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  JULIA CHILD HAS PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 91!

  by TresHappy in

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  in memory of an awesome lady, god bless you julia!

  julia child .

  august 15, 1912 - august 12, 2004

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  lawrence

  I toast a glass of sherry to that lovely gal.
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  Refusing to eat Lucky Charms cereal...

  by Confucious in

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  as i sit here eat my favorite cereal for breakfast, i remember a time when it used to offend me to eat lucky charms.

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  anyone else have an experience of things you used to "offend" you??

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  We threw out many albums - i remember Sabbath going, 'Imagine', and all of the Dr. John The Night Tripper music (gris gris...) . Pink Floyd had to go, Spooky Tooth had to go, and so did 'Tubular Bells.'
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  Encouraging thoughts of former J.W. Elder

  by lawrence in

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  these thoughts were emailed to me by an old friend, who was a j.w.

  elder, and left the wts.

  hope others might find something of value:

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  lawrence

  I was not going to interject on this thread, but loved A. Paduan's use of the king's language, though don't understand what he's saying - who is taking slaves, when one has left the game? You state with excellence, "... I percieve the achieved suppression of an attrite bitterness." attrit, attrite (vv.) Attrit, pronounced uh-TRIT, is apparently a slang back-formation from attrition. It is military and journalese jargon, meaning ?to win by attrition,? ?to defeat by reducing the enemy?s numbers and means.? Attrite, on the other hand, is pronounced uh-TREIT and is a relatively infrequent but old (seventeenth-century) verb. It occurs most frequently in its participial adjective form, pronounced uh-TREIT-id, and it means ?worn or rubbed or reduced by friction?: Constant deskwork had attrited the elbows of his jackets.

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  Encouraging thoughts of former J.W. Elder

  by lawrence in

  1. jw
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  these thoughts were emailed to me by an old friend, who was a j.w.

  elder, and left the wts.

  hope others might find something of value:

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  lawrence

  These thoughts were emailed to me by an old friend, who was a J.W. Elder, and left the WTS. Hope others might find something of value: "In my case the transition period was very painful but it did not knock me off balance. Having Jill as a companion was certainly part of the reason. But also I was, even during the worst of times, able to see some good in the decisions I had made. I once explained it this way: The stormy termoil of the sixties had left me like a ship with its rigging torn asunder. In my association with the Jehovah's Wintnesses I found a safe harbor and a strong support system that allowed me to repair that rigging. But once the rigging was repaired the natural course was to go back out to sea and the JWs insisted I stay harbor-bound. Faced with this choice I did what my very nature compelled and left. Of course that illustration, like all illustrations, is not the complete picture. Hurtful things were done to me; some by well-meaning but ignorant people, others by individuals who it seemed to me were simply wicked. The months and years that followed were not without difficulty. Aside from my family I was friendless. And my soul was now at sea, but with an uncharted course. I made a specific effort to avoid being overly bitter and instead tried to use the time to peel back the layers of the onion one by one to answer my most pertinant questions: Who and what was I really? What psychological weakness(es) moved me to make the choices I had made? What were their causes? Some time, too, was spent on 'theological' questions, but not all that much. In the end I am what I am today. My 'rigging' is for the most part sound and I remain comfortable being at sea. My 'safe harbor' is having, in the poet Schiller's words, "one soul to call my own." My friends are not legion, but they are genuine. I love life and am thankful to the Kind Providence that has given it to me. Wishing you and all 'sea faring men' the kindest wishes! :)"
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  Have you ever preached in a prison?

  by Gerard in

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  2. beliefs

  it is evident that some prison immates get asimilated while doing their time.

  i wonder if any of you used to preach rutinely in a prison and what was your experience.

  were you asked by elders to do that or were you pro-active?

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  I had a Bible Study in Boston and he got himself locked up. I would visit him in prison and we would study in a large room with visits going on and guards making sure nobody was humping somebody's leg. It was weird to get locked up one night for "wild behavior" and thought back to the bible studies I had with Bruce at the House of Corrections. Bruce would introduce me to his new found "buddies" as the "Bible Man."
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  Is the Watchtower Part of the "Antichrist"?

  by metatron in

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  in the apostle john's day, a variety of religious sects appeared in christian congregations called the gnostics.. many of these gnostics thought that matter and flesh were bad and anything 'spirit' was good, so they believed.

  that jesus couldn't have been flesh and blood.

  so, john condemned them , in his letters, as the "antichrist" because.

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  lawrence

  Metatron-

  Absolutely! For they deny his ascension to the right hand of God in 33 (say it was 1914), yet St. John already saw him there, and so did St. Paul. Anti Christos - they are anti Christ in denying communion with His flesh and blood to all believers, they are anti Christos when they preach in His name and support the political Beast (U.N.), they are anti Christos when they build a billion dollar empire, they are anti Christos when they speak false prophecies in His name and paint a picture of a paradise earth which will be burned. Just one group of many, though they condemn the others, they are still in the same club.
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  Were You Ever Really "On The Watch"?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  jws are told to always be on the watch.

  always be ready.

  be alert in the "time of the end".

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  I was "on the watch" from 1971 - 1977; cutting out news articles and "correlating" them to Scripture (Daniel, Ezekiel, Revelation, etc.). I truly believed that 1975 was the end of 6000 years of human history and in the month of Tishri 1975 all the remaining plagues, bowls, and woes would begin to occur. I bought their chronology hook, line, and sinker. Aha! I was the one who sunk. The closer 1975 came, the more I pioneered, as others in the congos bought new cars and other purchases not believing they would have to pay for them. Faith is great!
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  Hacking games

  by Lostreality in

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  im looking for hacking games...they have levels that you hack to get passwords to continue through, and they get increasingly hard to crack.... .

  any links?

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  Lostreality-

  Great! I think about 1997 I read the Sybex 'ABCs of Javascript' - rather good book. If you're interested in a good Open Source Java Development Environment, go to the jboss site. Happy coding!

  Lawrence
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  UK "JW" Commit Suicide--Despite Outside Help

  by blondie in

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  sometimes, there is nothing you can do to stop people....

  http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/125/125908_im_sorry_note_of_dadtobe_found_hanged.html

  manchester news

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  Shera -

  These men are insensitive to the "flock's" pain. They don't realize, nor will they EVER! They'll say, "if this man, whom we called a Brother, was active in the preaching work, active at the hall, active in his spiritual life; this would never happen..."
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  Harvest Siftings - The Judge's takeover

  by RR in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  back in 1917, judge rutherford published a paper called "harvest siftings" as a defense of his actions, in taking over the presidency of thee society and ousting the fourdirectors.

  the four directors as well as others made a reply to that paper,all in all therewere about a dozen or so of these papers floating around.

  here is an excerpt of wwhat the four ousted directorss claimed rutherford did:

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  lawrence

  It's wild to read Mac's book about the ousting of the 4 "grand apostates" and the attempted overthrow, versus this rendition. Thanks for posting the letter.