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What attention needs to be given to the equipment we use in the witness work? KM 95/3 question box

by fadinfast in

1 although having an appropriate scriptural presentation in mind, a publisher of the good news might be unprepared when it comes to the equipment he uses.

when at the door, he may not have the current literature offer.

[ make sure you buy your obligatory mags before you leave the kingdom hall] the magazines, brochures, and tracts in his witnessing case may be wrinkled or tattered.

fadinfast

Our literature is Free, but for $5 I'll go away.

No Passing ! Show some respect I'm a Jedi Warrior.

As a Jedi Warrior, any nonsense and you'll feel the sharp edge of my 'New Light' sabre.

I've got the mini the 'Good Boys' have the Caddie.

FF

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Idiocy wins over rationale! I am mad as a hatter

by cyberjesus in

jw
friends

sorry i needed a place to vent.

i am just flaming to see idiocy in action and how emotions, suppositions, assumptions and conclussions without evidence will not control someones head, and thoughts if you can call it that.. i am usually very patient (thanks to my fing jw background) and i try to use rationale all the time.

but sometimes there is someone who would just refuse to think.

fadinfast

Reason wont penetrate a head blocked by ego and fear.

Know what you mean. Had a visit from a couple of JWs, who I offcourse know, and thought great got a few things Ill smack them round with, but as I thought back to the last talk , about blood , actually had them thinking and agreeing until I asked where the bloodguilt was in regards to ones who died before the 'new light' shone. You could watch the defence shutters come down and a beautifully crafted 'Watchtower Political avoid answering the question', skilfully executed.

Didn't pursue it any further[ no need] this time similar to what you said above stopped me saying to much, working didn't help although I offer to stop and have a drink. Fishing techniques...wind in slow and play the bait. FF

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What attention needs to be given to the equipment we use in the witness work? KM 95/3 question box

by fadinfast in

1 although having an appropriate scriptural presentation in mind, a publisher of the good news might be unprepared when it comes to the equipment he uses.

when at the door, he may not have the current literature offer.

[ make sure you buy your obligatory mags before you leave the kingdom hall] the magazines, brochures, and tracts in his witnessing case may be wrinkled or tattered.

fadinfast

1 Although having an appropriate Scriptural presentation in mind, a publisher of the good news might be unprepared when it comes to the equipment he uses. When at the door, he may not have the current literature offer.[ make sure you buy your obligatory mags before you leave the Kingdom hall] The magazines, brochures, and tracts in his witnessing case may be wrinkled or tattered.[ you can of course iron or press them, but we are not telling you that, so you can buy some replacements] He may be unable to find a pencil[ using a pencil, so mistakes can be deleted, always remember to carry a pencil sharpener or penknife, no forget the penknife, as we cant be seen carrying a dangerous weapon from 'door to door'] or a house-to-house record because his case is not properly organized.[ we wont want it to reach the point were the A part of Isaiah 52:11: becomes appropiate!] It is important to give careful attention to your equipment before sharing in field service.

2 What items should a well-equipped witnessing case contain? A Bible is essential.[ maybe all you need, but you will need to buy a NWT, there is more however, whats the second most important] Include a supply of house-to-house records.[certainly warrantssecond place don't want to forget/lose any customers or potential customers=lose of revenue] Be sure that you have the publication that is being featured for the month. [make sure you have bought sufficient books for your territory,these are best sellers, and sell like hot cakes, don't worry if you buy to many we will have an ' after the light has gone out sale, in oooh say a few months time] Current issues of the magazines, as well as tracts and brochures, are also needed.[ this is not an option, notice the command 'are also needed' do not leave the hall without buying plenty of these] Carry a copy of the Reasoning book.[ this is a good example of an 'out of light book', blood, last days etc, which we are scrambling to reprint under the new name of, 'Argumentation from the Trusted/Truthful New World Translation' so buy a few copies, as we don't want to many left at the factory store] Having the latest OurKingdomMinistry will allow you to review suggested presentations before going to the door.[ Good morning we are here today Poly wants a cracker Poly wants a cracker] When working in territory where you are likely to meet people who speak a foreign language, it would be good to have the booklet GoodNewsforAllNations.[ buy a few copies and share with any one you know that is going overseas, great conversation starter] Having a copy of one of our publications designed for young people will help you to be prepared to speak to teenagers.[having a mobile, cellphone, so you can text them; or a laptop so you can 'Twitter/facebook them would probarly be more appropriate, buy many copies leave one with a potential customer truth lover and get them to text you what they think of certain points] [also what we are not telling you here is if you are out for as long as you should be ;we would like/demand, then you will need a cut lunch and a waterbag]

