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  Pets and the Watchtower

  by TMS in

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  my cars cheap cd player is on repeat playing track 9, bob dylan singing tomorrow night during my hour long commute to a job not suitable for a 58 yr old man.

  returning home the same tune plays just short of distortion, a funeral dirge for wessie.. tomorrow night.

  will it just be another memory, .

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  kicking this back up for restrangled.
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  I'm A Yellow-Bellied Short-Haired Son of Tricky Dicky. . . or a Baldhead

  by TMS in

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  oh, i thought you were talking about the apostle paul.

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  I dunno dogis. . . is your remembrance of Paul personal recollection or Watchtower artistic depiction?

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  The Watchtower's Most Heinious, Vile Crime

  by TMS in

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  i described myself recently as no longer angry.. that was a lie.. i am angry at the way jehovah's witnesses treat their most precious.

  endowment; their young, developing, stumbling, exasperating, questioning, experimenting, growing,.

  offspring.. at the very most urgent time in their young lives; when they need the.

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  one last look b4 the board dies. . . . .
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  bad experiences with C.O.s?

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  i am still trying to recover from an experience that i had with a c.o.

  reading other discussions has helped me to start getting other bad experiences into a better perspective and since the experience with the c.o.

  was really the final straw i was hoping that reading that i am not alone would help me in moving on.

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  startingovernow,

  As long as you believe Jehovah or God is involved, it all comes done to your unworthiness. Afterall his shepherds search for lost sheep. Their recovery is more important to him than the 99 who do not stray. So you must not be one. End of story.

  But once you realize that it's just a man-made religious organization interested in self-preservation, not appreciably better or worse than thousands of other religions, you will regret your unfortunate participation and move on.

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  Goodbye Fred...

  by hillary_step in

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  or should i say goodbye folks.

  my posting days on xjw sites are over.. thanks to everybody for making this place so vibrant, informative and at times invigorating.

  an special thanks of course to simon and angharad, of whom too many expected too much and who, despite our differing viewpoints at times, have been trustworthy friends to me.

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  minimus: "After just only reading......who the hell is "Fred"?"

  Possibly Fredhall, the quintessential JW apologist who set the tone for the board with humor and supercilious pro-JW comments until he departed suddenly in 2001.

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  Goodbye Fred...

  by hillary_step in

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  or should i say goodbye folks.

  my posting days on xjw sites are over.. thanks to everybody for making this place so vibrant, informative and at times invigorating.

  an special thanks of course to simon and angharad, of whom too many expected too much and who, despite our differing viewpoints at times, have been trustworthy friends to me.

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  Hillary,

  I'm genuinely happy for you although your absence will mean fewer personal visits to this board. I assume real life is pressing in on the need to lament your/our "past JW life". Your comments, replies and posts have always been unique, giving us not just an "English" perspective, but a unique HS view of matters. It's difficult to single out one post, but your heart-wrenching treatment of JW suicide comes to mind as especially thought-provoking, revealing.

  I wish you well.

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  Singer Songwriters who should be household names....

  by hillary_step in

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  over the decades musicians rise and fall like a spring wind.

  some stay where they should never be, some never are where they should be; such is the roulette of time.

  this thread is dedicated to singer songwriters who influence the rest of the best, but are seldom known - 'gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars...' .

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  Guy Clark

  Jeff Buckley

  Ray Lamontagne
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  Singer Songwriters who should be household names....

  by hillary_step in

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  over the decades musicians rise and fall like a spring wind.

  some stay where they should never be, some never are where they should be; such is the roulette of time.

  this thread is dedicated to singer songwriters who influence the rest of the best, but are seldom known - 'gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars...' .

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  Singer Songwriters who should be household names....

  by hillary_step in

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  over the decades musicians rise and fall like a spring wind.

  some stay where they should never be, some never are where they should be; such is the roulette of time.

  this thread is dedicated to singer songwriters who influence the rest of the best, but are seldom known - 'gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars...' .

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  Daniel Johnston
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  What's Your Personal Favorite Movie Of All Time?

  by minimus in

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  goodfellas is my favorite.

  (i love gangster movies).

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  Ordinary People

  A Slender Thread

  The Great Santini