yes, correct
"Call the Samaritans or the Citizens Advice Bureau"
did look like a profile signature where I put it.
It still shocks me till this day to have been told that by a loving elder.
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An elder called me the other day............
by IWish4Truth ini have been df'd twice, this time for over 6 months.
an elder called me the other day and wanted to know if i'm renting my house or buying it.
also, he wanted to know who keeps my children while i work.
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COLDs AND FLUs
by QUEENIE inwinter colds and flus apparently abound with everyone and so i would like to say get well soon and ((((warm hugs all around))) btw i was a jw for 40 yrs and a ex-jw now for 10 yrs..i would like to clarify that one thing..i have even developed a crush on one particular xjw (elder) and that can not be / me!!
i am going to give him a christmas present and see where it goes from there--god works in mysterious ways !!!
take care all
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Queenie, where have you been for 10 years?
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Which major country of JW"s will fall first?
by sleepy inthere has been major declines in european countries.. will one of these be the first to have a catastrophic decline.. i predict britian and france falling quickly maybe under 100,000 in a year or two.. when one country fall significantly say britian going under 100,000 will this set off bigger falls here and else where when people start to jump the sinking ship?
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Yardif, you say Wake Up!
well, I felt I had woken up from a daze I had been in for 22 years when I left the borg.
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How can we know if a spirit world exists?
by sleepy inthe only way we as humans can examine the universe is through our brains.. theres nothing we can do about it.
all senses and experiences are taken in by or bodies and interpreted in our minds.
we can not know of anything that our minds can't take in.. for example if we were all blind and no humans had eyes and the part of the brain that interprets vision we would have no concept of seeing or even the existence of light.. this creates a problem, how can we know whether things exist outside of our senses.
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I find this a very interesting subject. There was a small news item on the other day about some research being done to explain many psychic phenomena. It is based on the idea that an energy force flows through all things including humans and over years of evolution, our brain has started to tap into this energy, although not presenting this ability as one of the other senses. Some people are more able than others to feel or interpret this energy flow. What it basically does is provide the means whereby part of our brains have access to information which cannot normally be explained such as is found in divination, remote viewing, mind reading and various other new age sciences.
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WTS Plan to Improve Stats
by Marvin Shilmer init looks like the wts finally put 2 and 2 together on the us branchs failing statistics over the past few years, particularly the years 97 - 01. what happened?.
in the latter part of 1996 cos instructed elders that congregation bookstudy conductors (soon to be officially called "congregation bookstudy overseers) should not initially ask congregation publishers for their field service time reports.
instead, each congregation should have a small box so that publishers could "shoulder their own responsibility by turning in time of their own accord," by voluntarily putting their report slip into this box.
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that was how I understood it. It worked out that an elder, with the family study and his other duties he was allowed to count got in over the required average hours without knocking one door.
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Which major country of JW"s will fall first?
by sleepy inthere has been major declines in european countries.. will one of these be the first to have a catastrophic decline.. i predict britian and france falling quickly maybe under 100,000 in a year or two.. when one country fall significantly say britian going under 100,000 will this set off bigger falls here and else where when people start to jump the sinking ship?
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correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the third of the people leaving the org that YOU KNOW refers to at the END of the 1000 year reign?
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Curiosity killed the cat
by ballistic inthis is to fred hall.. you inspire curiosity as to who you are and what your story is.
what do you gain from your visits here?
you normally give us half a sentence posts, but how about writing a paragraph or two on your life (any of the nine will do)?
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haha!
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The REAL state of the world (long)
by cynicus inthe great fable of the litany .
we have been told for a long time the story of the litany, that doomsday is nigh.
lester brown and an entire army of environmental organizations, pundits and politicians have warned us of the impending debacle.
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And the way it was...quote:
Next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water
temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to
be....Here are some facts (yes facts) about the 1500s:
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May
and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell
so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor.Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house
had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men,
then the women and finally the children-last of all the babies. By then the
water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it-hence the saying,
"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath.
It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and
other small animals (mice rats, and bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained
it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the
roof-hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to
stop things from falling into the house.
This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings
could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a
sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds
came into existence.The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, hence
the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get
slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh on the floor to help
keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh
until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside.A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway-hence, a "threshhold."
They cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the
fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate
mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for
dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start
over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there
for quite a while-hence the rhyme, "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold,
peas porridge in the pot nine days old." Sometimes they could obtain pork,
which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would
hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man "could
bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and
would all sit around and "chew the fat."Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with a high acid content
caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and
death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or
so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.Most people did not have pewter plates, but had trenchers, a piece of wood
with the middle scooped out like a bowl. Often trenchers were made from
stale pays and bread which was so old and hard that they could use them for
quite some time. Trenchers were never washed and a lot of times worms and
mold got into the wood and old bread. After eating off wormy moldy
trenchers, one would get "trench mouth."Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the
loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would
sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the
road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.They were laid
out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather
around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up hence the
custom of holding a "wake."England is old and small and they started out running out of places to
bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a
"bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25
coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized
they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string
on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the
ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard
all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone
could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."And that's the truth... (and whoever said that History was boring?!)
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WTS Plan to Improve Stats
by Marvin Shilmer init looks like the wts finally put 2 and 2 together on the us branchs failing statistics over the past few years, particularly the years 97 - 01. what happened?.
in the latter part of 1996 cos instructed elders that congregation bookstudy conductors (soon to be officially called "congregation bookstudy overseers) should not initially ask congregation publishers for their field service time reports.
instead, each congregation should have a small box so that publishers could "shoulder their own responsibility by turning in time of their own accord," by voluntarily putting their report slip into this box.
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Do not be fooled into thinking that this change will affect the TREND of falling publisher numbers. It will only cause a blip in numbers in the year of it's introduction because there is only ever a limited number of these elderly / invalids, for obvious reasons; they die.
This change would only have on-going effects if the actual witnessing (all be it 15 mins) generated converts which would otherwise not be contacted through other means. Therefore, a graph of publisher numbers would most probably show a small one-time step up in the 2001/2002 service year only, and the over-all downward trend will continue.This is a feeble attempt at hiding the dropping numbers in many countries which is becoming indefencible from the point of view of the end being due.
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Curiosity killed the cat
by ballistic inthis is to fred hall.. you inspire curiosity as to who you are and what your story is.
what do you gain from your visits here?
you normally give us half a sentence posts, but how about writing a paragraph or two on your life (any of the nine will do)?
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This is to Fred Hall.
You inspire curiosity as to who you are and what your story is. What do you gain from your visits here? You normally give us half a sentence posts, but how about writing a paragraph or two on your life (any of the nine will do)?