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  Convention and Assembly Food Service

  by POs Son in

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  well, a post from low-key lysmith on another topic got me thinking about the less than memorable food at the conventions and assemblies.

  anyone have some thoughts to share?.

  i missed the ham and cheese on rye-- it was one item that was actually pretty good.

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  lonelysheep

  You mean you didn't have to bring your own cooler of food?!
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  Cancun

  by Evesapple in

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  i'm going to cancun for a girl getaway next weekend for 3 days.

  i've never been to that part of mexico before any suggestions on what to do and where to go?

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  lonelysheep

  I've never been (yet) but wanted to say: Have a blast!
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  Visited by elder at work

  by Winston Smith :>D in

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  yep, he visited me, but he didn?t know i work here.

  fyi, i?m da?d since 12/03.

  started my job as a designer at a kick-ass, high end remodeling/architectural firm in 9/04.

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  lonelysheep

  You handled it sooo well! Whether he can admit yet or not, he just saw that the WTS's picture of you is a bunch of garbage. Your both human, period.
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  Just got back from the 2004-2005 circuit assembly here are a few thoughts.

  by PaNiCAtTaCk in

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  upon arriving i ran into lots of old friends and really enjoyed seeing everyone and visiting.

  they dont know that im currently struggling with doubts about the organization and they think that im the same old zealous brother.

  i couldnt help but feel a sence of guilt visiting with them about our current number of publishers and how many we had pioneering ect.

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  lonelysheep

  Fear tactics in play big time. WT has got everyone wrapped around their fingers.

  I've heard 3 versions of the "Welcome to the world of AIDS" urban (email) legend for a few years now...and all came from non-jw's!! How dare they! AIDS is nothing to play around with yet they stoop that low to prove their false points. There's no boundaries to how far they'll go.
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  OK, I HAVE to meet with the judicial committee. Advice?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  hey guys,.

  " you say, "no you don't, you mind-controlled idiot.

  tell 'em to fark off.

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  lonelysheep

  I am continuously disgusted by them and their shunning! WTF! They are not God.
  I don't know that I would even go because of that. I'd tell them I prefer to answer directly to the man in heaven himself.

  I'm so sorry to both of you.
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  Please Read!

  by Doe in

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  if you guys are witness.

  did any of you bother to find out if bethel approved this website????????.

  if you have looked on some of these topics to choose from you would know that witness are neutral on topics on political debts.

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  lonelysheep

  I am LMAO over here!!!

  Doe, how bout you go talk to your elders and tell them what you've been reading on the net!!
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  Do spiritual ones sit closer to the front?

  by JH in

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  df'd ones are asked to sit in the back row at the hall.

  although i was never df'd, i always sat in the back because i felt more comfortable back there.

  i never did participate much anyways so i sat in the last row or before last.

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  Yes! The first couple rows were made up of the gung ho jw's, the elders/ms's wives, and some older couples. This is pretty much where all the comments came from!

  If the CO was in, it was a rush to the front to be the first to brown nose after the meeting!
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  Ooops..Oh Harry..Not A Good Move.

  by Englishman in

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  prince harry, number 2 in-line to the the throne, has dropped a bit of a bollock: .

  probably not the best way for a prince to go to a fancy dress party... good grief!

  is he smoking a ciggie too?

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  lonelysheep

  To me, he's a normal young adult. But going to any party anywhere with a swastika is just a stupid thing to do! What point was he trying to make?
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  if gf throws an ultimatum, what should one do? scary question........

  by Buck in

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  if your very serious about a girl and youve been going out for over a year, but she is waiting on you to get baptized before marriage.

  its too hard to leave.

  but there are questions i have that i dont even think there are answers too.

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  lonelysheep

  Leave her! Save yourself! There are so many women out there..I'm sure you will run into at least one who is truly the one for you. Otherwise, you and your girlfriend will spend your entire marriage with very different goals. That'd be fine if hers didn't control her life and try to control yours, too.

  You showing any sign of wanting to be a jw is just adding fuel to their fire of gaining another person in the troof. It's obvious her religion is more important than your relationship. Sorry if it sounds harsh, but that's the reality of the situation.

  I started studying when I was already engaged. We had been together for 4 years and had an infant when we tied the knot. Ever since then, I was constantly told how I can win him without a word with the hopes that one day he'll come to serve Jehovah. My husband has always believed in God, but wanted absolutely nothing to do with religion...for that, I'm soo grateful! Anyway, he told me flat out he was never going to become a jw, and he stuck to his feelings.
  I always asked if he wanted to go meetings with me and the (now 2) kids; as usual, he said no. I felt like he was not being as much of a man as he should be...that he wasn't leading his family on a spiritual path. Eventually, I grew to feel such resentment toward him, but still had to be this dutiful wife, while he got to be worldly and enjoy watching The Sopranos. I grew to feel so alone and that he could never measure up to all the men in the hall. During this time, although it was known that I was studying, jw's would come to the door to witness to him, which he hated! It was a neverending pursuit to recruit him.

  Whenever we'd be with my jw friends, he was constantly witnessed to. There was hardly such a thing as discussing last night's football game! After more parties, he made me notice that he was always the only one there who wasn't a jw. He told me he didn't know how much longer I'd want to be with him since he wanted nothing to do with the religion. Now I understand why. Once I started trusting my gut and my doubts about the WTS were confirmed, I quit attending meetings and having a bible study (never got baptized, but was getting close), and I don't see him as this worldly person anymore, but as my husband.
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  So where are all of you going to convention?

  by ValiantBoy in

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  for the first time since 1983 no one in my family is going at all, but i was wondering where everybody is having theirs?

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  lonelysheep

  No convention for me! When I did go, it was at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, NY.