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  Feigning illness to miss a meeting

  by dozy in

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  as jws , we all remember the thought of dragging oneself out of bed on a nice sunny sunday meeting or getting home tired after a hard day at work contemplating another boring , pointless , repetitive weekday evening meeting.. as the only legitimate reason for missing a meeting is illness , the only way for anyone to avoid a meeting that they really couldn't be bothered to go to ( ie most of them ) is to "pretend" to be ill. so given an average meeting attendance of 60% or so , invariably many people would be missing , presumed dead ( or "ill".

  we used to have a congregation game of football ( soccer ) on a sunday afternoon and it always amused me how many jws who were "too ill" to attend the meeting on the morning would suddenly recover , lazarus style , to play without exhibiting any signs of the apparently near fatal acute health condition of that morning.

  one of the more officious elders tried to introduce a rule that the only ones who could play would have to have been at the meeting that morning , but in practice it was very difficult to police and the better players tended to be the ones who missed most meetings.. one of the problems was the risk that some well meaning and / or nosey jw would phone up ( or even turn up , unannounced ) at the house to see "how you were" and clearly it didn't go down too well if they found you in rude health chasing the dog or kids around the garden..

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  snowbird

  So am I.

  Oh, Freedom!

  Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave ...

  Oops! Sorry, Dozy.
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  A question to ask U.K. J.W.'s

  by The Searcher in

  1. watchtower
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  "has the moors murderer ian brady's own death absolved him of his sins?

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39929538.

  then tell them to explain the j.w.

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  snowbird

  ROFL!

  You are a hot mess, Waton.
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  Feigning illness to miss a meeting

  by dozy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as jws , we all remember the thought of dragging oneself out of bed on a nice sunny sunday meeting or getting home tired after a hard day at work contemplating another boring , pointless , repetitive weekday evening meeting.. as the only legitimate reason for missing a meeting is illness , the only way for anyone to avoid a meeting that they really couldn't be bothered to go to ( ie most of them ) is to "pretend" to be ill. so given an average meeting attendance of 60% or so , invariably many people would be missing , presumed dead ( or "ill".

  we used to have a congregation game of football ( soccer ) on a sunday afternoon and it always amused me how many jws who were "too ill" to attend the meeting on the morning would suddenly recover , lazarus style , to play without exhibiting any signs of the apparently near fatal acute health condition of that morning.

  one of the more officious elders tried to introduce a rule that the only ones who could play would have to have been at the meeting that morning , but in practice it was very difficult to police and the better players tended to be the ones who missed most meetings.. one of the problems was the risk that some well meaning and / or nosey jw would phone up ( or even turn up , unannounced ) at the house to see "how you were" and clearly it didn't go down too well if they found you in rude health chasing the dog or kids around the garden..

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  snowbird

  Same here.

  One nosy heifer even called to inform me, "Nothing about your illness was announced from the platform."

  In other words, if it wasn't mentioned during the meeting, it wasn't legitimate!

  I'd just been discharged from the emergency room where I'd been treated for overwhelming anxiety.
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  Feigning illness to miss a meeting

  by dozy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as jws , we all remember the thought of dragging oneself out of bed on a nice sunny sunday meeting or getting home tired after a hard day at work contemplating another boring , pointless , repetitive weekday evening meeting.. as the only legitimate reason for missing a meeting is illness , the only way for anyone to avoid a meeting that they really couldn't be bothered to go to ( ie most of them ) is to "pretend" to be ill. so given an average meeting attendance of 60% or so , invariably many people would be missing , presumed dead ( or "ill".

  we used to have a congregation game of football ( soccer ) on a sunday afternoon and it always amused me how many jws who were "too ill" to attend the meeting on the morning would suddenly recover , lazarus style , to play without exhibiting any signs of the apparently near fatal acute health condition of that morning.

  one of the more officious elders tried to introduce a rule that the only ones who could play would have to have been at the meeting that morning , but in practice it was very difficult to police and the better players tended to be the ones who missed most meetings.. one of the problems was the risk that some well meaning and / or nosey jw would phone up ( or even turn up , unannounced ) at the house to see "how you were" and clearly it didn't go down too well if they found you in rude health chasing the dog or kids around the garden..

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  I remember attending a CA on the same Saturday as the Iron Bowl.

  Boop! Boop! Boop!

  During the late afternoon session, brothers were pouring outside to their vans and SUV's to watch the game.

  I don't blame them.

  For those who are clueless, google Iron Bowl in Alabama, and you will understand.
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  The Proof is all Around Us

  by suavojr in

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  https://youtu.be/8imamwcet1c.

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  snowbird

  Sure sounds better than those Kingdom Melodies.
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  Quick question can a monisterial servant conduct the watchower

  by poopie in

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  hello.

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  I remember when all three elders were away for some reason, a ministerial servant conducted the WT Study.

  Everybody agreed it was one of the best and liveliest ever.

  One jealous elder was none too pleased when they returned and heard the glowing reviews.

  This was the same one who exercised so much control that his wife felt a need to ask him which size eggs to buy.

  Bastard!
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  Why is the white race so different?

  by Crazyguy in

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  what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?

  is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?

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  snowbird

  Flipper, I KNOW we are cousins!

  WTWizard, I KNOW White people can't stand as much sun as Black people!
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  The Amazing Andamanese People

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
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  i recently watched a documentary about andamanese people on youtube.. the andaman archipelago is officially ruled by india and lies in the bay of bengal, between the eastern coast of india and burma.. the indigenous people are or were stone age people, hunter-gatherers.. they have the general appearance and stature of african pygmy people.. there are 4 main surviving groups: great andaman (made up of several tribes, although the remaining people are few in number and have discarded tribal boundaries), jarawa, onge, and sentinelese.

  i've read a bit about their languages (only on wikipedia - tsk!

  tsk!

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  Thank you, LUHE.

  I don't know how to do pictures on my tablet.
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  Why is the white race so different?

  by Crazyguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?

  is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?

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  snowbird

  LOL.

  You're welcome.

  Also, in the OP, I think Crazy guy means variety instead of verity.

  I think.
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  The Amazing Andamanese People

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
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  i recently watched a documentary about andamanese people on youtube.. the andaman archipelago is officially ruled by india and lies in the bay of bengal, between the eastern coast of india and burma.. the indigenous people are or were stone age people, hunter-gatherers.. they have the general appearance and stature of african pygmy people.. there are 4 main surviving groups: great andaman (made up of several tribes, although the remaining people are few in number and have discarded tribal boundaries), jarawa, onge, and sentinelese.

  i've read a bit about their languages (only on wikipedia - tsk!

  tsk!

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  snowbird

  Lovely people.

  Here, we would refer to their skin color as blue-black or that they were born spittin' purple.

  I was just reading about the Yanomamo, a group down in South America that we studied in a college anthropology class.

  There is so much diversity on Planet Earth.