MidwichCuckoo
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I don't call this progress...
by MidwichCuckoo in...where communication/information has progressed vastly, the jw r&f have, in well over 100 years, progressed from sandwich boards to..errr..modernised sandwich boards as their up-to-date means of communicating.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691254/how-jehovahs-witnesses-got-street-smart-believers-swap-infamous-doorstepping-standing-outside-train-stations-shops.html.
comments are open at bottom of page folks!.
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Avatar Fairy
by MidwichCuckoo in.
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is it just me, or has the avatar fairy visited and 'stolen' most of the avatars?
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All This Baptism Talk.......
by MidwichCuckoo insorry - i know there's been a few postings on it lately.
i personally was shocked to read of baptisms at such tender ages, and when i mentioned this to a jw, they maintained i was talking rubbish......... anyway.
we've already discussed annulment (a brilliant idea as it has to be null and void due to there being no valid contract with minors (unless in case of necessity), duress and undue influence etc), and they do treat it as a contract as there are penalties if the baptised person breaches it.. so - if a 7 - 16 year old (whose parent(s) were not dubs) wanted to get baptised, i think they'd have a bit of an obstacle.
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Introduction of new doctrines. 1945, 1975.
by MidwichCuckoo inreading a thread about smoking the other day made me think....... previously on this site (which i have spent much of today unsuccessfully trying to find) i recall reading that as numbers of publishers declined at the end of wwii, the 'no blood' doctrine was introduced in 1945 as a direct result in order to boost numbers again.. after the 1975 fiasco, i believe the society lost a lot of followers - and it was very shortly after this (during the same or following year), that the wtbts introduced the smoking ban.
again to boost flagging numbers?
when the wtbts experience a 'failure', do they resort to introducing another doctrine, or is this just a coincidence?
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Is The Bible REALLY The Word Of The FDS?
by MidwichCuckoo ini know this will have already been covered on the forums but ... upon visiting a jw relative in hospital, they requested i brought their bible in (the gideons bible supplied by the nhs clearly being inadequate and not supporting wt fantasy).
i dutifully went to their house and grabbed what i thought was a bible (an easy mistake to make assuming the nwt is actually a bible).
it seems i couldn't have got it more wrong, resulting in one horrified jw and one very confused (albeit gorgeous) midwich.
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Poor Lad
by MidwichCuckoo in...saw this article in newspaper last week - and, in addition to it being a horrid tragedy, i couldn't help but wonder...i know in england (at least when i was registering my kids) some names were 'forbidden', but, as it didn't apply to me, i don't know which...but i've never heard of a lad called this before.
anyone else?.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-19048362.
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Re Invented Myself
by MidwichCuckoo in.........i disappeared, but i didn't know it!
i have been logged on to this site for weeks, but every time i tried to post, i was asked to log on (even though i already was) .
so, i here i am, a 'born again' jwder, but the worst thing is, nobody missed me
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Can Dubs Play.......
by MidwichCuckoo inmonopoly?.
ok, it's the school holidays and i'm playing monopoly with master midwich (what an exciting life i lead)...and he picks up the 'community chest' card - ''it's your birthday, collect 10 from each player''..... so, (and i know i need to get out more) - would dubs:-.
a) not play monopoly.
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Hmmm...or maybe 'Campaign Strategy'.....
by MidwichCuckoo inreading andersonsinfo's thread yesterday made me think.
the best way to make the public aware of any issue is by educating them through entertainment.
i'd never even heard of schindler (shame on me) until the film was made - and that's what people want.
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Can someone give me the link to...........
by MidwichCuckoo in......bullsh*t bingo.........sorry, should have bookmarked it....so funny, and a great idea as christmas presents for your favourite dubs.....