Posts by Why Georgia

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Hot sisters (or brothers) in your cong...

by blakky in

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i was just wandering.... was it just me or was everyone thinking about it..... ive been in a few congs where some of the sisters were absolutely drop dead gorgeous!

my last cong here in sydney, there was about 160 publishers so the talent was every where... i remember having the hots for this sister, who happens to be the wife of the service overseer... she was xxx hot.

i remember always having to wear my suit coat to the meeting to hide my excitement.. i think all the bro's must have thought the same thing.

Why Georgia

At the last hall my husband and I went to there were an inordinate amount of frighteningly ugly people.

I swear one of the MS was a transvestite. The man had breasts and you could see his nipples through his shirts....bleck! They looked like women's breasts.

There was one sister that had a beard and wirey hairs growing out of her mole on her nose.

We also had another MS who had massive birthmarks all over his face.

Then there were the PO's who thought that pompadours were still in style.....

I always felt sorry for the people who got the knock from those people!

WG - of the I know its mean to make fun of ugly people class...

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What 'pranks' did you pull off?

by Golf in

since nate merit has already enumerated some of his pranks, how about sharing your pranks/mischief?

this forum could do with some laughter.

in my school days (50's) my buddy and i were always into mischief (witness or not.

Why Georgia

My biggest prank was in high school. It was the week of the homecoming football game - the cross town rivalry.

A local produce stand had a huge chicken statue out front - There was a sign about a mile before the stand that said " Why did the chicken cross the road....to get to ________ fruit and produce.

My boyfriend and a bunch of the other guys on the team and their girlfriends and me stole the chicken. It was a huge 8 foot tall chicken made of some kind of plastic. We cut its legs off with a sawzall because it was concreted to the ground. We stuck it in the back of a horse trailer and put it into the pool at our rival high school. We dumped a whole bunch of purple jello into the pool because it was our school color.

Our whole class had to come up with $800 to repair the chicken and clean the pool.

Second biggest prank was against my mother....We went camping every year at this campground that had only one light in the bathrooms and it wasn't over the toilets. My cousin and I put toothpaste all over the toilet seats. My mom went in and brushed her teeth then went to the bathroom and ended up with a minty fresh butt...we could hear her cursing and yelling from our tent. My grandparents heard us laughing and my mother cursing and figured out that we had done something. We had to clean the toilets...but it was worth it!

WG

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Have things changed in the org about association with dfed family members?

by ButtLight in

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i asked defd about this, and he said no.

when i was 18, none of my family members were really allowed to associate with me unless it was for a family emergency.

they could'nt invite me over and eat with me.

Why Georgia

I think it depends on the people.

I think most normal people in the congregation still will smile, hug, or speak with disfellowshipped ones because they are trying to encourage people to come back and get reinstated.

Other people get off on being mean and will use this as an Jehovah sanctioned opportunity to show everyone just how cold they can be.

Good friends of ours who are now XJW's said they always were kind to the disfellowshipped friends because (in her words) - " We have 3 kids one of them is going to do something."

I really liked what she said and I wish more people would take that kind of approach.

WG

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Bullying/Harrasement-Please advise

by doodle-v in

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our child goes to an after school child care provide by the local y. it's right at her elementary school, so after class she just goes there to another class room with the other kids and they play games, do homework etc, till we pick her up after work.

she's gone there for two years and liked it.

she has lots of friends at school and gets along with just about everyone.

Why Georgia

Hi Doodle,

A lot of great suggestions have been made already.

We belong to the Y also and I know that ours has a code of conduct for all members. I would check out if yours has the same.

Also, if the Y fails to protect your daughter you can contact the state or county childcare licensing facilities and let them know what is happening. I can guarantee you that they will take it very seriously.

Also, you may want to prepare your daughter in case she ends up alone in the bathroom or some other area with these 2 mean girls. Our niece was beaten up by 2 girls in the bathroom and called a n*gger because she's bi-racial at school when she was 7 or 8 years old. I wish my sister in law had told her, if you see these girls - go the opposite way. It would have saved a lot of heart ache and the police being involved.

WG

28

She's back - here we go again!

by Why Georgia in

i've written about this many times here.

my jehovahs witness mother in law has decided that she wants to be a part of our life again (this week).

we have basically disfellowshipped her from our lives because she refuses to follow our rules.

Why Georgia

An update.

My husband spoke to her last night in the car as we were going to get some dinner. She wants to give us her snowblower. It's about 15 years old and broken...but she thinks we can use it! Oh yeah......how generous.

My husband asked our oldest son if he wanted to talk to Grammy on the phone while we were in the car and he yelled....cause he was in a bad mood yesterday....I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO HER!!! And she heard it.....

This apparently prompted her to say...I wish I could have spent more time with the kids.

My husband said something to the effect of ....You could have at anytime.

