Virgochik

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  A Visitor's Guide To Scotland

  by cofty in

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  Virgochik

  I love Scotland! I'll always remember getting a coffee while waiting for our rental car in Edinburgh, when a man came on the loud speaker to admonish travelers: "You shouldna leave yourrrrr carrrrrrrrs own-ah-ten-deed!" I asked, what did he just say? Loved the highland cows and the Dewars distillery tour in Aberfeldy. Heard Amy Winehouse's Back to Black for the first time at a pub in Pitlochry. Couldn't get my hubby to stop raving about haggis, even tho he knew what they were made of. We've been to Scotland a few times, and always want to go again.

  Loved the funny video, thanks!
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  My 88 Year Old Mom Is Going To Special Meeting Today And Shouldn't!

  by minimus in

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  my mom only goes out for doctor's visits.

  they are "encouraging" her to spend three hours to hear the annual meeting at the kh.

  she is on oxygen and can barely move.

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  My mother texted me that she was going to the "Special meeting" today. She's almost eighty years old. All she mentioned later was goimg out to eat with the friends, so nothing earth shaking was said, or it went over her head. She is not a deep thinker but had a "lovely day."
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  Manchester dogs home burnt down in suspected arson, more than 50 dogs killed..

  by defender of truth in

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  2. current

  http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-29182471.

  ........ "more than 50 dogs on the verge of adoption died in the inferno.".

  can you imagine how terrified those dogs would have been?

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  I just read a 15 year old boy was arrested for the arson. Sick, twisted little waste of oxygen. Heartbreaking for the staff to have someone wreck the shelter they work so hard at. Im thrilled so many were outraged and donated generously.
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  Not on jw.org - comments regarding bad Jehovah's Witness employees

  by jwfacts in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i used to be very impressed with convention experiences regarding how worldly employers would hire jws because they were known as the most honest workers.

  i was too indoctrinated to realise these were selective experiences, and there are plenty of experiences of jws being dishonest in the workforce.

  i have received a couple recently by email.. i have cut quite a bit out of the following email i received so that the person and company cannot be indentified, but you will get the message.. .

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  An elder worked for me once at the post office. When the vacation schedule circulated for the coming year, he'd pick his weeks. After everybody picked, he'd say, "Oh wait a minute, I've got assembly days I need to add on. The dates were already spoken for, so he'd throw a fit about religious accommodation. The Labor dept. Said we had to give it to him. This gave us too many employees off on the same week and it was hard to cover. He was all smirky because he put one over. He called in quite a bit too and I'd find out there was a weekend assembly. Not to mention how often we'd hear his mail truck was way off his route, parked at his house. I didn't feel he was very honest and many of his coworkers didn't respect him because he played the religious accommodation card and was a crybaby. The way he acted and gave me, as a supervisor, a hard time, made me sure I never wanted to go back. He was lazy, dishonest and manipulative, and he was an elder.
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  Are Jdubs going to put the elderly out to pasture with JW.org?

  by Coffee House Girl in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it will be interesting to see how things play out...but one example which got me to thinking about this is my mother.

  my mom is a 76 year old regular pioneer (she is one of those who believes that you are "nothing" if you are not a pioneer...the position is everything)-.

  i am moving in two weeks to go to grad school, so i have been trying to go out to visit...say goodbye...do things for her before i leave.

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  My mom's in her late 70's too, and she sighed that she really has little interest in getting a tablet, but she supposes she will have to buckle down and get one pretty soon. She sounded kind of stressed about it. It sounded like she's being pressured. She too is a pioneer.
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  Pets aren't people, says speaker at Regional Convention. Fido and Mimi better watch out! And instead of drinking wine or beer go do some gardening or play golf.

  by oppostate in

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  2. current

  a big discussion driving back from the regional convention about what exactly was meant about pets.. the warning was obvious to me.

  don't get pets, they cost time and money and you would do better to spend your time and money supporting the organization and going in field service.. as to the wine and beer, because the bro during his soliloquy admitted that the first thing he would like to do is relax after a hectic day at work with a glass of wine or beer, his conscience was traumatized.

  however he came up with a perfect idea, he'd go tend the garden (obviously a solution for a married bro) or hit some golfballs at the driving range (maybe he's not married).. maybe jesus should have told the wine guzzlers at cana to sober up and go till the fields.. .

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  When I was a teen, I was telling the car group a story about my beloved cat. The obnoxious elder who was driving turned around and told me, that cat doesn't really love you. In the great tribulation, it would eat your flesh off your bones if it got hungry. I was devastated. Then I thought about it, how I just did not believe that, and I hated that guy from that day on. Unbelievable.
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  BORN-INS! What Were The Most Annoying Quotes Your Parents Would Say?

  by OneStepOut93 in

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  2. friends

  regarding worldly people, shows or toys?

  etc...what quotes annoyed you the most?.

  for me it was "well, you have to remember, they're worldly"... "don't trust anyone who isn't in the truth" "they may be nice but they are not friends of jehovah"... just a few to name.

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  Which question will you be commenting on today? Underline it so you're ready when the brother calls on you!

  It would make your dear old father proud if you raised your hand at the Watchtower study.

  You have so little interest in the truth! Weeps into hankie.

  We give presents all year.

  That skirt isn't modest.

  We can't get you those meeting shoes until your father makes sure they won't stumble anyone.

  Why don't you cultivate some studies?

  Don't you want to pioneer during school vacation and please Jehovah?

  If you don't change your rebellious attitude, you'll never get a Christian husband. (I was a tomboy.)
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  Resurrection talk at convention

  by innerpeace in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i didn't go to the convention but have family who did, all are going on about the resurrection talk, how there wasn't a dry eye in the arena.

  and apparently a video was shown too on it.

  we lost a family member some years back and they are on fb talking about the resurrection and new world coming soon.

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  So that's what's got my mother going. She was at her International convention last week, which she gushed was a lovely, encouraging week. She snapped, if I have any faith AT ALL I would know that we'll see him (my deceased father) again! She came back pretty wound up.
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  80 Year old COBE Layoff Conspiracy

  by XBEHERE in

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  2. friends

  who else thinks something is afoot with this?

  is the gb deciding to go back to pre-1971 times with perhaps the cobe as the man in charge and the rest just ministerial servants.

  so for this reason they want younger men in those postitions?

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  I remember only five or six years ago when I tried to buy my mother a laptop and get her online so we could email photos and stay in touch, my dad gave me a stern look and the hairy eye. Man, what a dirty look he gave me for mentioning how I booked vacations online and encouraging mother to learn to surf the web. If I'd chirped I was smoking and hosting swingers parties, I wouldn't have got a filthier glare. Now, they push tablets and JW.org and mother doesn't even remember how frowned opon this used to be. It's just amazing.
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  LIVE from Ford Field international DO

  by darth frosty in

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  2. friends

  just wanted to show the activity in downtown detroit from the convention.

  trafic is on jam!.

  lots of people .

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  Paco, thanx for your observations. Maybe you could post some more over the weekend? And that's a really cute dog!