Many years ago while driving with some jw friends in the car we stopped to get sodas. One of the jw's finishes her soda, opens the car door and tosses out the can. I was incredulous and said, "what are you doing?" ---- she gave me this smirk and says, "don't worry, I'll pick it up in the new system." Anyone else encounter this kind of attitude on the part of jw's toward responsibility for the environment? Apparently, some don't feel any responsibility as everything will be taken care of in the "new system"!!
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I'll just pick it up in the New System...
by limbogirl inmany years ago while driving with some jw friends in the car we stopped to get sodas.
one of the jw's finishes her soda, opens the car door and tosses out the can.
i was incredulous and said, "what are you doing?
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Ever have a part on a convention or assembly?
by Frog ini played a role in a convention drama when i was 14. it was a really poxy modern day drama.
something about catching my bigger brother puffing on a cigarette lol.
i had to practice the part for months in a dogey american accents.
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limbogirl
I was probably 9 and my pioneer mom and I did an interview in a part at the CA. I still remember that I wore a pink dress and was very nervous. I was asked what I did to help our family while my mother pioneered and I squeaked out something about folding laundry and getting along with my younger brother.
Speaking of parts at the CA -- best one I ever saw was a skit about some jw kids misbehaving at the local hotel that they were staying at during the DA. Apparently this was a local needs issue. Anyway, the kids in the part were completely convincing as hooligans and the audience roared as they pretended to cause mayhem at the hotel bringing bigtime reproach to jehovie's name. People were actually paying attention and GASP...laughing! The CO gets up after the skit and stands there just glaring at the audience and then ripped into everyone for laughing. Everyone was hanging their heads in shame.
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Stepdaughter wants B-Day
by ajsmama inso yesterday my two soon to be stepkids boy12,girl 9, came over for a visit with their dad.
their mom is a dub, her dad is an elder, my man is d'fd.
anyway, i was just sitting in my room feeding the baby when girl comes in and asks if im gonna start throwing her birthday parties.
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limbogirl
I don't know that I have much wisdom to impart on this....the scenario brings up a lot of memories for me. My jw parents divorced when I was eleven and my brother was eight. Former elder-dad remarried a "wordly" person and mom married a jw. I was so conflicted growing up in that situation about birthdays, holidays, etc. Although your step-daughter may say that she wants a birthday party this will undoubtedly inflict feelings of guilt and confusion -- right now at age nine she's thinking about presents and a party but is she really prepared for the feelings of guilt when hiding this from her mother and grandfather and other jw's? If her belief system in jw teachings is strongly ingrained and all she knows she might feel worse for having a birthday party.
Ultimately, it's not about the adults but about the children and she's not really of age yet to deal with some of the push/pull that will occur as she grows up trying to please a jw parent and a non-jw parent. That is the sad part...her feelings and desires possibly will be lost between the two. The situation you describe is going to be a difficult one for years to come.
My father and step-mother had two other children and I grew up watching them celebrate holidays, christmas tree in their house, birthdays while I didn't participate.
Again, I don't know the answer to how to make this better but it's a pretty intense situation and while you don't want to encourage her to be a jw you probably also want to take it slowly and gently introduce her to other ideas about life.
Sorry for the ramble...your email reminded me of myself at a young age torn between two very different ideals and worlds. It's a lot for a young child to deal with.
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Ridiculous New System Ideas
by sass_my_frass in... that i've noticed, generated by wbts, include that:.
- everybody's living room has a view to the distant snow-capped mountains, uninhibited by the neighbour's ugly tudor that he knocked together at least forty five millennia ago and wouldn't you think he'd have painted the gables by now?.
- they all visit their friends walking over the unfenced meadows carrying baskets of fruit.
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limbogirl
sounds like we'll all be super-heroes in paradise. able to scuba dive with no oxygen, fall off a roof without getting hurt, etc. that could be kind of fun I suppose but really, if paradise means living forever with the dubs...sign me up for hell.
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Boycott Tom Cruise and his Mission Impossible 3 movie!
by Elsewhere inthe church of scientology is trying to censor comedy central because of the scientology south park episode!
please write to comedy central about the scientology episode!.
please express support for south park and denounce the way tom cruise is trying to censor south park!
