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after being absent from this board for a couple of years, at the gentle prodding of rayzorblade, i have come back.. although i am still going by "san francisco jim", i've since left california and am now living in pennsylvania.. while i am here, please allow me to make a shameless plug for the new message board for gay & lesbian exjws at: http://frost.bbboy.net/acommonbond.
kind regards to all...... jim.
I have just softened the colors to pastels.
Hmm! Much better Jim, it's much more tasteful now, very nice. I given the old board an occasional lurk, but haven't joined on account of me not being gay. Do you have to be to join? I do own a Dusty Springfield record, so maybe that might be good enough for you?
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after being absent from this board for a couple of years, at the gentle prodding of rayzorblade, i have come back.. although i am still going by "san francisco jim", i've since left california and am now living in pennsylvania.. while i am here, please allow me to make a shameless plug for the new message board for gay & lesbian exjws at: http://frost.bbboy.net/acommonbond.
kind regards to all...... jim.
Welcome back Jim!
They are a great bunch of people at A Common Bond, thanks for giving them a plug. That board colour scheme though is enough to give you a migraine!
i read through the thread entitled "what is your favorite kingdom melody?
", but i couldn't find any i liked.
i found quite a few i really hated though.
Elsewhere, are you thinking of the lyric:
(...song 13 Christian Dedication)
No longer as living for ourselves,
For you we shall live or die.
Yes, that is scary stuff - I don't like that song because it sounds too much like "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" at the beginning!
finally i have found a curry paste that i love!
i love hot food and this curry paste makes any dish taste authentic.
i made some for my mom and she said it tasted just like it was from a restaurant.
Listen to the curry snob! Actually, being from the Leicester area I guess you get to appreciate quality Indian food as Leicester has the best restaurants in the country.
just curious.
i went to the 3rd church that i've ever stepped foot into after leaving the borg 3 years ago.
so, as i'm standing there (in the front row, i might add) for the musical worship portion of the service.. i felt like a big idiot.
I have met many JWs that had true talent yet I knew their compositions would never make it.
Blondie, many brothers and sisters from around the world wrote songs for inclusion in "Sing Praises...", including members of my own family. I can't go into too much detail here without compromising my anonymity, but a few of the songs got through, but certainly not the best ones in my view. Of all of the submissions, only one song actually made it to the Sing Praises book without being completely butchered by the Brooklyn Bethel writing department – you see, any submission by any brother or sister is automatically deemed as WTBTS property to do what they will. They can change any part of the lyrics and tune they want without consulting the original composer. They got badly stung by "God's Own Book, A Treasure" (where they forgot to obtain the rights to the music and were not granted the rights by the "worldly" family after the composer died) and they sure as hell won't do that again – all rights now belong to the Society of all the songs in the current songbook, the original composer has absolutely no say.
http://jehovahs_witness.adoption.com/
who runs that site?.
registration service provided by: internet adoption.
Thanks for providing the site information Nathan.
This site looks like a general site for adoption, but has a Jehovah's Witness arm, along with other faiths? If so maybe a somewhat naive move on their part?
Nathan, where do you find this stuff ???????
Debbie from the Watchtower Observer Forum found it first actually, must give her a plug as she works very hard researching these things, as does Nathan of course, they are both diamonds.
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see story at http://www.nakedwalk.alivewww.co.uk/.
it's a great piece.. frank tyrrell
He hasn't managed to get to John O'Groats yet, the poor guy keeps getting arrested all the time! This is from today's news:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/19-8-19103-0-3-13.html
i had an idea that i could build a uk map of everyones location which would show you instantly who is in your area from jwd.. (it might be an idea to do a seperate us one aswell but i'll wait and see if this one takes off first, or if anyone from the us wants to volunteer to do that one).
(and australia but you are all in the same backyard anyway - literally!!!).
anyway, all you have to do is post or email me your username and town and i will draw you on the map above which will change gradually to include everyone!.
How about a big map of the world that you can zoom in / pan around or separate maps of each country / continent where you could put push-pins in?
That's a great idea. I remember RevMalk doing something like that when LambsRoar started, but seem to remember the code for it was very error prone, so I guess that was the reason it was dropped.
in the ``giving credit where credit's due" category, i must say that while curiosity drew me to spend an hour or so last sunday morning at the convention in philly, i must confess to having been pleseantly surprised by the drama.
sure there was the usual hamming it up with over-the-top histrionic gesturing and laughable synthetic beards we've come to expect; but since it stuck nearly verbatim to the events chronicled in the book of acts from pentecost through the trial and martydom of stephen it was remarkable for its christ-centricity and for the total absence of watchtower spin or any reference to ``the governing body," the "faithful and discreet slave" and ``organization.
"" except for a few spurious ``jehovahs" here and there, it might have easily been mistaken for some sort of baptist pageant.
Yes, I noticed this too. I'm kinda disappointed as the drama is usually the worst/best example of Watchtower propaganda of the whole convention.
Next year lets go back to normal and have more first century Christian families acting like 1950's middle class Americans, lets have more hyperbole and mincing around from the bible characters, more bizarre conjecture and references to a Governing Body in Jerusalem please!
i've always wondered why it was ok for jesus to wait until he was 29 to get baptized in symbol of his dedication while jw's are pressured at such an early age.
do you suppose joseph was always on his case...jesus get up its time to go to the temple.....why didn't you comment today?.......when are you going stop hanging out in gallilee with all your friends and get baptized?.
is this just another control aspect of the wtbts, handcuff you to the org while your young and make it almost impossible to leave later when you mature?
At Twickenham district convention on Saturday they had a bunch of oily little brats on the platform being interviewed on how spiritual they were. What I found amazing was how they spoke about themselves and their achevements and hardly mentioned God at all. Anyway, one of the kids said he got baptised at nine, and was pioneering in his early teens - he was paraded as example of spirituality, laying on a guilt trip to all the teens in attendance who hadn't been baptised yet. This sort of nonsense is standard fare at Circuit and District conventions.
