I left the borg before the advent of cell phones (or at least before they were so common), but I was just curious about how they've impacted field service. When I was a pioneer, it seems like we wasted a lot of time driving or walking around looking for other field service groups in the territory or trying to figure out where other groups went for break (or as Blondie mentioned in a previous post, not being able to find a group in the territory after you'd done a RV or an errand on your own was a great excuse for skipping door-knocking). Now that cell phones are so commonplace, it seems like these lovely excuses for time wasting are no longer valid. Can anyone with more recent field service experience expound on how cell phones are used while in service?
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by lucky ini left the borg before the advent of cell phones (or at least before they were so common), but i was just curious about how they've impacted field service.
when i was a pioneer, it seems like we wasted a lot of time driving or walking around looking for other field service groups in the territory or trying to figure out where other groups went for break (or as blondie mentioned in a previous post, not being able to find a group in the territory after you'd done a rv or an errand on your own was a great excuse for skipping door-knocking).
now that cell phones are so commonplace, it seems like these lovely excuses for time wasting are no longer valid.
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This takes balls....
by chrissy in...and considering i don't have any, it is surprising that i found the nerve to post my photo as my avatar!
i was leery to use my photo thinking someone i knew could catch on to my new apostate antics.
so, i couldn't decide what to use.
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lucky
Welcome, Chrissy. I was a GIS major, too. I've been doing it for about 8 years now and I love it.
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Lost our Kitty...
by jeanniebeanz inyou remember about a month ago i had asked you all for ideas on how to deliver johnny cats medication for hyper-thyroid issues (which worked beautifully, thank you!)..
well, it finally happened... we took johnny cat in to the vet because he was having seizures.
it scared the crap out of us when it happened.. when we got there, the vet told us he had lymphoma and it would only get worse rapidly.
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Jeannie,
Our kitty was doing about what yours is, too - just sleeping a lot and not doing his usual cute stuff. We actually had three episodes of this scenario because we've always had two cats. About two and a half years ago, one of our cats died unexpectedly of a brain tumor. Our other cat was about a year and a half old at the time and he'd never been alone (we adopted him as a kitten). He was very depressed for about a month, it seems, and we finally broke down and got him a kitten, even though we didn't feel quite ready for another cat. He perked up immediately and after about an hour of "getting to know you" time, the two of them were playing and sleeping together. Unfortunately, the kitten that we adopted had a rare virus called fip, which of course we didn't know when we adopted him, and we had to put him to sleep about six months later. The older cat again went through depression and we adopted another kitten about 6 weeks later, and again, he was very happy with his new little buddy (he was a very smart and obviously very sociable kitty). About a month after we adopted the second kitten, the first cat tragically drowned in our pond (about this time we were feeling quite cursed and I cried absolutely inconsolably for about a week). The kitten (who was at the time about 4 months old) seemed ok, though, after a few days of wondering where his buddy was - he wasn't depressed for an extended period like our other cat. We ended up adopting another kitten a few months later. The two we have now are happy, healthy, and best buddies, so hopefully they'll live long, happy lives (and they are inside only after the pond episode). So, hopefully Dumb-Dumb will perk up and be back to his usual self in a few days. I'm glad your husband is paying so much attention to him. My husband is cat-crazy, too, which I find very endearing.
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Lost our Kitty...
by jeanniebeanz inyou remember about a month ago i had asked you all for ideas on how to deliver johnny cats medication for hyper-thyroid issues (which worked beautifully, thank you!)..
well, it finally happened... we took johnny cat in to the vet because he was having seizures.
it scared the crap out of us when it happened.. when we got there, the vet told us he had lymphoma and it would only get worse rapidly.
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I'm so sorry! We lost three cats over an 18-month period, so I know how devastating it can be. Make sure to keep an eye on Dumb-Dumb, too, and give him lots of attention. After one of our cats died, our other cat got very depressed. My thoughts are with you.