3 Everything used should be neatly arranged in your case. The case itself does not have to be new,[ because we don't sell them] but it should be clean and in good condition.[ and have a good set of wheels, as with all that is in there its going to be a bit of a 'heavy burden' but let Jesus become your wheels and 'lighten your load'] Your witnessing case is part of your equipment for use in declaring the good news.[ we will soon be printing bumper stickers for your bags which you will soon be able to purchase: please come up with some suggestions for the wording] Keep it in good order. FF

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Tales from the bush-part3- Theocratic Warfare /Deception

by fadinfast in

[to be familiar with the characters of this story you really need to have read 'tales from the bush' parts 1@2 hidden deep in the bowels of jokes and humour, in case your not into a paper file chase, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/humour/203865/1/tales-from-the-bush-the-real-use-for-magizines http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/humour/204175/1/tales-from-the-bush-part-2-the-proper-use-for-magazines.

there is a time when a mans conscience says, you just got to go, to do more, reach out, extend, make it happen.

was it hard, to make a decision, to make the effort?

fadinfast

This is a fairly short yarn, has nothing to do with WTS, magazines, or any thing JW [other than Mac was in at the time]. Macca was a 'born in the bush Aussie', born on the farm, raised on the farm [station], inherited the farm, never been off the bloody farm [500km radius maybe?] He was a cattle man[big man well over 6 foot], loved his beef. One time he told me "got a relly [relative] who really needs my help down in Sydney, not looking forward to that city stuff though, but I get to fly, from here to xxxx then one a bigger one to Sydney [he loved flying, was always up in the mustering chopper].

On his return we were sitting having a chat over a few coldies, and he told me this story from the 'Sydney trip'. "I stayed at the pub, cause my aunt lives alone in a tiny little flat, ate there sometimes mostly we ate at the pub, I seen this ad on the telly for these MacDonald's hamburgers, and thought I would like to try some. Getting toward lunchtime I strolled downtown and found one of them MacDonald's stores, ordered a 'quater pounder', when I got it, it had a bit of meat that looked like a loaded triple [road train,32 wheels] had run over it, hardly a mouthful, so I went and asked them if they would mind putting 3 together and cooking them medium rare, the said they were all pre made and they weren't allowed to do that. So went back down the road to a butcher I had seen and got him to make a real sized patty, took it back to MacDonald's and asked them if they would make that into a hambuger, again they quoted health regulations and company rules, so I took my meat and went and found a Italian takeaway and they made me the best burger ever".

So from then on we called him Macca, even his wife got used to it [eventually].

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Tales from the bush-part3- Theocratic Warfare /Deception

by fadinfast in

[to be familiar with the characters of this story you really need to have read 'tales from the bush' parts 1@2 hidden deep in the bowels of jokes and humour, in case your not into a paper file chase, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/humour/203865/1/tales-from-the-bush-the-real-use-for-magizines http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/humour/204175/1/tales-from-the-bush-part-2-the-proper-use-for-magazines.

there is a time when a mans conscience says, you just got to go, to do more, reach out, extend, make it happen.

was it hard, to make a decision, to make the effort?

fadinfast

[To be familiar with the characters of this story you really need to have read 'tales from the bush' parts 1@2 hidden deep in the bowels of jokes and humour, in case your not into a paper file chase, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/humour/203865/1/Tales-from-the-Bush-The-Real-Use-For-Magizines http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/humour/204175/1/Tales-from-the-Bush-part-2-The-proper-Use-For-Magazines

