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I loved Tahiti - great place and great place.
Been to many of the World Heritage sites in India.
Jaisalmer in India, on the border with Pakistan is totally magically!
The Himalayas are breath taking.
There are just some great places in the world yet for us to find them - those are our dream destinations!
lately, all we get around here is snow!!!!
i'm sick of it.
but at least we have no meetings to attend!.
Dinah - so we know what you like to do then
this is exciting, if only for the cognitive dissonance it has to cause jws.
and since a "worldy" member of my family worked as an engineer on a spectrometer going into the pheonix mar's lander, i get to make sure my witness family partakes in that cognitive dissonance.. .
source: news australia.
Nice one Inkling.
i don't come here much anymore, but i do like to keep tabs on anything "important" happening in the wt.. these two rumors interest me.
do we have any official, trustworthy source on them?.
changeling.
Well I haven't been to a metting in 5 years, I was a pillar of the local congregation and my wife is still is a zealous witness but still I haven't been contacted yet.
I have been thinking about what I will say when I get a visit. I think that lack of any genuine concern is going to be high on the list. The local elders are probably slightly scared of ex-elders who probably know too much, but having said that, I think that I had visit from an elder and the DO since I left. So much for a loving and concerned organization!
this movie was apparently loved by a lot of regular movie-goers and critics alike.
kelly ripa raved about it on the "live" show, and said it seeing it was a life-altering (or maybe she said life-changing) experience.
either way..... i saw it ....and it left me cold!
We went to see it last night and really enjoyed it.
However, having said that we have been to Mumbia 5 or 6 times and know India very well, so many of its themes are very familiar to us.
I know many of the things portrayed in the movie do actually happen in India but it would be wrong to assume it is all like that.
lately, all we get around here is snow!!!!
i'm sick of it.
but at least we have no meetings to attend!.
My wife and were away for the weekend last week. She even missed the Watchtower on helping strays return to the flock! Guess she thought quality time together is more important. Went to a very wild and cold part of the coast line but at the same time it was beautiful.
Very clever.
this is exciting, if only for the cognitive dissonance it has to cause jws.
and since a "worldy" member of my family worked as an engineer on a spectrometer going into the pheonix mar's lander, i get to make sure my witness family partakes in that cognitive dissonance.. .
source: news australia.
Not so sure it is proof. The theory is that the methane must be produced by microbes. Still I did find it an interesting piece of news.
i suspect a few witnesses were not "straight" but didn't act on their sexual preferences.. i knew one up and coming bethelite who was approached by the bethel heavies and talked to about his "effeminate mannerisms" and was pretty much told that he could become a more prominent menmber of the bethel family if he "became more masculine looking" and preferably found a bethel sister to marry.
he followed the counsel and was thereafter a regular designated bethel speaker at district conventions.
interestingly, all of his bethel buddies thought the whole scenario was a hoot, knowing that he was really an effeminate man suddenly now looking very hetero..
Jimmy Page - I love musicals. Does that make me Gay?
anointed class .
faithful and discreet servant class .
faithful and discreet slave class .
The rank structure always concerned me as a witness.
In India, I have seen the poorest of brothers and sisters and little travel for over a day to get to a district assembly and then spend a couple of nights in what can only be described as a cellar, sleeping on the concrete floor. My wife and I tried to spend time with these people but I didn't see any of the Bethel speakers down there.
On the other hand, back in the west we wanted to see a friend of ours who is, to use a term frequently used on this board, a 'Bethel heavy' who was a visiting speaker at our district assembly. We never saw him or his wife in the main auditorium, so went up to the chairmans office. It was like trying to get in to Fort Knox. There was no way they would even let us throught the doors of the hospitality suite before they had sent someone to check that brother X really knew us - and he would deign to would see us.
I guess "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".
