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  Seeking First

  by berrygerry in

  1. watchtower
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  in response to a post on reddit, i would like to make this long withheld post.on more than one occasion, i have experienced what seemed like miracles.due to whatever circumstances, in retrospect, largely caused by borg directive, our family became perpetually "in need.

  "my efforts, as the "head," to do the right borg thing, service, meeting attendance, family worship, never seemed to provide the relief promised by wts.mentally, i have always wrestled with the contradiction of job and of matt.

  6:33.satan challenged that if a jw were tested with material, etc.

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  GrreatTeacher

  So, you don't think that phone call would have come if you'd stayed home rather than gone to the DC? Cell phones work everywhere.
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  Vertigo, WTH.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who here have suffer from vertigo?

  if so how did you combat it?

  how long.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Yes, I took scopolamine patches on a cruise. The only thing I was paranoid about was that I'd run out!
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  Human Potential is Awesome - We Visited Pluto Today

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  nasa's probe "new horizons" was launched in 2006 and since then has been speeding across 3 billion miles of space to the most distant planet in our solar system.. the first pictures arrived today with higher resolution images due tomorrow.. i fu~~ing love science.. more details from the bbc here.... .

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  GrreatTeacher

  Oh, geez, that picture makes me want to conduct a bully prevention class or something!
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  Human Potential is Awesome - We Visited Pluto Today

  by cofty in

  1. social
  2. current

  nasa's probe "new horizons" was launched in 2006 and since then has been speeding across 3 billion miles of space to the most distant planet in our solar system.. the first pictures arrived today with higher resolution images due tomorrow.. i fu~~ing love science.. more details from the bbc here.... .

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  GrreatTeacher

  I've kinda been sad since Pluto has been demoted to dwarf planet.

  You talk about 9 planets and all the little kids at school will correct you real quick and tell you that now there are only 8 planets in the solar system!
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  Vertigo, WTH.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  who here have suffer from vertigo?

  if so how did you combat it?

  how long.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I hope you didn't puncture your eardrum. Have a doctor take a look at it. You'll probably get the standard lecture about only using your elbows to clean your ears, but I worry about infection.

  I am so prone to motion sickness that I even feel sick on elevators! I keep chewable motion sickness tablets with me everywhere I go. I get a giant bottle of meclizine, 25 mg. tablets at Costco for about $4 at their pharmacy and I chew two at a time when I feel sick in the car. They really help. The important thing is that they are chewable! If you're nauseous, you're not going to be able to keep hard pills down.

  I'm not sure what the brand name would be if you tried to look for it in a regular pharmacy, but just take a look on the side of the bottle for the active ingredient MECLIZINE. It might tide you over until you can see a doctor. If you're sick and not eating, you could get malnourished or dehydrated very quickly, so I think you really should be seen.

  Oh, and DON'T DRIVE! Have your wife chauffer you around!
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  The 1995 Generation Change

  by sloppyjoe2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just a teenager and have a vivid memory of sitting in a chair doing a microphone for the sunday meeting.

  everyone was commenting that it didn't mean the end was far off, and it didn't change the condition of the dead, or the 144,000, or the trinity so we should still remain faithful.

  this is my first memory as a kid being just a teen that i ever had a single doubt.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I remember hearing about it and thinking, I told you so, I told you so, I told you so!

  I had left about four years earlier, but after learning the extent of some of the organizational rot, I predicted they would have to change their doctrine by 1994 because that would be the 80 years with special mightiness past 1914.

  They did not let me down. It was one last really big nail in the coffin.
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  Thinking of Going Full Disclosure With Wife. Sorta

  by freemindfade in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  soliciting any and all opinions.

  as some of you may know, wife is full in pioneer.

  my fade has gone from us fighting.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I'm sorry, JWdaughter, it's hard when your children suffer.

  And, fmf, you strike me as having a really level head. Take in all the advice you need, but, in the end, trust yourself. Don't allow yourself to be paralyzed by indecision.
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  Wish You Knew? Ask a Jew!

  by CalebInFloroda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  because on another thread questions about just what the hell jews believe kept taking us off topic, i decided to start this new one.

  that's why, as you will notice, it has that new thread smell.

  i will do my best to give thorough and concise answers, but be warned: i do not take myself very seriously.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Thanks, Caleb. Leave it to JWs to think they can do Judaism better than Jews can!
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  Wish You Knew? Ask a Jew!

  by CalebInFloroda in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  because on another thread questions about just what the hell jews believe kept taking us off topic, i decided to start this new one.

  that's why, as you will notice, it has that new thread smell.

  i will do my best to give thorough and concise answers, but be warned: i do not take myself very seriously.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Hi, Caleb!

  I know I've read about this topic before, but I don't remember the details.

  People have complained that the JWs get the date of their Memorial, Nisan 14 wrong. The Jewish calculation would be different.

  Can you comment on this?

  Good to hear from you again.
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  @ RC: "For evolution to be true..."

  by Scully in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  according to a jw contact, one of the speakers at the regional conventiontm stated that "for evolution to be true, two of the same kind would have had to evolve at the same time; one would have to be male and the other would have to be female, and then they would have to find each other".

  apparently the crowd had a good laugh over how evolutionists overlook such a simple "fact".. i mentioned that bacteria and viruses use asexual reproduction, and that many sea creatures / fish, etc.

  are hermaphrodite and do not require a sexual partner to produce offspring.. oddly enough, the conversation stopped there.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Thank you, thank you, thank you Island Man for pointing out that evolution occurs at the POPULATION level, not the level of the individual organism!

  I know that there are some intelligent people who would readily agree with the obvious truth of evolution at the population level as long as you didn't use THE WORD EVOLUTION. As soon as you use that word, though, their brains turn off.

  Now I'm wondering if it would be fun (and possibly fruitful) to discuss the "Theory of Progressive Allele Frequency Change" with my otherwise intelligent dad and see if he'd agree it made sense. And THEN casually mention that that's actually what the theory of evolution actually means.