There is a time when a mans conscience says, you just got to go, to do more, reach out, extend, make it happen. Was it hard, to make a decision, to make the effort? I would have to say a definite No. Besides the three of us had had our conscience reminded for years, if your not out there doing it right, showing initiative, using the best and newest offerings, then you will miss out on the good things, and now we had just had the Big one, the once yearly 'arise to action call' [as if we needed it]. Our fishing mag had just reminded us the 'salmon season' starts in a week. We were standing together discussing the finer points of our trip [how many lures, what white wine to have with the first one caught] when up walks the PO [ or as we affectionately called him POO 'presiding outback overseer', just had a thought you could have a POO if you had an anointed overseer, 'presiding overseer overlapper'] "couldn't help hearing you fellows planning a witnessing trip", "No witnessing" shouted my brain at him. " where are you fellows headed." "xxxx" says Mac. "But we only covered that area a short timmme....salamon season, right." "Right!!" three voices in unison. "Got to ask you fellows a really big favour, I'm just about to announce one of those really up building visits, someone up the ladder from Bethel HQ, whose been at Sydney Bethel for some time, got to much time to himself and asked if he could see "some outback" and do "some outback witnessing" and lucky us, he arrives tomorrow, what's you fellows timetable. "Leave Friday, back when quotas full, hopefully, but coming back Tuesday at the earliest." "Heres the favour fellows, would you mind taking our guest along, but one catch, he needs to be here Monday so I can drive him to xxxx so he can fly back to Sydney, what do you say." "NO NO NO bugger off POO!" three rebel brains screamed in unison. "Yes that's ok." three organisationally stupefied voices replied. The printed schedule read: Monday...arrive. Tuesday...field service in the morning /arranged return visits and 'call to arms' talk at 7.30pm. Wednesday...regular field service. Thursday...FS and another pep talk at 7.30pm. "What the hell we going to do, we'll get no fishing in." this was Macca after the meeting, Macca who had a good nose for bad weather, and people at times. "Have to wait and see, maybe he likes fishing." I suggested. " And maybe my prize bull will grow wings and fly to his next stud appointment and save my truck some wear and tear." mumbled Macca as he walked off. "I guessa that's all we can do, isa wait and see." says Toolkit as we headed for our vehicles. Macca showed up around lunchtime the next day. "what you doing Mac" "just been doing business in the pub, and I think I may have our problem fixed , old Jimmy's grandson 'Chris' is in town and..."

I liked the idea, few loose ends to tie up, had to go tell Tooly and he thought "itsa the best."

POO had asked for a show of hands, as to who might be "out supporting" in FS "just so we can sort out territory etc" [no harm in doing a little face shaming] anyway the three of us, our wife's, and, as it turned out most of the congregation, had decided to go out on Tuesday, so here we all were at this ungodly hour, before the first front door, [what I didn't tell you, so as not to bore you to much, was on the printed schedule, was all the fine details, when to be at the mustering yards [KH] when to separate and exist via the loading ramp into waiting vehicles, when to be released to the pasture, [at least it wasn't the abattoir/ knackers yard] having been marshalled through the first exercises, with our fists suspended in mid air, waiting for the second hand to sweep round and hit 9am and say GO. Toolkit had got it spot on last night after the talk [which instead of being up building and loving was like being poked with a cattle prod many times] when he had said "all that's a missing isa the gongs [medals] on his chest."

Wednesday a strange animal virus swept into town forcing some witnesses [only] to have to take their dogs, cats or chickens to the vets a couple of towns away, and stay overnight 'just in case'. Some others had to go to an out of town dentist. And some of us had to work, so by Thursday it was POO and his missus and a couple of hard core devotees and offcourse Pita [he had come up behind us one time and realised that we were talking about him [luckily nothing derogatory] "why do you call me Peter when my real name is Allan." [name changed to protect organizational clone] Could have just said "well Jesus said to Peter 'strengthen your brothers' and that is what you are doing." But no, up pipes Macca "we are not saying Peter we are saying Pita, Pita bread is a great favourite with us [witnesses] but we don't get it enough around here." Well that swoll his head somewhat which was just as well, as he never stopped to think what it really meant...PITA = Pain in the arse. Macca had been right he wasn't into fishing.

