bagpuss
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CO/DO's in the UK?
by pobthespazz incan anyone compile a list of as many as possible past and present co/do's from the uk?
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congregational cliques
by chuckyy init was my experience during my 13 yrs as a jw that congregations usually had a social clique.
in other words, there would be a group of people in a congregation that would only associate (and sometimes only go out on field service too) with people within that social clique.
if you were in the clique, fine.
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Urgent scan request! Imperial Bible Dictionary!
by ithinkisee inmy wife was appalled by the misquote in the reasoning book under cross - where the society quotes the imperial bible dictionary.. more information regarding this misquote is located here:.
http://www.geocities.com/athens/parthenon/7831/cross.html.
she is not convinced though - because she does not have an actual scan of the actual page to look at.. (yes, i have already tried contacting the author of that website - to no avail.).
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If someone is going to buy you a birthday or christmas gift.....
by bagpuss inwould you prefer them to ask what you would like or to surprise you, and if they did ask for ideas would you be offended?
the reason i ask is that my mother in law has just told my husband that we may as well go back to how we were when we were witnesses and stop buying them presents as we don't put any thought into it and ask them what they want.
he is really upset by this comment while i am just plain bloody angry!.
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Strange visit
by bagpuss inafter 4 years away from meetings and no contact with the cong i attended, yesterday i answered the door to find an elder at the door.
he was po in my cong but has been removed i had heard.
he said he was calling about the disaster fund and that the society wanted to update everyones details like phone numbers and contacts.
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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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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.
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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 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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Before You Leave The Witnesses, You MUST Make New Friends!!!
by minimus inmy advice to anyone that is thinking of leaving the "organization" is to make friends (real friends) with people other than jehovah's witnesses.
the sad truth is that jws are only conditional "friends".
they will drop you like a hot potato if they think you want to leave.