I took notes. At least I wrote down the scriptures and tried to write down a keyword or two.
My mother always took great and detailed notes, so I was taught to do so too.
The notes somehow helped me to stay focused and to not fall asleep, but looking back on my notes some days after, there was not much to understand other than a scripture here and there... (terrible handwriting and disconnected keywords)
After convensions (especially after the summer conventions), at the "family study" we used to repeat the whole convention program based on our notes (and sometimes also the recording my father had done). My mother's notes were of course always the most "complete". And these family studies were always sooooo boring. zzzz.
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by TooBad TooSad inat circuit and especially district assemblies so many witnesses take.
notes of what was being said at such a feverish pace that i would ask.
myself: "what are they hearing that i am not hearing that is so important.
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Today's Blonde Joke [present company accepted]
by AK - Jeff ina blonde is grieved over her husbands illicit affairs.
she goes to the gunshop and purchases a pistol.
on arriving home she finds her husband making love with a beautiful redhead.. she grabs the gun from her purse, and puts it to her own temple.. the husband cries out "honey don't do this.
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I'm blond myself, but I love the blond jokes.
Maybe it is because I don't really understand them...? ;-)
Had a few laying around to share with you:
Let me start with the best one I've ever heard:
<http://funhouse.bubble.ro/462/World_s_DUMBEST_Blonde_Locked_Herself_Inside_the_Car/>
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Blonde knitter
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While cruising the Interstate, the state trooper passed a blond knitting
while driving.
The Trooper decided to stop the blonde driver and rolled down his
passenger side window. He pulled up beside the blond driver and shouted
"Pull Over" !!!
The distraught blonde looked, and said, Nah, duh, just a scarf...
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Emergency Repair Kit
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Josh was helping Sally, the blonde, clean out the trunk of her car.
Inside, he noticed a bag labeled "Emergency Repair Kit". Looking at it a
little closer, he noticed a stick of dynamite inside.
Thinking that was a bit strange, he asked Sally what it was for.
She said, "It's part of my emergency repair kit."
Josh said, "I can see that, but why?"
Sally replied, "In case I have a flat and need to blow up one of my tires."
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Mother passed away
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A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out. Her boss,
concerned about all his employees' well being, asked sympathetically,
"What's the matter?" To which the blonde replies....."Early this morning I got a phone call
saying that my mother had passed away."
The boss, feeling very sorry at this point, explains to the young girl.
"Why don't you go home for the day.....we aren't terribly busy. Just take the day off
to relax and rest." The blonde very calmly states......" No, I'd be better off here.
I need to keep my mind off it and I have the best chance of doing that here."
The boss agrees and allows the blonde to work as usual...."If you need anything,
just let me know."
Well, a few hours pass and the boss decides to check on the blonde. He
looks out over his office and sees the blonde hysterically crying!! He rushes
out to her, asking, "What's so bad now........are you gonna be ok??"
"No......" exclaims the blonde. "I just got a call from my sister. She
told me that HER mom died too!!"
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Green Side Up
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One day a woman decided to have all the rooms in her house painted, so she
called a painter to come over and give her an estimate on how much it
would cost. The painter arrived, and the woman brought him into the dining
room.
"What color would you like this room painted?" he asked.
"Green," the woman replied. The painter nodded and wrote something down on
his notepad. Then he went over to the nearest open window and yelled out,
"Green side up!"
The woman thought this was odd but continued on to the kitchen.
"What color would you like this room painted?" he asked.
"Yellow," the woman replied. Again, the man nodded, wrote something down
on his notepad, and went over to the nearest open window.
"Green side up!" he yelled.
The woman was puzzled, but figured that he was a professional, so she
shouldn't question him. The whole tour continued like this; the woman
becoming more & more suspicious each room they went through that the
painter leaned out the open window and yelled, "Green side up!"
Finally they were finished and the woman couldn't stand it any longer. She
asked the painter,
" Why did you yell 'Green side up' out the window every time I told you
what color I wanted the rooms painted? I don't want every room painted
green!" The painter laughed.
"I know. I wrote down the colors you wanted your rooms to be painted. But
I had to keep yelling 'Green side up' out the windows because I have a
crew of blondes across the street laying sod."
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K-9 unit
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The police department, famous for it's superior K-9 unit, was somewhat
taken aback by a recent incident. Returning home from work, a blonde was
shocked to find her house ransacked and burglarized. She telephoned the
police at once and reported the crime.
The police dispatcher broadcast the call on the channels, and a K-9 unit
patrolling nearby was the first on the scene.
As the K-9 officer approached the house with his dog on a leash, the
blonde ran out on the porch, clapped a hand to her head and moaned, "I
come home from work to find all my possessions stolen, I call the police
for help, and what do they do? They send a BLIND policeman!"
funny smiles from
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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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Ah, found it.
The correct link is <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zofuzgruppejv/>
Two Z's.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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