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  THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR IN A Kingdom Hall...

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  things you never hear in a kingdom hall...

  hey!

  it's my turn to sit in the front roll.. .

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  "Hark the Herald The Angels Sing..."
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  I went to see "The Passion" yesterday...

  by TresHappy in

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  and what a graphic and violent movie.

  very hard to watch at times, but still glad to have seen it.

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  and what a graphic and violent movie. Very hard to watch at times, but still glad to have seen it.
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  Would You Care If You Got Disfellowshipped At This Point In Time?

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  just wondering....

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  No...
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  Adventures in counting time...or how to waste the entire day in service...

  by TresHappy in

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  my jw friend was telling me the other day how many of her fellow jw's lie on their time reports...i jokingly said "doesn't everyone?

  "..to which she replied...probably.

  there were myriads of ways that are universal, but what about the unique ways in which you reached your goal?

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  My JW friend was telling me the other day how many of her fellow JW's lie on their time reports...I jokingly said "Doesn't everyone?"..to which she replied...probably. There were myriads of ways that are universal, but what about the unique ways in which you reached your goal? Me, I wasn't very unique, I just lied.
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  Congregation Book Studies in a brothers home-What weirdness did you endure?

  by Thechickennest in

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  when i was new witness in the late 70's i was assigned to young couples new home.

  we were required to park our shoes inside the back door and proceed in our socks to the front room...fine.

  the other piece to this was the couple hosting study had a big male blood hound dog of some kind.

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  I never experienced any weirdness. Just sadness in one respect. I moved to a part of town where most of the people in the book study were elderly. I kid you not, all but one died within 2 years!
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  If The Watchtower Allowed You To Ask A Question From Readers......

  by minimus in

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  what would your question be?

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  LOL to iiz2cool...

  Is it more theocratic to use use single ply or 2 ply toilet paper? I don't want to stumble anyone!
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  What the heck happened to Minimus?

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  Minimus is awesome...please nag me minimus so I can finish the romance novel. I need some motivation...
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  I saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue...

  by TresHappy in

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  just got back from memphis you guys - it was great!

  great to be back though - now i have to catch up on my sleep!

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  Today I went into the Shelby County Tennessee District and was looking for an address of someone I knew and I decided to type in "Elvis Presley" in the name of the owner search box. It came up that Elvis owns three mobile homes in Memphis. And we thought he was dead!
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  does anyone know the jehovahs witness view on film Passion of the christ

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  My JW mother won't go because "well, it shows Jesus hanging on a cross, we all know he died on a pole..." Then she starts talking about the word stauros meaning upright pole...that's when I tuned out...
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  Texas woman found not guilty by reason of insanity of stoning her kids...

  by TresHappy in

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  texas mom who stoned sons not guilty

  saturday, april 3, 2004 posted: 8:57 pm est (0157 gmt) .

  laney departs the courtroom following closing arguments in her capital murder trial saturday.

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  Texas mom who stoned sons not guilty

  Saturday, April 3, 2004 Posted: 8:57 PM EST (0157 GMT)

  	Laney departs the courtroom following closing arguments in her capital murder trial Saturday.
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  TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to bash in the heads of her sons was acquitted Saturday of all charges after a jury determined she was legally insane during the killings.

  A jury found that Deanna Laney did not know right from wrong May 9 when she killed her two older sons, ages 6 and 8, in the front yard and left the youngest, now 2, maimed in his crib. Laney, 39, was found not guilty by reason of insanity of charges of capital murder and serious injury to a child.

  Laney broke into tears as the verdict was read. Her husband, Keith Laney, sat emotionless. A few jurors cried and struggled to maintain their composure.

  State law allows Laney to be committed to a maximum security state hospital. Medical evaluations will dictate when she will be released.

  In closing arguments earlier Saturday, prosecutors portrayed the killings last Mother's Day weekend as deceptively planned and coldly executed.

  "It was graphic, it was horrific and it was brutal," prosecutor Matt Bingham told the jury.

  Laney had faced life in prison for the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke, and the beating of Aaron, now 2.

  Bingham pounded his fist in his hand as he recounted Joshua's killing: "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid."

  Defense attorneys argued that insanity was the only reason why a deeply religious mother who homeschooled her children would kill two of them and maim another without so much as a tear.

  Aaron, left, Luke and Joshua Laney, right, pose in an undated family photograph.

  All five mental health experts consulted in the case, including two for the prosecution and one for the judge, concluded that a severe mental illness caused Laney to have psychotic delusions that rendered her incapable of knowing right from wrong during the killings -- the standard in Texas for insanity.

  Psychiatrists testified that Laney believed she was divinely chosen by God -- just as Mary was chosen to bear Christ -- to kill her children as a test of faith and then serve as a witness after the world ended.

  Prosecutors portrayed the killings as deceptively planned and coldly executed. They said that even if Laney believed she was doing right by God, she had to have known she was doing wrong by state law. Her first call, they pointed out, was to 911 to summon authorities.