We sometimes had the book study at our place when I was a child. I thought it was really nice, because we did not have to leave the house and it did not take a long time to get home againg because we already were there.
I grew up in a small cong, so it was only around 9-12 people at our book study. The people in our cong were nice and did not destroy anything as far as I can remember.
Here in Norway we always remove our shoes in the hallway before we enter the living room. We sometimes bring our own slippers, but never walk into the house with our outdoor shoes.
So the carpets (if there are any) are not being messed up.
And of course, when the book study finished I could go to my room and change clothes :-)
My mom made me at least wait until the guests had left (unless someone stayed a little longer for supper), but I always ripped off my skirts and put on the trousers pretty fast.
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21How many of you had book studies held in your home?
by FreedomFrog inmy ex and i did for several years in our new home.
i was excited at first because that meant we were "good" dubs.
after about 6 months someone stuck their finger in our candle we had burning in the bathroom and splashed wax all over our new bathroom wall.
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"Once upon a time, the Watchtower and Awake each used to be mailed to homes."
Of course! Now I remember.
I just couldn't fit the English word with anything I remembered form the JW life in my own language :-)
And it is quite a long time since I had those subscription forms in my FS bag.
Thanks for the reminder.
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New Scrolls found
by Erace ini haven't heard about it, but what about them dead sea scrolls that were found years ago?
since i haven't seen them yet, i can't help wonder if it's even true that such scrolls were found.
why are they not out there for the public, i.e.
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The Gospel of Judas?
Oh, the borg might not like that gospel :-)
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just a silly statistic
by purplesofa inthis board moves pretty fast......... i dont know why .
but i was wondering, what the longest length of time has gone by inbetween posts.........excluding when the site was down!!!.
purps.
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I understand the question as "time gone between any post" not only time between posts in a specific topic.
If you study the "active topics" pages, the most resent posts often are within minutes.
But to find the longest intermission, and be certain that it is not caused by downtime on the server...
I don't know.
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I wonder if the new slips have a column for subscriptions any more?
I can't remember, what are subscriptions? Can you bring me up to date?
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Quotable Quotes; Please Add Yours ...
by compound complex inthe endeavor to compel all men to think alike on all subjects,.
culminated in the great apostasy and the development of the .
great papal system; and thereby the 'gospel,' the 'one faith,'.
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981
"John Gummer is the biggest shitbag I have ever met."
Comment by the Norwegian Minister of the Environment, Thorbjørn Berntsen in 1993, after Gummer (the GB Minister of Environment) had refused to discuss the acid rain problem on the grounds of the Norwegian minke whale harvest.
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Maybe we should start using them again for the time we spend on ApostaSites...?
Haha! I'd be a Pioneer!
And I, for the first time in my life, will have plenty of "return visits" :-D
But did any of you fill in the details, all dates and the hours and deliveries on very date and stuff before turning it in, or just the totals?
I only filled in the totals.
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What kind are you!
by brokenperfection inwhat kind of elders daughter are you?.
i am a elders daughter currently and would like to know how you feel about being an elders daughter.
tell some of your experinces or situations cause of you being an elders daughter.. thanks .
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I'm an elder's daughter. He was appointed as an elder when I was only a few years old (before I can remember).
We lived in a small town, and the cong had during my childhood betweed 18-40 publishers. They were not many elders, so my father had a lot to do, and was also a PO for many years.
But I think he tried to find a balance, but sometimes I remember that he was very busy with cong stuff and had less time for family.
The worst part for me was that my parents are very respected among the other JWs in the area (my father as a respected elder, and my mother for beeing a pioneer for many years, even special pioner before she met my dad), and almost everybody know who they are, so I really felt the preasure from everyone to be like them. But I could never be a pioneer.
It was this preasure that eventually drove me away from the Tooth :-)
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Cold Weather Dress Code for Witnesses
by WTWizard inwith the advent of cooler weather (at least in canada and the northern us), one might think of how the witnesses are going to cope.
for certain, dress codes are going to have different effects now than they did when it was broiling hot.. men are going to be more comfortable now.
cooler weather means that the coat is not going to create as much heat stroke risk as it did in the heat of mid summer.
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Here on the Norwegian coast, the weather can be really rough, even in summer (usually not as cold as in winter, but it's not very comfortable wearing skirts and fine shoes in cold rain and wind either).
I remember one summer, we were together on a vacant district (don't know if this is the correct term in English) to an area at the northern coast of Norway. One of the brothers had a fishing boat, and we were about 6 brothers and sisters jumping on board to visit some of the smaller islands. The plan was to go there by boat, leave a group on one end, go to the other end of the island and work towards the first group. (It was a really great trip, if you forget about the field service part.)
We were all well dressed, most of the sisters wore skirts (I can't remember if I did - I hated, and still hate, skirts). And we all had pretty fine shoes.
You should have seen how the locals looked at us crazy people. Not at all dressed based on the weather. One sister and I even got a lift on the back of a truck because the (not interested) man felt pity for us.
That day we learned that, in weather and temperatures like this (as it often is, as least in the west and nothern parts of Norway), wearing "fine clothes" is not likely to give a "positive impression". Rather the opposite. The most important thing was that your clothes were clean and not worn out.
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Well - the New Secret Watchtower should arrive pretty soon.....
by AK - Jeff ini hope someone opens a new secret watchtower website with all the pages scanned monthly.
wouldn't that be a hoot?
i forget nowadays - when should the dubs expect that january shipment?
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I read a letter on the noticeboard . It said that congs would initially receive a similar number to the Kingdom Ministry but they could increase it . Also although the study editions were not to be offered to the public, interested ones could have one on request.
It will be interesting to see how the content differs though.....I'm more curious about how different the many congs around the world will interpret this "rule" about who can cet a copy of the studytower and who can't...
And will my parents still offer all the mags to my husband. Maybe they think he's not interested enough because he tend to ask these difficult questions?
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