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  For those who accept the "mark"

  by Yadirf in

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  a terrible, unhappy picture?.

  yes it is, but nevertheless biblical.

  it depicts.

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  unclebruce

  Howz all going with the Cabin & gold mine. Is some of it going to be MINE when it's found? How would you like for me to come to Oz and help out with the diggin'? I'll bring my own shovel, bucket, dog, and booze. Friday

  G'day Kram,

  We're all communist at my place. Finders keepers and make me a cup of tea if you feel like it. You're welcome here but you'd have trouble getting yer shovel and bucket through customs, we don't want the tiniest particle of American dirt poluting this pure land. You'd haver to leave yer poopy behind, my property borders a National Park -no dogs allowed and booze doesn't interest me much now i'm not a JW (but i understand your need ;)

  Merry Xmas Lee.

  PS: I don't think Armageddon would worry SirFred, he'd survive a nuclear blast with his nine lives intact.
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  End of Year 2001 - Conclusions Drawn

  by Celtic in

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  if there is one thing that i think that i have learn't this year, it is that people really do not give a shit about you, unless there is something in it for them to gain.

  family?

  they don't give a shit, they say they do, but when it comes to any real communication about feelings, you just get told to shut up, go away, not needed, useless, liar, your just making it up etc etc.. my old faith, jehovahs witnesses, do they care?

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  unclebruce

  G'day Celtic,

  I don't understand you english folk. I really don't. There you live in one of the smallest little countries on earth yet you don't seem to be there for each other. I can understand getting depressed in England but i don't understand other JWD posters making an effort to meet up with you. I've never met Stephanus but if i saw him hurting the way you are i'd fill up the fuel tank and be there for him. (raiding his fridge and drink cupboard as a first priority)

  Good for you I'm not in that part of the world or you'd have more than a port drinking Santa visiting tonight. (Aren't you other english the least bit curious? I'd love to visit cornwall one day)

  best wishes, cyber friend, Lee.
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  Request for next few days

  by joelbear in

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  hey my friends,.

  throw me some positive thoughts over the next few days.. my job worries are back and my brother called yesterday to say my mother is going downhill more quickly than i imagined.. mitch and i are off to visit her and dad tomorrow.. i had a terrible panic attack last night.

  mitch got a xanax in me in the nick of time and i calmed down and went to sleep.. hope everyone is having a good holiday season.

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  unclebruce

  Hey Joel,

  You been a goodboy this year? What ya recon Mitch? Will Santa fill Joel's stocking tonight?

  Merry Xmas Boys unclebruce
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  santa claus on jw site

  by airwlk149 in

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  i thought jw's weren't supposed to deal with anything christmasy.

  so why is there a santa claus poppin up at the top of the site?

  with snow & holly in addition?

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  unclebruce

  Bloody hell katie you see him too .. BLOODY HELL!
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  Same old drivel

  by OlderTom in

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  been gone for a while, getting on with my post watchtower life.. yep there is life after the watchtower.

  lots of it and i havent even been getting into the juisy bits yet.

  drugs, booze, women.

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  unclebruce

  Hey OT,

  25-40 are available for 60 or so overlooking Tathra from the north west.

  best of luck and with any luck we'll catch up over a fire one day.
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  denied babtism

  by rakiasp in

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  i have a question that puzzles me and would like to receive some ideas.

  i used to be a witness for two years before fading away, leaving quietly.

  i was not disfellowshipped and i did not write a letter of dissasociation.. the way i got babtised was such that noone from my congragation saw it since the babtisees were taken by buses from the convention to a private swimming pool.

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  unclebruce

  Yes Mike,

  Annulment of baptism is a little known fact of JW life. The first time I encounted it was in Adelaide 1980. A biblestudy was desperate to marry a widow with four young children. She wouldn't go through with it until he was baptised. The next Assembly was only weeks away and this was where all baptisms now took place (we no longer baptised people in bathtubs or mud puddles at the side of an outback track)

  The Elders rushed him through the questions, he was baptised and the blissful couple married the following day. The marriage didn't outlast the honeymoon however as the bachelor didn't enjoy his new role of daddy dearest. He protested that he'd been tricked into marrying her and his parents began threatening legal action against the congregation Elders.

