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  OMG

  by coffee_black in

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  so i'm working in my showroom and a couple walk in with 3 adorable little kids.

  i worked with them a while...and they left... and i sat back down at my desk to work on the computer.

  a little while passes... and i heard this little voice say "i want my mommy!

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  So I'm working in my Showroom and a couple walk in with 3 adorable little kids. I worked with them a while...and they left... and I sat back down at my desk to work on the computer. A little while passes... and I heard this little voice say "I want my mommy!" The parents were long gone...they had left one of the little ones behind.

  A few minutes later one of our reps walked in...thankfully...and I told him what happened. He was great, and kept the little boy occupied while I went to work trying to figure out how to contact the parents. I had a couple of clues... they said they were working with a contractor...which meant that the contractor would be working with one of our reps.... so i sent out an email blast to all of our reps with a discription....

  Finally about 45 minutes later the little boy's father called, and said the mother was on her way back to get him.

  Whew! Never a dull moment around here!.

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  A little update on my family

  by sooner7nc in

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  a few of you may remember that my wife had a kidney transplant early last year.

  since then the kidney has been incredible, giving her a new lease on life.

  it's really been good to see the light in her eyes that i had missed for quite a long time.. the counterpoint to this good news is the problems we have had with our son coltin.

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  Good thoughts and prayers headed your way.

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  Any new light on windows in the KH

  by jam in

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  remodeling is being done on the kh in my area.. friends have come to me inquiring about the remodeling.. it,s been two months.

  first they ask , why no windows.. i told them some kh have windows.

  soon after windows.

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  My Dad designed a bunch of khs. My x husband designed a couple. All had windows. Windows can be expensive (I know... I work for a major window company) so cutting costs can be a reason...or breakins.... I also think some jws think that windows are a distraction, and the jws might stare out the windows instead of listening to all that spiritual food.

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  To the Household of God, Israel, and Those Who God With...

  by AGuest in

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  the greatest of love and peace to you all.

  on another thread i posted what i stated was my last post.

  that wasn't true; this is my last post on jwn.

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  Shelby, I will miss you terribly!!!!!

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  Jehovah's Witnesses never claimed to be Prophets

  by anonread in

  1. watchtower
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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtvycqmsey&feature=colike.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtvycqmsey&feature=colike.

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  The wt does claim to be spirit directed. They also claim to be God's only channel of communication.

  While you are at it, please explain the difference between being "Spirit directed" and inspired.

  Coffee

  edited because someone beat me to it.
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  My Profile Picture

  by NeonMadman in

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  i like that picture a lot.

  i was a bit thinner then, my hair had rather less gray in it.

  it was taken when i was swimming with the dolphins on a shore excursion during a cruise in 2007. nonetheless, i look somewhat different now.

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  I joined so long ago, I don't have access any more to the email addy I used to sign up here.... haven't used it in years. haven't tried to access it in years. I wonder if that means that I can never change my picture here.

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  The "Secrecy Policy”

  by Celestial in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i've given this recent lawsuit quite a bit of thought and come to sound conclusions.

  after examining other organization's child-protection policies (namely churches), what i've come to realize is there's a one-size fits all solution that's socially acceptable; all information obtained through witnesses and confessions by organizational personnel is be used to aid and abet law-enforcement.

  there's no in-between or anything short of this objective that's socially acceptable.

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  There's also another issue to consider. What if an adult starts having flashbacks of childhood abuse? There's two ex in-laws in my family that had this experience. I won't go into the details because they are too horrifying to share, but it involved sexual and ritual abuse of a child by family members. I don't know who these family members were because I never asked. I'd never met them. I didn't care to meet them after this. I don't know if they were ever Jehovah's Witnesses, but they certainly weren't at the time this abuse was reported,
  When the flashbacks started in 1993, my aunt's husband started acting really strange. He separated from his wife and showed up at our house to stay temporarily and started meeting with the elders. His condition progressively worsened in severity and when he attempted suicide he was admitted to a hospital. The hospital said it was the worse case of abuse they had ever seen. There was an announcement made at the Kingdom Hall that he was in a hospital and wanted no visitors. I was told it wasn't possible to prosecute the people that abused him because of the statues of limitation. You would think the hospital could substantiate the abuse and their testimony would be admissible in court. He was on full disability until 1998. I don't know what happened with him since then because no one in our family talks about him anymore.

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  Your own attitude explains a lot..... so in the first case you write about, you knew about the abuse, but did nothing to help stop it. You see, the difference between you and a person with a heart is that a person with a heart would find out who the perpetrator was and report them asap. You avoided it and burried your head in the sand, when you could have done something to stop any further abuse.

  In the second instance... the victim suffered horriffic consequences. So what did you and your family do to help this poor victim? Read your own words. No one talks about him any more. Shameful.

  That explains a lot about how pedophiles thrive in the jw organization and continue to get away with harming children

  Coffee . ~shakes head at the utter ignorance and heartlessness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  A JW book stand just started near my work

  by biometrics in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  a jw brother has setup a bookstand in a shopping mall area (outdoor) near my work.

  i must say he's put some effort into creating the counter, and display stand.

  at first i thought it was a coroprate stand selling insurance or something, then i saw "awake".. he had a really comfortable chair, and looked bored watching people walk past.. the local gov allow market stalls there three days per week.

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  Print out copies of the major Newspaper articles regarding the Candice Conti Court case. Leave on his counter when he's not there...and or, stand next to his counter and hand out the copies to anyone who looks like they might want wt literature.

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  Do you miss the sense of security the organisation gives you?

  by Mr Facts in

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  i am sure most of you miss the sense of security regarding the future that the organisation offers- the certainty of everlasting life in the paradise earth, being healed and the confidence that you will definitely see your loved ones again if you remained faithful.

  but why did you pursue a course of life that had suddenly turned everything into a fable?.

  i have pity for you all.. .

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  It would have been nice if the teacher had of known of your fear, so she could

  have told you from a scientific perspective what was happenin'

  i doubt that i would have listened if she had tried to comfort me...after all she was a worldly person...who was going to die...as was everyone else in the school... I was the only jw in the building....

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  Do you miss the sense of security the organisation gives you?

  by Mr Facts in

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  i am sure most of you miss the sense of security regarding the future that the organisation offers- the certainty of everlasting life in the paradise earth, being healed and the confidence that you will definitely see your loved ones again if you remained faithful.

  but why did you pursue a course of life that had suddenly turned everything into a fable?.

  i have pity for you all.. .

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  I grew up in the jw religion. A vivid memory of mine: When I was in 3rd grade we had a terrible storm. I looked out my classroom window in horror. I thought Armageddon had started and I had no idea how I would get to my parents. I was in a panic. I still remember how that felt.

  Security? Not so much.

  Coffee