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  What to do with left over memorial emblems

  by Mattieu in

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  we have an italian cong that shares the hall with 2 english congs.

  an elder from the italian cong makes the wine & bread every year for quite a few of the congs in melbourne.. after the last memorial is held in our hall, the wine is taken back to this elders house where certain privileged ones are invited back for some socialising and to drink a very nice drop of red wine!

  as well as the usual assortment of cheese platters and crunchy bread.. we were privileged enough to be invited back a few years ago, but the whole idea didnt seem to sit well with me, so we took a raincheck and never got invited back again.

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  Hello from new member DarthFader

  by darthfader in

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  i have been lurking in the shadows for a while now i just got my account from the fine administrators of this board.

  i have really enjoyed reading the well thought out comments and critiques of the wts doctrine.. i have been around the wts since i was 5 i left for a while during high school got to live a little worldly/normal life then got sucked back in.

  my wife has been raised in the truth and even though weve been inactive (for a while now), she still has thoughts about the earthly hope and seeing her grandparents some day.

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  Do you remeber being at the Circuit Assembies and District Conventions hearing those "if only" talks

  by StoneWall in

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  i can remember being at many of the ca and dc and hearing those talks about the people that had left the org.

  and then came back.

  usually it was supposedly quoting a handwritten letter that we never got to see or an.

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  I wish I was Stronger

  by apocryphal22 in

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  but im not.

  i have lost everything.. i am a third generation jw on both sides of my family.

  all of my family is in full time service, pioneers, elders, cos, international construction, anointed and gb.

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  The Official What happened at the Memorial thread

  by truthseeker in

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  i thought rather than everyone start their own topic relating their experience of attending the memorial, we keep it simple and have just one thread.

  if anything, it's saves bandwidth.. i will be going to the memorial tonight and will post my experiences afterwards.. all the other memorials i attended, i was an active jw, so this will be my first experience as a submarine witness.

  it's weird being on the other side so to speak.

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  How many visit here that are non-members? (lurkers)...we have many newbies

  by oompa in

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  is there a way to know in any given period of time, like a month or year, how many visit jwd/jwn that are non-members.

  so many of the newbies mention they have been "long time lookers"...... that i am now curious.

  i can understand why early doubting dubs are prob scared to death at first, since any non-jw material is so taboo...they prob just take a quick peek....then another....then really start reading and looking back on on threads..............oomps.

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  Long time lurker, 1st time poster

  by Mattieu in

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  well where do i start, perhaps will go into more detail later, though briefly - 40 years young, raised in the truth (kingdom baby, which meant i was never going to make it to primary/secondary school/work/get married/have kids....) former ms, regular pioneer, learnt 3 foreign languages, served in foreign language group, married (wife still goes to meetings), beautiful kids, baptised at 15 years of age, regular pioneer at 15, grew up in divided house.. .

  hmmm, will go into my issues with all things organisational later, though firstly want to apologise, for being a self righteous spiritual pratt who did things by the book and sat with other elders/mss and prejudged others for not doing enough and having a wrong attitude about all matters spiritual and organisational.

  i stepped down as an ms over a year ago (they were grooming me to be an elder), havent been to a meeting in 3 months, i knew it wasnt the truth for a number of years and have struggled badly the last few years.

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  What's your all-time favorite Song by musician ? Name Song and Artist

  by flipper in

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  flipper again.

  personally my all time favorite song?

  stairway to heaven by led zeppelin.one of my top favorite groups ,too.

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  Dec KM indicates extreme paranoia over booking hotels NOT on the list

  by truthseeker in

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  2. friends

  over the years, the society has included half a page in their annual guidelines when planning for and attending the district convention.. in particular, they have been very insistent that only hotels on the recommended lodging list be used.. .

  the language in this month's km is even more insistent than last years.. .

  here is the text in full, with the original emphasis.. .

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  JW'S AND GOSSIP...MY GOD!

  by airwlk149 in

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  geez- does gossip spread in j dub land.

  last night when i got home there was a message from a jw friend asking me to call her.

  well, i did and she had heard that i had moved in with a "worldly" person and asked me how i was, etc... i asked her where she had heard that and she told me so&so told her.

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