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  Does the younger generation have our work ethic?

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, you hard workers:.

  i've had enough of speaking in generalities during my time as a jw evangelizer.

  while my own experience will offer up mere anecdotal examples at best, my contemporaries and i have found that kids today lack the earnestness and drive we older folks have had since youth: setting up a lemonade stand; doing yard work without power assist; mopping floors; running errands for a dime; cleaning parking lots, etc.

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  Thank you, AllTimeJeff, Sour Grapes, and snugglebunny, for insights beyond my own microcosmic experience and for a good laugh, SG: "Are you firing me?"

  I admit my own view has been narrow; the well-founded points made by ATJ are, as of this consideration, patently obvious but, previously, not passing thoughts for me. Excellent point, sb, about over-parenting (of which I was guilty).

  This is why we naive gliders-over-the-surface old timers need the wisdom and expansive worldview proffered here on JWD.

  With gratitude, . . .
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  Does the younger generation have our work ethic?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  greetings, you hard workers:.

  i've had enough of speaking in generalities during my time as a jw evangelizer.

  while my own experience will offer up mere anecdotal examples at best, my contemporaries and i have found that kids today lack the earnestness and drive we older folks have had since youth: setting up a lemonade stand; doing yard work without power assist; mopping floors; running errands for a dime; cleaning parking lots, etc.

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  compound complex

  Greetings, you hard workers:

  I've had enough of speaking in generalities during my time as a JW evangelizer. While my own experience will offer up mere anecdotal examples at best, my contemporaries and I have found that kids today lack the earnestness and drive we older folks have had since youth: setting up a lemonade stand; doing yard work without power assist; mopping floors; running errands for a dime; cleaning parking lots, etc. We were eager to work, maybe making 50 cents for a job well done. My parents couldn't afford my piano lessons at $1.50 a week, so I did yard work for my teacher.

  A friend told me yesterday that she couldn't get her teenage neighbor to return to finish weeding her garden. When weeding his parent's garden -- reluctantly -- he used one hand for weeding, the other for chatting on his mobile. Personally, I no longer recommend kids to people who ask for inexpensive labor. The usual, poor results reflect on me, although the disappointed asker-for-help says it's not my fault.

  What has been your experience or observation?

  Thanks.
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  Highlights from Leaked Bethel Videos - part 4, movie set

  by neat blue dog in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it also looks like guests got to walk around the sets of what i'm guessing is what was used for the new jonah movie, coming soon to a convention near you, summer 2018.. .

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  In a book about ancient sea legends, I read that many cultures have tales about a ship passenger suspected of wrongdoing being thrown overboard to appease the gods.
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  Your Favorite Plays on Words

  by compound complex in

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  greetings, fellow word lovers:.

  please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

  time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..

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  Meandering through the hotel's mirrored foyer, Madeleine Miroir saw her beautiful self to the front door . . .
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  Your Favorite Plays on Words

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  greetings, fellow word lovers:.

  please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

  time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..

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  He minces garlic but never words. (zeugma)
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  Your Favorite Plays on Words

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  greetings, fellow word lovers:.

  please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

  time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..

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  Thanks, everyone! Very clever!

  You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.
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  Meeting Days Felt Different?

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i dont know if it was the same for you, but for me when i was a jw meeting days seemed to have a black cloud hanging over them.

  on thursdays i knew i would be going to the meeting that evening.

  that i would be getting into my meeting clothes at 6:30pm, leaving the house at 6:55pm and be sat in the kingdom hall from 7:15pm-9pm, then milling around for about half an hour before finally getting home for 10pm.

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  When in a foreign language congregation in Manhattan, we shared with three other congos. We got the last of the pickings: Saturday night for school, etc. and Sunday afternoon for talk and WT. We got home to Bethel late Saturday night and had to get back on the train early Sunday morning to go out in service all day and then late-p.m. meeting.

  Work all week at headquarters and out almost every night on Bible studies, plus Book Study. Many of us young, healthy brothers cracked.
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  Your Favorite Plays on Words

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  greetings, fellow word lovers:.

  please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.. ****************************.

  time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana..

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  Greetings, Fellow Word Lovers:

  Please add your favorite, clever smithing of words.

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  Time flies like an arrow and fruit flies like a banana.
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  New JWism in April broadcast?

  by AuntBee in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  does anyone know what it means to be "securely wrapped up in the bag of life"?

  is this a new special wt terminology?

  they said it or a slight variant of it, several times in the broadcast, perhaps 3?

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  Tangential, but everyone else is doing it:

  cu-de-sac:

  mid-18th century (originally in anatomy): French, literally ‘bottom of a sack.’
  
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  Thirty-Five Years Later

  by compound complex in

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  in the market today, i walked down an aisle and glanced over at a middle-aged man and the woman beside him pushing a shopping cart.

  i couldn't place the man but recognized the somewhat younger woman, a former student.

  when the fellow started talking, i realized it was her brother, also a one-time student.

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  You're welcome, Dear Tara!