Park congregation Oshawa, Ontario Canada
Hillsdale congregation, Courtice, Ontario Canada
Whitby congregation, Whitby, Ontario canada ( last congregation attended before disassociating in 1986)
lilybird
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Time again for........ Congregation roll call
by Jourles init's been a while since this topic has been brought up.
use it as a chance to see if there is someone you might know from years past.
1973-1976 --- lakeside, ca??
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Remember when KH's had a piano and real singing?
by WingCommander inthe thread about got me thinking about my very early childhood, back when witnesses were allowed to be social and have get togethers.
they also had a piano in every congregation i ever attended, and an older sister would always play the kingdom melody.
there was actual singing - not mindless droning and humming.
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lilybird
Yes I remember when they played the piano for meetings and also for weddings. There was two older sisters who took great pride in playing and they would play the piano in a very dramatic and flamboyant way. It was great watching them. It sort of put you in the rhythm and feeling of singing the song. Then I remember that it was discouraged from the" powers that be" because they felt it was putting them on a pedestal or making too much of their talents or some bogus way of thinking. I remember the sister feeling put out and sad because she really enjoyed leading the congregation in song..The org really likes to squash all dreams, or anything that makes you feel a little bit better about yourself..
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FREE AT LAST....THANK GOD ALMIGHTY....
by LuciousJ inwe wrote our da letter, mailed off a copy to the society & put the other copy in the drop box at the kh yesterday.
the elders had called us every day from saturday through tuesday wanting us to come in to meet....so they could df us i'm sure & probably at tonight's meeting mind you.
funny thing......after dropping off our letter yesterday before service time started, we received no phone call last night.
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lilybird
Congratulations on your new life of freedom from the cult!!!!!
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lilybird
The beautiful lakes in northern canada. Georgian Bay where many Hollywood celebrities have magnificent cottages. Some lakes are so clean you still drink from them.
Vancouver BC,,,, the beautiful city of Toronto, the nations capital Ottawa
The CFL... next best thing to the NFL... my son was just drafted to the BC Lions as a defence player. We are loving watching him play as it was his childhood dream to play professional football.
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How big is the Watchtower carrot?
by Honesty ini don't want to brag, but i have good news!
one of the elders said that i progressed considerably in reading and that after i get baptized, he wants to use me as the brother that reads the paragraphs in the watchtower study.
i went from being frightened of raising my hand to comment, to the possibility of me being the one reading the study for the congregation.
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lilybird
*sigh* poor misguided fool.....
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Welcome searching4truth
by coolhandluke inso at long last i've converted my childhood friend from being an apologist to being a near apostate.
lemme tell you how that happened.
this guy and i debate almost daily the virtues of being one of "jehovah's people.
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lilybird
Hi Searching4truth.Welcome to the forum .This is the best place to find answers to your questions.There are many well-informed posters on here who can help you find the right answers for you. We will look forward to hearing your story when you are ready to share..
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How many here have left the org because of this board?
by mrsjones5 ini ask this question because saki said this in another topic:and i would assume that a lot of people on this board left due to this board alone "proving" the lies of the wts.
so, it this true or false?
or is this mostly true or mostly false?
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lilybird
I left the org some twenty years ago, obviously was no internet then. Even though I felt it was the right decision to leave, I still had nagging thoughts that maybe they could be right and I had condemned my kids to death at armegeddon. When I found this site, it confirmed that I had made the right decision. I wasn't aware of all the deceit and twisted doctrines of the JWS until I read the "truth" about the "truth" here...Side note.. I was at my mother-in-laws on the weekend. On her wall is some kind of JW poster that says"KEEP ON THE WATCH, KEEP YOURSELVES READY" with a sinister looking background of trees. It really creeped me out. It stood out so blatant to me how the org keeps its followers in fear to stay in their organization. I just wanted to tell her.. can't you see how foolish and creepy the whole thing is??? But she falls for all of it.. Im so so happy I am out of it for good....
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Still in one piece but the wheelchair isn't
by Lady Lee inwhat a day.
i was out gallavanting around - buying one thing here another there and finally heading home.. the chair hit a bump and the front wheel broke off sending me flying with the chair landing on top of me.
personally i think it was a temper tantrum designed to let me know they were tired and wanted to ride me for a while.. i had just passed a man sitting on a bench waiting for the bus and he rushed right over to help.
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lilybird
Hi Lady Lee.. sorry to hear about your wheelchair malfunction. Im happy that everything turned out well for you and you are ok. Your story also proves that there are lots of caring and helpful "worldly" people out there.
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Soothe Sayings
by MsMcDucket inafter reading john walsh's post, it made me think of things that my mother used to say, like:.
what you do in the dark will come to light!.
everything that is known in not told, and everything that's shiny is not gold!.
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lilybird
favourite sayings.. "What goes around comes around "or" a fool and his money are soon parted"
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Tornado watchs and warnings - Ontario
by Lady Lee inthey have been broacasting tornado watches for the area just west of torinto - right where halton hills (part of canadian bethel).
there are also watches for the ontario panhandle which is the area where grace/mouthy is and a few other posters here.. i wouldn't mind if bethel disappear but hope no gets hurt.
take care all you folks down in that area.
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lilybird
We live just east of Toronto.There was lots of lightning.Amazing bright flashes and huge fork lightning. It rained hard for a couple of hours but no strong winds here. My daughter who lives in the west side of Toronto phoned and said the winds were strong almost pushing the trees over with heavy rain. No tornados where she was luckily.I was hoping the rain would cooll things off.. It is still muggy and hot here.