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Aunties and Uncles?
by glitter inhere in north england it's very common for children to call close friends of their parents aunty or uncle even if they're not really related.
this also happened at the kh with all the kids calling adults aunty or uncle.
is this standard jw practice or is it just a northern thing?
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OT: Taken in a stray dog...
by glitter init's bonfire night (well it was) and mum saw a skinny mongrel (alsatian x labrador x collie type thing) scared half to death in the street and took him in at least just until the fireworks stopped.. we've reported him found with the police, and we're keeping him until his owner comes forward but it looks like he's been straying for a very long time - nails all worn down, really bad fleas, bad ears, starving hungry, stinky, all stuff like that.
the lost dog police person didn't think it sounded like anyone would be looking for him unless he'd been lost ages.. he's very friendly, the only problem is he's chased the cats, and now none of them will come in (except one i actually went and picked up and brought upstairs).
ok it's only been a few hours, but if they don't get on he'd have to go to the dog warden - and then he'd only have 10 days.... the youngest two were very very close to our dog that died last year, so they probably don't remember him at all or how nice dogs can be.
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Christian Fundamentalists and Adam and Eve
by glitter inhow do people who believe a "day" of creation is a literal 24-hour day ("because the plants would have died") get around adam and eve not dying the same literal 24-hour day as eating from the tree?
jws say that the "day" didn't equal 24 hours and that adam died within a thousand years and a day=1000 years.... but then you have the plants with no light!
it's almost like it's made up or something!
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Coronation Street
by glitter inkaren macdonald is an exjw apparently.
she's upset and talking about being disfellowshipped, being rejected on the ministry and not having birthdays!
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JW Flood Cartoon?
by glitter inyears ago (mid/late-90's) there was a documentary about jws on british tv and in part of it they showed a snippet from (presumably) a wt *cartoon* about noah's flood *pointedly* showing a mother and child drowning.. .
*was* this definitely a jw cartoon or was it just from another source and used as an example?
where can i get hold of a copy?.
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NWT Question
by glitter ina couple of years ago i got into an conversation with a pioneer about bible translations, i said that the nwt is an american translation (i didn't think this was such a controversial statement!
) and she jumped down my throat about it!
i said "but it's called the new world translation, and "new world" is what europeans used to call north america" and she said "no, it's the new-world translation - because it's for jehovah's witnesses and we will get through to the new system" and while i was trying to reason with her she also said it was a "new world-translation, it's a new translation for all the world".. has anybody else met somebody who thought this?
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Cute animation/game
by glitter in.
i swear this isn't one of those ones where the scary face jumps out at you and screams!
http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflahage_site/kor/hestekor.swf
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Have JWs abandoned my mum?
by glitter inmy mum has been inactive for over 10 years, but for almost as long as that an elder has been bringing her magazines and books so she's up to date.
she gets tapes of talks indirectly through another person.
the elder's not been in a while.