"this system of things"
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Witness sayings
by Teela inas i was growing up in the troof.
there were sayings used over and over again to control my behaviour.
the biblical on bad associations spoil useful habits and another on just because everyone else does it doesnt mean you have to do it to, would you jump off a cliff just because other people do what were the sayings that bugged you?
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Witness sayings
by Teela inas i was growing up in the troof.
there were sayings used over and over again to control my behaviour.
the biblical on bad associations spoil useful habits and another on just because everyone else does it doesnt mean you have to do it to, would you jump off a cliff just because other people do what were the sayings that bugged you?
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Spiritually Weak
attitude adjustment
worldly way of thinking
"Oh My Word" "Oh My Goodness" - they can't say Oh My God so these are versions of it
Jehovah will provide
You just need to have faith
Only Jehovah knows...
Light gets brighter
Jehovah reveals information at the appropriate time
Spiritual food (all publications from WBTS)
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Serena Williams Gets Part on Showtime
by closer2fine inhow do you think the jw's will react to this?
this show is rated ma for mature audiences (ie, nudity, language).
serena williams gets part on showtime.
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How do you think the JW's will react to this? This show is rated MA for mature audiences (ie, nudity, language)
Serena Williams Gets Part on Showtime
Jul 24, 7:32 AM (ET) By The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) - Serena Williams will play a reformed gang member on parole in an Oct. 1 episode of the Showtime series "Street Time."
"As a fan of 'Street Time,' I told myself that if given the opportunity, I'd love to be on the show," Williams said Wednesday. "I am taking this role very seriously, because I want to excel and because I have respect for the series."
The world's top-ranked women's tennis player had the role created for her, said Richard Stratton, the cable show's co-executive producer.
"Anyone that has seen Serena perform on the tennis court understands her commitment to being the best," he said. "We are confident that she will bring that same type of energy and devotion to 'Street Time.'"
Williams has appeared in TV commercials with her sister, Venus, and played a kindergarten teacher last year in an episode of the ABC sitcom "My Wife and Kids."
"Street Time," starring Rob Morrow, begins its second season Aug. 6.
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Uday, Qusay - good riddance...
by closer2fine insadistic tales of saddams sons
qusai hussein takes part in target practice in this undated image taken from jordanian state television.
odai, above, and qusai were, by all accounts, the embodiment of evil.
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Photos of Saddam's Sons' Bodies Released
Email this Story Jul 24, 1:19 PM (ET) By STEVEN R. HURST
(AP) This is a U.S. military handout photo released in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, July 24, 2003...
Full ImageBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military released graphic after-death photographs Thursday in an effort to prove to Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's feared sons, Odai and Qusai, were killed in a fierce gunbattle this week.
Two U.S.-military photos showed the first man, identified as Qusai with bruises and blood spots around his eyes. That face was far more intact than the other, identified as Odai, and his mouth was open with his teeth showing.
The face of what appeared to be Odai, the older brother, was severely bloodied. A gash ran from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth, and bruises and blood over his bald forehead.
Washington had hoped that the deaths of Odai and Qusai would weaken the anti-American insurgency, but an attack on a convoy Thursday killed three Americans from the division that led the assault on Saddam's sons' hide-out.
Some Iraqis greeted the release of the photographs with skepticism, saying they were not conclusive proof that the sons were killed. Others said they were convincing.
President Bush hailed the deaths of Saddam's sons.
"The careers of the two of the regime's ... henchmen came to an end," Bush said Thursday. "Now more than ever, the Iraqis can know that the former regime is gone and is not coming back."
The photos showed the upper torsos of the men, who were bare-chested - one lying on bloody, white sheets, the other in what appeared to be a body bag. Both had their eyes closed, the lids darkly purpled.
The brothers had never worn such thick beards, and may have been trying to disguise their identities as they spent 3 1/2 months in hiding from coalition forces.
The pictures were immediately broadcast to the Arab world including Iraq by two Arab satellite television networks, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya. The al-Sa'a newspaper, which is published twice a week and is close to the American occupation authorities, held its front and back pages open to publish them Friday morning.(AP) A U.S. military policeman, Stephen Black from North Carolina, stands guard as Iraqis applying for a...
Full ImageAbbas Fadhil, a 44-year-old barbershop owner, said he had no doubts after seeing the pictures on Iraqi TV that the photographs were of the brothers, but was confused by the U.S. decision not to show the bodies in full.
"The doubts will remain because the coalition forces didn't show them from the front and the sides, didn't show their profiles," he said, adding Qusai's photograph was a perfect image of him.
"They should show more pictures to be more convincing," he said.
