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  Don't Take The Mickey..

  by Englishman in

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  to all those people out there who keep referring to the noble name as "micheal", desist, i say!.

  it's not "micheal", it's "michael"!.

  meaning: he who is, or like, god.

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  Actually (counsel to our dear Jazzy Belle aside),

  The use of the apostrophe in english plurals has a long history. The texts of Shakespeare do occasionally use it.

  Victorian grammarians attempted to standardise English in line with latin and created artificial rules to do so. (Sounds like another bunch of old timers.) So they said "It is I"

  Not "It's me" as in french etc.

  The apostrophe problem arises because in the days before radio or TV ironed out fine distinctions of pronunciation, people still said "eggis" (pl) or "dogges" (pl) The addition of the unnecessary ( ' ) is to do with pronunciation and provenance of the writer's ancestors.

  SIDEBAR - How like Fred Franz am I ????????????
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  Single and Happy

  by RubyTuesday in

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  can people be single and happy?

  the older i get the more i believe that being single is the way to go.there are so many advantages.just to name a few;.

  you can finish that college degree, go to the neighborhood bar anytime, do charity work, join a night class, stay out all night, flirt with anybody you please.

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  The facts are:

  An unmarried male is more likely to have a breakdown than a married man.

  A married woman is more likely to have one than her single counterpart.

  Married men live longer than single men.

  Single women live longer than married women.

  The WT propaganda machine constantly publishes pics of happy gatherings where you can see who is married to who. Only the kids have no partner. Even Gilead now only churns out married couples. Let's face it: in the Borg if you are on your own nobody wants you, except to alleviate their loneliness on the door to bore misery. Before they dump you at the corner to go meet their Witless families.
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  Don't Take The Mickey..

  by Englishman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  to all those people out there who keep referring to the noble name as "micheal", desist, i say!.

  it's not "micheal", it's "michael"!.

  meaning: he who is, or like, god.

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  Now mouthy!

  Newly humbled by my reproof over invoking the Goddess Fortuna you should not now be proving yourself a mambo of the Jazzy Belle class.

  We must be kind. What do terms like 'I was a Witless' J Witlessness, Kindumb Hell, door to bore Misery teach us?

  (Voice rising:) Do we not feel a sense of deep humanitarian indulgence, a duty of patience of yadda yadda -

  WELL HELL NOO -They would never even dream of showing that to us.

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  What will the future generations of JW's be like ? will there be any ?

  by run dont walk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has been eluded to in a couple of other topics,.

  let's face it the young generation of jw's are getting smaller and smaller, and very few "new ones" coming into the fold.. what will the watchtower's tactics be, to keep this farce going another 100 years let alone 10 years ???.

  change 1914 to 1993 ????

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  Somewhere on a thread I posted my arguments proving that JWs are an evolutionary dead-end. I don't know where though, and I don't know how to cut and paste it anyway...
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  "Look! The Beautiful Country!", theocratic maps?

  by VM44 in

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  i have read here in some posts that one of the new releases this year is a brochure, "look!

  the beautiful country!

  ", containing maps.. when it was released, does anyone know if the speaker mentioned how much better the maps in the brochure were than "worldly maps"?.

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  One of the nastiest territorial boundary disputes I ever saw was two congregations squabbling over a couple of hundred yards of a street in the city centre.

  Another fight happened when a brother and his family (six children) lived on the inter-congregational no-fly zone. They decided to go to the nearest kindumb hell,a mere 15 mins drive. But the elders in the other hall kicked up a fuss that they were in their terror tory and insisted they drive the best part of 45 mins to their hall. Arguments about young kids on midweek meetings, bedtime etc, fell on deaf ears. Being good j Witlessness they did what they were told was the right thing (not the best for their family) None of the kids are in now - probably saw through all that loving elders stuff for what it is.

  As for the new map - all they have done is use the most up to date satellite mapping, and claimed the credit.
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  The pain has kicked in

  by Pistoff in

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  hi all and thanks for being here and caring.

  i have had a bad day today.

  most of you have heard me rant and rave about my thirty years in the borg, not yet over.

