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Christmas shopping
by bagpuss injust had to tell someone who would understand.
today i went christmas shopping for the first time in 17 years!
i am 42 years old and felt about 10!
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I've got a bun in the oven!!
by bagpuss inwell a cake actually - a christmas cake!.
this is the second year i've made one since leaving the borg and it's one of the main things i missed during the dark years when i pretended that christmas was humbug and i never really liked it anyway!.
what if anything did you miss most about christmas?
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What a coincidence
by bagpuss inon wednesday evening,3 hours after posting on this board for the first time,completely out of the blue i received a phone call from the person i studied with.bearing in mind that it's 16 months since i last went to a meeting i thought it was quite a coincidence.......or is it?
has the bagpuss been rumbled?
bad,bad cat!
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What would you say?
by bagpuss ini spent time in a cong where the school overseer had a real thing for pronouncing words just like on the wt cds.
this meant that we were always been counselled for incorrect pronunciation, especially when it came to the word philistine.he insisted that the 'ine' at the end should be pronounced as 'een' and that the emphasis should be on the second syllable ' lis' .
i would cringe listening to students using the ' correct pronunciation' when privately they all thought it was wrong to have his view imposed on us.. what about you.
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Can anyone help?
by bagpuss inafter nearly 2 years away from meetings it seems that the local jws have decided that i need 'spiritual help' and my house has become a jw magnet, all offering to be the ones to give me that help.. while they left me alone i was happy to leave them to their beliefs, but now i feel its time to make my feelings known.. i thought i'd start with the un scandal, but as many here have found they will almost certainly use the library card excuse.
i remember being told from the platform that we should never become involved with a political org' even if it was just for non-political reasons eg using facilities, clubs and bars.. while i clearly remember hearing this it would be useful to have something in black and white to support it.
thankg
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"Witness Humor" *or* "Jehovah Jollies"
by GetBusyLiving indid you guys ever find that dub's laugh their heads off at the corniest stuff?
sometimes during the meetings they would all just burst out laughing at the lamest jokes or comments.
for the life of me i could not understand what they found humorous.
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Complaint procedure question
by bagpuss init is almost four years since i attended my last meeting, and in that time have had no contact with people from the cong, other than brief meetings in supermarkets etc.
out of the blue last week i had a phone call from a sister in a neighbouring cong to tell me that she was writing an official complaint to bethel about an elder in the cong i attended.
it was about an incident that happened eight years ago when her daughter was in hospital, and that i was aware of.
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Can anyone explain?
by bagpuss inthird: apart from its context, the partial predicate cannot function as an independent construction, so what they are doing is ungrammatical as well.. .
read this post refering to acts 15:20 and would love someone to explain what a partial predicate is and how it works in this verse.
any takers?.
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Lets get creative
by bagpuss inmy favourite childrens book is "we're going on a bear hunt" .
for those who don't know the book it begins,.
we're going on a bear hunt.. we're going to catch a big one.. what a beautiful day!.
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Anyone seen these?
by bagpuss in.
saw this driving through a village in sussex.
anyone else seen them and what reaction do you think it would get from jws.