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  Star Trek: Enterprise

  by Big Tex in

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  my local upn station keeps moving enterprise around.

  sometimes it's on friday, sometimes it's on wednesdays, sometimes it's not on at all.

  so as a result i haven't watched more than a couple of espisodes this season.

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  I'd rather watch an old Dr. Who episode any day over any of the Trek offerings (horrible space opera-Blah!!!).

  Robert, I remember that juror, "the Commander" (did you see the movie "Trekkies"?)

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  Baptize 'em young, keep 'em outta Sports - My notes from the last assembly

  by jgnat in

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  i had heard of accounts of young baptisms, but i figured it was the exception rather than the rule.

  now i wonder, after viewing the models of youth paraded at the last assembly.

  i took note of the ages and age of baptism of the five young men (no girls this time) who were interviewed as models of jw youth at this last week's assembly.

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  Been there, got the T-shirt, still trying to recover!

  I was fifteen (one of the youngest in my Hall) but it seems to me that even JW kids used to wait until 17/18 years in the '60's /'70's.. Can any senior members comment on whether this is a new trend?

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  Neighbor: "I'm so glad you left the JW organization"

  by seattleniceguy in

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  so i was out working in my yard the other day.

  i've met a lot of my neighbors that i didn't know recently, because as i'm working in the yard, they stop by to chat as they're walking the dog, etc.

  i'm really getting to know the neighborhood.

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  Its amazing to be contantly finding out that most of our neighbors are nice humans worth interacting with. I try to be more active on my "street" and really enjoyed my first Toronto neighborhood which was southern Italian (yes, evil Catholics). Many witnesses are so caught up their "make busy" work (courtesy of the org.) to even realize how negatively they're viewed by others because of their "attitude"in really being part of a community.
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  Small town USA..............

  by Sunnygal41 in

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  who of you on the jwd grew up in a small town?

  take us back to one small event in your childhood that you remember.......this may just be a tactile sensation, like the smell of hay or pines or may be something as simple as the feeling of hot, dry dust underfoot........

  for me, i remember the hardness of the soil in upstate new york.

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  I grew up in a small industrial (in the great white north) and what I miss the most is the church bell organ of the main church in town (they used to play everyday). Still miss that sound (never mentionned it to my folks though!). I also miss the accents of the people there.

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  t.i.j.k.m.o. explained

  by tijkmo in

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  my favourite band for a long time now is called marillion...not big in usa...bigger in uk and bigger still in europe...i'm sure that the songwriter had been through something similar to myself as many of the songs reflect the exact same feelings and frustrations as me..and many a night i would put on a cd and cry myself to sleep....one of my all time favourite lines in a song..which i wish id written is- when you list all the qualities that you despise..and you realise..you're describing yourself.... anyway on an album called-holidays in eden-(sic)..there is a song called-100 nights- and one verse reads this way:-.

  they invite me to their gatherings.

  in the finer parts or town.

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  Sounds like a typical rock gig to me! I forgot all about Marillion (they were a pretty cool group now that I remember them).

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  My story.....

  by jula71 in

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  i was born into the "truth", so it is pretty much to only life i have known.

  i have been studying the bible seriously since my teens, about 15+ years.

  then it hit me about 6 months ago, i?m not really studying the bible, but rather the wt publications.

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  Hey Jula,

  Welcome to the forum and the real "world". Thinking isn't a crime here.

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  social retard

  by MerryMagdalene in

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  i finally figured out why i'm so socially retarded...it just hit me.. here i was sitting and wondering why i have such a hard time meeting new people, making friends, thinking of relevent things to say, and so on.

  it really is painful and scary for me.

  i was told who i could talk to, who i couldn't talk to, what i could say, what i couldn't say.

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  Merry and Crumpet,

  You guys aren't really that weird (well just a little!).

  It took a lot of years of work for me in regards to friendship building department of life. My folks were hardcore and there was no "clean" association in our hall (even the elders' kids in my age group) while school associations were not on! Our parents now admit that it negatively impacted on all the kids' social development to varying degrees. I still feel a little "strange" sometimes trying to explain the way I am to "worldy" friends.

  That said, it is something one has to work on constantly. I actually ended up with a couple of good friends from a cooking class I joined a couple of years ago! Ya gotta be "out there" and we were trained to be too passive when it came to personal fulfillment (hobbies, personal interest education, etc...) and its hard to shake those behaviours. (I still have some of the "God's only people"arrogance left!).

  This is a very common "challenge" for most of us I think.

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  A comment I heard tonight

  by Generic Man in

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  tonight i heard one of the most cruel and twisted comments i've ever heard at the platform.

  the topic was the apocalypse and whether or not children will be slaughtered.

  through one side of his mouth, the po stated that the bible is not clear on the matter, while out the other side he pointed to all those old testament accounts where children were killed.

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  Welcome to the board Generic Man!

  What a real joker this guy nust have been. Seems like a definite genetic "throw-back"!

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  I've decided to disassociate myself tonight

  by Dustin in

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  the kingdom hall where i used to go has the theocratic ministry school and service meetings on tuesday.

  i have finally come to grips with my need to exit the jehovah's witnesses forever.

  i told my parents today that i'm leaving the jw religion behind forever.

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  Good luck Dustin...and kudos to your father for standing by you!

  (Keep us posted)

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  first gig

  by tijkmo in

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  hey guys im at college doing a music course..and the first thing they do is throw 3 or 4 people together and tell them to come up with 5 songs to play at a gig.....so our first gig is tonight..weve been together for bout 8 wks...wish me luck

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  Break a leg man! What's the light show gonna look like?

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