Hi zagor, I had to re-read what I'd written to see how i offended you and believe me you got the wrong end of the stick! The limitations of a face to face dialogue I guess.
What I meant was it must seem odd to people who have black skin to hear of a predominantly white country calling themselves 'All Blacks'.
Whew!
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Australia vs. New Zealand
by zagor inin last couple of weeks since in new zealand i was struck by really stark differences between australia and new zealand.. well lets start with simple things.
what are australian national colors, what colors do fans on rugby match paint themselves with?.
well anyone who was ever in australia knows the answer, these lively colors such as, white and blue; blue and gold; and green and gold.
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Feeling bad for doing normal things - SLIGHT ADULT CONTENT
by jambon1 ini was reading the article in the nov awake about musterbation (not a typo, i just hate that word & have to rephrase it)!!.
it took me back to the days as a young man who had normal feelings of a sexual nature.
new in the truth and fighting, with every fibre of my being, (at least in the beginning) against the idea of having a ham shank.
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You and me jambon! err, I don't mean together, but I had the same battle. To constantly never being good enough for the Org, not enough FS, not enough prayer, always insignificant and never being allowed to be satisfied with a job well done. No wonder this internalised mindset screwed with everything we ever did!
"Honestly, the morning after,...." Crikey!!! how long did your one off the wrist take?!! Did you have foreplay as well?!! Did you wake up the next day and find that Mrs Palmer and her five daughters had gone home?
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Australia vs. New Zealand
by zagor inin last couple of weeks since in new zealand i was struck by really stark differences between australia and new zealand.. well lets start with simple things.
what are australian national colors, what colors do fans on rugby match paint themselves with?.
well anyone who was ever in australia knows the answer, these lively colors such as, white and blue; blue and gold; and green and gold.
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Hi Zagor, I've been to a few countries around the world and I found out what weird is! ;)
The black thing is interesting. ( I wonder what 'black' people overseas think ? ) I may have got the history a bit wrong but I recall a story of a visiting Rugby team in the early part of last century coming to play a NZ team. The locals turned up in an array of colours and it was decided to dye the shirts black for obvious reasons. It seems that the tradition has just gone from there
However, the national soccer team is the All Whites and play in white, the Black caps, the cricket team wear white in tests of course and have variously worn beige (!), black and a greenish colour for one dayers. Generally we think the names given to national teams are a bit dopey!
I don't think we have the same cultural connotation of death and evil being 'black' over here.
I'm in a new movie here called Out Of the Blue and it's about a mass murder! We kind of like the macabre and weird here to offset the veneer of having a dry and laconic sense of humour. I suspect we are much closer to a British mindset whereas the Aussies are more American in their big, dry sunburnt country. They are perhaps bolder and don't mind pushing ahead.
By world standards we're a very young country. I recall that up until the mid-seventies, the bulk of visitors and immigrants arrived here by ship.
I live in the South island and the sense of space and lack of people jammed together is a real surprise to visitors.
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Questions for believers in God
by KW13 inwhat god do 'we' believe in?
i am a believer at the moment i think.... .
firstly we are directed away from questioning just how god came into existance - why?
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I think KW13's questions were rhetorical. ("hmmmm, rhetorical eh?"-Homer Simpson)
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The joy of being on a JW email list
by under_believer intoday's offensive little gem: .
these are funny for when you are in a fiesty mood!a new way to handle those pesky little "conversation stoppers".
1) 'i'm not interested'.
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I knew dozens of Wits that could have written that. And they wouldn't be joking!
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my very personal history!
by weary inmy history: i grew up as one of jw's.
parents are still.
both brothers have been df'd.
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Welcome to Weary,Cindi and Vic-ex, it's hard to keep up with all the 'new ones'!
It's a day or two since you posted Weary, how are you getting on?
Two very sad accounts from Gary and balsam. Hard to read all the sadness on one thread. I can cope with it in smaller doses ;)
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A 'battle' is won
by Anony-Mouse inmom has commented twice recently that she is attracted to men with gotees.
anyways, i read here that beards are not at all banned in the bible (every picture of the bible folks they draw has bearded men), and that it was banned by some power hungery dude in the olden days of the jws (can't remember all those names, erased them from my memory).
well, i ask her if i can have one, despite never wanting that on my face.
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Hi Anony-mouse, I can only tell you about the beard and moustache thing from my olden days.('80's)
Beards gave the impression to others that you were narcissistic and trying to draw attention to yourself somehow. During the sixties and seventies the norm was long hair, beards and beads maan. So to have anything resembling this appearance would blur the separation between the 'world' and the 'truth'.
When the punk movement came along, short hair was demonized as it might look like you were making a political statement!
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Im curious.. how many menbers here
by mr_phishy inbeing new here i am curious how many menbers are on this site?
is it a few hundred or we looking at thousands.
im amazed i put up a post 30min ago and already 13 replies!
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Gidday Mr_phishy from across the ditch. You might find it helpful to go back through some of the posts under 'relationships' and 'phamily'. Others have fallen in love with a Witness and wonder what they've got themselves into.
BTW I'm an ex Wit. of twenty years and my wife was born and raised one. I've found a lot of good advice here on JWD.
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Sneak Peek at the Revised "New World Translation"!!!
by gordon d ini was lucky enough to have a friend at bethel sneak me an early release copy of the new, revised edition of the new world translation that is scheduled for release at next springs district conventions.
obviously, i havent been able to read all of it yet but i did glance through it and found some of the subtle changes that the fds has seen as important revisions.
here are some of the more notable ones in our new bible: .
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Suddenly the BuyBill has become an open book to me!
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Should I leave the WTS?
by HamiltonPeppers inafter hearing the coverups and scandals, im thinking about leaving the wts for good.
while reading all of these coverups, i felt like my wife just cheated on me with my brother.
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" While reading all of these coverups, I felt like my wife just cheated on me with my brother. ."
This is how I put it to two visiting elders last year:
' I felt like my wife has been having an affair with my sworn enemy for over ten years and I never knew until a newspaper published it for all to see. And then she tells me it meant nothing to her and she did it for our benefit"