Posts by aligot ripounsous

Not that it was weird, but I remember the audience being quite interested by tits pointing sharply through the blouse of a young pretty emotional sister who was giving a KM demonstration.

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The elders of the '80s are retiring

by truthseeker in

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i was catching up on news with a friend of mine from my old hall - a few of the elders have stepped down and some have retired.. these are men who were in their 30's during the 1980's when i was very young - now they are retiring or facing retirement.. i sometimes wonder how they feel after working all those years only to wake up and realize that their working lives are over.. do they ask themselves: what's happened?

where's armaggedon?

the day of reckoning has come - the elders who were 30 in 1980 are now 60 years old.

aligot ripounsous

That is happening in my wife's congregation. They were already very few of them, some having been drained away by foreign speaking (chinese, Korean) groups (totally useless, BTW). Two remaining ones, now in their seventies, are moving away to places of retirement in their country houses, they were the two most open minded. Among the two who remained, who were the younger ones, one got a nervous breakdown and had to step down as an elder (was the one who kicked me out). The one who is left hardly understands what he reads. I suspect that he is the one who, after having gotten the CO visit his study group, was at the origin of the suppression of these groups, his group was a real joke, the CO's report to the branch must have been alarming and desperate. All that the congregation now has as elder is this bloke, I wish the members good luck for the years to come.

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Friends, when you make very long posts, please do make paragraphs or

by asilentone in

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i will not read them.

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aligot ripounsous

I 'm not concerned by the remark as my posts are shorter and shorter

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Leolaia: Where is your story?

by pirata in

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i looked through your posts but couldn't find your life story.

have you written it?.

i would love to read your progression from/through jw to avid scholar :).

aligot ripounsous

Thank you Leolaia for clinging to this forum, we do need your erudition. I bet we are many on here who have made a compilation of your so interesting and learnt articles about the cross, book of Henoch, etc. Thanks again.

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Thousands of people have come and gone from this site....is this part of the healing process???

by Witness 007 in

i see alot of new names here lately and if you look at the log on names here there are thousands who have moved on....every 2 years the posters change.....some vent and leave, others stay on for years.

i guess moving on with your life is a good thing, i think this site helps...any thoughts?.

aligot ripounsous

I've never been a prolific poster but when I started on JWD I was still attending meetings, so I was able to give first hand witness about what I was hearing, readind and thinking during these meetings, but as time has gone by I've felt that I had said about everything I wanted to say and I don't feel for repeating the same things again and again. I still see JWN as a good source of information about what's going on in the WT micro world, telling myself, though, that this organisation is not worth the time I spend inquiring about its pettiness.

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In the past, FAKE newspaper coverage of WT "International Conventions" in the US

by AndersonsInfo in

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many people that post or lurk here at jwn are too young to remember some of the huge international conventions jws held many years ago, but probably have seen impressive photos such as of the 1958 eight-day convention held simultaneously at new yorks yankee stadium and polo grounds.

especially remarkable was the tremendous newspaper coverage of that assembly and other special conventions held in the 1940s and 50s in the united states.

yesterday, when i downloaded somebodys old scrapbook full of long-ago newspaper articles, http://www.archive.org/details/watchtowernewsscrapbook,reporting on jehovahs witnesses so-called international conventions, i couldnt help but remember what i wrote regarding extraordinary newspaper convention coverage in my www.freeminds.org article, how jehovahs witnesses watchtower religion impacted my family history, part 3 and thought id share the information here on jwn for those who are not familiar with how such wonderful coverage came about.

aligot ripounsous

I remember popular English papers being sold outside Twickenham stadium, around 1978, with such front page large headline as "JWS TAKE THE PLUNGE" and JWs all exited buying those papers at the end of the assembly thinking, as Barbara mentioned, what a wonderful witness was given to outsiders.

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I Went to the KH on Saturday

by snowbird in

i needed to get a picture of my daughter all dressed up in her bridesmaid gown.. she looked lovely - tastefully made up and just radiant.. i stepped across the threshold and felt ... nothing.. i saw some people from back in the day who did not recognize me, or pretended they didn't.. that was just fine.. unless my daughter opts for a kh wedding, i'm done for good.. thanks to y'all for listening.. syl.

aligot ripounsous

Since it is confession time, Snowbird, I have to say that I, and children, accompanied my wife to meetings, and the sunday assembly, during our holiday in Martinique, so that she would not feel lonely. I was amused, daughter was bored to death and son was checking girls. In the end, we did get out of the KH safe and sound, so attending as visitors was not such of a big deal, even a good way to take the measure of the distance between current serenity and past inner angry boiling (for me at least). Hope your daughter's wedding was a success, a happy day to remember. I hope, too, that you feel regenerated after this little vacation off JWN.

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Britains M.O.D no longer looking for E.T's

by wobble in

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for over 50 years ,britain's ministry of defence has had a unit that investigated u.f.o sightings and the like, they have just shut the unit down.. they say that out of all the thousands of cases they have investigated, not one led them to believe there was any evidence for et's etc.. wot about all them crop circles then ?.

love.

wobble.

aligot ripounsous

Crop circles are back,

Since these perfectly designed patterns pop up overnight in August, can one of our Southern England friends stay mounting guard, see and tell us who's the mischiever, settling the case once and for all ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/7952650/Crop-circles-The-mystery-that-keeps-us-going-round-in-circles.html

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Am I bad for doing that?

by asilentone in

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sometimes when i see insect here in my home, i just put a drinking glass over it and let it die slowly.

am i that cruel?

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aligot ripounsous

I do the same with a plastic goblet but then I slid a piece of paper under the opening of the goblet and throw the insect (except mosquitoes and big black flies which I squash mercilessly) to the garden, through the window. I'm sure the god of spiders, ants and moths gives me credit for that and will remember my good deeds. May be these bugs will intercede on my behalf on the day of judgement, who knows ? Helps me to sleep soundly, not thinking of these dying little things.