Friday...full days drive, we started extra early, so we could show Pita some of the sights on the way, check in at the local pub, that night at dinner Pita drew up the battle plans [field service strategy] we listened with half an ear, as our plans were already in place. He was very disappointed when we told him "no map we just know where to go" but agreed to 'be shown'.

Saturday...early breakfast, quick rally talk and prayer, Macca went off "to arrange some RVs," and there we were at Jimmy's [this was needed protocol we told Pita, this is Theocratic Warfare /Deception after all, and, need I say it, he has aircon] fist in the air waiting for the second, yer yer we all know the routine by now. Heyyyyyy boss its good to see you again, come on in, yous want some tea. We introduced Allan and sat talking over a cuppa, well Allan did most of the talking, as he realized old Jimmy might be a potential 'truth convert', and Jimmy just goaded him on with the right word or sentence here or there. From where I sat I could see out through the window, and now Macca had appeared behind some bush's, I gave him a slight nod and a minute or so later there was a knock on the door, "hi Grandad just brought the spuds back that we borrowed." Introductions all round and Pita moved into second gear, Chris, Jimmy's grandson played a great part, but when I saw little signs of agony starting to show, I gave Macca the nod again, and moments later a knock on the door, "hey Uncle came to see how you doing, and tell you we is going to xxxx soon and see if you need anything." "no thanks Pete I'm OK, come and meet some friends." Introductions all round and Pita hit third gear. Before he really got rolling, Chris got up "gota get going Granddad, see you fellows later, good talking to yous." Pita had given Chris a few mags from his bag, but now Jimmy spoke up. "you fellows should give Chris lots of them magazines cause he got alota family that will read them aint that right Chris." "sure Grandad." I stood up "I'll get him a box" We escaped outside, where Macca assured us all was in place, handed Chris a box of 'fire starters' "I'll slip them out the back for Grandad." and thanked him for all he had done and assured him full payment would be in the imminent future. I went back in, Pita was in Acts, of the Genesis to Revelation run-through, let it run to the agony threshold, and

gave the nod again, this happened another two times six people in all, [including Jimmy] in a similar fashion, until we brought Pita down to earth with thoughts of food, finally we were in the 4WD,[Macca had come in with the last person] and headed to the pub, Pita still had his angel wings on and was hoovering well above ground level, "never had such satisfying talks [for whom Pita 'for whom'] you guys have got to do RVs on all of them we talked to. [you Pita 'you'[talked] not we or them] We promised him we would see them real soon. "and all those mags placed,this town will really heat up after they get around..." Toolkit who had been pretty quite cut in "I thinka you've started many fires aburning in the one morning Allen." It was hard to contain the laughter.

After lunch we went about a mile out of town to the RVs Macca had 'arranged' it was a group of five families and grand parents living in close proximity to each other,when we arrived they were all together [ conveniently] under the big old mango tree, just finished lunch. It was just to much for Pita who just erected his soap box [a large tree stump] flapped up there, and started. We let him go for nealy an hour, then coxed him down with offers of afternoon tea. We had tea, and finally some real conversation, we left after Pita had placed some mags, he was like someone handing out sweets at a kids party, he had a ball. We finished the day having a look around town, and at dinner that night I'm embarrassed to say we feed Pita too many of the local brew, and heard things we more than likely shouldn't have, but that's another story.

