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  That Darned Ole Net

  by CoolBreeze in

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  oh no, the internet gets another one of the friends into trouble.

  http://www.geocities.com/meskojay/htmlstuff/elderschewtammysue.html.

  ciao,.

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  Uh...sorry for the cross message board posting, but I can't help myself with this one:

  Social gatherings have lead to problems, perhaps drunkenness or even immorality, so great caution is in order.

  Oh really?

  Really?

  OH BOY! Apostofest HERE I COME!! Where's the beer!?! Where's the beer!?! And women! Where's the women!?! Is this going to be toga party too? Like, like, like, NERO-style toga party? *wink* *wink* Yipee-Ki-Aie!

  ::resumes montonic posture::

  I hate when wholsome "witness" talk promotes ideas in my head...

  Really.

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  My thoughts on terrorism

  by Soledad in

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  i was reading some news reports on yahoo about suicide bombings likely to happen here in the us.

  what irks me the most are statements made about the justice departments inability to track visas issued to foreign students.

  i remember watching a portuguese newscast via satellite tv sometime last october.

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  The power involved within the belief of : "WE have God/Allah/Jehovah on our side, and no matter what we do, even if it's taking human life, we are justified."

  When that thought becomes a reality in one, or many, minds...how does anyone battle that? Someone (or many) who dwell in that "reality", has now gone beyond any earthly sense of authority...and have a "faith" to back it up.

  Coming from a U.S. perspective, the WTC/Pentagon attacks was something I saw coming. Not the actual method, mind you all. But an attack of such scale. When Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal building in Oklahoma, an immeadiate thought (after the shock) I had was: "Oh my god, every anti-western fundalmentalist group is going to say, 'If one of their own can do it, so can we'.

  Did the U.S. "have it coming" as I've been hearing as of late? My personal opinion...NO. How does the murder of 3,000 people (in planes and buildings) ever support this idea, is beyond me. Regardless of any past "transgression"...murdering people is not a justified cause.

  I'm not ignorant to the fact that the U.S. international relations with the global community, isn't sparkly clean. It's down right dirty. Most of the U.S. population is ignorant and unaware of U.S. foriegn policy. But murder on this scale in ANY country is NOT justified.

  When you become informed of the various facts in these situations, it makes the operations of the WTBTS look like child's play. The multitude of elements involved with global politcs, it sometimes brings my mind to the brink of insanity trying to have an "objective" view....just even trying to sort the massive web...just to find a single "reason" for it all.

  All I know is, people are getting murdered for the most part because of money and politcal power, and everyone's hands are dirty who play the game. There are no "clean" players in this arena. We kill some of them, They kill some of us. They kill some of us, We kill some of them. A vicious cycle that has been going on and on way before any of us were here....since people were painting the walls of caves.

  It started with King of the Hill, and the methods to gain that position, always walks on the skulls of the dead. Innocent or otherwise. The unending cycle.

  Make it stop ... please.

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  What "hooked" you?

  by roybatty in

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  im not sure if this has been discussed before but id be interested to read some comments from those who became jws later in life.

  what caught your attention and sucked you in?.

  my parents became jws when i was 5 years old, so it was pretty much the only way of life that i knew.

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  Born in to it.

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  To my friends, some reflections...........

  by JPandelo in

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  i have had a week to reflect on my life and was thinking about what i have seen, what i am going through, and where i am going.

  i know many of you here experience unbelievable pain, suffering, anger, depression, and disbelief.

  i have lived with these myself.

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  You said it best by stating taking care of your family. If that's what you need to do, that's the first priority to attend to.

  Every effort against tyranny is considered a valuable effort. You saw something unjust and stood up against it. That path alone, very few find. Very few take.

  You stated it yourself:

  What I have seen the Watchtower turn elders, overseers, and the governing body themselves into are cold shells of human beings that care not for their flock. It is about position, rank, power, money, and ego.

  And the questioned to be asked: "Did I follow that path?"

  You could of ended up at the end of that road, but you didn't. I don't see shame in your decisions, since the end result came out for the greater good. You could of ended up tangled in the mire of being a "cold shell of a human being". You didn't follow the path of the corrupt visions of the WTBTS. You listened to your heart and chose the harder path. To be yourself, to stand up against tyranny, and to do what is right.

  Justice sometimes comes in forms of tiny cracks in a foundation. A voice against the unjust here, a stand against injustice there. Many voices added together, soon form a collective of cracks, that bring the whole thing down. The cracks you contributed go to the core of the corrupt.

