I strongly doubt it. It would lead to token appearances at random service meetings, fewer doors knocked, and then off to the weekend. People wouldn't know it, but they'd be keeping up appearances and little else.
Las Malvinas son Argentinas
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If they stop printing the yearly totals, will they stop tracking hours?
by Splash inso if the soc stop printing the yearly totals in the yearbook as many are predicting, does this mean there is no longer any need to keep track of each individuals hours?.
will this mean the end of our monthly reports?.
*** km 12/02 p. 8 par.
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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he would not accept the offer of a meeting involving the islands' government, which Argentina does not recognise as legitimate.
He said he was sorry Hague could not "meet without the supervision of the colonists from the Malvinas".
Those two snippets from Timerman's position explain precisely what the Argentine position is. It's the same reason why Israeli settlers are not present at any Israel-Palestine talks. Any inclusion of the islanders or their representatives implies that their colonial legislature is legitimate.
So, possession must be 9/10ths of the law? Now I see how you grew your empire. Our civilisation wasn't good or strong enough to maintain a Malvinas outpost. How could you sit back and let the Falklands turn into a humble Latin American outpost? Why not let the British demonstrate how to set up a proper colony? After all, you are the masters at it. Put up your banner with the crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick. Set up omnipresent portraits of your strange Hanoverian dynastic rulers. Implant settlers and wait 150 years. Just add water, stir in lime. Serve with Yorkshire pudding. What a quaint and typically English recipe! Now that the odds are firmly stacked in your favour, call for a vote that you already know the result of. Is that what you call democracy? A monarchy/theocracy founded on the values of Henry VIII!
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What is the most valuable thing your mother taught you?
by usualusername inwhat is the most valuable thing your mother taught you?.
as an aside was she a witness or not at the time?.
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My mother taught me to dress well, put on make-up, and to hate my father. I still do the first two.
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Were you popular in your congregation or district?
by Emery innot to start some form of popularity contests here but i was wondering how popular some people were?
how far did your network go in this organization?
this question also pertains to those who are actively fading..
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We were a broken family so we were always looked upon with a bit of pity. My mother never hesitated to call me out in front of others, so I was always looked as someone weak spiritually. I never pioneered, and my baptism was more of an after-thought. Then I had a bad 'break-up' with a guy I never wanted anyway, so the gossip got all the more vicious. I stopped going for good in October. No re-instatement for me. I'm done.
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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So Argentina needed to show a receipt? The receipt for the Malvinas is somewhere in Madrid. Look and you might find it next to Columbus' long-lost ship logs.
Where's the one for the Shetlands? The British Raj? Hong Kong? The Ulster Colony? All different flavours of soda, but all coming out of the same fountain.
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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Alaska was sold by Russia in 1867. No such sale occurred in 1833.
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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Oh pish, cedars, and to think I was trying to play nice with the natives here at JWN. Guess we'd better get organised in re-establishing ourselves in the Malvinas department of Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur, shouldn't we? A quite nice aircraft carrier, but with no empire to match it. Reminds me of this nice dress I have that for the life of me I can't find any shoes to match. Tea, anyone?
255 British soldiers died James, try not to be a prick.
Fair enough, cofty, fair enough. Let's also try not to forget the 323 lives lost on the ARA General Belgrano, which was well outside the British declared exclusion zone and steaming back towards an Argentine port. We had the junta, and you guys had Thatcher. Pick your poison.
james woods - I appreciate your comments about our national property, but you need not come to my defence in all this. I can handle these imperialists! The battle for the Malvinas wont be solved one way or another on JWN. I'll try to Wibble more often.
Emilie
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The Flaklands belong to Uruguay!
by Splash in(oops!
should read 'falklands' of course!).
who's going to be the next ones to claim them?.
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Let's start a pool. Let's set the over/under on her first post to 700 words. Any takers?
First post right here. You lose.
Emilie
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Governing Body member John O Groh
by TheListener incan anyone tell the story of john o groh?
ray and the wts mention him as a society director and member of the early 1970s governing body..
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I googled him. He has a page on the Polish language wikipedia. It doesn't say much.
http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O._Groh
Born 3 July 1906 in Kulm, North Dakota. Died 23 January 1975 in New York City. Baptised in 1934. Pioneered with his wife, Helen, in Pennsylvania. In 1953 he started serving at Bethel, and in 1965 he became a board member for the WT Society. In 1971 he ascended to the GB along with the rest of the existing board members. Died before he could see Armageddon come in the autumn of 1975.
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Why is France fighting in the middle of Africa?
by slimboyfat inseriously i have no idea what is going on or why.
because of my situation at home i have not been watching the news for the past two months or so.
but i keep catching glimpses about some sort of french war in africa.
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I just see it as another example of what happens when you impose synthetic boundaries on former colonies or protectorates. They end up containing all sorts of different ethnic and lingual groups, united only by the colonial lingua franca. Mali has an obtuse shape to it, almost as it were contrived to fit some as yet unknown purpose. The peoples of the south might have been better served by sharing a state with their ethnic brothers in neighbouring countries, with the tribes of the north in some sort of Saharan confederation. Instead you have weak and corrupt central governments propped up by their former benafactors, with practically every African country having some sort of separatist war going on right now. I know France has better things to do and can't have too many interests in Mali worth sending troops for, so the motive is sincere I believe. But sooner or later these interventionist wars have to come to an end, the boundaries reset according to ethnic, lingual, and religious divides, and let the natural order of things take place. I hate to sound like such a social Darwinist, but Africa is a mess and propping up these corrupt rulers and fighting their wars for them might be perpetuating the problem.