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  Last JW meeting

  by greendawn in

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  when you finally came to the jw meeting that you knew was your last one, what were your thoughts, feelings or actions?

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  my last was the summer convent of 1986. i stood there until everyone left and then i took a picture with my new camera of the empty stadium, the wish being that the wts would collapse and never fill up again stadiums with people.

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  Yip

  I'd had six months of not attending meetings, then went back for a couple of months as an observer. One eveing just before the TMS & SM my mum said she could tell my heart wasn't in it. I'd planned on going for a couple of more months as I was supposed to be a witness for a friends wedding, then I was going to stop. We agreed that night would be my last meeting. Turned out to be a corker. My friend's dad got up and gave a talk about me. No name, just a description of individuals the congregation should avoid that fitted only me. After the meeting everyone avoided eye contact with me.

  I'd grown up there, been one of their shepherds, and loved a lot of them. My poor mum was a lot angrier than me.
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  Slacker Pioneering

  by scotsman in

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  2. friends

  as i was reading the thread about not at homes i wondered if anyone else a slacker pioneer?.

  there was a bunch of us in our hall that went out on a wednesday.

  we usually managed about 45mins before needing a coffee which somehow extended through lunchtime, maybe interupted by a return visit that hopefully wasn't home.

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  scotsman

  As I was reading the thread about Not at Homes I wondered if anyone else a slacker pioneer?

  There was a bunch of us in our hall that went out on a Wednesday. We usually managed about 45mins before needing a coffee which somehow extended through lunchtime, maybe interupted by a Return Visit that hopefully wasn't home. These Wednesday mornings were gradually dominated by a widower who began having us back to his for coffee and biscuits (there were one particular caramel sort that we fought over), but it got a little out of control when he started providing hot vol au vents. Sometimes the afternoon was spent at an art gallery or the cinema. I think I went to see Trainspotting one Wednesday afternoon with another pioneer. I know my report was complete fabrication, so I guess the others' were too.

  Anyone else? Or were you all suckered in to seriously saving souls?
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and Born-Again Christians are too much alike its scary

  by booker-t in

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  2. bible

  ever since i left the jw's i visited a few born-again christian churches and i felt like i was sitting in a kingdom hall of jw's.

  because born-agains are more like jw's then they want to admit.

  both jw's and ba's think they know everything.

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  scotsman

  BookerT, seems like you've generalised way too much. LT couldn't be less like a JW or member of a cult, hell, he's aquainted with me a gay atheist. Well, maybe agnostic.

  I agree that there are some fundamentalist groups that are eerily like JWs, the Church of Christ for instance. I've been to a couple of the their meetings (out of nosiness) and their striking similarity with Witnesses was one of the things that helped me out. Raised with the belief that the Witnesses were unique I was shocked to discover that they weren't. To be in receipt of the (loving) pressure to have a bible study with them reminded me of myself speaking to individual that walked off the street into the KH. It was surreal.

  I'll let you carry on with your christoteric talk now. Partial preterist? Sheesh!
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  Tony Blair ......Hero or Villain??

  by ScoobySnax in

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  with the election coming up, do you think our tone deserves another crack of the whip?

  a 3rd term?.

  how is he viewed abroad by other posters here?.

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  3/Surrounds himself with advisors who are not represenattive of the country (50% are gay!)

  While I'm aware that he has 1 or 2 gay advisors, I'm interested to know if you can provide evidence that 50% of them are gay. I'd also posit that the majority of supporters of the issues you mention (smacking ban, legalise cannabis, super casinos etc) are heterosexual. Only a minority gays want to smoke dope and gamble surrounded by unruly children.

  Of course, the party you favour in principle (UKIP) is endorsed by none other than Rustie Lee...
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  Brits. Will you vote in next month's General Election?

  by nicolaou in

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  2. current

  as everyone had guessed, the election has been set for may 5th.

  personally, this is my first opportunity 'post wt mind-control' to vote for our next government.

  i don't suppose that i will - 40 years of 'neutrality' and non-involvement have rather flattened my desire to take part in political change.. how about you?

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  Did anyone else watcth the Question Time special last night? Although it didn't alter how I'll vote it was a real pleasure to watch Blair look rather stressed. It was a bad day for Labour yesterday.

  And Charlie still comes off as the most affable. But would he or wouldn't he share a coalition with Brown?
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  Sir John Mills has died.

  by nicolaou in

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2078050.stm

  obituary: sir john mills

  for nearly 70 years, sir john mills enjoyed a reputation as one of britain's finest actors.

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  scotsman

  He was perfect as Pip in Lean's Great Expectations.

  And the way he drank that beer in Ice Cold in Alex.
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  New Pope!

  by nicolaou in

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  josef ratzinger

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  whyamihere

  Personally I don't think he looks like a bastard, just an old guy. But I suggest you type "cardinal ratzinger" into google and see what sort of stuff he's written. He's hardline and not known for his flexibility and a great believer in absolute truth. Maybe he will open the church to debate, engage in dialogue with other faiths, but I greatly doubt it.
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  New Pope!

  by nicolaou in

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  josef ratzinger

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  scotsman

  He's not going to be the Pope to welcome women, homosexuals or married priests into the church. Hopefully this pontificate will be shorter than the last.
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  White smoke. is there a new Pope?

  by SadElder in

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  cnn showing white smoke from the sistine chapel.

  no bells yet.

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  The bad news is, it's Ratzinger.
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  People from that island west of Europe: What do you call your country?

  by seattleniceguy in

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  i'm curious.

  do you call it the uk, england, or britain?

  i have the sneaking suspicion that these terms each mean something slightly different from one another, but i thought i'd see how the natives use them.

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  I agree Pleasuredome, while the overseas territories are under UK sovereignty, they are not part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. I guess the problem arises because we still sometimes abreviate that full title to GB when it's more accurately UK.