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  What were you never going to do in "This system" But did it?

  by karter in

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  finish school.. finish my apprenticeship (why are you doing that brother karter you will never finish it in this system).. buy a house.. pay the house off.. karter..

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  Dancing under a full moon in the Himalayas

  Good for you, I've always wanted to see the Himalayas. Very long bucket list.
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  How was your wedding?

  by BeautifulMind in

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  how was your wedding?

  did you have a jw wedding or something different?

  my wedding was not what either of us wanted at first, but it turned out very lovely.

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  Awful, Kingdom Hall, line dancing and 400 people. We only invited 200 but the rest were gate crashers. Delightful true Christians! The best man did a horrible play on stage about my husband. It took me years to persuade him this creep hated him. Anyway it didn't matter, I still married the love of my life. I was very lucky.
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  78 to go and hopefully something good comes of it. Please do your part and sign up. Thanks

  by Tenacious in

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  only 78 signatures are needed in order to send the request to the irs that they revoke or at the very least investigate the borg.

  come'on guys, support it.. click here to support and sign up!.

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  I signed it.
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  LETTER RE: NEW ELDER ASSIGNMENTS (Satire Alert)

  by freddo in

  1. social
  2. humour

  dear brothers,.

  how thrilled we are that jehovah's chariot moves at breathtaking speed and that his earthly organization is keeping pace!.

  we are writing to let you know about some wonderful provisions that are available as of june 1st 2016. listen, obey, pay and be blessed and you and your household will "overflow" with bounteous things.(prov.

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  Don't forget the overseer for forbidden sexual practices that will keep you out of paradise, Fun Under Cover Kills.
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  What were you never going to do in "This system" But did it?

  by karter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  finish school.. finish my apprenticeship (why are you doing that brother karter you will never finish it in this system).. buy a house.. pay the house off.. karter..

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  See the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican

  Be taught meditation by Buddhist monks

  Have gay friends

  Have a child

  Get a degree

  Visit my MP

  See Paris,Venice, Athens, New York

  Volunteer for a mental health charity

  Enjoy reading philosophy 

  Laugh at dirty jokes

  Visit a Spiritualist Church and not be afraid

  Get drunk
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  Evolution is a Fact #12 - Lenski's E. coli Experiment

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  evolution works by the non-random selection of random mutation.

  natural selection accumulates favourable random chance events.. the experiment that was began on 24th february 1988 on e coli bacteria by dr richard e. lenski and his team is surely one of the clearest demonstrations of the power of this process.. e.coli is one of the commonest bacterium on earth, there is around 100 billion, billion of them in the world at any given time and around 1 billion of them in your gut right now.

  most of the time they cause no problem, until a new strain wreaks havoc on its host's digestive system.. if we assume the probability of a particular gene mutating to be 1 in a billion, the size of the population is so high that just about every gene in the e.coli genome will have mutated somewhere in the world every day.

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  A mutation had occurred that conferred no advantage the bacterium but it primed it to take advantage of a later mutation

  Fascinating. That explains a great deal. This is very helpful, I'm finding the details of evolution starting to drop into place.
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  Why it's a waste of time talking to JW's

  by Phizzy in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i believe it to be a waste of time talking to, reasoning with, jw's if you expect any kind of quick result.. many of us when we first wake up think that 'coz ttatt is blindingly obvious to us, it will soon get through to our jw loved ones.. this simply isn't so for a couple of important reasons.

  the first is that, if someone believes something is true, or the truth, to them it really is, without doubt, true.

  so whatever you say must be wrong somehow.. the second problem is that jw's simply do not have to use, or pay any attention to facts and logic.

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  It depends on the personality type I think. There are people in my extended family who say things like I don't do texting, I don't do ATMs, I don't buy things online it's not safe. My relatives seem very stubborn, emotional, paranoid and they hate change. So it's no surprise that the JWs among them want to snuggle down in their comfort zone and keep the status quo. Struggling against these people since childhood has profoundly affected the way I see others and I really have to fight the urge to give up on people because of my 'brick wall' relatives.

  I don't think all families are like this Phizzy. Some people are more cerebral and they like to think, they enjoy reading and learning new things and while not relishing change can see the need for it. God knows why I am different from them but that's genetics for you. The genes fall differently every time. Apparently my maternal grandmother had a brother who went to sea and travelled the world. He was a real explorer and loved change. Now there was a relative I should have liked to have met.
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
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  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  Quite a few butterflies in the garden today. Red Admirals, small blues and Tortoiseshells. I saw my first Orange Tip last week. The bee balm, Monarda, isn't quite big enough to plant out yet but hopefully that will attract more insects. It does smell lovely which made the seedlings a real joy to pot on. Looking forward to the flowers.
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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  Start A Butterfly Garden!

  by Bonsai in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  time to take a break from debating religion.

  take in a breath of fresh air and be healed by the wonders of nature around you.. how many of you have a garden?

  how many have a nice flower patch to go with your vegetable garden?

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  Half banana it's a very rosy eating apple, quite delicious. I don't know the name of it, it was here when we bought this house. I also have a cooker that tastes very similar to a Bramley which is just coming into flower. I will try and post a picture of it but it's very slow loading photos from my iPad on this site today.