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  Do You Think If There Are More Partakers, The Society Will Get" New Lite?"

  by minimus in

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  i wonder if they'll just berate everyone that continues to partake or if they'll shift their opinion again?

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  mattnoel

  How funny it would be if they have double the partakers on last year ! they wouldnt kno what to do with themselves !
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  missed birthday...

  by zanex in

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  so like my bday was the other day..april 12th.

  iam now 28...not that it means much or anything...i got an email from my elder dad telling me that he had traded in his honda for a harley and that him and mom were doing ok and that they still hoped that i would come back to the meetings.

  hmph...birthdays.

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  mattnoel

  Oh sorry mate, if I had known you would of had a card.........or certainly your own thread !

  Happy belated Birthday mate, and heres hoping next year is completely different !
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  missed birthday...

  by zanex in

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  so like my bday was the other day..april 12th.

  iam now 28...not that it means much or anything...i got an email from my elder dad telling me that he had traded in his honda for a harley and that him and mom were doing ok and that they still hoped that i would come back to the meetings.

  hmph...birthdays.

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  mattnoel

  Oh sorry mate, if I had known you would of had a card.........or certainly your own thread !

  Happy belated Birthday mate, and heres hoping next year is completely different !
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  missed birthday...

  by zanex in

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  so like my bday was the other day..april 12th.

  iam now 28...not that it means much or anything...i got an email from my elder dad telling me that he had traded in his honda for a harley and that him and mom were doing ok and that they still hoped that i would come back to the meetings.

  hmph...birthdays.

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  mattnoel

  Oh sorry mate, if I had known you would of had a card.........or certainly your own thread !

  Happy belated Birthday mate, and heres hoping next year is completely different !
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  Are you a different person now from when you were a JW?

  by NaruNaruChan in

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  i got an e-mail today from an old high school friend who, after we met for coffee, said "wow, you're normal again!

  i mean, you were boring, stuffy, and generally not much fun when you became a jw.

  now you're back to the old so-and-so that i remember, i love it!

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  mattnoel

  Oh hell yeah Naru,

  I am no longer a stuffy jumped up little prick of a JW. I am normal. I got on with a lot of people but ones that I knew outside the JW's all say how much I have changed and they feel they have the real matt back !
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  Rate your congreagation

  by Hamas in

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  aylestone congreagation leicester ; what a place that was.. we were so starved for laughter we used to laugh at the slightest thing; you remember how witnesses are deprived of true humour so they must negotiate with anything they hear slightly funny ?

  that was what it was like for us at aylestone.. it was like sitting in a morgue.

  we lost a great elder;- fantastic laugh.

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  mattnoel

  Where shall I start out of my few I was in:

  Ok Chronologically:

  Rochester, Kent, England - Boring and full of old cabbage smelling people 01/10

  Medway-Walderslade, Kent, England - Full of people with an image to uphold 01/10

  Medway-Lordswood, Kent, England - Slightly better more friendly 02/10

  East Jordan, MI, USA - mmm self righteous and no life 02/10

  Ashford South, Kent, England - Dont think they even noticed I had joined -1/10
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  JWs At My Door This Morning

  by Francois in

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  i was standing on my front porch talking on my cell phone when three car loads of them pulled up down the street.

  by the time i finished my conversation, one of the jws was standing on my sidewalk waiting for me to get off the phone.

  i eventually did.

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  mattnoel

  Well done Francois, I am just waiting for my opporunity to do this ! I think it will be when we move now as they are too afraid to knock here !
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  Secret sins of the JW's

  by freedom96 in

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  the witnesses are all so pure!

  ha ha.. seriously though: when you take all the witnesses from all over, how many really are pure and follow the rules perfectly?

  how many are really sinning against the wts?

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  mattnoel

  Biggest Sin has to be Sex, actually probably Masturbation followed by sex then shortly after that is smoking (you just gotta have a ciggy after sex aint ya) !
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  American -vs- European travelers

  by Seven in

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  jwd, .

  i've noticed on more than one occasion comments such as this one made in mattnoel's post this morning within the us/patriotism thread: its also very much the world of america, people dont go outside except to canada and mexico.

  could it be that we are the only nation out of the long list of major western countries not to have legally mandated vacation days?

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  mattnoel

  Did you know the percentage of US passport holders is only something like 15% Amazing isnt it.

  I think it is for a number of reasons - 1 is that america has as I suggested before the world of america, everything you could want is there, for example if you live in Ny and want a beach holiday - you go to California, and so on. I think people think they got all they want and need there, its just a shame as here in the UK we have so much to offer.

  2. The old nutshell of a ridiculous ammount of holiday you get - something like a week, we get so much more here in europe.

  3. Airfares, it is so so much more cheaper for us to go anywhere, I can fly to NY for £180 ($240) yet it will cost the average American almost double. We can also get really cheap deals to europe or even fly to places in europe for pittance, there are hundreds of offers out there to go to Rome for £27 ($34).

  This is why I think that you guys choose to just stay at home.
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  US Patriotism VS the Rest of the World

  by Xena in

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  abaddon and i were having a discussion in another thread regarding the differences between us patriotism and european patriotism.

  apparently some people consider the us to be peopled with rabid flag waving, my country right or wrong, ugly americans.

  i am wondering what the general concensus of this board would be?.

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  mattnoel

  Couldnt of said it better myself Brummie. Personally I like to fly the English and Welsh Flags which are my culture - please dont think that I am being anti american in my above comments, I do have an american flag too, I just wont be flying it outside my house on April 23rd. On Sept 11th however I will wear an american flag pin.

  I have nothing against patriotism, I feel that this is needed, I guess it kinda makes me sick how unpatriotic England is, its only now when we are starting to see all the trouble with assylum seekers and the war etc that we are starting to fly our flags - about bl*ody time is what I say. We can and should be proud of our countries, we just need to learn the equilibrium.

  What saddens me most, is there seems to be too much of these sort of threads and everyone seems to be getting more and more p*ssed at each other. Its so sad how things have become. I think something needs to be done. At the end of the day, we are who we are. One thing is we all have a major thing in common. Patriotism is clearly a sore point, so I think we should drop it and stop bringing it up.