Weekend before last - also south of England CA - about 1100 in attendance and 3 baptised. The chariot is moving so very quickly nowadays isn't it?
Posts by freddo
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20Some Recent U.K. Information ...
by The Searcher in... just received!
london bethel: last year a couple in their fifties were laid off from bethel and made special pioneers.
in january they will be demoted to regular pioneers.
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You need to marry a ministerial Servant!
by John Aquila ina single sister in her 40s and her two single daughters were visiting my mom.
i would say her daughters are in their early 20s.
my mom got sleepy and we put her to bed but the three sisters stayed to finish their drinks..
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freddo
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And China's version of the Nobel prize goes to ... Robert Mugabe! WTF?!
by LoveUniHateExams inaccording to the guardian, the confucius peace prize has been awarded this year to one robert gabriel mugabe.
yes, you read that right.
i suppose i could've put this thread in either the entertainment section or joke section instead.
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freddo
I suppose with Hitler and Stalin being dead and all it was Mugabe's turn ... -
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A nuclear war take place and a 1/3 of the world population is wiped from the face of the earth.
by James Mixon inhow many of you would return to jehovah, wt?
better yet, how many jws would walk???.
i do believe it will happen one day....
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freddo
@prologos
Maybe not right now I was thinking future - 5 to 10 years? And is "Pakistan" telling the whole truth? Governments have been known to lie.
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We missed you at the meetings
by punkofnice ina vomit inducing comment.. i asked why do they have to specify 'meetings'?
they never miss us in tesco or the showcase cinema bar.. in their defence, a friend of mine said: 'that's because the meeting is where they normally would see you.'.
well, if they want to see you they can arrange a meal out or something.
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freddo
onightdivine - least of all would I trust most of the pioneer sisters! -
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freddo
Watch it twice and pick out the subtle stuff. Five Stars!
2:47 Look carefully at the title of the book the three elders are holding.
3:08 Look at the goods being bought in the shop.
3:24 The guy at the door is the only new male you are likely to bring to the KH from the ministry these days.
4:34 Poignant, funny and true!
Funniest of all? - 4:52 The Birthday Party
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A nuclear war take place and a 1/3 of the world population is wiped from the face of the earth.
by James Mixon inhow many of you would return to jehovah, wt?
better yet, how many jws would walk???.
i do believe it will happen one day....
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freddo
It could go nuclear.
If Russia/China/USA are involved each one is too big to be taken down by the other with conventional weapons and if it went nuclear the "winner" would be mortally damaged itself.
But let's say India and Pakistan square up to each other (Political/religious divide - Hindu and Muslim). Let's say due to the sheer size India is winning the conventional war. I could see elements in Pakistan "taking them down with us" and nuking major Indian cities.
Fortunately the bigger boy (India) seems to be the more peaceful one!
So I can see a continent being laid to waste but not the whole globe.
If the middle east - as in Israel and the Muslim nations went nuclear then any nuclear action would be in that region even if it came from any of the three major nuclear powers.
And the UK? I'm glad the UK has it's little fleet of nuclear subs out and about - it makes me feel safer as it did throughout the cold war. (even though Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, Brazil etc etc - even South Korea, get by quite happily without) and I believe that in hindsight the UK could've relied on the USA to be "The West's" nuclear deterrent.
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We missed you at the meetings
by punkofnice ina vomit inducing comment.. i asked why do they have to specify 'meetings'?
they never miss us in tesco or the showcase cinema bar.. in their defence, a friend of mine said: 'that's because the meeting is where they normally would see you.'.
well, if they want to see you they can arrange a meal out or something.
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freddo
Damned if they do damned if they don't,
We were trained to view any "meeting missers" as spiritually weak and to - yes - help the spiritually weak and yet to avoid association with them/us.
Usual pattern nowadays is a burst of concern expressed in texts/emails and maybe a phone call which quickly tapers off.
Then if you bump into them out and about a concerned "miss you at the hall" is what they blurt out.
Because that is often all we had in common ...
Look 'em in the eye and ask if they want to meet up for a coffee. In the 1 in 100 chance they agree go and talk about anything except what will incriminate you. (If you care and think it worth the risk)
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A nuclear war take place and a 1/3 of the world population is wiped from the face of the earth.
by James Mixon inhow many of you would return to jehovah, wt?
better yet, how many jws would walk???.
i do believe it will happen one day....
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freddo
Boom!
WTF?
I'm alive? Can I move? Family?
WTF - no electricity - no water - what's in the fridge - anything in the toilet cistern - any rain water in the water-butt (rainwater tank) outside?
OK ... what to do? what to do? Go to car turn on radio - static.
Right I need water let's find water. What food have we got?
Sits down and thinks OK I can survive a week or more on what we've got in this house ... but about then people will break in and take what we've got. Damn those Yanks were right ... a gun would be useful.
At my age I reckon if I survived the initial blasts but my country was so damaged that no emergency service was available I reckon I'd last a month if I could get uncontaminated water. Then I'd be murdered or die of radiation sickness because I'd eat what I could find and it would surely be contaminated..
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So sick of the abuse...
by iwasblind ini am still serving as an elder but just hanging in there.
i think their quandry is that they don't see me out in the field, but when they need encouragement and decent prayer they come to me.. i just got off the phone to this poor sister who i have only met twice.
she is not even in my congregation (her sister is).
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freddo
Wonderful news!