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  A call from the GRAVE!

  by ButtLight in

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  ok, since others are posting "boo" threads, i will too.

  would you bury a loved one with a cell phone?.

  i was watching sylvia browne yesterday.

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  http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/phone.asp
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  The new funkey keyboard layout they are trying to sell

  by Elsewhere in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anyone try the new funky keyboard layout that most keyboard manufacturers are selling now?

  the one where the delete key is tall, the home and end keys are moved next to each other and and the arrow keys are moved to the left under the shift key.. .

  i recently bought the logitech 510 (the one shown on the bottom) and i absolutely hate it.. years ago i learned how to touch-type, which means i type without actually looking at the keyboard.

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  For what it's worth, years ago I switched all my keyboards to use the Dvorak layout. While it took a while to get adjusted to the change, it has paid off it terms of greater speed and comfort.
  
  Most of the world's fastest typists use Dvorak. Try it yourself for a few weeks and you'll see why.
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  For the Macintosh fans

  by Skimmer in

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  http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/829.html

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  http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/747c.html
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  For the Macintosh fans

  by Skimmer in

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  2. humour

  http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/829.html

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  http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/829.html
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  Going over to CT Russell's tomb, anybody want any closeups? Requests?

  by thecarpenter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm working on a video of jw beliefs with another ex-jw.

  we are going to shoot some footage of russell's tombstone and pyramid and also going to interview a jwd'er about his exit.

  i was wondering if any of you have any "reasonable" requests?

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  At the nearest freshwater fishing locale, buy a large bucket of live bait. You know, the ones that weight about ten pounds and are loaded with hungry earthworms. And then ... well, you can guess the rest.
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  Worst U.S. President and Why?

  by Black Man in

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  so who in your opinion is the worst-ever u.s. president and why do you say so?

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  It's difficult to accurately assess a president's role in history until at least a couple of decades have passed since his/her term of office. That being said, the current occupant of the White House is surely a candidate for the bottom position.
  
  But having lived through the Nixon years and with a fuller understanding gained over time of his actions and that of his associates during his terms, I think that Ol' Tricky Dick was easily the worst son of a bitch -- so far.
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  how do you feel about mandatory military service?

  by The Humper in

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  i was watching the democratic debate on tv today, well some of it, and this was one of the topics.

  personally i think that it woldnt be a bad thing at all.

  many countries do it and have no problems.

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  Only the sons and daughters of the politicians that support a war should be forcibly inducted. For all others it must be voluntary, and I'd go further and limit their participation to those over 21 years old.
  
  I don't want to live in a country that needs to be defended by slaves.
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  Getting rid of books, bound volumes, etc.

  by ShareyTee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've been inactive for about 10 years now, and its time for me to get rid of some of my wt stuff, but what do i do with it all???

  i have all the wt stuff on a bookshelf in a spare bedroom, but now i need this shelf space.

  what i most want to get rid of first are the wt & awake bound volumes.

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  Burn them all, just as I did more than thirty years ago. It's the only way to avoid the possibility of incurring moral responsibility should some unwary individual be infected by the WTBTS deadly disease.
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  So I called Bethel a few days ago...

  by Kudra in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i pretended to be a student in a sociology of religion class at a university i made up... middlebury community college in dallas texas... :p .

  i said i was doing a report on how different denominations deal with the litigation, mitigation and media coverage of abuse allegations... .

  i said that i was wondering if the coverage i had seen all over the internet about the payout to the victims in california would be covered (and when) by the media page on the jw website.

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  Don't bother writing as they read this forum and will be waiting for a letter -- even if they decide to ignore it.
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  Munch munch yum -- Cannibal JW

  by Skimmer in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=cannibal-munched-pensioner-s-thumb--&method=full&objectid=18860588&siteid=89520-name_page.html .

  a slovakian worker who ate the thumb of a pensioner during a savage attack was yesterday held indefinitely under the mental health act.

  jan ometak, 28, broke into doug morgan's house at 4am and attacked him like "an animal", gnawing at his face, arms and chest.

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  http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=cannibal-munched-pensioner-s-thumb--&method=full&objectid=18860588&siteid=89520-name_page.html
  
  
  A SLOVAKIAN worker who ate the thumb of a pensioner during a savage attack was yesterday held indefinitely under the Mental Health Act.
  
  Jan Ometak, 28, broke into Doug Morgan's house at 4am and attacked him like "an animal", gnawing at his face, arms and chest.
  
  The Jehovah's Witness, who is a paranoid schizophrenic, said he was on a "mission from God".
  
  At Hereford crown court he admitted attacking the 75-year-old in Lyonshall, Herefordshire last July.
  
  Ometak, of Hereford, who came to the UK in 2005, was cleared of attempted murder.