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Things Learned Along the Way
by blondie ini have collected sayings, homilies, whatever along the way that crystallize something bigger i learned.
i will post a few every day.
if you have one, please share it.. if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.. to belittle is to be little.. somewhere, i got the idea if i just took care of others, i would be taken care of.. blondie
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The English Aversion To Root Beer.
by Englishman inwhen we were kids, our mothers would treat our cuts and grazes with an antiseptic cream called germoline.
it's still widely used today.. to mask the antiseptic smell, thereby making the product more acceptable to kids, the manufacturers would mix in sassafras to the finished product.
sassafras has a very distinctive smell.. root beer also contains sassafras, which duly imparts it's distinctive aroma to the drinker.. so, to your average brit anyway, drinking root beer is akin to swallowing antiseptic cream, because it smells just the same!.
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Trying not to 'contaminate' others
by SM62 indoes anyone else feel the same that they feel afraid when approached by a particular bro or sis, particularly one you like and who is really nice.
i feel that i may get them into trouble just for talking to me.
i don't want to drop them in it so i always keep the conversation short.
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Meeting up with another X dub..........plenty of preaching work to do!
by BLISSISIGNORANCE inhi all.....................just to let you know that i'm very excited about meeting with another friend from my dub days.. a couple of weeks ago i looked her up in the phone book and rang, out of the blue.
she sounded very hesitant to talk to me, maybe just confused.
i jumped right in and said i wasn't going to meetings anymore so i had plenty of time to catch up with long lost friends.
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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #64
by ozziepost inhow's the weekend going?
mrs ozzie and i have been very busy with friends.
had a drive in the countryside today and stopped at an english-style pub, replete with large beer garden where we had a great meal-- more like a feast, really; you know how generous the pub meals can be!
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The "Heavenly life of Free Love"
by refiners fire ini just got handed a book published by a group called the children of god aka the family.
theyre a bit of a worry i reckon.
there was a big kafuffle with the movement here in oz sometime in the 80s when the government moved on their compounds and removed all the children.
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Are you really who you think you are?
by Mindchild ini recently enjoyed reading another post on an ex-jw board about how our past experiences as witnesses have shaped our lives and made us who we are.
there is obvious truth to the effect that our past experiences do effect how we see our selves now, but i think many people who leave the borg are still enslaved to the idea that they are the same person they were then.
i disagree and think things are a little more complex than that.
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OMIGOSH! John 5:39, 40...
by AGuest inmay you all have peace!.
you are searching... or you search... now!.
true rendering - "you are searching the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are those which testify about me.
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I Have Returned
by Yerusalyim infinished my trip to interview the guys that came back from the war...some of the interviews were pretty intense.
most of these guys came back in mid july so most of their comments about what's going on in iraq are dated...but, they said as a whole the iraqis were glad we took out saddam.. .
i met and interviewed a chaplain assistant with three confirmed kills...makes me take my job a bit more seriously.. say "welcome home"
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My new magazine...the September 2003 issue
by Mindchild inwould you like to subscribe to my new magazine?.
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