Posts by fokyc

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Ever get spanked for pulling your dress up in the meeting when little?

by White Dove in

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have you ever gotten slapped and dragged into the back room for a spanking because your mother or father accused you of pulling your skirt up during the meeting?

i was thinking of the little girls outgrowing their dresses and them becoming so short that it was hard to sit 2 hours with the skirt pulled down over your knees or just above, at the very least.

my sister's and my dresses were always too short when we sat down and could only keep them pulled down to a decent length when standing, not sitting.

fokyc

NO, but I would have been spanked for looking

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Counting Time

by Xena in

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i don't know about anyone else but this could be the source of major contention between dubs in my halls.

you had those who started their time as soon as you pulled out of the hall parking lot (me), those who counted from the first knock at the door or laundry mat visited, and the die hards who didn't start until they actually spoke to someone(my sister).

my sister and i would go round and round about this, i finally just pretended to start my time when she did just to shut her up.

fokyc

I covered this on your other posting, my wife studied with a deaf person via MSN and was told to count the time.

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help with JW Internet use guidelines

by Tatiana in

can anyone help me find an article giving info on whether witnesses are allowed to "count" time witnessing online?

i know a km from '99 that basically says jws should spend time with their brothers and sisters instead of being online.

i'm looking for something specific.

fokyc

My wife studied with a deaf person online using MSN, she was allowed to count the time.

fokyc

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Another Tattoo Thread-To ink or not to ink - that was the question

by Crumpet in

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to ink or not to ink that was the question!.

the build up.

i was really excited about it and got up early to salute to the sun, cat to the ceiling and baby to the carpet (yoga).

fokyc

Very nice, just on one of your 'love handles', make sure to use the 'Savlon' twice a day.

Are you having another? to match on the other side!

Ancient of days speaking!

fokyc

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OK, Easter Bunnies - What you doing to celebrate the Pagan Festival of Sex?

by Crumpet in

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(clam here is the promised fluff thread - but you know it will probably degenerate into an intellectual discussion about pagan festivals - like my posts so often do!

so how will you all be honoring the goddess astarte or was it istoreth?

will you be devouring chocolate eggs - with their heavy pagan influences?

fokyc

Crumpet,

As the Bull said to the Zebra, "Get them striped pyjamas off, and I'll show you!"

a slightly younger fokyc

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Went to Memorial - where was everybody?

by Bonnie_Clyde in

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i haven't missed a memorial since i started attending over 50 years ago.

tonight i was expecting the hall to be jambed as usual.

i sat in the 5th row from the front and from where i sat, i could see 31 empty seats--there may have been more.

fokyc

I went, as usual had to wait for KH to be opened, lucky it wasn't raining!

More than usual there, but that is not surprising is it?

Probably the most famous KH in the world, at the moment!!

fokyc

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a REVEREND John WESLEY OLMSTEAD Published a Watchtower magazine in 1878

by badboy in

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this information appear in brooklyn eagle,2 november 1878

fokyc

John Wesley Olmstead

OLMSTEAD, John Wesley, clergyman, born in Saratoga county, New York, 13 November, 1816. He did not receive a regular classical training, but the honorary decree of A M. was conferred on him by Yale in 1854, and that of D. D. by Rochester university in 1863. After serving for several years as pastor of Baptist churches in Little Falls, New York, and Chelsea, Massachusetts, he became, in 1846, editor of the "Christian Reflector" in Boston. On the union of this paper with "The Watchman," in 1848, he took editorial control of the consolidated journals, and continued in that post until 1877. In 1878 he established "The Watchtower," a Baptist journal in New York, but subsequently returned to "The Watchman," of which he is now editor-in-chief.

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