Posts by freddo

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happy people.

by zeb in

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friends

i have opened thesite to relate this part of my day.. yes the jw are such happy people.

yeah right... my wife has come home after an extended sunday meeting in a foul mood.

to be around her is like feeling your way through barbed wire.

freddo

You can probably offer him better assistance than me Xanthippe.

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happy people.

by zeb in

jw
friends

i have opened thesite to relate this part of my day.. yes the jw are such happy people.

yeah right... my wife has come home after an extended sunday meeting in a foul mood.

to be around her is like feeling your way through barbed wire.

freddo

Hi zeb,

I haven't read through your back posts so forgive me for asking but is her "cold shoulder" due to her being a jw and you being anti-jw?

How about saying "I was going to watch a film at the cinema (nice light non-controversial film) do you want to join me?"

She doesn't have to join in conversation much and nor do you but you are doing something together.

Baby steps.

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2017 Annual Meeting

by Jules Saturn in

this just in from the 2017 annual meeting:.

1. watchtowers and awakes won't be released regularly, at least three watchtower and awakes per year.

6 magazines a year.. 2. a new book is being released: remain in god's love, more of an update like how they did for the what does the bible really teach book.

freddo

No more Yearbooks - with those pesky charts which would be showing "negative" down-turns in baptisms and growth.

They are as transparent as to their true motives as looking through a window pane.

And all that saved loot too. More sackings once the paint is dry on War-wick and Chelmsford methinks.

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How Often Do You Come Here?

by minimus in

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friends

i regularly check in to see what's happening but i'm not here like i used to be.. are you here every day?

are you here as much as before?.

For ELDERS: Kingdom Ministry School for the 2018 Service Year (Picture)

by pixel in

i know wifibandit will post the pdf soon, this is just a snack for you guys and girls.... .

freddo

"Any one have the shepherding book handy? What's chapter 3 about?"

CH3 is APPOINTMENT and DELETION of ELDERS and MINISTERIAL SERVANTS

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Grocery Store conversation with an elder

by problemaddict 2 in

i'm inactive here to the local jw's as i have faded.

i've been slandered and all that, shunned by some but not all, but the elders basically leave me alone.

i still run into to people all over though.

freddo

I still almost wet myself laughing when I read this. Superb.

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Do not think the end will come?

by Akid48 in

thats somthing i see thats asked in my kingdom hall if you want to go get more than 2 years in collage.thing in some one asking that to me or etc i cant say any thing or that would show that i dont believe.. i hate when some one askes me that when i try to plan ahead when it comes to what job i want.what job would help me hold my own but no god will give if you put him first.i dont believe in god even when i did i never buyed into that.. it seems you cant get away from the question im only 13 and i get that question theres no getting away from it..

freddo

The Watchtower magazine has been predicting the end (or at least telling us we are very deep in the time of the end) for 138 years ...

Just remind them (and yourself) of Acts 1 v 7 and Luke 21 v 8 ...

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Were your English WT publications in the American "dialect"?

by compound complex in

greetings, friends:.

the opening query is presented, loosely, in the past tense, assuming that you are not currently a reader of watchtower publications.. not that i'm already rather certain of your reply, it's just that i would like to know if in your english-speaking country (or esl [english as second language]) the society deigned to tailor the publications to your spellings, expressions, idiomatic renderings, etc.

as you will read below, so-called american english is a dialect of english.. i found this online under american english vs. british english:.

freddo

Forgot to add:

When we had paper Kingdom Ministries printed in London for the British field we had proper British English!

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Were your English WT publications in the American "dialect"?

by compound complex in

greetings, friends:.

the opening query is presented, loosely, in the past tense, assuming that you are not currently a reader of watchtower publications.. not that i'm already rather certain of your reply, it's just that i would like to know if in your english-speaking country (or esl [english as second language]) the society deigned to tailor the publications to your spellings, expressions, idiomatic renderings, etc.

as you will read below, so-called american english is a dialect of english.. i found this online under american english vs. british english:.

freddo

Saying you need to keep your yard tidy to an Englishman with a garden is almost an insult.

Over here a yard is the sort of place where you keep scrap cars and a pair of dobermanns!

Yes we still get American English publications over here. Indeed Pubs is a good one.

YANK: Hi there y'all! How many pubs. in your circuit?

BRIT: Hmmm, about 300.

YANK: Only 300?

BRIT: Yes. There's one on the corner of my street selling Guinness at £4.00 a pint.

YANK: Huhhhh?

And of course we have to "L"'s in travelling overseer, not one.

But strangely the Welsh RTO is a £900,000 luxury house for those millions of Welsh speakers that "need the truth in their mother tongue".

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Help with acceptance for JW family still in

by MaryKN in

well, it's been a long time!

i first lurked here around 20 years ago and read huge amounts of threads which certainly helped when i was making my decision to leave the religion.

i was never baptised (resisted it!

freddo

Fantastic advice here and welcome to all the recent posters!

But never say never. Just don't hitch your hopes and dreams to that wagon.

I'm a born in an ex-elder of 30 years and it took several years to wake up. But I did.