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  Oscar Pistorious

  by LouBelle in

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  is anyone here following what is happening with the trial in south africa.

  what are your thoughts?

  how are the media handling this?

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  AFRIKANMAN

  I dont want to detract from the fact that you addressed your remarks to the lady from KZN - LouBelle. Nevertheless just a brief comment:

  Ruby 456 - The Prosecution right now is treading on thin ice - they dont have a strong factual base to argue from thus far. Its early days however. Nevertheless you make the point we all wonder about - Who in their right mind discharges a fire arm in the manner he claimed he did. Why did he use illegal bullets that cause catastrophic injuries [bear in mind the gruesome testimony of the pathologist was not permitted to be aired directly due to its graphic nature.

  The testimony now emerging of his other illicit uses in public of the firearm - This lil boy is a loose cannon [no pun] Very dysfunctional - would not surprise me if he was on "stuff' or snorted "snow" or was on steroids.

  Nevertheless - if this trial were to terminate now, he would walk. The defence advocate is doing an amazing job of casting doubt. That is fairly fascinating stuff.

  Defence is also showing that many of the witnesses have altered their court testimony from that which they first declared in their initial statements - having drawn conclusions from "facts" appearing later in the media. He has stripped some of them due to that.
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  Oscar Pistorious

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
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  is anyone here following what is happening with the trial in south africa.

  what are your thoughts?

  how are the media handling this?

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  AFRIKANMAN

  Prince Charming : No one has denied that the Whites had the power and still have = - read properly. - I actually acknowledge that. I suffered under apartheid too and spent 9 months in a military prison for that. I also benefitted from apartheid in the area of jobs - because of my pale skin - Very little I could do about that.

  We have adopted black children in our family [Fact] so dont try to be my social conscience - right now this govt is riddled with corruption - but you dont live here - so please dont try to come across as the "expert' We are quite capable of dealing with ourselves. YOu need to get more enlightened !

  ______________________________Finis____________________________________OK !
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  Who will win the premier league (footy or 'soccer') mine is liverpool fc

  by Jon Preston in

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  what a year it had been!!!

  liverpool fc (forgive me for this losts one-sidedness) have gone leaps and bounds and luck to reach secknd spot but without games in hand to man city....i must say an air or cl against ac milan is in the air.

  and lfc have a real shot at winning.

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  MAN UNITED OF COURSE ..................................................

  I would love to see Liverpool come through with a late surge ! But....................
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  Oscar Pistorious

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
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  is anyone here following what is happening with the trial in south africa.

  what are your thoughts?

  how are the media handling this?

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  AFRIKANMAN

  Thank God that business in South Africa is still under the present Status Quo -

  [Its easy to throw little grenades from across the Indian Ocean - why did your family jump ship in the first place ? ]

  Cos they were afraid of having to cede their "white empowered " status perhaps?

  Moenie met my rond-F nie !
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  My Mom is in the hospital

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
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  my mother broke her hip last week.

  she had an emergency partial replacement surgery friday night.

  we don't know how she did it as we have caregivers with her at all times, she may have fallen while in the bathroom for a few minutes.

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  AFRIKANMAN

  I am in the same boat of caring for elderly parent with degenerative Neuro disease [Not Alzheimers]

  btw Often the hip breaks which causes the fall [Osteoporosis].

  I trust you have others who can assist you with support. Also the medical costs can be crippling - in our case Grandpa who passed in 2009 had no life insurance - why? Because when he wanted to take one out [45 years ago] he was told he was showing lack of faith - afterall the world was going to end in 1975 - so gran ended up in the Shit ! And by extension the children - we - now carry the financial can.

  I feel for you and empathize with you.
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  JW vs Jehovah's Witnesses

  by Da.Furious in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  apologies if this was discussed earlier.

  i tried to search for a similar topic but couldnt find one.. anyway, i am an active jw or is it jehovah's witness?.

  recently i noticed a trend, mainly found between teenagers and older techie brothers, of referring to themselves as jws.

