Posts by JWdaughter

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Will this Memorial be our last?

by pixel in

they just put up the march km 2014 on the private website.

most of it is same-old-same-old, with info here and there about the memorial.. somebody here might post the march km for all to see, i wont.. i just wanted to share the paragraph from page 2 q&a anticle: will you seize the opportunity?

upcoming memorial enables us to show gratitude .

JWdaughter

Inbyathread: I hope for your sake!

I have watched this organization for over 40 years now-nearly 50. My mom was 22 when they said she will not grow old and die . . . she is several years past retirement age, has lost most of her siblings and her husband to death, and her kids are well into middle age and grandparents themselves now. I think she has definitely reached the growing old part of the broken promise and I am sorry to say that she will eventually die. I am married to someone who qualifies for SS discount. I am well on my own way!

I didn't think I would get a period before the end came! I am a grandmother now-and glad of it. I am glad I am growing old (although it continues at a dizzying pace!) and will someday die! That is life-real life. I hope that soon you and your family are freed from the WT lies and misinformation. I'd start developing a severe stomach flu the morning of the memorial and then maybe you have already attended your last one-last year:) My best to you-I hope that you soon can live the real life that you envision for yourself and your loved ones. And if aliens were to swoop down and wipe out all the a$$ets of the WT$ from the face of the earth somehow, it sure wouldn't break my heart. If they can't operate, they can't destroy anyone elses family or life.

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Should I reconnect with my Bible students? What do you think?

by KateWild in

i reprted 5 studies the month i was df'd.

more than a year has passed since i have seen any of my students.

i got on so well with many of them, we became friends.. did i do the right thing?

JWdaughter

Dear Kate,

I am happily unsurprised at your news! I think you are a likable and engaging person-and I think that some of the people that I studied with (perhaps unknowingly) were such good teachers because they were simply good people to be around. LIkable. I remember one pioneer that never could get anyone to go with her and o one really talked to her. I was an unaccompanied minor (yeah, that never really happens, right?) and so if there were no on my age, I got stuck in her car group (just two of us, no one else wanted to go with her either!). I don't know how she kept at it. she was just unpleasant. I fondly remember my old bible teachers, Collette, Lana, Lynne and Denise. All young, happy women who were just fun for me (10 years younger) to be around. They were young marrieds, happy with babies and while they did a good job with trying to teach me, they mostly were friends to me. That is the key to getting people into cults. I don't think they did this in a contrived way, I was born in-but when I started learning the TTATT, I stayed in longer cause I didn't want to hurt any of my friends, esp. not my study conductor (Denise). She is no longer in and I don't think her (now) ex husband is either. So, It's all good.

Denise or Rick? Wonder what happened to the others? I know one of their husbands left (and is gay) but not sure about the rest.

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SEX ABUSE fugitive case connected to a big-big problem for Watch Tower

by Terry in

jehovah's witness fugitive case brings to light a profound problem of sexual abuse.. .

frederick mclean is one of the most-wanted fugitives in the united states, charged with 17 counts of child sexual abuse in california.

law enforcement sources say that when a victims family confronted mclean in 2004, he allegedly confessed.

JWdaughter

That's a lot of money. If they paid out that much in settlement, I wonder how much they were worried about it costing in trial. . . .29 million?

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How Cold is it Where You Are?

by PYRAMIDSCHEME in

jw
friends

with the polar vortex swirling further and further south and breaking records how cold is it where you are?.

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here in gettysburg pa last night night we hit a low of -4 degrees but we were blessed with some wind that dropped the wind chill down to -22..

JWdaughter

Just hit 32 degrees (freezing) here in Houston last night.

My car died and I called for service to Allstate Motor Club. Waited an hour (30+30 min as the first wait resulting in my phone battery dying and I had to go to a McDonalds and plug it in. Then waited another hour for the towtruck. I asked the guy in India why they are making people wait so long on hold and he made a big deal about how the phone volume went up because of harsh weather conditions in Chicago. I pointed out that as it is January, and harsh weather conditions in N. America in January aren't any kind of surprise, that they should be prepared for such things-all the more so because freezing weather is dangerous. I was just in the suburbs, but not everyone has access to a convenient mcdonalds that is open for travellers. He just annoyed me with the excuse. Every company should plan for seasons! Especially one like emergency motor services! I'm still annoyed by that. My husband was hours away and made it to me about 5 minutes after the tow guy.

I hope you are all safe and warm. I was blessed that the battery was just overtaxed by the cold (I still think we need a new battery!) I am also fortunate to be safe and have access to friends nearby had I needed them. Ihope that all of you have good friends nearby so that you can be mutually supportive in difficulty. Our friends drove my husband to get me, go to where the car was taken and then followed us home to make sure we arrived safe. ANOTHER thing-do you know tow guys can't jump a car? I thought it probably needed a jump, but since the lights were still working, I worried it was something else and so they sent a tow car-otherwise, if the jump didn't work, I would have had to call them again and go through the hours of waiting to get the tow. McDonalds isnt open 24/7! I needed to get it resolved so I had them tow it to our old faithful mechanic. Kind of a shame to waste those resources when the stuff to jump it would have been easy. (I was shy to ask anyone for a jump, that was my bad,but it was dark and Idon't like asking strangers for help in the dark. My nearest friend had just gotten her kids back after her ex stole them for a few weeks and I really didn't want to disturb the family reunion).

