EF
Side issue but what is this 'cctv as staple of British TV' you keep refering to? The only one I've seen is on a cable network and is from US police cars presented by Troy McLure. Maybe I watch less trash TV than I thought I did...
scotsman
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What's Your Opinion of Putting Spy Cameras On City Streets?
by minimus inthe new york post has an article on how the police commissioner plans on having spy cameras put in certain city streets that have high crime activity----not to monitor activity as it's happening but to review footage if a crime did occur in the area---after the fact.________what's your thought on this?
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ARE JW SISTERS ALLOWED TO CARRY COFFINS?
by steve2 inrecently i was amazed to read in another thread that jw females are not even allowed to walk up and down the aisles counting those in attendance.
the poster said jw women literally "don't count" - a brilliant play on words.
i guess i had never thought about it before, but it got me wondering about all the behind-the-scene work jw females do, but their invisibility in the public arena.
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scotsman
As LT has given the Western Isles version of events I'll offer those of the Central Belt...
Cremations are by far the most common of arrangements here and most funerals take place in crematoria with services in the Hall being uncommon. It's been rare for me to see anyone other than undertakers carry the coffin into the crematorium at either JW or non JW funerals. Of the burials I have attended it has again been undertakers carrying the coffin but with male relatives lowering the cords into the grave, with no difference between JW and non JW burials. The sexism of funeral behaviour is not a JW thing.
The exception to all these was the funeral of a JW teenager who had cystic fibrosis. The service was in the KH with the closed coffin present and carried by six sisters - despite it being somewhat contrary to cultural norms it caused no fuss.
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Compulsory I.D cards in 2008
by Ramblin_rose indear brothers & sisters in christ,
may i say at the onset: i am not a j.w.
but i am a fellow christian.
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Gill
While I'm sorry you have probelms in your neighbourhood, I still can't see exactly how ID cards will fix this. It doesn't stop terrorism in Spain.
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Compulsory I.D cards in 2008
by Ramblin_rose indear brothers & sisters in christ,
may i say at the onset: i am not a j.w.
but i am a fellow christian.
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Gill
How on earth will ID cards stop those problems?
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Did anybody see Tom Cruise on Access Hollywood today?
by JV ini'm flipping through the channels today and i happend upon a 30 min interview with mr cruise.
i was curious and there was nothing else on so i decided to watch it.
this was a 30 minute advertisement for scientology.
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Katie Holmes is going out with TC?! These are the last days.
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Have you a POSITIVE JW experience??
by ScoobySnax inok sometimes i feel it's good to maybe not redress the balance, but at least can you say something positive that you gained from your jw experience.
so thats what i want you to do, if you so feel inclined.
can you say or mention something that had a positive effect on you when you were a witness?
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Ozzie
The point is though, is it what it claims to be, you know "the Troof". It wouldn't matter what jolly times we had, if it was a lie, then it'd be a sheer waste of time.
Is that the point? Some believe that most religions are a lie, and that they are all a sheer waste of time. (I'm not trying to debate with you!) I basically don't care what JWs believe, but I do care that they shun former members. People are entitled to all sorts of cookie beliefs but the JW policies on how they treat former members is, in my opinion, their most harmful.
Congratulations on your 10000th post!
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Have you a POSITIVE JW experience??
by ScoobySnax inok sometimes i feel it's good to maybe not redress the balance, but at least can you say something positive that you gained from your jw experience.
so thats what i want you to do, if you so feel inclined.
can you say or mention something that had a positive effect on you when you were a witness?
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scotsman
Made friends with some utterly wonderful people that i wouldn't have met had we not been Witnesses. Sadly, them remaining Witnesses has made them unable to be friends with me. I'm still glad to have had them in my life, albeit temporarily. I've also got some fantastic exWitness friends and we wouldn't have met had it not for being Witnesses.
I'd also say that being forced to be "friends" with people that I shared nothing in common with apart from the JW tag has possibly made me more tolerant.
Scoob, you always start these type of threads in the wee, small hours - is it to sh*t stir or out of a sense of loss/loneliness?
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What does your Avatar say about you?
by jt stumbler inthis question has most likely been asked before but i must've missed it.
any hoo, just wondering.
as for mine, it shows that i am a good for nothing smurf who loves boobies i guess...
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LoL Killing Kittens aren't for eating, it's what the WT likes to call self abuse. But then again, maybe you do eat...
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What does your Avatar say about you?
by jt stumbler inthis question has most likely been asked before but i must've missed it.
any hoo, just wondering.
as for mine, it shows that i am a good for nothing smurf who loves boobies i guess...
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That I like Matthew Barney's work.
EF, bring back the hat (when you're not killing kittens while killing the planet !)
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misc goofy witness stuff
by joelbear inwe had a house near the kingdom hall where we always started out time when i was a pioneer.
there was never anyone home.
we always left a back copy.
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one of the sisters in our congregation tried to make the news reports from around the world usually given at the first of the service meeting more interesting by going in the annex and reading them in fake foreign accents.
This one really made me laugh. Before things got so slick there was a certain charm about things like that. I remember the magazine counter was actually a drinks cabinet donated by one sister. WT&A cocktail anyone?