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  Prince on the Ellen show

  by JWinSF in

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  i haven't been here for a long, long, long time.

  i was watching the "ellen" show tonight and prince was on.

  is he still a jw?.

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  Did anyone see Serena Williams on The Tonight Show

  by JWinSF in

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  last night i happened to surf onto the tonight show.

  bob newhart was the first guest, the second was serena williams.

  as i'd never actually seen her before [not a sports buff] and all i'd heard about her was the various jw postings, i was curious.. first, she came off as totally natural to me.

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  Teresa Graves dead

  by JWinSF in

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  i just read in the 10/11/2002 edition of the san francisco examiner that teresa graves died in a fire at her home in la.

  she was 54. for those too young to remember, she was a fabulous comedienne on rowan & martin's laugh-in tv show [that also featured goldie hawn, ruth buzzi, lily tomlin, arte johnson, and many other great talents].

  she also did a few movies, the last in 1974. that's about the time that she gave it all up to become a jw.. john w wirtanen

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  I don't often initiate posts. Instead ...

  by JWinSF in

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  ... i'm usually one who responds to topics that interest me.

  yesterday, i wanted to respond to certain posts, but needed to step back and wait until things became more clear to me.

  i didn't use an attention grabbing subject line for this post [e.g., something referring to raymond franz, bill bowen, silentlambs] since my purpose was basically to express my feelings, whether or not anyone wanted to read them or respond to them.. i watched with bewilderment the recent accusations flung against raymond franz and the comments made by some supporting the accusations both here and on the yahoogroups email list.

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  JW Prince not so popular now

  by JWinSF in

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  saw this in today's san francisco "the examiner" under the 2nd page "scoop" by bill picture:.

  prince's fall.

  prince is so b-list that the management at his favorite club won't even hold his favorite booth for him anymore.

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  Dr. Nicolosi and homosexuality

  by JWinSF in

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  i was going to respond to isps topic on preventing homosexuality dr. j nicolosi, but due to its number of responses, decided to start a new topic.. nicolosi's comments were prominently referred to in the three 1995 awake!

  articles about homosexuality in the "young people ask" section.

  i had just come out recently and read the articles.

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  Glad to see the Press Releases

  by JWinSF in

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  just got back from a short nyc vacation [nope, didn't go to the headquarters --- didn't want to have to go by ground zero and get depressed only to be further depressed by the site of the wtbts].. anyhow, how wonderful to see press getting on the band wagon [and major, heavy hitters like the san francisco chronicle/examiner] about the jws dirty secret regarding child molesters.

  they actually make the catholic church look clean.. out of curiosity, i had to see the dubz official site.

  natch, they had prominently displayed a series of articles against child molestation.

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  Damn the Organization

  by JWinSF in

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  after all, i've read franz's books and have seen all too often the way jws' normal familial emotions are rendered dead, inactive when one of their family members leaves the religion either through being dfd or by daing.. back in october 2001 i sent two gifts to my uncle and aunt in detroit.

  they stopped having contact with me except for a thank-you letter when i did a similar thing about one year previously.

  i know that this recent gift was received as the on line ups tracking link showed the recipient's last name.

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  Hmmm, why are the WTS sites down?

  by JWinSF in

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  just wanted to see if on either watchtower.org or jw-media.org there was anything mentioned about the tragedy last week.

  both sites were down.. wonder if they're for a change actually going to put something on the sites that is sympathetic without a "by the way, this is what god's word has to say".

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  Elton John, Michael Jackson, and Prince

  by JWinSF in

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  this was in the san francisco chronicle today by columnist leah garchik.

  i just had to chuckle.. elton recollects: .

  ... what would it have been like if john had moved to the united states 30 years ago?

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