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  What's Your Favorite Seinfeld Episode?

  by Lloyd Braun in

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  my favorite all time episode is the tennis/j peterman incident where kramer is walking across the tennis court and a racquet goes flying and hits a machine and kramer gets pelleted with tennis balls.

  another really good one is when newman smells kramer basting on the roof and starts seeing him as food.. .

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  The episode where Elaine is dancing. Sweet fancy Moses!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xi4O1yi6b0
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  Post your photos time!!!

  by dobbie in

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  i don't think we've had one for a while, i can't find the last one anyway!

  so just to satisfy my curiosity it would be great to see some of your photos, of you, your family even your pets (they're family too!

  ) then i'll know if any of you do look like your avatars cos that's what i'm always wondering!

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  Erynw - did i give you permission to post that picture of my nan?lol
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  Post your photos time!!!

  by dobbie in

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  i don't think we've had one for a while, i can't find the last one anyway!

  so just to satisfy my curiosity it would be great to see some of your photos, of you, your family even your pets (they're family too!

  ) then i'll know if any of you do look like your avatars cos that's what i'm always wondering!

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  Not comfortable posting my real pic, but those going to Richmond Apostafest will get to meet me.
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  If you were a

  by John Doe in

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  food, what would you be and why?

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  OOOOOOOOOOh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner
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  1 Thess 5:3 - What do you think....

  by The Scotsman in

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  1 thessalonians 5:3 says this - "whenever it is that they are saying: peace and security!

  then sudden destruction is to be instantly upon them just as the pang of distress upon a pregnant woman; and they will by no means escape.

  " nwt... jehovahs witnesses believe this is refering to our time with a final fulfillment imminent which of course triggers total destruction for nearly everyone and everything.

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  What kind of "loving" God would destroy the world just as they are finally solving their problems anyways? They are on the cusp of proving wrong that man cannot rule himself when they do finally achieve peace and security. And, just so they won't get that chance, Jehovah is going to step in and destroy them and disrupt their progress. I suppose that's because the stagnant, non-fulfilling new world that Jehovah is proposing to create can in no way compete with the world that man can make.

  He did this before:

  Genesis 11
  5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

  Not saying that man's motives are the same here, but he did step in to disrupt man's progress.
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  Avatars

  by Vernon Williams in

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  to all,.

  i wish a thread would start where in everyone would explain why they picked the avatar they have.

  i have not found one, yet..... v.

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  Mine is the FreeBSD mascot. I picked it out of sheer rebellion. (plus we both have the same taste in cool shoes)
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  Nebraska state senator sues God

  by erynw in

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  by nate jenkins, associated press writer .

  50 minutes ago.

  lincoln, neb.

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  Anyone grow up in a small town?

  by RisingEagle in

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  grrrr.

  bad enter key, bad.. those who grew up in small towns will laugh when they read this.

  those who didn't will be in disbelief and won't understand how true it is.

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  The small town I grew up in had a Tastee-Freeze, mmmmm, yummy ice cream and every year had a "Crazy Dayz" sale in downtown where all of the locally owned store owners would put out their wares really cheap. It was a huge event every year. We also had a real 4th of July celebration, begin with a huge parade, all day festivities in two different parks, watermelon eating contests, I won a third place trophy for frisbee throwing , and end the evening with a rodeo and fantastic fireworks show. Ah, the good old days.
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  Just started COC, can't stop crying

  by erynw in

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  i left the wtb&ts 24 years ago after being a full time pioneer for 15 years and have never looked back.

  i have no family "in" and have moved very far away from the congro i left.

  no one here knows i used to be in this cult.. i experienced the usual shunning from the members of the congro i went to and from surrounding congregations (the city i lived in was big and had several khs), but it didn't last long because i moved away shortly after the "big announcement".

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  I experienced shunning for about a year and a half after I was DFed before I moved away. I was initially removed as a full time pioneer before I was DFed so there was some shunning before I was DFed.

  I'm not sure what exactly hit me so hard about reading those scriptures. In context of the paragraph in COC, these are listed in reference to disfellowshipped ones and their family members who shun them. For me, what I think happened is I realized just how wrong the disfellowshipping practice is. I remembered the parable? about the shepherd who has 100 sheep, one wanders off, he leaves the 99 to rescue the one. I was the one.
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  Just started COC, can't stop crying

  by erynw in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i left the wtb&ts 24 years ago after being a full time pioneer for 15 years and have never looked back.

  i have no family "in" and have moved very far away from the congro i left.

  no one here knows i used to be in this cult.. i experienced the usual shunning from the members of the congro i went to and from surrounding congregations (the city i lived in was big and had several khs), but it didn't last long because i moved away shortly after the "big announcement".

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  I left the WTB&TS 24 years ago after being a full time pioneer for 15 years and have never looked back. I have no family "in" and have moved very far away from the congro I left. No one here knows I used to be in this cult.

  I experienced the usual shunning from the members of the congro I went to and from surrounding congregations (the city I lived in was big and had several KHs), but it didn't last long because I moved away shortly after the "big announcement". It hurt at the time and I really thought I had no emotions locked inside of me about that time in my life.

  That was until I read these scripture in COC about shunning:

  2 Corinthians 5:
  11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.

  2 Corinthians 7:
  2 Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. 3 I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you.

  Now I'm riding a rollercoaster of emotions that I can't seem to stop.