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Posts by Matty
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7In the end its all words on a screen
by SpiceItUp inapparently yesterday there were some misunderstandings and feelings were hurt and situations were brought way out of proportion.
(i must say when i popped online before i went to bed i was shocked and saddened at some of the stuff that happened.
i had an enjoyable day of shopping/cooking/dinner & a movie only to see some of my friends involved in a dispute that could have been easily avoided).
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Forum Soap Opera
by JH inwould this forum make a good soap opera if it could pass on tv?.
sometimes the heated debates and gossips are just as interesting as those soap operas.
what roles would you attribute to certain posters?
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Can a Re-Instated Person Ever Become An Elder?
by Englishman inwhen i was but a wee lad, re-instated persons were regarded with great suspicion pretty well for ever after.
i recall a lady i knew becoming engaged to someone who had been re-instated, my parents actually commiserated with her parents over this sad state of affairs.. back then, re-instated persons were barred from almost everything.
just student talks were allowed, but no praying and no ministerial privileges whatsoever.. then in the early 70's, the wt stated that it might be possible for re-instated persons to be given a ministerial position after a proving period of at least 10 years impeccable behaviour.
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Matty
I know of a former Circuit Overseer that was Disfellowshipped and then reinstated and became a Ministerial Servant and Elder all within a five year period.
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Vive La Rosbeefs!
by Englishman inonce upon a time in the kingdom of heaven, god went walkabout for six days.. eventually, michael the archangel found him on the seventh day, taking .
a rest.
he inquired of god, "where have you been"?
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Matty
Nothing like a good xenophobic gag to brighten up the day!
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(fluff) British expressions
by DanTheMan ina question to my fellow united staters on the board, .
do you find yourself using british expressions in your daily life because of being on this db so much?
two that i've picked up - i occasionally will call a friend "mate" (they look at me kind of funny) .
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Matty
Also, I understand that a homely woman is sometimes referred to as "Ginger" - is this correct?
If we use the word "homely" it has a nice connotations, it never means ugly. I can't work out why American's use that term negatively, surely "homely" should denote warmth and happiness?
"Ginger" is a term homophobes use - it's rhyming slang for queer, i.e. "Ginger Beer", I have never heard it being used in that way to describe a woman.
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Thank you all!!! Thanks is far from enough!
by Cassiline ini can't begin to thank you all enough for the outpouring of kindness shown to me in the last several weeks.
words just do not seem to be enough to thank you all for the flowers, phone calls, cards, gift certificates etc.
you all are too kind.
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Matty
Extremely pleased to see you back Cami!
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Matty
Happy Birthday Joy sweetie!! BTW is the 29 Mouthy mentions here the year you were born???
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Celebrating Mother's And Father's Day Is Unscriptural! You Gotta READ This!
by minimus inthe may 8, 1956 awake had the article entitled,"mother and father worship unscriptural".
it states:"nowhere in the bible do we find that parents are to be worshipped, or that there should be a father's day and a mother's day kept in their honor.
worship belongs exclusively to jehovah god, as he himself says:' i jehovah your god am a god exacting exclusive devotion'.
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Matty
Mothers day in Britain is in March, so the significance with the Month of May is irrelevant. Can somebody here tell me something wicked and evil and pagan about the month of March so us British brothers and sisters can hate Mothers Day too?
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saving those who don't need to be saved
by SpiceItUp intalking with a friend last night we got into bible god etc and he said something that made alot of sense.. he said "the baptists screw up though.
they go to third world countries to save those people.
but if its written that those who don't know god will be judged at armageddon and not automatically die, why do you need to save someone who doesnt know god?
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Matty
Putting on my Jehovah's Witness hat for a while - yes, it's very cruel to contact these people because their decision to accept or reject the message is solely based upon the world's conditions right now and their belief in our reliability in telling the truth of God's word. We don't have a very good record unfortunately, but I just KNOW that we're right this time. We have no real concrete visible proof that the end will come soon. We can't call upon Jehovah to demonstrate what he will eventually do to somehow lend a bit of credibility to our message. We cannot perform signs in any way, all we can do is point to the words in the Watchtower and Awake, the interpretation we have to the Bible's prophesies, and hope they will take our word for it.
If we leave them all well alone and not call on them on the Field Service at all then they will get a resurrection after Armageddon as being one of these "ignorant" ones - and then after their resurrection the evidence that the Jehovah's Witnesses do indeed have the truth will be so abundant that only a complete fool would reject the message.
"Look, God has brought the new system in and you can see that the Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion. Now, do you want a bible study? If you don't then you will be destroyed immediately, but if you do want a study then you will be able to live forever in the paradise Earth that you can see that we are currently building, now what do you want?"
"Duh, no thank you, I'm not interested!"
ZZZZapppppp!
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Marketing Crappy Products
by ColdRedRain ini remember back when i was still with the dubs, how i thought to myself "god, this video/book/brochure is crappy!
" but i was too afraid to say it to other people.
the thing that sparked that memory was when i picked up the noah video in my dad's stash of videos the other night.
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Matty
The Noah video is the absolute worst and has to be seen to be believed, I can't accept that anyone wouldn't think that it sucked big time - even the most fanatical and devoted dub must surely think it inside.