i have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
Talesin, now you're talking Super Star...and although I hated the Bruins, Bobby Orr and later Raymond Bourque (I played hockey against his brother) are my all-time favorite defensemen. Unfortunately we will never know how much more Orr could have accomplished if his career didn't come to an end so quickly.
A last jab...Horton 4 Stanley Cups and 22 years...Orr 2 Stanley Cups and 11 years...
You know your hockey T!
i have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
WT looks down at lotteries...even if the ticket is free, accepting the prize money is accepting "dirty money" acquired in an illicit activity (gambling/greedy money). Roll up the rim is free and prizing is "clean" since corporate Tim Horton uses this contest to promote their business....and it is not gambling.
i have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
My COBOE brother told me in "all confidence" that the wife of a former CO had won one of the SUVs in the roll up the rim contest...I guess when you go to Timmies everyday you have more chances to win...and this is a "WT approved" way of winning a prize.
i have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
Talesin, Maybe Tim Horton isn't from your era...1952 is a long time ago! Still, when you look at the average duration of a career in today's hockey, 22 years is exceptional! He is in the NHL Hall of fame....that defines a legend to me.
i have talked to quite a few brothers who have served as elders and servants and left the organization.
in most cases their wives have remained in despite the husbands best efforts to persuade his wife that the organization is wrong.
even though the wife can see problems within they continue to press on in service to the society.
I agree with Blondie...I had a social life outside the org...I am very social and I make friends easily. Leaving the KHall "friends" did not scare me at all. When some started noticing that I was no longer at the meetings, they said I was no longer welcomed to our weekly hockey game...so within a day or two I found a spot on 2 other teams where I am accepted regardless of my religious beliefs...as long as I pay for my ice time. I go out with them for beers after the game and I realized that they like me for who I am and not because they have to because I go to the same KHall....
My wife's social life is all about the congregation "friends"...she couldn't defend her faith if her life depended on it after 45 years of "devine education"...but she is not willing to discuss any of the evidence that the "truth" is nothing but.
i have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
Well said bro...
i have a question for my canadian friends here.
i go there often, and i see a tim hortons on pretty much every street, like mcdonalds is down here.
i've gone in to see what the fuss was all about, and all i saw were donuts and pastries i can find in every grocery store or gas station back home.
Wha happened!!! Attacking Canadian beer of all things! American beer tastes like Schlitz...(pronounced without the "L"). I remember buying a 24 pack of Milwaukee's Best in Virginia Beach and I ended it giving it to my campsite neighbours after I found "imported" Molson Canadian.
As far as Tim Horton, he appeared in 6 NHL All Star games and played from 1952 to 1974...he was no mediocre player, this coming from a Montreal Canadian fan! Most of his career was spent with the Toronto Maple Leafs and at one point he played in 486 consecutive games. At the end of his career he played for Buffalo and on his way home after playing in Toronto (90 mins. away) he was killed after losing control of his De Tomaso Pantera and hitting a culvert...he wasn't wearing his seat belt.
As far as Timmies' coffee, I can't tell if it's good or bad because I don't drink coffee except for the occasional espresso...but I avoid going there especially on Saturday morning because it is the coffee break place of choice for JWs in my region...In Canada Tim Horton's killed Dunkin Donuts and Coffee Time....
lets's go!!.
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suffocating.
controlled
poor old guy had a sudden heart attack and just died.
he was 70 and was never sick even once in the time that i knew him the past 6 or 7 years.
he was very active, ran a business, restored old cars, and was of course active in the jw ministry.
A few weeks ago a brother in his late fifties passed away. I used to enjoy talking to him and his wife - she is a nurse and provided some guidance in selecting a surgeon a few years back when I had a minor surgery...I felt really bad not going to the funeral talk to give her my sympathies...but I couldn't submit myself to a 45 min infocommercial of how great is the JW views are and how unimportant individuals are even on the day of their funeral...
i have never purchased lottery tickets in my life, but i have picked lottery numbers with someone in the past only one time.
he agreed to split the winnings if we win, but we didn't.
i am thinking about buying some lottery tickets, hopefully i will get very lucky.
A few years back while I was a MS I was given a lotto ticket with the purchase of a meal deal at McDonald. I hid the ticket with my gas receipts in the glove box in my car. A few months later as I was doing my car expenses I found the ticket and went on the lotto web site to see if I had won anything...To my surprise I had all the numbers right and the prize was $50,000! Reading the back of the ticket I found out that I would have to go to the lotto prize office to claim a prize of $50k or more and that there would be press interviews and photos...At that point I researched the WT publications to find conflicting information. The older WT article said that it was a conscience matter to accept a prize if no money was spent acquiring the ticket (not gambling if no money was involved). The other WT article stated that regardles of purchasing or not the ticket, the prize money was acquired in an activity displeasing to God and accepting it would be the same as accepting diamonds I knew were stolen...I started thinking to myself that we can accept blood fractions which are acquired through an action (blood donation) that is forbidden by God...so why should act any differently with my winning ticket? So I decided to claim the prize and after reading the French version of the lotto rules I found that they were different allowing to claim prizes up to $50k by mail with a copy of an official document bearing my picture...A few weeks later the cheque arrived by courrier, no questions asked. The funny thing is that my zealous JW wife didn't object at all and we kept the whole thing secret. After I stopped going to the meetings I told our children about our winning...
