Posts by mark hughes

A wonderful story that I can relate to myself, the only regret I have is that it was a few years after I was d'fd that I decided to look up my non jw family. I had the thoughts in my head wondering if they will want to see me after so many years and besides it was only one auntie I had ever seen before and I could count the amount of times I had seen her on one hand! I plucked up the courage to find her and did. I had never felt so wanted and loved as I did when I spoke to her for the first time and within a couple of weeks I had phone call after phone call from relatives I had never heard of let alone seen! I now see them all as often as I can, I spend xmas every year with a cousin of mine and her family, they always make a big occasion of it. I remember the first year she asked me to stay for xmas, when I awoke on xmas morning there was a filled stocking at the end of my bed! I was 28 but I didn't care!

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Pictures- Just for fun

by RichieRich in

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i was just browsing through my files, and came across a few cool / neat / weird photos i thought i'd share.

these are from my trip to bethel in mid-april of last year.. .

there i was, right outside hq.

mark hughes

Fantastic pictures keep them coming!!!!

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chav nativity

by Ellie in

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there's this bird called mary, yeah?

she's a virgin (wossat then?

she's not married or nuffink, but she's got this boyfriend,joe, innit?

mark hughes

Ha-ha I gagged so much I wet me kek's!

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not posting so much lately

by ballistic in

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i haven't been posting so much recently, but it's not because i've had enough of you all.

actually it's for a good reason.. my firm enrolled me on a home study course in a field similar to my current career but slightly more advanced.. ironically, several weeks after me enrolling on the course, they announced my department is being outsourced to india and we are all to loose our jobs at the end of march.. strangely enough, i'm not too worried about that, it's happened to me 3 times before with the same firm and i always found something else.

in fact, i might not even bother.

mark hughes

Hi ballistic I hope its worth it!! I'm sure it will be in the long run. If you have a relapse and fancy one of your booze filled weekends again you know I'm not too far away!

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If...

by Narkissos in

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i was thinking of an approximate reversal of force's thread (http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/14/105552/1.ashx):.

if something happened which proved beyond any doubt that god (or gods) cannot exist, silencing forever all claims for realistic belief in an objective divinity, shattering even the uncertainty of agnosticism, would you start being interested in theology?.

i don't mean to discuss the probability of the assumption: it is very unlikely.

mark hughes

No . I'm with almostathiest on this, but i'm what he is almost. I like riddles!

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SERVICE REPORT 2005 : WATCHTOWER FEB 1ST 2006

by BluesBrother in

i have had a quick look and found no references to this, so - here goes..as in the mag we picked up on sunday.. worldwide % increase over 2004 = 1.3%.

memorial partakers 8524 (compared to 8570 in 2004).

most european and nth american lands show pretty static figs - britain 1% increase, canada 0%, germany 0%, france 1%, usa 0%... but spare a thought for the inhabitants of zambia where 1 person in 90 is a reporting witness, must be hell going down to the local market!

mark hughes

David2002 I hope you are still with us. You said on an earlier post that a WT official in Britain regretted what happened to 2 young girls, with regard to child abuse, and that the elders of the congregation were subsequently removed from their position. I know of this case and it is one of the main reasons why I am here today. What you have failed to say is that they were not removed until the so called "brother" was found guilty by a court of law and three of those elders had stood up in that court as character witnesses for for that "brother".

Here's another question, and you may need to to do a bit of research here as I have, what position do those removed elders now hold? Here's a clue, one in the same afore mentioned congregation and two now in another?

As a so called apostate it would be unreasonable for me to give the answer myself I will leave that to you.

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Out-standing Calls

by slugga in

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ever knock on a door and have an outstanding call for what ever reason,good or bad.?.

i cant name names because i'll end up giving my old congregations name / area away and i don't want to do that.

i was out one sunday afternoon with an elder we were doing a nice area but having no interest, we knocked on a door and a scruffy looking bloke came to the door (i recognised him straight away), the elder presented the mags and got a no thanks and started to put the mags away as the door started to shut.

mark hughes

Good to see you are not giving to many clues away as to your Identity Matt!

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Out-standing Calls

by slugga in

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ever knock on a door and have an outstanding call for what ever reason,good or bad.?.

i cant name names because i'll end up giving my old congregations name / area away and i don't want to do that.

i was out one sunday afternoon with an elder we were doing a nice area but having no interest, we knocked on a door and a scruffy looking bloke came to the door (i recognised him straight away), the elder presented the mags and got a no thanks and started to put the mags away as the door started to shut.

mark hughes

I know the group as well. One of my all time favourites you lucky....um...er.....person!

Here's one for you. It didn't actually happen but it might make you laugh.

An elder knocks on a door watchtower in hand. A boy of about 10 answers, with a cigar in one hand and a half empty bottle of vodka in the other. The elder says" is your mother or father in?" the boy replies "does it f*****g look like it?"