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  Honey Bees..Is it just media hype??

  by Lady Liberty in

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  good morning everyone!!.

  happy sunday!!

  yesterday we went to our local farmers market and came across a vender that had a whole honey bees display.

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  teela(2)

  I am a hoppyist bee keeper in New Zealand. Our latest trade mag had a large article about the missing bees. The bees just dissappear, no disease in the boxes at all. So the trade is taking it seriously.
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  The Tables turned

  by teela(2) in

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  i am a member of the quilters club.

  we are fundrasing for the club by raffling off a quilt.

  yesterday i decided to go "door to door" selling the raffle tickets in the neighbourhood.

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  I am a member of the Quilters club. We are fundrasing for the club by raffling off a quilt. Yesterday I decided to go "door to door" selling the raffle tickets in the neighbourhood. LOL the house next door (rented) went up the steps and they where all having Sunday lunch. "Sorry to bother you I am selling raffle tickets as a fundraiser" No....... we are Jehovahs Witnesses, but my husband isn't and he will buy one. I just about burst into laughter. Sold the tickets and left. So instead of bugging people they got bugged. Ha Ha Ha
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  Living wills

  by crazyblondeb in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  there has been alot of threads about health and the blood issue.

  i can't stress enough the importance of having an advanced directive or living will.

  especially if your family are still jw's.

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  teela(2)

  I have to agree. My mother suffered a stoke 3 months ago leaving her completly parslysed down one side and the other only respovice to pain, temperature and somtimes touc, no speech no real facial movement.. For the first week we refused to have a feeding tube inserted, no medication and fluids. After the first week see gained the abiltiy to sallow again and ate like there was no tommorow. The stroke had cause servere brain damage and Mum had little memory and no way to communicate except through facial gestures(sometimes). She survied another two months showing no sighs of improvement, being in nappies, feed by spoon, not understanding where she was and what was happening. She was sent to a hospital wing at an old folks home to the Hospital wing. The treatment at the hospital was to prolong her life. We caught them injecting fluid and food directly into her mouth. They tried reabilitaion , once. At the Home they looked after her and kept her comftable, She had another stoke and died the same day. The said fact is that even if she had a living will it would not have helped. There was no resusatation and could breath on her own.
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  Did demons ever really rape some sisters?

  by hambeak in

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  2. experiences

  i had a conversation last night with someone and we were reminescing about the late 60's and early 70's about how a couple of the sisters were telling at the time that they were being molested and sometimes raped by demons.

  in our cong they were told to open the bible to a certain scripture and leave the bible open to it at all times and leave a light on.

  anyone else remember some of this paranoia?

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  teela(2)

  I think the really important question is did they yell out or not.
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  THE END IS NEAR

  by Mary in

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  2. friends

  with all the ridiculous hype amongst the dubs about how this new tract is going to help bring about "the end", i thought it would be beneficial to highlight how often they've been crying that the sky is falling in the last 1/2 century:.

  ***w50 2/15 p. 54" stick to your work"*** now is the time to live and work as christians, especially now, for the final end is near.

  *** the time of the end is near!

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  Should I get my washing in ?
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  How many people in this forum are from NewZealand??

  by ania in

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  hello i am a newbie and just saw another person in the forum from nz.

  it hadn't even occured to me...now i wonder how many there are??

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  Welcome and add one from Gisborne
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  Making real friends

  by choosing life in

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  2. friends

  i have been away from the meetings for about a year now.

  i recently attended a funeral and the witnesses mostly avoided me even though i am not disfellowshipped.

  my problem is i need to replace my old friends because they look at me with such suspicion now.. i never had trouble making friends before i was a witness,but that was 30 years ago.

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  I found going to hoppy clubs. I have been to Cake decorating club and now a quilting guild. I go to adults Tap dancing as well. This has exposed my to a wide group of people, all of which I have something in common with. These Clubs and guilds have social events and after a while you notice that you get on well with a couple of people and start socialising oustide of the club or class and this is the start of a freindship.

  Good luck
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  Reaction to leaving

  by teela(2) in

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  apart from my parents, people were just glad to see me go as i was creating trouble with the other young people in the congregation.

  did your leaving create a ripple or a tidial wave.

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  Apart from my parents, people were just glad to see me go as I was creating trouble with the other young people in the congregation. Did your leaving create a ripple or a tidial wave.
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  finding a jw in new zealand

  by JapanBoy in

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  how would i go about findng someone who i know a long time ago in auckland new zealand who is still a jw?.

  thanks k

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  teela(2)

  The election roll in New Zealand has all the names and address of all New Zealanders of voting age. The New Zealand embassy should have a copy. It could tak ea while because ames are listed city by city.
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  Embarassed about JW relatives?

  by greendawn in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  do you feel embarassed if people know that you have jw relatives given the many and well known strange ideas they embrace eg about blood transfusions and the belief that all non jws will be killed soon?

  do you feel reluctant to admit that you have such relatives?

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  teela(2)

  This might be going off on a tangent but sort of fits. My sisters father in law died a couple of weeks ago. Both my sisters and our brother, left the troof as we left home. However my sisters sister in law and her new husband are JW's, came in as adults and live in another town. At the funeral they mention a few things about seeing loved ones again, but all our family just smiled and walked away. (my sister had asked us not to reveal we had once been witneeses in case of problems). So at the reception afterwards , they kept trying to make conversation with us, but trying to lead to the usual witness advertising, and we kept ignoring it and changing the topic. The person that had died was 86 and had been in pain for 2 years, it wasn't a sad death but one of closure. I think trying to flog off religion at a funeral where people are vunerable is in very bad tase.