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  Disfellowshipping the obese?

  by dido in

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  has anyone posted this, or has anyone heard that you can now be d/f for being obese?

  not that i am, (slightly overweight but arent most people?

  ) but am curious to find out if it is true.

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  Slightly off the thread I know, but my father was not allowed to give talks at district conventions years ago because he had a beard.
  
  Nobody told him the reason he was dropped until he asked. He had to grow the beard due to a dental abcess - he was told that if he cut himself whilst shaving it could kill him.
  
  So maybe better to die clean shaven and be able to give talks - it's a weird world!
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  Did your Kingdom hall ever cancel meetings?

  by moshe in

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  we were building a new kh- not quick build- and we had to vacate the old building and the new kh was not finished.

  the elders decided to cancel all the meeting with the exception of the tuesday night bookstudy in homes.

  we had no other meetings for about 4-5 weeks.

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  I agree whole heartedly with Solo.
  
  Quite often (especially when I was the on who arranged the public talks!) the speaker didn't turn up.
  
  Then we had the watchtower study first, then a local elder would stand in and give a talk.
  
  It usually ended up being the same elder time after time giving it and because he hadn't had any practice and it ended up being sooooo boring!
  
  Also as Solo said, when the Watchtower had finised your brain would tell you that it was time to go - then you had this horrible sinking feeling when you realised that you had a whole public talk to sit through. Also the stand in sometimes went overtime because he hadn't practised - a double whammy!!
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  THE BIG A: RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.

  by Mary in

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  where did all the witnesses over the decades get the idea that armageddon was right around the corner?

  the society certainly never put anything like that down in print:

  *** w56 10/15 p. 614 when will gods kingdom come?

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  I remember hearing at the meeting that we were on the last lap of an endurance race, Armageddon was not just round the corner because we were indeed on the 'final straight'.
  
  Don't know about you, but I've never watched an athletic event where the last lap is way way longer than all the other laps put together!
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  Installing Watchtower Library

  by Twitch in

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  you know, it's funny.

  i have my dub parents pc here for a tune up and one of the things they asked of me was to install the latest watchtower library from cd.

  i said sure and am doing it at the moment.

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  I remember that my dad used to go into the study, shut the door and say he was using the WT library cd for research.
  
  It's dawning on me now that perhaps he was 'lurking' on sites like this!
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  Installing Watchtower Library

  by Twitch in

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  you know, it's funny.

  i have my dub parents pc here for a tune up and one of the things they asked of me was to install the latest watchtower library from cd.

  i said sure and am doing it at the moment.

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  Perhaps they think that if you install it for them you may well see something on there that will make you realise that you are missing out and should go back to 'd troof'. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  JWs on Friends Reunited

  by solo in

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  for those who have not heard of it friends reunited is a web site where you can look up you old schools and and see what all your old school mates are doing, you can post your own profile and let everyone else know what you are doing.

  well i have checked out several schools where i know jws went and have found several of them have posted there, some of them have also included their profile to let everyone know what they have done since leaving school, jobs, where they have moved to and if you got married and had kids.. however, not one single one of them has stated that they are jws???

  isn't this supposed to be the most important thing in their life, would it not merit a mention, surely they are not ashamed, wouldn't it be a good opportunity to witness?

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  Yeah I agree. I went to a few schools so I looked them all up and because I went to school such a long time ago I was having difficulty remembering the names. I thought any JW's at the school I would pick up on because they would mention it - but no!
  
  Maybe they are embarrassed about it!
  
  I would have thought that most with a strong conviction about anything would include it in their notes.
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  If you had one day to spend in London...

  by Kaethra in

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  ...and not a whole lot of moolah to spend, what would you do?

  my so is leaving tonight to fly to merry ole england for business.

  he has free time tomorrow and part of the day monday to spend in london.

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  Typical stingy northerners - I will buy you all a drink ON my birthday, but the next day bad luck!
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  If you had one day to spend in London...

  by Kaethra in

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  ...and not a whole lot of moolah to spend, what would you do?

  my so is leaving tonight to fly to merry ole england for business.

  he has free time tomorrow and part of the day monday to spend in london.

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  Actually I've heard that Manchester is a wonderful place - why do you think I've decided to spend the day after my birthday there?
  
  Not my actual birth DAY - that I will be spending in London - enough said?!
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  If you had one day to spend in London...

  by Kaethra in

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  ...and not a whole lot of moolah to spend, what would you do?

  my so is leaving tonight to fly to merry ole england for business.

  he has free time tomorrow and part of the day monday to spend in london.

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  Yeah, get on the train to Manchester if you like rain, poverty, old industrial, grimy, dansk (oh I mean 'dank') buildings and where they definitely don't speak the Queen's English - you wont be able to understand a word.
  
  Oh they do have theatres - showing boring old stuff that has left London years ago!
  
  Oh they do have houses - if you have more than one note in your pocket you could probably buy two! (Terraced houses with no front garden and an outside loo are a speciality)
  
  Don't be put off by all the flat caps and every one taking a whippet for a walk.
  
  Stay in London of course - one of the greatest CAPITAL cities in the whole world!
  
  If time is short then one thing is a must - a trip on the London Eye. It's on the South Bank opposite the Houses of Parliament (that's where the whole country is ruled from). The views are spectacular, stretching from Canary Wharf in the east, up the Thames to the west, and all the glittering West End to the North.
  
  I could go on for ever but I'll let others leave some more suggestions.
  
  That doesn't include one biased northerner who doesn't know what he's on about - you know who you are!
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  Did you,or anyone in your Hall come to Meeting Drunk?Anything funny happen?

  by mama1119 in

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  we used to have this guy that came to bookstudy drunk and he would mumble all through it, and fall asleep and wake up yelling an answer.

  i never went to meeting drunk, but i certainly drank a few to get me through sometimes, took the edge off the continual damnation spewing from the stage.

  another "sister" used put kahlua in her coffee cup in service.

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  south african beef

  Yes indeed.
  
  One of our circuit overseers wife quite often missed the meetings, no one knew why, we just presumed she wasn't very well.
  
  One day I had to pick the circuit overseer himself up to drive him to the circuit assembly at Bowes Road, North London. He was not ready when I got there to pick him up, he couldn't find his keys and was acting in a strange manner.
  
  Shortly after I left the org, I found out that he had to step down from his 'privilages' as both he and his wife were alcoholics!