Thirdson
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Brummie Is Beautiful
by Thirdson inthis is an article about the regional dialect in england centered around the industrial city of birmingham (brumijem to the locals) and not about our own brummie poster.
(that's not to say he isn't beautiful in his own way.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3187433.stm.
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Tortoise Reaches a Milestone - 1000 posts
by Thirdson ini finally reached the 1000 post milestone today.
at an average of 1.07 posts per day i am not a heavy contributor to this board but i am a regular reader.
for a jedi the "force" is pretty weak in me and i rarely rattle my light sabre.. you may notice (or, since i rarely comment, not notice me at all) that i avoid commenting on inflammatory posts, i don't care for loonies or the prophets and don't waste my time reading let alone challenging the obviously wacky.
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Not a Deadbeat! I won custody
by Thirdson inover the past 4 months i have struggled with the contentious issue of child custody and child support.
in reality the issue goes back much further and i discussed some of the situation with harmony from this board last summer at an apostofest.
when my divorce was finalized 4 years ago my ex and i agreed to joint custody arrangements (legal and physical).
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Changing of the Guard
by Thirdson inmy mother attended the funeral of an elderly jw recently.
the person that passed away was in her 90's had been a jw since the 1930's and her late husband was one of the "annointed" although she didn't claim that for herself.
every few months i hear of old jws passing away.
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West Indian Goat Curry
by Thirdson inthis is a bit of fluff and maybe i should inlcude it in the "cookbook" thread but.... yesterday at supper, (it was curry night and i cook the curry), we were discussing food and i told my wife that one of my best curry memories is west indian curried goat that i ate at a number times at west indian (jw of course) weddings.
after the normal reception buffet, and the wedding cake, (traditional english sort, fruit, brandy, marzipan, and icing) these weddings included a late night serving of goat curry.
i guess the enormous quantity of curry must have been cooking all day long but it tasted wonderful.. i spent the first 10 years of my life in a inner city area of the english midlands and attended a multi-racial school where being white was not a majority.
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Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals and the Creation Book
by Thirdson inthis quote is from the bbc's web site: .
the results, they say, indicate that neanderthals made little or no contribution to the genes of modern humans.
out of africa .
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What Would Jesus Do? or rather has not DONE
by Thirdson ini know i am mainly preaching to the choir with this, but there are plenty of lurkers.
i used to lurk on the old h2o when i first began having doubts and i bet there are a lot more jws today who still want to believe they are part of god's org but see the many human failings of the so-called "visible organization.".
one of, if not the only, unique teachings of jehovah's witnesses is that jesus came back (has returned, is present) and in 1919 chose the watchtower society's board of directors as his representative governing body (except they didn't know they were a governing body nor did they know they were chosen since at the time they thought jesus had been back earlier and chosen them when russell was in charge).. so let's assume that jesus did come back in 1914, what has he done?
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Was Adam a dairy farmer?
by Thirdson inapparently so, and so were his forebears.
by the time dairy farming reached the backwater of europe, known as great britain (or britain if you are a km writer even though no such place exists) six and half thousand years ago it was already long established in the rest of neolithic europe.
it seems the dairy farmers in the british isles were fond of eating meat as well and thought nothing of slaughtering some of their herds for food.
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Catching Up
by Thirdson ini've just got back from a few days vacation.
thirdson's son is away in california so mrs. thirdson and i headed north to do a little sight-seeing, biking, hiking, canoeing and fishing.
i didn't catch anything but father-in-law caught 6 walleye and more, so we feasted at lunch today.. i seemed to have missed some stories this week.
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Relatives Now Shunned
by Thirdson inpreviously on the watchtower media site there were (at best) some half-truths about members who no longer associate and disfellowshipping not breaking family ties.
they even said "pastoral visits".
this appears to have changed, no doubt because they were two-faced.do you shun former members?.