G'day Braveheart, a warm welcome, nice to have you on board. Cheers, Mattieu
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Hello JWN...excited to be a new member!
by braveheart ini stumbled on to this forum about a month ago...and i'm hooked!!
a tremendous amount of knowledge, wisdom, great debate, and lol humor, which is good for the soul.. i am not a jw, but the borg infected my family years ago, many are still trapped, and i have 2 big shot elders.. i became a huge opposer/apostate and had many a battle.
today we have learned to live in peace...live and let live.. recently, i decided to get up to date with everything jw... i often wonder why my family can't see or figure out the real truth.
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Katsuhiko Hattori "Jiyuu no daichi" (Land of Freedom)
by possible-san inkatsuhiko hattori - "jiyuu no daichi" (english meaning: "land of freedom").
well, the images in that video are kyoto in japan.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyib9ahcpjo.
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Leolaia, you will love it, no doubt. I dont use the word enchanting lightly. I am sure you will do your homework on the best places to visit. I was fortunate to visit Kyoto on 2 occasions when the cherry blossom was out. I still have a small piece that I "smuggled" back into Oz pressed between the pages of a book ;-)
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Katsuhiko Hattori "Jiyuu no daichi" (Land of Freedom)
by possible-san inkatsuhiko hattori - "jiyuu no daichi" (english meaning: "land of freedom").
well, the images in that video are kyoto in japan.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyib9ahcpjo.
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Hi Nancy, agreed. There is a zen rock garden at the Golden Temple in Kyoto. The only way to see all 15 rocks is to meditate. From Wikipedia:
A famous Japanese rock garden is at Ryoan-ji in northwest Kyoto, Japan.
The garden is 30 meters long from east to west and 10 meters from north to south. There are no trees, just 15 irregularly shaped rocks of varying sizes, some surrounded by moss, arranged in a bed of white gravel/sand that is raked every day.
The rocks of various sizes are arranged on small white pebbles in five groups, each comprising five, two, three, two, and three rocks. The garden contains 15 rocks arranged on the surface of white pebbles in such a manner that visitors can see only 14 of them at once, from whichever angle the garden is viewed.
Cheers, Mattieu
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Katsuhiko Hattori "Jiyuu no daichi" (Land of Freedom)
by possible-san inkatsuhiko hattori - "jiyuu no daichi" (english meaning: "land of freedom").
well, the images in that video are kyoto in japan.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyib9ahcpjo.
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Possible , right back at you!
The whole Nagano prefecture is so beautiful. Have been to Kyoto a couple of times as well as Osaka. Though spent most of my times visiting Japan around Tokyo/Chiba...
Some great memories and nice people. Cheers, Mattieu
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Katsuhiko Hattori "Jiyuu no daichi" (Land of Freedom)
by possible-san inkatsuhiko hattori - "jiyuu no daichi" (english meaning: "land of freedom").
well, the images in that video are kyoto in japan.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyib9ahcpjo.
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Hi Possible, spent a few days in Kyoto, enchanting and beautiful city. Have you ever been up Nagano way? Around Matumoto or Hotaka?? Cheers, Mattieu
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Anybody on facebook? Feel free to add me
by Joliette inlook me up: [email protected].
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and add me, would love to talk to some of you guys!.
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Have sent you a request - Mattieu JWN
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Youth`s as martyr`s (Blood Transfusions)
by smiddy ini left the religion about 93/94 and i never saw the "awake" mag with this" subject".is it possible their are still any floating around ?i would dearly love to get hold of one.not a photo copy,but an actual genuine publication,it was in the early 90`s i beleive.
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Smiddy, a link to the article and cover page: http://www.ajwrb.org/
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Youth`s as martyr`s (Blood Transfusions)
by smiddy ini left the religion about 93/94 and i never saw the "awake" mag with this" subject".is it possible their are still any floating around ?i would dearly love to get hold of one.not a photo copy,but an actual genuine publication,it was in the early 90`s i beleive.
smiddy.
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Hi Smiddy, I hope you are well. I know the article you are talking about, its been posted/scanned on this site somehwere under the blood forum. I may have the actual article packed away in a box in the garage. Will try and dig it out for you and post it to you. Cheers, Mattieu
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Why are alot of witnesses very interested in watching Sports but they are against playing organized sports?
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Good observation asilentone, one that I have always thought of growing up in the sports capital of the world! The same sports that we were told not be involved in as young ones were the same ones that all the JW's would rush home to watch and talk about at the meetings. My last Elders/MS meeting that I attended before I faded was about a letter from the Australian bethel advising that sports were not to be the focus of our conversations before & after meetings, particuarly AFL (Australian football) The p/o laughed as it was read out and said "fat chance!!" Cheers, Mattieu
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Hi!! New Here and need to express some feelings
by Knb1983 ini'm so glad i happened to stumble across this website cause i really need to express what i've been holding inside for quite some time.
i'm 27 and was born and raised in the "truth".
i'm married and my husband was also raised as a jw, been married for almost 7 years and have two kids who have just started kindergarten and preschool.
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G'day KNB and a warm welcome. So many of us share the same confusing thoughts and experiences, glad you found JWN and posted. Cheers, Mattieu