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  TODAY'S MY BIRTHDAY!!

  by Mary in

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  not my physical birthday, but i just noticed when i logged on this morning, that it was 4 years ago today that i first logged on here.

  i've learned alot on here in the last 4 years i learned about the whole 586/607bce date, i discovered crisis of conscience (which played a major part in my leaving the borg), i've learned about the society's inconsistencies in the blood doctrine, as well as host of other doctrines and issues that i would have never known about in the days before the internet.

  as well, i would have never made contact with those i've become "particularly fond of" on here.

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  Joe Grundy

  Dear Mary

  As an outsider, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you again for you work and dedication here. I have learned so much from you.

  (I may have fallen a little bit in love with you as well).
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  BANNED FROM COLD CALLING in SCOTLAND

  by DannyHaszard in

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  2. scandals

  knock, knock, who's there?

  no jehovah's witnesses or double ...

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  Joe Grundy

  As has been said before - this is NOT a law.

  It is a neighbourhood policing/community safety response to a big problem. The problem is that criminals use the 'cover' of cold-calling to identify empty properties, or to gain access to the houses of less-than-alert householders to commit crime.

  The effect will be (hopefully) that residents who see people going door-to-door in an affected area will report it to the police who will (hopefully) check it out.

  In UK law generally, there is an 'implied invitation' to anyone to approach your front door for lawful purposes (i.e. anything not illegal) unless the householder specifically makes it clear otherwise.

  'Trespass' is a civil, not criminal, offence in the UK (generally). The 'victim' can sue for damages through the civil courts if they can show a finacial loss.
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  My first time running from the COPS!

  by Kudra in

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  so i was out on my run this morning and i got cut off by a red light.

  aarrrgh!

  i hate it when that happens.

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  I was intrigued to read this thread.

  From my one and only visit to the US, I realise that pedestrians are often regarded as nuisances at best and pests at worst.

  But I had not realised that in some places it is illegal to cross the road other than at specified places or in accordance with signals. Is this true? If so, all I can say (with incrdelulity) is Land of the Free???
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  My Wife's reaction to the Revelation Book news

  by under_believer in

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  so, i told my wife about the july km news that we'd be studying the revelation book again.

  "good," she said.

  "good?

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  Joe Grundy

  I have to confess as an 'outsider' that I always considered the author of 'Revelations' to be smoking something, taking something, suffering from Alzheimer's, or otherwise completely out of it.

  A 'closed book' as far as I am concerned.
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  Shocking Announcement: Society feels Armaggedon coming this year?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a rumor alert indeed, but it could be related to the distribution of kingdom news no.37, "false religions end is near.".

  the following is posted from e-watchman's forum.. make of it what you will, but in light of all the rhetoric about "deliverance at hand" and "independent thinking", nothing would surprise me anymore.. http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1502&st=0 we posted about an announcement it was only local to our cong.

  however we have found out that there is going to be an announcement sometime in september and it is supposed to be shocking.

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  Abaddon:

  Thanks for this.

  Can I get a 'Super-Crypto-Decoder-Christian-Ring' bulb from my local supemarket, or do i need to check that I have a 'New Light' fiting installed?
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  To Put My Questions In Context

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am, as you will see, a very junior member of this forum.

  i have so far explained my interest in jws in my earlier posts, and i have asked what must seem to many here some very naieve questions about jw beliefs and practices.

  when i raised questions about the young children of my jw neighbours, a post or two implied that i may be a strange old man for taking an interest in children.

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  Joe Grundy

  Thanks for the comments, all.

  Happy Dad: I don't know if this helps or not. For all of my time as a cop I was extremely cynical. Most of the time, that was proved to be the right approach. But sometimes, just sometimes, it was completely wrong. For example (and those with no 'outside' experience of life may find this hard to accept) some of my best friends when I was a young detective were prostitutes. Why? Well, they were honest (in all senses), they had no pretentions about what they did for a living, they were vulnerable (and OMG, they were abused beyond belief) but they had a sense of decency and honour that was often a lot more developed and 'loving' than you'd find in many more 'normal' societal groups.

  Particularly while I was a DI i/c Fraud Squad/MLU, we had a squad saying - 'TNF'- or 'trust nobody'. And it worked fine.

