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  I'm going to be a father!

  by dedalus in

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  i've been a sorry excuse of a poster lately, so i'm not really in tune with what's going on with the board, but i still know enough people here to make an announcement: foxy, my fiancee, is pregnant!.

  so it happened a couple of years before we were planning it, before we could even get married, before i've finished my postgraduate degree -- but so what?

  we're financially sturdy enough to pull it off, i'll be able to complete the degree and get a good job, and no amount of financial anxiety seems to offset the excitement i feel to be having a child.

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  Dedalus

  Can't tell you how happy I am for you. It's brilliant news.

  Having a child is an exciting, half-frightening, life-enhancing, and maturing event. It's also just tons of fun.

  It was the knowledge that I was about to become a parent (almost a quarter-century ago now) that finally made me get some focus on my vague misgivings and Get The Hell out of the Watchtower ("no child of mine is ever going to go through..." etc. etc.)

  Incidentally, in the last month, I became a grandparent for the first time. So, kind of, all those emotions again.

  Once again - Congratulations to you!

  Duncan.
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  June 7...How will you vote?

  by digderidoo in

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  general election...june 7....uk.

  how will you vote?.....now that we are allowed to vote it would be interesting to see what political persuasions we have.. for me it is important to vote.

  for years i have been told that i cannot voice my opinion....however to vote for me is one of our fundamental human rights.

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  Hi Didge,

  Last time round, I ended up voting Tory - only because (for the first time in my life) I actually attended a candidates meeting and saw the calibre of individuals on display.

  The labour candidate ( a young girl - one of Blair's babes) was simply hopeless. Couldn't string 2 sentences together. Had no ideas at all, as far as I could see, a complete product of the Party Machine.

  Whereas the Tory chap actually seemed to be of some independent substance. I was impressed.

  Did no good. The girl romped home.

  Dunno aboout this time.

  Having come only recently to the Voting Arena, as it were, I'm actually seriously considering an abstention this time round.

  (the not-very-political) Duncan.
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  Our mate

  by Duncan in

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  dear all.

  don't you think it's great that you know is back?.

  i mean, you might think he's a fat head and all, but it's pretty obvious he doesn't mean any of that stuff he posts.

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  Dear All

  Don't you think it's great that You Know is back?

  I mean, you might think he's a fat head and all, but it's pretty obvious he doesn't mean any of that stuff he posts. He's one of us, really.

  I hadn't realised how much I missed him until he started posting again.

  "You apostate vipers!" yeah!

  "You pitiful, doomed ridiculers of the Most High!" alright!

  Just like old times!

  Duncan
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  Musings on the WTS Funk

  by Farkel in

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  the watchtower society is in a funk.

  no doubt about it.

  it is stagnant and paralyzed by its own inertia.. it has survived for one and one quarter centuries for a few very simple reasons: .

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  Duncan

  Great Post, Farkel.

  Your point about "intellectual laziness" was well argued. I'll tell you what, though - what'll make your postings easier to grasp:

  Did you ever think of maybe numbering the paragraphs and then, like, writing these little questions underneath, so that we can all get the point?

  I'm sure some folks might even enjoy underlining the answers to the questions! That way we can all be sure that we're in total and united agreement with the full and weighty import of the post!

  What a truly thrilling and upbuilding arrangement that would be! Surely all right-hearted persons would show godly appreciation for such bounteous blessings!

  Your brother,

  Duncan
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  One Proud Englishman.

  by Englishman in

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  i've got to tell everyone, my wife christina has just had a letter from bath spa university.. after 4 hard years of study on "inclusive learning", her dissertation has been formally approved, and as such, she is now officially an m.a.. ain't the girl done well?.

  englishman.

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  Hey Englishman

  That's great!

  Congratulations to her. Pass on my best wishes.

  (Just watch out, though, that now she has her head filled up with Worthless Worldly Wisdom, she doesn't start to neglect the spiritual things, like ...er...making her monthly quota of magazine sales, or underlining bits of her Watchtower.)

