Posts by James Brown

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A Thread for Cyclists - Where Do you Ride?
by cofty in
1. social
2. physical
i took up cycing a couple of months ago just to get fitter and lose a bit of excess weight.. i bought a second-hand hybrid bike (weighs only slightly less than a truck) and fitted road tyres.

four or five times a week i will go for a ride after work for an hour or so.

i am fortunate enough to live in rural north england surrounded by limitless quiet roads.
James Brown

For the middle 25 years of my work life I rode my bike to work evryday. 7.5 miles round trip.

Some days I would run.

I carried glasses for the bugs. They could be blinding. Sometimes the bugs still got in my eyes with glasses on.

When I rode to work. I would go down side streets through a trailer park and on the sidewalk of the major road.

I don't consider myself a cyclist but I do ride a lot. I ride my bike to 2 soccer games a month to watch the Tampa Bay Rowdies.

I live in Pinellas County Florida and they have converted abandoned train routes, tracks into trails from the north to the south of the

county. The part of Florida I live in is very cyclist friendly.
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In your memory, what was the nicest day you had out in field service?
by LoisLane looking for Superman in
1. jw
2. experiences
for me, that happy day was in morro bay, calif. it was the fall, oct 1958 or 9. gorgeous weather.

the sun was shining and the wind was coming off of the ocean.. at that time, morro bay was unassigned territory.. talesin on another thread was talking about a lovely day she had, going with her grandfather, talking with a mr languages.

lol.
James Brown

I never liked it.
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Being a JW Used to Be Fun :-)
by snowbird in
1. jw
2. friends
we found some people who were happy to welcome us into their homes, even offering us food and drink.. sometimes, they would flag us down and ask for the magazines, walk miles to the kh meetings, come to our defense if someone got ugly or rude.. now, jw's are either routinely ignored or outright vilified.. no one respects them anymore.. sad.. .
James Brown

Being a Jw was only fun when I was very young and knew no better. After about 5 or 6 years

of age it started getting old. The constant meetings and putting on a suit and sitting without

wiggling and being bored to death, and the bad music and worse singing.

All the tv shows, I missed and playing with the kids in the neighborhood after dinner,

because I had to go to meetings, I will never get back.
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The Truth is Within You
by cassuk11 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
humankind has for centuries sought truth outside of themselves.

the soupmix of teaching ,ideas,philosophies and religious dogma had failed to see that the truth is within and if we seek ,knock and ask we find it within us.

the truth is that we are all light and pure love and that is buried deep within alll the layers upon layers which are being stripped away to reveal the true inner self .
James Brown

Socrates about 350b.c taught that all real knowledge is already present within the person.

Only critical examination, question and aswer is needed to call it forth.

Socrates also said "The unexamined life is not worth living."

The Greeks killed him made him drink poison for making those truths known.
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What happens after you get the registered letter?
by paul from cleveland in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
my friend's daughter, who was baptized at 14, has decided to leave the witnesses.

she's in her early 20's.

she's stopped going to meeting a while ago and moved in with her father who is disfellowshipped.
James Brown

Wow.

In my opinion, the first mistake was signing for a registered letter.

I never signed for registered mail. I told my wife and son that and all my family.

A registered letter is the first page in a legal proceeding.

Curriosity killed the cat.

When I left, I didn't answer the phone or the door and I didn't even talk to the friends at the grocery store.

What good ever comes from a registered letter?

If you win the lottery you have a ticket.

If someone is trying to contact you with no malice they will send you a regular letter.

I even found out about lost investment moneys and bank funds by regular mail.

It sounds like the JW's are playing hard ball nowadays with the disfelloshipping.
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How to spot a sociopath - 10 red flags that could save you from being swept under the influence of a charismatic nut job
by Londo111 in
1. jw
2. friends
http://www.naturalnews.com/036112_sociopaths_cults_influence.html.

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James Brown

My first hand experience locking them up in the county jail is, they suck their thumbs when they sleep.

And they wet their pants at night.

If I see them suckng their thumbs at night, I end up having to give them clean drawers.

And I look at their charges and they have animal cruelity and abuse on them.
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What are your thoughts?
by Finallyfree12 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on reptilians/shapeshifters?.
James Brown

David Icke.

I read about 4 of this books about 10 years ago.

He is not good about documentation and footnotes.

He trys to be a reality writter but is more fantasy fiction.

If you are familiar with the bible, then things he says will resonate.

Icke is like Alex Jones but much more loosely wraped.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/esp_vida_alien_19a.htm

Sitchin has much better documentation for alien intervention.

I think Icke read and heard about a lot of things and forgot to or doesn't know

how to footnote and document.

He was a soccer player/ sportscaster who tried to find a better way to make a buck.
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How old were you when you left the Watchtower - SURVEY
by usualusername in
1. jw
2. friends
i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .

i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .

uun.
James Brown

I found my way out at 31.

I have been out for 31 years.

I was born in.
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What do you call a person who . . . ?
by Terry in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
what do you call a person who keeps promising to do something for you--but won't get up off their ass and do it?.

what do you call a person who needs money from you all the time and doesn't pay it back?.

what do you call a person who keeps you waiting and waiting and then, they don't show up?.
James Brown

I call them trouble and history.

They are not in my life.
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A PERSONAL QUESTION to help me finish my NOVEL
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
here is a personal question:.

is it disturbing to you when an author jumps into the flow of history and radically departs in order to drive an important lesson home to the reader?.

in this novel i have several watch tower leaders meeting incredibly violent deaths at the hands of --well, i won't give anything away.
James Brown

Terry it sounds like you are writing historical fiction.

My favorite author in that genre is James Michner

Have you read him, Terry?

It seems like you are already inspired and motivated.

I was just wondering if you have been inspired by Michner.

I'm not much for reading fiction, but when I do, I read James Michner.

He has a format that he follows in many of his novels that is enticing and works and captivates

over and over again.

To bad hes dead.