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  I'm so proud of my mum..........She still love witnessing.(NOT for the WTS)

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

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  2. child-abuse

  i spoke to my mother tonight (oh no.............she's da'ed) and she told me a story that warmed my heart.. now, one thing i need to explain at this point is that my mother embraces anything and everything in life with zeal and has intense passion for what she believes in.

  so when she believed the borg had the 'truth' and must have been the 'true' religion, she drove everyone mad with her determination to save all her family.

  she had a very strong influence on us, but was not responsible for all but one of my family converting.

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  Tell your mom she rocks!
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  What kind of animal mathces your personality?(fluff)

  by obiwan in

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  so i think mine would be a commodo dragon, eat, sleep and kick everyone's butt.no disease to harm me just man, witch everbody has to worry about.. so what animal matches your personality?

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  A cat. A spayed female with no maternal instinct LOL
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  Did you always turn in *all* your donation money?

  by asleif_dufansdottir in

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  2. friends

  i went out in service for the first time at about the same time the "donation arrangement" was put into effect.

  i heard one or two brothers (when they were in 'safe' company) thinking out loud that if the money was really for the "world wide work"...that maybe it would be ok to use some of it, sometimes, to put gas in the car to go out in service (our congregation had some really poor people and our rurals covered 4 or 5 counties and hundreds of square miles).. i was wondering if anyone actually did that?

  i wonder if pioneers who were used to getting a price break kept keeping a percentage??

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  asleif_dufansdottir

  I went out in service for the first time at about the same time the "donation arrangement" was put into effect.

  I heard one or two brothers (when they were in 'safe' company) thinking out loud that if the money was really for the "world wide work"...that maybe it would be ok to use some of it, sometimes, to put gas in the car to go out in service (our congregation had some really poor people and our rurals covered 4 or 5 counties and hundreds of square miles).

  I was wondering if anyone actually did that? I wonder if pioneers who were used to getting a price break kept keeping a percentage?? (a couple I knew were unhappy to lose the source of income!)

  Some people I knew could sure have used the money...old clunkers they drove...I remember getting towed in by a towtruck from out in the country one particularly memorable field service experience! Not that anybody I knew really got that much in donations anyway...I suppose those who had mag routes from when there was a specific charge kept getting money, but I rarely got even loose change...I used to keep it in sealed envelopes so it didn't get mixed into the change lying in the ashtray of the car. I'm guessing I rarely was given even as much as $5 total a month.
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  What Did You "Become" After Leaving The Watchtower?

  by SpannerintheWorks in

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  born again, liberal christian, agnostic, atheist, or "other"?.

  spanner

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  Pagan with a little agnostic in me

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  Agnostic with a little Pagan in me

  ...depends on the day...(yes that is Pagan with a big "P")

  (oops, forgot "why")

  Because that's what really connected with me all my life, and it wasn't until the lingering cultural bias that the Bible was 'really' the truth and Christianity was the 'real' religion got burned out of me by my experience with the BOrg, that I could finally go along with it.
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  Whatever Happened to Jesus Christ?

  by Prisca in

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  2. friends

  not him, i mean the poster who was called jesus christ.

  he was a funny guy, but was a thinker as well.. remember his phrase, "dad bless you"?.

  jc, if you're reading this, you're being missed, hope everything is ok with you..

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  Whatever happened to Jesus Christ?

  I don't know...I haven't seen him at the hall in ages...I'm pretty sure he da'd himself...he must have wanted to live an immoral lifestyle like all those other people who leave...You do know Mary and Joseph had to get married?? She was on reproof for quite a while...And then she was stuck with an unbelieving mate...(righteous sigh)...that's what happens when we don't listen to Jehovah's Organization (tm)...
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  Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals and the Creation Book

  by Thirdson in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this quote is from the bbc's web site: .

  the results, they say, indicate that neanderthals made little or no contribution to the genes of modern humans.

  out of africa .

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  asleif_dufansdottir

  Good synopsis info from the Smithsonian's web page on Human Origins:

  on neanderthals (whether they are homo neanderthalensis or homo sapiens neanderthalensis)

  http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/neand.htm

  and on homo sapiens:

  http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/sap.htm

  It is important to remember that neanderthals were not hulking brutes (one of the first skeletons found was from an individual who actually was later found to have been crippled with arthritis or rickets, the bone deformations were as a result of that). Their brains were comparatively larger than ours (as my Physical Anth teacher was fond of reminding us). Some of the differences in their body structure were due to adaptation to cold weather and harsh conditions. They apparently buried their dead in graves and left offerings.

