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  Your Tips on Packing and Shipping China, Glass, Collectibles.

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  greetings, all packers and movers:.

  i'm not inexperienced in the above but would appreciate your suggestions and experiences.

  google, of course, has been a tremendous help.

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  Insurance is a must, and definitely invest in proper packaging.
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  Snakes = Married

  by SnakesInTheTower in

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  2. entertainment

  it has been over a month and a half since i have even been on the board, and that really only to ask about gps units (got a tom-tom) and mention the new job.

  way too busy with life - post jw now 4 years.. of course, the new job has benefits, health insurance, etc.

  (including unlimited use of the company car for personal use and the company pays for the unlimited gas for about a $25/week out of my check -- huge benefit) and this has enabled toni and i to finally after a two year engagement, to get married.

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  Congratulations... may your love last a lifetime and then some!
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  onacruise - Craig Mills 1952-2011

  by Lady Lee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was given the link to a bit of information regarding on old poster/moderator of this forum.

  i was not sure of the validity of the information so have been trying to find out if it is true.. earlier today craig's estranged wife, kate, (bikerchic) confirmed that craig died at his home on aug 10, 2011.. i am sure that many people here remember craig's time here and how he went out of his way to offer support to posters, even calling them, to give whatever help he could as they adjusted to their post-jw lives.. i know many people here will grieve his loss.. --------------.

  ps i tried posting this earlier but the computer i was working with would not allow the posts.

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  Craig had a big heart from what I could tell. So sorry to hear this. My heart is breaking for Kate.
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  If You Heard An Acquaintance Was Considering A Study With JWs Would You Get Involved At All?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you express an opinion to that person studying with the witnesses or would you keep quiet?.

  if you did say something, what would it be?.

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  One of my former co-workers was "befriended" while taking her children to the playground in their neighbourhood by a JW lady who also frequented the park with her children. She said how nice the JW lady was, and how well behaved the children were, and because there was a budding "friendship", my co-worker felt obliged to accept the WT & Awake! magazines when the JW lady offered them to her.

  Their conversations were always centered on the bible, which my co-worker appreciated because she was a bit of an evangelical christian herself. She disagreed with some stuff in the magazines, and some WT interpretations of scripture, but overall felt their conversations were mutually beneficial. She looked forward to her regular chats with the JW lady.

  I asked my co-worker if she had any pamphlets or anything from her own church to share with the JW lady. She did, but it hadn't occurred to her to share them with the JW lady. I warned her that if she ever tried to share anything from her own church with the JW lady, that the JW lady would reject them, without even considering their content or that they discussed bible topics. My co-worker felt confident that the friendship she had with the JW lady was stronger than that, and I said, "Well, in the interest of mutual respect and out of friendship, I think she should read your pamphlets. She believes she has The Truth™, and has nothing to fear from reading what she considers to be inferior material. But I was trained, just like she has been, to reject material from other churches, and to not enter conversations that she cannot lead in favour of the Witnesses. If you try offering them to her her, or having a conversation about your own beliefs without having to entertain hers, she will find a way to leave. If you persist, or if you discontinue your JW-based conversations with her, she will terminate the friendship." I had also mentioned that the JW was very likely engaging in Informal Witnessing™, and counting the time on her Field Service Report™, and each conversation as a Return Visit™.

  A couple of months passed without my co-worker mentioning the JW lady. Then one day when we were alone, she told me what had happened. Shortly after our previous conversation, the JW lady showed up at my co-worker's home (without ever having been told which home was hers) with another JW lady, to offer a Home Bible Study™. My co-worker took the opportunity to thank the JW lady for coming (although she was a bit creeped out that she had found her house) and said that she enjoyed the Magazines™ and wanted to give her a pamphlet from her church to return the favour. My co-worker had been hopeful that my prediction would be wrong and that the JW lady would be gracious enough to accept her pamphlet, but was very disappointed when the JW lady rejected her offer and then quickly left.

  She later met the JW lady in the park again, and the JW lady tried to follow up on the offer of a Bible Study™. She asked the JW lady point blank: Are you Witnessing™ to me right now? Have you been 'counting' our conversations on your little monthly reports? The JW lady admitted that she was doing just that. Then she asked, what would happen if I said I didn't want to read your magazines anymore? If I just wanted to talk about the kids and school and stuff around the neighbourhood? I was surprised at the answer, because I wouldn't have been so callous: "Well, I guess there's really no point in us talking at all, then."