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limbogirl
ABSOLUTELY I will boycott this movie and anything else that Tom Cruise appears in or is part of -- not only for the Scientology/South Park issue but mainly for his comments about Brooke Shields and post partum depression. argh! My blood pressure is rising just typing this -- that's how much the man pisses me off!!
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Funny things that people told you
by greendawn intell us of some funny things that other people told you either recently or in the distant past.
i have the following quotes: .
how someone described his father in law to me: "he has a little moustache like charlie chaplin and a big head like the frankenstein monster.
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limbogirl
I interviewed a woman for a job a couple of years ago...during the interview I asked her the standard "what is your strength/weakness" question. In answer to "what do you consider to be your greatest weakness in the context of work" she replied: "well.....I'm not very smart." Needless to say she didn't get the job.
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Placed 6 magazines this morning
by stillajwexelder injust thought i would let you all know, that as part of my ongoing theocratic warfare strategy i placed 6 magazines this morning.
i will be recording about 20 on my time slip though
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limbogirl
Would be interesting to delve into the WTS records of preaching and do some major analysis -- number of publications placed relative to the number of new bible studies or converts. Also, would be interesting to come up with a methodology that took into account all of the people falsifying the reports and then applying an adjustment to the overall numbers. And, of course, an annual audit of records to ensure legitimacy of numbers stated. Why sign up for a religion that requires you to be a salesperson when you can't even verify how effective the product is...this is one multi level marketing scheme that truly won't make you rich...spiritually or physically.
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Elder has Power of Attny for my Mother
by limbogirl inmy witness mother has a rare form of leukemia -- fortunately she is doing well and it hasn't been an issue yet.
she notified me some time ago that she had completed forms to make one of the elders at her kh her power of attorney in the event that she required medical treatment.
she told me that she did this to relieve me and my siblings of having to make difficult decisions for her at that time -- meaning authorizing blood.
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limbogirl
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Thank you so much for all of the comments and advice. I really appreciate it -- you've all given me a lot to think about. Hopefully I'll be able to have a discussion with my mother and come to a better resolution on all of this.
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Elder has Power of Attny for my Mother
by limbogirl inmy witness mother has a rare form of leukemia -- fortunately she is doing well and it hasn't been an issue yet.
she notified me some time ago that she had completed forms to make one of the elders at her kh her power of attorney in the event that she required medical treatment.
she told me that she did this to relieve me and my siblings of having to make difficult decisions for her at that time -- meaning authorizing blood.
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limbogirl
My witness mother has a rare form of leukemia -- fortunately she is doing well and it hasn't been an issue yet. She notified me some time ago that she had completed forms to make one of the elders at her KH her power of attorney in the event that she required medical treatment. She told me that she did this to relieve me and my siblings of having to make difficult decisions for her at that time -- meaning authorizing blood. The elder in question is part of the HLC (hopefully I have the acronymn correct). At the time that she told me this I accepted it and agreed with her that I wouldn't want to be put in that position because I would indeed authorize blood. However, the more I think about it the more it angers me that some elder at her CHURCH (because that indeed is what the KH is) will be able to have that kind of authority instead of family members (her very children) who love her unconditionally and have nothing but her best interest at heart. I've gone through the scenario in my mind many times of what would happen and I don't know if I can just stand by and allow this. So, to my question....does anyone know or have an opinion on whether a court of law would overturn the power of attorney if requested to do so by one's immediate family? She would probably disown me for saving her life or attempting to but I'll deal with that later.
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How many here were homeschooled?
by Highlander in.
i'm quite new here, so i apologize if this topic has been covered.. the reason i ask this,, i was raised in the midwest.
a majority(more than 50%) of the children at the local congregation were homeschooled.. the end result was that these homeschooled kids had social problems, found it difficult making and keeping friends and were completely out of touch with the world.. as these kids became adults, rarely did they stay on as witnesses and usually went to the other extreme,, you know the old saying,, sex drugs and rock n' roll..
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limbogirl
there were several "sisters" at my KH that decided to homeschool their children. none of them even had a high school diploma and none were too sharp -- one in particular could barely read yet they were going to start their own homeschool for all of their collective children. this was highly encouraged by the elders. they went out and had some stationary printed up with the name of the "school" and then they went to garage sales and flea markets looking for old text books. I quit going shortly after that so don't know the end result -- that was many years ago -- I can only imagine how those kids are doing today. very sad.