Posts by MidwichCuckoo

the wts has sent a letter to all convention overseers expressing their increasing concern at sisters "directing brothers" at district conventions.. with immediate effect (ie for dc 2008), sisters are no longer to be used as volunteers in parking and security / watchman departments.

any sisters volunteering in other departments (eg toilet cleaning) must be subordinate & follow the direction of appointed brothers.

this move will put a huge burden on the dcs in my area - nearly half the volunteers for parking are sisters and there aren't enough volunteers as it is.

MidwichCuckoo

The brothers took our purses to a corner away from us...The brothers all looked over us like we were going to steal something.

What rekless said...Appears they were judging you by their own standards!

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Ways to get in trouble at the hall without actually getting in trouble...

by cognac in

1. told the entire cong.

that jesus coming in his kingdom was in about 31 or 32 ce when jesus got transfigured.

- this was during the weekly bible reading part... lol (the society actually says that about when jesus told the disciples that some of them would see him coming in his kingdom before they died...).

MidwichCuckoo

i think I remember somebody else on this forum saying to leave empty bottles of hard liquor in the trash in the bathrooms... lol...

Or condom wrappers...?

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JWs selling Bossert Hotel-New York Times Article 1-30-08

by AndersonsInfo in

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new york times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/nyregion/30hotel.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin.

hotel where dodgers celebrated a title is up for sale .

MidwichCuckoo

'Abomination' springs to mind. So many surplus 'treasures on Earth' to sell? To the highest bidder too! The British JWs never get to hear of these (in fact, when I recently mentioned the WT buildings, they responded that it must only have been an old printing factory - bloody disillusioned, they think the WTBTS is on the breadline, only surviving by the Grace of God!)

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"Are you Malcolm ?"

by AlphaOmega in

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yesterday i spent ages looking for a pair of glasses that i seldom wear.

i looked at work, then at home, then in the car.. i checked a bag in the car 3 times !

i couldn't find them.. this morning i awoke determined to find them.

MidwichCuckoo

Good Afternoon ~~Malcolm~~ Alpha Omega Superbly bizarre... Lucky that your name ISN'T Malcolm, or you'd never have been able to shake off that lady.

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Is using 10% of our brain just a myth?

by truthseeker in

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the society has said many times that we only use 10% of our brains.

they use this assertion to claim that this is part of man's imperfection.. this article attempts to refute that claim.. .

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/columns/?article=bnbraincapacity&gt1=10789.

MidwichCuckoo

The Society has said many times that we only use 10% of our brains.

The Society uses considerably less than 10%

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"Who would you like to meet in the new system?" - Answers

by LtCmd.Lore in

sound familiar?.

this question was recently asked for the children in my congregation to answer.

i was kind of amused and disturbed at the same time by their responses.. .

MidwichCuckoo

Lol Mouthy....for me has to be Agatha Christie. As a young Dub, I used to get 'into trouble' for reading Agatha Christie novels as they were about murder - which is a sin - lol

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E-mail from friend alerting me to emergency instruction from GB

by Wasanelder Once in

here's a paragraph from a friend who is active.

they say it's important that we fill out this form about emergencies... poor fools.

"hi, i have been meaning to tell you that the society is telling us to fill out an emergency form that the book study conductors have and return it to them in case of an emergency.they will then give us a brochure to have that will tell us where to meet and what to have in our bags so we can grab them and leave in a hurry.

MidwichCuckoo

Ah - you put it so subtley Mary, lol. I too think it's a 'subliminal' (can't be too subtle as it'd go <whoosh>) message as the 'Worldly' are excluded.