Been there, done that and have a huge bruise on my right hip to prove it! We've a large, multi acre, wooded City run park in Palm Bay, Florida that is just great fun. If you come down this way let us know!
Posts by Carol
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16Fav Hobbies...Anybody here play paintball?
by orion inmy husband and i play paintball and would love to meet others all over who do also.
we want to make a trip in a few years to go all over and try out different paintball courses.
my husband wasn't a jw so he doesn't know axactlly what i went through but he is a great support.
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Carol
GBL I happen to like your name, but then again I've been dating a guy for the last 12 years who's name happens to be Sidney and would you believe his last name is Sherman....! We won't go into what is screamed in the throes of passion other than to tell you he is a retired Marine and he was a Gunnery Sgt.........and I always call him by his nickname!
I think your name is very noble sounding.......!
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They were just here !!
by Apostanator inmy wife and i just got home from the gym and there were 2 jw's at our door.
i couldn't help myself....i felt rage building up inside but i tried to play it cool.
just coming off the ne apostafest and hearing everyones story just pissed me off when i saw those two dubs standing there.
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Carol
Great job for spur of the moment.....but I've got to agree with undercover! Hopefully the younger man has a mind of his own.
Luna....I know this won't be popular at this site but here goes.......I still believe in Jehovah or God or Allah or whatever you wish to call him....I don't believe the JW's or any other organized religion and their interpretation of the bible.....so I don't think we need to blame our (I mean people my age) situation on anyone by the brainwashing cult and it's GB.
Carol (of the has to work 'til she's 70 and hopes Social Security is still in affect group)
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sweet home Kansas-balama...
by tetrapod.sapien inlol .
a true story from snopes:.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/wright.htm.
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Carol
I've got to agree with Billygoat. As far as seperation of church and state???? We have God on our money, in our pledge of allegiance and prayers being said before sessions in the hous and senate of every state and at national level. The U.S. fights religious wars (i.e. Iraq...yes it's for oil and because baby Bush is getting revenge for threats made against Daddy Bush...but it is also a Christian against Muslem thing....) I don't care for this particular minister or his church...but I glory in the fact that he doesn't kiss the a*ses of the politicians in his state.
Good topic! Love to hear more opinions!
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Inappropriate "shepherding" calls.
by avishai inhow many have recieved calls by the elders that were under the guise of "shepherding", but somehow inappropriate, i.e, you were a woman alone with only one elder showing up, or you felt physically intimidated by both.
or say they show up at like, 10:30 at night for a shepherding call.
and you say "hey, i appreciate the visit but please call first!
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Carol
Oh how appropriate this topic.....I've mentioned in other threads that my address is in the territory map as a do not call at this house note! Life has been so peaceful..........until this morning! When two older male JW's stopped by....they introduced themselves and asked if they could come in....I said no I wasn't really interested in hearing what they had to say. They proceeded to tell me they stopped by because is seems several months ago, two sisters had stopped at my house when I was not home...my daughter (aged 17) was and she answered the door, explained her grandmother and aunt are pioneers and that her mother used to pioneer many years ago and that we were no longer interested. The sisters asked her why.....now you have to picture my 5ft 7in daugher with jet black spiked hair (she was born blonde) big blue eyes with an eyebrow piercing and a labrai (lip) piercing......dresses totally in black (this was a gothic day...other days she's a little redneck) explaining to these two, very prim and proper JW's, that she is presently reading the book "Simple Wicca"...and that she wants nothing to do with a religion that wouldn't allow her to worship God in their KH and would tell her mother that she could not love her daughter or talk to her daughter because she was gay!
The brothers felt I should be aware of this, as my daughter's having such literature in my home could leave me vunerable to demonic attack! and that because of her age it wasn't to late to change her (I guess they feel you choose your sexual orientation instead of being born to it) I calmly explained that I purchase and/or pay for all of my daughter's books of Wicca, homosexuality and anything else she might choose to read and that she was only repeating what she had heard at home.
Soooo, I guess I have not really faded quietly and will probably be hearing from the JC .....I don't think I'll be going to any meetins with them...I'll just let them DF me by proxy.
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Are you Sharing?
by prophecor ini was one, when in, that believed it was the best thing to share your talents with those of the bretheren.
where you a plumber, a carpenter, an auto mechanic?
then it would behoove you to take those skills and give them to the community of your brothers and sisters.
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Carol
Because my father worked for a local utility company, we were considered comfortable...so all of my clothes and toys would go to the other JW kids when I grew out of them.
I always had a car, so if there was somewhere to go we took my car and used my gas!
After I married and had not yet faded, my ex-husband and I ran a gasoline service station.....1973, 1974, 1975..during the first gas shortage....all of the witnesses knew where to go to get gas.(on credit yet!) and if they needed something fixed they brought it to us and then made payments (when they remembered). We towed people, fixed flats in the rain, etc.
And yet, years later, after we had sold the business.....they could not come to my home for my pioneer sister's bridal shower, because they were going through the "not associating with unbelievers" phase and my ex-husband was not a believer....but they could go to my parent's house (dad was never a JW)and eat the food and drink the beer and alcohol my ex-husband paid for. Go Figure!
No, I wouldn't offer them any help! But if anyone at JWD need something....If I have it....it's yours.
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Victims of serious crime?
by greendawn inwere you ever the victim of serious crime such as physical assault, mugging, burglary, arson, big financial fraud, kidnapping, etc?
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Carol
When I was 26 and my son was 3 a young man put a gun to my head at the train station down the street from my home in Philadelphia. I offered him my jewelry and all my money. He let me keep my jewelry and allowed me to take the $96.00 out of my wallet and hand it to him. He told me to count to 100 before I moved. The whole time this was going on he kept telling me not to worry he wasn't going to hurt me or my son....all I could think of was he was going to shoot me and my son would be standing on the train platform by himself.
Carol (of the "never goes to the city without her personal protection at the small of her back" group)
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Death, DFing, Sadness, People, Rambling
by joelbear inmy mother called last night to tell me that the oldest daughter of one of my best childhood friends had died of a brain tumor.
i remember when robin was pregnant with stephanie 25 years ago.
i grew up with robin and her 2 sisters lisa and julie.
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Carol
Joel,
Prayers and heartfelt sympathy to you for your loss.
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Would you go to a funeral at the Kingdom Hall?
by Dustin inso my brother and i have been having talks about what will happen when our dad passes away eventually.
most of his brothers and sisters have died in their 50's or early 60's.
i flat out refuse to attend any part of the service that would be done at the kingdom hall.
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Carol
((((((((((Sith))))))))))
Belated condolences on your loss.
Carol
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Breaking News: Berry girls lose high court appeal
by loveis inwith those two short, sweet, words of the nh supreme court, the berry girls 4-year fight to hold the wts responsible has come to an abrupt and bitter end.. a preliminary scan of the opinion indicates a virtual slam-dunk victory for the wts, although there was one dissenting justice out of the four on one issue only, the only female justice of the four.
(coincidence?
hmmm......).
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Carol
Frankly I've just finished a good long cry! As a victim of physical abuse at the hands of a JW mother and non-JW father, my heart bleeds for those two girls and their mother. Fortunately I was not sexually abosed, at least not by my parents......!
Up until recently, I've wanted to believe that the JW's were a group of imperfect people trying to do what is right. But after reading through a lot of the information on this site....I'm sick and disgusted and so very thankful I didn't raise my children in the "truth"
My prayers for the two girls who so bravely came forward and all of the other children (no matter their age) that suffered and suffer.
Carol