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  I am soooo proud of her!

  by coffee_black in

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  when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.

  i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.

  we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.

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  Hi rebel8,

  I've tried pretty much every medium...may favorite is oils. Sandy got me aquainted with CARAN d'ACHE...which is oil pastel....water soluble....easy to control. I don't have much space to work, and this is pretty easy to manage. My son is hooked on charcoal....hasn't worked much with color. I think it's a personal thing...whatever you feel most comfortable with., and what suits your style.

  Funny story...when I was in high school, I tried sculpture...working in clay for the first time, I did a bust of a man. As I was working, the clay felt warm...and I was concentrating so hard that it felt like it was breathing.... freaked me out! Being a jw, I thought it was demons! I brought the thing home...and an aunt was visiting.... she freaked out because it looked exactly like the man she almost married many years before...someone I had never seen. That was my first and only attempt at sculpture.

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  heard back from my dad - you won't believe it!

  by freedomlover in

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  hey all you great people - in case you read my letter i sent to my dad the other day you may be interested in his reply.

  (see topic history for letter to my dad) .

  i am so happy and relieved.

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  Wow! Sounds to me like he may be on his way out too!

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  Circuit Overseer Pensions and the Implications

  by AlanF in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just learned that the watchtower society has instituted a pension plan of sorts for circuit overseers.

  this is a big change.. previous to this new plan, the various kinds of "traveling overseers" were pretty much on their own when they retired from the traveling work.

  in a few cases, such men were invited to live out their lives in bethel, but in most cases they simply went back to being normal rank and file members who had to fend for themselves financially.. i can only speculate that the reason for this change was that the society has been having difficulty getting elders to become circuit overseers.

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  This is a big change... My Uncle was Zone servant in Alaska in the early 60s. He and my aunt lived above the kh/branch office there. He died of a massive stroke. My aunt had 2 weeks to vacate the apartment, for his replacement, and was on her own to find a way back home (Massachusetts) No benifits...nothing. Stranded. Good she had family to help, because the society did nothing.

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  Watchtower Properties Website

  by Apostanator in

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  i was wondering if there is a website available that lists all of the properties the watchtower owns, as well as the current value of those properties?

  if not, what would it take to establish one?

  i think people would be very interested in what the watchtower holds as property or as businesses.

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  Yep...and would give a pretty good idea about how much the org. is actually worth. I think that would be really interesting!

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  I am soooo proud of her!

  by coffee_black in

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  when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.

  i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.

  we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.

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  Hi Legolas,

  I missed your post earlier...sorry.... Sandy lives in Southwestern New Hampshire. Most of her work is rural New England, but she lived in Texas for a while too, and she has traveled quite a bit. She has done quite a few of Prince Edward Island.

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  Rutherford Exposed: The Story of Berta and Bonnie

  by Farkel in

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  it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.

  he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.

  up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.

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  Does anyone know if there are any surviving members of the Russell or Rutherford families? I know Russell had no children, but I think he had siblings...and maybe neices & nephews.... Rutherfords son.....anyone know whatever happened to him? If there are any relatives...are they shareholders? I seem to remember a post somewhere...long ago...maybe not even here, that not all shareholders are jws. Anyone know anything about that?

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  Watchtower Properties Website

  by Apostanator in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was wondering if there is a website available that lists all of the properties the watchtower owns, as well as the current value of those properties?

  if not, what would it take to establish one?

  i think people would be very interested in what the watchtower holds as property or as businesses.

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  Hi Apostanator!

  This is a great idea! A list of their real estate assets all in one place! The proclaimers book had 50 or more pages of pictures of branch offices. Imagine how much it's all worth...branch offices...kingdom halls...assembly halls....not to mention Brooklyn and Patterson. I seem to remember a property in Hawaii too that was used as a conference center...

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  I am soooo proud of her!

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
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  when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.

  i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.

  we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.

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  Hi Stilla,

  Getting married at 18... nope I would not recommend that.... Nearly everyone in my congregation got married very early. My best friend was 21...and she was the last one! I was married for almost 20 years...thinking I had no choice but to remain married.

  Life is good now. I still do artwork... My work has been published in a calendar two years running now. My job isn't related to art.. but it can be somewhat creative in a different way. Still, someday, I would like to concentrate more on art.

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  I am soooo proud of her!

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.

  i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.

  we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.

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  Hi Z...

  Well...I only have a couple of things on my hard drive...not a good selection....and I don't have a digital camera or a scanner any more..... I'll attach what I have though. I don't know if they will show up very well. They'll show up pretty small... Oh, and my avatar is a drawing by my son.

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  I am soooo proud of her!

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  when i was in high school i wanted to persue art.

  i did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of college...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but i didn't persue it the way i should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that..... within the past year, i have reconnected with a former high school classmate.

  we were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors.

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  coffee_black

  When I was in High School I wanted to persue Art. I did...to a degree....weekly classes starting at age 8 and continuing through a year of College...but you know the rest... pressure against education etc... although my dad gave me all sorts of support where my education was concerned... but I didn't persue it the way I should have...wanted to... got married at 18...'nuf about that....

  Within the past year, I have reconnected with a former High School classmate. We were the class artists...if there was an award to win...or a project to do...we alternated honors. We were opposite...she was a hippie (or the closest thing I ever knew to a hippie in my sheltered jw world) I was the dutiful dub. We were not friends then.... competition kind of spoiled that... but we had a kind of respect for eachother.

  We have become friends now...so many years later. She stuck with her art...and she has done sooooo well. Google her, and hundreds of pages of websites come up. I am sooooo proud of her....and it feels so good to be free to have a friendship that should have existed back then, but didn't. Take a look at her art.... Her name is Sandy Wadlington... her last name was Brown back then... and she is my friend.

  http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=Sandy+Wadlington&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&qp_p=sandy+wadlington&imgsz=all&fr=FP-tab-web-t&b=21

  and if that's not enough...google her name.... I'm soooo impressed!

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