Just venting for a minute.
We get a LOT of wrong numbers here -- several a week, sometimes several a day, because our phone number is one digit different than the number for the advertising department of the county newspaper. I'm quite used to it. What I can't get over is how people get annoyed with ME when I tell them they have the wrong number. Most commonly, they say, "well, if you're not the newspaper, then what's the newspaper's number?" and I said, "I don't know. Look it up." 'cause I can't remember which digit is different. I just had a call where the guy, finding out there was no one here named "Sara", gave me an exasperated sigh and asked what my phone number was. Then he says, "Well, that's the number I have for her." ... um... okay, well, there's no one here by that name. And he says, again, "Well, that's the number I have for her" as if I have kidnapped the elusive Sara and am withholding her calls.
I also had a lady who called the day after we moved in and was responding to a classified ad that the former resident must have placed. The lady wanted to buy our sofa. I explained we had just moved in and that that must have been from the previous resident, but that I had no forwarding information (apartment complex, you know). She got all pissy about how she wanted the couch (come on, lady!) and how I must know SOMETHING about where the couch is. No, ma'am, I don't. Fine, she hung up. Then she CALLED BACK the next day and did the same thing all over again. I'm like... nope, still no couch. She finally said, "Well, if you don't want to sell me the couch, you could just say so!" and hung up. whaaacko.
Anyway... I really do have a life, but I am about ready to cut the phone line some days!
SLM
who has been eerily absent due to the JW family visiting here.. ha ha.
somebodylovesme
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Why do people get mad at the person who answers when they dial a wrong # ?
by somebodylovesme injust venting for a minute.
most commonly, they say, "well, if you're not the newspaper, then what's the newspaper's number?
" 'cause i can't remember which digit is different.
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What was your very first job ?
by xjw_b12 in.
do you remember it ?.
did you you learn anything from it?.
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"when minimum wage was $5.40..." .. isn't it only, like, $5.15 now? If not, I'm getting screwed.
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Are meeting styles different in particular regions?
by somebodylovesme inthe meetings i have been to (in the rural midwest) have been the quietest, tamest, and most boring religious events i have ever been to.
they make the lutheran church i used to go to (in which no one was under 60 except my family!
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That's so interesting... I wonder why enthusiasm and fakeness are correlated? Strange.
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What was your very first job ?
by xjw_b12 in.
do you remember it ?.
did you you learn anything from it?.
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I worked at a local pizza place when I was about 14. I was paid less than minimum wage under-the-table, operated the ovens when I was legally too young, worked more hours than I legally was allowed, and was generally treated like crap. Why did I take and stay at that job for two years? My family knew the owner and the business was failing (gee, I wonder why?) and they needed help. I got lots of free pizza, though. Sometimes that was ALL the pay I got. I doubled as a baby-sitter for the owner's five obnoxious children.
It was a bad situation. The owner and all the kids wound up homeless and lived in the pizza place for awhile... then in their car when the restaurant was shut down. If the health department didn't close the doors, then it was the IRS -- they were both there a lot near the end. I then moved on to a job that actually paid taxes (lol) - and liked it even less. Go figure.
SLM
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Are meeting styles different in particular regions?
by somebodylovesme inthe meetings i have been to (in the rural midwest) have been the quietest, tamest, and most boring religious events i have ever been to.
they make the lutheran church i used to go to (in which no one was under 60 except my family!
) look exciting.
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Shotgun -
That sounds like a great idea! lol... ohh I can imagine. Yeah, the three halls I've been to were all soooo dry and quiet. Barely anyone sang above a whisper. I think I was singing the loudest, and I didn't even know the songs! I would love to just, Amen! at the end of a song... that would be funny. Or start weeping and saying "I can feel the spirit!" - bet that would go over well.
SLM
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Are meeting styles different in particular regions?
by somebodylovesme inthe meetings i have been to (in the rural midwest) have been the quietest, tamest, and most boring religious events i have ever been to.
they make the lutheran church i used to go to (in which no one was under 60 except my family!
) look exciting.
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The meetings I have been to (in the rural midwest) have been the quietest, tamest, and most boring religious events I have ever been to. They make the Lutheran church I used to go to (in which no one was under 60 except my family!) look exciting. I figured all halls were like that - but I heard from a JW acquaintance that "down south", the meetings are much more passionate and energized, with loud singing and emotional talks -- more like what I would call the "Southern Baptist" type of event, where the audience is actively emotionally involved in the talk.
What are meetings like where you are from?
... and Happy Tuesday, everyone. :)
SLM
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Slavery in the BIble
by Ariell inleviticus 25:44-46 "your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
you may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.
you can will them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow israelites ruthlessly.
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I'm no Biblical scholar - at ALL - but whenever I've quoted passages from Leviticus, I was told that it was voided when Jesus came, so nothing it said applied. ???
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Do you have a "claim to fame"? Know a celebrity? Appear on TV? spill it...
by somebodylovesme ina bunch of people at work were talking and it was amazing who some of them knew (or had a connection to...).
so, do you have a claim to fame?
mooch off an association?
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A bunch of people at work were talking and it was amazing who some of them knew (or had a connection to...). So, do you have a claim to fame? Mooch off an association? Been on TV or in a movie or something?
My claim to fame: I know Meg White of the White Stripes. (ooo aahhh) I don't even care about their music that much... but it's just cool to be able to say "I knew her when!". Her mom and my mom grew up together and have been best friends forever. It's funny.
So - brag away! Attention wh*res of the world unite...
SLM
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JWs are "wise" and everyone else is "dumb" - no wonder they're arrogant...
by somebodylovesme ini'm bored, so i thought i'd post.
i just remembered a part of a talk from a meeting i went to a couple months ago (to appease the family).
i can't remember what verse, but it was talking about how christians were the "wise" ones.
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I'm bored, so I thought I'd post.
I just remembered a part of a talk from a meeting I went to a couple months ago (to appease the family). I can't remember what verse, but it was talking about how Christians were the "wise" ones. The speaker went to great lengths to explain how Witnesses are smarter and more sophisticated than "dumb" (yes, used that word) wordly people. The logic? If you couldn't see the glaring glory of the truth, you are obviously stupid. "Da bible sez so." It was worded slightly more eloquently, but that was the charge.
And then it dawned on me why a certain one of my in-laws loves this religion. He is not a smart guy -- nice, sweet person, but dumber than a rock, and he knows it. I feel bad for him a lot of the time, because he struggles through the magazines (his wife reads them to him mostly, I think) and doesn't "get" a lot of things the rest of the family talks about. I know he's always felt insecure around me and my hubby, because we are both very good students - me undergad, hubby in grad school, both get straight A's. He must LOVE that in HIS worldview, we are stupid and he is wise. In some twisted way, I think that's why he doesn't hate us by now (it is hard to have a conversation with him on any topic of any seriousness because he just doesn't get it, and he knows it). When they talked about that at the meeting, he was all but gloating.
Just an observation. Must be nice (sarcasm) to be in a group that puts everyone else down and you are thus propelled to some self-created state of "wisdom".
SLM
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Nine Year Old Appreciates 1924 JW Book
by Latte infrom our readers
awake august 22, 2003
faith under trail
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lol that is kinda strange...