Very heartwarming. Talent is talent and the talent here lies not only in the dogs abilities but in the trainers ability to teach the dog and choose the right music and steps to make it enjoyable.
What would we do without our pooches ???
exwhyzee
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Britain's Got Talent has been won by.......................a dog
by Amelia Ashton inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh7viwp5kre.
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Facebook Witnessing
by watson ini have noticed that there are quite a few "friends" making a fine witness on facebook.
have you seen this too?.
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exwhyzee
Dressing up is all they've got....it's not about pleasing God, it's about their own image and P.R. Still, that was a nice thing for the author of that article to say however if he'd have said anything to the contrary, he'd have been dismeissed as a tool of Satan. Nice comment or not , JW's on the whole still trust that the author and his loved ones will soon be destroyed at armageddon.
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Where Are They Now?
by minimus inyou know they have that question about stars that were famous back in the day and they went from child star to porn star.. my question---regarding all the witnesses you knew from years ago, where are they now?.
these "true believers"---are they still around or are they long gone by now?.
when i think back to many of the elders that i knew, many are no longer around and those that are are ready to recieve their "reward"..
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exwhyzee
My best friend growing up who I met when we were in the 1st grade (no longer a JW) made a comment to me about this. "Exwhyzee....did you ever notice how so many of the kids we grew up at the Hall who's lives are now complete train wrecks? "
This past Monday I saw a headline about one of one of the kids I grew up with who was a shining star...go getter who would go out in early morning street witnessing on Saturday mornings and come back in time for the regular meeting for service having already placed dozens of magazines. He was the kid that Moms would say "why can't you answer or give talks the way "D" does? "
Apparently D crashed his car into a moving van. He stole the van from the man driving it and took off with the man's wife still in the passenger seat. The Police were behind him in a high speed pursuit until he lost control of the vehicle. The woman was badly hurt and was hospitalized with a broken leg and lacerations. The article said the driver [D] was arrested and the report said he was rambling on incoherently about his Herion addiction.
This is one of many examples I could tell you about where they not only leave the organization but they go out and become the extreme opposite of what they used to be. JW's would tell you that this is because Satan is working harder on ex JW's. I think it's becasue born in JW are often such misfits and have little or no real coping skills on the outside and are often disillusioned or consumed with guilt and fear based on the beleifs they often still hold even after they leave. They have had only the extremly wicked ones of the world held up as an example what is typical wordly behavior and they have such a low self worth because of leaving the "truth" that they head straight for things that are not worth having. It becomes a self fullfiling prophecy.
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3.5 years vs. a lifetime of going door to door.
by tootired2care indid it bug you as a witness that jesus only had to go from door to door for 3.5 years, and he was done; while he demanded that you do it for your whole life without preparing for the morrow?
i just remember a few years back reflecting on the daunting prospect of doing it my whole life if the end didn't come - "sooner rather than later".
what are your thoughts?.
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exwhyzee
There is a difference between "storing up" treasures and having the necessities on hand to live on when should one become unable to provide for oneself due to illness or old age. Having several fine houses filled with antiques might be thought of as storing up treasures. Having a retirement account available to live off of when one is 80 is another story. To me Jesus was saying not to count on these things as a solution to the big picture issues and not to get so caught up in obtaining the necessities so as to loose sight of our spiritual needs or obligations.
As usual, there are those who take something that was intended as a reminder to be balanced and they go overboard with it. Despite all the evidence around them that we need to be prepared to care for ourselves, they'd have you throw all common sense aside and have you live by the seat of your pants without a back up plan other than hoping God will solve any problem that comes along.
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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exwhyzee
What kind of pics were there? Could you give me more information about that display?
