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  help! what are good birthday presents for lads?

  by Cordelia in

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  i'm not too good at this birthday lark yet?.

  what can you buy a guy for his birthday?

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  Cordelia

  Very funny thread!! But this birthday thing does take a bit of getting used to. I'm lucky because I've got into it through my kids who are 8 and 6, but I honestly had no idea hove to buy gifts for people. . .so sad.

  Personally I'm easily pleased, books and CDs are a winner for me everytime. Tickets for a band/play are good too but I don't know how flush you are.

  One day I will meet up with you all, I'm only just over the hill in Halifax, but the missus is just too damaged by this whole Witness shit that I think she'd be too traumatised by bad memories.
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  KH presentations

  by Pubsinger in

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  i was reading bythesea's thread about notes he took at a meeting.

  he said that the elder giving the public talk was quite entertaining with his props and illustrations.. now i thought that the society had tried to discourage speakers from using extesive props and pictures several years ago, but it did get me thinking.

  i've not been in a kh for over 7 years.

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  I was reading Bythesea's thread about notes he took at a meeting. He said that the elder giving the public talk was quite entertaining with his props and illustrations.

  Now I thought that the society had tried to discourage speakers from using extesive props and pictures several years ago, but it did get me thinking. I've not been in a KH for over 7 years. Have things moved on much since then? All we had was a blackboard and some chalk for the speaker to use. In the church I now attend we have multiscreen presentation capabilities which are used for a variety of things from song/hymn words, powerpoint presentations in the sermon, live video so everyone can see whats going on (it's a traditional Anglican building so there are pillars everywhere) etc.

  Do KHs and assembly halls have this sort of stuff in these days?

  Just wondering.
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  When did your armagedon nightmares end?

  by jambon1 in

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  i realise that many did not really believe what the wt taught about armageddon but many did.

  believed it for 6 out of 10 years in the truth.

  i really feel that apart from making me extreemly depressed and paranoid when i was conscious, this ridiculous & absurd teaching gave me literal nightmares.

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  Hi.

  I think those were actually "Great Tribulation" nightmares.

  You know I'm not sure I ever believed that it was going to happen especially in Europe.

  Any fear I had disappeared when I realised that JWs had it all wrong anyway.
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  Looking to hear your Service horror stories.

  by Stealth453 in

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  mine.... i was about 10 years old, working with one of the pioneers in our hall, and we came across a gentleman that screamed obcenities at us and threatened to kill us unless we left his porch.

  i wet my pants.

  the pioneer i was with told me that i was a 'weak little witness that brought shame to jehovah for wetting my pants,' and that my punishment would be finishing out the morning's service with wet, piss stained pants.. it was february in toronto.

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  Has anyone else noticed the google ads at the bottom of this thread!!!
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  Who Gives a Shyte if Russell was a Freemason or not?

  by LittleToe in

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  a poll, inspired by gumby.... one vote here for not giving a shyte..

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  Pubsinger

  Thanks LT.

  I think I've got your drift.

  . . .starts ignoring freemason threads again
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  Who Gives a Shyte if Russell was a Freemason or not?

  by LittleToe in

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  a poll, inspired by gumby.... one vote here for not giving a shyte..

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  Do I give a shyte? Hmmm.

  Do I lose any sleep over this? - No

  Am I interested if he was? - Yes

  I can't be arsed (is that the same as not givig a shyte!!??) to read loads of stuff on this but I must admit that from my early reading on this matter i did think that he had some Mason "Connections"

  And I was fairly sure he was buried under or by a pyramid. Can someone BRIEFLY say why some think that's evidence of Masonic "connections" but some don't. Infact is that the distinction you are discussing the difference between having masonic connections/influences and actually being "A Mason"

  I think this shows that I really don't give a shyte because I dont think I've read a single Mason thread or download in over 6 years and I only clicked on this one because I noticed Little Toe had started it and he said "Shyte!!!"
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  Best Albums

  by Nosferatu in

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  let's compile a list of albums that we can listen to without skipping a single song.

  the albums that don't have a single bad song on them!

  here's mine:.

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  Disintegration. The Cure

  Regatta de Blanc. Police

  Pushing the Senses. Feeder

  O. Damien Rice

  Final Straw. Snow Patrol

  The Bends. Radiohead

  Technique. New Order

  Electric. The Cult

  Leolaio. Wow "Lament" by Ultravox. I went to see them on that tour. They were the first live band I ever went to see, on their previous tour for the previous album "Quartet". I no longer own Lament (I think I bought it on cassette or something) but I think I'll search it out. "Violater" is another of my favourite albums although I think it's just shaded by "Songs of Faith and Devotion" for me.

  Tijikmo. "Little Earthquakes" Tori Amos, one of my favorites too, along with "Boys for Pele" and "To the Choirgirl Hotel"
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  TEVYE

  by TEVYE in

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  good afternoon!

  (here, in france, it is about 6 p.m.. .

  i am a newcomer on your forum and my english is very bad... so, please, excuse me.. i am protestant ("calvinist" would be the right word) and i belong to "eglise reformee de france".. i am looking for informations about jehovah's witnesses, because i think we are in the same family.. have a good evening!.

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  Pubsinger

  Hi

  Could you just clarify "in the same family"
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  slip of the tongue of elder

  by DannyBloem in

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  this morning the speaker was late and they had to change the wachtower study with the public talk.. the young elder introducing this, was maybe a bit nervous of this happening (although it is certainly not the first time this year), and told that the public intercourse of the wachttower study would be held first, instead of the public discourse.

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  There was once an elder who informed us all that the offer for the month was "You can live forever in paradise on earth for £1.50"

  Bargain!
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  Is this a record?

  by Pubsinger in

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  5 years to become a master member!

  !

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  swirls hips and takes usual supply of womens underwear to his monday morning market stall.