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  My Pioneer Wedding =Didn't get much money/gifts from invited Brothers!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  didn't have much money...everyone wanted to come, so i reluctantly invited many.

  we had lots of good food and nice bottles of wine, white and red.

  so it cost a bit to set up....my soon to be wife said: "don't worry, your a pioneer, i'm sure the brothers will be generous with their gifts!

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  "The best mind set with which to enter into the festivities, IMO, is to invite the people you truly care about and want to share your joy with. Supply the food and drinks yourself according to what YOU can comfortably afford for the amount of people you have invited. Do this with an attitude of wanting to host a party and share your happiness with your friends, expecting nothing in return in the way of gifts or cash, just as you would do if you were hosting a party in your own home because you wanted to get all your friends together. "

  I wholeheartrdly agree. That's what we did. Annoyed a couple of "brothers' when they found out that there wasn't going to be any alcohol.(My father in law was very opposed to drinking, bad time in the military)

  To which we both said "Tough!"
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  trivia poll on wish list

  by megaflower in

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  2. friends

  dream car: masserti.

  dream house:ocean front.

  dream vacation: tour europe all summer .

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  Beep,Beep

  dream car:One of these: http://www.stockmopar.com/gallery/1970-plymouth-superbird-pictures-orange.html

  dream house: Any as long as it had the above in the driveway

  dream vacation: Taking the dream car above on a cross country tour.
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  Looking Back, Was Being A Witness A Worthless Experience To You?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  was there anything positive about being a jehovah's witness?

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  Beep,Beep

  My wife, my children, the fact that my parents raised us to see others in a positve light so that I consider myself to be "coloer blind" as far as people go. I managed to avoid drug use, smoking and becoming a teen age parent.

  I consider all the above to be positives.
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  JWs and Star Trek...

  by Thylacine in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one part of my experience with the jw's was that many of the elders in my congreagtion were die hard into star trek...i figured it was isolated to that one kh, but as i went to different ones, i noticed it was a lot of them.

  one elder explained his fandom as: "it makes me think of the new system.

  we will travel to other planets when the earth is full, and colonize the galaxy.

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  Beep,Beep

  I enjoyed Star Trek but only as good Science Fiction.
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  Car culture differences between Europe and America

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  europeans and americans seem to have very different culture when it comes to cars which automobiles being much more enshrined in american culture (i'll ignore the obvious oxymoron joke .

  for instance, off the top of my head i can think of quite a few references to cars in songs or just driving but they are always american songs and cars.

  no one sang much about moris minors or hilman imps i guess and getting kicks on route 66 sounds so much more impressive than the services on the m6.. likewise with films, cars feature in american films but hardly ever in british ones (ok, chitty chitty bang bang and the double-decker bus in summer holiday are the exceptions).. does this explain the different attitudes toward cars on each continent?.

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  I so wish I still had mine.

  Looked like this one.:

  http://www.1970roadrunner.com/images/gallery/PLUMRR1.JPG
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  Car culture differences between Europe and America

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  europeans and americans seem to have very different culture when it comes to cars which automobiles being much more enshrined in american culture (i'll ignore the obvious oxymoron joke .

  for instance, off the top of my head i can think of quite a few references to cars in songs or just driving but they are always american songs and cars.

  no one sang much about moris minors or hilman imps i guess and getting kicks on route 66 sounds so much more impressive than the services on the m6.. likewise with films, cars feature in american films but hardly ever in british ones (ok, chitty chitty bang bang and the double-decker bus in summer holiday are the exceptions).. does this explain the different attitudes toward cars on each continent?.

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  Beep,Beep

  That's because we built better looking cars as the following shows:

  http://www.stockmopar.com/pictures/1969-plymouth-road-runner-pictures.html

  http://musclecars.howstuffworks.com/classic-muscle-cars/1970-plymouth-road-runner-superbird.htm

  http://www.stockmopar.com/pictures/1971-plymouth-cuda-shaker-billboard-340-b5-blue.html

  http://images.carcraft.com/howto/116_0502_01_z+amc_build+1970_amc_javelin.jpg

  http://www.highperformancepontiac.com/features/hppp_0708_tin_indian_pontiac_gto/photo_06.html

  The only British made car that I find remotely appealing is the Mini Cooper.
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  Misleading advice at the Hall.

  by edmond dantes in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  words of wisdom at the kingdom hall went something like " don't marry for looks because looks fade.

  " what i want to know is if the person you married turns out to be a crabby old miserable so and so how do you cope with ugly personality plus ugly looks.i mean if you marry a looker at least you have enjoyed some vision of delight, if you get stuck with both you are in a double bind.

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  Beep,Beep

  Ah but what about a "looker " with a really nasty personality?

  Met several and ran away from them.
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  Is Copper theft on the rise in your area ??

  by Casper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has become unreal in our small hick town.

  people are ripping out water lines in new homes before they are even finished, contractors are losing their minds.... our house has a walk out basement, garage combo with two huge windows.

  all our water lines are copper and visible thru the windows... we're afraid we'll come home one day and they'll all be gone.... air conditioners have become a prime target.

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  Yes it is. People are stealing waterlines from construction sites. There have been a couple of thefts from electrical substations/service yards as well.

  Price of copper makes it attractive to some I guess
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  JWs Run Over Dog and Fail to Stop

  by fjtoth in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  milledgeville, georgia.

  reports from the milledgeville police department and baldwin county sheriff's office for the day.. crime digest, may 30, 2008. .

  daniel mcdonald and scott teague.

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  Beep,Beep

  I'm sorry but I can't find anything in the motor vehicle handbook about reporting hitting an animal.

  Most people around here view animals as the owners responsiblity. I didn't chase down the party that hit the family cat.

  It must really be a slow news day in Milledgeville, Georgia.
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  Elder in my old hall is DFed – wow!

  by Alexia in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i ran into an old friend spontaneously over the weekend.

  (one of the few jws i actually considered a friend back in the day).

  we were briefly catching up and she mentioned an elder in my old hall is now dfed.

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  Beep,Beep

  Strange. I don't see anything there that should have resulted in his disfellowshipping. Heck I'd buy him a beer or two.