Ah, found it.
The correct link is <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zofuzgruppejv/>
Two Z's.
kifoy
Posts by kifoy
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5New group in Denmark
by Manjana ini just wants to inform you, that we have started af new group in denmark.
i know the web-page are in danish, but i write here also, because iff someone from denmark, norway or sweden, read this are they more than welcome to join the group.
but only if they are x-witnesses or truly wants to leave the witnesses.
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New group in Denmark
by Manjana ini just wants to inform you, that we have started af new group in denmark.
i know the web-page are in danish, but i write here also, because iff someone from denmark, norway or sweden, read this are they more than welcome to join the group.
but only if they are x-witnesses or truly wants to leave the witnesses.
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kifoy
Hei Manjana.
When I visit your link, I only get the "Group not found" message. I even tried to search for the group, but Yahoo finds nothing.
Are you sure that you posted the right link?
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Inconvenient Watchtower Anagrams!
by professor inas you probably know, an anagram is made by taking all of the letters in a word or phrase and re-arranging them to spell something else.
sometimes it can be humourously approprite what you can come up with.
for instance, you can re-arrange the letters in.
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kifoy
Bavman: "How long did it take you to figure out all those anagrams"
Take one look again at the first post of our "Professor":
"...So I decided to run an anagram program..."
:-)
And by the way:
Kingdom hall = Damn kill hog
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Inconvenient Watchtower Anagrams!
by professor inas you probably know, an anagram is made by taking all of the letters in a word or phrase and re-arranging them to spell something else.
sometimes it can be humourously approprite what you can come up with.
for instance, you can re-arrange the letters in.
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kifoy
Disfellowshipping = His dipping fellows
Annointed = It and none
Field Service = I fled service (too true ;-) )
Armageddon = Go and Dream
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Ever get spanked for pulling your dress up in the meeting when little?
by White Dove inhave 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.
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kifoy
Spank a little girl for pulling up a dress? That's insane! They're children!
I've never heard of that here.
I do remember a girl in my cong, she might have been between 10-11 at that time, quite childish for her age, and very clumsy. Close to the end of the meeting she sometimes was allowed to visit the toilet. When she came back, she one (or more) time(s) would have her dress stuck into her pantyhose. One time she came back from the toilet (in the middle of the last prayer!), whith dress stuck into her pantyhose -- together with a strip of toilet paper!!!
The first time we just giggled a little bit. The other time, in the middle of that prayer (of course we had to peek...), me and my friend just _died_ of laughter, trying desperately to keep it quiet. OMG... :-D
Poor girl... :-)
No spanking occured after none of these events, as far as I know.
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What were your favourite topics in the field service?
by JH inoh, i loved it when there was an earthquake someplace around the world, or famine or war just to make a juicy introduction... .
bad economic news also made a good conversation..
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kifoy
I usually would only present the magazines and not much more. Quick and dirty. The Awake at front most of the time, because the titles here usually were where the most trivial and interesting. And maybe brochures or books if the where special campaigns.
If I decided to be more "advanced", I usually followed the same tactics as Tuesday. I too hated the door to door service.
I remember one time, I had for a while used the "hello we are visiting your neighbourhood trying to stimulate the interest for the Bible" (This may not be a very good presentation in English, I don't know, but in Norwegian, it was something like that.)
But one day, at one door, I can't explain what happend, really. But I said: "Hello we are visiting your neighbourhood trying to *simulate* the interest for the Bible". :-0
The very moment that words slipped from my mouth, I wished I could just vaporize. But the worst part was that I had a huge crush on the brother that was visiting that door along with me. He was laughing all the way back to the car.
Hehe. I can look back and laugh about it now... :-)
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Norway
by InquiryMan inin norway, the ombudsman of children s welfare intervened and a lot of fuss were made when it was made clear that jws endorsed corporal punishment in their publications even though it was banned by law.
it was even mentioned in the national news.
the coordinator was even interviewed on tv and the day after it was proven from the wt indexes that he had been lying.... i remember it was very embarrassing.
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Hei og hå! :-) (Hur mange norske/skandinaviske er det her egentlig?)
So it was in 89... Yeah, that sounds about right. I remember that we did not se the debates where the "Apostate" people where attending. But I think we gathered around the TV to see the one where good old Thor were attending. (Ah, Thor. I can still hear his voice in my head and se him gesturing from the platform. As a kid I was always fascinated by him, his short- and roundness, and his Bergen area dialect that made me sleepy...)
I can't remember much of the details and the reactions afterwords, really. I was about 11-12 years old.
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Norway
by InquiryMan inin norway, the ombudsman of children s welfare intervened and a lot of fuss were made when it was made clear that jws endorsed corporal punishment in their publications even though it was banned by law.
it was even mentioned in the national news.
the coordinator was even interviewed on tv and the day after it was proven from the wt indexes that he had been lying.... i remember it was very embarrassing.
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kifoy
One example I found: <http://www.nospank.net/n-p32r.htm> and also <http://nospank.net/n-f73.htm>.
I remember my father sitting long hours cutting and pasting in these small labels in the "family book" and the "paradise book". I thought it was a bit strange. The people that were buying these books (this was when we still were selling them, not giving them away), would of course see that something was changed in the text...
But I can't remember any change in the behaving of the JWs. There were no warning against spanking from the platform, as far as I can remember. But one could not officially meen that spanking was okey.
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Counting Time
by Xena ini 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.
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kifoy
Well... I have never been very active in service. I hated it. But we normally counted time from the first "door".
On long days, particularly when the district for the day was a long drive away, we used to visit one house, only to get the time running, and then drive for 30 minutes, and on our way home, maybe visit the same house again (if they were not at home earlier) to finish it up for the day. Before I was babtized, the others were of course counting time on me also.
But the worst part of the time reporting every month was not the time but the other things, in particular the "return visits".
I was not ashamed of my 13 hours, 20 magazines and maybe even a book (hey, we were giving them away!). But I hardly ever went on return visits. Too shy to do that, and when I tried (because we were instructed to at the meetings), I usually stuttered out something silly and messed it all up. But at the same time I was also embarrassed to submit a report like that, with plenty of hours and litterature, but not doing any follow ups.
So, it was really easier only to report five hours a month. I wouldn't have time to do any return visits then.
And even better: no report at all. I'm finally free :-)
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Your Least Favorite "Special" JW Event
by Nosferatu inthere's a few "special" jw events that happen throughout the year.
in case you've forgotten them, i'll list them (in case i've forgotten one, please refresh me):.
the 3 (sometimes more) day district convention .
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kifoy
lost_light06:
«Then passing around a couple crackers and some wine.....And you don't even get to eat or drink it!»
In my old cong. the baking of the bread was done by turns (is that the right idiom?), so when it was us who made the bread we also got to bring it back home (no anoy(nt)ed people at our place) -- and eat it there. Quite good actually.
The most boring "special event" was the "special" talk. Because it was nothing special about it.
The one I liked the most, I think, was the CO's visit. Because they often stayed at our place, and they were often really fun people. I did not like the increasing amount of time in FS that week, though.
kifoy