Posts by Broken Promises

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Joshua's birthday

by mrsjones5 in

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today is my youngest son's birthday.

he turns seven and he's requested that we take him to mcdonald's, which is a relief because he had asked to be taken to chucky cheese's.

we're waiting for it to get a little cooler outside because joshua loves to play in the playground at micky d's.

TV NEWS show exposes Fluoride for what it is - poison!

by What-A-Coincidence in

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzbrbpgtot0.

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Meh, I’ve been drinking floriated water all my life and I’m ok.

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ok, I give up!

by dssynergy in

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i have been testing the waters with a fade.

waiting to see the reaction.

my friends and family still talk to me, although i haven't been to meeting since november of last year.

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I’ve been out for 10 years, not df’d nor da’d.

The way to do it is slowly, and don’t say too much that will incriminate you. Just live your life and don’t give in to the emotional blackmail.

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Children and KH Meetings

by brotherdan in

i recently found this in the proclaimers book on page 245,246. thanks to nicedream for showing this to me.

i've always felt bad for making my 4 year old sit for 2 hours and be quiet while not understanding anything that was going on during the meetings.

i've always thought that churches have had the right idea in teaching kids on their own.

In April 1938, during a visit to Australia, J. F. Rutherford, the Society’s president, found that a class for children was being held apart from the convention for adults. He immediately arranged for all the children to be brought into the main convention, which was greatly to their benefit.

My mother was a teenager in the Strathfield (Sydney, Australia) cong when this happened.

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I been absent...

by Aussie Oz in

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hi peoples... for those that wonder (and those that dont!

) why i have been absent the last few weeks.... i have been so preoccupied with the stresses of house hunting and dealing with banks that i have not had brain space to focus on anything else.. hopefully that is over as we are about to sign another contract and all things going well this one will not fall over!

aint gettin' excited until the bank says yes.. on another thought, does the absence indicated a slow but steady move away from reliance on this forum?.

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Good luck, just don’t go to A-Bank!

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Why didn't we ever study "Mankind's Search For God"?

by gubberningbody in

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was there an official or unofficial reason that anyone knows of?.

it seems to me that pretty much every publication was studied at the book study, but we never did that one..

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Never at a book study. The instuction talk took material from it in the mid 90's

I agree. I think it was early 90s.

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Conventions/Assemblies in England

by ScottyRex in

does anyone remember haysbridge, crystal palace, twickenham, dorking from the 80's/90's.........so many memories there.

the 5p lunch vouchers, the aroma of bacon rolls and hot doughnuts at twickenham, the smell of coffee as 50,000 odd opened their thermos flasks at lunchtime.

walking around endless laps of the perimeter of the stadium at break times, watching the airplanes flying low over twickenham stadium en route to heathrow.. cinema style seats at dorking assembly hall, the baptismal pool built into the stage, flapping my hands in the water and getting told off.

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My husband used to do the baptism dunking in our circuit (SE London), had some laughs with it though. I remember a poor jamacian brother getting his afro caught in the overflow pipe and my husband couldn't see it. The poor brother tried to come back up and my hubby was pushing him down. From the audience it looked like he was drowning the poor guy, he looked so panic stricken.

LOL, poor guy!!!

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R.I.P Daniel

by Mattieu in

every time i hear the following song by elton john, i have to pull over and shed a tear or two or twenty and think of all the other people like me who lost a brother whose name was daniel.... my brother daniel would have turned 40 today august 6 (southern hemisphere time).. i sadly lost daniel when i was 5 and he was 4 .... i still have vivid memories and photographs, yet sadly due to the religion that is called the jehovahs witnesses have not yet fully grieved or coped with my younger brothers death in a road accident.

i have never spoken to anyone outside my family about daniels death as i was raised up with the view that as a young person i would witness any day now the resurrection of my dear little brother.

not a week goes by when i do not visit his gravesite at fawkner cemetary looking for closure or the fact that i may never see him in the new system.

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(((((Mattieu))))))

RIP Daniel

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Swimming Lessons Are Definitely On My To-Do List

by snowbird in

http://www.startribune.com/sports/99785534.html.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38533071/ns/us_news-life?gt1=43001.

for all of us.. syl.

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Well, the plantation days are over, White people aren’t as prejudiced as black people think, and the kids that died wouldn’t have if their parents had taken the time to teach them to swim.

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Swimming Lessons Are Definitely On My To-Do List

by snowbird in

http://www.startribune.com/sports/99785534.html.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38533071/ns/us_news-life?gt1=43001.

for all of us.. syl.

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“willfully blind”??

Just because someone doesn’t see the world in the same way as you doesn’t make them blind. Perhaps you are the one who sees the world in black and white?

(may you have peace and all that jazz)