Jamie_from_Canada

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  Got the Flu i think

  by KW13 in

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  the past couple of days, my eyes seem a bit watery and feel strained, my nose and everything else is blocked up with snotty stuff and i got a sore throat .

  also can i add that food tastes rubbish.

  sympathy and ideas here lol..

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  do they have Cold-fx there? It is a ginseng extract and it helps boost the immune system and recovery time for flu's.
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  I can't stop watching....

  by zeroday in

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  the movie "gladiator".

  what a great movie.

  i have watched it a 100 times and could 100 more.. "what we do in life, echoes in eternity".

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  I love Russel Crowe in 'the insider'. In fact i think the insider has the only really decent Al Pacino performance too.
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  2 elders over

  by Jamie_from_Canada in

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  i just had 2 elders come over this morning.

  2 witness ladies offered me the latest mags as i walked down my driveway.

  (they really dont put as much effort into their presentations as before) anyways i took the mags and gave them 2 bucks and my phone number.

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  I offered them some cookies the first time but they didnt accept. I got a bet with my roommate. He has some questions on the JW concept of hellfire. I am betting 5 bucks that if he listens sincerely and openly to their reasoning that he will be persuaded to believe they have the right scriptural understanding of hell and the soul. I should clarify: By staunch I mean that he has expressed having had conversations in the past with JW's and has already come to the conclusions that they do not have the truth. He is in his mid-thirties and found that i have been able to be semi-persuasive with him on certain matters. As for the elders, they got a little touchy when they saw my bluntness on organization blunders but i dont think they doubt my sincerity at this point and so offered to come back. Will just have to see what happens.

  (Maybe this sounds stupid but this is just my way of dealing with the persistance of JW's comming to my door and telling me they possess the truth. I felt they misrepresented THEMSELF to me from the start-so why should i present my true self to them and open myself up to more abuse confessing i"m disfellowshipped. 2 can play their game. You might as well have some fun with it)
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  SAW III - A review of the movie

  by Elsewhere in

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  unfortunately i can only review the first 5 or 10 minutes of the show as a result of the fact that i got seriously nauseous twice in that time period resulting in my having to walk out.

  simply put, that show is seriously f. i've never been a big fan of horror movies because the plot lines and acting have traditionally been of extraordinary poor quality.

  the main characters always make some seriously stupid decision and end up being killed by... whatever.

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  I think being a JW is like being in a saw movie mentally. Finding that tape recorder explaining your dilemna for salvation. Trying to play the game and seeing what it does to your family. Not being able to make a safe move anywhere-only have a choice of eternal damnation and alienation from God. I was working with a guy earlier this year who could imitate the evil tape recorder voice perfectly.
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  2 elders over

  by Jamie_from_Canada in

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  i just had 2 elders come over this morning.

  2 witness ladies offered me the latest mags as i walked down my driveway.

  (they really dont put as much effort into their presentations as before) anyways i took the mags and gave them 2 bucks and my phone number.

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  i just had 2 elders come over this morning. 2 witness ladies offered me the latest mags as i walked down my driveway. (they really dont put as much effort into their presentations as before) Anyways i took the mags and gave them 2 bucks and my phone number. The husband of one of the ladies called me and set up an appointment for saturday morning. He brought a buddy with him who was obviously an elder by his tone and the way he used his bible. i argued that Jehovah's Witnesses shouldnt "play God" by disfellowshipping members who exercise their own conscience in grey areas such as 144,000 and 1914 and that submission to all the JW beliefs should not be a prerequisite to an approved standing with their Creator. I think they were suspicious of me and threatened to leave a few times but it turns out they are comming back but i dont think i can deal with them one on one so i am going to set up my roommate who is pretty staunch in his own beliefs and see if they manage to persuade him.
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  Sex before marriage = a miserable marriage according to WTBTS!

  by Gill in

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  the anti sex beatings from the wtbts go on and on!.

  november 1st 2006 'awake'.

  this particular mag has an article on 'does romantic love justify premrital sex?'.

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  Someone told me that the bible no where specifically says that sex before marriage is a sin. I know Paul says to "let the marriage bed be without defilement" and to "flee from fornication", "deaden your body members..." etc

  But can you really equate sex before marriage with a miserable marriage? Can you say that not having sex before marriage will increase your respect for each other and promote a healthier marriage? You can have a miserable marriage anyways without sex relevant in the equation. Being married to the watchtower = a miserable life. Fidelity to the watchtower = needless and rediculous

  If sex is an act and expression of true love, than is waiting until you are in the confines of a marriage institutuion necessary?

  I think part of love is about discovering each other and making mistakes together. How can you be balanced if everything is black and white? If you ask JW teens if they are miserable because they are not allowed to date until they are dating with a view of marriage, how would they honestly answer? Did you find that unreasonable as a teen JW? Isnt trying to live the "perfect life" is sometimes a bigger mistake than trying to live a reasonable balanced life? Who here can honestly say they have never made a mistake in their life when it comes to sex?

  So my opinion is : youre damned if you do and your damned if you dont. Didnt Solomon say " there is a time to love and a time not to love" a time to embrace and a time to keep away from embracing. Misery and happiness isnt necessarily equated with the marriage bond and sex but with finding your balance through time, trial and error.
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  Let's just get something straight about 1975.

  by WTFBBQPWNT in

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  nobody ever said that the end was coming in 1975.. all the hype about this date that has continued all the way down through today came from a talk in the early 70's by fred franz.

  in this talk, franz pointed out the significance of the 7 creative days and how they correspond with 1,000-year time intervals.. he then said, "could the end come in 1975?

  there's so much wrong with jehovah's witnesses from their rigid legalism to their faux love, but let's call a spade a spade about the 1975 thing..

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  the hint about 1975 was like a girl flirting with you under the table. She gives you some clear messages but when she finds herself distracted by someone new or cant deal with the pressure of commitment-she denies she ever implied or said anything.
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  With my JW family members

  by AuntieJane in

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  spent a few days w. cousin and 12 year old daughter, both jw's, no others in family.

  many of us on a short.

  trip together, it was fun.

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  "their JW-ness" their catagorial behavior. That is so true. I never really thought about JW's as having mannarisms but i guess they are overflowing with them. My grandfather once told me: people are the strangest thing
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  Just saw the new JW video

  by LtCmd.Lore in

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  i went to a friends house today and he knows someone from bethel and so he got the video early, and i got the privilage of watching it.. not much to report realy, it's very similar to old video, about the workings of bethel.

  however this time they were all dressed nicer.

  they mentioned the governing body, but didn't bother saying that they are supposedly 'spirit annointed', i don't recall them even mentioning the name 'jesus' and of course they all had those fake smiles.

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  awesome. I liked their video they made on bible prophecy part1 with the rise and fall of the world empires. I tried to recently get my hands on a copy but I had trouble-maybe they took it out of circulation-I didnt see it on their website either-and it would seem a good one to solicit the faith. I still got my copy of Jehovah's Witnesses the organization behind the name. I guess figures and allot else has happened in the last 10 years making the original almost totally inaccurate.
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  What was the big news?

  by why144000 in

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  i might have missed something (i often do!

  ) but i thought there was going to be some big news being released in september.

  could someone fill me in as to what it was, or did someone suffer from premature speclation?

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  LMAO! see if you guys can make this forum have the biggest stream of stupid replies. the big news...