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  I've been away from the board a few days...anything new I should know about

  by TresHappy in

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  rocketman

  I wasn't around either. When you went away, I lost the will to post.
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  WT New Building Proposed in Brooklyn Turned Down

  by blondie in

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  new bethel building plans vetoed

  marty gives thumbs down to witnesses plan .

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  rocketman

  Markowitz also expressed concern about the lack of retail space on the ground floors,

  Perhaps they ought to consider a Wal-Mart on floor G.
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  Memory trapped in a song

  by Nosferatu in

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  i'm listening to an mp3 cd at work today, and the song "driver's seat" by sniff n the tears came on.

  this song immediately triggered a memory.

  it was 3 years ago that my ex left me.

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  Cat Stevens (a/k/a Yusuf Islam) also covered First Cut Is The Deepest.

  Still wondering if I should throw away my Cat Stevens CDs Class
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  How much harm have you caused your congregation?

  by Joker10 in

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  how much harm did you cause to the people in your congregation?

  everybody complains how the witnesses did this and that and in the process caused so much harm.

  but what you don't say is how much pain you caused others while you were in.

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  I was well liked and respected, and to my knowledge caused no harm aside from a stupid comment or two when I was an elder. Any harm I did was when I was an elder blindly following WTS policy, and fortunately even that was relatively minor.

  I'll add that I was never, thankfully, involved in any child sexual abuse cases when I was an elder. I honestly would have a lot of trouble living with myself had I followed WTS policy in a case of actual abuse in which there was no second witness to the matter. To think that a child could still be subject to such abuse on my watch would be too much to bear. Thankfully, such a thing never happened. I can't see how elders can live with following WTS policy on such matters.
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  NFL 2004

  by Big Tex in

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  it's official: deion has signed with baltimore.

  http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1871188

  too bad dallas couldn't sign him.

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  I'm making my picks soon - like maybe Feb 7, 2005. With so much parity, that may be the only way to be right.
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  Emmy Awards

  by Celia in

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  heard at the emmys : .

  "we missed osama bin laden.

  but we got martha stewart.

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  Good one by Gary.

  Meanwhile, the Networks should know by now that, with few exceptions (like Arrested Development) they no longer have the best programming. And the sitcom is practically dead, as shown by the only winners coming from shows (Frazier, Sex In The City) that are no longer current.
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  Men and their size........

  by morty in

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  why must men have the biggest tv they can cram in the living room?

  i figured we had a nice size for now.

  it is a 36 inch.

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  I don't have a TV. I like having a quiet living room.

  SNG, were you ever used for demos at jw assemblies? They'd love a guy who has no TV.
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  Men and their size........

  by morty in

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  why must men have the biggest tv they can cram in the living room?

  i figured we had a nice size for now.

  it is a 36 inch.

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  I own a 27", and I am not in the market for anything larger, because my eyes bother me so as it is. But, my next TV (someday) will likely be a High Definition model, and I'll almost have to buy a larger size. But with a sharper picture, it should be less hard on my eyes. My right eye bothers me when I look at any kind of screen for any length of time.

  Many men fall into the 'bigger is better' mode that seems so common, esp in the US. To find out what screen size he really needs, it's a matter of doing a little measuring and math, as explained here.
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  When you read what else are you doing?

  by Panda in

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  ok usually i'll be drinking iced tea when i read... sometime coffee if i read in the am.

  i've tried reading while mr.panda is watching tv but that doesn't always work.

  so what do you do while you read?

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  I often play music, but not loudly. Also, I often read while commercials are on during TV viewing, or during things like baseball games so I don't fall asleep. It also helps divert my eyes from the screen, which is why I also read while using the computer, waiting for log-in or certain functions which seem to take forever.
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  So 'love' is the identifying mark of 'true' christians? Well then..........

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  ........................dubs are not true christians.

  they use that point to prove they are and it's that very point that proves they are not!.

  i was doing a bit of house work this morning when the phone rang.

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  You're holding to what the Bible says much more so than the jws are.

  As soon as a child doesn't quite do what they (parents, other jws) want, their kneejerk reaction is to penalize the child in some way, normally by withdrawing approval and association. All that serves to do is alienate the very person they are tryng to win over.