  But since I have retired, I have adjusted my views. Someone (I think it was Bill Bryson) said someting like - 'There are two ways to go through life. You can trust nobody, run little chance of being ripped off. Or you can trust everyone, get ripped off a few times, but have a lot more adventures'.

  Me, I'm having adventures.
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  Update Update

  by RichieRich in

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  2. friends

  well, it's cold in alaska.. i'm on a billion dollar boat with a dial up internet connection, and a, well, boat load of asians.. god, those people photograph everything.

  i took my shoes off in the gym, and i had like sixteen little asian girls looking at them.

  oh, the stories i could tell..... the funniest thing is watching my grandfather communicate with the foreign staff.

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  Stephanus:

  In the interests of scientific research I can report the following.

  For 'American' one must substitute 'Pembrokeshire'.

  On the two occasions on which I can recall being sober enough to pronounce the word 'Pembrokeshire' the result of the conversation has been fornication (as I understand JW terminology), or as I would call it, 'mutual oral followed by a sahg (anagram)'.

  This may be insufficient for a truly scientific survey, and I am dedicated to conducting further research.

  I would stress that this is only since my divorce, so no adultery is involved.
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  To Put My Questions In Context

  by Joe Grundy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am, as you will see, a very junior member of this forum.

  i have so far explained my interest in jws in my earlier posts, and i have asked what must seem to many here some very naieve questions about jw beliefs and practices.

  when i raised questions about the young children of my jw neighbours, a post or two implied that i may be a strange old man for taking an interest in children.

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  Stephanus:

  No, I don't condemn anyone for their religious beliefs. I just find it fascinating (now, but troublesome before) how some people can suppress their natural enquiring minds to accept things without carrying out the normal checks and balances most of us apply in everyday life.

  For example, my Dad. He has Alzheimers' now, poor bugger, but in his prime had a superb brain. He was the youngest ever to get to his rank in the UK civil service, and was the sort of guy who would do algebra problems as a hobby. All of us kids until the disease got him recently would ask for advice - and he would always have a new and considered way of looking at things. And he was by no means immune from life's problems, though it took a lot of dragging out to get him to tell you about them.

  But he had a knack - shared by a lot of people, I feel - of shutting off a part of his life to do with religious things. For example, read the NT and it becomes clear that the 'disciples of Jesus', including James, felt it necessary to send out their own missionaries to correct what Paul was teaching. Why? Was it perhaps that Paul wasn't the seamless 'apostle' continuing the teachings of Jesus as we had been led to believe?

  And my Dad - and I love him to bits, he is the wisest man I have ever known - could quite happily close his mind to the discrepancies in the Bible.

  I think no less of anyone for being able to close off the 'religious' side of their mind from their 'real life' one. It is what they have been conditioned to do.

  Perhaps it is me who is 'out of step' because I can't do it.
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  Update Update

  by RichieRich in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well, it's cold in alaska.. i'm on a billion dollar boat with a dial up internet connection, and a, well, boat load of asians.. god, those people photograph everything.

  i took my shoes off in the gym, and i had like sixteen little asian girls looking at them.

  oh, the stories i could tell..... the funniest thing is watching my grandfather communicate with the foreign staff.

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  Joe Grundy

  Dear Richie

  We have not corresponded before, but I feel that I may be able to offer some advice.

  The correct way to approach Scandinavian or Asian ladies is as follows.

  Richie: 'You look attractive. Do you have any American in you?'

  Lady: 'No, I don't think so.'

  Richie: 'Would you like some?'

  Let me know how this approach works.
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  Shocking Announcement: Society feels Armaggedon coming this year?

  by truthseeker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a rumor alert indeed, but it could be related to the distribution of kingdom news no.37, "false religions end is near.".

  the following is posted from e-watchman's forum.. make of it what you will, but in light of all the rhetoric about "deliverance at hand" and "independent thinking", nothing would surprise me anymore.. http://e-jehovahs-witnesses.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1502&st=0 we posted about an announcement it was only local to our cong.

  however we have found out that there is going to be an announcement sometime in september and it is supposed to be shocking.

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  Joe Grundy

  With all due respect to my US friends, and my European ones, why should an armageddon or any other prophecy of an abrahamic god have anything to do with them?

  If things were to end where they started, surely the Middle East would be the place (Tigres/Euphrates and all that)? If in population concentrations, why not China or India? The stalwarts of the OT, and Jesus and his followers (however you interpret them) were not really english-speaking WASPs, you know!