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  Independence day.

  by zeb in

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  2. friends

  to all of you in the usa i wish you a safe and happy "independence day" and many more of them!.

  cheers.

  zeb .

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  Thanks! The rain has passed and it looks like the fireworks will be a Go tonight.

  I always love feeling that rumble in my throat when they go off.

  Must-eat menu for the Fourth: grilled hotdogs, hamburgers and watermelon. Yum!
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  Independence Day

  by rebel8 in

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  2. friends

  happy independence day to those in the usa.

  i can't help but think of our own personal struggles for freedom today.. "question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."1.

  --thomas jefferson.

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  Anyone watching fireworks tonight?

  By the way, the JWs I grew up with always watched the 4th of July fireworks. You would've thought it would have been a no-no because of it being a patriotic holiday, but no.

  They make the rules and break the rules.
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  Master piece!

  by coalize in

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  2. bible

  what we can read in the wt 10/15/2015... they have really no shame!.

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  proper noun; it's the personification of evil ;)
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  On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.

  what is new is their institutionalization.

  but even that isn't totally new.

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  Sometimes I think that choosing a side and shutting your mind comes from information fatigue.

  There's just so much information available at our fingertips now that strong partisanship becomes a heuristic.

  Thus, paradoxically, the advent of the net and exponentially larger bodies of information has helped create the hyperpartisanship we see now.
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  The Confederate Flag

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  the latest controversy over the confederate flag just sums up to me the state of dysfunction that exists in american society.. in summary: a white supremacist nutter shoots 9 black people dead in a church.

  he's clearly inspired by the messages of others which the confederate flag is often a symbol of.. it seems like a no-brainer to remove it.

  not only isn't it removed, it isn't even lowered at all as a mark of respect.. and of course now there are the people who want to defend their right to have it.

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  Meh. The Gadsden flag is taking over the place of the confederate flag now it seems. More politically correct.

  I'm beginning to see "Don't Tread on Me" and coming to the "all I need to know about someone" conclusion as well.
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  On the Relevancy of The Institutionalization of Sin

  by Perry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  child murder, sodomy & corrupting the human genome are not new sins, they are old ones.

  what is new is their institutionalization.

  but even that isn't totally new.

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  What's scary about Perry is that if he could be convinced that God said so, he would do it, no matter what it is.
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  Help me identify a small cyst...

  by pronomono in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  i'm having problems identifying a small cyst that i get every once in a great blue moon.

  i like to call it a lollipop cyst because it looks like a really small lollipop.

  so, it's basically a small cyst at the tip of a really small shaft (not my penis).

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  They tend to form in places where there is friction, so the inner elbow makes sense. Also, under breasts or where your underwear elastic rubs.

  I've known people to just snip them off with manicure scissors and they say they don't even bleed.
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  Reading this might be hard.. Emotionally.. This is the truth...

  by Jaewook kim in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  every second our watch ticks, thats frequency of our current time.

  the frequency will hit our reality every 1 second.. same method for rainbow frequency.. this is where i need your scientists.

  need confirmation of change on fact of time.. and this... is truth of jehovah.... under sugar water, blue light will appear on left side.. under salt water, red light will appear on right side.. this concept is same for our heart.

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  "Trip trap. Trip trap. Who's that walking on my bridge?"
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  New Thoughts about the "three-fold cord" that is not easily broken and what it means....

  by Muddy Waters in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  got to thinking about this the other day.... you know how the wts uses a scripture from ecclesiastes (ecc.4:12) to say how important it is to have jehovah in your marriage -- that a two-fold cord is easily broken or pulled apart, but a "three-fold cord is not easily broken".

  they then go on to define exactly who and what jehovah is and what exactly this love & marital arrangement means and how you properly show and demonstrate it, and blah blah blah and all the things jehovah (through his organization) says are so necessary and important for a happy marriage (from their special bias and agenda, the preaching work!

  - and meeting attendance & preparation, and studying the bible together and the husband taking the lead, and all that jw filler which they define and obligate for others to do -- they define every term and behavior and expectation to the nth degree.. then it occurred to me, that the scriptures simply and always say, "god is love.

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  Muddy, I have always hated the way they apply that verse, too.

  I am busy enough just dealing with the two of us who are in this marriage without worrying about anyone else.
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  camping information.

  by James Brown in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my wife and i are planning on taking a year off and taking a jeep and a camper through all the 48 contiguous states and alaska and some of canada.. living in florida, i have always had guns and a concealed carry permit.

  but researching for our upcoming retirement vacation, it seems to me that i might not be able to legally carry firearms on my upcoming expedition.. it seems every state has different laws and licenses.

  what does a camper from florida do when he goes to new york or california?

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  Yeah, the DC area is a miserable place to travel. It's got the worst traffic, only behind NYC and LA. Drivers get pissed off and have been known to threaten others with weapons.

  The problem is the driving culture between Virginia and Maryland. In Virginia, you'll get pulled over for going 3 miles over the speed limit. Virginia cops are everywhere and will pull you over for anything. Therefore, traffic runs slow.

  Maryland traffic is fast! Cops will not pull you over until you are doing at least 10 mph over the speed limit because judges will throw out anything less than that. So, traffic travels at about 10 mph over the speed limit. Never drive less than the speed limit in Maryland or people will get extremely pissed off. The traffic is horrible and people want to get home from their long commutes, so, people can get aggressive if you get in their way.

  Though it is just south of the Mason-Dixon line, Maryland was a union state in the civil war, so, even 150 years later, culturally, Maryland is a northern state and there is a difference from southern culture starting right around DC, specifically, that the speed of life is FAST! People drive faster, talk faster and you're expected to work faster! Don't hold people up in the drive-thru, either, because those workers are supposed to get you in and out in a certain number of seconds! New York is even worse. The north is not for sissies!

  Good luck on your trip. It sounds like a retirement dream!