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  Any one from Ireland? Happy St. Patrick's Day. How do you celebrate?

  by Miss.Fit in

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  hello all, i know st.patrick's day is about over.. i was just curious how many of you observed the holiday.

  i live in the usa in the south west.

  where i live we have a large population of native americans and hispanics.. so st.patrick's day is low key.. we wear green and talk about drinking green beer.. i started to wonder what a real celebration would entail.. i dressed as a lepercaun for story time..

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  Miss.Fit,

  As Barry said, Patrick was English or born in what was then Roman Britannia.

  The only accounts of him that are nearly trust-worthy are his "Confessions" and his letter tho the Soldiers of Coroticus. The RCC has co-opted the story as it does with all note-worthy activities that can be braided into its religion and imbellished it.

  What I like about Patrick's story is how he celebrates the valor of women and of women slaves in particular. Also, he took to task the soldiers of a British tribal chief,Coroticus who was a Christian, for a slave raid in Ireland (Hibernia). It is said this is the first anti-slavery letter written by a Christian.

  I do have lot of Irish in me. Through one way and another, I was stranded in Dublin, Ireland from July 1973-June1974. It was formative and facinating. I was a nominal Catholic at the time-no one the Church would have been proud of, certainly. I celebrated St. Patrick's Day 1974 in a pub and narrowly missed getting into a brawl.

  I do like the kind of man Patrick was. If following Jesus helps us be decent and brave on behalf of our fellow humans--all good. But religion takes over too much.

  Happy Day-After-St. Patty's Day, Miss.Fit!

  "And may you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead!"--Irish proverb--not authorized by the Church
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  Power taken from the Annointed?

  by thedepressedsoul in

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  before the recent change, faithful and discreet slave represented every anointed individual that partook.

  anyone who was or claimed to be anointed was part of this faithful class.

  however, a problem arose with this.

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  The last time I talked to the elders I asked them how any of the anointed could fulfill the description of their relationship to Jesus as set forth at REV. 14:4-5: "...these are the ones that keep following the Lamb no matter where he goes...and no falsehood was found in their mouths...."

  Since, I told them, even the anointed have to follow the GB in Brooklynn just like a regular "sheep" they have a huge problem. Whether or not a non-GB teaching anointed believes that the Bethel Boyos have it right, THEY HAVE TO FOLLOW THE GB AND NOT FOLLOW JESUS---or else be disfellowshipped.

  It has happened: Ray Franz
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  How many elders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

  by mynameislame in

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  just one but he has to be constantly ready to replace it at a moments notice..

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  A Grieving Parent

  by compound complex in

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  dawn comes creeping upward, straddling with all her .

  tendrils the dark mountain so terribly near my sweet .

  but now quaking refuge of wood and stone and glass.. .

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  Coco.

  I must be cuckoo because I see in my mind the "mountain of Jehovah" in all its gloom enveloping a dark prison cell with your son in it. He isn't able to escape. He calls to you, thinking you have the key to end his bleak isolation. But the dark mountain overshadows you too.

  Say it ain't so.

  Tell me I'm crazy.

  But this is a heartbreaking piece.
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  What do you love about being a JW?

  by FL_Panthers in

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  as the title says, share what you love about the truth!.

  we know that the gb or anything else in the truth is all true and nothing is false!.

  love u guys xxx.

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  If God runs the world the way the WT says he does, and the Big "A" comes, I don't want to live with the people that are his special people anyway. I'd rather die.
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  What do you love about being a JW?

  by FL_Panthers in

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  as the title says, share what you love about the truth!.

  we know that the gb or anything else in the truth is all true and nothing is false!.

  love u guys xxx.

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  I loved learning that any religion that had a man (or better yet, a COMMITTEE of 8 men) telling you what the Bible REALLY says is a racket and a snare.
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  Well, it's March, and the College answers are coming in....

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  some of you may remember what i posted back in january:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/271786/1/my-son-has-had-two-very-big-university-interviews#.uyrnovldv2e.

  well, it's now march, and we have been getting answers:.

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  It is a nail-biting time, watching the mail. Hoping for a good 'catch".

  It sounds like he is on his way--whoever wins the bid on him.

  I am happy for all of you.

  Maeve
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  The Last BOE!

  by Atlantis in

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  this is the last boe we will be able to provide.

  our informant or source, was caught, disfellowshipped, and thrown out of bethel.

  we knew that sooner or later the watchtower would find him out.

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  humbled

  Brave good man. Yep-- I don't have much but loose change--but as Quelly says--we'd help him/her. Let us know how much we appreciate him/her.

  Maeve
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  Scriptures for brother taking field service group

  by FL_Panthers in

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  i have recently been given the privilege of taking the field service group.. .

  can anyone give me some scriptures i can use to encourage the group?

  can you also give a reason as to why these scriptures are helpful to our ministry.. .

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  NVR2L8--Great to get free!

  OMG.

  FL-P, I don't have the time today to say more than this: STICK AROUND.

  Read everything you can about the Organization. If you don't care about what is true and what is not--it might not bother you to stay in. But the micro-managing is absolutely destructive. and the effect the WT has on family life----RUN, RUN, RUN! There are horror stories here.

  As I said, stick around, for your own good.

  Maeve
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  FLIPPER WE MISS YOU!

  by clarity in

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  anybody hear from flipper.....haven't seen him on here lately!.

  it is just not the same without him & i really miss his presence.. where is our friend ....anyone?.

  clarity.

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  humbled

  Just saying "Howdy!" Sounds like life, Mr. flipper. And that's a good thing.

  But about your mom, that's the hard part of it all. We do what we can, don't we?

  Take care,

  Maeve