Alla Khalifa, 32, a barber in the shop, said he doubted the pictures of Odai were authentic because he appeared to be slightly overweight.
"Odai is a tall man and thin, but the picture shows him as short and thick," he said, while shaving a customer's face.(AP) U.S. soldiers ask Iraqis applying for a position in the new Iraqi army to form a line prior to...
Full ImageBut Qusai's picture left no room for doubt, he said, adding it featured his profile.
But some Iraqis remained unconvinced nevertheless.
"I'm not convinced the pictures shown are of Odai and Qusai, and even if they were I'm not happy. I would have been happy if they were captured alive and brought to justice before the Iraqi people," said Shant Agob, 37, an accountant who saw them broadcast on CNN in a Baghdad hotel.
Lt. Gen. Wafiq al-Sammarai, former head of Iraqi military intelligence who defected in the '90s and is with the Iraqi opposition, told Al-Jazeera he was not convinced.
"The pictures are not clear. They don't give a clear idea, and personally I can't take them as evidence that these two bodies are Odai and Qusai." The bodies are deformed, he said, but other indicators make "me believe that Qusai and Udai have vanished," al-Sammarai said.(AP) U.S. soldiers stand guard, as Iraqis applying for a position in the new Iraqi army wait for...
Full ImageElsewhere in the Arab world, some people recalled U.S. objections when Arab stations broadcast photographs of U.S. soldiers killed in the war to toppled Saddam.
Izzy Hussein, a Yemeni driver living in Saudi Arabia, said Arabs should be angered at the display of the brothers' corpses.
"They shouldn't broadcast these pictures. Every Muslim person should retaliate. There should be revenge. No Iraqi, Arab or Muslim will forget. The Americans must pay the price for this. They are beasts," Hussein said. "The hatred for the Americans has grown. If they were alive and taken to court, then that would be acceptable. This is terrorism."
But Sana Khalil, a Lebanese government worker, said the parallel was strained.
"This is a special case and they've released the photos upon public demand," she said.(AP) A U.S. soldier, far right, takes Iraqis applying for positions in the new Iraq army for screening,...
Full ImageThe military also released pictures of Odai and Qusai when they were alive for comparison, as well as X-rays of Odai's leg, which was injured in an assassination attempt in the 1990s.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq said X-rays, dental records and four former members of Saddam's regime had confirmed that the two dead were the ousted Iraqi leader's eldest two sons.
They were killed in a fierce gunbattle with U.S. forces at a villa in the northern city of Mosul after an Iraqi informant tipped the Americans off to their presence there.
The military has said the brothers and a third man, believed to have been a bodyguard, were killed by U.S. TOW missiles fired into the villa where they were hiding out Tuesday. A fourth person in the house, believed to be Qusai's teenage son Mustafa, was shot to death by troops storming the house after the missiles devastated it.
The brothers were betrayed by an Iraqi after the United States offered a $15 million reward for information leading to the capture or death of either. Odai and Qusai were Nos. 2 and 3 on the U.S. list of 55 most-wanted from the toppled Saddam regime.(AP) An Iraqi policeman wielding an AK-47, rides on top of a pickup truck near the site where witnesses...
Full ImageThe night the brothers were killed, Baghdad erupted in celebratory gunfire, but a large part of the Iraqi population remained unconvinced, with many people saying they would not believe the brutal pair who ran their father's military and intelligence forces were dead until they had seen the pictures.
In Baghdad on Thursday, some members of Iraq's Governing Council were shown the brothers' bodies, which were being stored at Baghdad International Airport, a Coalition Provisional Authority official said.
Guerrilla holdouts loyal to the regime have attacked U.S. forces at a rate of about 12 times a day in an effort to wear down the Americans and drive them from the country.
In the latest attack, three American soldiers were killed Thursday when their convoy was hit by gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades in northern Iraq, a military spokeswoman said. In Baghdad, two Iraqis were killed when their car approached a U.S. military checkpoint.
V Corps spokeswoman Spc. Nicole Thompson said the soldiers, members of the 101st Airborne Division, were traveling in a convoy toward Qayyarah, 185 miles north of the capital, Baghdad, when they were attacked at about 2:30 a.m. No soldiers were reported wounded.(AP) Iraqis gather around the charred remains of a car that, according to witnesses, tried to drive past...
Full ImageOn Wednesday, two American soldiers were killed in separate attacks on their convoys, including one near Mosul.
The latest deaths brought to 158 the number of U.S. servicemen killed in action since the war began March 20, surpassing by 11 the death toll in the 1991 Gulf War.
Also Thursday, Arab satellite broadcaster al-Arabiya aired a tape of what it said were a group of Saddam Fedayeen vowing revenge for the deaths of Odai and Qusai Hussein.
