Hahaha, i think anyone is better than good old English football hooligans... i'd rather have 7000 families, men, women, children and old folks with walking sticks going to a stadium in my back garden, than a bunch of drunk teenage to middle-aged almost exclusively men... i think, being a high control religion, JWs are gonna be a bit more calm, quiet and orderly than football hooligans...
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Anyone going to GILLINGHAM Convention 2moro?? (Kent, UK)
by dorayakii injust come back from the first day of the gillingham, kent, uk convention.
it was the first convention there, because i think they wanted to take the pressure off the twickenham rugby stadium... my cong was assigned to twickenham stadium, not to gillingham, but i "volonteered" was volonteered by our po (the same one who's on a rampage to appoint me as a "mini"... .
i didn't do much today, was assigned to car park duty, then went to sit down for the 1st and 2nd talks... took some notes, then decided to walk around to look for "poztates"... i didn't find any... (we should have a way of noticing each other), i didn't write my name or cong on my badge, so i thought that might be a little sign which might go un-noticed by the r&f, but i didn't attract any attention apart from a couple sisters who looked at me and called me "brother blank"... .
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Anyone going to GILLINGHAM Convention 2moro?? (Kent, UK)
by dorayakii injust come back from the first day of the gillingham, kent, uk convention.
it was the first convention there, because i think they wanted to take the pressure off the twickenham rugby stadium... my cong was assigned to twickenham stadium, not to gillingham, but i "volonteered" was volonteered by our po (the same one who's on a rampage to appoint me as a "mini"... .
i didn't do much today, was assigned to car park duty, then went to sit down for the 1st and 2nd talks... took some notes, then decided to walk around to look for "poztates"... i didn't find any... (we should have a way of noticing each other), i didn't write my name or cong on my badge, so i thought that might be a little sign which might go un-noticed by the r&f, but i didn't attract any attention apart from a couple sisters who looked at me and called me "brother blank"... .
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dorayakii
Yeah i did see loads of cars, just parked in the streets... a main problem was that there was a sign saying "BOOT SALE" at the entrance of the car park... we had taken it down, but the organiser of the boot sale came along and told me that it needed to be there to instruct the drivers to its new location... So loads of cars just either didn't notice the tiny "IBSA Convention" signs or just wanted to park closer to the stadium.
The guy was really annoyed, he goes "Everything was fine until you "Godly" people came 'ere", lol... another fine witness given. -
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Anyone going to GILLINGHAM Convention 2moro?? (Kent, UK)
by dorayakii injust come back from the first day of the gillingham, kent, uk convention.
it was the first convention there, because i think they wanted to take the pressure off the twickenham rugby stadium... my cong was assigned to twickenham stadium, not to gillingham, but i "volonteered" was volonteered by our po (the same one who's on a rampage to appoint me as a "mini"... .
i didn't do much today, was assigned to car park duty, then went to sit down for the 1st and 2nd talks... took some notes, then decided to walk around to look for "poztates"... i didn't find any... (we should have a way of noticing each other), i didn't write my name or cong on my badge, so i thought that might be a little sign which might go un-noticed by the r&f, but i didn't attract any attention apart from a couple sisters who looked at me and called me "brother blank"... .
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dorayakii
Yaaay! i got it... Aha, so you did see me then? I was pretty hard to miss, waving my hands around like that, and with a funky hat... Tah 4 the text there's one coming right back at ya... Dorayakii xx
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Anyone going to GILLINGHAM Convention 2moro?? (Kent, UK)
by dorayakii injust come back from the first day of the gillingham, kent, uk convention.
it was the first convention there, because i think they wanted to take the pressure off the twickenham rugby stadium... my cong was assigned to twickenham stadium, not to gillingham, but i "volonteered" was volonteered by our po (the same one who's on a rampage to appoint me as a "mini"... .
i didn't do much today, was assigned to car park duty, then went to sit down for the 1st and 2nd talks... took some notes, then decided to walk around to look for "poztates"... i didn't find any... (we should have a way of noticing each other), i didn't write my name or cong on my badge, so i thought that might be a little sign which might go un-noticed by the r&f, but i didn't attract any attention apart from a couple sisters who looked at me and called me "brother blank"... .
