I was so poor when I was a dub I didn't worry about taxes! Seriously though, I knew a brother who did the long form thing and deducted lots of expenses. He also was a self-employed janitor (is that a witness thing or what?) and would deduct all kinds of stuff that he bought for his "business".
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3Shouldn't JW's get tax exemptions when doing their income tax report
by JH insince witnesses have to spend so much money going door to door and getting dressed up and since they are recognized as "ministers", and since the jw's are recognized as a religion by the governement , shouldn't there be a tax refund or exemption to help pay for all jw expenses when each and every jw makes out his imcome tax report?.
i'm sure that ministers in the catholic religion get money from the governemnt for all kids of stuff, like their cars for example.
have you noticed that their license plates are different just like the cops or city workers....probably they don't even pay for that too.
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thinking positively - what is the best thing that happened to you or ...
by Crumpet in.
that you accomplished in the last 24 hours?.
i ask becase i just keep reading lots of gripey posts (with good reason for sure, but i wanted to hear positive stuff no matter how mediocre or ordinary it might sound).. so tell me what was your highspot?
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I took yesterday off from work and went for a drive in the country to see the fall colors. They are really peaking now.
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The Watchtower Game!
by Confession induring the nineties, there was a big mexican family that attended our congregation.
while they were not financially well off, they often enjoyed having the friends over for gatherings in their large home.
did it have something to do with the way sister oliveros actually said the word broom-ho?
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Geez. I remember that game! More fond memories dredged up.
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After Armageddon?
by ScaryHairy inhey, i was wondering what does the society say about after armageddon, (is it you live forever in paradise ?
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A Christian Outreach to those trapped in cult groups. Kinda makes me think "from frying pan into the fire" but at least they have thought through what it would be like if dubs ruled the earth.
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What is with this armageddon fixation? Could it be mind control through fear? Just guessing here.
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Skirting the issue
by Virgogirl inwhat argument is put forth that women must only wear dresses or skirts to the meetings or in service and are not permitted to wear slacks?
where does it say it's wrong for sisters to wear pants, and how are they convincing women in 2005 to buy into this?
i remember many bitterly cold chicago mornings with frozen legs running to doors and back to the warm car as quickly as possible, wearing a skirt which was ridiculous and inappropriate to the weather conditions.
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Women look better in skirts. and high heels. and those stockings with the line up the back...
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How were your presentations?
by Mysterious inwere you the kind that stayed up for hours the night before finding the perfect point and the perfect scripture...or were you the one that was hastily trying to through something together the morning of and panicking when you realized the circuit overseer was visiting.
and then there was me...i was lucky if i knew which magazines were "it" for that week, lucky if id read more than the first page, and developed a good deal of improve skill when that 25% "at home" rate popped up on my 1 door in 10. eeps.
im not sure if anyone realized just how seat of the pants my approach to field service actually was.
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Street work
by pratt1 in.
maybe this only happens in urban neighborhoods but when i was growing up, many dubs engaged in street work, basically offering the magazines to people on the street as they walked to a destination.. usually it was an area with a lot of foot traffic at a time when many people would travel the area.. did you or people in your congo engage in this and were there any funny stories relating to this practice?
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Drive-by witnessing... funny stuff. This reminds me of this crazy guy that used to preach on a corner in the little town I used to live in. He would stand there all day long trying to save everyone's soul by yelling at the top of his lungs at them. I couldn't wait for a trip into town because I would get to set in the car and watch this idiot scream at the people walking by on the street.
Flash forward a few years (when I was in my early teens) our congregation went through a faze where going out in service meant going into a few businesses before we went out into the field. So, just a few years after I got to watch the street corner screamer, I was on the same street going into the shops and pestering the people inside. This didn't go on too long because, needless to say, this really pissed off the shopkeepers. Looking back on it, I am sure the screamer was thought of more fondly than we were.
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If raised JW - or in while young - how strict were your parents?
by Jamelle ini'm just curious to know where my parents register on the scale of strictness...
growing up, i felt absolutely smothered by my parents (mostly my mother).
the things i couldn't do were above and beyond the limitations put on the other young people in our hall.
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Sheesh. Reading stuff like this brings up some bad memories.
My folks were pretty strict because my dad was an elder and on track to become a CO. We would come back from an assembly and my dad would go through what few tapes I had and throw away anything verboten. That always really pissed me off because we didn't have a lot of money and if I bought a tape or record (dating myself here) it meant something to me. My tastes in music were pretty bland anyway. I mean, throwing away a Journey tape? C'mon. And then to make matters worse, the witnesses would later deny that they ever blacklisted any specific bands.
And then the usual stuff: no school sports, worldly friends, college, holidays, birthdays, etc.
What really sucks is now I get to finance all of this crap for my kids.
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My First "Birthday" party!
by tall penguin inmy former colleagues at the clinic i used to work at took me out for lunch today.
what i didn't know was that they'd arranged a "birthday" party for me.
although my birthday isn't until june they wanted to celebrate the 25 birthdays i've missed while a jw.
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You have great friends! That is awesome.