Tempest in a Teacup

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  A Taxi Driver Gave Me 4 Magazines This Morning

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we had reached my destination, i paid him and was getting down when he handed me something.

  then i saw it was the wt and awake.

  i just had the time to say: "oh, okay, thank you!

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  ToesUp He probably counted your total time in his taxi a time for the month.

  
  I thought the same thing! But I forgot to say it in my OP.

  Also given the stack of mags (at least 50-70 in there) he had on his board, he's gonna do the same thing to other clients and count the time he's driving his taxi as FS time.

  I may be wrong, but looking at how it went, I extra sure of that.
  
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  What do you think? Should chimpanzees be granted 'personhood'?

  by fulltimestudent in

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  there's a current court case in ny which is hearing that question right now.

  the precise issue is the continued captivity of two chimpanzees, (leo and hercules, names bestowed by humans) in a medical research laboratory at stony brook university.. i suggest that the application has some merit.

  are not all of us "animals?

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  So far as they can pay taxes too, no problem!
  
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  A Taxi Driver Gave Me 4 Magazines This Morning

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we had reached my destination, i paid him and was getting down when he handed me something.

  then i saw it was the wt and awake.

  i just had the time to say: "oh, okay, thank you!

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  Morpheus Perhaps the company he drives for would like to know he is proselytizing while working....

  No way, Morpheus. Where I live, taxis are freelance. People own and drive their taxis themselves or give out to a driver. Company taxis are non existent.
  

  freemindfade Any thing to rack up numbers on a report Just like jesus

  Jesus talked! lol
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  Sorry, But Your Sad Story Doesn't Make Me Feel Better. Is it supposed to?

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
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  i have very recently come out of a bout of severe depression which lasted for years.

  i have ginormous underlying issues which i hardly talk about, especially to my family.. today my sister came in, wanting to force me to do something she wanted.

  her strategy was to make me feel bad for feeling bad, just to show me that my problem (which she has no idea of but thinks she does) wasn't the biggest in the world.

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  Great advice and opinions, folks.

  A financial problem can be pretty dramatic but temporary.

  Psychological troubles are deep rooted and affect a huge chunk of someone's life: childhood, adulthood and beyond.

  People die of health problems. Mental illnesses send to an early grave too.
  
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  A Taxi Driver Gave Me 4 Magazines This Morning

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we had reached my destination, i paid him and was getting down when he handed me something.

  then i saw it was the wt and awake.

  i just had the time to say: "oh, okay, thank you!

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  The Searcher: Yep! These mags speak for themselves don't they?
  
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  A Taxi Driver Gave Me 4 Magazines This Morning

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as we had reached my destination, i paid him and was getting down when he handed me something.

  then i saw it was the wt and awake.

  i just had the time to say: "oh, okay, thank you!

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  As we had reached my destination, I paid him and was getting down when he handed me something. Then I saw it was the WT and Awake. I just had the time to say: "Oh, okay, thank you!" before he drove off. Without uttering a single word. The whole time he never even looked at my face.

  A quick look at his dashboard and I noticed he had quite a tall stack for the day.lol
  

  When I had the things in hand they felt quite thick; I opened them and realized that he actually gave me 4: 2 awakes and 2 WT at a go. Someone's gonna report sharing many many magazines this month. Ha!

  Later, I thought to myself that all along during the ride he could have given them to me. I guess he wasn't in the mood to take any question or entertain any discussion. It happens bro!
  
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  Convention Cartoon

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so last night they played the convention cartoon.

  there were a few laughs from the audience, overall though people seemed a little taken aback and tight lipped.

  like no one gushed about it afterwards, no applause, just like it was nothing new at all.

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  whathehadas One thing I noticed. There was NO person of color depicted in that cartoon.

  Those were doodles in black and white. How did you come to that conclusion?
  
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  Sorry, But Your Sad Story Doesn't Make Me Feel Better. Is it supposed to?

  by Tempest in a Teacup in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have very recently come out of a bout of severe depression which lasted for years.

  i have ginormous underlying issues which i hardly talk about, especially to my family.. today my sister came in, wanting to force me to do something she wanted.

  her strategy was to make me feel bad for feeling bad, just to show me that my problem (which she has no idea of but thinks she does) wasn't the biggest in the world.

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  I have very recently come out of a bout of severe depression which lasted for years. I have ginormous underlying issues which I hardly talk about, especially to my family.

  Today my sister came in, wanting to force me to do something she wanted. Her strategy was to make me feel bad for feeling bad, just to show me that my problem (which she has no idea of but thinks she does) wasn't the biggest in the world. She went on and on and on about some miserable life of some miserable acquaintance of hers.

  I have seen this happening with people so very often. Why do they assume that when they tell you a super sad story about someone it will make you feel better about yourself, by letting you know that yours is a small problem compared to someone else? Is it supposed to work?

  I remember blowing a new relationship like that. That person told me that they worked with so many people and knew about so much sadness that they're always happy and think everyone should because things can be so bad. I replied that my issues were so debilitating and have so many implications and ramifications in so many areas of my life that I wouldn't accept anyone telling me that it's not a "real" problem, just because I'm not living on the street and eating stones.
  

  I'm sorry but this doesn't work with me and it is something that I don't adhere to. If the scar in my heart were to be visible on my body, I guess very few people would be able to look at me.
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  Convention Cartoon

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  so last night they played the convention cartoon.

  there were a few laughs from the audience, overall though people seemed a little taken aback and tight lipped.

  like no one gushed about it afterwards, no applause, just like it was nothing new at all.

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  Sorry I'm going to be the party pooper here but I sure liked the doodles. I'm always doodling so it was a feast to my eyes.

  The audience in my hall reacted stupidly. I was praying and hoping that they wouldn't applaud. But a few did; I'd say 10 persons in about 50. Not the frantic ecstatic applause though, a very cold one which lasted for half a second.

  The general laughter were forthcoming throughout the show though.
  
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  weird questions people ask you at the KH?

  by Truthexplorer in

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  so i meet sister ott zealot.

  she says ah .... its lovely to see you; how are you doing.

  i said yeah i'm fine thank you!

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  Thé country I grew up in... Well, that's part of the greetings among witnesses, especially old timers. It sounds more like....how's thw WORSHIPPING?