Topics Started by tim hooper

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Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?
by tim hooper in
1. jw
2. friends
when i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.

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http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.
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Judge Over-Rules Parents To Allow Blood for Baby Boy
by tim hooper in
1. watchtower
2. medical
doctors from birmingham children's hospital applied for an order to give the baby boy blood transfusions.

a high court judge has said a baby boy can undergo blood transfusions despite his parents' objections.. the baby has complex heart disease but his parents, who are jehovah's witnesses, said they could not consent to a transfusion on religious grounds.. birmingham children's hospital had applied for an order to proceed with cardiac surgery and transfusions.. the judge, mr justice keehan, heard the boy had no "long-term prospect of survival" without the surgery.. 'best interests'.

the boy was born at the university hospital of coventry and warwickshire on 7 february and placed in special care.
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Anyone Can be baptised - Can't they?
by tim hooper in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
does a new convert have to be approved for baptism by the elders or someone similar i wonder?.

years ago, at a circuit assembly, i came across a young man whose jw father had thrown him out of the family home because of his abusiveness.

he'd got nowhere to go so he travelled south and finished up attending our local assembly.
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A question re the "organization".
by tim hooper in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i'm trying to discover when jw's first came up with the idea, belief, or just the term "jehovah's organization".. a quick check of available wt cd's shows that the expression was already being well used in 1950. yet there doesn't seem to be any references to a "jehovah's organization" in much earlier jw publications, although i'm having difficulty going back beyond 1950.. has anyone any info as to how this all started and progressed to present day?.

i'm keen to know this.

the organization thing is a major part of jw teachings yet there's no references to such a thing in the scriptures.
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1975 - The Killer WT quote
by tim hooper in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
one thing is absolutely certain, bible chronology reinforced with fulfilled bible prophecy shows that six thousand years of mans existence will soon be up, yes, within this generation!

(matt.

24:34) this is, therefore, no time to be indifferent and complacent.
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So......online dating sites; yay or nay?
by tim hooper in
1. social
2. relationships
ok, all you lovely people,.

so it's been a year now since mrs h and i went our seperate ways, and even though there are people on the boards that i've come to love very much i've started having a tic in one eye whenever i see a presentable lady in real life.

i guess that means that i maybe ready to start looking for some female companionship.. thing is, it''s been over 20 years since i last went on 'the pull', and i'm a bit rusty these days.
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Mr Deity website!
by tim hooper in
1. jw
2. friends
i'm sure this is familiar to a lot here, but i've only just seen the light!.

so join your favourite creator as he ponders some some of the problems of forming the universes greatest corporation;.

http://mrdeity.com/.
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The Bridges of Shropshire County
by tim hooper in
1. social
2. entertainment
with apologies to clint and meryl........ .

actually, inspired by that remarkable film, i thought i'd have a bash at depicting some of the bridges near to me here in shropshire, uk.

all but one of these pass over the river severn as it wends its gentle way southwards through the nearby countryside, on its way to the sea at bristol (some 100 miles away).. .
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Last-light grabshots - sometimes you have to move fast!
by tim hooper in
1. social
2. entertainment
here's a quick sequence i bagged a couple of hours ago in the welsh hills, as the sun got progressively lower and the rain moved on in..... all in all, about 20 minutes in total.. tim.

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Just posting a few pics here - I hope you don't mind!
by tim hooper in
1. social
2. entertainment
i'm a bit of a newbie here i suppose, but i've been fascinated by the photo threads that pop up now and then - notably leo's, purps and sparks.

so i thought i'd do my bit for posterity and bring you some pics from the uk that i've taken over the last few years, if that's all right with you that is!.

although i'm fully digital these days, my early work was film-based so, as a result of that training i tend to just use photoshop in the same way that i used to use my darkroom - ie.