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  Give Mrs Blaire an Oscar !

  by Simon in

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  what a performance ... especially the bit where she 'choked the tears back' talking about her son.

  remember what her father was?

  an actor.

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  Well at least she can act as her father certainly couldn't/can't.

  Your cynicism outsrips mine. I feel kind of sorry for her. Especially if she really does have those weird showers with that Caplin girl as the tabloids assert.
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  Adrenalin fuelled vent

  by scotsman in

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  i last went to a meeting in april.

  that night there was to be a local needs talk that had recieved much hype - everyone had to be there, it was going to be very important blah de blah.

  was it the date of armageddon they were about to reveal?

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  I felt like shouting "just name me why don't you" rather than let them baffle all the old dears who were oblivious to what was going on. Or saunter down to sit in the front row grinning at the fascist.

  But that was then and this is now and I'd rather knock their blocks off.
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  Adrenalin fuelled vent

  by scotsman in

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  i last went to a meeting in april.

  that night there was to be a local needs talk that had recieved much hype - everyone had to be there, it was going to be very important blah de blah.

  was it the date of armageddon they were about to reveal?

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  I last went to a meeting in April. That night there was to be a local needs talk that had recieved much hype - everyone had to be there, it was going to be very important blah de blah. Was it the date of Armageddon they were about to reveal? No, it was a talk about me. I'd resigned from being an elder a year previously, stopped for 6 months then gone back for 6 months just to make sure I was doing the right thing. I spent that 6 months just listening at the meetings, not answering or going door to door, I didn't talk to anybody about what i thought, I did decline a bible study, and then I went to visit an old friend who had left 10 years ago. This can't have been liked. The local needs talk that was given talked about those who don't participate blah de blah and may have recently started to associate with former witnesses - avoid them. They're bad associates. In fact, it was that scripture 1cor whatever that the elder started with. I knew it was me. My mother knew it was me. Everybody knew it was me and avoided eye contact when the meeting was over. That week I'd told my mother that the next meeting would be my last. And did I choose a great last meeting.

  Nobody came to see me afterwards but my mother was livid and got the elders round who played it down and said it was just a general talk. I kept out of it all. She didn't take it but after a month or two of anger she knew she couldn't beat them so has got on with her life as a witness.

  I'm gay. I now have a boyfriend. And word seems to have reached the elders ears and the presiding overseer, stupidly, asked his son if he has met my boyfriend. His son is an xjw and immediately told me that i'd better beware.

  The adrenalin? It makes me expletive deleted furious that after 8 months they are nosing about my life. And the fact that after 8 months i can so quickly be plunged back in to a mindset that i want to leave behind. I keep imagining those jumped up punks asking to meet with me to sort out some rumours and it makes me quake with fury. I have no qualms about denying it. I don't want to da myself as i have no respect for their organisation and I don't want to be dfed because i love my family and don't want them to be put in that position of having to exclude me. I could walk off to an entirely new life, albeit having cut out a piece of my heart, but they'd be left with that nasty big void. Up to now my family have been pretty decent about my decision, and my sexuality we don't discuss.

  Now, I'm waiting for a call that may never come. And the next few years may be spent like this. It makes my blood simmer. But should that call come I'll have to be ice cool.

  I've ranted for longer than I meant. oops.

  sorry for that bad word, it must be the adrenalin.

  Edited by - scotsman on 8 December 2002 19:4:10

  Edited by - Englishman on 8 December 2002 19:22:25
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  WT goofie phrases.

  by Pepper in

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  i used to get into trouble for making light of the these phrases that some elders have told me are to be used only gods people.

  lol that you all may know maybe:.

  "well, brother that is very "commendable," just before the meeting ends the po says to those in attendance "brothers the time left is reduced," i once heard a co say to those seated during one of his talks "well now, we don't want to die at armageddon now do we, well of course not.

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  menfolk and womenfolk

  aargh!
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  What to do with those who abuse kids??

  by JT in

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  i'm sitting here in the serverroom freezing my buns off and the issue of the child abuser and what to do with him or her was being kicked around.

  we got the standard shot the bastards in the head etc,.

  should they get any treatment at all or should they just be shot?.

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  Simon listens to Start the Week on Radio 4 too!

  I thought the social circle idea was interesting, where the offender meets a member of his support group every day and they all meet for dinner once a week. I like it, even if it does sound a rather middle class solution, but it's better than shooting or tattooing them as some advocate.

  Community responsibilty for what seems to be a community problem?
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  Did being a witness bring out the best or worst?

  by freedom96 in

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  a person years ago made a comment to me, about witnesses.

  they said that in their opinion, being a witness brought out the extreme in a person.. for example, if they were untrusting, they would trust less.. if they were vindictive by nature, they would become more hateful and vindictive.. if they were kind and loving, they would even be more so.. basically, whatever type of person they were, being a witness would intensify that persona.. have you found that to be true?

  maybe you knew someone before they came a witness.

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  I have to say that it did give me the confidence to be different. As a child I couldn't give a rat's ass that I didn't celebrate birthdays etc. I didn't blend in as a Witness either.

  And leaving made me realise I could conquer anything.
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  English Translation To Er..Um...US English?

  by Englishman in

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  pasted shamelessly in a bid to engender peaceable relations with our overseas cousins... .

  aamericanbritishairplaneaeroplanealuminumaluminiumapartmentflatappetizerentree, starter*archeologyarchaeology.

  bamericanbritishbabysitterminderbaked potatojacket potatobathroomloo, the toiletband-aidelastoplastbank tellercashierbedspreadsimilar to a eiderdown and duvetbilliontrillionbleachersterracebraces (for teeth)brace.

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  Using a 'serviette' is a bit like gong to the 'toilet' or pouring milk into a cup before the tea - indicators of less than middle class. Sorry E-man, you must be a pleb if you don't use a napkin, go to the lavatory or pour the milk in second!

  The British class system - don'tcha just love it?
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  Question for Brits

  by Francois in

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  i've always wanted to know: what is a moor?.

  please & thanks.

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  a large area of empty land, usually pretty barren without trees and not farmed, with only grass and pretty hardy plants.
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  JW/HLC visit to our hospital

  by ScoobySnax in

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  yesterday jehovahs witnesses and the hospital liason committee visited our hospital to donate a blood cell saver machine which had been funded by the local congregations in our county of kent in england.

  a buffet lunch was provided, along with 4 talks to a large audience of surgical and medical consultants, anaetheologists, paedatricians, and obstetraticians (sp!

  ) about the future of blood and the transfusion of such products.

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  Paying for Cell Savers has been on the go in the UK for the last couple of years. It is not backed by the WTS but is permitted by them if local witnesses wish to raise the funds. Congregations are not permitted to remove money from their local accounts but a separate donation box can be set up or one meeting a month be set aside for donations. Can you tell I was the accounts servant? I knew of a number of witnesses who didn't approve and didn't donate but there were obviously a number who thought differently. Even amongst the Dubs things are not B&W.

  They don't donate to hospitals for the PR but are glad of any positive PR that results, and they don't do it for the good of the community but for their own benefit but it can't be denied that the community do benefit. In the actual event they get very little publicity for the donations, normally just the local press.

  And I think the NHS can do with all the donations they can get these days.
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  Should America Start Closing the Borders?

  by pettygrudger in

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  my hubby & i had a debate tonight, so i'm kinda taking a poll..... my hubby says we should stop immigrations and start closing up the borders - except in cases of political asylum or a family member.

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  Which do you think are a bigger drain on the States, illegal immigrants or indigent corporate corruption?