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  Suicides of U.S. Troops Rising in Iraq -Pentagon

  by WhyNow2000 in

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  washington (reuters) - at least 21 u.s. troops have committed suicide in iraq, a growing toll that represents one of every seven american "non-hostile" deaths since the war began last march, the pentagon said on wednesday.

  detail:.

  http://www.reuters.com/newsarticle.jhtml?type=domesticnews&storyid=4128021

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  -----> negligent discharge

  Pleasuredome,

  ... that's a Military term ? How interesting .... and all along I thought it was the medical term for Flatulence.

  ***** Rub a Dub
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  Does the WTBTS Plan For "New System of Things"?

  by Valis in

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  2. beliefs

  maybe this is goofy, but i was wondering, actually from reading the "did bush plan iraq" thread...besides the personal fantasizing about a paradise on earth, do you think the wtbts has a master plan or maybe in the past has there ever been talk of such a thing?

  sorry, just having a mini moment..*lol*.

  sincerely,.

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  I can't get the scene out of my mind ... thousands standing and listening to a brother speaking from a makeshift platform ... reading from a November Watchtower ... explaining that they are in a deficit situation and the various methods of contributing to the Society.

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  Sending "Love" from the Platform

  by RubaDub in

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  2. friends

  i have never been able to understand the "the brothers from xyz cogregation are sending their love" at the end of a public talk.. it always seemed to occur when the speaker was from a far-away place.

  then, we all have to clap when he rhetorically asks "do you want to send our love to them?".

  they never seem to do it when it is a near-by congregation .. only one far away.

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  I have never been able to understand the "The Brothers from XYZ Cogregation are sending their love" at the end of a public talk.

  It always seemed to occur when the speaker was from a far-away place. Then, we all have to clap when he rhetorically asks "Do you want to send our love to them?"

  They never seem to do it when it is a near-by congregation .. only one far away.

  I guess the farther away they are, the more we love them.

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  Aztec - This one's for you!

  by czarofmischief in

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  this is a serious question i was going to raise anyway, and since aztec feels that she is being ignored .

  all right, i'll take aztec for 1000 dollars, alex.

  here's the question:.

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  For instance, do you feel that "one flesh" is literal, in that husband and wife bond and grow closer together until they become one creature?

  I guess this explains why my breasts seem larger and I find at certain times that I just don't feel fresh.

  ***** Rub a Dub
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  What is the appeal of Watchtower Farm and Patterson?

  by Never Was in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a little background on me.

  i have never been a jw or had any desire to be one.

  i definitely have no desire to join.

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  I could not understand what the attraction was for JW's to travel great distances to view a few buildings

  Never Was ... keen observation.

  Even having grown up in the borg, I never understood why anyone would want to visit the places more than once. Yes, I have been to Bethel, Patterson, Wallkill. I guess it was more of a curiosity than anything.

  I mean .. once you have seen one machine print magazines, you have seen it all.

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  A couple of questions about summer conventions (spinoff)

  by razorMind in

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  2. experiences

  being as i haven't been to a convention in years, i have a couple of questions:

  do they still come out with that list of special-jw-rate hotels at the service meeting for the summer conventions?

  also, i remember times when the list would be practically useless by the time my parents got home from that service meeting and started trying to make reservations.

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  I didn't realize until I worked in Finance at the assemblies that a big reason they wanted all the JWs to use the hotels the org told them to is because they get a kickback in the form of free rooms. Yes, this is a standard practice in the travel industry. In fact, you can call just about any major hotel/airline/cruiseline etc. and get a free seat or room for every 15 or 20 that you book. The "organizer" of the event is typically compensated in this way. The free rooms would typically be used for the CO's, DO's, visiting Bethel members, visitors invited from overseas, members of other branches, etc. Many business class hotels in major cities are nearly empty on weekends so they will bend over backwards to accomodate JW's in town, especially when assemblies are spread over many weekends. ***** Rub a Dub
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  Naming Your Child JESUS

  by RubaDub in

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  having grown up in the borg, i cannot recall anyone naming their child jesus.

  biblical names are commonly used by jw's but not jesus which is a very common name amoung latinos (hispanics).. does anyone know of a family in the borg that named their son jesus ?

  ***** rub a dub

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  Thanks Blondie ....

  Guess it was just the Hispanics that I was associated with. Lots named Josè (Joseph), Pablo (Paul), Pedro (Peter), Juan (John), etc. etc. But it's strange that personally I never knew a dub family naming the child Jesus.

  Oh well, must have been a local thing where I grew up.

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  Julius Ceasar

  by Yerusalyim in

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  just curious as to who watched the tnt miniseries about my old friend gaius julius ceasar.

  i was terribly disappointed in the movie, aside from screwing the pooch on several important historical facts the series failed to capture the sense of the man that history gives, the same being true of pompey, brutus, casius, and where the heck was crasus?

  he was only like the wealthy man in rome, an invaluable asset to ceasar's rise to power, and part of the first triumvirate, which was so important in the history of rome and it's transition from republic to empire.

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  Did they mention in the movie that he was also famous for his salad dressing ?

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  Are the days of the week Pagan?

  by shotgun in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  someone posted that the wt should discard the calendar and the days of the week as pagan because of their origins.

  actually they did and tried to replace it with their own.

  didn't last but it shows the mindset of those who were telling everyone god was directing them at the time and still today.

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  I think Monday is definitely Pagan ... especially Monday morning.

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  Naming Your Child JESUS

  by RubaDub in

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  having grown up in the borg, i cannot recall anyone naming their child jesus.

  biblical names are commonly used by jw's but not jesus which is a very common name amoung latinos (hispanics).. does anyone know of a family in the borg that named their son jesus ?

  ***** rub a dub

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  RubaDub

  Having grown up in the borg, I cannot recall anyone naming their child Jesus. Biblical names are commonly used by JW's but not Jesus which is a very common name amoung Latinos (Hispanics).

  Does anyone know of a family in the borg that named their son Jesus ? And if not, I wonder why not ?

  ***** Rub a Dub