It's almost been 6 months.
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YoursChelbie
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How do you get over a crush?
by lonelysheep inhow do you tell your heart to not give a bleep anymore???
what can you do to shut it off completely, i mean, for more than a week?
eyes are hard to control sometimes, as are hands to type with.
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High school anti-cult lessons
by IT Support ini've been asked to help develop a course for high school students to teach them about destructive cults and how to identify them.
not jw-bashing) to be useful for all students (and also not to frighten off jw kids and their parents), i would hope it might help jws (kids and parents) to start to think.
does anyone know of anything similar that we could buy in?
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In the end, what will really matter?
by exwitless inin light of the current deep philosophical discussions whirling around, i thought i would post another topic to ponder.
hillary step motivated me to start this topic by this comment on another thread:.
if there is anything that i have learned in my 500 years of life, is that none of it matters much anyway.. we all end up in some dismal cemetry with drunken kids urinating on our tombstones anyway.
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YoursChelbie
I concur with Ed.
In the end, what will really matter?
My love for friends and family and how I acted out that love.
Ed.
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Leolaia will be in Dallas on February 15th!
by cruzanheart inwho's up for lunch?
since she's going for bbq that night, i asked her if she'd like tex-mex for lunch -- which might mean a pilgrimage to ojeda's or pueblo arriba.. check your calendars and let me know if you can join us for lunch!.
cheers,.
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Photos?
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Dub Glossary
by Farkel inmany of you have already seen this, but there are also many new ones posting and lurking.
this is a little handy reference to help you understand dub-speak.
i've updated it an added a number of new terms and expressions.. ----------------------.
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YoursChelbie
A keeper: Awesome glossary.
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WOW, WHERE'S THE TIME GONE?
by Dansk inmy profile revealed that it was four years ago today that i joined jwd!
i can hardly believe i've made over 5000 posts and been here for so long!.
well, the truth is you guys have helped me stick around.
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YoursChelbie
It's great to have a "cyber community" where we can express ourselves and learn from others!
Here's to many more years!
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My Bethel Experience Part 14
by new boy inmy strange bethel courtship started with me trying to meet mike stillman's sister, even though he worked in the ink room next to my elevavator, we were not good friends, he was just a little to "country" for me........and on the righeous side too.
they say "there is nothing more dangerious in combat then a new guy with a map!
".........and there was nothing more dangerious at bethel then a self righteous new boy.. anyway one beautiful saturday morning, in 1972, we were walking to the factory, mike happen to be walking with me, and he happen to say "god........i would give anything to get out of this city on a day like today"..........i said "well....... i have a car and no place to go.........you have a place to go and no car"...he wasn't quite sure of me, but.............next thing i knew, it's him and me and 4 of his nerdy friends driving to rhode island.. needless to say, it was a great weekend and debbie who had just turned 19 was happy that her brother finally brought someone home with him, who wasn't a nerd like his other friends.
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YoursChelbie
By the way the term "the light gets brighter" really means we were wrong about something......so we are changing our option about it.......for the whole religion thing to work.......It HAS to be impossible for the society or any church to be wrong, and the reason for that is...... IF it is wrong about ONE thing, it COULD be wrong about something else, RIGHT?..........So where, would you draw the line? So the "light gets brighter" stuff works really well...................Oh by the way,..... I do the same thing now.......If I hurt someone or if I'm wrong about something.............I NEVER say "I"M SORRY"........I say "OPPPss.......light got brighter!".......but people think, I'm strange when I say that.......I wonder why?
So true!
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Fun at the book study
by Zico ini know what you're thinking.
how can you possibly have fun at the book study?
well, it's easy to have fun with the revelation book, it's so full of forced interpretations and massive holes, you can just rip it apart (subtly, of course) it's also much easier to question things in a smaller group.
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YoursChelbie
You sure know how to have fun!
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PS. Your avatar is having a blast too!
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new watchtower mag arrangement
by shadowofbathory inthe latest from brooklyn ( my mate in upper management ) i thought id share.. .
the watchtower is remaining bi monthly.
instead of both monthly offerings sharing same formats there is a change coming into action soon.
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YoursChelbie
If the end is very near, coming very soon, then they should be intensifying the announcement, not reducing it. They should be on tv, the radio, the internet, advertise, advertise, advertise THE KINGDOM! They should be taking out huge ads in all the major newspapers. Instead they keep on cutting back this proclamation.
Exactly what I was thinking, Blueblades.
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Honeymoon Disfellowshippings
by dozy inone of the anomalies of the disfellowshipping process is the common situation when someone who is unscripturally divorced remarries.
in these occasions , the instruction is to always disfellowship the individual , regardless of repentance or attitude - what is referred to as a honeymoon df in elders jargon.
hence you have the (to me) bizarre situation of privately reproving a child molester , rapist or murderer one week and disfellowshipping a newly remarried middle aged sister who has been divorced for 20 years the next week.
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YoursChelbie
Ok I'm not trying to be pro-JW here, because anybody can see the hypocricy in this situation, but how else can Jesus' words at Luke 16:18: "Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery" ??
Good question. Here's the way I see it:
A marriage is like a contract. When one or both parties breaks the marriage vow, the contract becomes invalid. If someone promises to "love and cherish you; forsaking all others" and then fails to do that, the marriage is already a broken contract.
When a marriage union is dissolved by broken vows and subsequently by the LAW which exists by God's permission (Ro. 13: 1 ) the marriage dissolution is God-approved.
Adultery by definition cannot be commited by people who are not married. An act of adultery can only occur when the "marriage" is VALID. Emotional abuse would fall int the category of unloving behavior which renders a marriage invalid. No marriage---no adultery. Leave the abusive person and freely find someone who will truly love you and shows it by his/her Actions.
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