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zombie dub
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Husbands/Wives, Do you share passwords for each other's email account?
by asilentone injust wondering.
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Husbands/Wives, Do you share passwords for each other's email account?
by asilentone injust wondering.
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zombie dub
yup
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What's Your View on Tipping?
by minimus intypically, i give at least 20% on my total bill.
if the service or the waitress is especially charming, maybe more.. i wonder, when you sit at a bar/restaurant and have a meal and drinks and then order a take out ( i do this for my mother quite often) are you supposed to tip on everything, including the takeout??.
when i stay in a hotel, i typically leave 2 or 3 dollars per day for the maid.
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zombie dub
I knew a waitress at a Marriott who regularly got a party of 10 plus who stayed at their table for an entire evening ordering drinks and enjoying live music. They typically stayed for 4 to 5 hours! She would get no more than 15 or 20 dollars for her efforts. She was regularly distressed when they'd saunter in. They were very sweet people but lousy tippers. The other waitress I knew there did the same amount of work and was thrilled with the tables, the tables my party generally stayed at. Eventually, we began to ask for the other waitress just because we felt awful for her.
funny how differently people see things, see if I (and I think nearly everyone in the UK) was in that party of 10 I would reason think of all the money we've given the Marriott with all those drinks we have bought - why would I pay more? Of course then I would expect the Marriott to fairly pay the waitress for her 5 hours work, whether she spent 5 hours serving a party of 10 or 5 hours serving 5 couples, it's all work and the job she is paid to do anyway - why pay her more just for doing her job??
In my line of work, some of the jobs I work on are easy, some are hard - I don't expect to be given a tip for completing one of the harder jobs though - it's all part of my job that I am being paid for anyway!!
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When did the new watchtower setup take effect?
by EndofMysteries ini forgot, and doing some comparisions on things, i know this was probably talked about much so the date is probably fresh in someones mind.
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zombie dub
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At least from my perspective, the Watchtower Setup is not and has never been a secret. It is just something that many of us would consider "being below the radar" of the R&F in general.
I'm sure many in Bethel or at the Branch offices at that time could attest to that fact. Typically, it's more often a matter of what we are hearing and how we are conditioned to interpret it.
When my uncle was in Bethel, throught his various assignments, he became fairly close to Lyman Swingle. Prior to his death, Bro Swingle often privately discussed the Watchtower Setup issue and how it should be interpreted. "Off the record", as he would often say, he indirectly said that some on the GB were in favor of having a full-blown Watchtower study article on the matter while others felt it was still something that needed further discussion within the upper levels of the organization before any final decision was made. I'm sure the Service Dept would not have allowed a study article to appear in the Watchtower unless all GB members were on board!
Lyman was clearly on the side of discussing the article in the Watchtower but of course, in keeping with his position, would defer to the GB as a whole and point out that information would be presented at the appropriate time as needed.
My uncle had discussed this with some in our family (particularly my father) but it was generally a discussion that occurred at the upper levels of the organization. You figure!
So some of the questions will continue. But as far as a timeframe is concerned, the general consensus among those who were involved with the "new light," would position the new Watchtower Setup in the early fall of 1994.
Rub a Dub
thank's for that - but to ne honest I still have no idea what happened exactly in 1994 and what exactly the new setup was/is? I get the feeling many others don't either, can you please elaborate as to what the setup is, what changed in 1994 etc?
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What did you look like as a JW?
by highdose ini was going through some old photos today, i found one of myself when i was a devout jw.
it was really shocking!
i'm so thin, my cheeks are hollow, i'm as white as the wall behind me, i'm standing hunched over, and in my eyes you can see real misery.
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zombie dub
pretty boring
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When did the new watchtower setup take effect?
by EndofMysteries ini forgot, and doing some comparisions on things, i know this was probably talked about much so the date is probably fresh in someones mind.
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zombie dub
i dont see the advantage of keeping this secret if you know?
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Once inactive, do u need to meet with elders to go out in service again?
by Iwonder17 inso i haven't been turing in my fake field service hours for 3 months now.
i think that it is 6 months and then you are counted as inactive.. my question is, once i am inactive, would i need to meet with the elders again to be "active" if i decided to turn in time again, or do i just start going out in service again?.
although i am fading, i want to keep my options open to make things easier down the road.
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zombie dub
just dont go irregular, turn in a fake slip before the 6 months is up
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Review: Installed my free Windows 7 upgrade on my laptop
by Elsewhere infirst, i'll answer the question that most everyone seems to be asking: .
q: should i upgrade to windows 7. a: if your xp or vista is working for you, don't waste your time or money upgrading.
(if it ain't broke don't fix it) if you plan on buying a new computer, certainly try windows 7.. .
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zombie dub
The start menu on windows was always it's worst point.
The concept of a dock and launching programs from spotlight made OS X much better.
Now windows has a taskbar that acts just like the OSX dock (maybe better with aero peek) and the start menu is just as good as spotlight, in fact I would say even better as the start menu provides a nicer way to find programs if you don't want to type than going to finder and launching the apps folder.
Windows 7 arguably has the better menu system too with large and multiple monitors, OS X's fixed menu is terrible for more than one monitor or any screen over say 26". OS X is still much better on a single screen system though with the fixed menu and spaces/expose.
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When did the new watchtower setup take effect?
by EndofMysteries ini forgot, and doing some comparisions on things, i know this was probably talked about much so the date is probably fresh in someones mind.
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zombie dub
I thought you were referring to the confidential Watchtower Setup that occurred back in 1994.
can you elaborate?
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What's Your View on Tipping?
by minimus intypically, i give at least 20% on my total bill.
if the service or the waitress is especially charming, maybe more.. i wonder, when you sit at a bar/restaurant and have a meal and drinks and then order a take out ( i do this for my mother quite often) are you supposed to tip on everything, including the takeout??.
when i stay in a hotel, i typically leave 2 or 3 dollars per day for the maid.
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zombie dub
Oh, and one more thing, saying brits have bad teeth is about as daft as saying all americans are hugely obese and have a very low IQ.
All brits have bad hair is a bizarre thing to say, from what I see on TV it seems on average brits and europeans have much better hair than the average american, you can't judge over 60 million people by one congregation!?