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  Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

  by Dunedain in

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  there were always all types of speakers in the org.

  myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

  other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

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  Dunedain - WBBR ??

  Does the W stand for Watchtower if so then I know what borough
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  Any funny stories of when a"brother" giving a talk, said something "funny" or "questionable", and didn't even realize it?

  by Dunedain in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  there were always all types of speakers in the org.

  myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.. sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated.

  other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience.

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  So Happy It's Thursday - SHIT, so appropriate for meeting and the brother didn't even realize it

  Dunedain, can you disclose which borough you're from, or you might be found out, I'm in Queens.
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  What kind of Scumbag steals a young boy leg braces.

  by James Mixon in

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  that's a sick person.

  a young boy leg braces taken from his mom's car.

  even worst.

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  I'll tell you what I think is even worse, and this actually happened a while back here in NYC. A man said that he was mugged and knocked out of his wheelchair and the muggers took it. Turns out it wasn't true, the guy just needed a new wheelchair, and of course people donated to him because they felt so sorry for him. One person can just totally mess up how you feel about people who really need the help.
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  Have you ever had your oven door explode?

  by Ucantnome in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the other day the glass in my oven door exploded and sent glass into the next room, fortunately i wasn't peering in at the time.

  about a year go the previous oven door shattered one morning.

  the oven was cold.

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  That is strange, I was thinking a gas issue, but then it would've been much worse if that was the case.
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  A DAY IN THE LIFE

  by Terry in

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  a day in the life.

  i took a hot bath this morning.

  then, after making my bed and saying "good morning" to my roommate, sana--i jumped on my bike and headed off to breakfast.sound exciting enough for you yet?

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  I find it interesting to learn about James Randi writing on such a serious subject. When I was kid, there was a show called Wonderama and there was always a frequent guest on the show called The Amazing Randy doing magic tricks for the kids, I guess as he got older he dropped the tricks and got serious. I wonder how old he is now?
  
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  UPDATE on moving in with 4 guys

  by Terry in

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  living with 4 other guys.

  "good morning, richard!

  richard is almost never in the house.

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  Looking forward to the next installment of your soap opera life Terry!
  
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  Bygone Days of Old Bethel...

  by freemindfade in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  something occurred to me last night.

  people that made their pilgrimage to jw mecca (bethel) would often be excited about some silly things, i say silly because for those of you who were there or lived near enough to be involved in these things regularly they lost their magic.

  i am talking about on tours one of the most memorable things people talked about or looked forward to... lunch.

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  I remember we took the tour around either 1967 or 1968, so was just a kid, but my mother made a big deal about when we were visiting a Bethelite in his room and my dad who wasn't a Dub yet asked as we were all walking out of this room if he should lock door, and the Brother say "nobody has too lock their door around here".

  My mother told that story ad nauseum for years about how safe Bethel was, well like I said that was about 1968, you certainly can't say the same thing now !! A story even made the local news here about ten or more years ago that a Bethelite was caught stealing from his "side gig" at a store or something, which is why it made the news. My mother refused to believe that until the Elder from her Hall who lived at Bethel confirmed it for her.
  
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  My mom passed away yesterday....

  by minimus in

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  thank you all for your sincere encouragement during these last few weeks.

  finally, she is at peace.

  i was with her , holding her hand when she died.

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  Sorry to hear Minimus.
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  So Microsoft made a laptop - Surface Pro 4 / Surface Book

  by Simon in

  1. social
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  microsoft definitely seem to be undergoing a revival and are coming out with some cool tech.

  it's good to see them turning things around and keeping apple honest.. the holo-lens looks fantastic - much better than full vr headsets by providing augmented reality instead (imagine 3d minecraft projected on a table or aliens running round your living room to shoot at).. more practical though is the update to the surface tablet and the surprise release, the surface book laptop / tablet.

  yeah, it's confusing - one is a tablet that becomes a laptop and the other is a laptop that becomes a tablet.. i promised our eldest a laptop for his high-school graduation and to use now he's starting university and took him to the apple store a few months ago but the macbooks i was leaning towards weren't available at the time.

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  My gripe about Microsoft is, if you buy a new computer you can have the latest edition of Microsoft Office loaded on to it of course, it cost $89, but Microsoft will now charge you yearly to use Microsoft Office, don't they have enough money ? I'm glad I still have the version of Office I got when I purchased my laptop in either 2006 or 2007, I recently had new hard drive installed which sets it back to brand new, so I just had my old version of Office loaded on again. If I buy a new laptop I'm going to use my old version for sure instead of paying Microsoft 90 dollars a year, plus you have to pay for Norton Security as well !

  I noticed that the latest versions of Samsung tablets now have Microsoft Office loaded on to them. wonder if you'll get a yearly charge for it being on a tablet as well ?
  
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  Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  who were your past circuit overseers?

  i'm sure a lot of us actually know mutual people, as the co's relocate all over the country.. here's a few from the southeast us: (let me know if you recognize any names and post yours too please...).

  ellwood johnson (new york/philadelphia area for several years also).

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  Sounds like a Cosby situation to me, later on these Sisters leave da troof, they might try to track him down