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an elder in our hall used to drink his wine before evening meetings regularly, and on more than a few occasions was "buzzed" and laughing up on the platform while giving a talk.
No... but my ex was in an accident and was on pain medication. I tried to cancel his talk in the MS, but he insisted on giving it anyway. His talk made absolutely no sense...and he actually imitated a chicken on the platform. I wanted to crawl under the seat.
Coffee
i'm new to these boards.
i'll introduce myself.. i was raised a jw, baptized at 13, pioneer at 15, married at 18, divorced at 21, disfellowshipped and pregnant at 22, and here i am.
i gave birth to a beautiful baby boy about five months ago, and i've never been happier, but that has required a lot of sacrifice and hurt.
Welcome!
Coffee
my apologies in advance for the long post.
this is the story i thought i'd be taking to my grave so just to have the chance to put it out there feels so freeing.
thanks for listening.
Welcome.... make yourself at home!
Coffee
http://www.profindsearch.com/news/2005/09/21/pfs1203.htm .
watchtower take legal action against site that quotes their quotes!.
the watchtower bible and tract society of pennsylvania have initiated legal proceedings against [quotes], who has been displaying "quotes" from the jehovahs witnesses publication on his website.
It keeps getting better and better. The watchtower has shot itself in the foot...big time...
Coffee
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just enter your zip code in the tool bar and click on "go".
it'll show you where the lowest gas prices are in your area.. http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=netx .
Thanks Frannie!
It's up to 3.55 at the closest gas station to me....but I found it for 2.60 on that site...not far from here.. I have to drive a lot for my job...so this will save some serious $.
Coffee
hard as it is to believe, our increasingly brain-dead government is seriously considering allowing sharia law to pass in cana-duh.
for those who aren't familiar with this islamic law, it's an "arbitration" that allows muslims the opportunity to settle disputes concerning family, property and other civil issues in a forum that considers their cases against the backdrop of the qur'an and muslim interpretation.
in other words, muslim women and children here in canada, a supposedly free country, will become shit under their husbands robes if he so chooses.
Scariest of all, it is the goal of the extremists to force the rest of the world to adopt their beliefs... and kill those who refuse. Politicians are asleep at the wheel....most don't get it. In the interests of "diversity" the extremists are making inroads all over the world.
No one seems to care or even notice for that matter. Maybe when all women are required to wear burquas (sp?) they'll wake up. It'll be too late then.
Coffee
to give you some quick details, my ex-wife and her two sisters were repeatedly raped and molested for years by their jw father.
we went to the elders, and as you probably know, nothing ever really happened to him, all he got was privately reproved.
well,...fast forward,, i remarried and have a wonderfull wife who is also an ex-jw.
Wow! I would have loved to see what happened after you left.... I can just hear him trying to explain it all away... but if she has any brains, she'll run!!! You guys are great!
Coffee
ive thought about posting this for a good few weeks, and finally decided to now the initial upset and outrage have calmed down in me.
hopefully i will be more objective in my post, and more robust to take some constructive critisism.. i have been divorced 7 years, since my daughter was 1.
50% of the blame was mine, definately.
Hi Katie,
I had somewhat the same issue...my ex was, probably still is...extremely controlling (I haven't seen him in a couple of years now) When our son started refusing to go to the meetings (about age 11) he actually called the police to enforce the visitation schedule. My son was scared out of his mind.... which actually worked against my ex... because he won the battle that day, but lost the war. My son never became a jw.
I used to shake in my boots every time there was an issue with him... I figured out, finally that it went back to the jw submission thing..and here I was finally standing up to him....scary at the time, but eventually I grew out of that mindset. I'm not a confrontational person by nature, but standing up for my children was something that had to be done...and they relied on me to do it.
Your ex sounds like the kind of person who will keep pushing and is used to getting his way. Stand your ground. You have the stronger position.
Coffee
this was crazy.
i was in the office behind one of our showrooms today working on the computer.
the showroowm manager came back shaking his head.. he said "you won't believe the call i just got.
This was crazy. I was in the office behind one of our showrooms today working on the computer. The showroowm manager came back shaking his head.. He said "You won't believe the call I just got. The guy's name was Holden Johnson, and he wanted to set up an appointment with our service department." So he set up an appointment for him....then started second guessing himself...not believing anyone could have that name. I thought about it a minute, and said to him that it couldn't be real...it had to be a "crank" call. As soon as the words escaped my mouth, I realized what I had said, and nearly fell on the floor. He looked completely shocked and said "Debbie... I never knew you had it in you!" then realized what he had said, and we both turned red... No one dared say another word....
Honest...I'm not making this up....
Coffee
me and the kids went to rent movies and noticed that there were long lines of people waiting for gas.
we live in shreveport/bossier louisiana about five hours north of new orleans.
we do have tons of evacuees here and so i understand it is going to be busier here than usual.. people were breaking lines to get gas tonite, and you could feel the tension in the air.
3.10 this morning....but most in the area are at 3.25. No lines though....
Coffee
