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  Baby Girl

  by teejay in

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  i was enjoying a rousing conversation with a funny, sexy lady.

  then tragedy struck.

  my cell phone started acting up.

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  I was enjoying a rousing conversation with a funny, sexy lady. Then tragedy struck. My cell phone started acting up.
  
  "Find a pay phone, Honey!"
  
  "Right away!!"
  
  I was making my way to a land line when all of a sudden I recalled an appointment I nearly forgot about. I checked the time. 1:04. I was supposed to be somewhere four minutes ago. If I hurry, I can probably make it. It was a pretty important appointment, so I figured I'd rush to make what part of it I could and then reconnect with my friend later. That really was my plan.
  
  A workmate who has two boys badly wanted a girl. Sheila, 38, had her prayers answered, and sometime in mid-October a baby girl was born. Except there were problems -- heart problems -- problems so severe that during the pregnancy the doctors even suggested that she seriously consider aborting. Sheila would have none of it. This child would live.
  
  Two days after birth, heart surgery was performed. Success! A while later, Baby was allowed to go home where improvement was seen. One by one, she was removed from the many machines that accompanied her home. Until about a week ago.
  
  Sheila went in to feed her newborn. In hindsight it appeared to many that the Child was waiting for her, for it was then, right then while Mother held her, that The Child breathed her last. Mother threw a lifeline and did her best trying to resuscitate her dying daughter. A caring emergency crew was summoned and the ambulance came speedily. Mother and child were medi-flighted to the best hospital in the region. To no avail. She was gone.
  
  With nary a cloud in the sky, Friday, December 17, 2004 was clear and crisp in my little town. A steady wind blew out of the west and swept the crowd of solemn folks dressed in black as they silently eyed each other through teary eyes. Amidst a cemetery of headstones graced with children's toys and showing lives marked in days and months instead of years; with epitaphs like "I Pray The Lord My Soul To Take", the loathsome coffin, barely two feet long, sat draped in beautiful flowers. I hated the sight of it.
  
  So... how was *your* Friday?
  
  
  p.s. Sorry, A, that I didn't get back with you. Talk to you soon.
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  We're having a baby .......

  by Perry in

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  2. friends

  boy!

  (passes out fine cigars to all that want one).

  we are 5 months along and due may 8th.

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  Congrats, Perry and Misses Perry.
  
  Little dude (dudette) is gonna change your whole life. Mostly for the better.
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  If You Wanted Someone To Join JWD, How Would You Describe This Place?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  this board is the biggest jw discussion board that i know of.

  i'm sure timid witnesses look here on a daily basis but do not join for various reasons.

  i know some might not really know what to expect if they did become a member.

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  A discussion board where lurking JWs, doubting JWs, and ex-JWs hang out.
  
  That's pretty much it.
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  Three Great Americans

  by teejay in

  1. social
  2. current

  three great americans

  bush honors tenet, franks, bremer .

  president bush awarded the nation's highest civilian honor tuesday to three men central to his iraq policy, saying they had played "pivotal roles in great events.".

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  Three Great Americans

  Bush Honors Tenet, Franks, Bremer
  
  President Bush awarded the nation's highest civilian honor Tuesday to three men central to his Iraq policy, saying they had played "pivotal roles in great events."
  
  Mr. Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who oversaw combat in Afghanistan and the initial invasion of Iraq, former CIA Director George Tenet and former Iraq administrator L. Paul Bremer. Mr. Bush said Franks "led the forces that fought and won two wars in the defense of the world's security and helped liberate more than 50 million people from two of the worst tyrannies in the world."
  
  Tenet left the CIA in July after seven years as director. He has been criticized for intelligence failures before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the never-proven prewar allegations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Bush credited him as "one of the first to recognize and address the threat to America from radical networks." He said that after Sept. 11, Tenet was "ready with a plan to strike back at al Qaeda and to topple the Taliban."
  
  Bremer was the top civilian U.S. official in postwar Iraq, overseeing the transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government in June. "For 14 months Jerry Bremer worked day and night in difficult and dangerous conditions to stabilize the country, to help its people rebuild and to establish a political process that would lead to justice and liberty," Mr. Bush said. This fall, Bremer suggested the United States had paid a price in Iraq in the immediate aftermath of major combat operations because it did not have enough troops in place to stop the looting. Those remarks gave Bush critics ammunition for their claims that the administration's postwar planning was inadequate. Bremer tried to calm that controversy by saying he had constantly supported the president's strategy in Iraq.
  