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I have a question --about The Photos of Kobe Victim
by JT inwell i just got some photos of the young lady, the net is truly a dangerous place.
her email address , home address, phone number, even the tax accessment on her folks home.
how many bedrooms , bathrrom, the sq footage of the house and lot, the taxes they paid, etc.
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I agree, how accurate is the info?
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Uday, Qusay - good riddance...
by closer2fine insadistic tales of saddams sons
qusai hussein takes part in target practice in this undated image taken from jordanian state television.
odai, above, and qusai were, by all accounts, the embodiment of evil.
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Sadistic tales of Saddam’s sons Qusai Hussein takes part in target practice in this undated image taken from Jordanian state television.
Odai, above, and Qusai were, by all accounts, the embodiment of evil. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.By Sharon Waxman
THE WASHINGTON POSTJuly 23 — Someday in the not too distant future, Iraqi parents will tuck their children into bed at night and, like Scheherazade, tell them tales of Uday and Qusay, the notorious sons of Saddam. THIS IS HOW people talk about them even now.
Uday, 39, was the loud, preening one. Qusay, 37, was the quiet, calculating one. Both were pampered sons of a murderous tyrant, handed the power to inflict pain and demand pleasure at will from an early age. What could anyone expect? They learned to abuse their power with pathological glee and unbridled egotism.
Wouldn’t anybody?
Here’s a small example: When Uday built yet another massive palace in the middle of Baghdad, he was dissatisfied with the noise of fast-moving traffic passing beside the compound. So he had a single-lane overland bridge built nearby to divert the cars and slow them down. It created traffic jams in the city, but at least his yard was quiet.
Both brothers had many palaces, exotic pets, women, jewelry and, in Uday’s case, hundreds and hundreds of cars. Both had made untold millions trafficking in contraband under U.N. sanctions. Remember Qusay and his goons pulling up in front of the Iraqi central bank and withdrawing a billion dollars hours before the U.S. bombing began? Biggest bank heist in world history? That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about.The city of Baghdad cowered in the shadow of Hussein’s sons, most especially Uday. People knew, more or less, how to avoid Saddam Hussein’s wrath. But there was no predicting the fits of pique that might seize the filial bogeyman.
Everybody knew that Uday, a party animal, would help himself to another man’s wife — usually just for a night or two — if he felt like it, and share her with his entourage, if he felt like it. Sometimes he took the bride on her wedding night, in her gown. Sometimes the groom would be found dead later, a suicide. Sometimes the bride would be found dead later, too.
Everybody knew that if someone got on Qusay’s nerves, he would send a signed death warrant to his brother, who would carry it out without question. It wasn’t that Qusay minded bloodying his hands, he didn’t. He liked to shoot suspected traitors in the head.
But he did mind getting his hands dirty; he had a phobic fear of germs and didn’t want anyone, even his children, to touch him. Kissing is big in the Arab world, but not around Qusay Saddam Hussein.
NO LOGIC TO BEHAVIOR
Saddam Hussein had good reason for his paranoia. People were trying to kill him all the time. If he had food tasters and a special chef who traveled with him, it was because there were others trying to poison him. His bloodthirsty behavior usually had a purpose behind it, to terrorize his people into submission, and to intimidate his enemies.
No such logic could explain the behavior of Uday Saddam Hussein. Indeed, few in history can top him for pathological jealousy. Perhaps psychologists will study him in the future and find a name for Uday’s particular brand of irrationality: “Uday-pensation,” a very advanced form of penis envy.
Once Uday and his friends were at the Jadriyah hunting club in Baghdad, where the popular singer Kathem Saher was performing. Women had flocked around the handsome crooner’s table, asking for autographs.
Uday was enraged. He ordered Saher over to his table and said he wanted an autograph, too. Then he handed the singer his shoe, offering him a terrifying dilemma — should he insult Uday by signing the lowly thing, or insult Uday by not signing it? The singer signed the shoe. Then he left the club and the country immediately, knowing he’d be dead if Uday ever saw him again.
As the head of Iraq’s Olympic committee, Uday was a sports buff. His method of motivating athletes was to threaten them with torture if they lost. But sometimes he tortured them if they won, too, if he thought a player was getting more attention from the fans than he.
He tortured star members of the soccer team. He tortured members of the Olympic wrestling team. Sometimes he just beat them and threw them in a cell for several days. Other times he used one of his favorite medieval methods, called falaqa, hanging the victim upside down and beating him mercilessly on the soles of the feet. Uday used to like to torture his friends — who needed enemies, really? — for little infractions. If you were late for a meeting, for example, you might get beaten. He’d beat the butler for having body odor. He’d beat the maid for giggling out of turn. He’d beat an official of the radio and television authority if there were grammatical mistakes made on the air.
