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  To My Mother

  by MrMoe in

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  at about 6:30 this evening my mother passed away.. .

  the best mother and the best wife anybody could ever be blessed with.

  she was not only my mother, she was my friend.

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  Xander

  {{{{Amanda/MrMoe}}}}

  I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. You're a very wonderful person, and I'm sure your mom was very proud of you, and I'm certain it brought her peace what time you were able to spend with her recently.

  I thought I'd toss up a poem I had seen in my travels that I found encouraging:

  Do not stand at my grave and weep,
  I am not there, I do not sleep.

  I am in a thousand winds that blow,
  I am the softly falling snow.
  I am the gentle showers of rain,
  I am the fields of ripening grain.

  I am in the morning hush,
  I am in the graceful rush
  Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
  I am the starshine of the night.

  I am in the flowers that bloom,
  I am in a quiet room,
  I am the birds that sing,
  I am in each lovely thing.

  Do not stand at my grave and cry,
  I am not there. I do not die.

  
  --generally attributed to Mary Frye

  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  Why do the 'friends' believe Elders over Experts

  by FriendlyFellaAL in

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  this is something i've been wondering about lately due to personal experiences.

  my mother and stepfather (she's a jw, he is not) have been having some marital problems of late and instead of seeking out the advice of a marriage counselor or some similar specialist in the field, they have chosen to seek help through one of the elders in her congregation.

  i'm completely surprised by this, yet i know i shouldn't be.

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  Xander

  Couple scriptures they usually throw out RE: seeking 'professional' help (not quotes from the NWT, don't have one handy...[8>]):

  1 Corinthians 1:20
  Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

  1 Corinthians 3:19
  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.

  2 Corinthians 1:12
  We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace.

  Now, granted, when penned, it could be argued some of the biblical teachings on cleanliness were more 'advanced' than the contemporary practices of the day.

  However, I think these also serve as a good proof the bible is NOT inspired. Is anything, AT ALL, in the bible written to be so wise that it makes man's 21st century level of knowledge 'foolish'?

  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  FOURTY YEARS FROM NOW

  by ballistic in

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  i see 1.16 million witnesses world-wide.

  the number of remnant will still be around 8000. the generation that saw 1914 will all be dead.

  food shortages will just about be ending and the society will use the "earthquakes" logic to explain this.

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  Xander

  Sound dead-on. The JWs are a particularly aggressive form of apocolyptic faith, which means when it becomes obvious every timetable they've suggested is COMPLETELY wrong, then many will leave in droves.

  I suspect, as technology allows us to scan deeper and deeper into the Earth, more and more details about our past will be revealed. Of course, we already know humanity is older than the WTBTS allows for, but as more and more proof of that mounts up....

  North Olmstead and Wooster Ohio

  WOW - that's close. I'm in Lake county (bordering on the NE side of Cuyahoga). Went to a hall in Geauga (E border of Cuyahoga). The three halls I've been in were: Madison, Perry, and Montville.

  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  Objectivity and This Site

  by Eutapro in

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  2. friends

  i must say that as a neutral scientific observer of this site--it seems that things are kind of one-sided here.

  i thought this was a board with both devout jws and ex-jws on it.

  on further reflection it appears that this medium of communication should probably be called ex-jw.com.

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  Xander

  And, maybe, just a little...

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  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  Objectivity and This Site

  by Eutapro in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i must say that as a neutral scientific observer of this site--it seems that things are kind of one-sided here.

  i thought this was a board with both devout jws and ex-jws on it.

  on further reflection it appears that this medium of communication should probably be called ex-jw.com.

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  Xander

  Or, perhaps...

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  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  Objectivity and This Site

  by Eutapro in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i must say that as a neutral scientific observer of this site--it seems that things are kind of one-sided here.

  i thought this was a board with both devout jws and ex-jws on it.

  on further reflection it appears that this medium of communication should probably be called ex-jw.com.

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  Xander

  *ahem*

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  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  EEek - a demon posessed my computer

  by Dawn in

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  i thought this was so hillarious i just had to share it with you:.

  reverend jim peasboro of savannah ga has written a book "the devil in the machine: is your computer possessed by a demon?

  " some of the points raised in the book are: .

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  Xander

  Hmmm...well, the only related news I could find was that, in 1985, DOS 3.2 came out w/ support for 720KB floppy disks. Since this was the major consumer (as such) OS, I'd say this is the ticket.

  So, there you go. Demons are 720 KB large. That'd take about 4 minutes to download off the net at typical modem speeds.

  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  Episode 2 KICKS A**!! (No spoilers)

  by Xander in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  just caught the midnight screening of episode ii.

  yeah, i know (it was actually a mostly normal crowd, only 2 fairly cute young ladies as jedis and one darth maul showed up .

  this is exactly everything episode i should have been.

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  Xander

  the fiesty woman that he has been visibly creeping out for that last hour, who is a trained diplomat....hugs him

  2 Things.

  1) This is why I have a problem with Natalie's acting in the movie - she wasn't SUPPOSED to be 'creeping out' for the last hour - she was SUPPOSED to be 'trying not to fall madly in love'.

  2) Supposedly, Lucas cut out the middle of the scene where Anakin gets all begging-for-forgiveness over the whole thing which causes Padme to feel pity for him. Dunno why. Maybe to show that Amidala, when it comes down to it, is not a sweet little innocent thing, but can feel sympathy for someone like Anakin?

  whole Darth Sidious thing

  Huh? He's the same guy that played the Emperor throughout the whole series??

  Spiderman was so so much better than this...at least it had a believable love story

  The only thing that saved Spiderman's love story was that Kirsten Dunst is a MUCH better actress than Natalie Portman. Haydn and Tobey acted on pretty much the same level.

  Maybe the droids will have their memory wiped sometime in episode 3

  I think that's assumed. We do, after all, have the ENTIRE clone wars to get through. As has been mentioned before, that, too, is the reason Lucas uses to explain why the universe is so much darker in the 2nd trilogy - the clone wars are to be massively devastating.

  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  Update on my Mom - please read

  by MrMoe in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, mom is now on morphine, so she has a few days at best.

  her organs are now faling, heart and lungs are the worst off.

  went in the hospital today, laid there next to her for hours.

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  Xander

  Let me join the chorus wishing you strength to deal with what's been happening.

  And you are there for her, I'm sure that means a lot to her.

  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana
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  Vibrator Chair

  by simplesally in

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  2. relationships

  this chair was really called that!

  and it was used for medical purposes.

  wonder what you had to say your ailment was to get assigned this treatment?

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  Xander

  Oh, my, I'm shocked and alarmed for sure. My poor virgin eyes...

  Interestingly, I've heard those kind of stores are illegal in Texas, and a couple other states.

  Xander F
  (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Ohio order)

  A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
  --George Santayana