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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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  rocketman

  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.
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  The Judicial Committee

  by minimus in

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  have you ever been called before one?

  were you ever on one?

  what happened???

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  Good one undercover!
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  The Judicial Committee

  by minimus in

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  have you ever been called before one?

  were you ever on one?

  what happened???

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  rocketman

  I sat on a jc on several occasions. hated every minute of every one of them.

  Perhaps the worst one was dfing a woman who had just moved into the area because she smoked. No one in the congregation knew her, and when her dfing was announced, there were looks of puzzlement on many faces, and a few asked afterward who she was.

  She may have attended one meeting, an elder found out she smoked, and before I knew it, I was sitting to judge her. I should have opened my mouth and protested the whole thing, but I went along with the elders, one of whom was much more dominating in personality than me and the other who was older and more experienced.

  During the meeting the woman cried and the elders with me showed no compassion. I felt bad for her, but didn't speak up. And frankly, I never bought into smoking as a dfing offense anyway.
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  Serena and Venus make money on Ancient Egyptian religious ceremony

  by DevonMcBride in

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  i found a web site about the history of tennis and was interested to learn that this game has pagan roots among the ancient egyptians.

  here is a snippet from the web site.

  ball games can be traced back to ancient times and the earliest representations can be found in carvings in egyptian temples dating from 1500bc.

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  rocketman

  Two ways of looking at this:

  1. Yep, S & V Williams, Inc., are indeed making big bucks off a game with pagan roots.

  2. It shows the folly of jw stances against things with supposed pagan roots, and how the wts will simply pick and choose rather than condemn all things pagan. So much of what passes as normal activity is rooted in paganism to at least some degree that it would be far better to simply have never banned stuff like b-days in the first place.
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  The 'thing' you can't separate the poster from

  by Preston in

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  i was thinking today about how all sorts of famous people from history had that one 'thing' that they were remembered by, whether it was hitchcock's silhouette, charlie chaplin's kane, or churchill's victory sign.

  what is that one "thing" you remeber posters by (whether visual, or instrinsical) i did a short list.

  please add.... i did this on a whim.

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  xena - sexiness

  stinkypantz - sexiness

  sirona - sexiness

  stephanie - sexiness

  shera - sexiness

  mr. moe (does she still post here?) - sexiness

  One Track Mind Class
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  WHICH BIBLE BOOK has caused the most trouble in the world?

  by Terry in

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  i'd vote for revelation since every nutcase who ever came down the pike has tackled it verse for verse and applied it to the time in which he was living.

  ever notice that?

  no matter what decade or century, people reading the bible always think that it applies to their time.

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  Poz, you're not alone. There was much debate about Revelation's place in the Bible canon before it was accepted.
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  WHICH BIBLE BOOK has caused the most trouble in the world?

  by Terry in

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  i'd vote for revelation since every nutcase who ever came down the pike has tackled it verse for verse and applied it to the time in which he was living.

  ever notice that?

  no matter what decade or century, people reading the bible always think that it applies to their time.

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  I guess it depends on what sort of problems we're talking about -

  Genocide - Joshua

  End-Times Expectations - Revelation, Daniel

  Creationsim - Genesis

  Demeaning Women - several Pauline letters, esp 1 and 2 Timothy

  Shunning - 1 Cor, 2 John
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  Final Call Fantasy Football !!!

  by confusedjw in

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  i have set up a free fantasy football league on yahoo!.

  to join you will need a yahoo email and an interest in football.

  pm me with your yahoo email and i will send you the information to join the league.. .

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  I'd go in, but it wouldn't be fair to the rest of the league. My football knowledge is so deep, so thorough, that I'm known as an amalgam of Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry, Bill Belichick, Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, and Joe Gibbs. My team would no doubt go undefeated, leaving my fellow jwd members saddened and frustrated.

  Coach Class/Full-Of-It Cass