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  Sarcastically speaking...........[in jest with you of course] Yes it would appear that the more distance they can give to the name the better - hence this drive to market and brand "JW.ORG" on every occasion now.

  We were once counselled quite strongly that "JW" is not to be used ...it is slang...thats how the "world" refers to us etc etc
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  Oscar Pistorious

  by LouBelle in

  1. jw
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  is anyone here following what is happening with the trial in south africa.

  what are your thoughts?

  how are the media handling this?

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  AFRIKANMAN

  I was initially quite averse to the whole media circus that arose. Having been involved in Legal studies I find the court proceedings quite interesting though. His defence at this stage has probably got the upper hand over the Prosecution and this is probably due to the Prosecution not having build up a good case.

  Maar die man het gister "katte geskiet" innie hof jong ! Yuslaaik it !! Eish !

  Defence is doing a helluva job at casting doubt and so everything is pretty much circumstantial -

  Cannot believe the hype it has generated though. Now if only all the other victims out there - and LB has enumerated how crap our justice / policing system is - could get this much attention in court things would be a lot different.
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  Baptisms only at regional ( district ) assemblies from 2014 / 15 service year?

  by dozy in

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  2. friends

  just a rumour but i guess it makes sense - i've a friend on a circuit committee ( he knows it's not "the truth" but for family & work reasons he stays in ) & he says that the wtbts have told them not to book a swimming pool for next years one day assemblies as the plan is to have only one baptism a year at the main regional ( what they used to call "district" ) convention.. with the drop off in baptisms so that sometimes there isn't anyone baptised or just a handful , i guess this is inevitable.

  i remember going to a baptism a few years ago - we had hired a municipal 25 metre swimming pool and only one person ( a rather confused and scared middle aged lady who hadn't been in a swimming pool since her youth ) was being baptised - it was all something of a farce with the "worldly" staff looking on very puzzled at such an elaborate & expensive ceremony for one person.

  ) also with both assemblies being one day with just short morning & afternoon sessions , i suppose it is sensible to ditch the baptism talk - it tends to be something of a snoozefest anyway at the end of the morning session.

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  Of course if Baptism is such a requirement for a ticket on the Ark of Salvation you could get some folk getting quite panicky that they havent been dipped and the end is "just around the corner" / imminent / upon us/ near / etc etc

  Most candidates I did questions with never had a handle on:

  1 What is the Kingdom

  2 Who are the GB / FDS [This was up to 3 years ago]

  3] Who are the anointed

  and as you mentioned What is Dedication what must I do for it / how etc etc

  The 3rd set of Questions with my daughter [I declined to do the questions ] took 3.5 hours ! I asked her why she had so much to say and of course it was because the Bro spent most of the time gassing on about ................nothing !
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  Appointed men & the 10 hour rule

  by PlatinumFix in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  dear all,.

  could someone explain where it is written that mservants should be doing the congregation average/10 hours minimum?.

  platinumfix.

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  AFRIKANMAN

  When sitting in the CO meeting with Elders the average was often pitched at the congregations average or national average which could be 14 hours or more. Your spiritual character ie ability to show love to others. care for elderly, assisting single parent families etc never came into the reckoning when considering appointments. Also once you on the body - if you average dropped to say 9 hours - now problem - you were not on board. At all times the bodies entire average hours was never better than the congregations [mainly female Pubs] average.
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  How are you South Africans enjoying the cricket Australia v the proteus

  by barry in

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  2. friends

  we don't have foxtel here but this last test looks exciting from what we have seen on the internet.

  play has just stopped for tea..

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  Lovinng it mate ! Playing Aussies is always going to be a cracker ! Aus Batsmen were holding up well to ferocious bowling attack [body blows] but with the Steyn Remover injured its going to be a battle for Proteas.

  I am from the match city but I wont be watching live - tickets were sold out.