Doesn’t anyone see a television movie in this?FALLING OUT OF FAVOR Uday liked television. He was in charge of the national media, which meant he controlled the airwaves. A movie buff, he would steal the satellite signal for films aimed at other countries, and broadcast first-run Hollywood movies free on Iraqi television. People in Baghdad have seen “Lord of the Rings” and “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.” They’ve seen “The Matrix.” They missed “Matrix Reloaded” because Uday was busy running from the American invasion.
Here was Uday’s problem: Daddy didn’t love him enough. Uday was too unstable even for Saddam Hussein (this is saying something), and the dictator had long before elevated the younger son to positions of real responsibility, naming Qusay head of the Republican Guard and putting him in charge of military intelligence and the special security forces. Qusay was a murderer you could count on.
Uday, on the other hand, only got to control the state media, youth culture and sports. His title as head of the Fedayeen Saddam was a nominal one. Apparently, it wasn’t enough.
In 1996, Uday’s enemies (former friends, perhaps) finally had had enough of his bullying behavior. Assailants attacked him in his car in the chic Mansour district, shooting into his entourage and nearly killing him. The attack left Uday with permanent damage, provoking a stroke and afflicting him with frequent seizures. Walking became difficult. Sex, according to the local gossip, became impossible.
Guess what? It made Uday even more sadistic. Doctors in Baghdad tell of going to Uday’s palaces to pick up unconscious women.
Uday would go out to the city’s private clubs and “invite” a group of girls back to his house. He’d get them drunk, and drug their drinks. But then when he couldn’t perform sexually, he’d beat them. Doctors would be called to remove the victims.
Was it a problem of education? The boys were spoiled, more than a bit. They weren’t shown much discipline as children. They got used to having their way. It’s the kind of thing that happens when Daddy is a dictator busy maintaining a regime of terror during the day, and supervising the interior decoration of an endless succession of palaces in his free time.
In elementary school, every week there would be a ceremony to honor the best student of the week. Guess what: It was always Uday! In high school it was not unusual for Uday to show up at Saddam’s alma mater, Kharkh High School, wearing a bandoleer filled with live ammunition. Once, when he broke his leg, his class had to move to a classroom on a lower floor to accommodate him.
It was a small step from there to having a bridge built to keep the traffic noise near his yard to a minimum. (Another bridge near the presidential compound, the 14th of July Bridge, was reserved for Uday’s use alone.) But all that is in the past. As wild, joyous gunfire erupted through the streets of Baghdad last night, leading many residents to celebrate the brothers’ demise from the safety of their bedrooms, it seemed that the legend of Hussein’s sons would surely outlive them.
© 2003 The Washington Post Company
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Update on Elderly Man in CA -
by closer2fine in.
original post: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/55589/1.ashx.
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Original Post: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/55589/1.ashx
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Letter from a friend in Iraq
by Yerusalyim inok, i won't give his name, but he is a major with an engineer unit in iraq.
here's what he has to say on iraq, i've highlighted a few interesting points.
it has been a while since i have written to my friends about what's really going on here in iraq.
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I have a family member over in Iraq now. I hear from him every week - he is able to email me. It sounds really bad over there. I just want him home.
I live in a pretty hippy-lovin' town (I love it here), but I have been confronted several times in the parking lot of the grocery store about my "Support Our Troops" bumper sticker. As soon as I tell them that I have someone over there, they immediately back down & apologize. They tell me that they just can't stand the "blind" support of Bush - but wish for the best when it comes to our troops. Gag.
By the way, if anyone has a family member that is deployed, here is a link to a free service flag: http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article_lc.asp?storyid=36952
Service flags with a blue star in the middle represent loved ones serving in the military. The star should be changed to a gold color if a family's military loved one dies in the line of duty. It dates back to WWI
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How old were you when you got Baptised?
by El Kabong ini was 13 at the time.
i wanted to get baptised before the end came in 1975. .
back then, 13 was borderline young for baptism, but from what i've been reading, some are now getting baptised as young as 9 or 10. .
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There were so many of us getting baptized that assembly (all under 14) that we went over our questions in groups of two. My friend would answer one question, and then I would get the next one. While she was answering I was scanning ahead to prep for mine. Sad.
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How old were you when you got Baptised?
by El Kabong ini was 13 at the time.
i wanted to get baptised before the end came in 1975. .
back then, 13 was borderline young for baptism, but from what i've been reading, some are now getting baptised as young as 9 or 10. .
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