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  I admit, abject and utter failure.....

  by notverylikely in

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  i tried, i thought i could make it work, it seemed so easy, but alas, in my project to turn a used $3 cigar box into a functional humidor i failed miserably.

  i never could make the box airtight enough and allow enough air to circulate through to keep the cigars moist enough with a passive humidifier.

  the humidity kept falling too low, i kept have to try to seal more edges of the box and eventually i started losing cigars.. i broke down today and bought a $40 humidor and in the space of just a few hours it is already keeping the cigars more moist and humid.. i failed.

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  cheerios

  ah i love a good cigar too ... and where i live i can get cubans :D
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  i am graduating!

  by cheerios in

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  after a long hard road, i am now a college graduate :) it's amazing to be liberated :) ... and educated ... .

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  cheerios

  thank you all very much :) it's an IT degree. i think the most valuable classes that i took were the critical thinking classes. very helpful in fighting borg programming.

  now to re-enroll for a masters ...
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  i am graduating!

  by cheerios in

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  after a long hard road, i am now a college graduate :) it's amazing to be liberated :) ... and educated ... .

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  cheerios

  after a long hard road, i am now a college graduate :) it's amazing to be liberated :) ... and educated ...
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  celebrating holidays

  by serein in

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  in the elder book on chapter5:16 it says about religiose hols and geting a judisial thingy if u do em but it also says like only religiose hols and not for non e religios hols so does that mean u can do thanksgiving.

  and in england bonfire night and what ever else is out there thats not religiose,.

  and they cant do anything cos its jws concients and they can if they want?

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  cheerios

  i shouldnt think that thanksgiving would be sanctioned. it is supposed to be 'giving thanks to god' ... and as the pilgrims and the indians didnt worship the big skydaddy jehoober, dont see this one being 'okay' with them
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  Ray Franz Was Wrong

  by Farkel in

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  god rest his soul.

  although i never met him personally, he and i did correspond a number of times, and i have numerous friends who have not only met him, but stayed several days with he and cynthia at their home.

  if nothing else, ray was kind, non-judging, and generous.

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  cheerios

  douglas adams put it best: they're a bunch of mindless jerks who will the first against the wall when the revolution comes
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  JW's are not nice people

  by Nickolas in

  1. watchtower
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  i cut and pasted the subject line from a comment made by one of this board's longtime members.

  it got me wondering if this is the prevalent thinking in here.

  for a very long time i believed that jw's and all fundamentalist christian folk are a cut above the norm.

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  cheerios

  when i was trying to be a good little JW social climber ... i refused to treat other people in the way i deemed disrespectful and unfair, in particular the way several of those in the leadership roles were acting. i wouldnt do it. therefore, i never got promoted. i used to wonder all the time why i never was appointed. i'd always volunteer to do more, do more service, etc. but simply because i chose not to be petty and to not kiss the asses of the elders ... that's when i decided that they are not nice people.
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  Just look at how they changed these lyrics in the new song book

  by WingCommander in

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  this is disgusting!!!

  we've all heard that the new song book is really, really, really bad......but i didn't see many examples cited of just how they changed some of the wording.

  oh sure, we all know by now how incredibly hard it is to sing along with the garbage they wrote, tempo, lack of beat, odd rythm, timing, etc, etc.

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  cheerios

  they really should get phoebe buffay to write their songs ... people would like them better
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  I think I figured out why Jesus ended up being such an important figure in history!

  by sabastious in

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  mary had to make up a story for why she was pregnent after cheating on joseph and it ended up seriously getting out of hand.. -sab.

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  cheerios

  i dont know who this jesus person is ... but the evidence clearly points to Wobble as being the most important person in history
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  What made you start questioning: people or doctrine?

  by In in

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  let us know what got you questioning wbts in the first place.

  i've got a theory that it starts with people hurting us and only then does the "apostate" turn to looking at the beliefs.. anybody who started questioning beliefs first?.

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  cheerios

  *edit: oops .. you should all question my posting skills ... as clearly i cannot post the right post on the right topic ...

  /hides
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  I feel ashamed of some of you

  by Lady Lee in

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  i did not sleep well last night.

  i tossed and turned until 4 am .

  got up and decided to see what was going on.. i am so disappointed in some of you.. simon posted a thread requesting people not post links to the new shepherding book.

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  cheerios

  i am sorry if my comments caused offense :( they were not intended to do so. i just wanted bullet points :(