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AM I THE ONLY GUY IN THE WORLD WHO....?
by Duncan inokay, heres how this works: .
either reply to mine, or make up your own new ones.. .
* am i the only guy in the world who * .. .
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About the GB, over the years
by Duncan indear everyone.
following the death of carey barber, and the subsequent postings about how long all the gb chaps seem to live, i thought i'd do a bit of work on the composition of the gb over the years.. i have attached (i hope) a couple of graphs showing the results of the work.. i took as my starting date 1974, when there were, it seems, 17 members at an average age of 65. by 1977 there had been 3 deaths, and in 1977 there were 4 appointments, at an average age of 71.. over the next 17 years there were half-a-dozen deaths, and 3 resignations, including the spectacular ray franz incident, but remarkably, not a single appointment in all that time.
perhaps the gb when it was set up in the early 70's had over-recruited.
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Ridiculous teenager counselled at Assembly.
by Duncan inthe ridiculous teenager is me.
this story takes me back to 1969, when i was 15 years old.
we were attending the international assembly at wembley stadium, near london, the only time, i think, that wembley was ever used for an assembly.. if youve ever read any of the stories i posted on jwd over the years, youll know that i was never one of those kids growing up in the truth who always had doubts about it or was unhappy and miserable with the religion, just waiting for the chance to get out.
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A tiny entry on the credit side of the ledger
by Duncan indear everyone,.
sometimes, like probably everyone here, i get to thinking about all the wasted years (not to mention all those countless, endless, slow-motion hours) spent in serving the watchtower.. what a waste!
in my case 20 years maybe my 20 best years (age 5 to 25) - utterly wasted time , along with all the missed and spurned opportunities.
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Blood Transfusion Question - Dogs
by Duncan indear everyone,.
there was a very interesting item on this morning's bbc breakfast news programme - to do with blood transfusions for dogs.
a new website has been set up, along with an appeal to owners to type and register their pets as potential donors, should the need arise.
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Assemblies: Queues (Lines) at the Ladies, and taping over mirrors
by Duncan inthis topic sufaces here every now and again, with people reporting on the way that in some locations, the brothers tape paper over the mirrors in the ladies toliets, in order to speed things up and reduce queues.
i posted this a couple of years ago, but i'm resurrecting it now because i think this is relevant and interesting:.
this link:.
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Dungy idols
by Duncan inbeen gone a while, i havent posted a topic here for since 2004, but remembered this story this morning, so i thought id make a post.
dungy idols!
ring a bell with you?
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Ninety Years Ago Today
by Duncan inon bbc radio 4?s today programme this morning, they were covering the extraordinary events of ninety years ago, christmas day 1914, in the no-man?s-land between the trenches in world war i. .
in the first christmas of that terrible war some british and german soldiers, close enough in their trenches to hear each other, began to sing carols and call out to their opponents.
soldiers ventured over the parapets and met with their enemies, laughing and joking, sharing songs, even exchanging gifts.
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Loaded Language
by Duncan ini recently was called upon by jw?s at my door and given the brochure ?keep on the watch?
i posted about it last week, the very nice jw lady with the novel take on ?how close the end is, with special reference to how many bible pages i am holding between my fingers?.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/80651/1.ashx.
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Where We Are in the Stream of Time
by Duncan ini had another visit from witnesses at my door on saturday, only the second time in the four years we?ve lived here.
a very nice young girl, it was, offering me the ?keep on the watch?
magazine.. i let her make her pitch, which was mostly all about how terrible the world was today, and then just replied with enough interest for her to keep going, without giving anything away.