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  Assembly Dramas:They were so bad.... but.... you waited for them to break away from the monotony!

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

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  you do remember the four day assemblies... sitting outdoors being fried in the sweltering heat,getting heat stroke in the middle of july in an outdoor baseball stadium.sitting outdoors from 9:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. was so much fun while you wore a suit,long sleeve shirt and a tie while your brain fried.

  mom's who had children to take care of,lug strollers,feed all the kids,take them for bathroom breaks and try to not faint from the heat.. the sound and audio was always breaking and barely audible from the wind,airplanes flying over and (if you attended the cicero,illinois circuit )you would smell horse manure from the horse stables next door.. you know that you are a jehovah's witness.... when the only excitement waiting for the drama... where brothers and sisters dress up in ancient cloths,fake beards,fake rocks and fake soldier uniforms and wave their hands incessantly to pretend that they are acting out a drama.the excitement was unbearable!.

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  Dramas you ask?

  Who can forget sitting way up in Candlestick park covered in blankets, wool caps as darkness came on. We kids fought over the binoculars to see the exaggerated movements as the spies lifted their arms to point left then right while saying "it was this way, then that!". It was comical and we mocked them for weeks to our parents. They might ask, "where is the car?, we'd answer; "it was this way, then that!" while lifting our arms out in the air to the left and then right. my god we laughed so hard. The floodlights on center field at night were cool to a 9 year old me.
  
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  Hit by a car evacuating due to oroville dam. Ever been hit?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  went back to get info from driver who tapped our car in line of cars exiting the area.

  after getting her info, she waited till i walked back to our car and punched the gas, hitting me.

  then drove off.

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  Update: Warrants existed. She was running because police would be called it seems. It gets complicated but she has insurance, now we need to see if its valid. She knew she hit me but her tweaker boyfriend, who was in another car (but on scene), remained which keeps it from being a hit and run. Fresh out of prison of course.

  Police did not ticket her for hit and run. She was cited for hitting a pedestrian. We'll see how it plays out. Thanks for your kind words everyone.

  AnneB, clearly they were high that night. I was afraid the guy was armed.

  I whispered the 911 call into the phone for fear of attack. They weren't driving, they were flying. I am not some little guy who scares easily but I was on the ground and vulnerable. In shock. Maybe "nutjob" isn't the right word. Let's try POS meth queen.
  
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  What did President Trump say about Sweden?

  by kpop in

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  this you will never see on the mainstream media.

  before you comment watch the whole video.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqaigeqxqgi.

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  Interesting facts about Sweden's statistics:

  There have been several international comparisons made, placing Sweden at the top end of the number of reported rapes. However, police procedures and legal definitions vary widely across countries, which makes it difficult to compare rape statistics.[8][9][10][11] For example, Sweden reformed its sex crime legislation and made the legal definition of rape much wider in 2005,[3][4][8][12] which largely explains a significant increase in the number of reported rapes in the ten-year period of 2004-2013.[13][14] The Swedish police also record each instance of sexual violence in every case separately, leading to an inflated number of cases compared to other countries.[8][11][15] Additionally, the Swedish police have improved the handling of rape cases, in an effort to increase the number of crimes reported.[8][14][16][17] Raised awareness and a shifting attitude of sexual crimes in Sweden,[note 1][18] which has been ranked as the number one country in gender equality,[19] may also explain the relatively high rates of reported rape.[8][11][20]
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  Hit by a car evacuating due to oroville dam. Ever been hit?

  by Wasanelder Once in

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  went back to get info from driver who tapped our car in line of cars exiting the area.

  after getting her info, she waited till i walked back to our car and punched the gas, hitting me.

  then drove off.

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  Went back to get info from driver who tapped our car in line of cars exiting the area. After getting her info, she waited till i walked back to our car and punched the gas, hitting me. Then drove off. was dark and raining and the scene full of panic. No charges filed but insurance all round. Cops hunted her down. Anyone else been run down by a nutjob? How did it turn out? I may need pins in my hand.
  
