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No magazines for me :(:(:(
by onacruse in
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*** km 7/04 p. 3 question box ***.

how should personal copies of thewatchtower and awake!

be obtained?.
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"Letters From The Earth" (Mark Twain, 1909)
by onacruse in
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2. beliefs
as is his wont, farkel keeps hammering me about thinking 'outside the box.

' i'm beginning to suspect that doing so is almost becoming his favorite past-time.

lol.
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How do angels and demons influence mankind?
by onacruse in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
wts publications, and indeed virtually all religions on this planet, assert that angels and demons have regular influence on mankind, on individual human beings as well as on the general course of human events.. but i've never read anything specific about how they supposedly accomplish this.. do they tweak our neurons?

do they fiddle with our hormones, thereby making us feel good or bad about a certain course of action?

do they inject thoughts into our brains, perhaps in such a subtle way that we think those are our own thoughts?
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Happy Anniversary, my sweetheart!
by onacruse in
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yes, it was just 5 years ago on xmas day that bikerchic and i got married in las vegas at the little church of the west.

it was too funny, going to the courthouse with $50 in hand (cash only, please!

), and walking out to a parade of taxis all offering to take us wherever we wanted to go (cash only, please!).
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Vote for your favorite "celebrated JW scholar"!!
by onacruse in
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now, there are so many from which to choose...where is one to start?.

well, since i'm an old-timer, i must by default cast my vote for clayton j. woodworth, that inspired author and editor of the golden age who single-handedly warned the world about the dangers of aluminum cookware and vaccinations, among so many other things.. only once in a generation comes along a man with such inspired insights as to baffle the minds of mere ordinary humans..
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Mouthy, I need your help!
by onacruse in
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that scoundrel outlaw did this dastardly deed:.

this is what i get for whoop`n onacruse,on the "fight thread"............i hit him so hard,his grandma got a black eye!....lol!!.

i need you to set him straight!.
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My apologies to OUTLAW
by onacruse in
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on a recent thread, i made a bit of fun about outlaw having to eat penguin morning, noon, and night.. as is the way of things, his almost unbelievably super-nasty p/m back to me made me do some research, and lo and behold, i found a plethora of penguin recipes suitable to all but the most sensitive of palates:.

penguin fricassee.

penguin & chips.
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The disfellowshipping of Walter Salter
by onacruse in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
on a recent thread farkel provided a transcript of a letter written by walter salter in 1937:.

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/149105/2710321/post.ashx#2710321.

in all my years i have never seen the wts respond as vigorously and openly as it did to this event...not even ray franz got this much attention.. as an opener, here is the initial response printed in the wt (this is also a transcript, but .pdf's of the original can be provided as needed):.
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Music, the brain, and spirituality?
by onacruse in
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so, every now and again, i get into a mood where i just want to go out into my "man cave" (read garage), and crank up my stereo and listen to some good hard loud r&b.. tonight, as i was in one of those interludes, a couple of things struck me:.

1) how music makes the brain go "quiet.

" i mean, it's almost impossible to think about things when you're listening to whatever music 'strikes a chord' in you;.
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We got another doggie!
by onacruse in
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2. friends
since samba passed, bikerchic and i have been missing him greatly, and so we got ourselves another doggie.

here's his picture:.

ain't he a cutie?