For some reason we had a much more subdued/laid back start that next morning [normality, a moment to savour] and were casually making a move for the vehicle sometime after ten. [consider it brotherly love Pita, we are helping you get to old age] We were going on a RV some ways out of town, then finish off as much town as possible, and then, in the words of he who is in command [or so He thought] "if we've anytime over we will chase them fish up you've been telling me about." Macca had been right he didn't like fishing much, and as Mac added at some stage

" the only fishing he does is with a line baited with Watchtowers, a pretty restricted catch you get with them." [He was an early fader was Mac, yup 4weeks 12 hours before Tooly and I and our wife's did the same.]

We were a bit of aways down the main road when 'bang!' the vehicle came to a halt, "un momento I will have a look" says Tooly as he is getting out "it sounds like...." "yes it is so, we will needa tow." "I'll go to the servo it is just up the road a bit." We sat under the shade of a tree and waited ,fifteen/twenty minutes later Mac and the mechanic were there and pretty soon we were at the servo, and Gary the mechanic and owner was telling us [after a couple of phone calls] "the earliest it could arrive would be on the Tuesday arvo flight , which should have it on the road late Wednesday morning." "Oh heck that means I am going to miss my flight, what am I going to do."

"no worrries mate you can catch the bus, it gets in to XXXX at 10/10.30pm and it leaves at 12.30pm, you just got time to get your bags [I'll run you down to the pub] and have a burger for lunch." "Where do I get the ticket and where does it leave from." "I am the agent, so you get the ticket right here, and she leaves from here as well." We sat and had a burger in the takeaway attached to the servo, and then saw Pita off.

"We're so sorry[ cue the violins] you have got go we've so enjoyed your company and the theocratic association, Allan."

" sorry we couldn't have thrown a line in together, but you did reel in a few men."

"It is a shame that it had to happen this way, buta these things wella they just happen sometime." [said with a straight face] I/we kept glancing at the sky, no storm clouds, no lighting, maybe Jehovah does approve of Theocratic Decpetion/Warfare, we had read from 'his one channel of communication,' that, that is so.

We waved him out of sight. [to be fair Allan was a hell of a nice guy, but we only met that 'real' nice guy once, sad to say when he was drunk, the rest of the time he lived behind the organisational mask.]

" Grab the car [never did find out what Tooly did with the vehicle "it's a trade secrete" was all I ever got.] and head down to the pub, grab the cartoons that we need and some ice, deliver to all, we should be fishing in a couple of hours." No holding Mac back when it came to fishing. It cost quite a few cartoons, but hey 'the fishings Free, but sometimes it 'Costs to get there.' FF

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Something to say next time the Witnesses call.

by fadinfast in

i have just read in these following paragraphs something that would disturb my conscience, notice:.

12 they also saw that there are but two organizations in the universe and that everyone belongs either to god's organization or to satan's, the latter on earth being composed of big business, big politics and big religion.

34 the world's political wild beast rules supreme under the name-number 666, while big politics, big religion, and big business keep that wild beast functioning as an oppressor of mankind and a persecutor of god's people.

fadinfast

I have just read in these following paragraphs something that would disturb my conscience, notice:

12 They also saw that there are but two organizations in the universe and that everyone belongs either to God's organization or to Satan's, the latter on earth being composed of big business, big politics and big religion. WT81 12/1 p23

34 The world's political wild beast rules supreme under the name-number 666, while big politics, big religion, and big business keep that wild beast functioning as an oppressor of mankind and a persecutor of God's people. Rev Cli ch 28 p196

I notice there that big religion is part of Satan's organization, I know you guys put in a lot of hard work and time and your numbers are rising, am not sure what your tipping point, the point at which small becomes big, is, [possibly the same one used between major components and blood fractions]

But my conscience would not allow me to think I have made you part of Satans organization, so I must decline your offer. FF

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Black Friday Stampedes VS. District Convention Morning Gate Openings

by Mr. Falcon in

has anyone had a jw rant to them around christmas time about how "horrible" it is to be a "worldly" person at that time of year?.

certian jws love to use the infamous black friday shopping riots that tend to occur as examples to back up this argument.

now, while those incidents are indeed disgraceful, they are hardly isolated to the "world".. among my "priveliges" was to be an attendant at a few district conventions.

fadinfast

I dont know how many are aware . but there are actualy 3 classes in the WT 'system of things'. Other sheep. great crowd, and the privileged class.

