Posts by InquiryMan

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Did you witness at school?

by NomadSoul in

jw
friends

i grew up being a witness.

i remember in elementary and somewhat in middle school i used to be really outspoken about being a witness.

i even had my own study with a classmate, which thankfully he lost interest because i was getting tired of it too.. but high school was a different story.

InquiryMan

I guess i was a true believer and not only because mom and dad told me so...

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Did you witness at school?

by NomadSoul in

jw
friends

i grew up being a witness.

i remember in elementary and somewhat in middle school i used to be really outspoken about being a witness.

i even had my own study with a classmate, which thankfully he lost interest because i was getting tired of it too.. but high school was a different story.

InquiryMan

I most definitely did. Gave speeches, witnesses to teachers and fellow students. Had a magazine route at school.

Handed out literature (one friend of mine got so mad when he got to chapter 4 in the red youth book, so he threw it in the wall).

Studied with a fellow student at grammar school.

She became baptized and a pioneer. But got out of the organization before I did and resettled and doing fine now.

In my yearbook at grammar school it was stated somewhat humerously... XX is a Jehovah´s witness, but sometimes he forgets!

(But I always behaved properly, the only things I guess they refer to was when I did a solo cosack-dance in the classroom...

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Do you think Jehovah's Witnesses have more attractive young adults than average?

by sabastious in

jw
friends

i was recently hanging out with someone that went to the convention last weekend.

he/she mentioned that the convention was chock full of hotties and from my memory of the conventions, and i have been to dozens, he/she was right.

one thing that comes to mind is that witnesses can lose privileges within the congregation if they are too dirty so cleanliess (neatness) is especially important.

Breaking News: Explosion in Oslo

by leavingwt in

just heard about this via twitter.. .

http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/eksplosjon-i-oslo-sentrum-3544362.html.

more photos: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4180673.ece.

InquiryMan

A month has passed and life has returned to close to normal, at least for those directly affected.

News concerning this action are still on the front page news every single day in one way or another.

The last funeral took place yesterday, cause the sister of one of the terror victims had to be admitted from hospital in order to attend the funeral.

A recent survey has shown that 1 out of 4 norwegians, a quarter of the population of five million, knows someone who has been affected by the terror shooting or bombs.

I am fine. As I wrote in a previous posting, we went to the capital city to place flowers on the "flower ocean" in front of the Oslo Cathedral and lit lights.

Today, the whole country will take one minute silence at 12 o´clock. The first hour at work me and my colleagues were talking about what had taken place...

The brother of a team player in my son´s football team was shot dead at the island. Thus his team had a memorial yesterday. So far, names have not been published of those being killed. Then the 2nd wave of grief will take place in our country. Keep in mind that at the youth rally there were young people from all over the country assembles, thus the whole country is directly affected by this. We are just five million people - thus almost everyone will know someone who knows someone....

People are not vengeful. in fact many are relieved that non-white muslims are not behind the events, cause that might have increased tension and racism in society.. Now people hopefully will be more inclined to less prone to bigotry and mistrust of people different than themselves.

It is really sad, it has been a weekend of reflection, tears, disbelief and sadness. But we will go on.

It is like the young woman who stated to CNN: If one man can show so much hatred, just imagine how much love we can show all together." or something along those lines.

Norwegian values of inclusiveness, solidarity, social consciousness will perservere and we want to keep our open, transparent society, albeit some modificiations I guess when it comes to security etc...

Thanks for your concern.

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Breaking News: Explosion in Oslo

by leavingwt in

just heard about this via twitter.. .

http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/eksplosjon-i-oslo-sentrum-3544362.html.

more photos: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article4180673.ece.

InquiryMan

Thank you, Simon.