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  grey smoke, white smoke - papal dynasty

  by Crumpet in

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  anyone care who gets made pope?

  anyone read dan brown's angels and demons?

  surely god could make the smoke rainbow coloured - with laser lighting in this day and age - just so we could be sure like?

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  I think they said before John Paul II, the Italians held the spot for the past 455 years.
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  What the C/O overseer said

  by NoAnswers in

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  on the brothers last talk he was talking about how we should be good host.

  like abbrahan was to the angels anyways..... he went on saying that some brothers in other countries have the elders deal with their financial neeeds it sounded that they give the money to them and they share it among the congrecation.

  he then went on saying that if the governing body would ask us in this country to do that what would we do ?

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  I remember many a brother who said from the platform that if the GB tells us this black bible is now green well then it's green. Brothers would tell us that if the Society told us to go into hiding that it was time to go to the "mountains" that we should be ready to go. We should never become so attached to our things like Lot's wife.
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  Disgusting wasteful behaviour

  by Simon in

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  what a great world, we are throwing good food away because we are too lazy or dumb and don't value it while millions elsewhere starve to death.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4443111.stm.

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  She washed and carefully dried aluminum foil and re-rolled it to use again later.

  Scully, I spent so much time with my grandmothers and great grandmothers.....all of whom were effected by the Depression and the War. I even lived with my grandparents and my great grandmother lived upstairs in the other flat. So, I still re-use my tin foil, save the vegetable baggies I get "free" from the store (careful to leave the leaded print on the outside). I tend to use wash clothes in the kitchen instead of paper towels and save my old kitchen towels for rags (instead of buying cleaning towels).

  I don't mind buying used books or shopping at used clothing stores for our "play" clothes and I always donate old clothing and toys to the womens shelter. We eat leftovers and freeze dinners. The crock-pot is our friend.

  Salad spinner??? Who needs to buy a stupid spinner when there is a pillow case!! My grandmother taught me that one, too.

  The influence of the older generation has really taught me about wastefulness and how to be frugal.
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  Anyone Here from No Calif?

  by love2Bworldly in

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  does anyone post here who is from northern california?

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  Quotes......... pm me........... I lived in Novato in 94......... went to the kh hall.
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  Pope: Dead - Brittany: Pregnant......Reincarnation?

  by SixofNine in

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  the timing worries me.

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  Can you imagine the Madonna-like videos that MTV will produce with the Brittany/pope child? ............ Like a Virgin, touched for the very ninth time.......
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  Anyone Here from No Calif?

  by love2Bworldly in

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  does anyone post here who is from northern california?

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  Used to live in the Bay Area.
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  Did you ever liked an elder? And if yes, for what reasons?

  by lamb_neo in

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  i need this kind of information for a debate i'm having.

  i think there was a thread about this before but i just can't find it.

  thanks guys!

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  I've met many elders that were likable and even lovable. Many have genuine fellow feeling for their "brethren" and strive to live christian balanced lives. It's the dictators that ruin the organization.
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  new information on disfellowshipping

  by cr1234 in

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  is it true that jw's are going to seek out inactive ones and if they are not willing to go back to the kingdom hall that they will be disfellowshipped?

  i heard that this is a new policy.. thanks

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  I would suspect that if you are single and inactive, leading a normal life, they will assume you are engaging in 'inappropriate' behavior, especially if it has been reported that you are dating.

  I know people that moved to stay steps ahead of them but then even they were 'found out' and pressured to do the right thing meet with the elders.
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  THIS HIT MY FUNNY BONE

  by orangefatcat in

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  well today i was surfing the net to get the latest news in the world.

  of course the top news of the was the funeral of the pope.

  i wanted to read my horrorscope

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  Orangefatcat is shown here trying to indoctrinate more cats to her cause. You see the fear in their eyes as she preaches about worldly monkeys and birds that don't fly as God intended.........something totally unnatural.
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  Cell phones.....

  by lavendar in

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  i was talking with my jw relative, and the topic of cell phones briefly came up.

  i got the impression she thought they were "evil" or something.

  are jws taught that cell phones, pagers, etc.

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  They just don't use cordless or cell phones to hold private conversations. When an elder wanted to ask me about a situation I had witnessed or possible party to........he asked me to get on a land line. It's true, though, that baby monitors can pick up cordless phones. I would have to change the station on the baby monitor so as not to hear my neighbor's calls.