This was brought home to me [and others] by the fact that, the DC con-vention centre had one section of comfortable seating; and when during the session you looked [from your standard seating] over to 'that other seating' who should be there but all of the 'privileged class [elders etc who had had the 'privilege' of getting in before the doors were opened and fillling the rows with books] and all there familys and close freinds.To be fair ,they did get on top of the problem somewhat. eventuatly. FF

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Ever feel like Woody when talking to a Witness?

by sabastious in

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

-sab.

fadinfast

Man in black you nailed it, knock knock anything left in there , guess there must be, I was, and everyone here, but some????? FF

Tales from the Bush part 2 / The proper Use For Magazines

by fadinfast in

we were sitting under the best bit of shade to be found, it was bloody hot; pushing 42-4 celsius, toolkit was singing 'stuck in the middle with you' in his broad italian accent, for good reason, we about 80 kms into the settlement we were heading to, with about 60-70 to go.

toolkit was an interesting character, a chubby [ well i would say, "hey tooly your getting chubby" he'd reply "maria [his lovely wife] she says i'm acuddly and i like being cuddled"] italian immigrant who had been a mechanic in the italian army, told me "you knowa them italian tanks, they gotta 5 gears in reverse, buta that's nota enough to match the forward speed ofa them other tanks, soa my job she was to put in the sixth gear, then they cana win in reverse" that was his story and he stuck to it.

he'd helped out quite a few broken down locals, he'd say "un momento i getta my toolkit" and so toolkit be came his username and he loved it.

fadinfast

We were sitting under the best bit of shade to be found, it was bloody hot; pushing 42-4 Celsius, Toolkit was singing 'Stuck in the middle with you' in his broad Italian accent, for good reason, we about 80 kms into the settlement we were heading to, with about 60-70 to go. Toolkit was an interesting character, a chubby [ well I would say, "hey Tooly your getting chubby" he'd reply "Maria [his lovely wife] she says I'm acuddly and I like being cuddled"] Italian immigrant who had been a mechanic in the Italian army, told me "you knowa them Italian tanks, they gotta 5 gears in reverse, buta that's nota enough to match the forward speed ofa them other tanks, soa my job she was to put in the sixth gear, then they cana win in reverse" that was his story and he stuck to it. He'd helped out quite a few broken down locals, he'd say "un momento I getta my toolkit" and so Toolkit be came his username and he loved it. 20 or so minutes later we see some dust and start to hear some noise, as it got closer the noise got worse, finally out of the dust came a clapped out Holden ute, and we could see Stevo driving and his brother Mick with him. "Heyyy bros what you's doing here". "Waiting for the rains, catch some fish in the creek over there". "Awww bro rains along time off, Naaaa you's broken down wanna lift". Threw our gear in the back, hid the key to the Toyota [so the local mechanic could collect and work on it [this one was 'bigger than my kit' as Tooly would say when he couldn't fix it]. We were off, very erratically, Stevo and Mick hadn't just gone just to pick up the milk and papers, they'd been partying, and still were I noticed, didn't really matter to much out here, no other vehicles to speak of, and at the speed we were going plenty of time to miss the odd tree, anthill, rock, bullock. There was one section that had us thinking a bit, it was a fairly rough, dry gully stretch of road. But before we got there we ground to a halt, with the motor still turning over. "No accelerator boss" "Un momento I will have a look, open up the bonnet Stevo" Tooly disappeared in the engine compartment, "accelerator cable shes abroken what we got to use". I started going thru a pile in the corner "Tow rope , length of chain, different thickness's of wire of various lengths, lengths of bailer twine". "Piece of tie wire, anda the string that will do it".

