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  I MAY VERY WELL MEET RINGO STARR!

  by Band on the Run in

  1. social
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  newflash in the ongoing addiction and mania that started at age twelve when the national broadcast news showed pictures of these english boys with very, very long hair.

  i stopped by a local grocery store b/c i was not certain that a challis scarf was wool or rayon b/c the fabric content is in arabic.

  thank allah for arabic numerals.

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  panhandlegirl

  BOTR, hope you get to meet him. That would be cool.
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  Thanks to everyone on this forum!

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  today is my first anniversary as a jwn member.

  it's hard to believe that only a year has passed since i joined, but i feel that's a testament to how much i have been welcomed and made to feel like part of the furniture.. i would very much like to take this opportunity to thank everyone on the forum for the immense help and assistance i have received, particularly in my first few weeks/months of posting.

  it truly was a lifeline at a very distressing time for me.

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  Congratulations on your first year on JWN. Your contributions have been immensely helpful and interesting. Thanks for letting us get to know "Anthony."
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  Faithful and Discreet Slave serves LEFTOVERS!!???

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

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  panhandlegirl

  When I was in my early-mid twenties my older brother, who had been an elder, was always giving me reasons why the FDS was wrong about many things. I did not believe him but his reasonings began to make inroads into my

  faith in the FDS. By the time I reached my mid-thirties, I had started fading. I no longer attended meeting or did field service by "76. I don't really think I was a nit-wit. It is difficult to leave everything you have always believed and

  everyone you have know for your entire life. I did it, but I still feel "in trasition." I don't belive there is any FDS nor do I believe anything they teach, but as long as the majority of my family is still in, I am not totally free. As we can

  see from those on this forum that stay in the borg because they are not ready to lose their entire family, the borg has the ability to hold you hostage. I guess some don't leave out of fear or the inability to admit that everything

  they have believed was a lie.
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  Computer chair philosophers:

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ''i believe in everything, until it's disproved.

  so i believe in fairies, the myths, dragons.

  it all exists even it's in your mind.

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  panhandlegirl

  I like John Lennon but can you imagine that he and Yoko could really "Imagine no possessions. I wonder if you can." I do not think John could "imagine" that. No way. It's a nice thought but not realistic. As he said," I just believe in

  me, Yoko and me, and that's reality." Nevertheless, I like his and the Beatles music; listen to it every day by means of Pandora. Personally, I value my possessions. When I can't find my favorite pen or book I tear the house up until

  I find them/it. Most of my friends are the same way; don't you dare take their favorite pen, they wiil search heaven and hell to find it! It's their pen!

  Sorry, I don't think John is trying to make any point, he's just talking. I would not give any credence to what he said. He was a great songwriter/entertainer, that's all. It's too bad he was killed.
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  Why would you make an 83 yr old woman go out in service????

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am trying to contact my mothers elders in riverside ca, because my mother doesn't talk to her family.

  since that means at least 12 phone calls to various kh's i thought i'd start with my aunt to see what the name of the congegation is.

  unfortunatly she didn't know.

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  BOTR wrote:

  I will never forget how hard she cried. She was humiliated but would not complain. It was shaming. Family members were outraged and told her they would call someone at Bethel for her. The overseer was just some local nobody. She cried. NOt a true JW after an entire lifetime of effort. She was born-in to a member of the remnant during Russell's time.

  That is really sad about your grandmother. It's hard to believe how some people can be so unfeeling.
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  Why would you make an 83 yr old woman go out in service????

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i am trying to contact my mothers elders in riverside ca, because my mother doesn't talk to her family.

  since that means at least 12 phone calls to various kh's i thought i'd start with my aunt to see what the name of the congegation is.

  unfortunatly she didn't know.

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  good for you loosie, I hope you set them in line about your mother's safety, but as another poster stated, she may need some association with these people to keep herself happy and fulfilled.

  PHG
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  Scientific Careers and Race

  by Quendi in

  1. social
  2. current

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  panhandlegirl

  bts, you are correct, Hispanics are very different, depending on where they came from. I am not so sure they vote as a block, but I will leave that to those who know more than I do. I am a so called "Chicana;" don't know nothing

  about Mexico. Well, yes I do. I have a BA in Spanish but am American to the core. I confess I don't know about life in Mexico through experience.Things, life was different back in the day, the younger generation of those whose

  ancestors lived in the US before Texas and the West were part of the US, is quite different today, but there are not enough of them getting educated as there are Blacks or Caucasians getting an education.

  From what I have read, Hispanics, excluding Cubans, are not even graduating from High School on a large scale. I am pro-Hispanic and would like for them to do better. What is your opinion about why Hispanics are not more

  represented in sciences or math?
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  New YouTube video - Anthony Morris warns us against the horrors of higher education

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcneuuajvg.

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  panhandlegirl

  The person without a degree asks "Would you like fries with that?" [Or: paper or plastic?]

  St. George, that is funny. Isn't that sortof a line from "Scent of a Woman"? I love that movie,.
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  Lessons learned from CASABLANCA

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i watched casablanca last night.

  rick blaine is cyncial and an alcoholic.. but, he rises above his malaise to do the "right thing" to make the world a better place.

  he realizes he doesn't need to sacrifice love or life to do it--he only has to incorporate a larger view of what is valuable into his life and exchange something valuable to achieve it.. in other words, this film has a vision that allows an ideal through behavior by demonstrating a greater opportunity than mere complaint, destruction or self-destruction.

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  I just happened to buy "Casablanca" a few days ago. I have seen the movie, but it's been years ago. I will watch it this week. My coworkers are all much younger than me and I am struck with the difference in expectations. Most

  of them don't really realize what a good life they have. They expect a lot. I don't believe they realize what their grandparents gave for them to have what they take for granted. They are good and giving people, but I just don't

  believe they know what their parent's and especially their grandparents have provided for them.
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  New YouTube video - Anthony Morris warns us against the horrors of higher education

  by cedars in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcneuuajvg.

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  panhandlegirl

  The longer I contemplate this video the more disgusted I become. I don't think Anthony is an idiot. I think he a lying and deceiving B*****d. I will bet he does not practice what he preaches. To compare a university degree with

  so called "higher education" provided by the wts is ludicrous. I'm sure if Anthony needed an iv chemotherapy drug, he would not ask another member of the GB (whose higher education was obtained through the wts) to mix it up for

  him. That would be certain death, or make his disease worse. If he was an idiot, that would be one thing, but he knows he is lying to the sheep who trust him. He is rotten to the core.