Increasingly poor ??? You HAVE to be kidding . . .check out the financial statements . . and don't yer know they're moving zillions from the US into the UK so they benefit from the charity and tax laws here. NOT poor.
ArtfulDodger
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The next cover-up or scandal?
by kwintestal inmy personal thoughts are this.
with the population aging and with jw's becomming incresingly poor, there will be a lot more elder abuse, and i don't mean congregation elders, but elderly people.. does anyone know of this taking place in the congregations?.
kwin
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Total Fluff - Sewing
by mrsjones5 inhow many here sew?
i am finishing a long satin skirt and will start on a long asian influenced dress today.
this is for a mary kay convention i will be attending next week.
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ArtfulDodger
Poor chap . . a cross-cooker ? . . must be a pain to try to cook in that little black number and the sling-backs . .especially on his hot-dog stall
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Life Explained...sorta..
by upside/down inlife explained i don't think i could explain it any simpler.
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how come the chicks aren't laughing?....
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ArtfulDodger
Yup - EXACTLY . .. so many button to push the chances are we'll get it wrong . . . so many wires that SOME of them are bound to be crossed . . and SO much to go wrong. <sigh>
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What Movie?
by Legolas inok, god says you can't go to heaven or stay on the earth but he will put you in a movie forever to be who you want to be.ok so what movie do you choose?
and who are you in the movie?
just bored so i thought i would ask!
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ArtfulDodger
Tricky one . .so many good movies . . classics . . tales of daring-do, chaps swashing their buckles (or vice versa), historic epics of life and passion in ancient times . .so so hard to choose. Perhaps I'd be the machine that Jane Fonda got into in Barbarella.
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Are JWs really persecuted?
by gringojj ini find it interesting that the wts has this persecution complex.
apostates all out to get them and stuff.
i must say that although a search on the web will bring you lots of great anti-jw stuff(thier own fault because they only have 1 official website) the number of people actually trash talking is quite small and its mostly ex-jws and some still in the org.
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ArtfulDodger
JW's persecuted ? . .. . Je pense, oui !! And if they aren't (yet) in this country (the UK) then they jolly well should be.
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The Morality of the Future!
by Daunt ini've been seriously taking a step back lately and criticizing and analyzing my beliefs, especially during meetings since there's nothing better to do.
however, every time i do this i can't help but think of the future.
how do you guys view the general moral bases of the future?
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ArtfulDodger
The standards by which 'morality', 'ethics', 'right' and 'wrong' will be judged in the future are likely to be as strange to us now as (for example) the 1960's were to those born in the 1920's. My personal view is that when we finally see the eating of peas with a knife as the height of manners, the picking of one's nose in public as a sign of respect for those round us, and the obligatory first-thing-fart as the best way of saying 'good morning dear' . . we'll ALL be better off.
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Better to Burn Out or Rust?
by Big Dog inis it better to live life hard treating your body like an amusement park and doing things like partying hard, hang gliding, skydiving, extreme sports, etc.
or to pace yourself eating all the right foods, avoiding dangerous pastimes, watching your cholesterol, etc.
for a long and possibly duller life?
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ArtfulDodger
I'll go for rust . . . an easy end to things .. I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Dad did . . not screaming with fear and panic like his passengers
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Chirac versus the Cults
by ArtfulDodger ini've 'eard that that chap who runs the frogs just east of the uk has turned his attention to the scientologists .
and that the dubs are pretty peed off with the lack of recent attention - seems the chat on the rialto (well, le pont, i suppose) is that the dubs are now scheming to get back in the news by planning some dastardly plot to discredit even the lesser cults .
any update would be gratefully received.
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ArtfulDodger
LOL . . picking holes in my geography ? . . well, I would have said "to the right of the UK" but that implied politics as well as direction . . and if you go EAST (and maybe south a bit) from Dover you hit . . .err . . what - France last time I looked at a map (and I have to admit, that was some time ago and the whole atlas was mostly pink, denoting the British Empire) - still, unless it's moved, France is generall speaking to the east (as opposed to the west) of the UK.
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Charles Russell: What caused his death?
by truthseeker ini would be interested to know how charles t. russell actually died.
it's said he died on a train in 1916, but there are no specifics.. did he have a heart attack, cancer or something?
was there any report made by a chief medical examiner?
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ArtfulDodger
Heard on the Rialto - well, actually the bridge over the Up line from Anerley to Balham - that the particular train in 1916 was the subject of an internal enquiry by the SIS . .. seems the mid-war scenario posed a few additional questions on the political (as well as ideological) activities of the aformentioned Charles Russell . . . any comments ?
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Newest New Light
by Nosferatu inwhat is the latest "new light" that has been dished out by the wts?
it seems there was an abundance of new light until franz cacked.
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ArtfulDodger
I reckon if the Dubs start packing weapons then sunday mornings on MY estate will be MUCH more interesting . . lol . . .