  The Medal of Freedom, established by President Truman in 1945 to recognize civilians for their efforts during World War II, was reinstated by President Kennedy in 1963 to honor distinguished service. "This honor goes to three men who have played pivotal roles in great events and whose efforts have made our country more secure and advanced the cause of human liberty," Mr. Bush said.
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  Traditions, Rituals and Celebrations are Important to Families

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i've been reading dr. phil's new book family first.

  one of the factors he includes in creating a "phenomenal family" is to establish meaningful rituals and traditions, and i'm finding myself having lots of .

  whether it was the traditional holiday dinners you enjoyed at your grandparents' or the vacations you took every year with your parents, we all remember events and celebrations that define who we are as a family and how we are connected to one another.. the only definition our family had once my parents got involved with the jws, was being jws.

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  From Beginning to End: The Rituals of Our Lives by Robert Fulgham is also excellent reading along these lines. I highly recommend it.
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  Jackson's and Boy's Prints Found on Porn Mags

  by Elsewhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041212/d86tr8sg1.html

  report: jackson prints found on porn mags.

  dec 11, 10:01 pm (et).

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  teejay, Your reasoning is flawed. ? shamus

  All I'm saying is that none of us posting on this board, making odd-ball assumptions, know all the facts... only what the media has chosen to disclose. Is that "flawed reasoning"? If you say so.

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  I can also say with a reasonable amount of moral certainty that your father did not do to you what this boy says Michael Jackson did to him. ? Big Tex

  That is a fact. It is also a fact that Michael Jackson's guilt is yet to be legally determined. That's the only point I've been making.
  
  My father was guilty of leaving a stack of Playboys in a place where his young sons could find them. Is this what Michael Jackson is equally guilty of? We don?t even know that for sure.
  
  It's interesting that, months after the initial search of Neverland, prosecutors are still going out to the place... gathering "evidence." As I heard said on TV today, makes me wonder how weak they feel their case against him is.
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  Jackson's and Boy's Prints Found on Porn Mags

  by Elsewhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041212/d86tr8sg1.html

  report: jackson prints found on porn mags.

  dec 11, 10:01 pm (et).

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  I don't have all the facts ? shamus

  Hmmm. Good point. No, you don't.
  
  That minor impediment (blind ignorance of the facts) hasn't kept men from being castrated (or hung) in the past, though. Don't see a need to change now in aught four, do you?
  
  
  As I say... the missing facts notwithstanding, let's go get that rope... or a dull butcher knife. I'll get the popcorn.
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  Jackson's and Boy's Prints Found on Porn Mags

  by Elsewhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041212/d86tr8sg1.html

  report: jackson prints found on porn mags.

  dec 11, 10:01 pm (et).

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  I would just like to say that just because they found the kids finger prints on a porn magazine does not mean guilt. I like to stay away from the lynch mob mentality. How many of you are parents? How many of you own pornography? ? heathen

  I don't know why, but this was the very first thought I had when I read this "report."
  
  Many, many moons ago, there was a time when teejay's little five- or six- or seven-year-old fingerprints could've been found on the stash of Playboys his daddy had hidden, and teejay can assure you that his daddy was not a child abuser in any form or fashion. Don't know and I'm not at liberty to say exactly how those fingerprints got there, but I can say with a reasonable amount of moral certainty that said fingerprints could have been found. *[i]gulp[/i]*
  
  Don't know how (or if) that confession correlates to this discussion. Just thought I'd throw it in.
  
  
  Okay, now let's go get that rope...
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  Is There ANYTHING That You Would Not Forgive?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  some of us might be naturally forgiving types.

  others may not be so easy.

  i've seen families extend forgiveness to persons who have killed one of their family.

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  Unrepentant child molesters/abusers. Sorry. Some stuff is just too effed up to forgive. Sue me.
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  Does dying scare you?

  by JH in

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  as jw dubs, we were sure we would live forever.

  when we left the organization, probably we all started to accept that paradise wouldn't be around the corner, and that we would probably die like everyone else around us.. how do you deal with the fact that you will one day die?

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  Reminds me of a comment I made quite recently, as a matter of fact. To answer your question... yes. At times, it scares the hell outta me.