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  A message from youtube regarding negative votes on Sparlock videos

  by Amelia Ashton in

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  i don't seem to be making myself clear these days.

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  there has been so many "dislikes" on sparlock clips i received a message from youtube.. i asked for people to "like" the videos instead of "dislike" because this will also push the videos to the top of searches and hopefully get more views especially for jws searching from it .. i am now getting abuse.. please can people "like" the clips so the balance between like and dislike gets reversed.. ty x.

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  I thought I was helping by pressing dislike, sorry.
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  Frustrated

  by jemba in

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  sitting in the local cafe enjoying a coffee this morning when the witnessing group showed up.. before i had a chance to escape i was sharing my table with 2 'sisters'.

  one was my best friend for years until i stopped going to meetings.

  (such conditional friendships).. before i knew it i was being bombarded with questions like how i was going spiritually.

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  I usually control the conversation (jep I hog it!) by telling them about how busy I am and how good life is, I talk about my kids (not Jws anymore) and how happy we are even though we have been through an awful lot of trauma this last year (son injured in Afghanistan). I do not give them a chance to preach. When they say, as they always do; we miss you, then I reach out and touch their arm and look them in they eye and say, thank you so much, it is nice to be missed, but I am really very happy so do not worry. It works everytime. They go away looking completely confused as they did not get to make me feel miserable, they are the ones feeling odd after talking to me. Try it.

  Love Chicken little
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  Hear ye!hear ye!!!!Take notice

  by mouthy in

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  tomorrow the 22nd i will be 85 years old .

  good wishes only please,remember if you say something nasty i will cry.

  and my mum told me it is a sin to cry on your birthday .

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  Hope I am not too late, Happy Birthday Grace, enjoy your day and remember all the people thinking of you. You are only as old as you feel in your mind.

  Much love

  Chicken little
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  I AM. The documentary by Tom Shadyak

  by I quit! in

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  tinker told me about this documentary and i finally got around to watching it.

  i thought it was great.

  i'm wondering if anyone else has seen it.

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  Dear Jamie, thank you so much, it was a wonderful documentary, very inspiring.
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  NEVER GIVE UP!

  by Snoozy in

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  i saw this on yahoo and had to share for those that haven't seen it yet..a truly inspirational story..shows anything is possible.

  you just have to work for it!!!.

  never give up!.

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  Thank you snoozy, this is just so good to watch. I posted it on my facebook because I think that so many of us give up on ourselves even when our problems are nothing in comparison to this persons.
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  Finally, a simple cure for depression

  by rebel8 in

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  how to good-bye depression: if you constrict anus 100 times everyday.

  malarkey?

  or effective way?.

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  This is catchy, I am doing it in time to my local pop station, lal pinch, lallah pinch, hoho pinch, yeah yeah pinch...just worried I may have an accident.!
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  Ten years later, where are they now? Youngsters moving to London where the ministry is more exciting

  by truthseeker in

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  about 10-12 years ago, some of the young pioneers in my hall moved to london because they thought the ministry would be more exciting than the poorly supported field service groups in my sleep town in sussex.. i was thinking the other day what became of them.

  i know that one is now an elder and married, the other one i'm not so sure about.. one of my relatives once said that the truth is more exciting in london, people are warmer, there's more opportunities for young witnesses.. if you lived in the uk, perhaps in the south of england, was it a fad for some of the youth to move to london where they thought the ministry was more exciting?

  have they left or are they still in?.

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  I moved to London area from up north when I was 18, I was in Middlesex at first, called the pioneer graveyard. I had a hard time as a young girl, only one old badtempered pioneer who thought working with me was meeting me at 5am to hand out watchtowers for 2 hours at the train station. UGGH!

  Moved to foriegn congregation in scandinavia for one year, totally fantastic experience where everything was cool, laidback and different. Of course it could not stay like that and eventually it became like all the rest but it did attract loads of young people who became pioneers there. Many stayed. I met my husband and we went back to London, to Brixton/Peckham/Southwark area and we pioneered there. Again I can say that it was very different, loads of studies and lots of pioneers. Now when I think back and can see that there was nothing else for the brothers and sisters, we lived in relative poverty and in awful housing and the meetings and service was their life and ours. We had people come down to try it, but I remember one sister from bethel was scared of our territory, she felt like she was in a missionary assignment when she went out with us.

