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  Where there is a garage sale sign, so shall there be a Witness...

  by pmouse in

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  is that written somewhere in the nwt?

  or is it "have a garage sale and they will come" the hollywood horror movie?

  i don't recall seeing it, but sure enough, hang a garage sale sign out and you will get them, all dressed up carrying book bags with a casually rolled up watchtower trying to place it to distract you while the other one tries to throw you off by offering 10 cents instead of 25 cents for your junk.

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  sass_my_frass

  Anewme, that's a very sad story! Your life is fun now, right?
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  Called Dad. Got his wife.....

  by esw1966 in

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  well, i called my father this saturday.. i havn't talked to him for a year and a half.

  when i talked to him at that time i said my goodbyes and told him we would probably never see or talk to each other again because of his stand.. he got choked up a bit over that comment and said, "don't say that.

  " i said, well unless you decide to change matters that will be how it will be.. so, i was able to tell him i love him and he told me he loved me too.

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  sass_my_frass

  Sorry to hear it. But don't do this:

  I would call right away. And again,and again, and again. Just like out in service.

  When somebody here complains that elders are trying to track them down, or some crazy family member won't leave them alone, we tell them to screen their calls, change their number, and report it to police. He has made a choice, if you can't accept it, at least don't harass him. Try them again in a few months - she'll most likely tell him what happened, and he'll most likely tell her that he wishes she hadn't done that. These things take ages. Meanwhile, go do a lot of fun things and live your life.
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  Dateline show about Vietnamese in post-Katrina New Orleans

  by changeling in

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  the other night, stone phillips did a piece on how the vietnamese community has returned, re-built, and prospered in new orleans.

  in an area called new orleans east there is a large vietnamese community.

  most are catholic and attend the "our lady of vietnam church".

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  sass_my_frass

  Maybe it's because I don't read US newspapers, or because I don't read WT or Awake, but I've never heard of WBTS efforts in the Katrina cleanup. Here's what I bet happened: every church, club etc in the area made an effort at helping each other out. Some were great at it, some were useless. Many got mentioned in papers and on the web. The JWs find one little editorial about WBTS Katrina rebuilding efforts in Alberquerquetoday.com and think that they're the greatest thing the world community has ever seen.
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  I'm being hounded again

  by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

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  my mom's bugging me again about "considering going back to meetings".

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  sass_my_frass

  It's nearly impossible to maintain a real relationship with somebody when in a situation like this. It's the same with my folks and I - with an added complication in that I'm disfellowshipped and they aren't yet inclined to cut me off completely. I think of it this way; they're my parents, and they're in their sixties now. Mum has always been a bit, let's say emotionally fragile, and Dad does what she wants to make her happy. I figure that they've earned the right to believe whatever they want. I know that it makes them unhappy, but the only thing that my lifestyle offers them is freedom. This is a big deal to me, and something I appreciate, but they're not the type to want it. They wouldn't know what to do with it - they need to be told what to believe in order to be what they consider happy. I don't think that anybody should rock their world. So we're left with this: we barely contact each other, and when we do it's out of a sense of obligation on my part, and their desire to protect the reputation of JWs to their non-JW family. It leaves us with very little material to work with - they can't talk about the only thing in their lives - the meetings, congregation, assemblies etc, because I'm not interested and I have to constantly stop myself from telling them how this or that is wrong. They're not interested in hearing about my life; marriage, study, friends, hobbies, sports, work... and that's all I've got really.

  What I want from my folks is that we each make an effort to enjoy each others company in the small amounts of time that we get together. All they want to do is pity themselves for the terrible situation I've put them in.
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  Why There Will Always Be JWs

  by minimus in

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  i think it's pretty simple.

  jws will never completely die out.

  because there are always going to be people who stay in a rut, don't like to adjust, are lazy.

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  sass_my_frass

  I think they'll start managing their business more efficiently in the future. New GB members will modernise things slightly - not enough to lose the old folk, but enough to retain the younger ones who only stuck around to keep their parents happy. They'll occasionally throw a bone out, to make it look like some great new progress is being made, but they're going to rely on the fear or at least the inertia of the average member. Occasionally they relieve the burden slightly - reducing pioneer required hours, fewer magazines to place = less time out on the preach, fewer book placement programs. One day there will be The Big One - they'll condense the TMS/SM or combine the book study, basically work out a way to make one less meeting a week - that will retain the interest of a lot of people for many more years, and slow the great elder exit.

  I don't think that any of us will be alive to see the demise of the org, and it's not something I particularly yearn for.
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  Our 9-year-old's theory of evolution

  by exwitless in

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  my son, who is quite intelligent and insightfull for his age, gave me a good laugh this evening.

  we were sitting at a table putting together a puzzle.

  i said something of little importance and he decided he needed to correct how i said it.

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  sass_my_frass

  That's one smart kid!! He's going to go far.
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  Parody of Song 113: "We're No Longer Witnesses!"

  by TJ - iAmCleared2Land in

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  being in "the truth" forever, i keep (frustratingly) finding myself humming kingdom songs unintentionally.

  it frustrates me when i find myself doing it!.

  so today i got this song in my head, and couldn't get it unstuck, so i decided to write alternate lyrics to it... when i get that tune in my head now, i'll have words that work!

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  sass_my_frass

  That's a top effort!! Although now I've got the song stuck in my head.
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  Husbands cousin found dead in Sherman TX

  by megsmomma in

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  she was only 24, and found dead yesterday.

  there has been bad flooding there(people missing and others found dead).....so that may have been a factor, but they are doing an autopsy on her....does that mean there might have been foul play?

  she had a troubled life, so we wouldn't rule out someone hurting her.

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  sass_my_frass

  I'm sorry to hear about your cousin-in-law. I hope you and your family are okay. Sorry also that Jaguar chose your thread to be just plain rude on.
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  If you're in NSW, take cover, batten down the hatches!

  by ozziepost in

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  from aap tonight:.

  tuesday june 19, 07:47 pm.

  nsw waits for 'worst storm' of the monthresidents of nsw coastal areas are bracing for what threatens to be the most dangerous of three major storms to hit the state this month.. cyclonic winds up to 125km/h and huge waves were forecast to batter the coastline from tonight and into wednesday, starting at moruya in the state's south and moving north.

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  sass_my_frass

  meh, I've seen worse!

  20cm of snow though, woohoo!!
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  Who has my Joie d'vivre ? I demand it back right now!!

  by Crumpet in

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  warning: don't read this if you are easily depressed!.

  here's how it is for me right now - no frills:.

  its pants, sh*t, black, doom, gloom and don't spare the melancholy (pronounced mel-ankley if you are me).. what's brought this on?

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  sass_my_frass

  Here it is!!

  (I saved some from when you were in a happy place and put it into a high joy-bearing account for when you'd really need it. Compound interest surprises everybody!)

  Speaking of money, when I was $30K in credit card and personal loan debt thanks to around six years of living just slightly beyond my income, I realised that I had to turn this situation around. I was also overweight at the time, and discovered that I needed the same kind of commitment to lose both the weight and the debt. It took three years, but I had to literally see what the debt looked like. I spreadsheeted my income, accounts, and projected how long it would take to get back in the black. I kept track of what I was spending for three years, watching that little graph edge up so slowly. It sucked, but I had to make fun out of less expensive things, and that made life actually a lot more interesting. I became more of a parks and trains and libraries person (I'd been a scuba-diving snow bunny for a while). Finally, it worked. Now I do fun stuff, but I have the money for it first, it's cool. So, start with that - maybe making a budget and a plan will give you a sense of control.