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dorayakii
Hey, you nicked my job - I used to do that!
It's sooo much fun!!! I caused so much trouble, but maintained my innocence, something i'm very good at doing, lol...
Freaky to think we probably walked past each other!!!
Yeah, it is mad aint it? I hope you weren't one of the drivers giving me grief I spent most of my time in the car park but came to the stadium for the drama, lunch time and the first two talks of the afternoon session... It is crazy tho, that we could have walked past each other, it was such a small stadium... and not many people went outside because its a residential area...
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Anyone going to GILLINGHAM Convention 2moro?? (Kent, UK)
by dorayakii injust come back from the first day of the gillingham, kent, uk convention.
it was the first convention there, because i think they wanted to take the pressure off the twickenham rugby stadium... my cong was assigned to twickenham stadium, not to gillingham, but i "volonteered" was volonteered by our po (the same one who's on a rampage to appoint me as a "mini"... .
i didn't do much today, was assigned to car park duty, then went to sit down for the 1st and 2nd talks... took some notes, then decided to walk around to look for "poztates"... i didn't find any... (we should have a way of noticing each other), i didn't write my name or cong on my badge, so i thought that might be a little sign which might go un-noticed by the r&f, but i didn't attract any attention apart from a couple sisters who looked at me and called me "brother blank"... .
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dorayakii
Hi all!! I'm back from the 3 days at Gillingham...
(Shame i missed you Scoob, I sent you a PM early sunday morning but it was too late... maybe another time...) I took no notes on the third day, sorry to "disappoint" you ... By the third day, i think everyone had forgotten the theme of the assembly. People were ratty and even downright rude, not willing to accept direction and wanting to park their own way... jeez!... We had a coach service for the elderly because i was a 15 minute walk to the stadium. One brothrer said he didn't want to get the bus, he wanted to park as near the exit as possible. I told him it wasn't possible, so he just ignored me and parked his car in some obscure place near the entrance that blocked everyone... i would have ran after him shouting "GODLY OBEEEEEDIENCE!!!" like i'd done so many times that weekend, but by that time i was too cold and tired to even argue. I made a motion for another brother to wind down his window, and he didn't do it for a long time. When he finally complied, he said he didn't realise what i was telling him to do, he thought i was landing birds. (They really DO think they are funny)... I was taking photographs of the parking team and happened to get this brother's car in the pictur... after he'd parked, he trundled halfway back across the car parking field to tell me the picture i had taken was illegal and could i delete it, RIGHT NOW... I'm like, "you have somthing to hide??" He walked of in a huff muttering under his breath... I shouted out "The love of the greater number, brother!! the love of the greater number!!" If a car cut across one of the coned boundaries, where the red and white tape had run out, i cried out something like: "Learn to take direction please!!" or "Doing our own thing are we?!?!" and at one point: "You're lucky the ground doesn't open up and swallow rebellious ones anymore!!"
It was raining for most of the day, and the drama was washed out... As a joke, the elder giving the pre-drama talk quoted Ezra 10:9b as the last scripture of his talk...
and all the people kept sitting in the open place of the house of the [true] God, shivering because of the matter and on account of the showers of rain.
Everyody thought it quite amusing... Here's a (legal) pic of me in the car park... (Posing, not actually directing traffic at that point)
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Videos from the 2005 assembly. Download here
by PaNiCAtTaCk ini originally posted these under friends and i feel that they are more suited to be here under research.
i have another clip begging brothers to reach out.
looking at the newspaper and its bad news he knows he can do more again because we are so close to the end.