  Now is the time to start healing and picking up the pieces, tend to your family needs. There's still plenty to do, and plenty of us to do it. Embrace the freedom you've earned, for you and your family.

  Wish you and your family, only the best in the journey to come.

  D8TA
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  Sex is good for women..............!

  by ISP in

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  especially...if it is unprotected.

  so any depressed ladies out there....just email me i might be able to help you out!

  unprotected sex is an anti-depressant, claim doctors.

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  Ugh...informative article...but too clinical.

  I wish there was an aspect of explaining such findings in a non-clinical way.

  I enjoy those warm summer evenings underneath the stars, within the soft embraces of a sleeping bag. Nothing more then the wind lightly playing within the leaves of tree tops. Soft tender caresses on her cheek, moist lips kissing her forehead...looking deep in to her precious....eyes....

  Whooops!

  *cough*

  Like I said, informative, but clinical. :)~

  *twirls tongue gauge*

  D8TA
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  Oh....My......GOD!!! Just read the article...

  by D8TA in

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  http://www.detnews.com/2002/entertainment/0205/18/d01-492788.htm .

  what the hell?.

  i just finished watching mulholland drive (for the third time this weekend) and my head hurts.

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  http://www.detnews.com/2002/entertainment/0205/18/d01-492788.htm

  What the hell?

  I just finished watching Mulholland Drive (for the third time this weekend) and my head hurts. Even after visiting various web sites to get a "better understanding" of the movie....my head still hurts. So, I just don't have the energy to post anything creative about the morons of the above article.

  So I'll just say again...

  What the hell?

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  My mom isn't going to like this either!

  by Elsewhere in

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  here is a pic of my phoenix tattoo:.

  (let me know if it doesn't work so i can move the image to another server).

  "as every one knows, there are mistakes in the bible" - the watchtower, april 15, 1928, p. 126 .

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  You people can't see it?

  I see it.

  It's a tatoo, color black. It's a big (phoenix?) on the back, right upper right side.

  It's AWESOME.

  Try hitting "refresh" on your browser if you can't see it, that sometimes works.

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  Just Posting, what's on my mind

  by U.2.K. in

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  words from christ> "surely i come quickly" .

  how that they told you there should be mockers in the .

  "last time" who should walk after their own ungodly passions- jude .

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  Ummm...
  Ummm...

  Jesus just told me he's going to be a little late...

  *runs away*

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  NON-PROFIT organization

  by somebody in

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  http://www.xso.com/news/stories/arena.htm .

  more important, he says, is the sweetheart deal thewitnesses got from the city.

  while the group agreed to pay $12.5 million for the entire 72-acre tract, it immediately plan to sell 44 acres.. the reported asking price?

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  Oh man, don't you get it?

  WT likes to play with words. They think "language" is a game...

  When they say: NON-PROFIT

  They MEAN: NON-PROPHET

  and

  When they say: NON-PROPHET

  They MEAN: NON-PROFIT

  It's a merry-go-round! Weeee! With evil little gargoyls to sit on, and smoke and mirrors dressing the architecture. With the added erie FX of kingom melodies playing in techno-warped fashion.

  The WTBTS is more confusing then MulHolland Drive, and much more twisted. You try to make heads and tail of it when in their box. But when you free yourself, and jump outside, you notice it's nothing more then a fly on the wall. Hand me a fly swatter.

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  Where "live and let live" ends.

  by D8TA in

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  a question in a post and by an e-mail was sent to me regarding my "live and let live" life style that i attributed to myself, and something i live by.. to clear that up, i take each person i come in contact on an individual bases.. however, should such a person or organization come in to my area, punch my sister in the eye...then proceed to come to me and punch me in the eye.

  "live and let live" pretty much goes out the window at that point.

  that's a situation of "direct attack", and i just don't turn my cheek with that.. there are a few people on this board that i'm willing to discuss the situation that had happened to me this past friday.

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  punch my sister in the eye...then proceed to come to me and punch me in the eye.

  Ack...my bad...figuratively! figuratively!

  What this elder and his wife did, I would equal the attack to this type of of behavior.

  You've got a good point about not "raising" your voice at your children.

  Umm, children? When? What? Where? Lol....no children here, legitimate or otherwise. But I wouldn't raise my voice with any child much less an adult.

  Oh my, I'm scanning my above post and trying to figure where you got the "children". If it's about the teenz, that was about a situation I post a month or so back. Group of thugs that were giving an elderly couple a bad time at the local waterfront park. Those weren't "my" kids. :)

  Children...hmmmm...(knock on wood! knock on wood!)

  D8TA