  My co-worker was so upset that she was being used by the JW lady to pad her Field Service™ hours and Return Visits™ and Placements™. But she was grateful that I had given her a heads-up and gently challenged her to try to take charge of the "friendship" to see if the JW lady had ulterior motives. She felt that had she ignored my advice, she might have ended up accepting the offer of the Bible Study™, and who knows where that would have gone....
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  Study with the Johovah, Witnesses

  by Mary k in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a friend who wants me to do bible study with him,my bible is not good enough for him and tells me i have the wrong icture.please help me..

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  Friendship is based on sharing and mutual respect.

  You've already declined his offer, yet he persists in his demands that you study the bible with him. That is disrespectful. It's not friendship.

  I'm certain that if you asked him to attend your church, he would refuse. He does not want to share in anything that you believe, to understand you better. That is also a mark of disrespect for you, nor is it a sign of friendship.

  If you tell him that your family will disown you if you change your religion, he will tell you that it's ok because people in the "true religion" should expect that kind of persecution. Yet, if you joined the JWs and then quit after deciding it wasn't right for you, they will treat you as if you've been disowned.

  Just out of curiosity, is there the possibility of a romantic relationship between the two of you? If so, he will insist that you convert in order to make the relationship acceptable to his JW friends and family.
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  I am so sad to pass this news along to you about our Dear Sacrificial Loon

  by BabaYaga in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just heard from his brother that he has passed.

  several of you know that he has been fighting cancer for a while now.. oh, sac!

  i am so very sorry you have left this world... rest in peace, joy, and light... your fight, suffering, and fears are put to rest.. strength and love to all who love you.. .

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  Watchtower on Changing Religions

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watchtower on changing religions.

  today i uploaded a new article to my blog addressing watchtowers treatment of changing religions.

  to potential converts watchtower paints one picture.

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  Scully

  Knowing that it's the Legal Department that's running the show at the WTS, there's not even the slightest glimmer of hope that Truth will ever darken the doors there anymore.
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  Watchtower on Changing Religions

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  watchtower on changing religions.

  today i uploaded a new article to my blog addressing watchtowers treatment of changing religions.

  to potential converts watchtower paints one picture.

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  Scully

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piW9MHpfCu4

  "Hotel California"
  
  On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
  Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
  Up ahead in the distance, I saw shimmering light
  My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
  I had to stop for the night
  There she stood in the doorway;
  I heard the mission bell
  And I was thinking to myself,
  'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
  Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
  There were voices down the corridor,
  I thought I heard them say...
  
  Welcome to the Hotel California
  Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
  Such a lovely face
  Plenty of room at the Hotel California
  Any time of year (Any time of year)
  You can find it here
  
  Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes Benz
  She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
  How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
  Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
  
  So I called up the Captain,
  'Please bring me my wine'
  He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine'
  And still those voices are calling from far away,
  Wake you up in the middle of the night
  Just to hear them say...
  
  Welcome to the Hotel California
  Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
  Such a lovely face
  They livin' it up at the Hotel California
  What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
  Bring your alibis
  
  Mirrors on the ceiling,
  The pink champagne on ice
  And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'And in the master's chambers,
  They gathered for the feast
  They stab it with their steely knives,
  But they just can't kill the beast
  
  Last thing I remember, I was
  Running for the door
  I had to find the passage back
  To the place I was before
  'Relax,' said the night man,
  'We are programmed to receive.
  You can check-out any time you like,
  But you can never leave!'
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  Urinary Tract Infection=proof of premarital sex

  by rebel8 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  in the twisted jw world, that is..... http://cultprevention.blogspot.com/2011/08/ah-memories.html.

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  Scully

  Sadly, that level of ignorance isn't limited to the JWs.

  I've heard of fathers being accused of molesting their daughters when the little girls (like 2 yr olds) had a UTI. Turned out to be from inadvertent non-front-to-back hygiene practices during potty training.
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  i'm going back to kh, they have the truth.

  by cptkirk in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  btw anakim:.

  a race of people of extraordinary size who inhabited the mountainous regions of canaan as well as some coastal areas, particularly in the s thereof.

  at one time three prominent men of the anakim, that is, ahiman, sheshai, and talmai, resided at hebron.

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  Scully

  40 lashes with a wet noodle for punkin' us when it's not April Fool's Day!!!