hey...Maybe it is the Bethel Library that he is selling!!! well anyways...if there is anyone on this board who wants some old literature ....give me some titles and I might have some of those....I know I have some bound volumes....that are just collecting dust at the moment....
truckerann
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Ebay Idiot
by slimboyfat inwho is this ebay idiot who keeps trying to sell "undisclosed rare watchtower items" for ridiculous sums of money?.
http://cgi.ebay.com/extremely-rare-watchtower-jehovahs-witness-collectible_w0qqitemz4622536407qqcategoryz378qqrdz1qqcmdzviewitem.
http://cgi.ebay.com/jws-watchtower-related-pyramidology-collectible-oddity_w0qqitemz4622460580qqcategoryz378qqrdz1qqcmdzviewitem.
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To all the faders who still go to meetings
by What-A-Coincidence into the ones who still must go for family sakes .... what feelings/thoughts go through you at the meetings???.
mine are:.
"damm, i wish my folks would have not been suckered in, i could be doing something purposeful.".
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truckerann
Not going is the solution....and that is not a disfellowshiping offense....but to those who still go this a is great time to write out a "TO DO" list or your grocery shopping list....
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Brokeback mountain
by InquiryMan ini finally got to see it tonight.
actually i wanted my wife and me to see it yesterday, but we were both too tired.
it was very touching, well-made.
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truckerann
Drew...I downloaded it off of WARAZ and watched it last night...it was a different type of story..not one I am use to seeing, but there wasn't any obsene scenes just a lot of enudo (sp)...it was pretty sad in the end...if you like a sappy love stories...kinda like romeo and juilet...or I should say romeo and julio...
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Restatement
by pratt1 in.
for those of you that have been dfed - how long did it take you to be reinstated, and how long did you continue to be active?.
i was reinstated after 5 months out and i continued to be active for about 5 years.. although i have to admit, i never felt the same about the dubs after i was reinstated, and should have quit the religion much earlier.
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truckerann
I wasn't d'fd but was disassociated which meant that you were an unbaptized publisher and should be treated as if you were d'fd, I remember having to meet with the elders and telling them that I was pregnant....and a sister telling me that if I were there for the announcement it would be a great show of rependence...I was 17 at the time...my nonjw family throw me out because I was pregnant and my jw family wouldn't have anything to do with me because I had been disassociated-(by the way, the arrangement was done away with as stated in the November 15, 1988-Watchtower, the only reason I remember this is because I was at my JW sister's house and in labor when an elder called her to let her know that she could talk to me now because of what the Society printed in that WT).
well to make a long story short...I had my baby and some of the sisters throw me a baby shower that is when you really find out who are your true friends, you see during my 9 months of pregnancy- I made every meeting and even attended the circuit assembly-it is funny now when I look back...the first meeting back it was as if as I had never been shun...talk about mind control.
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Leaving without the internet.
by unique1 inmy husband mentioned to me this morning that he was glad i had this resource and some support to help me through this.
he also made the comment: can you imagine trying to leave without the internet?
that got me thinking, it is hard now, how much harder was it back then, before the internet.
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truckerann
I know you all don't know much about me...maybe someday when I get up the courage I will share my experience with you...but I did have several problems with a lot of what was going on in my congregation...my sister was a pioneer and very close to some the elite cliques there so we would hear a lot of behind the scenes gossip that was discussed between return visits and door-to-door activities...she was one who couldn't keep her mouth shut and would often share some of it with me...I couldn't believe what I heard...then I started to see a lot myself...I witnessed firsthand how my grandmother was totally humilated by her fleshly brother who was the PO of the congregation by Dfding both my parents and my sibly all on the same night...for something they did not do..oh the stories I could tell you...as I read the threads on this forum I see a lot of what has happen to each of you to have happen in one way or another to me or someone I know.
The only thing I haven't been subjected to thankfully is the molestation (sp?) and abuse of some of the innocent ones only to have it covered up by the body of elders...and the GB. that is was so sick about all this....
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Best, worst and weirdest assembly halls...
by Jamelle ina recent thread about the experience of attending the 1969 convention as a young child really started me thinking.
i have several fuzzy memories of assemblies i attended as very young child.
this got me onto the track of the rather odd, uncomfortable or even really cool buildings i have visited over the years as a result of those conventions.. so my questions to everyone are:.
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truckerann
Let's see... the worst would be in Abliene, TX....we were downwind from the cattle stock yards....there was quite an ordor coming our way especially in the 100 degree weather when the steam is lifting off from the manure...suffice to say that we never went back to that are ever again...I can't think of a best place...I remember feeling sorry for those who would attend Yakees (sp? I am a Doger fan LOL) staduim in the muggy hot New York City weather...
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JW couples don't love each other
by Nosferatu inhas anyone else ever noticed this in the kh?
married couples don't seem to show any affection to each other.
however, when a couple is dating, they will hold hands.
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truckerann
I just had to put in my two cents on this thread...I know of a couple who were young when they got married and are only married because the brother doesn't want to stop being an elder...he has been heard to say that he is only with because he doesn't want to lose any privileges in the congregation...they don't even go to the meetings in the same vehicle...it is rather pathletic if you ask me.
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Fried chicken & and slice of white bread
by MissBehave inanother thread today made me think of this....does it bring back memories for anyone else?
it was the staple food of every assembly i remember.
they made them in the morning and by lunch time the bread had absorbed all the grease from the chicken.
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truckerann
oh the memories you are bringing back to me...yes the cheese danishes were the bomb!! The generic sodas...two kinds cola and lemon lime....My grandmother always told me that the food tasted great only because it had Jehovah's blessing
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What happened in the 80's?
by Virgochik invarious posters have mentioned how get-togethers and fun times socializing were frowned upon and discouraged somewhere around the early 80's.
everything changed, as far as the picnics, the dinner parties, etc.
i vaguely recall some connection being made to parties and increased "immorality.
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truckerann
In our cong. we use to have some great get-togethers, which is what we called them but all that has changed. No one wants to take the responsiblity for any wrong doing that might go on...apparently the person who organizes the event is the one who is held accountable if anything goes wrong...how were we suppose to control little johnny(an elder's son) from getting in his car and cruising main street when he was suppose to be at the get-together...especially since his own father couldn't control him....
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Whose been ripped off financially by his JW brother?
by Spectrum ini posted this in another thread but it is more relevant here.
i worked for jw doing back breaking work for a while only to be told by another jw that he was ripping me of - he was paying me half the going rate.
i was only 17 and naive didn't know anything about the world of work.
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truckerann
There was a brother in our circuit that would hire illegal witnesses and purposely cheat them knowing that they couldn't do anything about it because he would threaten to turn them in to the INS....