It's not just George Michael who has died over Christmas but also Rick Parfitt of Status Quo. The way 2016 has gone there are still a few days left for a few more entertainers to die. RIP to all those who passed away this year who gave us so much pleasure.
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I just had one last week. I was diagnosed with bowel cancer 16 years ago at the age of 41. At that time I had no symptoms of bowel cancer and the consultant only did the colonoscopy to rule out a bowel condition as he thought that the abdominal pain I was getting was gynaecological. (To this day I still get that pain and no-one knows why, but that's another story). I don't know which of the two o
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Probably only the readers from the UK will appreciate this one - Brenda Blethyn in her role as DCI Vera Stanhope. Right accent and she wouldn't have put up with any nonsense, although I have reservations about her dress sense!
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I hadn't seen any Hare Krishna for years and wondered if they still existed until I saw a rather large procession of them in Florence, Italy, earlier this summer.
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I was brought up in the Peterlee branch in County Durham in the sixties and seventies, when it was still part of Sunderland Stake, although it became part of Billingham Stake in the late seventies. I left the area, and later the church, in 1978. Peterlee was always a struggling branch, with never more than 30 in attendance at sacrament meeting and never enough men to fill the branch presidency, n
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Like quatermass2 I have memories of the church in the UK in the seventies giving the impression that members should vote for the conservative party, as members in the USA should vote republican. As I came from a mining area which was working class and very allied to the Labour party I had difficulty in reconciling these two conflicting areas of my life during my teenage years. Although I didn
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At least with Mormons it is only handshaking. Here in Spain it is kissing on both cheeks which I find difficult as a Brit with a certain amount of British reserve. Give me a handshake any day.
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Like Devoted Exmo I managed to stay lost for 35 years. I married (which meant a change of surname) and moved house and they never found me. I only resurfaced in their eyes a couple of years ago when I resigned. Even then I used my sister's address (with her consent), as I really didn't want them to have any contact with my family.
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Is this official for all RMs worldwide or is it just some over zealous stakes in the morridor?
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Perhaps I should have made myself clearer in the first place- I know that none of it is really "valid" as it's all a load of old tosh, but the brethren must be aware that some people do tell porkies to get their TRs. I just wondered if there was an official policy about this.
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...(eg about adherence to the WOW), is the temple work done by that person for the dead still valid? How about that person's own endowment/sealing?
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yorkie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I remember this case all too well. > Believe me it was not a good time to be a young > single female Mormon in the UK....... Agreed, I was literally cringing with embarrassment at the time. This was also one of the things which led to me leaving the church, in spite of being BIC, I just couldn't cope with
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Beth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BWAHAHA Poor Elder Pete and that smile - looks > like it hurts. Did you notice that the other one was called Elder Berry? Any relation to ours?
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1. Religion plays no part in my life these days; I can't quite bring myself to call myself an atheist, so I'll say agnostic. However, I do enjoy the theatre and spectacle of a good high church Anglican or catholic mass if I happen to be passing! 2. I have always been instinctively left leaning politically, even from childhood. I was born and brought up in a coal mining village in England. As a
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I resigned by email using my sister's address in Wales as I spend a lot of time in Spain and I didn't want anyone from the church visiting my home in the UK where one of my sons still lives (my adult sons don't even know that I was born and brought up a Mormon as it is something I can't talk about). The Branch Pres of her local branch called on her and asked her if I would send him an email j
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I resigned by email last year, without any further paperwork/documentation and no problems.
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I haven't seen any JWs on the street corner where we are in Murcia Province, Spain, but we did get a visit on our doorstep from them this morning. This was the third time in the last couple of years. Interestingly none of them have been Spanish and the area we live in consists mostly of northern Europeans at this time of year. I can only presume that they don't think it is worthwhile to target th
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This is pure speculation on my part but I got the feeling that when she tried to say something and he shushed her with that killer look that they may have some kind of personal experience with this topic. It could account for why she looked so close to tears and why she was out of camera shot for a time. Whether this is right or not I have to say that I feel desperately sorry for this poor wo
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I don't remember any list of approved films being issued in the UK as I was growing up, although I do recall one of our branch presidents telling us that we should avoid films made from the sixties onwards (this was the mid seventies) as they might contain sex and nudity. I always thought that this was his own pronouncement as every talk he gave always seemed to be about the evils of sex - I'm su
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Which branch/ward were you at, and when, in Co Durham Britboy? At my small branch of Peterlee, which was then in the Sunderland Stake, we had an all female Sunday School presidency in the mid seventies. The president was in her early twenties, I can't remember now who was first counsellor but I was second counsellor at the age of 16 or 17. The shortage of men was so great that they had to cha
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As a teenager I attended the temple on a couple of occasions to do baptisms (we lived a fair distance from the London temple so a temple trip was a major event). On one occasion my parents were the only people in doing endowments that day so they set up a baptismal session just for me. I was baptised for 175 people in that session. At the time I was thrilled and proud to think that I been the mea
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I loved all of his acting and that voice, but most of all I lost my heart to him as Col Brandon in Sense & Sensibility.
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All the best to everyone for 2016 from sunny Spain.
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Although I had been inactive and had no contact with the church for 35 years when I resigned last year I was really surprised at how absolutely devastated and bereft I felt when I got my confirmation that I was out. This feeling lasted a few weeks even though I knew that the church was not true and I have been horrified to learn so much from this forum. I even started to ask myself if I had done
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So do adults, especially me!
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Sorry to most of my fellow Brits here who appear to be very anti-monarchy but I have nothing but the highest regard for the Queen. My husband was with the foreign office on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi in the 80's when the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh paid a state visit to India. Everyone at the High Commission, including spouses, was roped in to help with the smooth ru
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When I was in my small branch in the UK in about 1976/7 I was the 2nd counsellor at the age of 17 of an all female Sunday School presidency. There just wasn't enough men to fill all the callings. And, surprise surprise, Sunday School ran just fine with we wimmin in charge!
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The UK is not the only country to insist on this. A lot of European countries even have a civil ceremony at the town hall before the church ceremony takes place.
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Thank you all for giving me such a good laugh this afternoon. I've laughed so much that it brought tears to my eyes.
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