so does anyone like to collect things, such as stamps, or figurines, cards, pottery or whatever?
i am a person who is a little pack rat, and i must admitt i have some cool collections, such as a my 1920 royal doulton minature toby's and waterford crystal wine glassses.
i have alot of pottery and earthenware that i also enjoy.
Yes, I collect knitting machines.Also any fibre craft items, tatting shuttles (not many) crochet hooks, weird knitting items , spinning/weaving items.
I attempt to use them all,I machine knit on a near daily basis.
I also collect dinners and put them in my tummy!
Meaty.
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... the sign of a busy household... or.
...not mine !
Shirley.
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the new pope is benedict 16th.. http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/malachy.htm.
meat pie.
Well ! The new Pope is Benedict 16th.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/malachy.htm
Co-incidence?
Meat pie.
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after reading posts about end times prophecies, i thought i'd post my favourite,.
hope it works, i'm not good at this.. please also see the notes at the bottom...
After reading posts about end times prophecies, I thought I'd post my favourite,
www.biblebelievers.org.au/malachy.htm
Hope it works, I'm not good at this.
Please also see the notes at the bottom...
i know some apostates become bitter and can see nothing good in their time spent as witnesses, but i am not talking about that kind of apostate.
i am talking about the other kind of apostate who tends to idealise certain aspects of their time in the witnesses.
what motivates such sentiments i wonder?
Hi there SlimB, Good question, yet it brought to mind the many comments I heard from JW's who HAVEN'T left that 'things used to be better'. Food at assemblies, social get togethers etc. Even meetings and talks. I didn't know what they were talking about as I hadn't been in that long. My guess is, either they were right, or thay were trying to find reasons for not wanting to be at meetings/out in field service etc.It HAD to be someone's fault, didn't it?
Meatiness.
in the article below michael jackson, an accused child molester, publicly states he is a jehovah's witness.
it's no longer just the word of his friend jesse jackson, but his own.
since he was formerly disfellowshipped, this means he has since been reinstated.
Hello, yes you can be re-instated after da'ing yourself, as I was told this just a few weeks ago when I told the elders I no longer thought of myself as a JW.They said they would always welcome me back, Fat chance !
Cheers, Meaty.
just once.. i was on the way home from the 1958 assembly at yankee stadium.
we were aboard the "arosa sun" and sailing from new york to plymouth, england.
the ship was pretty well 50 - 50 split between british and german.. when we arrived at plymouth, the british contingent disembarked whilst the germans stayed on board to continue on to bremerhaven.
yes, a few times. One was when we had a letter read out that included some words from a little boy (JW family ) who had survived badly injured from the Dunblane massacre.He had said that he was hoping to play with his (murdered) friends again one day.
Shirley.
last wednesday i got the phone call i had asked for, elder with funereal voice asked me if i had changed my mind.
so an announcement would be made the next evening.. ' ok ,fine!
thanks for letting me know!
Last Wednesday I got the phone call I had asked for, Elder with funereal voice asked me if I had changed my mind.
'Naaah,'
so an announcement would be made the next evening.
' OK ,fine! thanks for letting me know! bye then ,seeya! '
My husband and I are now playing a jolly good game of 'Made ya look'
Driving about today we have encountered a few JWs who could not really avoid us and 'had to ' wave at us maniacally grinning and waving, tooting car horn to attract their attention. We aren't making a nuisance of ouselves, we always behave like this, but it Much more fun now, to see the 'Oh no, I waved' look.
Tee Hee!
Norty Meat Pie.
hi there, i know its up to me in the end, but just wondering, what would most of you do?
my da'ing could be tonight, should i take the opportunity (before they can no longer speak to me ) to tell a few jw's that i am being da'd for telling the truth, or not to bother.
does it matter anyway.
L.T. thanks for the spellcheck ! I thought it wasn't quite how I'd written it, at least you know what I mean !
I haven't been in the KH for years and don't intend to. No news yet of ' an announcement '.
In all I have told 3 elders, 1 MS, and 2 women JWs. One of those told another woman JW who would have told her husband, so in that cong of about 40 , that's a sizable percentage.Who knows how many more know via other sources.
But most JWs don't really care, neither are they listening to the talks etc. I think generally, its only the ones who care that leave, the others just shrug their shoulders.
S
hi there, i know its up to me in the end, but just wondering, what would most of you do?
my da'ing could be tonight, should i take the opportunity (before they can no longer speak to me ) to tell a few jw's that i am being da'd for telling the truth, or not to bother.
does it matter anyway.
Hello again, Joy, my Mum first bought a Knitting machine in 1954 when she was expecting me, I have been m/c knitting for at least 40 years off and on.They are great, I collect old ones, (about 20 ) see ebay.(I'll give you my email address if you ever want to talk knitting machines)
The MS told me privately his lack of belief in an effort to get me 'not to think too much' Ha Ha!
Well, I called 'S', yes she had told Sis D, who is married to a MS, so I explained that the elders obviously didn't want me talking to anyone else, as nothing had changed with me in some years, and that I had done nothing scripturally wrong. She said she hadn't realised it should be kept secret, I said as it was the truth it shouldn't be secret, so I expect she'll get a visit soon. She doesn't go to many meetings and has more things than JW-ism on her mind right now anyway.
I am glad I got that off my chest.
I thought, what's the worst that can happen - she won't speak to me, which is what may happen anyway.
I've heard it said that we rarely regret the things we do but the things we don't do.
Thanks everyone, Shirley.
