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April 2003 KM: ``Mind Your Manners in Public"
by Room 215 innow that it's dispensed with its annual ``don't you dare partake" in advance of their spring travesty of a communion, the faithful and discreet slave shifts its focus to another seasonal perennial: the km's recurrent exhortation to ``mind your manners at this summer's district conventions.
by ``connecting the dots" between the leadership's admonition to mind one's manners at the hotel, to tip approriately, to avoid ``double-dipping'' by eating and then loading up on unapproved takeaways for lunch at hotels that prvide complimentary breakfast, to refrain from losing all inhibitions in after-hour socializing and to forego the donning of outlandish skin-tight (or conversely loose fitting ``hip-hop" outfits) forte duration of the assembly, a picture quite different from the idealized notion of jws being a worldwide fraternity of solidly mature, temperate ministers who lives find fulfilment only in the service of god and their fellow man.. what sort of adults need to be lectured in such terms, let alone a group that boasts of its aloofness from satan's world?
what does it suggest about leadership's awareness of how far removed from reality the rank and file is from their literature's stylized imagery?
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Satisfied with your vehicle?
by JH injust about everybody has a car and a story they can share.
does your car give you trouble, or would you recommend it to others?.
so, how would you rate your car?.
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Wacko Talks
by gitasatsangha inshare one of the odder/funnier talks you've heard (where the manuscript went out the window, along with any degree of decorum, preferably).
one time a brother had a 15 minute part and he spoke very calmly and relaxed.
he smiled all the time, but the part seemed aimless.
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Memorial anyone?
by basics-for-me inanyone got plans to attend the memorial?.
i am going again this year.
not out of duty or for anyone else but for myself.
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Please help me save my marriage - URGENT
by happyout ini am fighting to save my marriage, and the person i seem to be fighting against is my husband.
a little background, we had a rough time dating, because he had a hard time being faithful.
i caught him cheating three times, and left him, but he kept asking for forgiveness, promising to change, and i bought into it.
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I refuse to lie to have a job!!!!!!
by Jesika income to find out, the things i was telling people about the products we were selling were lies.
i am not comfortable lying to people to sell a product.
i really don't like being lied to and then finding out later most everything i was told to do was bs.
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Is this a place for children?
by xenawarrior insorry, call me a b*$ch if you'd like but is this really a place for a 13 year old child to be hanging out?
is the chat room really a place for kids?
i know i wouldn't let my 14 year old near this place.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/48684/1.ashx.
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A Sense Of Well-Being.
by Englishman indo you have a sense of well-being?.
how would you describe a feeling of well-being?.
do jw's ever have a true sense of well-being?.
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I went to the Assembly....
by teenyuck ini was at home and a man came to the door...i knew immediately he was a jw brother, however, he was quite handsome (no offense) and very well built.
he looked like a cross between brad pitt/tom cruise/evan marriott.... he wore a very nice dark gray suit that formed perfectly to his sculpted muscles...he had a very nice book bag.
black, brushed silver hardware.