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  100,000 Miles on my car!

  by Elsewhere in

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  2. friends

  it happened yesterday at 4:30 pm while i was out-n-about doing errands... i got to watch my car's odometer roll over to 100,000 miles!

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  GermanXJW

  I reached the 100,000 KILOMETERS yesterday.
  
  It would be less if I had not used to went to the territory some years ago...
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  Do not become unevenly yoked with an unbeliever unless she is asian.

  by XQsThaiPoes in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i notice a few "brothers" with asian non -jw wives.

  many tend to be at least 10-30 years younger often second wives.

  i notice the "friends" don't tend to pick on their budist,shinto, etc wives to convert them to jws.

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  GermanXJW

  >"Do NOT become unevenly yoked with unbelievers". That was a command, not a suggestion, yet the dubs do not disfellowship for marrying out of the Lord (truth ) I never knew why.
  
  
  A friend of mine asked his elders why your are DFed for smoking (which cannot be found in the Bible) but not for not marrying "in the Lord". He was heavily disciplined and even threatend that he was "promoting a sect". Well, he just did not understand ...
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  A Question Of Manners.

  by Englishman in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  i'm looking for some feedback here.

  hl and i like to socialise sometimes, and this often results in us hosting small parties for a few friends.. often our friends reciprocate, and then we enjoy being guests instead of being hosts.. but we keep encountering a dilemma.

  one set of friends like us to visit them for afternoon bbq's or sometimes for evening dinner parties.. now, no problem with dinner parties, but if say we go to a bbq at around 4.30, they expect us to remain with them for the entire evening right through until around 11 pm or midnight, the same time as we'd stay to if we went to a late dinner party.. personally, i've had enough at about 9 pm, that's 5 hours, so we like to leave and have a pint or two in the pub on the way home.. now this makes them quite angry and they say that we're being anti-social because we are off to the pub instead of spending the whole evening with them.. i maintain that if you go to tea or a bbq in the late afternoon, then it's quite acceptable to depart earlier than if you went to a late dinner party.. what do you think?.

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  GermanXJW

  Englishman, since everyone is on your side, I play the Devils advocat. I can imagine that someone feels strange when his guests say: "Okay, now we are leaving to have a drink at the pub." I think it could make me feel that I did not offer enough drinks.
  
  Just my 2 cents.
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  District Convention Resolution of 2003

  by Agent 1 of 1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  does anybody have the resolution that was given on the last day of the 2003 dc?

  when i heard it, i almost fell out of my chair.

  the brother said there were 10 guidelines we needed to follow in the resolution.

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  GermanXJW

  Maybe they try to get seven in a row to make it again the trumpets of Revelation? ;-)
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  Medal of Honor Recipient was Reared a JW

  by Kenneson in

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  i was perusing through a book entitled "african american recipients of the medal of honor: a biographical dictionary, civil war through vietnam war" by charles w. hanna (jefferson, north carolina, and london: mcfarland & company, inc., publishers, 2002) when i came across this very interesting entry on pages 173-4. i thought some of you might find it interesting.

  it is rather lengthy, so i will not quote the whole article.. "1st lieutenant ruppert l. sargent, u s a.

  9th u.s. infantry.

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  GermanXJW

  > she finally agreed to accept the award provided that it was awarded in a private ceremony with no publicity.
  
  I think this is the way JW always work things out...
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  Nicholas Berg's Beheading

  by Elmer J. Fudd in

  1. social
  2. current

  i downloaded the beheading of nicholas berg and watched the video over and over.

  my opinion is that the video was edited to the max and berg was already dead when they cut his head off.

  no blood, no convulsions.

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  GermanXJW

  I have the gut feeling here is someone just want to make other people nightmares by making them watch the video when they should not. Maybe a way to show how tough you are?
  
  Sorry, I will not watch it.
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  dawn bible students

  by bavman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  has anyone heard of the dawn bible students?

  they r basically russellites that i was told died out yrs.

  ago(not true).

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  GermanXJW

  > is this not a violation of the JW's "Interfaith" doctrine or interpretation of activities with other religious organizations?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Is this a witness couple?

  by Sirius Dogma in

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  GermanXJW

  Well, I demanded not to tell anyone ... ;-)
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  How Many of You Felt That The "End" Would've Been Here By Now???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for what it's worth, i never did.

  i just never really believed in '75 or any other time.....signed, faithless minimus

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  GermanXJW

  When a working collegue mentioned he had JW visitors and ridiculed them for proclaiming the generation of 1914 I stated that this showed how close to the end we live. More than 10 years ago - but still embarassing...
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  How Many of You Felt That The "End" Would've Been Here By Now???

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for what it's worth, i never did.

  i just never really believed in '75 or any other time.....signed, faithless minimus

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  GermanXJW

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