  We all wondered how the hell the Elders were gonna deal with it. After urgent correspondence with Brooklyn via the Sydney branch, an announcement was made at the Service Meeting to the effect that he wasn't legally* baptised. His baptism was nulified. It all sounds very Catholic and I clearly remmember the audible gasps breaking the deadly silence as the announcement was read.

  My brain is searching long unopened cells to remmember the nutters name. The Elders on the Judicial commitee were Bro.Philip Hardwick, Bro. Len Palmer (an imported Canadian 'born in the truth') and Bro. Hubert Cliff (First Adelaide City Servant and prominent remnantite)

  I'd be surprised if an anullment is available upon request but surely any dignified way out is worth a try.

  If this was a new post I'd title it "Rules you won't read in the Secret Elders Manual"

  cheers, unclebruce.

  *I wish I could remmember the exact expression used.
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  denied babtism

  by rakiasp in

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  i have a question that puzzles me and would like to receive some ideas.

  i used to be a witness for two years before fading away, leaving quietly.

  i was not disfellowshipped and i did not write a letter of dissasociation.. the way i got babtised was such that noone from my congragation saw it since the babtisees were taken by buses from the convention to a private swimming pool.

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  unclebruce

  Would a sulfur crested white cockatoo do? I know one who could land on a newbros head and proudly announce "THIS IS MY SON WHOM I HAVE APPROVED! ... AAARRRK" (albeit in a somewhat high pitched voice)
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  World's WACKIEST Cephalopods!

  by Nathan Natas in

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  large squid baffles, amuses scientists.

  by maggie fox, health and science correspondent.

  washington (reuters) - an enormous squid that grows 23 feet long and lives as deep as three miles under the ocean, has baffled scientists with what they call its strange looks and weird behavior.. the squid have been spotted all over the world -- in the gulf of mexico and the atlantic, pacific and indian oceans -- by undersea.

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  unclebruce

  I saw these on television last night and, when the scientists involved were asked what else might be down there, the responce was funny. One of the bathosphere drivers made the comment that most things run from the light so who knows what might be lurking in the ocean depths.

  unclebruce who almost fainted when a humback unexpectedly breached in front of the kayak.
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  denied babtism

  by rakiasp in

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  i have a question that puzzles me and would like to receive some ideas.

  i used to be a witness for two years before fading away, leaving quietly.

  i was not disfellowshipped and i did not write a letter of dissasociation.. the way i got babtised was such that noone from my congragation saw it since the babtisees were taken by buses from the convention to a private swimming pool.

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  unclebruce

  gee Nathan, I remmember comming up out of the water in a plastic backyard swimming pool on the 28th of October 1972, looking heavenward and for a very brief moment imagining a pure white dove and heavenly voice .. geez wouldn't JWs freak if that actually happened.

  It might be worth training doves and learning ventriloquist hi fi techniques .. hee hee.

  unclebruce
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  denied babtism

  by rakiasp in

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  i have a question that puzzles me and would like to receive some ideas.

  i used to be a witness for two years before fading away, leaving quietly.

  i was not disfellowshipped and i did not write a letter of dissasociation.. the way i got babtised was such that noone from my congragation saw it since the babtisees were taken by buses from the convention to a private swimming pool.

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  unclebruce

  Mother said: after I was baptised I had many people for weeks after the fact, giving me gifts and congratulating me.

  Well that explains bro.duncedthrice. Fair suck, I saw this bloke get baptised at three different assemblies. When I questioned Elder Hellfire he shrugged and said "he keeps joining the que" questioned further as to why he kept going through the questions with him he accused me of lacking brotherly love for this health fanatic, vegitarian, multi-baptised, guilt ridden slaughterhouse worker.

  sinner bruce seeking to be washed clean in the arms of a beautifull woman before i die.