talking to anybody and feeling really out of it and it is emotionally hard now with my wife still in even though I am totally out and "inactive" now. She understands my problem though and supports me as did many in the cong as I had known some since the mid seventies.

In late 1998 there was a really good article in the awake mag on SAD which actually caused some discussion at the hall and it surprised me to find that quite a few had this problem at varying levels. I had also found the same thing at work. Some much worse than me.

There have been some good replies and comments made here IMHO and I don't have any advice other than to echo what Phoebe said and go and talk things over with a psychologist that you feel really comfortable with.. All the best to you.

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Pillowgate - John Cedars

by CitizenofEarth in

is this true?

is this really true?!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirjv48c55m.

amicabl

Bobby2446......Please go away. You are a real pain.

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Snake In My Fridge

by finallysomepride in

i just now went to get meat from my fridge to cook, took the meat out & shut the door as i shut the door i thought i saw a piece of rope in the six pack i had just opened & had removed 2 cans, already drunk 1.. open the door again & there i saw what i thought was a piece of rope, but i look a bit closer ...... shit it's a friggin snake, bugger i had only just taken two cans out wtf.. .

amicabl

It's only a baby. Keep it as a pet. I've had a few in the house and the shed over the years, usually curled up and fast asleep.

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Kingdom songs

by Jrjw in

anyone got any ideas on how to get kingdom melodies out of my head.

keep finding myself singing them without realising and it's getting annoying lol.

hopefully they'll disappear with time.

amicabl

I listen to podcasts on my phone as I am walking around doing boring jobs. I like early 20th century music so you can find anything you want I guess. I also listen to podcasts from dubstepped (another plug for you dub). That might take your mind off jw rubbish music.