There was this Kiosk or display off the waiting room where you waited to go on tour. They had a display of photos and JW memoribilia from the early days of the organization. Like a mini museum, it showed old photos of long dead little kids and adults wearing sandwich signs announcing the nearness of the King and his Kingdom being established kind of stuff. Old book bags and old literature that isn't used anymore because the information is incorrect. It had a display of the old phonographs they used to use at the doors, photos of imprisioned Witnesses and old literature etc. I had the feeling that all these people in the photographs who believed they wouldn't die are gone now and all the hardships they suffered because of the "Truth" was for nothing. If they lived today, they wouldn't have had to be so hard core about everything and many of their beliefs would have had to be "adjusted". It made me wonder depressingly if someday when we're all gone if people in the future would be gazing at the items we use today as we rearrange our lives for this organization and await armageddons arrival. There was a palpable air of an altered state of reality there at Bethel that I had forgotten about until I returned. Yes, everything was very nice...very clean etc but it was like a funeral parlor. Artificial flower arrangements, occasional tables and comfy wing backed chairs, very stuffy old lady style that sent the message that one should sit up straight and be on ones best behavior. Everyting looked like those idealistic photos in the magazines very studied and very much trying to send some underlying message or give the impression that they are a perfect organization. There was something very off putting about it. There were other groups of JW waiting for thier tour dressed in assembly clothes who were all a twitter because they thought they were in God's waiting room.
Anyway, I thought it was just me that was getting weird vibes until this sister turns around and said she wanted to get out of there. She said " I know that they work really hard here and we're supposed to be appreciative but I just don't want to spend any more time in here." Later my Wife and boys said they felt the same way.
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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exwhyzee
Could you actually see or smell the breakfast food..
Yes....how intuitive of you to think of that FUGUE. As I rembember, the food was there and the eggs, oatmeal and or cream of wheat were turning to rubber as you waited for them to finish agonizing over the minutiae of a scripture. Each commentator trying to come up with something more brilliant and fascinating than the last...hoping that the person ahead of them didn't say what they had planned to say. It was all so compulsory, you were assigned a day to comment and there was no getting around it. You sat there waiting for the camera and lights to swing around from the GB table and then it was your turn to be heard via closed circuit TV to the Brooklyn and the Farm. There was always the new blokes who tried too hard and were a bit over the top....kind of entertaining and fodder for much snickering on the way to the factory.
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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exwhyzee
This must have been shot by a Bethelite at the morning meal since they were doing the text and comments as visitors weren't there in the morning meal. I sat at that table and got to know each of the GB as they rotated every week taking turns doing the morning worship. I remember the time Bro Knorr announced that he had Cancer and started sobbing. He said he felt badly because Bethel was so big now that he didn't know everyone by name like he used to. I went back there in the 90's and in 2006 with my family. Each time it gave me the creeps just being there again. Even the really gung-ho congregation group I was with wanted to get out of there. I remember we were looking at a display of JW history in the waiting lobby and one sister said " I know this sounds bad but I'm sorry....this is just creeping me out for some reason"
It took years for me to stop waking up in the night in a panic having just dreamt that I had decided to quit my job and go back there to work only to realize when I got there I'd made a huge mistake that I couldn't back out of. I can't describe how upsetting those dreams were...I'd be so relieved when I woke up that it wasn't true.
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Lyman Swingle at the Bethel Breakfast table - What fun!
by Dogpatch inhttps://vimeo.com/41590728.
https://vimeo.com/41590728.
how in the world do you embed videos on this site?.
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exwhyzee
Wow, this brings back memories. Bro Swingle was a nice ol guy. But I'm reinded of how being at Bethel was very often like attending a daily funeral service.
Where did you get this and what made you post it Randy?
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Name Things You Did As A Witness That You Weren't Supposed To Do
by minimus ini was considered "exemplary" but i defintely liked my drinking with my other fellow examples.. porn was never a terrible thing to me.
i looked.. throwing in a few extra hours and placements worked pretty well for me too..
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exwhyzee
Does anyone see a connection here? We have a load of former JW's commenting on all the things they did that were considered wrong for a JW to do, who then wound up leaving altogether for one reason or another.
When I was "IN" I did my best to walk the talk. I'm not sure which happened first....doing things based on my own conscience after I began seeing through all the WT B.S. and then finally leaving , or if my leaving was ultimately caused by doing things based on my own conscience rather than by the WT's "book". Current JW's would have you believe that it was our own independant thinking that led us astray and into Satan's clutches.