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  Who is your favorite Star Wars character?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

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  the star wars franchise has lots of memorable characters, no doubt about it.

  the sw extended universe is a big space.. there are lots of characters in the extended universe that i know little or nothing about - i may have only heard their names.. so if you could pick just one character, which one is your favourite?.

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  Old Ben Kenobi.

  Sir Alec Guiness did a great job portraying the Jedi Master.

  This is seconded by Qui Gon Jinn. The best 2 characters of the entire prequel trilogy were killed off in the first film.
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  Infiltrated Elders?

  by john.prestor in

  1. watchtower
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  so i'm watching john cedars commentary on the annual meeting from this last october, and at one point he shows a clip of garrett loesch talking about the struggles jehovah's witnesses faced decades before in the soviet union.

  he claimed that police officers, maybe the kgb, infiltrated congregations which met in secret by studying with jehovah's witnesses, getting baptized, and then working their way up to becoming elders.

  ceders jokes that this shows what kind of role holy spirit actually plays within body of elders, but another interpretation came to my mind just now.

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  Wow! This is pretty damning evidence towards the claims of being "spirit directed".
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  My new James Bond novel

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  the first 4 chapters are done on the james bond novel i began writing yesterday.

  i'm having to much fun with it to stop now.

  veronica spoke the two words clearly and waited.. .

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  Well done, Terry!
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  If you had to

  by rolliepollie in

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  if you had to follow one religion, what would it be and why?.

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  Odinism. The Norse believed the gods created man in perfect state. Men are given an opportunity to bring honor to themselves and to the gods through their actions.

  No sin. No imperfection. No need for a ransom or "saving". You're afterlife is in your own hands.

  Jesus saves. Odin demands you grow the eff up.
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  Are the younger generation taking on roles in the Cong?

  by purrpurr in

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  i notice that several of the congs i've been to seem to have a majority of the male roles performed by older men.

  very few young men are wanting to be ms or elders etc.

  it also seems like very few young people are being pioneers either.. would you agree with this?

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  truth_b_known

  In the group of kids I grew up with in the congregation I attended this is what I found -

  Most of us are no longer Witnesses.

  Many who are in are PIMO and no longer "qualify" for "privileges" because they do what they want just to the point of disfellowshipping, but never crossing the line.

  We all have children and, whether we are in or our, none of the adult kids are Witnesses.

  My sister is the only one who is still PIMI. Her daughters are too. Her husband, who was my best friend in high school is PIMO.
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  Watchtower Study Edition - April 2019....Thank you for not doing enough in the field ministry

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  watchtower study edition- april 2019. are you fully accomplishing your ministry?.

  the study article starts off with praise and admiration for members who are out in the field ministry.

  the wtbts understand that you have family responsibilities, work, get sick, and have pains due to aging.

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  This line of guilt is what caused my wife to leave. She never felt like what she sacrificed for the religion was ever good enough.
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  "Kingdom Rhapsody"...WTF???

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just cant begin to express my reactions to this....just watch it right through and see what i mean..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poxpsj5s4q4.

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  Who else remembers the 1980s District Convention talk that caused thousands of JW youths to have to go home that night and throw away their Led Zeppelin and Queen albums? I do! Supposedly if you play "Another on Bites the Dust" backwards you hear "Drink blood."
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  Do You Think Jehovah’s Witnesses Really Believe They Are Living In The Time Of The End?

  by minimus in

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  i think they talk a good game and that’s about it..

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  They will tell you they believe it, but in the end they do not act that way. To most Witnesses, Armageddon is always close, but years away. No need to sell homes, quit jobs, stop taking vacations, all to dedicate themselves to the full time ministry.
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  I Am Still Here! Another Birthday look back at one helluva lifetime

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.the world of 1947--compared to today's world--an alien planet.. the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.. there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.

  everywhere you found telephone booths!

  a call was a nickel.where did all those telephone booths go?i dunno.where did my whole world go?i dunno.. tv sets were huge boxes with tubes and small screens.

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  Happy Birthday Terry! I always appreciate your writing and stories.
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  Demon Posessed Rock Bands I couldn’t listen to

  by hoser in

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  kiss.

  steve miller band (abracadabra).

  eagles.

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  truth_b_known

  This was always a sore subject for growing up as a Witness. I remember meetings and Watchtower studies on the topic of music. The Witnesses answering during this part outed themselves as ROMs.

  ROM was a term I came up with when I was a practicing Witness. Righteous Over Much. These Witnesses would share stories, naming specific bands or musical artists they no longer listen to because a song or album violated Bible principles or was demonic in nature. I could see the elders handling these parts trying their best to hide their cringing expressions as in the end it was all a "conscience matter".

  Then there were those crazy ROMs who proclaimed all "worldly" secular music was wrong and professed they only listened to Kingdom Melodies. I wanted to reply with - "Listening to Kingdom Melodies outside of sanctioned theocratic events is disrespectful holy songs. It would be considered extra-theocratic activity. Like all extra-theocratic activity, it will lead to apostasy." The best response to a crazy statement is an even more crazy statement.

  "You still believe in the moon landing?"

  "Pfft! You still believe in the moon?"