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  Anyone from Louisiana?

  by Sweetp0985 in

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  i'm new to this site and was wondering if there was anyone from la, specifically baton rouge?

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  Sweetp0985

  Thanks for the responses. I went to this other website the Meetup one and it seemed like I was the only on here. Thanks for the welcome. Since I've found this website, I have been feeling alot better about my decision not to go back to hell oops I mean the KH.
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  Field Service Book Bag

  by Pinned Blouse in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  for those that no longer go to the kh --i was curious as to what you have done with your field service bookbag?.

  for a long time i could not look at it without feeling guilty, then a couple of times i looked at with contempt.... after awhile it mysteriously ended up in the dumpster including... the books, tracts, wt's, awakes, and return visits slips that was in it.. where is your bookbag right now?.

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  To be honest, I don't have the darndest idea whatever happened to that thing. Hmmmm....I still have the bible though. I use it to compare their bible to others to see just how much they have changed the wording to fit them....You'd be surprised.
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  Mama's Memorial

  by Sentinel in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  most here remember that my mother died after her heart surgery on june 17th.

  she has four grown children, and we are very close now as always and feeling like we are now "orphans", without both our parents in this physical life.

  the kh in bradenton gave her a memorial on monday evening, july 5th.

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  Sorry to hear about your loss Karen.
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  No Body At The Funeral?

  by Englishman in

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  2. friends

  mini's thread about weddings and funerals had me intrigued.

  so did mulans reply about having a private and separate service.

  well, i've referred to this before, but it might be of interest to those who haven't been here too long.

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  I don't recall what book or magazine I was reading recently but it was telling about all the ways a person can leave "donations/contibutions" to JW's when they die. I will look for it when I get home today because I just read this the other night and was quite sickened. They were even telling how you can avoid and also claim a deduction on taxes by giving it to them. They even went as far as when you right out your will you can leave monetary contributions for the WWW. I think they even said something about donating jewelry too but make sure when you send it to NY you have a note written with it saying it was a "GIFT"....I agree with Been There and his statement that costly funerals are taking away from the contributions that could be going to NY. Bunch of crooks.
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  Crisis of Conscience online or ebook?

  by lookingnow25 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have no 'safe' way of reading a physical copy of this book really.

  but after flipping through a copy at the university library here i finally want to examine it.

  is there a copy online anywhere, or someway that i can view it on my computer?

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  WHOOPEEE!!! I just ordered both books today so hopefully I'll have them next week. I got CoC and In search of Christian Freedom. I'm so anxious to read what goes on within the secretive ole GB.
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  The funniest funnies you'll ever see - no, seriously

  by Xander in

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  2. humour

  from: http://www.dleepow.us/emergency.html.

  (note: we did not create this material and its author is unknown to us.

  all we know is that we so approve!).

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  That was tooo funny...LMAO
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  Kingdom Hall Spankings

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  most meetings i went to, children were brought to the washrooms in the back to be disciplined.

  often i could hear a child yell or cry due to the spanking given by the parent.

  people in the hall would have that look on their face meaning that it was alright to discipline a child by spanking him.

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  I remember being fidgety in the meeting one time when I was little only to have my aunt take me in the bathroom. She had me ball up my hand and with the hardest brush ever made she would hit me on my knuckles a few times and tell me I better not cry. Now that I'm older and not able to talk to her because she is still a JW, I wish I could hit her on her knuckles with a brush right about now.

  Also on this note I had a stupid step-mom that once during my "badly deserved" discipline sessions I got a "rebellious spirit" in me and didn't cry like she wanted me too. Mind you I was pissed first hand because it was my STEP-mom whipping me and she had me laying across the bed with my butt all in the air. But anyway I said I wasn't gonna give her the pleasure of hearing me crying in pain. So I didn't cry. The b**tch had the nerve to say, "oh you don't wanna cry huh" and started whipping me more. Ok I'm getting beat with this damn belt and it does hurt so finally I blurt out, "why you whipping more for not crying but when I do cry you tell me to SHUT UP?"...Do you know the B**th started laughing and said you right, I guess you've had enough now go to your room. That pissed me off more so. I actually had thoughts of killing my stepmother when I was around 15-16 because she was so evil, but that was her and my dads way of raising me as a good JW so they didn't feel they were doing anything wrong. Anyway the end of the story was when my dad got home thank God I didn't get another whipping but I got a good talking to. A talk or even a "LOOK" from my mean dad was enough to make me start wailing so it was just like I got another whipping when my dad got home.

