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  Chronic Problem

  by nytelecom2 in

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  i am beginning to thing that someone who sits.

  near my office has a chronic gas problem.. he is an older sort of fellow, in his late.

  he never admits anything.

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  You should stop breathing.
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  2002 MEMORIAL DATE

  by picosito in

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  when is it?

  watchtower.org official site seems to be mum on it.

  curious.

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  "Why do you want to know? If you want some wine the liquor store is just around the corner."

  I asked in order to not be anywhere around Kingdom Halls or Jehovah's Witnesses that evening since the Memorial makes me SICK. I figured that someone would ask suspiciously "Why do you want to know," and sure enough that has happened. Seems there are people on this site who are like JW's in reverse. If I had explained in front why I want to know, there probably would have been some snotty comment about that too. Nazdrowie.
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  2002 MEMORIAL DATE

  by picosito in

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  when is it?

  watchtower.org official site seems to be mum on it.

  curious.

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  Thanks, why144000.
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  2002 MEMORIAL DATE

  by picosito in

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  when is it?

  watchtower.org official site seems to be mum on it.

  curious.

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  When is it? Watchtower.org official site seems to be mum on it. Curious.
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  GRINGOS vs. CANUCKS / BRITS / AUSSIES

  by picosito in

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  these spellings are the british version:.

  authorise - colour.

  these are the american version:.

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  Great comment, Expatbrit!!
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  GRINGOS vs. CANUCKS / BRITS / AUSSIES

  by picosito in

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  these spellings are the british version:.

  authorise - colour.

  these are the american version:.

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  Seems Ballistic went kinda ballistic on me. Here's my return salvo:

  I've been a perfect speller since I was five years old since my favorite First Reader was the Dictionary, NOT "Dick and Jane", I have an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature, I taught Spanish for fifteen years at the university level before becoming a Court Interpreter, I've been a Federally Certified Court Interpreter since 1993, I'm certified as a Court Interpreter by the State of California and do telephone interpreting for Texas Workforce Commission Appeals Hearings. Both my (American) English and Spanish have to be perfect because of what I do. I also taught university courses in Linguistics, from whence "Linguistic Economy" comes, not from Stanley Kubrick or George Orwell (by the way, wasn't he British?) and I get a kick out of how you blokes still consider your English to be the CORRECT version rather than A VERSION. You'll not hear me say that American English is the CORRECT version, as well. Spaniards have a similar prejudice regarding their own version of Spanish because since it started in Spain is MUST be the CORRECT one, right? That argument just does not hold water anymore among linguists, but maybe the general public.

  I just looked up some words in my Webster's. Is he a good enough authority? In any case it is an authority, not my own words

  color: [ME colour < Ofr. < Lat. color (seems the "ou" comes from French, the onetime Official Language of England).
  neighbor: ME neighebor < OE neahgebur
  judgement: var. of judgment

  If you look at these examples and, more importantly, consult the Dictionary, you will be able to find many things to think about. You'll also notice that these examples show no connection to Greek, just to Middle English, Old French, Latin, and Old English, and I daresay it's NOT a case of "Americans can't remember all the different spellings" (do they not have the same kind of brain as Brits?) but rather a case of evolution of language and its different varieties, and what dictionaries tell us in spite of any ethnocentrism we may suffer from.

  We don't "bop off" letters, either. It's interesting how lack of info about or lack of sympathy toward another country causes some people to BE ethnocentric rather than do some research to see if their prejudices are justified. I see by comments here how ethnocentrism even affects attitudes toward others that speak a different variety of the same language.

  BTW, I don't have anything against Canucks, Brits, Aussies, Sewth Offrikens, etc, I LIKE the different ways we all use the English language and appreciate all the differing details. Let's have fun!!
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  Is it OK to kill somebody?

  by julien in

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  speaking entirely from a biblical standpoint:.

  let's say you are a devout jw.

  your wife and children are being threatened by an intruder with a gun.

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  WTS sez it's not OK to shoot someone in self-defense because the blood would be on the shooter's hands. That looks to me like more WTS false reasoning. If I rob a bank and shoot people, that's different. But when I'm defending myself and my family in my home, the bloodguilt would be on the intruder himself. Of course if I pick up a broom and broom his face like WTS suggests because I don't want any "bloodguilt" on my own hands, the intruder can then kill me and my family. In that case the bloodguilt should be on the Watchtower's hands because of another stupid teaching. Their position on this can be found in some publication(s). I don't remember which ones, except on pp. 141-142 of the Flock book. You can search Watchtower Library also.