  We moved back to scandinavia to help in the english circuit and were pioneers here, the numbers coming over tailed off before I left, but there were a lot joining spanish, chinese, arabic, turkish groups. We spent most of our time looking for names that just might indicate they spoke english. Waste of time.
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  Lost Parrot Tells Police His Address

  by Perry in

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  posted: may 02, 2012 5:36 am cdtend wndateupdated: may 02, 2012 5:36 am cdt.

  end wndateend wnstoryheaderend wnstoryrelatedboxsource: afp.

  sagamihara, japan -- a pet parakeet was returned to its japanese owner wednesday after the brainy bird told police its home address near tokyo.. link

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  Have to tell my two true stories related to parrot and budgie with a jw twist.

  My husband had a bible study with an old sailor who had a parrot in a large cage, the sailor was very rough spoken and often swore. During the study the parrot would suddenly start swearing like a trooper, f words and everything inbetween. The old guy would scream at the bird to shut the f up and then shake his head at my husband and say "I don't know where he gets it from". My husband said it was absolutly hilarious and in the end the guy would throw a blanket over the cage to keep it quiet, but you could still here it muffeled underneath swearing. So funny. (they did not become witnesses...the sailor nor the parrot.)

  Second story is also tragic/funny. My bible study had a budgie that she let fly free around the house, one day she was hoovering and there was a knock at the door. She left the hoover on and went to open the door to a workman who was going to do something inside. When she came back into the room the budgie was stuck up the end of the hoover with just its legs sticking out. My friend was screaming and the workman walked over and pulled it out......sadly without its head. The scene was so funny when she told me that I was rolled over laughing and could not stop, I kept saying I was so sorry and then started laughing again. Poor thing. She did become a witness but was always a secret smoker and I never ratted on her, she was an old cockney character that could have you in stitches with the stuff she did. I have loads of stories from my time with her...real great old lady.
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  My son was murdered today

  by truman in

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  i have been on this site daily, almost from its beginning, since i left the jws in 2001, but i have been more of a reader than a poster, as you can see from my post count.

  i know few here know me, although i know many of you through reading your posts.

  maybe it is not right to ask for support, when i generally stay quietly in the background of this forum, but i want only to speak a human misery of the deepest kind.

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  Dear Truman,

  I wanted to write before but could not find my password, now I have I would like to send you my sincere condolences for the loss of your dear son. It was a truly ugly and meaningless way for him to have to die and I do not doubt that you have many conflicting emotions at the moment. I hope you will gain comfort from your family and friends and that your good memories will help you to keep him close in your mind and heart. We nearly lost our son in October from a IED in Afghanistan, we did not know if he would survive for some weeks. So although we still have him the feelings of loss and panic are still close to me so I truly feel for you.

  Much love and empathy

  Chicken little
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  She's back and I could really use some advice!

  by OneDayillBeFree in

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  i dont know where to begin.

  i do know it might get lengthy so i'm sorry for that.

  and also many thanks to all who read the whole thing.

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  Hej there,

  I can only speak from my own feelings and experiences, so if it is not what you want to hear then sorry. I think that you made a mistake not telling her how you stand, she will feel that you have tricked her into showing her feelings for you under false pretences. The conflict between her feelings for you and the witness mentality will be a real ordeal for her once she realizes that you are no longer a believer. I do not think that it is a good foundation for a relationship to be built on, when you have to be cunning and finding ways to undermine her beliefs, even though you are doing so out of the best motive. Most JWs will become very defensive and experience terrible feelings of discomfort, not good feelings to introduce into a romantic relationship in my opinion.

  Maybe you could come clean with her before you get too deeply involved emotionally. It would be kinder in my opinion. But maybe others have different advice for you.

  I do wish you all the best though.