This is my story
This is my song
It's a long way from Gorgie
To the fields o' the Somme
Where they played tunes of glory
As we marched along
The pals o' the Sporting Battalion
From the Heart of Midlothian
To the Waverly train
The crowds they were singing
An auld Scots refrain
Our sweethearts and darlings
Our bonnie wee bairns
Were waving their flags
And calling our names
Sing Hearts of Glory
Dawn and sunset
Hearts of glory
Lest we forget
Young Scottish soldiers
And soldiers unknown
Who gave hearts of glory
In the trenches of Picardy
The whistles are blown
And it's over the top lads
Through the wire and the bombs
To pain and destruction
Let the piper play
To lead us to hell
To death and dismay
There was never a moment
I was not afraid
But there by my side
Were the gallant McCrae's
Until they fell in the slaughter
When the bayonets were out
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And the few of us left
Held the auld Scots Redoubt
Ellis and Currie
Briggs, Boyd, Hazeldean
Wattie and Nisbet
He was only sixteen
Their names I'll remember
At the end of each day
They fought and died
Wi' Geordie McCrae
Who cared for the Kaiser
Or Imperial gains
Love of our country
Duty or fame?
Between the whim of an airman
And four feathers of shame
We fought for the pals
Of a wee fitba team
And when it was over
Just what had we done?
There were no flags of glory
For McCrae and his own
There were no graves for heroes
For our brothers and sons
Who sleep 'neath the flowers
In the fields of the Somme
Some came back as cripples
Some couldnae kick a ball
Some wounded and broken
Most came not at all
But they remain in my memory
Forever young
The pals o' the Sporting Battalion
jambon1
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Do you wear a poppy?
by dozy ini always wished that i could wear a poppy on the run-up to rememberance sunday ( for details on this british commonwealth custom see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/poppy_day ) and often used to buy a poppy but binned it before anyone saw me wearing one.
as i understand it , it is a dfing offence ,though i cant see anything explicity in the wts literature.
anybody who is faded but not dfd worn one and what feedback did you get?.
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Do you wear a poppy?
by dozy ini always wished that i could wear a poppy on the run-up to rememberance sunday ( for details on this british commonwealth custom see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/poppy_day ) and often used to buy a poppy but binned it before anyone saw me wearing one.
as i understand it , it is a dfing offence ,though i cant see anything explicity in the wts literature.
anybody who is faded but not dfd worn one and what feedback did you get?.
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I remember thinking 'why would I want anyone to change from being in the world to a JW?'
by jambon1 indid anyone else feel this way & if so, at what stage in your time as a jw?.
i remember i must have been in the org for about 6 or 7 years.
i was always trying to be the life & soul of the cong.
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But why is it sad we aren't there any more? We don't want to be there.
Sorry if I misunderstood you.
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Yes. They ignored me & I was glad they did. Too many people moan about stuff like this. I couldn't see any of them far enough myself. Why would you want to be bothered by these characters, knowing that you will just get the same spiel & chat from them.
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I remember thinking 'why would I want anyone to change from being in the world to a JW?'
by jambon1 indid anyone else feel this way & if so, at what stage in your time as a jw?.
i remember i must have been in the org for about 6 or 7 years.
i was always trying to be the life & soul of the cong.
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it's sad alot of you on here arent there anymore, if we all were united and stuck to our guns(so to speak) things wouldnt have got so bad...but sadly too many rotten apples,weeds,suffercate the wheat like ones.
Are you being serious?
Stick to our guns? What, like over the blood issue being wrong & unnecessary? Disfellowshipping being extreem, cruel & unloving?
Paedophiles holding down positions in the cong? Lying elders?
Stick to our guns? When surrounded by stuff like this? No thanks. You're being insulting.
And we are the 'rotten apples', the 'weeds?'. Go away and have a word with yourself.
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I remember thinking 'why would I want anyone to change from being in the world to a JW?'
by jambon1 indid anyone else feel this way & if so, at what stage in your time as a jw?.
i remember i must have been in the org for about 6 or 7 years.
i was always trying to be the life & soul of the cong.
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Did anyone else feel this way & if so, at what stage in your time as a JW?
I remember I must have been in the org for about 6 or 7 years. I was always trying to be the life & soul of the cong. The class clown if you like (even though inside I was depressed). I was this way until the day I walked out of the KH for the last time. Outwardly, I was all that. Enjoying life as a JW. I was chatty, gregarious. Interested in people both inside & outside the cong.
As a result, I had some nice calls with people on the ministry. I would pretty much only deliver magazines & answer any questions, if they asked. I had a big magazine route which included lots of elderly people & mid-aged men/women. I used to love hearing their strorys & things about their family, grandkids, etc. Perhaps I was just nosey!
As I have mentioned on here previously, I would look around our cong and see lots of depressed people. I could relate to them in a way as inwardly I was miserable. I saw lots of problems with marriages & family life. No-one seemed to be happy or upbeat about life. 90% of the cong were negative people. Most people had ongoing problems. Lots were on anti-depressants. Utterly depressing it was.
Unlike my calls. The worldly people. Not all of them. But most. They were all pretty much contented & had lead happy lives. They had happy memories. Most of them just seemed content with their lot in life, despite having faced different challenges.
When this began to dawn on me, I realised that it would be cruel for me to wish that these people become JW's. Why would I want anyone to become part of the misery that I was experiencing? I had seen how the WTS could take people who were previously happy-go-lucky folk (like I was), and do something to them. Turn them into paranoid, negative, depressing individuals.
It wasn't long after that, that I realised I should leave the org.
Anyone else feel this way?
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It's another world up there!
Aberdeen = Oberdeen.
It's a doft!
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So what do you know?
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Which is your favourite single malt Scotch Whisky, and why?
by lifelong humanist inas a true scot, i'm deeply passionate about most things scottish, any possibly one of our small nation's most successful export is my main favourite - our single malt whisky heritage.. i'm writing this while savouring a 12 year old highland park - distilled in the orkney islands, the most northerly distillery in scotland.
it is one of my favourites - it was my late father's favourite tipple.
yet, only 500m from my house is scotlands oldest legal whisky distillery - glenturret, in crieff.
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I drank a bottle of Glenmorangie the day that Heart of Midlothian FC won the Scottish Cup in 1998 against Rangers.
It has always evoked happy memories & is still one of the best whiskeys.
Every new year I still 1st foot my old man with a bottle of the stuff.
Happy, happy days.
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Did You Start "Losing It" As A Witness?
by minimus inwere you emotionally or mentally unbalanced at any time while you were a jehovah's witness?.
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I always refer to the fact that in normal society I was a succesful young man who should have had the world at his feet (around 2002/03). In reality, as a JW I was a paranoid, insecure, pessemistic, depressing individual. I rmember on more than one occasion going into meltdown. The cause? Who knows. But, I did feel completely under pressure as a JW ministerial servant/pioneer.
When I had my 1st little baby daughter I was forced to take note of my mental stability.
I knew that I had to leave this religion. Not just for me now, but for my kids. I considered others now.
I left. It hasn't been easy. Yet I considered suicide as a way out when I was in the religion.
I'm happy I gained the courage & left.
I really could have been dead*.
*One night I was so miserable, I drank a litre of whiskey. I must have downed my last at around 11.20pm. I had to get up for work at 4.30am. I got up & managed to trace the line of a familiar tree on a stretch of road where I was able to do 60mph in my car. I considered just driving off the road & ending it all that day. I was a young man who had a lovely wife & 2 little healthy children. I was so overtaken by my misery in that religion.
I just had to leave. For my own sanity & the future of my kids.