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dorayakii
I've got it to work now... "I should be out in the ministry with the friends"... i've heard this quite a few times now on this board, do all you americans refer to the "brothers" as "the friends"?
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Answering Techniques
by PopeOfEruke inwhat was your technique for answering at the wt study?.
were you one of the types who waited, sweating silently, till the last or second-last paragraph, then finally put your hand up and hope like crazy they picked someone else?
remember the dry throat??
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I loved answering, but i never answered directly from the paragraph, even as a kid. As i grew up further, i noticed, and used to hate how the congregation put up a facade of being pure and clean and holy, when there were about as many problems and disputes as there are in the world...
I always tried to bring in ways how the congregation should better show love and as a teenager i always felt the need to say things like: "I think every young person would be lying bare-faced if they said they didn't have a problem which they haven't given in to"...
or even "We always talk about how ungrateful the Isrealites were, or how imperfect Peter was for denying Jesus, but in fact, because we are further away from perfection, we can be much much worse than them. We need to recognise that we are imperfect and try to work together in love. Once we start showing these qualities, only then can we be qualified to go out and start telling people on the ministry how they should live."
I was always commended on the fact that my answers were not scripted but i don't think anyone ever paid attention to the answers' actual content. I did the same thing in my talks. All in all, i loved answering because i could get my points across to the congregation, but i was adept at not making my comments "illegal". I think my words also carried a bit of weight because i was an articulate speaker, as well as the son of the then School Overseer.
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Videos from the 2005 assembly. Download here
by PaNiCAtTaCk ini originally posted these under friends and i feel that they are more suited to be here under research.
i have another clip begging brothers to reach out.
looking at the newspaper and its bad news he knows he can do more again because we are so close to the end.
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dorayakii
i tried copying and pasting the links but it keeps giving me this screen: http://www.yousendit.com/blocked.aspx
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Zerubbabel's Temple
by myelaine inyou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together.
the third time let the sword do double damage.
it is the sword that slays, the sword that slays the great men, that enters their private chambers.
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dorayakii
A day for a minute!, a day for a minute is what i have given you... and a time, times, half a time, seven sixteenths of a time and 0.00165 times proceded to pass over the thread, until the completion of the days of thread exile... And Lo!, at His appointed time, the Ancient of Gays sat on his four-wheeled, sponge-padded throne and there were computer files that were opened... and the thread was judged as to its hilarity content, for just as the Prophets of old said, and this thought i entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the funny threads and the unfunny... those threads who recounted good jokes to a ressurrction of life, and those who practiced vile jokes to a ressurrection of judgement...
dorayakii of the "just my little 2 pence" class...
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Anyone going to GILLINGHAM Convention 2moro?? (Kent, UK)
by dorayakii injust come back from the first day of the gillingham, kent, uk convention.
it was the first convention there, because i think they wanted to take the pressure off the twickenham rugby stadium... my cong was assigned to twickenham stadium, not to gillingham, but i "volonteered" was volonteered by our po (the same one who's on a rampage to appoint me as a "mini"... .
i didn't do much today, was assigned to car park duty, then went to sit down for the 1st and 2nd talks... took some notes, then decided to walk around to look for "poztates"... i didn't find any... (we should have a way of noticing each other), i didn't write my name or cong on my badge, so i thought that might be a little sign which might go un-noticed by the r&f, but i didn't attract any attention apart from a couple sisters who looked at me and called me "brother blank"... .
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dorayakii
did you spend ages waiting for him to get in just the right position
no, in fact, it was the only pic i took on friday, and i didn't notice the jokes until i uploaded the image to my PC... didn't even see the top hat until ig pointed it out, lolSo, you didn't think of streaking across the field then?
mmmmmmmm*idea forming*....... sunday........ drama....... *i have cunning plan*........ i could play the part of John-Mark, who left his "linen garment" behind and ran off stark naked, LOL By the way, is anyone else coming tommorow?... anyone???...... hello?... hello hello hello hello hello ...*echo*