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  Ran out of Walkill, So we picketed Patterson

  by Junction-Guy in

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  well when thursday morning arrived and we were told the news that the brooklyn picketing had been cancelled, we were upset and disappointed, but we decided to go on with a plan "b".

  amanda,evelyn,sybil,and i decided to ride up to walkill ny and visit the watchtower farms and also patterson.

  we drove up to walkill first and i must say that the size of this complex was enormous, and reminded me so much of a prison complex, they even had their own water tower.

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  Propaganda Videos, Educational Center? Wow sounds like scientology.
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  "No Apologies is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses"

  by No Apologies in

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  sometimes i just don't know when to keep my big mouth shut.

  today i think finally said enough to get da'd.. for those of you just tuning in, a recap: about 2-3 years i came to realize everything i had been taught as a jw was a load of steaming turds.

  since then i have managed to fade away more or less, without incident.

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  I would have called the police to remove the man. He's a stranger in your house that you do not want there. 86 him! BTW: Totally funny comment Blondie!
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  So what’s the longest road trip you’ve been on? or farthest you've driven?

  by doodle-v in

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  2. friends

  we just got back from spending two weeks in denver, co. call us crazy (yeah i dont know what the hell we were thinking) but we decided to drive.

  from seattle to denver and back is over 3,000 miles.

  we had both kids and a crap load of stuff.

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  Boston to Los Angeles :-) Just me in my lil convertible Honda Del Sol and my music. So much fun. Lots of time to think. Did run up the cell phone bill a little too. It took 5 days as I didn't want to drive for over 8 hours a day. Stopped in Youngstown, OH (yuck) Maryville, IL (boring and ordered a nasty pizza) Oklahoma City (met some fun people there), Albuquerque (visited my ex), and Kingman, AZ (forgot that AZ is on Pacific time in the Summer and usually I drove 7-3:30 and the clerk at the hotel looked at me strange cause i showed up at 2:30)..... i could have made it all the way to LA that night but i already had a hotel reservation....
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  "I've decided to block your e-mail" (response from an almost-JW)

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  2. friends

  there was a poster on jwd that left her email address in a post.

  she was clearly a study, not yet baptized.

  she was on jwd, so it sounded like she might be open to a maybe-they-don't-have-the-truth sort of discussion.. i emailed her my birthday write up with a note explaining that i didn't think the watchtower "lied" (as was mentioned in the jwd post she was responding to), but that they made disengenuous comments in order to keep people in the organization, sincerely believing that it was necessary for them to please god.. she responded, thanked me for the note, and said that she had stumbled onto jwd by accident, looking for an online copy of the km.

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  Satan sends me e-mail all the time about casino games, lower home mortgage rates, perscription drugs, sexual organ enhancements, etc.... HAHAHA
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  I just got flipped off!!!

  by Dimples in

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  omg!

  i was driving home from work and i was leaving to enter into traffic.

  i work at school so the speed limit is 15 mph.

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  I used to blow them a kiss when they did that, with a wink for good measure. People that flip you off are counting on your horror or shock when they do it, it usually feeds into more bad energy. Well you can get a little back, cuz trust me, their jaw drops when you throw them a kiss!

  I did that once about a week ago. For those of your who don't know, here in LA we have two lanes for getting on the freeway, one for carpools and one for single drivers. The single drivers have to stop at a light before getting on. So I get the green light and start to go when this guy decides to show up from the carpool lane as i'm now going about 40 and almost pushes me off the road. I beeped my horn as a way of saying "hey!" and they flipped me off. So I blew them a kiss cause I could see them looking at me in their rear view.

  I recently had a guy from the phone company yell at me for being on the phone. It was ironic.
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  The real reason why young people get baptized

  by free2beme in

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  the real reason why young people get baptized .... to make their parents happy and proud.

  to be able to get married (which is some cases, is to get away from parents).

  ... okay, okay, i know it depends on how young we are talking.

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  I did at 15. All the kids my age were already baptised. So in order to keep my status in the social circle I also got baptised. And I did have some elders saying, "so and so is baptised, what's preventing you?"
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  No good news to report

  by gringojj in

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  well friends things had bad going very well for my wife recently.

  she had been looking a the wts critically for quite some time now.

  we would have daily discussions on how so many things didnt make sense.

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  "Teletubbies... demonism... I just don't see the connection." I think they speak in tongues. :-P I'm waiting to see Blondie's advice. She is always filled with sound advice.
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  Describe the Most Boring JW party attended

  by stillajwexelder in

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  i went to one , where i shit you not, we sang kingdom songs all night.

  i was an elder at the time and had to be seen to be showing this was wholesome entertainment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  I went to a party at this family's house that who we secretly nicknamed "the flanders". And we played bible trivia. Ugghh! And their two kids (6&8) both knew every answer. Straight out of the Simpson's.
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  Renting movies, did you really chose what was OK for Christians to watch?

  by JH in

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  i remember at the hall, there was a speech where the brother said that 90% of movies weren't for christians.

  the way he talked, about 90% of movies had sex in it or violence or anything that christians shouldn't watch.. funny thing is that every time i was invited to watch a movie with the jw's, there was plenty of violence in the movie they chose, and it didn't seem to bother them whatsovever.. gee, i rented lots of movies with sex and violence, and it didn't bother me at all.

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  Sometimes I'll see a movie and recommend it to her, like Almost Famous. She will then start whining that it's rated R and shouldn't watch it. But then she'll watch it and love it.
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  Were you ever called upon to answer when you didnt.........

  by ButtLight in

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  raise your hand?

  put on the spot and didnt know the answer?

  or just werent paying attention?

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  Bstndance

  Never happened to me with JWs. But I had a French professor that would ALWAYS do that.... Mon dieu!