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  Fear and pain and death...

  by Cowboy in

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  do you fear death?if so,do you fear it because of the pain that is likely to go along with it?or because of what will become of your soul(your self)after death?.

  curiosly,i find that i no longer fear death.not that i want to die-i don't.but i wonder if this how i should feel.. i don't like pain,but i have a fairly high threshold of pain,i think.i'm sure there is much greater pain than what i have experienced,but though i avoid it when at all possible(including spankings...sorry chat babes),i'm not afraid that i can't deal with it if i have to.. likewise death,i just have no great fear of it anymore.i don't think that it's due to my beliefs about what will happen after i die...i don't have any.sure,i was raised a j.w.,instilled from birth with the idea that if i didn't survive armageddon,that i'd be resurrected thereafter.but i don't buy that anymore...neccesarily.nor do i believe in the heaven or hell concept...neccesarily.i do believe that if i'm the best kind of person i can be,then it will have to be good enough for whatever,if anything,lies beyond the life i'm living now.. in talking to others,though,i find very few(if any)people who don't have a pretty high degree of fear about death.it has me wondering,and i'd appreciate your comments.. cowboy.

  we ride and never worry about the fall.

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  yrs2long

  Hi cowboy,

  Up until a couple of months ago, I feared death with a passion and went out of my way to avoid meeting it at all costs. I was very much a believer in being in the wrong place, wrong time. This meant not taking flights even though I love to travel, no general amnesia, nor being caught in 'shady' neighborhoods and so forth. I just never felt that I was in a good enough standing to qualify for eternal life. Since I have turned my back on WT, I find that those fears have abated quite a bit and I've been experiencing 'real' living for once.

  However, I was doing some reverse witnessing to my inactive sister recently and when I expressed the above she revealed feeling just the opposite: she didn't begin experiencing fear of dying until becoming inactive.
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  the WTBTS - Its own insurance agency?

  by yrs2long in

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  doing a watchtower search on googles.com, i came across not a few sites/hmo's listing the insurance companies they accept and listed among quite a few was watchtower bible tract society.

  does the society have an internal health insurance agency?

  i asked my boyfriend about this and he said that in order for that to be the case, a company has to have plenty of money and usually does this to be able to specify its own coverage, i.e., no blood transfusions.

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  yrs2long

  Doing a watchtower search on googles.com, I came across not a few sites/hmo's listing the insurance companies they accept and listed among quite a few was Watchtower Bible Tract Society. Does the society have an internal health insurance agency? I asked my boyfriend about this and he said that in order for that to be the case, a company has to have plenty of money and usually does this to be able to specify its own coverage, i.e., no blood transfusions. Is this old news? Is this the coverage bethelites and the GB have?

  http://www.fountainvalleyhospital.com/Services/Insurance.asp#five

  edited to provide sample site
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  Double-standards?

  by Billygoat in

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  how is it that a woman can look at another woman and say, "wow!

  " and nobody thinks a thing about it.

  but when a man looks at another man and says, "wow!

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  yrs2long

  I thnk joelbear hit it on the head:

  The dominant culture has no need to express pride in its culture because everything in society screams its pride; the media, arts, history and education all proclaim and glorify white culture and accomplishments in America. Other cultures seek to reestablish or exclaim their own pride amidst the dominant culture.

  THIS IS MY OPINION of course.

  edited to sound less offensive
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  Business Territory

  by Amazing in

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  business territory in the 1960s and 1970s: when i was first associated in the late 1960s, it was common to see jws roaming the streets of downtown districts, offering the magazines.

  sometime in the early 1970s, after i had been a jw for a few years, we worked businesses directly.

  this was especially true when certain events were newsworthy - such as the persecution of jehovah's witnesses in malawi.

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  yrs2long

  My cong did laundromats and busstops. I actually began several studies from working a couple of bus stops.
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  Working from Home - Ideas?

  by YoYoMama in

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  i am looking to work from home.

  do any here have any ideas of how i can get into this?

  i've thought about the medical transcripts, but don't know who to contact.

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  yrs2long

  you might try translating documents for companies or perhaps try work as a proofreader.
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  A little IQ test

  by beroea in

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  yrs2long

  Farkel,

  what base are you using? did you start with base ten and then make a switch to another, say base 3?
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  A little IQ test

  by beroea in

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  yrs2long

  I think Farker is using negative base or something like that but I'm no math wiz.
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  I am sooo ashamed!

  by moman in

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  i am so ashamed to admit that i waz called a jehovahs witnesses, that sometimes i want to move & change my name!.

  how many of you feel the same, or do you share the camp of those who say, "everything happens for a purpose"?

  even though i have been out for about 3 yrs., i still can't believe i waz that stupid!

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  yrs2long

  So glad that Jehovah's Witness is a belief system and not a race. Imagine how difficult it would be to escape the negativity of it if it came with highly visible and permanent physical identification marks like brown or black skin and slanted eyes.
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  USA Today on Prince

  by Dogpatch in

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  usa today on prince.

  check out this short article:.

  http://www.watchtowernews.org/prince.htm.

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  yrs2long

  I've heard his marriage has broken up. I think they caught him at a vulnerable moment in his life.
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  How the bible backs the idea of slave reparations

  by rhett in

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  alot has been said at the idea of giving money to all the african-americans who are in this country because their ancestors were taken as slaves.

  personally, i think its a load of crap.

  i don't believe people today should have to pay for the mistakes of their ancestors or that other people should hit the proverbial lottery because of who their ancestors were.

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  yrs2long

  You who say
  "I don't believe people today should have to pay for the mistakes of their ancestors "

  Do these same people not benefit from the mistakes of their ancestors? Are they not prosperous in large part from the labor of african-american slaves?