Posts by Landy

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Starting threads

by Landy in

any chance of people resisting the urge to start new threads when the subject is already being discussed?.

the prince threads are a good example.

instead of one interesting to read thread with lots of replies you end up with forty threads with one or two replies.

George Cook former DO, now just an elder at Prince's home congregation KH

by oppostate in

george cook, omg, george f'ing cook, whattttt!.

caption: elder george cook (right), one of the nine elders of the small 90-person congregation, said prince regularly ‘witnessed’ alone in the community and in groups.

he was very detail oriented and very eccentric.

Landy

To be fair he is 81. Less a case of the mghty have fallen than a case of the mighty getting old and wanting a more settled life.

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Being Positive around family that are still in.

by freddo in

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if you are a fader or you have reduced activity markedly - say resigned as a pioneer or an elder or ms or gone inactive and still have some relationship with your immediate family or spouse - how do you stay positive around them when you feel like shaking them out of their stupor but believe deep down it would be counter productive?.

thoughts from all most welcome..

Landy

Conversation ends with an eye roll and dispear. How do you reason with someone like that.

You don't. You leave it alone. They have the right to their beliefs just as you have the right to yours.

My mother is still a witness. I wouldn't dream of laying into her with whatever this week's forum hobbyhorse is. As long as she is happy that's fine by me.

We talk about the kids, holidays or whatever. If I was constantly attacking her faith then it would make for a strained relationship and why on earth would I want that with my mother?

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Oh happy people

by zeb in

what is it with meetings?.

so often she comes home throws her bag down and stomps around the house.

there are times it thoroughly gets me down.. + supportive comment welcome.

Landy

"Nice meeting dear?"

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the Guardians of Doctrine - What was your view of GB 1.0?

by berrygerry in

when i was an all-in, younger, somewhat uber-dub - i envisioned the governing body as spending 16 to 18 hours a day at the bethel library, with their noses in the bible and associated research books.

sky-j was propelling his holy spirit directly at them, maybe opening the book to the right page or paragraph, and zap, new light.. when i learned that these dudes only met on wednesday mornings, for as little as 10 minutes, and spent the rest of their time managing and traveling, it was quite a letdown.. anyone have such thoughts of our guardians of doctrine?.

Landy

When I was a teenager the GB were almost god like, etheral and held in awe.

Now they have Stephen Lett on the internet.

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Starting threads

by Landy in

any chance of people resisting the urge to start new threads when the subject is already being discussed?.

the prince threads are a good example.

instead of one interesting to read thread with lots of replies you end up with forty threads with one or two replies.

Landy

Any chance of people resisting the urge to start new threads when the subject is already being discussed?

The prince threads are a good example. Instead of one interesting to read thread with lots of replies you end up with forty threads with one or two replies.

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BEWARE - More force adding on FB

by JRK in

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they are doing it again.. a new group trying to boost membership is adding people without permission.. "ex-jehovah's witnesses aka behind the veil of jw.org" added me this afternoon.

they were bragging about how quickly they grew to over 2000 members.

i quickly exited the group.

Landy

Report him to FB - if enough do it they'll take notice.

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The Prince conundrum

by ElderEtta in

2 questions remain in the passing of brother prince:.

will an autopsy, that won't be made available for several weeks, reveal that he died of a drug overdose?.

did prince bequeath a large sum of money to watchtower corporation upon his passing?.

Landy

Is there a particular reason you've started a new thread? There's already a multitude of threads asking exactly the same tbing.

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Prince died. The Awake article come across my mind.

by AntiEntropy in

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enlarge the picture.

music: both rap and heavy metal music have recently come under increasing fire for similar content problems.

songs that glorify the sexual degradation and abuse of women, violence and hatred toward various races and policemen, and even satanism have all been found among rap and heavy metal records.

Landy

I dare say they'll take his money if he leaves it to them.

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Your Thoughts: My wife said...her service friend. speculated Prince would leave his vast fortune to the Society!

by goingthruthemotions in

so, talking with my wife yesterday.

she was out cart witnessing (barf) and one of the people she was with claimed to have know prince, or meet him or something like that.

well anyways...they or her or someone (they are all braindoogled) speculated or fantasized that since prince did not have any relatives or something or the other.

Landy

It will be quite amusing if he has. That means he may have also left them the royalty rights for his songs....

So you'll have the WTS earning money from songs including Gett off, Sexy MF, I love you in me, the list goes on. :D