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JWs- victims or volunteers?
by sparrowdown inare jws victims or volunteers?.
voluntary victims perhaps?.
i always assured householders who were concerned that i was being "forced".
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It's raining GB
by sparrowdown inwhat would a gb calender look like?.
of course they may need to photoshop their faces on some fireman bodies, and.
there isn't enough of them for every month of the year, but would they go the "full monty".
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To be or not to be ?
by sparrowdown ini am seriously considering applying for position as a suicide hotline counselor.. i have always wanted to do this and when i was going to meetings i held back because of not wanting to "stumble" anyone.
(stupid i know).. they are desperate for people so they provide the training free of charge.
you just have to do your share of night shift.. does anyone know anything about this sort of job?
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Something vexes thee?
by sparrowdown inwhen our cong turned on us like a mob of angry villagers with pitchforks there was no one in our corner.
our crime mainly being we were not local and the local "hood" did not like outsiders.
the circut o/seer (also not local) was very familiar with mafia style antics of the local body and its problems but was at a loss as to what if anything could be done about it for fear he too may end up in the river with cement shoes (metaphorically of course).. the guy while being sympathetic to our plight basically said "be warm and well fed"and set off to a new assignment interstate.. well he rang up out of the blue to see "how we got on" and to "find out if any action was taken by the branch to investigate ".
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by sparrowdown inthe borg expect people to spend every waking moment (pooping and peeing excepted) "workin for the man", in fs, meetings, personal study, praying, meditating on gb's infallibility, kh working bees, erecting statues of gb in the back garden etc etc.
so between work, school, erands, shopping, home maintenance, mowing lawns etc most would agree that doesn't leave you much time.. question.. if genesis account is to be believed then god provided adam and eve with some skins to cover themselves with, but nothing else.. everything else he expected them to do for themselves.
that would have included long days of backbreaking work planting crops, finding shelter so on and so forth.. with no mod cons it would have taken all their time just to do basic things.
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Mad world- Bride of Chucky.
by sparrowdown ini heard recently that charles manson the imprisoned psycho death-cult leader is marrying in prison.. wth is that all about?
the guy has a swastika tattooed on his forehead for godsakes.. i can just imagine the ceremony goning something like....... "do you psycho cult leader take thee desperate prison groupie to be your lawfully wedded wife?".
"i do, but as a psycho i spit on the law, the law sucks, i do not care about your steenking laws, i will train an army of these bitches........".
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Life more abundant- yes please!
by sparrowdown ini just love these words they give me goosies.
not really sure why.. but i thought i'd share.. .
to suffer woes which hope thinks infinite;.
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The Methuselah project
by sparrowdown inwhere i live our health system is groaning because of high demand and underfunding.. specialist services are a nightmare to access.
many "fly in fly out" dr's.
all the major political parties blame the "aging population".. but what will happen as people live longer is it just a case of more money needing to thrown into aged care?.
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Is Heaven is for real for real?
by sparrowdown inwatched the movie heaven is for real.i was not familiar with this "true" story and wondered.
if anyone else is.
it is hard to know how much is a dramatisation and how much is actual account.. the story seemed "milked" at times and "much ado about nothing", but greg kinear's performance was great.. i have wondered whether the potrayal of christian america is an accurate one.. the young girl that paints jesus portraits was a nice touch (in a twilight zone kind of way).. all in all i think it raised some interesting questions about the role of faith and community.. .