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  Wondering if this is true or not.

  by Shizuko in

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  hey, i am new here but i was surfing on yahoo answers and came a long this... .

  new change in jehovah's witnesses doctrine?-link"once again, "new light" has been received from the watchtower society.. .

  jehovah's witnesses, who claim to be god's channel used to teach that only 144,000 would go to heaven and that those people were chosen by the year 1935. the rest of us would live on a paradise earth.

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  MeneMene

  Here's a couple threads that discuss the new private & public watchtowers.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/146079/1.ashx

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/147309/2667387/post.ashx#2667387

  AND - Welcome to the board.
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  I never heard of myself until I googled me up . . .

  by Happy Harvester in

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  and found out that i have been a famous australian singer and actress, and a world class body-builder, and the owner of an employment firm.

  funny, none of that matches the "me" i know.

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  MeneMene

  Looks like I am the Editor of Canada's Independent Labour Magazine.

  The "me" I know shows up too on the google search.
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  CRAFTSMAN Tools

  by YoursChelbie in

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  2. friends

  i don't know why but i like watching men work on building stuff (except one day kingdumb h's).

  there is precision involved, there's muscle invoved, creative talent.

  to think that the greedy wt$ would always take advange of very talented young men for free to further it's own bottom line.

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  MeneMene

  How about Handy Women?

  I had lots of Craftsman tools until this last move. Ended up getting rid of a lot of my goodies. Only kept the basics - cordless drill; circular saw, socket sets; hammers, screw drivers, wrenches & stuff. Didn't think I would need them in the new house and really didn't have too much room for the table saw & miter saw.

  Lived in an older home for 27 years and was always working on it. I was a single mom and my dad would come over and help me fix things so I learned how to do a lot by myself. I have done plumbing repairs; moved/rewired some electrical outlets & light switches. Changed the heating element in my electric water heater. Refinished hardwood oak floors. Insulated the attic. Semi-finished the basement. Completely rebuilt a bathroom including moving a wall (did get some help from a real plumber for moving the pipes under the house).

  I just love the smell of wood. My first project was a pre-fab toy box I bought and put together when my kids were little. The smell of that wood just made me want to do more. When I was in high school we had a wood working shop. I would have given anything to take that class but back then it was for boys only. I had to take Home Ec.

  My chain saw is living at my son's home now. Don't need it out here in the desert. I have cut up so much firewood with that chain saw. I love it. Back east a hurricane brought down a huge 70 foot tree in my back yard about 1983 or 84. I cut up the whole thing by myself. My father & I went in together and bought a log splitter. All of that wood got split for the fireplace.

  The tool box goes most everywhere with me. Someone is always needing something fixed and lots of times I can fix it in just a few minutes.
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  Is there a problem............

  by Sunnygal41 in

  1. social
  2. family

  with taking each of my parent's last names and using them?

  aren't they already "legally" mine to use, without having to pay money for them?

  i know that i have to register the change with ss,.dmv, my bank, my employer, etc, but, other than that, there shouldn't be a problem.. terri.

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  MeneMene

  I have done what momz described. Always had gone by my middle name so when I married I assumed the middle name as first; my maiden name as my middle; my (now ex-) husband's name as my last. I had to produce legal documents (marriage license) to change my name with social security.

  What I found interesting was when I applied for a passport. I provided the 'legal' married name I had been using for years on the application. When the passport came back it is in my full birth name (first, middle & maiden name) with the married name last.
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  Woman injured in crash off Bay Shore pier dies

  by VanillaMocha73 in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  woman injured in crash off bay shore pier dies.

  "the women knew each other through a jehovah's witness community in central islip, where both were members, officials and friends said.

  "police withheld halvorsen's identity for four days because no next of kin could be located.

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  Here's the latest -

  http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-liplun135536519jan13,0,2272022.story

  Congregation to arrange plunge victim's funeral -

  A Jehovah's Witnesses congregation will care for the remains of one of the women who died in a crash into the Great South Bay early last week, according to a community leader.
  Ellen Halvorsen, of Bay Shore, was a member of the congregation based in Central Islip for twelve years, ...

  Halvorsen, 66, and another member of that congregation, Margrit Mueller, 68, died after Mueller's car went off the pier in Bay Shore on Jan. 7. Halvorsen died shortly after the crash. Mueller passed away Friday at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore.

  Halvorsen's nephew, Craig Greubel of St. James, said his aunt was one of four children and grew up in Lindenhurst. She became a Jehovah's Witness about 40 years ago. Greubel said the congregation had the family's blessing to arrange her cremation and funeral. The Mueller family will be responsible for her arrangements, ...
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  Request: March 1st 2008 WT

  by mavie in

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  2. friends

  if anyone has this in pdf format it would be greatly appreciated.

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  MeneMene

  I glanced through it but could not force myself to read too much. The page with the glass of wine caught my eye. It is an invitation to the Memorial March 22. (last page)

  They tell the public, "You are most warmly invited to join us AS AN OBSERVER. [emphasis mine]

  I guess that's a good way to tell them to come and watch - they are not to partake!!
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  Fairtax.org

  by Dino in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you vote for a presidential candidate that advocated this radical new way of funding the us government?.

  mike huckabee has made it a major part of his campaign platform.

  do you think that an underground economy would emerge?.

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  MeneMene

  Here's some info at http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/taxes/a/aafairtax.htm

  "If you thought the Flat Tax was a good idea that failed, you're going to utterly love the FairTax. The latest "let's dump the Tax Code" idea from Washington's wishful well of best intentions we call Congress, the FairTax bill would abolish all federal income taxes, death taxes, capital gains taxes, and payroll taxes and replace them with a national retail sales tax."

  If you are interested, Neal Boortz wrote The Fair Tax Book that explains it. It was an interesting read.
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  Fairtax.org

  by Dino in

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  2. friends

  would you vote for a presidential candidate that advocated this radical new way of funding the us government?.

  mike huckabee has made it a major part of his campaign platform.

  do you think that an underground economy would emerge?.

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  MeneMene

  I read the Fair Tax book a couple years ago. It makes a lot of sense.

  I already was leaning toward Huckabee before I knew he was for the Fair Tax. When I heard that I knew he's my choice.

  I believe there is an underground economy under the present system. There will always be people that cheat the system. But perhaps if the system is more fair for everyone not so many would cheat.
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  Did the word "persecution" scare you as a kid?

  by journey-on in

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  2. friends

  i remember imagining being tied up and my fingernails pulled out one by one and somebody screaming at me to denounce jehovah?

  anybody else go through this?

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  MeneMene

  I remember being most terrified of the Guillotine and people getting their heads chopped off.

  This mess in Iraq & the Middle East brought back those memories.
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  Be Faithful Like Job C.O. talk

  by moomanchu in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  jw relatives are bustin my balls again they just can't leave me alone.. i wrote my reply at the end.

  i'll take some more ammo if anybody want to offer some.. i'm starting to let it hang out to the dubs, because i'm getting tired of this b.s.. my dad says i'm an aprostate lol.

  curse god and die!'.

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  MeneMene

  You might want to send your father this link - http://www.scborromeo.org/wisdom/strange.htm

  It is from St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church - Words of Wisdom - Isn't It Strange?