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  If your cat catches a mouse, . . .

  by compound complex in

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  take it away, bleed it, give it back.. reading about the gingerbread man reminded me of this:.

  how irrational the society could be was experienced by the sister-in-law of ex-bethelite william (bill) cetnar when .... at the suggestion of her veterinarian, she had a blood transfusion given to her poodle to prolong its life.

  she couldn't believe bill [cetnar]when he told her that the society would say she had violated god's law.

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  Thanks, Magnum, for your reply. I hope your 'coon recovered.
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  If your cat catches a mouse, . . .

  by compound complex in

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  2. humour

  take it away, bleed it, give it back.. reading about the gingerbread man reminded me of this:.

  how irrational the society could be was experienced by the sister-in-law of ex-bethelite william (bill) cetnar when .... at the suggestion of her veterinarian, she had a blood transfusion given to her poodle to prolong its life.

  she couldn't believe bill [cetnar]when he told her that the society would say she had violated god's law.

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  take it away, bleed it, give it back.

  Reading about the gingerbread man reminded me of this:

  How irrational the Society could be was experienced by the sister-in-law of ex-bethelite William (Bill) Cetnar when ...

  at the suggestion of her veterinarian, she had a blood transfusion given to her poodle to prolong its life. She couldn't believe Bill [Cetnar]when he told her that the Society would say she had violated God's law. At his urging she wrote the Society on the matter and the response she received informed her that she had done wrong. Phyllis thought that this was ridiculous. She wrote again and asked if her cat eating a mouse would also be a problem; was this too against God's law? She was told that she should keep the cat under restraint and be more careful in handling it. She thought to herself, "How many cats have I seen which have drained the blood of their mouse victim before eating it?"

  Recounted by Joan Cetnar

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/205253/blood-ban-your-pets
  
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  You Just Can't Make This S--t Up!

  by FedUpJW in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know this is kind of trivial but i don’t want to partake in something that might have connections with something that jehovah disapproves of.

  i checked the watchtower library and i didn’t find anything on gingerbread man cookies.. .

  good lord...how incredibly stupid and helpless are jdubs getting?

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  My dad was a bread delivery man, back in the '50s. He had a ginger beard.

  He was a ginger bread man.

  But he came into the truth and gave all that up.
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  Unprivileged

  by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  something just dawned on me today as i processed my assimilation into the real world (thanks to our new poster, @jester, giving me a major throwback to my first post).. when you're a jehovah's witness, you really are in some sort of la la land.

  things which are perfectly normal are acts of eating from the table of the demons.

  things which are horribly grotesque and extremely unjust are branded as "righteousness".

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  I always likened it to North Korea. Even haircuts are monitored. -- pale-emperor

  At Bethel, haircuts were monitored, circa 1970.

  Now?

  
  
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  In terms of social media etc who cares, just enjoy the conversation:). -- faithnomore

  Absolutely!

  Thanks.
  
  
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  Thank you, jp and faithnomore:

  It looks like as if my weekend will have me relearning a few things, particularly with regard to the editing jobs that lie before me, one a 700-page hard copy MS, the author of which is deceased; I have nowhere to send my queries.

  Excellent point about removing "errors" yet retaining a turgid, opaque text. I'm all for clarity and reader-friendliness.
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  Thanks, jp!

  Yes -- vive la difference!

  Just within the last 24 hours (go figure!) I've relented and opened my Nazi Grammarian's heart and mind to new and exciting literary experiences! Given the above I posted, I am amazed how consistent American writing is regarding commas and periods within the close of quotation marks.

  There's prescriptive and there's descriptive . . .

  Gratefully.
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  How do I handle this?

  by Phoebe in

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  2. friends

  a little advice please.. it's now 7 months since i stopped going to meetings.

  we still get regular calls by elders - at least every 2 weeks.

  i can handle them.

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  It's like the sweet little Witness boy, dressed up in suit and tie, who stands on the householder's doorstep. He gives a heartfelt witness about Jehovah's kingdom and the paradise. The householder has a tear in her eye and accepts the child's offer of a tract.

  She's been set up for a return visit.

  Been there, done that.

  Wishing you the best!
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

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  What's the problem? The concern seems to be that fuzzy-minded speakers are eroding the distinction between nouns and verbs. But once again, the person on the street is not getting any respect. A simple quirk of everyday usage shows why the accusation is untrue. Take the baseball term "to fly out," a verb that comes from the noun "pop fly." The past form is "flied," not "flew" and "flown"; no mere mortal has ever flown out to center field. Similarly, in using the verb-from-noun "to ring the city" (form a ring around), people say "ringed," not "rang." -- ibid.
  
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  Punctuation within and without quotation marks

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  http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp .

  would someone please make this link clickable?.

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  So whence the popular anxiety? This is where a less than benign explanation comes in. Someone, somewhere, must be making decisions about "correct English" for the rest of us. Who? There is no English Language Academy. The legislators of "correct English," in fact, are an informal network of copy editors, dictionary usage panelists, style manual writers, English teachers, essayists and pundits.Their authority, they claim, comes from their dedication to carrying out standards that maximize the language's clarity, logic, consistency, precision, stability and expressive range. William Safire, who writes the weekly column "On Language" for the New York Times Magazine, calls himself a "language maven," from the Yiddish word meaning expert, and this gives us a convenient label for the entire group.

  https://newrepublic.com/article/77732/grammar-puss-steven-pinker-language-william-safire