I noticed the correspondent's name was Salter. He couldn't be a descendant of the Salter who was fighting with Rutherford in the 30s and 40s, could he? Thus having lived a whole life in hatred of the WBTS, and now finally he found a story to tell - wishing he had been the ram and Rutherford the publisher?
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On the News: Tresspassing JW Gets Rammed!
by Gerard indespite a gate marked 'private - keep out', mr hawthorn entered a farm only to be confronted by a four-year-old ram.
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http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5876608%255e662,00.html
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Latest insider info about WT plans
by BATHORY inim not sure if is prudent to post this here.
i have a contact ( relative ) that is very close to a writing department researcher.. he claims that there was a private extraordinary meeting that was had about 6 months ago.
9 of the gb members were present and a handfull of elitists that apparently no-one knows or would recognise.
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TheOldHippie
Oh, are not unsubstantiated rumours just lovely?
Strange that a brochure should be published at the international convention in Australia in December, when they begin in June ......
And who believes that a brochure on how to deal with df'ed etc. will be published at a convention, with the media interest surrounding such an event?
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A BIG VICTORY!!!!!--help she is trying..part 7
by Jesika insorry it has taken this long to get to updating you all.
i have been celebrating our victory!!!
let me explain......................... .
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TheOldHippie
For us ignorant ones: Could someone write a couple of lines and tell what this is about, the context?
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Awake! Saved My Life!
by Funchback inso said an italian man on page 31 of the 2/22/03 awake!
magazine:.
awake!
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TheOldHippie
This must be just about the most wickedly funny thread I have read for a looooong time ............
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Public Talk Déjà vu
by NewYork44M inseveral weeks ago i sat through the public talk and could not believe the lack of substance of the talk.
it was filled with worn out bromides and illustrations that we have all heard hundreds of times.
i was embarrassed for the speaker and flabbergasted that the audience could actual sit through such nonsense.. thenabout half way through the talk, i realized that i recognized the talk.
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TheOldHippie
When listening to the public talk, I suddenly sensed it sounded very familiar, like I had heard it before. Then I realised: It was the same talk I had held the Sunday before! And I was the only one noticing that the same talk was held two Sundays in a row! The speeker had been there the previous Sunday, but he did not notice! (And of course, mine had been much, much better ....)
It is interesting from time to time to approach the speeker afterwards and ask him for more details on a specific point of his speech, as that was a very interesting one etc. In 9 out of 10 instances, he doesn't have a clue as to what you are referring to, because he has only been copying certain lines or paragraphs of a Watchtower, a book or something. So he knows nothing at all about the topic he has been so eager at describing in his talk. You can see small drops of sweat at his upper lip, then, when you eagerly ask for more details. ( Example: "The oldest living organism on Earth today is a tree of (I don't remember, but let us say - my addition) 5,000 years." said the CO in his speech. I approached him afterwards and said that that was very interesting, as it then must have survived the Flood without any harm. Small drops appearing ..... silence .... "eh, yes, I never thought of that (sic!). Perhaps the point would have had greater weight if I had found it in the Watchtower n stead of Popular Science.")
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Strangest thing you were called on the carpet for.
by Icansaylucky ini would like to hear some of the strangest or most ridiculous thing you got in trouble with the elders for.
here is mine.. back in the early 70's i was married at the age of 18, typical witness thing to do.
my husband who was 6 years older than i ruled me like a overly strict father.
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A friend of mine had just moved to another congregation, but had not moved out all the firniture and stuff yet, so a few times he was in his old house clearing up. He was seen by one of the elders then, walking hand in hand with a woman. And the brother was single (aged 40), the elder at once summoned a committee. They did not bother to mention this to the brother in question, make a call or talk to him, but they wrote some lines on the seriousness of this incident etc., and sent it to his new congregation, asking them to form a committee and find out why he was behaving like this. OK, they did so (the elder who was behind all of this and had witnessed the shocking behaviour, was a special pioneer and thought of himself as being next to you-know-who) and summoned him to appear before a committe. "It's been reported you have been seen walking hand-in-hand with a woman on the date of so-and-so. Is that correct?" - "Yes, it is." "What do you think of such a behaviour?" - "I find it natural and good." "Is this a woman you are planning to marry?" - "No, no way am I planning that." "But, how can you say such a thing? Why can you then do such a disgustful thing? Who is this woman?" - "It is my mother." .......... So without any word of excuse or anything, the matter, the serious case, was dropped.
The same pioneer called me to appear an evening, but "just in front of me" as he put it (Wow! Was I lucky, no committee!). The reason? When I pulled down this white sheet - thing to be used with the overhead projector, I pulled it down when standing behind it, so that from the congregation's view, they saw the white sheet and then my legs were visible below the lower part of it, and that looked kind of funny, some youngsters smiled or giggled, and nothing an elder did should be considered funny bythe youth. My action seriously rocked the congregation's view of the elders as serious and hard-working older men.
Reproved by a committee and in effect having to resign as an elder because of visiting my df'ed daughter (who had asked for being reinstated and in fact was reinstated one month later), when she was ill with cancer.
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New Arrangement For Kingdom Hall Libraries!!!
by minimus inthe feb. km has an article entitled: new arrangement for kingdom hall libraries.
no longer will the library be called the theocratic ministry school library.
now, it has been renamed the kingdom hall library.
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What I find a bit strange about these libraries, is that no books can be lent, be taken out of the library. It is not so easy to write and cross-reference and take notes when there are people coming to and from all the time, and one doesn't have a key to get there when there are no meetings ..............
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What Does THIS Remind You Of?
by Prisca in.
i found it in an online real estate site:.
warning: this pic may produce trigger reactions..... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .
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TheOldHippie
I don't get it, but there is something ..... kind of familiar, somehow, like as if I've seen something like it before or have been there, or some sort of deja vu somehow .................
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Awake! Saved My Life!
by Funchback inso said an italian man on page 31 of the 2/22/03 awake!
magazine:.
awake!
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TheOldHippie
Sometimes I am bit surprised at the seemingly low information/knowledge level among the readers. I'm not into yelling at the magazines and making fun of them, and their advices are good and healthy, but thru my life, most of the advices I have seen elsewhere too, even if I have just been scanning thru newspapers or magazines or TV programmes. They are not revolutionary, 100 % new things, they belong to a general knowledge which I thought most people had.
Just as the "What our readers say"; so many Japanese or Americans write to say that finally they found in Awake! an article on this or that illness, which they have been suffering from for 25 years or so, but never have they found anything to read about it before, or never have they found a doctor who has been able to inform them - and then these problems or illnesses are more or less common or frequent. How a woman can believe that she is the only one worldwide who is depressed because she has lost a child, or how a man can believe that he is the only one with prostate cancer - really at times beats me!
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A tale of three sisters.........
by Tatiana init started in 1956. a girl was born.
with lovely strawberry blonde, curly hair.
dad and mom kissing.
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TheOldHippie
So hunting for Easter Eggs brings happiness, and being a Witness brings poor teeth?
Come on, let us try reality for a change .............