Posts by tooktheredpill

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Do you remember GRACE GOUGH?

by LullingtonRd in

hello, i am grace gough's granddaughter:.

i have started a blog that begins at the beginning and this is with grace.

follow along as i dive into her life - and please do reach out if you have any stories to share with me that i can add to my blog.. you can find the blog here:.

tooktheredpill

I remember "Granny Grace". Lovely lady with an awesome heart. I still have the encouraging messages she send me many years ago.

Thanks so much for sharing the link to her life story. Great read! Grace is always remembered.

TooktheRedPill.

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Mouthy has Passed Away

by Simon in

jw
friends

update on mouthy (grace gough)this is graces granddaughter.

i wanted to send an update that today my beautiful grandmother passed away - surrounded by friends and family.

- may 22 1927 - sept 2nd 2016. mouthys_granddaughter.

tooktheredpill

I haven't being active in the forum for some time. Today I logged in, and I'm am very saddened to hear that Mouthy passed away. She always had words of encouragement for everyone. She will be missed.

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I lost my pet today...

by tooktheredpill in

she was a 12 year old maltese.

the best pet in the world.

my wife and i never had kids, so she was our only daughter.

tooktheredpill

Thanks a lot for your comments, guys. I really appreciate them!

Simon, we had a similar experience with my dog about 3 years ago. A mass was discovered in her kidney and we thought that she was going to die... but she bounced back!

This morning she started gasping for air, and we brought her to the vet. There was nothing they could do. We put her to sleep.

She will be missed so much.

She loved french fries. We used to give her a couple each time that we went to McD's. :)

TTRP

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I lost my pet today...

by tooktheredpill in

she was a 12 year old maltese.

the best pet in the world.

my wife and i never had kids, so she was our only daughter.

tooktheredpill

She was a 12 year old Maltese. The best pet in the world. My wife and I never had kids, so she was our only daughter. There is no way to describe the emptiness I feel right now.

I'm just venting...

TTRP

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To all the newbies: How I've have adapted to life outside the Org

by tooktheredpill in

i havent been active in the forum for some time, but i keep reading your comments every few weeks.

ive noticed that there are many new members.

welcome to jwd!!!

Tampa FLorida Lurkers

by sosoconfused in

i am searching for a brother and his wife who are from my congregation in tampa florida.. they are both young in their late twenties or early 30's.

last name begins with an "r".

if anyone fits this description can you please pm!!.

SAD news about OOMPA......

by redredrose in

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friends

our friend, oompa, has passed away.

just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.

it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.

tooktheredpill

I haven't been in the forum for a while, and I saw the news about Oompa some minutes ago.

I'm so shocked and truly sad to hear about it.

Rest in peace, my friend.

TookTheRedPill

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Changes to the Watchtower and Awake magazines size! (Unnanounced Confidential letter)

by tooktheredpill in

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friends

Below is a copy of a letter that is supposed to be read to the congregations after April 2. I don't know if it was posted before, but it explains changes in the WT websites and changes in the size of the printed Watchtower and Awake! Magazine sizes.

Please let us know what do you think about it!

TooktheRedPill

_________________________________________

April 2, 2012

TO ALL CONGREGATIONS

Re: Announcement to be read following Watchtower Study during week of April 2, 2012

Dear Brothers:

The Internet is a technology that Jehovah’s organization is using to good advantage to spread the
good news to all corners of the earth. Consider the impact our Web sites are having. On a typical day,
400,000 people, both Witnesses and non-Witnesses, visit watchtower.org, jw.org, or jw-media.org.
They read our publications online in over 430 languages. Each day they download close to half a million
audio, text, or sign-language-video files. Every day a hundred requests for Bible studies are sent
in. To enhance the effectiveness of our use of the Internet, the Governing Body has decided to consolidate
the three sites into one site called jw.org. The Web site will be completely redesigned. It will be
appealing and easy to navigate using either a computer or a mobile device.

The redesigned jw.org Web site is planned for release around the beginning of June 2012. It
will paint an appealing picture of our preaching work, branch offices, Kingdom Halls, and conventions.
A newsroom section will provide up-to-date reporting on events affecting God’s people
worldwide. Selected features from our magazines that can be presented more effectively on the
Web site will now be published only on jw.org. These include the following: “For Young People,”
“My Bible Lessons,” and the Gilead graduation report from the public edition of The Watchtower
and “For Family Review” and “Young People Ask” from Awake! In addition, a series of online articles
available only on the Web site will provide concise, clear answers to questions about the Bible
and about Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The Governing Body has noted the growing tendency for people to obtain reading material
from the Internet and has carefully weighed the effect this trend is having on the printing industry
and on our ability to obtain paper and equipment for printing. Based on these changing conditions,
effective with the issues of January 2013, Awake! and the public edition of The Watchtower will be
reduced from 32 pages to 16 pages. These magazines that we distribute to the public will continue
to provide a rich supply of enlightening material to attract people to the truth of God’s Word. Since
each issue will contain less material, it may be possible for more translation teams to be able to
translate every issue of Awake! and the public edition of The Watchtower, thus increasing the number
of languages in which they are available. The study edition of The Watchtower will continue to
be a 32-page magazine.

The Governing Body is confident that these adjustments will enable us to reach even more
people with the Bible’s life-saving message while continuing to provide a rich supply of nourishing
spiritual food for the worldwide brotherhood.

Your brothers,
cc: Traveling overseers
4/2/12-E

Re: Announcement to be read following Watchtower Study during week of April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012
Page 2

PS to coordinator of the body of elders:

This matter should be kept strictly confidential among the elders until the letter is read in
your congregation. Please arrange for this letter to be read to the congregation following the Watchtower
Study during the week of April 2, 2012. This will be the same day as the special talk. In most
congregations this will be Sunday, April 8, 2012. The brother who delivered the special talk should
be invited to read this letter to the audience, if he is available to do so. Thereafter, this letter should
be posted on the information board for four weeks.

The reading of this letter is in addition to the shorter announcement to be read by the chairman
immediately following the special talk as outlined in the letter dated February 1, 2012, to all
bodies of elders. Therefore, the chairman will read the shorter announcement following the special
talk and before the Watchtower Study. Following the Watchtower Study, the brother who delivered
the special talk will read this letter and thereafter introduce the concluding song.

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Changes to the Watchtower and Awake magazines size! (Unnanounced Confidential letter)

by tooktheredpill in

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SPECIAL INTERVIEW with Jehovah!

by Terry in

you live; you die.

r: but, why give us a bible.

why send jesus to die for us if everything is "meaningless" for us?.

tooktheredpill

That was awesome, Terry! I loved it!