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  For the future:

  from Robert Duncan - ( My Mother would be a Falconresss...)

  ...even now, years after this,

  when the wounds I left her had surely healed,

  and the woman is dead

  her fierce eyes closed, and if her heart

  were broken, it is stilled

  I would be a falcon and go free.

  I tread her wrist and wear the hood,

  talking to myself, and would draw blood.

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  Do you like cops?

  by JH in

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  i know many people who don't like cops and even give them all kinds of names.

  some may be nice, but many think they are superior to the ordinary citizen.

  i see so many doing radar on bottom of hills where automatically you will go over the speed limit.

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  Nearly all of them are decent people just earning a crust for their family, and hoping to stay alive for one more day like the rest of us.

  God help us without them. BY CHRIST the lesssons of history teach us He won't.

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  How MEAN is God?

  by ninecharger in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  in our pre witless days we didn't go to church at all.

  but my mom used her own homespun wisdom to comfort us.

  one time my pet rabbit died.

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  Regarding Me

  After two years of studying the Babble with the Witlessness I think god was really mean when he knew my older brother had 'arranged' to to meet another boy from high School in the local park with me. My "lovely" brother left me ( they said " turn your back NOW" - I was always defiant and arrogant so I didn't fully, I peeped - why can I still see those coins dropping and not want to scream??) with this guy who put me through utter degraded misery. (I was 9)

  After running away I got home to find my brother drinking Coke and eating candy. ( we were never given money for that sort of thing - we were POOR) but Mom found out about it because Big Brother told her what I said to him after I escaped - (Brother got his own version in first He - ain't a Dub, never was); I was made to feel shame that "every time I go into the store I know they've been talking about that incident" I knew that I was to stay silent... The worst was one Sunday when this boy cycled past the Kindumb Hell as we came out - I just spontaneously vomited in the street. Lots of public sympathy, but did I get trouble when the front door closed!!

  I was told never to discuss this with anyone as I would be "showing the family" up.

  My brother told our Mom before I had the chance to overcome my guilt shame and fear (I had grasped what DF means even at 9.) Recently I confronted my brother about this and all he could say was: "That's not the way I remember it."

  Am I being a true vengeful bastard???

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  Do you like cops?

  by JH in

  1. jw
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  i know many people who don't like cops and even give them all kinds of names.

  some may be nice, but many think they are superior to the ordinary citizen.

  i see so many doing radar on bottom of hills where automatically you will go over the speed limit.

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  A lot of people think seat belt laws suck.

  But if you are not killed flying through that windscreen, then somebody else loses medicaid to pay for saving your life, or someone's insurance goes up.

  If you are a parent then SHAME ON YOU!!!

  Any parent who puts their comfort in the car before the possibility of their children being an orphan should be compulsorily sterilised before marriage.

  After all that - When IS officer Goodbody going to give me a citation for being a very bad boy?

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  All depression sufferers (past/present) please read

  by WildHorses in

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  2. medical

  i went to my dr. today because my blood pressure was really high.

  156/106 and my meds weren't helping to lower it.

  can you get over depression without meds?

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  I forgot to mention
  

  a truly life changing book that I worked through - "The Artists Way" by Julia Cameron. It scared me at first because of the Jerboa's Wtlessness brainwashing but she maintains that a lot of peoples' misery depression and frustration is because they are not expressing their true selves. Doing the little self-cherishing acts (I bet I would have been called selfish or an egotist if I'd said what I was up to) and finding a true creative outlet is so empowering, and the drains on your energy and happiness really do lose their influence on you.

  Try it - what do you have to lose? (misery loneliness and frustration - that's only three!!)

  I also now do ten to 15 minutes of Clinically Standardised Meditation three times a week (Mon Wed Fri) this is meditation without any of the hocus pocus of religions.

  It was developed by Patricia Carrington Phd, a mental health practitioner. Damn good.

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