  Duncan, only concerned in a caring way for your spiritual welfare.
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  Kingdom SMELLodies

  by reagan_oconnor in

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  which "kingdom melodies" did you most despise?.

  mine had to be #125... the one that talked about "bees that were molested.

  " [8>]

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  Hey Fark

  From House to House
  Di-Dum di-dah....

  Do you remember the brief flirtation that was enjoyed with upbeat, jazzy arrangements of the Kingdom Melodies at the District Assemblies in the early 70's? ( or was it just a UK thing?)

  Pretty soon the GB stepped in to stamp it all out - we had to go back to the slow, ponderous, wooden, officialy-sanctioned versions of our Musical Praise to the Most High. They couldn't lose control of a single aspect of things, not for a second.

  I remember reading the official line in the magazine about how we must not cheapen the "grandeur and majesty" of the official Society recordings.

  I remember that "Grandeur and Majesty" business particularly because that song From House To House must be the least majestic, least dignified and most irritating, lump-di-dah, stupid piece of "religious" music in the history of the world.

  Of course, it's not at ev'ry door we find a hearing ear!

  Duncan.
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  Brooklyn poem (repost)

  by philo in

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  my excuse for reposting, is that last time the site didn't allow verses in block format.

  so the whole thing was mushed into one paragraph.

  since then simon must have fixed the site up.

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  Duncan

  Thanks Philo, that was excellent. You are this Board's bard, you sard bardsard.

  I particularly liked:

  The wooden rhymes grind onward
  There's a 'must' in every verse

  Indeed.

  Duncan.
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  The Quick-Build Deception.

  by Englishman in

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  i was driving past a disused kingdom hall last week, here in wsm.

  it looked very out of place with its watchtower crennelations, like a mediaevel sort of castle, with a huge sign announcing that this was now the home of the british red cross.

  however, we are now blessed with a new, quick-build kingdom hall on the outskirts of town.. but this is not the true story, this quick-build kingdom hall took 3 months to erect, unlike the publicity blurb handed out to our local newspaper which claimed that the work was done in 3 days.. being involved in the building trade, i knew that the local equipment hire company had been supplying the dubs with concrete mixers, diggers, back hoes and jcb's for fully 3 months before the build officially started.. all the ground work was done weeks beforehand, all the services laid on, the roof trusses were ready and waiting as was the curtain walling and window shutters.

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  Englishman

  What you so clearly fail to take account of here is the spiritual, antitypical fulfilment of the biblical rule-of-thumb:

  "A year for a day"

  So, in fact, that 3 month (to us) elapsed build time, was, of course, to those who had the requisite "eyes of faith" a period of only a quarter of a day, or...er...I mean ...was it? 90 years - or something like that(?)

  Darn! Since turning apostate I seem to have lost all my spiritual insight (let the reader use discernment)

  Duncan (enjoying a Quick Brew)
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  a part of ourselves we neglected

  by rodnico in

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  my mother is coming to visit me next week.

  i haven't seen her for over 4 years.

  she thinks that somehow i am a completely different person since leaving the organization.

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  What things do I now do, that I didn’t before when I was In The Truth?

  I’m afraid to say that the Society has got this one dead right. Since I stopped associating with Jehovah’s People in their Spiritual Paradise, I have given myself over to wickedness, every sort of unclean thing, unwholesome sexual practices, violence and crime.

  I regularly rob banks and beat up old ladies. I lie and cheat and, of course, never wash.

  I smoke, constantly take drugs and I’m in and out of prison. My life is utterly wretched and I dine at the table of demons. I worship Satan, and strangely enough, I, too, have begun to cultivate Irises (expect to see a Watchtower article about that soon)

  Duncan..
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  The very model of a modern Ministerial.

  by philo in

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  i wrote this when i was a hardworking pioneer being passed over for ministerial servantship year after year.. .

  the circuit servant's coming soon, and when he asks i'll have to say.

  there's a creditable brother here the others are on holiday.

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  Philo,

  Bravo!

  [applauding, Standing Ovation]

  Simply excellent stuff.

  Duncan