Posts by Maryjane

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Use NORAD to track Santa!!!! :D

by Elsewhere in

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do you have kids who pester you about where santa is during christmas?

well, here is your solution!

norad has a website dedicated to using their advanced missile tracking technologies for tracking santa!

Maryjane

I hope NORAD does a better job at tracking Santa than they did at protecting us on 9/11.

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How GREEN are you? How GREEN should we be?

by AK - Jeff in

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i recycle where i can - don't pollute intentionally - never litter - but that is about as far as i go.. how active in maintaining this planet for the future are you?.

jeff

I recycle and take mass transit/walk, but that's about it. In 1992 I took an environmental science class and the professor did NOT have an optimistic outlook for the planet even then. He said even with recycling, if we keep consuming at the rate we are, in another 20 years the planet will be in DIRE environmental straits.

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Anyone Related to Anyone Famous?

by stevieb1 in

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anyone related to any actors, actresses, writers, politicians etc either alive or dead?.

Maryjane

My cousin Julie used to be married to Brian McKnight...that's as close to celebritydom as I get!

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Would you REALLY want to be reunited with you family after the BIG NEWS?

by Gill in

i've just been thinking about my family.

they've treated us badly....really badly....especially on my husband's side.. do i want to see them 'normally' again......do i?

i've seen that i/we come after a book publishing company.

Maryjane

Great question. The whole shunning thing really destroys families and friends over the long-term. I used to shun a relative who left the JW's while I was still active. When I became disillusioned and left, I tried to apologize & repair the relationship, but irreparable damage had already been done. We are cordial to each other at family functions, but the warmth and love is just not the same.

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Are you still an item of interest to the JW's?

by Honesty in

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address marked on the back of a territory card as a do not call on?.

jw's staring at you from across the mall until you head over to say, hi?.

family members who are embarrassed by your presence?.

Maryjane

Not at all! They only harrassed me the 1st year after my departure. I still live in the same place and now even my JW aunt is living in the building and attending the congregation I used to go to. She sends messages every now & then that Sister So-and-So said hi, but that's about it.

No "shepherding calls", no "pre-memorial visits", nada. Yet they haven't officially kicked me out yet.

What's funny is my aunt knows I fornicate, smoke, etc. yet still talks to me. It's like they don't shun you until you get the "official" heave-ho from the society.

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SERVICE REPORT 2005 : WATCHTOWER FEB 1ST 2006

by BluesBrother in

i have had a quick look and found no references to this, so - here goes..as in the mag we picked up on sunday.. worldwide % increase over 2004 = 1.3%.

memorial partakers 8524 (compared to 8570 in 2004).

most european and nth american lands show pretty static figs - britain 1% increase, canada 0%, germany 0%, france 1%, usa 0%... but spare a thought for the inhabitants of zambia where 1 person in 90 is a reporting witness, must be hell going down to the local market!

Maryjane

I never thought of that Legolas....technically I might be included in those #'s lol!

I was never disfellowshipped or disassociated! The "friends" still say hi to me when they see me around the neighborhood.

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SERVICE REPORT 2005 : WATCHTOWER FEB 1ST 2006

by BluesBrother in

i have had a quick look and found no references to this, so - here goes..as in the mag we picked up on sunday.. worldwide % increase over 2004 = 1.3%.

memorial partakers 8524 (compared to 8570 in 2004).

most european and nth american lands show pretty static figs - britain 1% increase, canada 0%, germany 0%, france 1%, usa 0%... but spare a thought for the inhabitants of zambia where 1 person in 90 is a reporting witness, must be hell going down to the local market!

Maryjane

It's interesting they still list the # of memorial partakers since it doesn't matter whether the geezers die off or not (at least as it relates to the "generation").

I've been out for 5 years now...is heaven filled yet? Have they revised the 144,000 docrtine yet?

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BIG NEWS - RESPONSIBILITY

by peggy in

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i am sure i am in the minority, and i am as anxious as the next one to know what the big news is.

still.......i find the big news post irresponsible!

big today is far better for everyone, then big news is coming!

Maryjane

You took the words out of my mouth Peggy!

Why not just post the big news when it happens instead of keeping people in suspense. What's the point?

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JW Group Forums - what they say

by forsharry in

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not sure why i've been going around to the jw forums like on myspace and such to see what they say...maybe i'm just stupid...who knows...but i was surprised at the vitriolic venom that many of the youth that still pay homage to da troof spew from their mouths.

i know i was raised jw but i would always pride myself on listening to what others said, even if i secretly didn't agree with it.

because it was a polite thing to do...and i had the truth!

Maryjane

I've been dealing with a Jehovah-bot on a music forum I frequent (they're everywhere!). She has got to be one of the most arrogant personalities I've ever met online. Last week there was a particularly heated exchange on the board (click here if you're interested in reading it

http://www.digital-djs.com/talk/thread-view.asp?threadid=11400 I'm "maryjanewisdom" and she's "chocolate". The other JW instigator is "fingersinc")

where she set herself up by saying "there is only one true religion". Seeing a grand opening, I asked her..."what IS this true religion you refer to?" (knowing full well if she answered she'd piss off a lot of christians on the board). She never did answer me, but another JW cronie on the board said "you know she doesn't want anything to do with an apostate!). I played dumb and asked why he called me that etc..but he never answered either. To any non-JW onlookers, they must have been confused, but what wasn't confusing was the arrogance of the JW poster. Her field service hours went to waste that day! Every now & then I"ll greet her on the board so the rest of the readers can see how she shuns me...lol

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