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Biased PBS Special Soon to be Aired
by bavman inco producer/director of new pbs special slotted to be aired in 2006 has mother who is jw.
check out this link:.
http://www.knocking.org/indexcont.html.
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lucky
SNG, your letter was fantastic.
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What did you want to be when you grew up?
by whyamihere inas a child, what did you want to be, when you became an adult?
if you could, would you want to go back in time, and become what you wanted to be in the first place?.
as a child, i wanted to be a florist.
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In kindergarten, I really wanted to be an acrobat.
In junior high, I wanted to be a graphic artist.
In high school, I wanted to be an architect.
But of course, college wasn't an option, and I ended up pioneering instead.
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Famous JW's (or exJW)..an almost complete listing.
by badwillie infamous jehovah's witnesses
dwight d. eisenhower - u.s. president (raised jw) .
venus and serena williams - world chamption/olympic gold medalist tennis players .
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Isn't Rodney King a witness? (or I think he was raised one, anyway). I saw him at our district convention one year.
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Crazy Talking JWs on VH1 Forum
by rebel8 inthey're baaaack.
i thought the jws had left that forum, but they haven't.. http://www.vh1.com/interact/boards/main.jhtml/vh1_news_presents/threadlist?offset=0.
check out the most recent thread.
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do you think they count their time for posting?
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Did losing your religion send you into/exacerbate depression?
by SixofNine ini think most of us here agree that our past belief in the jw organization as being god's sole chosen people was delusional on our part.
for myself, when i lost that delusion (fairly abruptly too), i came out of a long period of depression immediately.
while i was incredibly angry at having been decieved, i can't say that that anger translated into any other negatives, in fact, overall, i think my general level of anger, even at elders/the gb/etc subsided, as i now understood why they do what they do even better than they themselves understand it.
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sixofnine,
I left because I had "seen the light", but I guess I should really rephrase that to I had "seen the glow", because when I left, I hadn't been to this site, or even looked up Jehovah's Witnesses on the internet (I was so brainwashed about "apostates" it actually took me three years after I left to get up the courage to type "Jehovah's Witnesses" into google and I was shaking so much I thought I was going to have a heart attack!). I had told myself at a young age (12-ish) that if the society ever changed the teaching on the 1914 generation doctrine that that was my sign that it was not the truth. I had some concerns with various doctrines over the years, but I hadn't read anything apostate (and I was raised a witness), so the concerns weren't too well formulated in my mind. It took me two years after the generation doctrine change to finally get up the courage to leave (my immediate family are all witnesses, so that of course was a major consideration), and even when I did leave, I was so mixed up about everything, I just felt like I was in a big fog for the first year or so. I didn't know how many of the society's teachings I really still believed, or whether I wanted to remain a Christian, or if I even believed in God. Then the enormous sense of freedom finally kicked in and things got better. On my own (and with my husband's help), I started to realize how ridiculous a lot of the teachings were. When I finally found Randy's site and this site, and read Crisis of Conscience, mentally, things really started to fall into place.
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Did losing your religion send you into/exacerbate depression?
by SixofNine ini think most of us here agree that our past belief in the jw organization as being god's sole chosen people was delusional on our part.
for myself, when i lost that delusion (fairly abruptly too), i came out of a long period of depression immediately.
while i was incredibly angry at having been decieved, i can't say that that anger translated into any other negatives, in fact, overall, i think my general level of anger, even at elders/the gb/etc subsided, as i now understood why they do what they do even better than they themselves understand it.
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I left the organization, graduated from college, moved across the country, and got married to someone I barely knew, all within a six-month period. I was very depressed, almost suicidal, for the first year or so. I didn't have a support network at all, other than my new husband, and he didn't have the foggiest idea what I was going through, which I think actually made it worse (although we're very happily married now, eight years later). The hardest thing for me was losing my sense of purpose. Although I got over the depression fairly quickly, I still struggle with figuring out how to (or if I really need to) "make a difference" in the world.