Hello Gary, welcome back. I'm in your area too and there is a meet up planned soon in Manchester. The thread that links to it was posted this past weekend so it should be easy to find if you're interested.
Loz x
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Long time no speak
by diamondblue1974 inhi.
i thought i would post a note to say hello to all you guys on jwn after having had considerable time away from the board.
hope you are all well and playing nicely ;) and hope to catch up with whats been happening in the last few years.. db (gary).
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Hi guess i may have to introduce myself
by rickisteel inhi im from the uk im 42 years old , i was brought up as a witness from birth to 12 years of age i left the meetings with my parents ,.
i had a wild youth was a bit of a rebel involving alcohol ,drugs , heavy metal and motorcycles , i was thrown out of home at 17 my sister was 14. and was discarded as my parents remarried and neither of there new partners wanted us (baggage) , anyway by the time i was married and 21. somebody spiked my pizza with lsd (cant remember the flavour ) and for the next 3 days i thought the world was ending , i called my dad and rambled some stuff to him ( cant remember exactly but the world was ending in my head) a little while later i got a witness call briefly , i found out where he lived and went and asked him for a bible , he suggested i have a bible study me and the wife took the offer and so it began again , i was baptised in 93 and went from strength to strength in the truth , aux pioneering , volunteered for everything , talks , cleaning , meeting parts etc was soon appointed and moved on giving public talks , assembly parts , shepparding calls etc , then in 1997 my wife fell down a kerb and damaged her cruciate ligaments several operations later and disabled ( by the way the brothers /sisters in the cong were great at this point ) my wife began to act odd 1n 1999 she tried to take her own life and over the next several years took 26 overdoses and spent much of her life in phychiatrict hospital in 2001 she was bi polar disorder type rapid cycling (not the common oh i feel a bit low type bi polar but the full blown rollercoaster ride bi polar) .
the thing that struck me was i began to feel like a leper and despite a couple of close friends nobody in the cong or on the circuit( long time friends) seemed to care , i brouht up the kids on my own visiting my wife in hospital and caring for her at home , i felt so alone , when i used to take the kids to the meeting / assembly on my own i just got tutts and sad headshakes "she not come" ?
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Welcome Rick I'm in the UK too, in the Manchester area. I'm sorry to hear about your wife being so poorly, it must be hard on all of you. I agree with Cantleave, Ray Franz's books are excellent and will help you to see the truth about the 'truth'.
Loz x
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Manchester First Meet Up Group !
by raymond frantz inhi guys ,i have a new meet up group for all mancunian faders and d/f ,i'm trying to organise a meetup before christmas .if you are from manchester or know someone on this forum from manchester ,let me know and will pm group's address.... manchester ,united kingdom.
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Hi Raymond - the link in the PM you sent me just takes me to a Google page? I emailed you.
Loz x
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A new life with my long lost brother...
by TimeBandit inas some of you may know, about two years ago my brother contacted me on fb.
i hadn't seen or heard from him in roughly 12 years before that.
things progressed well once he found out that i and the wife had left the jws.
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The description of your life is wonderful, I am really happy for you, well done for getting your life back on a good track. Enjoy! Looking fwd to puppy pics.
Loz x
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how to survive Christmas
by Hortensia ini got this idea from qookumba's blog: http://qookumba.wordpress.com/.
here are some things i've done to make christmas more sensible:.
1. a few years ago i told friends i wasn't going to do presents any more, and asked them not to buy me presents.
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I like it. Wished I'd given it to my kids all those years they missed out. Now, me and hubby together chillin, lovely. Some family times, great food, can't beat it. Makes winter bearable.
Loz x
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Manchester First Meet Up Group !
by raymond frantz inhi guys ,i have a new meet up group for all mancunian faders and d/f ,i'm trying to organise a meetup before christmas .if you are from manchester or know someone on this forum from manchester ,let me know and will pm group's address.... manchester ,united kingdom.
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I'm in Manchester, on the West side actually. If we can get a few together I'd be happy to come along!
Loz x
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A long long time ago my Grandmother heard a knock at the door ....
by gorgia inhi everyone; this is my first post.
yes, a long long time ago my grandmother, freshly immigrated from post-war england to rural australia, waiting for months for her husband to follow, with only her baby for company, heard a knock at the door.
she opened it and there were two witnesses, who, after hearing how she'd just been crying in the kitchen, begging god for a friend, probably couldn't have believed their luck.
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Hello Gorgia and welcome. Lovely opening post. I was the stupid one to open the door in a sense, and yes I deeply regret it. Good to have you here, I will look forward to your future posts.
Loz x
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Who have you seen in concert?
by pontoon inmy short list; lynard skynard, beach boys, carole king, yes, doobie brothers, rod stewart, ringo starr.. all star band, styx, gordon lightfoot, moody blues.
can you tell i like the older stuff?.
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I forgot
Billy Brag
Seasick Steve
Loz x
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Who have you seen in concert?
by pontoon inmy short list; lynard skynard, beach boys, carole king, yes, doobie brothers, rod stewart, ringo starr.. all star band, styx, gordon lightfoot, moody blues.
can you tell i like the older stuff?.
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The Beatles
Paul McCartney & Wings
The Beach Boys
Cilla Black
Lulu
British specials lol
Loz x
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Looking After Widows and Orphans... and Spending One's "Riches"
by AGuest into the household of god, israel, and those who go with... may you all have peace!.
from time to time the issue of how to fulfill the "form of worship that is acceptable to god," mentioned by james in his letter, namely, looking after widows and orphans "in their tribulation"... comes up.
given the issue of tithing, the plethora of institutionalized charity choices, and the existence of ones in need, perhaps in our own households and families... but certainly in our towns, countries... and around the world... how does one fulfill this requirement?
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Which is FAR more significant to me than attempting to get information into extremely resistant minds...
See, this lies at the heart of the problems in my opinion. It's as if those who don't believe feel this extraordinary need to insist that believers accept their reasonings, logic, non beliefs. They can't persuade believers, they find them resistant to their non beliefs, so they argue about words and phrases used in posts instead. Then the complaint goes up that they can't get the believer to accept what they're saying and abandon beliefs. Just speaking for myself, my faith is too important, too precious, too personally well proven to reject. I would concede that non believers feel similarly about their stances. That's all as it should be. It means we can and should, live and let live, surely? By the way, it couldn't be A seraphim Zid, seraphim is plural?
Loz x