  I'm not gonna go on much more but my mom(also a JW but been divorced from my dad since I was 5) once had to threaten to call the police for my dad because he wanted to whip my step-sister and I with a piece of a hose pipe he had cut. I remember that day clearly, I forgot exactly what we had did that was so bad but we heard the words "you're gonna get it when you get home" and immediately was stricken with fear, mind you this is when we're both in middle school, but we played it smart and when we got home my dad went out back to do some yardwork before disciplining us. So we put on layers of clothes so that we wouldn't feel the blows of the hose pipe. Guess what, it had to be godly intervention and he forgot all about whipping us and we were very happy.

  On a sad note, my brother who was not a fan of school and got whippings almost everyday for doing poorly in school did fall victim to the hose pipe. I don't quite remember what happened but I think my mom went to the elders about this and they talked to my dad so he only whipped my brother with belts from then on. Now that I'm older I'm quite sure whipping a child with a piece of hose pipe is grounds for jailtime nowadays, probably was back then, but the loving elders did nothing about it. Oh yeah, I must add this too, my step-mom also got her share of "whippings" too from my dad. I was only witness to 1 of them but she said that this wasn't the first time it had happened. I love my dad and everything even after witnessing all of this and he's still in the bourg but "weak". I guess he wasn't DF'd because he was repentant. I KNOW my dad, if she did something again "out of line" she'd probably get some "christian,loving, JW discipline" from him.
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  Would You Go Back To A Kingdom Hall For A Funeral or Wedding?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  let's say one of your relatives either died or invited you to a wedding at a hall, would you go?

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  Wedding definitely no!!! A funeral it depends on who it is or how well I knew them when I was a JW. Recently a JW that was close friends with my family died. She was part-owner with my step-mother's CLEANING SERVICE(JW staple job), but anyway when I was still in the borg(new word I picked up in here) I used to work with her everyday. So I knew her pretty well. I would have went to the KH for her funeral oops memorial service but they had it at a funeral home. My guess for them having it there was because her death was so sudden and JW's from maybe the whole circuit/district was gonna be there and they wanted to make sure there was enough room. It was a rather large crowd but even amongst all the people that was there I was the only one getting all the weird looks like I wasn't supposed to be there. I was saddened by her death and pissed off at the same time for not being able to let her daughter (who I used to babysit for after school while the mothers were off cleaning) know that I was there for her or even to just ask if she needed something. Anyway, its over and done with now. But it truly depends on who dies and how well I know them.... Wedding...no way jose!!!!!!
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  The things you believed as a child

  by Sirona in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what things did you believe as a kid that now make you chuckle?.

  i believed:.

  that father christmas had special dust which he sprinkled into the children's eyes so they would forget they'd seen him.

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  I used to think that all the killings/murders shown on tv/movies were real. I thought that the people being killed/murdered were criminals from jail and because they were bad they were being killed/murdered for whatever they did. Sick huh?
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  Birthdays..... Now A Conscience Matter

  by Latte in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  from our readers (awake!

  july 8 2004)

  pinatas i read with interest the article ?the pinata - an ancient tradition?

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  My simple take on the matter is like this. I'm gonna have to illustrate this too. How often in everyday life does things happen normally and nobody says anything about it, but as soon as something happens outside of the norm its all over the news. Same thing could have happened in bible times. They may have had many numerous birthday parties back then, but if nothing happened at it why write it in the bible. But lo and behold at this particular one(prisoner) and that particular one (John the Baptizer) got their head chopped off, of course this is something worth writing down or "making the news". Just like I know there were thousands of weddings held in the bible times, but at this particular one Jesus turned water into wine, so someone said hey let's write this down so we won't forget this.

  God is a God of love. Every precious gift and perfect present comes from God. A child is a precious, perfect gift from God. Why wouldn't he want you to celebrate that childs birth? JW's used to celebrate Xmas, b-days, etc. anyway, I guess it wasn't pagan back then and it suddenly became pagan later on. Oh my bad, the light got brighter. But if they are so-called inspired or directed by God, why did he let them celebrate it back then.