Then she proceeded to ask him home improvement questions...this is the usual Modus Operandi. She was asking questions about her stove and he told her how to go up on the roof and clean the chimney pipe herself...LOL! Usually he would have done this for her...

So I think it's not that she wants to see the kids...its that she wants to see her handyman. My husband used to do all kinds of work for her around her house and on her car... but when she wouldn't treat our family nicely... he stopped doing anything for her. He said why should I do work for you - you can't be nice to my wife and you aren't fair to my children...

WG

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JDubs at the mall and other inventive ways to put in "time"

by limbogirl in

has anyone else seen the jdubs at the shopping mall ??

they sit at a table with all of their wares displayed hoping to lure people away from pottery barn and macy's.

i did a double take when i saw this and then had to stand back and observe for about 20 minutes -- what i observed is that no one stops at the table except what appear to be fellow jdubs.

Why Georgia

I have seen the Mormons across from the Jehovahs Witnesses at the Solano Mall in Fairfield California.

We have also received random mailings from someone in the local KH here in Massachusetts. The person didn't know me or my husband and it was a very light and fluffy letter with a brochure and a phone number if we wanted a free bible study.

WG

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She's back - here we go again!

by Why Georgia in

i've written about this many times here.

my jehovahs witness mother in law has decided that she wants to be a part of our life again (this week).

we have basically disfellowshipped her from our lives because she refuses to follow our rules.

Why Georgia

You know Jgnat...you are right. I am love blind.

He and I have agreed over and over that she is disfellowshipped from our lives because of her behavior. Its not me that says...hey lets go see your Mom. It's him.

It usually starts with....I got a phone call from my Mom today.

And I am the daughter my mother raised me to be...I am a people pleaser and I don't like it when someone doesn't like me and I think even a part of me is hoping that someday everything will be all rainbows and chocolate bars....but then the realistic pessimist part of me that's been around the block a few times knows that it's never going to be that way with this woman.

She consistently breaks our rules and he also doesn't enforce them because he doesn't see what' she's doing as a problem...This is just how his mom is and how she has always been and I need to change my mindset (that's what he says to me).

He always tells me that I need to change and be more forgiving. I never had these kinds of problems with people before this woman came into my life. Most people like me and think I'm a very nice and kind person! I don't know if it's a JW thing or a mental illness thing...because there is plenty of that to go around.

As I said before I am being a Shmuck and I should be stronger and just protect my boys.

I'm done with my emotional spew...sorry.

WG

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Why do dubs think they're smarter than everyone else?

by MsMcDucket in

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have you ever noticed this?

i mean it could be about something as simple as washing dishes, but they knew how to do it a better way.

has anyone else had an experience with a witness that just knew it all?

Why Georgia

Blondie -

Oh great! Now I'm even more confused....I guess I'll just have to go join the Jehovahs Witnesses so I can understand the technical science that they are learning in the watchtowr and awake magazine.

I'm sorry you all won't see me here anymore....I'm joining up.

Just kidding,

WG

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Why do dubs think they're smarter than everyone else?

by MsMcDucket in

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have you ever noticed this?

i mean it could be about something as simple as washing dishes, but they knew how to do it a better way.

has anyone else had an experience with a witness that just knew it all?

Why Georgia

My MIL tried to explain to me about how each day of creation was actually 1000 years ....I didn't get it. I kept trying ask questions using logic...

She said I just didn't understand because I hadn't studied as extensively and because I was not one of Jehovahs Witnesses....

WG

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She's back - here we go again!

by Why Georgia in

i've written about this many times here.

my jehovahs witness mother in law has decided that she wants to be a part of our life again (this week).

we have basically disfellowshipped her from our lives because she refuses to follow our rules.

Why Georgia

Blondie - I have heard of the book Toxic Parents and what's funnier is its sitting on the bookshelf at my MIL's house next to all the WTS books. I will go buy it and I will read it.

Bikerchic - I also hope that this problem is off my radar in a few months. I know that I was very much enabling my husband and in some ways I am probably still enabling him. I have told him that he has to deal with her and give her any information that he wants her to have.

Unbeliever & Luna 2 - I wish that he would stand up for us too - this has been going on for 8 years I don't think he will. But all he sees is Mommy and he is extremely forgiving of all her imperfections. She is a master manipulator and gets him every time.

Mustang - I am sorry for how you were treated by your father. You are amazingly strong. You make some really good points about using other bible principals to counteract the 70x7 times of forgiveness.

On a side note...I don't think this problem is going to go away. I think this is going to be a cycle of life as long as MIL is alive. She will go through periods of shunning us - then she will decide she wants access to her grandkids. I hear from my husbands oldest sister who now has nothing to do with his Mom that this is what she has always done. I know the best advice for me to fix whatever is broken in me that keeps allowing this into our lives. I think sometimes I am a shmuck.

WG