  PLEASE NOTE: With all the anti-gun hysterics going on these days, we have to especially careful to make sure our self-defense gun use was actually legally justified, even if defending our home and family, because chances are we might have to go to trial and defend our own right to have shot the intruder. Intruders have "rights," you may hear, and families of criminals do not hesitate to try to get criminal charges filed against defenders. This can happen even in Texas, where gun laws are pretty liberal, and in other states such as California, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, to name a few, you can be sure to be hauled into court and be charged with murder and sued for damages unless the cops can see that it was a blatantly open and shut case of how you had to shoot the bastard or you and others would be dead.

  I just remembered about how in that very intense and dangerous Bank of America shootout in North Hollywood, California a few years ago, one of the bastards that had fired at the police thousands of rounds from his automatic weapon right up until the last second of the event wasn't given medical attention "soon enough" and so his relatives sued the LAPD. Even the cops have to be MORE than careful when they use their firearms, even in something as horrific as that shootout.

  By the way, the Shootout at the O.K. Corral (actually in a vacant lot in BACK of the O.K. Corral) is still unresolved, according to surviving Clanton family members. They still claim that Wyatt Earp & Co. acted unlawfully when they used deadly force against Ike and his family and friends.

  I took a Texas concealed carry course several months ago and was amazed at how you're scored on how many shots you get right smack in the middle of the cardboard-man-silhouette target's breastbone. If you're gonna shoot someone, they want you to really STOP (they don't say KILL, just STOP) him and not mess around!!!

  Here is a website that has lots of useful info on what's going on with guns these days: links to articles about The Armed Citizen, pilots and guns, plus much more: http://www.keepandbeararms.com. Happy shooting!!!
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  What's wrong with this quote?

  by TD in

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  a few weeks ago, j.r. brown, director of the office of public information of jehovahs witnesses was interviewed on ktar, a phoenix area radio station.

  after listening to an audio tape of the interview given to me by a friend in the area, i thought some of you might find the following example of browns forthrightness interesting.

  mcmahon: were looking at the jehovahs witnesses, uh with the help of its national spokesperson j. r. brown, ah, the jehovahs witness office, the director of offices--- the office of public information in brooklyn, new york and theres so many things to talk about particularly clearing up some areas of confusion, uh curiosity.

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  Yeah, it's a Personal Conviction they force upon you and you accept it as your own Personal Conviction or else.
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  GRINGOS vs. CANUCKS / BRITS / AUSSIES

  by picosito in

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  these spellings are the british version:.

  authorise - colour.

  these are the american version:.

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  These spellings are the British version:
  AUTHORISE - COLOUR

  These are the American version:
  AUTHORIZE - COLOR

  Brits & Canucks may consider that AUTHORISE and COLOUR are the CORRECT spelling. Americans consider that these spellings are neither correct nor incorrect, but simply the BRITISH version, and our spelling is the AMERICAN version.

  American democratic ideals can be seen in the position of VERSION as opposed to the position of CORRECTNESS. Loyalty to the British KING can be seen in the BRITISH view of CORRECTNESS as opposed to the American view of VERSION.

  This loyalty to the KING can also be seen in how Canadians did not want to be disloyal to England and thus retained their own country loyal to the King, and so retained their preference for British spelling rather than American spelling.

  It's also a good thing now that the American spelling version is AUTHORIZE and not AUTHORISE, because with the large number of Hispanics in the USA, one notices certain peculiarities in pronunciation. There is basically no voiced "Z" sound in Spanish when between vowels, so that AUTHORIZE is pronounced AUTHORICE by Hispanics, even those born and raised in the USA. The AUTHORISE spelling would be pronounced AUTHORICED. Thank God for the "Zeeeeeee" which Canadians like to call "Zed."

  A noteworthy feature of the American version is also that using the "Z" instead of the "S" for the voiced "S" sound is more phonologically consistent, and eliminating the "U" from words like "colour" is an aspect of linguistic economy. So it cannot be stated with authority that the American versions are "incorrect."
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  NGO: German BOE-Letter

  by GermanXJW in

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  as already stated here, participant on german board http://www.infolink-forum.de collected snailmail adresses of elders and kingdom halls and informed them about the watchtower's uno relationship.

  this happened just before the kms.

  now the wts has written a letter to all bodies of elders in germany:.

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  picosito

  Why is this post wider than my screen?