Posts by JWdaughter

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Has anyone ever saved another persons life?

by LogCon in

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friends

i don't mean you advised them and they changed their lives around, kind of saving a life.. i mean right before your eyes, right now, you had to do something to save a person or they would be dead.. how did it make you feel?

did it have any affect on you?.

forty years ago i was working on a construction site and a back-hoe had loosened a large boulder.

JWdaughter

Sorta. Not sure if this counts but when my mom returned from overseas travels I waited aLOOOONG time for her to get off the plane and when Ifinally saw her, she was in a wheelchair. She looked like death warmed over (barely).She wanted to eat something and was able to walk once we got to the car in the parking garage so we drove to a Wendy's at her insistence. I wanted to take her straight to the hospital. She had taken ill on her vacation and somehow they let her on the plane when she was clearly (to me) critically ill.

At Wendy's she told me a litte of what had happened and how much pain she had and was unable to eat or evacuate. She wanted the icecream but that wasn't happening. I told her I wanted to take her straight to the hospital and she tried to insist on going home and just seeing her doctor in the morning. I told her that I didn't want them trying to take a gurney down the steep stairs from her cliffside house and risk the necks of innocent EMTs( I was trying to make a joke of it), but I seriously didn't think she would live to the next day. I took her to the hospital ER and told the nurse at triage that she had had a small heart attack in her 30's and was having chest pain (everything hurt and I knew that otherwise she could be hours from an exam (mothers day, sunday) She had had a ruptured colon several days prv (Wed, Ithink is when they figured it happened) and had severe peritonitis. Dr. said she would not hav survived the night. So, in a way I saved her life (she would have toughed it out to save$45 ER co pay)

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ONE REASON

by snare&racket in

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out of interest, and to formulate a cordial chat, would you give your top one reason for your belief or non belief?.

my foremost 'one reason' for non belief is:.

the historical evidence that provides an explination and timeline for how the modern religious doctrine's and dogma developed over time.. .

JWdaughter

This world, for all of its "issues", is too beautiful- creation stuns me from the way our hair grows to sexual reproduction(we grow babies!) to the leaves on the trees to the perfection of a sand dollar.

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I'm afraid I'd be single for life

by ohnightdivine in

this is quite embarrassing for me to share, but as a 30+ year old single female i have lingering doubts as to whether i can still meet a decent man and get married.. you all know how difficult it is for sisters to find an appropriate partner in the congregation.. and now, all the more so that i've learned ttatt.

i still am bound by low self-esteem, and i do have trust issues, especially with men.

i am very lonely and so i just keep myself busy with work to avoid depression (although it is also a great source of stress).. any other single females out there having similar thoughts?.

JWdaughter

ohnightdivine, get yourself in order, enjoy your freedom, do the things you want to, take classes and join the clubs that you did/could not join before. Just live your life, find the things that give you joy and if you meet someone, you meet someone.If you dont, you will be enjoying YOUR life anyway.

Have fun! You do have much better odds out of the org. If you are working or going to school, don't demurr too much if you are offered "blind dates". Don't prejudge, keep yourself safe and just figure that every experience (even awkward dates) adds to you as person. Connections are very important to the exJW as we are limited by our past to some degree. Open yourself to new experiences.

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Who Will the Circuit Overseers "Report" to Now???

by RubaDub in

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i still do not understand the new structure at this point.. there has to be something between thousands of co's and the gb.

i know there were zone overseers that the do's reported to.. i have spoken to a couple of elders i can talk to frankly and they both said they have no idea.. rub a dub.

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JWdaughter

Villagegirl-it was the brand. It doesn't work with any pudding. I tried, trust me. Schwanns fudgesicles are somehow remnicent more than other brands of fudge pops. .. .

I'm so glad I will never EVER have to go to one of those events that test ones will to live. They were excruciating and we were supposed to be so thrilled to be there. The only fun we ever had was the year Michael Jackson showed up with his entourage and frankly, that only lasted a few moments until the limo left and they were swept up by security and whisked away to whereever they keep celebrity JWs who are about to be DF'd.

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What is your biggest gripe with the WT and it's teachings?

by FL_Panthers in

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as the title says, please list what you find annoying with the organization..

JWdaughter

They train JWs in the art of attack and paranoia. Rather than really examining their own religion, they deflect by finding something "worse" in Christendom or other religion. JWs don't even see how they have been twisted in this way.

Oh, and their finely developed moral superiority that is based on NOTHING actually different than any other religions teach or practice. In any case, they don't actually practice it any better, they just brag about it. Its annoying to listen to their cloying self praise.

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Who Will the Circuit Overseers "Report" to Now???

by RubaDub in

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friends

i still do not understand the new structure at this point.. there has to be something between thousands of co's and the gb.

i know there were zone overseers that the do's reported to.. i have spoken to a couple of elders i can talk to frankly and they both said they have no idea.. rub a dub.

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JWdaughter

I am glad that I am so far away from involvment that I don't know the diff between a district and a circuit or what those guys actually are supposed to do.

I remember some kind of visits from my youth. They usually involved a invitation only lunch (never got the invite) and meetings being rearranged. We had big assemblies and little ones.

still missing the semi frozen pudding. . . I'm getting old. Vaguely recall sunstroke in Phil. assembly/convention, but that day is a little fuzzy.

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Wearing a wire

by Hairtrigger in

hye folks-just wanted some info.

is wearing a wire to a jc or any other meeting an easy-to-do thing.

how do you go about trying to find to an agency that hires out equipment?

JWdaughter

not to be a killjoy, but aren't there laws against that in a lot of states?

Not sure if it matters to you, but I'd hate to give them any actual ammo against you.

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80 Year old COBE Layoff Conspiracy

by XBEHERE in

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who else thinks something is afoot with this?

is the gb deciding to go back to pre-1971 times with perhaps the cobe as the man in charge and the rest just ministerial servants.

so for this reason they want younger men in those postitions?

JWdaughter

soon it will be like "Logans Run" and all JWs over the age of 30 will be required to immolate themselves on a pile of old literature:) They know too much about the "ancient history" (over 3 years of stuff) and might go rogue.

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Why do Christian nations think they can assimilate Muslims into their communities , does Islam attempt to assimilate Christians in their communities ?

by smiddy in

islam /muslims today are what christianity was centuries ago , the two beleif systems are like oil and water , not to be mixed .

christians are not tolerated spreading their infectious disease amongst muslims, in islamic countrys , and harsh penalties apply for them doing so in muslim countries , including the death penalty.

stonings , whippings etc.. on the other hand christian nations are very tolerant of muslim extremists who incite hatred and violence on their own territory , and they get a slap on the wrist and say dont do it again .

JWdaughter

Having just gotten back from Pakistan, I can say that the women I saw were treated beautifully. Few womn covered their hair in Sindh/Karachi (major city). It is a totally different life, but those who are provincial can never appreciate that not everyone lives like the people in their zip code.

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Jehovah's Witnesses "New Donation" Arrangement Update!

by Littleleslie in

please check out this you tube video on the "new donation" arrangement update.

its pretty interesting.. see link below.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsodgtx6d58.

ll.

JWdaughter

I like them, but I don't know that I have finished many(one for sure). There is a lot of stuff to do out there and they can get a bit time consuming. OTOH, I like the folks doing it. They take a long time to get where they are going and I'm only semi-retired now. Maybe in 20 years when I get SS (hah).