Topics Started by tsar_robles

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Should I quit my job?
by tsar_robles in
1. jw
2. friends
cc: my supervisor, our manager, our vicepresident.

guy that didn't show up:.

guy that didn't show up.
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IF Freddy Franz still wrote Watchtower Articles they might read like THIS!
by Terry in
1. jw
2. friends
(matthew 24:14).

[matthew 24:14] .

[matthew 24:14].
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World Cup 2010 - Are you excited?
by lepermessiah in
1. social
2. physical
i am so ready for the world cup to start!.

who are you pulling for?.

what players are you looking forward to watching?.
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jw son disowned & disinherited
by tsar_robles in
1. jw
2. friends
my dad who is already 60 something is thinking about disowning/disinheriting my brother.

he loves him dearly and has for some years tried to understand and justify his lack of 'natural affection' towards both him and mom despite them not being jw's.

for example, our mom lives in the same town we do and yet he would not visit her for all 2009. my dad lives 20 hrs away and has lots of trouble making ends meet with his part time job and my step mom's ss check.
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Recs for a media PC?
by AK - Jeff in
1. social
2. physical
i am thinking of putting a pc on my entertainment center, with a wireless keyboard and mouse so that my flatscreen becomes another computer when i want to watch internet vids or use educational ppv for the grandkids.. i use a belkin g router, and tested it today by moving my desktop [compaq xp] over and hooking it up with a wireless adapter for a test.

worked great.

videos were fast and did not jerk, in fact perhaps better than when i was hooked to ethernet on my desk.. someone at work suggested a 'media center' computer for this use.
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Staying in Downtown Nairobi...
by Confession in
1. social
2. family
the latest blog post on my trip to kenya.... http://itravelalot.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/staying-downtown-nairobi/.
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Hospitality experiences during public talk trips
by tsar_robles in
1. jw
2. experiences
a couple days ago i started having these flashbacks of back in the day when i was 17 or so and was a frequent outgoing public speaker.

believe it or not back then i was so naive in the fullest sense of the word, and none of the signs that i encountered then kicked in until years later.. i obviously could go on and on about the impressions and demeanor that i received from the big shots (elders, ms's) from these halls.

a couple that i remember were for ex., one time while visiting a congregation in southwest co i politely waited around to see if any of the elders or a head of a house hold would approach me and invite me for hospitality and tired of waiting around i decided to make that 5 hour solo trip back home.
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Abortions are evil since Jehovah "see's even the embryo" yet killing worldly babies at Armagedon is okay!
by Witness 007 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
yes the bible says "jehovah see's the embryo and all it's parts are down in writting..." so abortion is evil and murder according to the watchtower.

how is this different to the gret jehovah killing millions of babies at armagedon because their parents said "not interested" to brothers during witnessing?

those babies are not yet "self aware.
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Does your body have a stress reaction?
by Gregor in
1. watchtower
2. medical
i suppose mine is not uncommon (see below) but i have noticed it again of late and cannot deny the connection to excessively stressful events in my life.

i involuntarily keep my jaw clinched and within a day or so i get a piercing pain in my jaw up by my ear.

anyone have a cure for this?
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"My God and My Lord" Ps. 35:23 - Need OT version
by jonathan dough in
1. watchtower
2. bible
when thomas said "my lord and my god," he used the exact words that david used at psalm 35:23 with reference to god, writing, "awake, be vigilant in my defense, in my cause, my god and my lord," (rsv, nab, kjv and green's literal translation).

"lord" here is translated from the hebrew adonai used exclusively of god.

thomas would never have used these same words when addressing the risen christ if he were just a man.