  I'm so excited - this fall I'm starting a graduate degree at the university where the guy who discovered "Lucy" teaches!
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  New Site

  by RR in

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  hello everyone, someone sent me this link and i was wondering what you all thought of it!.

  [edited to remove link]

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  asleif_dufansdottir

  I got it on another X-JW site, too. My virus protection system went crazy. I had, like, 6 windows saying "virus detected" in the 10 seconds or so it took me to shut it down.
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  Girls Have Cow-Like Sex Drive According To Watchtower

  by AlanF in

  1. social
  2. humour

  how can girls guard against temptation in this sex-crazy world?.

  when a girl reaches the age of puberty or physical maturity, her body has developed in the matter of sex more than in the mind.

  young folks like to be together, first in groups, later in twos.

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  asleif_dufansdottir

  (sigh) You "city slickers"...

  Of course cows have horns.

  From http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/m218.html

  Horns are found on sheep, cattle, bison, and antelope. Horns are never shed. They continue to grow throughout the animal's life. If horns are broken in a fight or accident, they don't grow back. ... Most often, both male and females have horns although the male's horns are usually larger. ... Antlers are found on the deer family: deer, elk, caribou, and moose. Antlers are deciduous, meaning they are shed and grown new each year. Among the females of the deer family, only the female caribou normally has antlers.

  It is not uncommon for women to have fluctuations in sexual desire at different times of their cycles (some of us more than others ). As my farm boy/biologist husband is fond of pointing out, the human female reproductive system is very similar to the bovine reproductive system, except humans are vertically laid out while the cow's is horizontal (I heard that. You have a dirty mind).

  Physical anthropologists will tell you that the human species ability and interest in sex at all times of the reproductive cycle is one of the wonders of evolution. The male doesn't know for sure when the female is actually fertile, enhancing the chance he'll stay around and stay interested, so that his genes get passed along. This means he's there to help the female raise the young (usually). Human young take an inordinate amount of time and energy to raise compared to, say, a calf who's up and walking within hours and weaned and gone in less than a year.

  This does not, however, chance how mysogynistic and insulting that article is.
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  Corrupting The Young (NOT For Sensitive Readers!)

  by SYN in

  1. social
  2. current

  destroying a nation

  by lynn stuter.

  in 1919 the communist strategy for revolution was captured in dusseldorf, germany.

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  readings from books by such authors as Maya Angelou are not uncommon, and children of all ages are being exposed to the unhealthy intricacies, perversion and deviancy of homosexual sex in the name of tolerance and diversity.

  Maya Angelou??? Maya Angelou??? Oh, by all means, let's forbid young people from reading a true story about a child who was sexually abused...we wouldn't want those who are suffering thru abuse right now to find out they don't have to keep quiet and there is a support system if they need it. We have to hide unpleasant truths from people so we can pretend everything is perfect! Too bad for those who have to suffer in silence because of it.

  Ignorant, xenophobic, parochial, provincial, prudish, puritanical cow!!!

  (stomps away in a huff spitting out cat hair)
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  Nice Guys Vs. Jerks.

  by Mecurious? in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'll tell you guys something, being nice doesn't get you anywhere in this world.

  being nice gets your heart broken, gets you walked all over, and taken advantage of.

  whenever someone sees you as a nice guy, they'll see you as a person they can take advantage of, and you'll let them because you're nice..

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  Ask any man(if he's being honest) he will tell you that he wants a beautiful women

  What, and you think most women wouldn't rather have the guy they like be handsome? Of course people would, given the choice, rather have their significant other be very physically attractive. The problem is when they wholesale reject anyone who does not meet their idea of physical attraction, only to complain when those who do meet it don't want them.

  We're also ignoring the chemical/hormonal/pheromone componant of attraction here...sometimes smell is lots more important than looks.

  Attraction is a funny thing. As far as physical characteristics, there are very definitely specific things I find attractive. I love long dark hair, and I very rarely find blonde men "hot"...even movie stars and other famous good-looking blondes - I can see they are handsome in sort of a clinical way, but they don't give me that hormonal surge that a good looking guy with long dark hair does.

  Anyway...I know that eye candy does not a relationship make. I can always enjoy looking But to me, and most other women I know (who have half a brain and common sense), there are lots more important things than looks. We know we'll be a lot happier with Cyrano than we would be with Christian. Especially if we've been around long enough to have known guys who thought being good looking and favoring us with their attentions was all they ever had to do for us!

  There's also a cultural component. Lots of women are raised to believe that when a guy is jealous and abusive it means he "really" loves her. That's hard to deprogram.