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  YO!

  by OnTheWayOut in

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  Xanthippe

  http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/18/chat-app-yo
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  If you were on your death bed, what is the ONE thing you would say you have learnt ?

  by new hope and happiness in

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  i think i would say " you can not change others you can only change your self" .

  if you cant think of anything what is the next number in this sequence?.

  what do these sums have in common?.

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  If you were on your death bed, what is the ONE thing you would say you have learnt ?

  I would tell anyone who cared to listen, never give up. When you live through despair there is something amazing on the other side of it. It is peace. It surprised the hell out of me.
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  a sense of responsibility

  by Ruby456 in

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  do parents here feel a strong sense of responsiblity for raising their children as witnessess?

  an xwitness friend was saying she and her husband feel very bad for having brought up their children as witnesses and they feel they want to make amends but are unable to do so.

  what advice would you give them.

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  Ruby I feel very strongly that when people become ex-JWs and their adult children leave, no matter how long that takes, they should apologise for raising their kids in a dangerous cult. My in-laws never apologised to my husband or his sister and I really think they should have.

  It severely damaged their children's lives and they have never acknowledged that they, at the very least, made a dreadful mistake. My sister-in-law will no longer have anything to do with them which is very sad. Actually talking about this has helped clarify it in my mind. The next time I speak to my mother-in-law I will suggest it, it might help her get her daughter back.
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  Conventions

  by free2beme in

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  as the conventions are in full swing, and my relatives who are still in make a point to tell me what their vacation will include.

  i am reminded of a couple of things about conventions i do not normally think about.. one, the people who would protest the conventions.

  some with bags on their head, others just holding signs.

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  When they talk about all the preaching work they have accomplished in the last hundred years I always want to ask why does god keep letting another generation be born that needs to be preached to? If he'd brought the big A a hundred years ago none of this building and preaching work would have been necessary!
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  received text from my mom

  by GoUnion in

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  so my wife and my parents are at their convention today.

  this will be the first time in my life that i will not have seen a drama or baptism.

  i will miss the public address, i will not see many of my lifelong friends that i have moved away from.

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  its a nice day outside, i think im gonna go enjoy it.

  GoUnion, well done. There are great things to enjoy in this world. It's not going to be easy for you but even though my family shun me would I go back to that asylum? No, a thousand times no. Perhaps it won't come to that at all for you, you might get them all out.
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  Thread Envy

  by snowbird in

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  transhuman mentioned that someone on the board suffers from thread envy.. are you jealous of other posters who just seem to be able to generate responses to their threads?.

  lol..

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  Some posters are deliberately controversial to ensure they get lots of attention. Perhaps they are just lonely Sylvia?
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  If it weren't illegal...

  by Rattigan350 in

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  i was listening to a circuit overseer's talk and he mentioned about how a sister wanted to simplify.

  she had a couple of dogs.

  then he related that she said that all she had to do was get rid of the dogs.

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  I then thought that, if it weren't illegal, COs would encourage JWs to get rid of their children.

  So many people don't have children because of this cult. Either because they pioneered, went on the circuit or stayed in Bethel until they were too old to have children because the big A was just around the corner.

  Don't forget those who couldn't have IVF because it involved 'murder' according to JWs 25 years ago, discarding some of the embryos during the IVF process to give the more viable ones a chance. So they did encourage people to get rid of their prospects to have children. Absolutely wicked and something that has affected my family personally, my brother and sister are both childless.
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  The Venting Thread

  by minimus in

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  this thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.

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  I get tired of the human need to compete. At work there is constant competition, not always huge things but constant niggling little things. It's boring and sometimes it's offensive. A colleague asked me how my husband died and I said it was fast and she said oh well my cousin's husband died of a heart attack before he hit the ground. Is nothing sacred, do people compete over everything? I can't tell you how sick I am of competitive people.
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  Are the best things in life really free?

  by compound complex in

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  are they for you?.

  thanks.. coco.

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  My teenage daughter hand- feeding a pair of swans and their six signets on an icy cold day a few winter's ago.

  The first Morning Glory plant I ever grew, such bright blue flowers.

  Camping in Luxembourg, no money because of pioneering and hearing my first owl.

  Oh ok we had to pay for the cross-channel ferry but then we all have to pay the ferryman in the end!
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  What would be your favorite job if you could do anything.?

  by new hope and happiness in

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  on the basis that most of us realise the w.t wasnt really the best " job" or way to spend our days, it would be fun to find out what people would really have liked to have done with there lifes and if this is still possible.

  or maybe its not even a very realistic ambition just a dream.

  in my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.maybe i need a phycholgist?.

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  In my dreams i stay at home all day and make a living from being a professional artist.Maybe i need a phycholgist?

  That's a fantastic idea New hope, I would love to do that too. Or write for a living. Perhaps spend my life visiting fantastic places all over the globe and writing travel books, all expenses paid. Well I can dream can't I?