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  Strange visit

  by bagpuss in

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  2. friends

  after 4 years away from meetings and no contact with the cong i attended, yesterday i answered the door to find an elder at the door.

  he was po in my cong but has been removed i had heard.

  he said he was calling about the disaster fund and that the society wanted to update everyones details like phone numbers and contacts.

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  If someone is going to buy you a birthday or christmas gift.....

  by bagpuss in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  would you prefer them to ask what you would like or to surprise you, and if they did ask for ideas would you be offended?

  the reason i ask is that my mother in law has just told my husband that we may as well go back to how we were when we were witnesses and stop buying them presents as we don't put any thought into it and ask them what they want.

  he is really upset by this comment while i am just plain bloody angry!.

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  Complaint procedure question

  by bagpuss in

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  2. friends

  it is almost four years since i attended my last meeting, and in that time have had no contact with people from the cong, other than brief meetings in supermarkets etc.

  out of the blue last week i had a phone call from a sister in a neighbouring cong to tell me that she was writing an official complaint to bethel about an elder in the cong i attended.

  it was about an incident that happened eight years ago when her daughter was in hospital, and that i was aware of.

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  CO/DO's in the UK?

  by pobthespazz in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  can anyone compile a list of as many as possible past and present co/do's from the uk?

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  Anyone seen these?

  by bagpuss in

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  saw this driving through a village in sussex.

  anyone else seen them and what reaction do you think it would get from jws.

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  What would you say?

  by bagpuss in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i spent time in a cong where the school overseer had a real thing for pronouncing words just like on the wt cds.

  this meant that we were always been counselled for incorrect pronunciation, especially when it came to the word philistine.he insisted that the 'ine' at the end should be pronounced as 'een' and that the emphasis should be on the second syllable ' lis' .

  i would cringe listening to students using the ' correct pronunciation' when privately they all thought it was wrong to have his view imposed on us.. what about you.

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  Can anyone explain?

  by bagpuss in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  third: apart from its context, the partial predicate cannot function as an independent construction, so what they are doing is ungrammatical as well.. .

  read this post refering to acts 15:20 and would love someone to explain what a partial predicate is and how it works in this verse.

  any takers?.

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  What's the word?

  by bagpuss in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if you could sum up your time in the borg with just one word, what would it be and why?.

  for me it would be guilt.

  guilt about not doing enough ministry, not enough study,doing too much secular work, the list seems endless.on the odd occasions i felt i'd done quite well you can bet we'd have a talk saying more,more more!.

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  What are the first things you notice when you enter a JW home?

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a) you'll find no ash trays.

  b) no lottery tickets laying on the counter.

  c) a jw calendar in sight for everyone to see.

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  Did they ever make you giggle?

  by bagpuss in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my son who is 20 was remembering a few of the more amusing visits to the kingdom hall.

  his favourite was when a brother announced.

  "the new magazines are in brothers and sisters.

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