Ok, TMI. Its really chilly here.:) But realy beautiful and clear, so YAY!!

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Dumb ass cultish elders

by Crazyguy in

ok so i'm not officaily da'd as of yet and the elders (2) come over to my house and want to talk with my wife.

so i'm thinking there looking for more info on me and ask her to go sit with them in their car since there was no place for privacy at my house.

then a few minutes later my wife calls me and asks me to meet them out at the car and they drive around and i get in.

JWdaughter

No man needs privacy with your wife. EVER. If you overhear something said in your own home, oh well, it is your home. There is nothing that they should be saying that can't be said with you in the room-and that does not mean that you need to participate. You can be putzing around on your computer, making a cuppa or whatever. Don't run your wife out of your home and don't encourage her to meet with other men in cars (or anywhere), please.

Ok, you can mark me as a bit old fashioned, but I don't trust the elders motivations in speaking with a woman away from her fading husband.

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After 44 years I finally found and spoke to my old prison buddy!

by Terry in

i have had very few mentors in my life.

i love each of them dearly.. one such was a man a bit older than me named tollie padget.. .

tollie was the rarest of rare birds.

JWdaughter

Terry, I kept reading to the end of the posts hoping that there was a happy or ironic or surprise ending. After all,Tolle was supposed to be a flippin' genius, right?

Well, so he's not so smart. And it's not really over till it's over.YOu are both still breathing, so I live in hope! For you both. All my best-you have been a great addition to this board and we appreciate you.

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Suggestions for car buying

by FlyingHighNow in

jw
friends

if you were a lady and you were 55 and had $5,000 or less to spend on a used car, what would buy?

top concerns: good mpg; reliable; in not having major issues like ball joints breaking, timing belts breaking, etc.

not too expensive to maintain.

JWdaughter

We have a toyota camry that is about 10+ years old and it runs beautifully and is very comfy-great leg room for a 6ft guy sitting in the back from Houston to Vegas(!). We just keep it basically maintained and it serves us very well. It gets 24mpg on the freeway still (if it matters). We have done two long road trips and after 5000 miles the first time and 3000 the second-on neither trip did it burn oil or have any issues.

Make sure and have a lawyer check the contract with the company and the bank. Its good to have a reliable mechanic available to check it out before you buy it. $50 is a great bargain and sometimes, its not even that. Most tire/brake shops will check them out for free (like LesSchwab or Midas).

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How Long Have You Been Viewing Thiis Site? Does It Serve Its Purpose For You?

by minimus in

jw
friends

i've been here forever.... this site still gives us some of the most up to date info about jws .

it keeps evolving.

sometimes it is the place to be and i think that's especially true for newbies.

JWdaughter

I've been here since probably 2004? Maybe 2003,but I registered more recently. I feel like I made friends. I lost a couple of friends to suicide, some to natural death and some, like Richie Rich, went out in a blaze of something. . . I miss the days when we were all still working through stuff,discovering new bits of stupid in the org, getting updates from Ray Franz-I think that most of the info is out there now-it can all be found online and people have found it. Now it is kind of like a family reunion where we keep up, discuss the new scandals and generally kvetch about the borg.

The best thing-newbies still have a place to go and people who 'get it'. I'm glad about that. I have helped a few and maybe not been so helpful with others, but my heart is with you all-and I have gotten great friendship and support in return.

Thanks, Simon. I know you had moments (months, even) of seriously considering the end of this site. I'm glad you didn't. Its really the only one I go to. It is easy to use and accessible and we have Flipper, Mouthy, Blondie and all the rest--what would we do without 'em? (You know who you all are!)

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Epic FAIL! :( My sister is gone from me.

by Faithful Witness in

got this email from my sister today.

there is a lot of back story, and this isn't a surprise.

it will be interesting to see how it affects the rest of the family, if they hear about it or not.

JWdaughter

Not knowing all of the story, I wonder who will reprimand you and for what reason? I think your sister sounds like a small, mean person. But that is, unfortunately, the way JWs are told to be. She is following her master admirably.

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Christmas is WRONG!

by thesaint in

jw
friends

you all should be ashamed of your egotistical selves.

how can you leave god's organization to celebrate the work of satan the devil?

it just goes to show you how jehovah's christian witnesses are correct about how persons will leave the truth for their own selfish desires.. first off, christmas is a pagan holiday and it proves no spirit with the almighty jehovah and his son, the christ.

JWdaughter

I think that was just sarcastic, but if not, you'd best run as fast as you can away from this forum before we infect you.

I don't celebrate Christmas but I am not a jerk about it.