just back from renovating my holiday home in the south west of france.
beats yorkshire anyday.... anyway thought i would share this little account with you.. as most are of you are aware, the alarm code for about 90% of kingdom halls is 1914 (nineteen fourteen).. i t seems though that for the last 8 or 9 quick builds or refurbs in the uk, the brother who installed the numbers into the alarm control panel used the numbers 1975 and explained the number as one nine seven five not the the easier version (ninteen seventy five).. trivial joke or honest mistake, either way this poor brother has been rumbled and has to to meet with 2 elders investigating on behalf of a body of elders to see whether an apostasy charge will be brought.. he is supposed to be meeting with them over the next few days.. .
a very sad jem, who is sick of the whole elder abuse game.
The last UK KH I attended had 1914 as the alarm code.
What's the problem with 1-9-7-5? Even if you think 1-9-7-5 refers to the year 1975 AD, it is of JW significance, since 6000 years of human existance was passed that year. So who's making a big deal out of it?
Thirdson
dear all,.
i nearly met up with brother ted f. the other day.
i say nearly, because i arrived round my mothers house just a few minutes after he left.
Great post Duncan; it was the best Boy Scout story/lesson since I read "the Goal."
Money is a pretty old invention and is about as essential to human life as the wheel is.
Thirdson
during the fairly lengthy time that i have been coming to the board i have noticed that a number of people here are self employed and some also employ others.. if you do employ other people, or if you have an opinion, do you find that religious belief makes any difference to work ethics?
by that i mean are people with a firm religious belief likely to be more honest, conscientious and reliable that those without (christian or otherwise)?.
i do have a reason for asking this question.
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There was an interesting item on public radio about ethics in business and why high ethical standards are to the benefit of all, (shareholders, employees, customers etc) by William George the ex-CEO of Medtronic. You can listen to the lecture at the following:
http://news.mpr.org/programs/midday/
Being religious does not necessarily mean having good ethics. I don't think it is ethically right to amputate peoples limbs as a punishment though some deeply religious people may disagree. Christianity has often lagged behind ethical reforms and many have used the Bible (and religion) to justify slavery, segregation and sexism. That's not say that deeply religious people weren't involved in forming the ethical standards we expect and accept today but means that relgion is not necessarily a good force in people's lives.
I believe you set your own standards and do business with those whose code of conduct and ethical standards match yours or your company's.
Thirdson
i am english, and live in england.
my parents were witnesses,so i was dragged along to the local.
kingdom hall twice a week back in the early sixties.because i was forced to sit there on a rock.
Hi Sparks,
You must have attended all the same halls as me. I used to look around at the people at assemblies and wonder if I looked as strange and weird as everyone else...I guess I did. I have attended many, many different halls in England, several in Australia, a couple in Canada and a half-dozen in the US. Except for regional accents there was not much difference between any of them. You can figure out who's who? in a Kingdom Hall in one sitting.
Thirdson
someone asked if i would play the theme from the "peanuts" shows.
i said i've always wanted to learn and play it, so this would be a good opportunity for me to do so.
i got the music about a week ago, and here it is!
Bravo! Bravo!
Brilliant!!! What more can I say...encore!
Thanks again,
Thirdson
someone asked if i would play the theme from the "peanuts" shows.
i said i've always wanted to learn and play it, so this would be a good opportunity for me to do so.
i got the music about a week ago, and here it is!
Thank you Farkel,
Am downloading it now,
A Someone
it seems that the latest directive from his at the branch office is the following.. .
hlc members are not to direct jw parents to refuse blood for their children any more.. in the past uk doctors could easily get a court order to force jw children to have a blood transfusion.
but the parents always had to refuse completely so that court action almost always took place.
I'd like to see this new directive in writing. I also like to hear Lee Elder's view and find out if he has heard of this change. Maybe I should contact the HIS on London and ask directly.
Thirdson
apparently so, and so were his forebears.
by the time dairy farming reached the backwater of europe, known as great britain (or britain if you are a km writer even though no such place exists) six and half thousand years ago it was already long established in the rest of neolithic europe.
it seems the dairy farmers in the british isles were fond of eating meat as well and thought nothing of slaughtering some of their herds for food.
Hi Farkel,
that stupid talking snake messed him up.
I fear Sony is making the same mistake. TVs and Walkmans are great but diversifying into robotic animals is a bad move. I bet Adam's problem (not forgetting his snake spoke with a Stephen Hawking accent) was getting the legs to work properly. I bet God snapped them off in fustration.
Thirdson
apparently so, and so were his forebears.
by the time dairy farming reached the backwater of europe, known as great britain (or britain if you are a km writer even though no such place exists) six and half thousand years ago it was already long established in the rest of neolithic europe.
it seems the dairy farmers in the british isles were fond of eating meat as well and thought nothing of slaughtering some of their herds for food.
Apparently so, and so were his forebears. By the time dairy farming reached the backwater of Europe, known as Great Britain (or Britain if you are a KM writer even though no such place exists) six and half thousand years ago it was already long established in the rest of Neolithic Europe.
It seems the dairy farmers in the British Isles were fond of eating meat as well and thought nothing of slaughtering some of their herds for food. I bet "Adam" was fond of a good steak too.
For more see the item at the BBC News web site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2699547.stm
Thirdson
with all the information we have nowadays, out of sheer curiousity, do any of you know your blood type?
for some, i know the blood-issue is a touchy subject, but it's interesting to know it.
you'd be surprised especially when the case of an rh-negative mother may give birth to an rh-positive child.
Mine is A+. I didn't know until my son was born -- he has my bood type.
I studied human biology at college a few years back (I was considering combining my experience in engineering with medical equipment/device manufacture...it never worked out but I thoroughly enjoyed the course) and had to write two papers for my exam. I wanted to do a study of blood types and inheritance but by the late 80's non-medical college students were barred from handling human blood. I ended up instead, breeding, identifying anomalies and sexing 2,500 fruit flies (6 generations) for my population genetics paper. I got an A for my work, probably for the effort of counting with a magnifying glass and fine paint brush.
Thirdson