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  Movies I'm Watching

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  i have, for about 6 months now, been trying to watch every single movie that was "cool" or interesting since 1960.it started out with a desire to watch as an adult all disney movies.

  then it morphed into all bond movies (except for the non-canonicals).now it's turned into pretty much any and all movies.

  here is my list, scratched out are ones i have seen, green are recent next-in line.turns out there was a lot i had never seen before, about 70% because of the cult restrictions!

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  Are you trapped in an iron lung or something? Go for a walk. At least find a critic with similar tastes that you trust and cull the list.
  
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  Circuit Assemblies in the "Good Old Days"

  by BluesBrother in

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  just been reminiscing about how c/a's have changed since we were young.

  i remember when they started friday night in some rented hall , as well as the two weekend days.

  saturday morning was a brief session then field ministry (which only a few performed ) and sunday sessions.. in the free time around the venue we just used to hang out socialising and eyeing up the girls.

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  Paper hats, long aprons and washing large pots were the domain of the lucky kids in the district convention kitchen. There were long tables which attendees would stand at to have lunch. Those were seminal and fun days for a little cult member. Yes the conventions of the 60's were fun for only some kids. The books had more of an aura to them, the latest release was so anticipated. The convention was an event for fellow future survivors! Those kitchen and feeding jobs gave the less educated, and more practical men, who couldn't kiss ass to be an elder a purpose, a feeling of self worth and a value in the congregation. When they did away with that sense of community they doomed thosed people to drone status. Now the convention is about the speakers and their egos. So glad I endured only a few years of that slop.
  
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  Will Trump Be Helpful In Gaining A More Cooperative Relationship With Russia And The USA? Is That A Bad Thing?

  by Brokeback Watchtower in

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  i'm thinking if these nuclear powers work together for a common interest lots of progress will have been made.

  a total end of the cold war with russia is a good thing for the world.

  once you get the burden of war with each other off the table i think a lot of good can be accomplished in bumping heads in how solve common goals best..

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  It's not a bad thing for Tillerson, when the U.S. lifts the sanctions from Russia then Exxon can go through with their 500 billion oil deal. It's win win for big oil.

  By the way, the reason Trump can't release his taxes is because Putin hasn't sent him his W2 yet.
  
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  I really hate the word "ones".

  by schnell in

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  necessary as it is at times, i hate this word.

  for one thing, "ones" is a plural form of the number 1. that is dumb, and it's reason enough to avoid it where it isn't entirely necessary.. one could argue that it never is necessary, but it can still come up in colloquial dialogue when discussing objects.

  jw leaders use it to discuss people.. interestingly, jws even did this to jesus christ in their own translation of the bible, referring to him in ephesians 1:7 with "through the blood of that one" where another translation would say something like "through his blood".

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  I despise when people say, "I'll have one of these ones." My reaction to the redundancy makes me a total snob but, so it goes.
  
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  Life is changing for me: no pioneering, got a job!

  by Skepsis in

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  a month ago i decided to register in this board.

  i had decided to step down pioneering but was frightened about the consequences.

  i had finished my university degree some months before (despite disaproval from brothers in my congregation) and i had to choose: continue pioneering and working in jobs with no future or starting a career, working full-time.. i was thinking to postpone the decisiton but... i was fed up with preaching.

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  Skepsis, the congregation has been teaching you that being an MS is a privilege and that you are "special", "important" and doing a "good work". They also tell you that saying "no" is disloyalty to God. That pressure is still squeezing your mind. Call BS on it, see it for what it is. You have an education now and can see the futility of little men pretending to be important. There is no future in it. Use your mind and act on what you know. If you delete yourself of all responsibilities in the Cong some other ignorant zealot will step in. Don't let them flatter you, janitors do that work. The pressure will pass when they see that you are unwilling. You have a brain in use now! Congrats on not wasting time or gas anymore.
  
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  Numbers don't lie... and these numbers are beautiful!!

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

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  the numbers don't lie... definitely slowing down!!.

  in the 40´s the average growth per year was 20%in the 50´s it was about 10%they had four decades of solid 5% per yearnow the average for the past 16 years has been 2%.

  maybe in the future it will be 1% or 0 or even negative????.

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  Hey Smiddy, the love of the greater number is referring to believers. That's the official line ya know? The greater application is the convenient one of the world cooling off but its the BS explanation and not the official one.