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  Is this how all door knocking is now?

  by jamesmahon in

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  i was prompted to join this site as i got a knock on the door a couple of days ago.. no, when i went door knocking 20 years ago - although admittedly i was a child - the sales patter went like this.

  ahem... "hello.

  we are speaking to you today to tell you about the watchtower and awake.

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  James - I lived in Berwick, well Tweedmouth actually, for quite a few years. Don't want to be too specific on dates etc as I am still 'in' trying to help my wife see the follies of the WTS.

  It really is a nice part of the world to live. The KH is the Old Manor House of Tweedmouth although I understand it is up for sale as they want to do a 'quick build' up the Cow Road near the Scremerston end. I have very pleasant memories of trips down to Holy Island and Seahouses (great fish & chips). It was always good to visit Eyemouth and St Abbs Head.

  Some of the Berwick congregation are still there but getting very old.

  George
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  Is this how all door knocking is now?

  by jamesmahon in

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  i was prompted to join this site as i got a knock on the door a couple of days ago.. no, when i went door knocking 20 years ago - although admittedly i was a child - the sales patter went like this.

  ahem... "hello.

  we are speaking to you today to tell you about the watchtower and awake.

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  Used to live there but don't tell anyone!

  George
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  Is this how all door knocking is now?

  by jamesmahon in

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  i was prompted to join this site as i got a knock on the door a couple of days ago.. no, when i went door knocking 20 years ago - although admittedly i was a child - the sales patter went like this.

  ahem... "hello.

  we are speaking to you today to tell you about the watchtower and awake.

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  James - Is the cafe still on the beach at Coldingham? It used to belong to a brother (Liam Martin) who went on to own Martin's Bakery and The Good Food Shop in Berwick. They made the best gateaux in the world! I think they retired to Germany. The cafe then went a another JW couple who owned it for a few years.

  George
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  Is this how all door knocking is now?

  by jamesmahon in

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  i was prompted to join this site as i got a knock on the door a couple of days ago.. no, when i went door knocking 20 years ago - although admittedly i was a child - the sales patter went like this.

  ahem... "hello.

  we are speaking to you today to tell you about the watchtower and awake.

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  A poster on this board lives in your neck of the woods James, he is called 'cofty' and works in Eyemouth:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/195579/1/I-saw-the-Queen-today-well-sort-of

  I also remember some years ago one of the elders in Berwick had a son who was disfellowshipped for 'apostacy'. I wonder if he is on this site? He must be early 40's by now.

  George
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  Fill In The Blank: Jehovah's Witnesses Are The ------------- People On Earth!

  by minimus in

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  MOST MISERABLE

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  Two questions: 1) what was the announcement about paperback Bibles and 2) what was the video posted earlier, I think it was something about blood - plus a third thing they mentioned in the meeting

  by slimboyfat in

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  1) i am listening to the meeting on the phone right now.

  during the announcements they said there is a letter about paperback bibles and if you want to know what it says you need to read it on the notice board.

  i can't read it on the notice board because i'm not there!

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  It's not only the Bibles that have gone to soft covers, so have the bound volumes of the WT and Awake for a few years now. Just a thin plastic material cover that gives no support so they flop all over shelf unless packed tightly.

  As YNOT said the new Bibles have the brackets removed so where they used to put a word in brackets to show it had been added there is no way of knowing that added words were not in the original text. A case of altering the Bible to fit doctrine.

  George

  PS Today's Day Text shows that what is written by the WTS is just as important as the Bible itself:

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  w084/15p.7par.19Repudiate“ValuelessThings”***

  19When it comes to valueless words, elders too learn an important lesson. Whenever they are called upon to give counsel, they bear in mind their limitations and do not presume to offer counsel solely from their own personal store of knowledge. They should always point to what the Bible says. A sound rule is found in the words of the apostle Paul: “Do not go beyond the things that are written.” (1 Cor. 4:6) Elders do not go beyond the things that are written in the Bible. And by extension, they do not go beyond the Bible-based counsel written in the publications of the faithful and discreet slave.
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  ex-jw-uk

  by bigmac in

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  i'm quite new to this site, & have realised some members have a union jack symbol under their avatar.

  i don't.. could we have a "show of hands" from any uk members?

  i've already found several by reading older posts..

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  S.E. England

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  New light what is it...cos I'm confused??

  by Fractured~Mind in

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  ok this is the biggest problem i have ...well one of...and that's the governing body's stance on "new light".

  to me its like a dimmer light , whatever subject you have the light on, starting with the lowest setting you can make out the basics.

  when the dial is turned up slowly to the brightest setting, you then have the whole, complete,picture...but you don't have a whole new subject matter in front of you.. so i can understand them starting with the basics then later on slowly revealing more and more as it is revealed to them...but i dont understand starting with one idea and completely changing that idea over and over again.. and if the light is not that bright on a subject, isnt it common sense to keep your big trap shut until your sure or the light is brighter, so you don't stumble millions of people in the process??.

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  If Superior Authorities were flashing on and off the the poor devils in Sodom & Gomorrah really had a dodgy contact, that went 'will be resurrected' 'won't be resurrected' many times.

  George
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  Doncaster/Carcroft/Bentley in UK

  by jamesmahon in

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  i must confess to 'lurking' occasionally for several years on this site - purely because i am bone idle and spend most of my day writing with work.

  many of the posts are really funny, moving or both and very well written so thanks to all who contribute.. as can no doubt be seen by my inability to recognise that maybe having your own name as a username may not be the best of ideas (i don't have anything to hide but even so - it does reveal a complete lack of imagination), i have not posted to any forum before as far as i can remember.

  my story is at least as 'entertaining' as some others on here and when i get the time will right it down if only as another warning for all the doubting jws that may read it.

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  Just live over the border on the coast in a place noone has ever heard of.

  hmmmm... Lamberton, Burnmouth, Ayton, Eyemouth (Sorry everyones heard of that), Coldingham, St Abbs, Cairncross (too far inland).............

  George
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  Doncaster/Carcroft/Bentley in UK

  by jamesmahon in

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  i must confess to 'lurking' occasionally for several years on this site - purely because i am bone idle and spend most of my day writing with work.

  many of the posts are really funny, moving or both and very well written so thanks to all who contribute.. as can no doubt be seen by my inability to recognise that maybe having your own name as a username may not be the best of ideas (i don't have anything to hide but even so - it does reveal a complete lack of imagination), i have not posted to any forum before as far as i can remember.

  my story is at least as 'entertaining' as some others on here and when i get the time will right it down if only as another warning for all the doubting jws that may read it.

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  it should keep me entertained until Berwick

  So what happens at Berwick? Do you get off and take a stroll down to Tweedmouth where you can admire the Old Manor House or Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses as it is now called?

  George