my wife got me started watching this show last year.
we've downloaded the previous seasons on netflix and have found it to be really well done.
the story line, scenery,costumes,old cars and compelling characters have us hooked.
The Dowagger Countess,Maggie Smith to Matthew who fears he will offend his father in law by revamping the estates financial planning(or lack of)
Matthew: Downton is being mismanaged, cousin Violet, and something must be done.
The thing is, how do I do it without putting people's noses out of joint?
Violet: Oh my dear. I don't think there is a way to achieve that.
I mean, you must do what must be done, of course' but I can safely say a great many noses will be out of joint.
my wife got me started watching this show last year.
we've downloaded the previous seasons on netflix and have found it to be really well done.
the story line, scenery,costumes,old cars and compelling characters have us hooked.
My wife got me started watching this show last year. We've downloaded the previous seasons on Netflix and have found it to be really well done. The story line, scenery,costumes,old cars and compelling characters have us hooked. The previous seasons are available on DVD so you can watch it from the beginning. One cold rainey weekend we had the fire going,drank tea and watched them snuggled together under a blanket.
Poor Mr. Bates.....and that Mrs. O'brian is not to be trusted.
fewer checks are written these days.
do you feel vulnerable or secure with your debit card transactions.
mostly it goes ok but yesterday my business checking account was hit with two fraudulent transactions just days apart and by the same socalled 'business'.
My pay check is deposited electronically. Some of my utility bills are deducted automatically. Airline tickets and other items are bought online. Movies and TV are streamed over the internet. I rarely have or use cash and the other day I walked into the Apple store and used my IPad to scan and purchase some items and walked out without having made contact with any one in the store. It's all very convenient and I've never had a problem but I gotta say, it feels like something very serious could go wrong with all this.
now that we are using ipads, and other mini devices at the meetings.
is there any letters from the society that restricts.
the use of internet to only elders?.
We used to get in trouble for doodling in our magazines, you know, drawing sideburns on Jesus or platform shoes on the Diciples. Can you imagine all the kids who'll get smacked during the meetings for surfing the web instead of following along in their digital Watchtower? Pretty soon you won't have to raise your hand to comment, you'll just Cc. a text message to everyone in the audience.
regarding worldly people, shows or toys?
etc...what quotes annoyed you the most?.
for me it was "well, you have to remember, they're worldly"... "don't trust anyone who isn't in the truth" "they may be nice but they are not friends of jehovah"... just a few to name.
Mom: "What if you are in prison during the great tribulation and all you had to eat was cooked carrots, THEN what will you do?!" Me: "I'll eat them then." What strikes me NOW is how normal it was back then it was to talk to kids about going to prison and total destruction of 99.999% of the earth's inhabitants. We didn't even blink an eye back then.
Yep...the sparkle of youth and childhood was greatly diminished by the constant threat of having to endure "concentration camp" like circumstances for Jehovah. Most adults try to shield children from these kind of horrors until they have the coping skills to deal with them. No such consideration for JW kids, we heard about the future horrors to come at almost every meeting just in case we might need more material for our nightmares or may have gotten over being frightened out of our wits since the last meeting.
what is the most valuable thing your mother taught you?.
as an aside was she a witness or not at the time?.
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My Dad was very a very graceful man but was way too shy to ever dance with Mom in public. Poor Mom didn't have anyone to dance with so she taught me and my brother how to dance and assured us it would take us far when it came time for us to be interested in girls. I remember her showing us how to lead our dance partner to the dance floor and how to hold our partner firmly yet gently and how to glide rather than barge our way through a song. She was so right and we were always a hit with the girls at parties. the only problem was, she didn't mention how resentful it would make our guy friends.
She taught us to plow ahead and make the seemingly impossible, happen despite all the odds against it happening. She taught us that you don't have to be wealthy to have style. She taught us how to really clean a house and how to always be clean and presentable in public. She taught us how to keep the child in us alive and see the magic in the world no matter how jaded others around may have become with time.
regarding worldly people, shows or toys?
etc...what quotes annoyed you the most?.
for me it was "well, you have to remember, they're worldly"... "don't trust anyone who isn't in the truth" "they may be nice but they are not friends of jehovah"... just a few to name.
I was standing on the beach the other day watching some surfers and was wishing I was out in the water myself. I turned to my wife and sarcastically quoted what was always said to me any time I expressed interest in participating in athletic activities.
"Never mind Exwhyzee.....you'll have all the time in the world to do that in the New System."
i once heard of a circuit overseer blaming a loyal ministerial servant, that served as the accounts servant, of steeling from the contribution boxes, simply because he deposited the congregation funds bi-weekly instead of twice a week.
due to the accusation, the ms was immediately removed without hearing his side of the story.
isn't this rather counter-intuitive and innefficient?
One of the last meetings I attended was in West Palm Beach Florida. It happened to be during the circuit overseers visit. He was a grossly overweight man,at least 300 lbs I'd guess and he seemed to like himself very much. During his announcements for the weeks activities he said, "There's one thing about Jehovah's Witnesses...we sure loooove to eat, don't we??? (Tee hee's could be heard from older sisters who think everything a C.O. says is marvelous) "Sister C.O. and I are looking forward to the many fine meals that will be provided for us and the many offers to share meals with all of you"
Pretty harmless stuff but I couldn't help but think of all those scriptures that spoke about gluttony and overeating some of which gluttony was included with drunkards and idolaters. But today...you can only be repremanded for the latter, otherwise,in some cases, a good number of the congregation would be on private reproof. Seems like a guy with an obvious weight condition wouldn't bring up the issue of food,on the platform.
the gb brooks no questions or dissention.
their brand of truth seems quite delicate and incapable of standing up to scrutiny.
"the truth is incontrovertible.
Is the Truth so delicate ?
And one might ask...Is Jehovah's holy spirit not powerful enough to prevent Satan from misguiding a JW who looks at outside sources while confirming the acuracy of the information presented to him by the Organization ?
just wanted to make some information available for newer ones.
i am a born-in third generation ( or is it one overlapping generation..i get so confused) and i had no idea these court transcripts even existed until almost 2 years ago.
i don't want to assume that you have read these.
Thanks for re-posting this for those of us who hadn't seen it.
