Posts by HappyDad

Yesterday we got a big collage of pictures from where they live. She sends them from time to time to let us know how much "fun" they are having and they wish we were there. One of the collages is of the district convention (yuck!). She put the convention program in the collage too and highlighted the part on "Avoiding an independant spirit" and also put the tract in the collage that they distributed before the convention - and in the little coupon on the back for a FREE HOME BIBLE STUDY she put my daughter's names and address in it!
There were also pictures of their newly remodeled home office and all the pictures of family members were there - except our family.

I take it that you are scanning these letters since you said "she will not get the letter til she is older." Why not have your daughter send a letter back stating how much fun she is having in the new location and how much happier she is now, along with a ton of pictures of all the things she is now doing and enjoying.

Then she should put in the letter how bad she feels that grandma doesn't seem to love her anymore because she doesn't have pictures of your family. Throw some guilt to grandma.

HappyDad

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Circuit Overseers Tales of Grief and Woe

by Balaams Ass in

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<div>hi i am in the middle of writing some memoirs of my time on the travelling work.

well anyone be interested in reading them?????

i have some heavy editing to do to protect identies and the like, but i should be finished at the end of the week.

HappyDad

Well Mr. Ass,

We're still waiting! How about an update. Are you about ready to start posting those "juicy" stories?

Does anyone else smell something?

HappyDad

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Hello to all ... I've finally decided to sign up

by In Between in

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after alot of time, lurking, fighting this damn inward battle i am dealing with, i've decided to join in the mix.

a little about me (i'll try not to bore you to much) ... i am a fader.

was raised jw, was even a m.s.

HappyDad

Welcome and thanks for telling your story. Much of what you said is very similar to my own experience.

But anyway.........you will meet a lot of people here who really understand what you have gone through. My first suggestion to anyone who is wanting to fade and break away is to read Crisis Of Conscience by Ray Franz if you already haven't done so.

Hang in there and in time you will make new friends too.

HappyDad

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To Put My Questions In Context

by Joe Grundy in

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i am, as you will see, a very junior member of this forum.

i have so far explained my interest in jws in my earlier posts, and i have asked what must seem to many here some very naieve questions about jw beliefs and practices.

when i raised questions about the young children of my jw neighbours, a post or two implied that i may be a strange old man for taking an interest in children.

HappyDad

Thanks for the bio and keep coming back. I have always enjoyed your comments and never had a doubt about you. That is one of my major faults "too trusting!" And that trust has bit me in the arse this past year. (nothing to do with JW's).

HappyDad

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Re: What do you do for a living?

by MARTINLEYSHON in

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as many of you are aware being brought up in the organisation, there was a general directive from the wt that secular education was good, but not encouraged as far as university and further education was concerned.

many witnesses left school in the 70s with no formal qualifications.

my question therefore is 2 fold.. 1. what would you have liked to become as far as your career is concerned?.

HappyDad

In my younger years I wanted to be a fish and game warden, forest ranger and airline pilot.

But life and nice money took me into the steel mills of Pittsburgh. Retired a few years ago after being a journeyman machinist and mechanical repairman. I now work part time delivering auto parts. During many periods of lay-off over a 30 some year period I sold Kirby Vacuum Cleaners, sold furniture and appliances, was an Orkin man and also was termite inspector for another local company. Cleaned really nasty toilets and did floor cleaning as a janitor for K-mart and the defunct Gold Circle department stores. Did concrete work and brick and block laying along with mixing mortar and carrying hod. Did a lot of drywall work and steel stud installation. About 5 years before I retired, I was the expeditor and job planner and buyer for the department I worked in at United States Steel in a Pittsburgh suburb. I'm sure I forgot a few but the bottom line is......................I was a jack of all trades and master of none........except the one I had papers for.....'Journeyman Machinist."

HappyDad

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Another wacky BOE letter

by sir82 in

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here's part of the text of another boe letter read recently.

i'm going to see if i can get these scanned so someone can post them.in line with the letters to all bodies of elders dated july 1, 1989, august 1, 1995, march 14, 1997, and february 15, 2002, elders should call the legal department regarding any inmate who may have been accused of child maltreatment in the past and who is now associating with the organization, whether he is baptized or not.

(child maltreatment includes physical or sexual abuse.

HappyDad

This is disgusting. I'm sure glad I had my eyes opened when I did.

undercover said:

It's not to protect the children. It's to protect their ass.

How true......how true. The only thing that matters is the reputation of the "organisation."

Victims mean nothing. I like (or should I say don't like) how they use another word (maltreatment) instead of "molestation." That takes away some of the horror of what happened.

HappyDad

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Ooooooohhhh...My "unofficial" DA letter...yup...got it in the paper!!

by HadEnuf in

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over the years here on the forum...i have read with interest many da letters.

brave people!!

not so brave.

HappyDad

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Ooooooohhhh...My "unofficial" DA letter...yup...got it in the paper!!

by HadEnuf in

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over the years here on the forum...i have read with interest many da letters.

brave people!!

not so brave.

HappyDad

Cathy, That letter is just great and congrats on being published. With your permission, I would like to print this letter and keep it in my file just in case I ever need to make a statement to whoever. Sure wish I was smart enough to put those thought facts into print the way you did. HappyDad

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OMG... Connie Chung...

by Elsewhere in

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words cannot describe this little video connie recently made.... just see for yourself:.

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=tcozkfpbmaa&eurl=http%3a//www.drudgereport.com/&iurl=http%3a//sjl-static6.sjl.youtube.com/vi/tcozkfpbmaa/2.jpg&t=oegstopdsklbglcw64g8nzgqh_hrhiv8.

she's almost adorable in how clumsy she is.

HappyDad

What the hell was she drinking...........and how much? Then again.......when one thinks about her marriage to Maury Povich...........How else could she act? Maury is the money maker in the family by being the biggest pimp of low-life people ever! Not even the most disgusting.......down and out.........because of their own lifestyle exJW would be a part of the Connie and Maury show. Now.........if anyone feels I am crossing the line from what I said above..........Please think about it......... We have all had our pains in the JW life and even the life after. But I doubt if any of us would want to be a part of what Maury does...........or even a part of Jerry Springer! Maybe I'm crossing the line.............but Connie does everything to promote her hubbys show........even if it is tongue in cheek. She surely loves the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ hubby brings in at the expense of the heartache of black welfare.........white trash........fat of the land sucklings of all colors and ethnicities. So there.............!!!!!!!! HappyDad