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  Oh my God!! 8 people killed in Santa Monica farmers market

  by Dogpatch in

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  occasionally i go with friends to visit the santa monica farmer's market, and it is a good area to hang out in the summer in the evening.

  some 80 year old man just plowed through the crowd in a car for 2.5 blocks and ran over 8 people, injuring about 30+ others.

  a two-year old baby was killed.

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  Redneck

  Shelia,

  well of course its a tragedy ..I mean comon now..ya know the rest ofem were going to die at armageden anyway..
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  What did you learn as a JW?

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  with 5 meetings a week plus field service, and additional reading of the bible and watchtower literature, what did you learn after all these years in the jw organization?

  did we need all those meetings and time and effort just to know some simple details?

  in all these years i spent there, this is just about all i can say i learned there: .

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  I was taught by an elder how to study people to see what they were getting into and manipulate them to get information...

  And everything Austrian said
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  JWs are HUMBLE, MEEK, and they DON'T BRAG!

  by Funchback in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  guys like this are a dime-a-dozen in god's so-called organization.... http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1054546530199272.xml.

  michael wilcox, 67, cleveland .

  q. when do you consider a gentleman fully dressed?

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  He is still wearing some custom shirts that are 30 years old.

  "They're as good-looking as the day I had them made."

  That reminds me of a pioneer/elder I know...and in his eyes I quess they might look that way..
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  Dead at Sixteen

  by COMF in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on may 30th, rachel marie, the 16 year old daughter of a coworker of mine, was killed in a car wreck.

  she would have been 17 on june 23d.

  i did not know the girl; i barely know her father, but out of respect for a coworker and enpathy for his loss i attended her funeral today.. to their credit, those who prepared for the service had done quite a fine job.

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  Redneck

  Lady Lee I agree with you

  I think few people today know how to deal with death. All this talk about celebrating life seems to forget that we need to mourn and grieve the loss.

  Even though death is a natural thing sometimes how it comes about is not.and I dont know anyone that really knows how to help someone deal with it.It is such an awkward things at times to talk to someone about.I believe that is why most people just leave it at "I am so sorry for your loss".And to be honest sometimes that means alot to family members.I know when I lost my twins Those statements and the look in there eyes when they said it.I knew that it was meant.

  I DO hate it when the eternal life hope of a congregation and its ministers clouds the reality of a suffering family who has just lost a family member. Especially, as you noted, COMF, a family member who died young and catastrophically as did Rachel Marie.

  Whatever happened to "weep with those who weep, mourn with those who mourn?" The job of the clergy should be to tactfully and empathetically comfort, not to use the funeral service as an affirmation of faith advertisement. It's just not appropriate.

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  Out,That is so true.My wife was never a dub she trys to understand but ya know its even heard for those that have been in it to understand at times.When our girls died my wifes pastor from her church was going to speak at the funeral the brothers would not say anything at the funeral because it would take away from there message if a Pastor from a church was there.I am so glad they didn't now since made me see what the "Truth" is. I believed it helped to when I told everyone before the pastor got there that the first time I heard someone say "it was gods will" even if it was the pastor I would kick the sh** outta them..cause I dont believe a loving god would do that..
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  Annoying Family Members

  by sandy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i get so tired of my family telling me to 'come back to the meetings" or "do you want to go to the meeting on sunday?".

  i should not complain i know.

  i do not have the guts to just say to them: "i am never going back.".

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  Redneck

  Apparently they are not capable of spending time with me in any other arena than field service.

  Well you know ow it goes if ya have time to go out ya have time to go out in service...Like Sundays ya need to go out in service after the meeting...never mind ya work 5 days outta the week and half day sat..the other half in Service and got up early sunday for the meeting...and ya just wanna drink a cold beer and watch the came...or just go out to the lake...

  Ya sound like ya have my folks Sandy
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  Friends of the other sex in the JW's

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how is it seen if a single adult brother sits right next to a single adult sister at the kingdom hall?

  rumours get going, right?

  one thing i never liked in the jw's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex.

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  Redneck

  Now unique1 ya know thats what ya were thinking bout all the time..

  If you were dating somebody, it was ok to sit next to them at your home, with a chaperon of course, or next to them at the movies or a restaurant, again with chaperons,

  And don't forget we need to see everyones hands at all times too......

  Sandy you sure were a thoughtful sister..
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  Friends of the other sex in the JW's

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how is it seen if a single adult brother sits right next to a single adult sister at the kingdom hall?

  rumours get going, right?

  one thing i never liked in the jw's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex.

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  Redneck

  Hold on....after all this time it wasnt the brothers that were the hornballs it was the cows uhhh sisters that were ???????
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  Friends of the other sex in the JW's

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  how is it seen if a single adult brother sits right next to a single adult sister at the kingdom hall?

  rumours get going, right?

  one thing i never liked in the jw's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex.

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  Redneck

  I always thought that as strange too...This is the way was from where I was to JH..

  One thing I never liked in the JW's was that you just couldn't be good friends with people of the other sex. In my case, it wasn't appropriate to speak to a married sister. It wasn't appropriate to sit right next to a sister, single or not, if there was another place available elsewhere.

  In my car, a sister would always sit in the back, never in the front. Coming back from the field service, It was wrong to get a sister off last, because she would be alone with me in the car. Oh, I must be dangerous. She had to be driven home first, even if that meant doing extra mileage.

  In the fields service, brother with brothers, and sisters with sisters.

  It makes out like all the Brothers were nothing but hormones...so much temptation ...One of my best firends is a female...oh man my dads like a man and woman cannot be in a platonic relationship they have to be sexually involved ....That must be why my wife lets me go out drinking with her and tells me to take her on trips with myself so I want be bored driving...makes ya wonder if sex is all the Gb have on there mind...
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  just saw BRUCE ALMIGHTY

  by topanga in

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  2. entertainment

  i laughed so hard, jen anniston was expressionless most of the time.

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  I dont know how I forgot that one Reborn thats one of my favorite movies Devils Advocate....

  I never knew Swaggert to be so emtertaining...Maybe should checkem out ..
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  Why On Earth Did You Ever Become A Witness & What Made You Decide To Leave?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've known for years that if i was visited at my home by jehovah's witnesses, i would have become a do not call.

  i would have firmly but politely told the witnesses to never come back to my door and bother me again.

  since i was raised "in the truth", i learned the religion from infancy.

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  Redneck

  Born into it.....Family is still in.....