Ten minutes later we were moving again, the bonnet was in the back with us, and Stevo was driving with one hand sort of out the window, holding on to the string that was attached to the arm of the carby, if it had been erratic before, it was now like being driven by someone with a broken ankle, fast slow fast jerk jerk jerk, we were however getting there, but now we entered the stretch of dry gullys. Imagine a roller coaster ride with no rails, and a fairly drunk driver whose one arm is controlling your speed with a piece of string, and with the other, not only steering, but trying to drink his beer as well. It wasn't long before we ran off the road and smack into a big pile of softish dirt, pushed up by the grader/bulldozer. On inspection, it was decided the damage wasn't to bad, the radiator had been pushed into the fan, but hadn't holed it, so all we needed to do was to pull off the fan, and clean the dirt off the front. The other problem we found was we had some how punctured a tyre, and this had to be changed before we could push it out of the dirt to be able to work on the radiator. Simple one would rightfully think, simply jack up the ute and "Heyyy bros I just remembered I lend the jack to my uncle and don't have it back" "ten outa ten for kindness Stevo" "thanks bro" "Ahhhhhh". We were fortunate enough to find a long stout tree trunk [care of the road works] and by 'placing' a pile of Awakes in the appropriate spot we were able to lever the ute up some, and then build up a pile of Watchtowers to rest it upon, and in this way we finally got the wheel changed, and after what seemed like a generation of the overlapping kind, we were ready to go. But this time Tooly and I were in the front doing the driving, wise man was our Davo. As we were leaving Davo had asked if we would leave the piles of mags there so "I can show peoples how them Awakes lifted us up and them Watchtowers held us there" "no problem". I said to Tooly as we drove away "next wirly wirly will scatter those mags over the country side, reckon we should count every dingo as witnessed to" "it isa the way she goes" matter closed.

We made it to the settlement and made camp,they had been out hunting, fishing, and collecting 'bush tucker', and tonight was feast night, which made Tooly very excited, I see him talking to an [tribal] elder, "he says I can cook them some spaghetti!"

At this point I should introduce you to toolkits 'red pack'. Where most men's wife's" would say "you got your bag of cloths and your water bottle" Maria would say "you gota the red pack" most would say "you got plenty of underwear" Maria says "you gota plenty pasta!" most would say "you got the esky and your bible" Maria says "you gota Plenty olive oil!" most would say "you got your fishing gear" Maria says "you gota...google Italian cooking ingredients, and you will get some idea of the checklist. Never went short of a good feed, and that night was no excepetion,with all the local food plus spaghetti and a few beers.....next very late morning after a fine brunch we were making a beeline for Anne's place, an elderly lady we had talked to before, and yes Macca had taught Tooly and me well, she had aircon. We talked about the food last night, family, the weather, the trip in with Davo and how we used the mags. "you got plenty more of them magazines like last time" "heaps Anny,whys that" "I got something to show you, come on" She lead us into her bedroom, there was a bed, a dresser, and a built in wardrobe, the rest of the space was taken up by a huge paper mache pyramid , approaching half built. "I read in a magazine how one of these would make me sleep better, so I is making me one, I need lots more paper to finish". We did the right thing and left her all we had. I only wish I knew then what I know now, I would have told her how happy Charley [Russel] would have been to know that the mags were being put to a 'proper use'. FF

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BOE LTR Dec 26, 2010 "Increased Activity April 2011"....Transcript....

by yknot in

in an effort to increase the praise and honor to jehovah and jesus christ at the time of the memorial, the governing body has arranged for a special period of increased activity during april 2011.

you will be pleased to learn that during april 2011, publishers who wish to serve as auxiliary pioneers may indicate on the application whether they will be working toward a 30-hour or 50-hour requirement for the month.

this is a special arrangement for the month of april 2011 only.

fadinfast

Thanks Yknot love your posts, always good to see a blow below the belt and beat them to the post. Those of you who are still attending should print out a copy and pin it to the notice board ASAP, or start the JW rumour mill off, wish I could, but cant. the Governing Body has arranged for a special period of increased activity during April 2011. Hope the old buggers aren't over doing it , all that 'arranging' can be 'oh so stressful'. Greetings to all.....FF