HockeyMullet

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  Do active jw's count their time they post here for field service?

  by HockeyMullet in

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  i'm just curious.

  it looks like there's a couple "unbaptised" individuals here.

  i suppose you wouldn't have to detail it in the service reports, although i haven't filled one out for quite a while.

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  Reminds me of the old debate on when to start the time in a car group. Did it start when you left the kh parking lot or at the first door? So here, would it start when you open a web browser or when you click "reply" on a site?

  interesting
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  Many Questions

  by urstruly in

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  hi i'm new to this forum.

  i've looked at other websites to and i see all this about the jw's, now i'm not one, i was raised a jw but made my own decision and my parents respected that.

  i've read so many horror stories, but my life wasn't like that at all, as a matter of fact, when they first knocked on our door and my mother accepted a study our life changed for ever, it was for the best in many ways.

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  I don't think you'll get a response, though.

  I also don't think the "Reasoning" book or any other of their pubs have a section to argue these points.
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  Do active jw's count their time they post here for field service?

  by HockeyMullet in

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  i'm just curious.

  it looks like there's a couple "unbaptised" individuals here.

  i suppose you wouldn't have to detail it in the service reports, although i haven't filled one out for quite a while.

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  I'm just curious. It looks like there's a couple "unbaptised" individuals here. I suppose you wouldn't have to detail it in the service reports, although I haven't filled one out for quite a while.

  Maybe instead of magazines placed you could record "replies to thread."

  Just a thought.
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  Sent my letter in yesterday

  by HockeyMullet in

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  five pages of therapy and they probably won't get past the first sentence that says i'm disassociating myself from the corporation (oh well).

  i just wanted to say that i've been lurking here for awhile and that this is really a helpful forum.

  lots of good info and advice!

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  arrowstar.......dont go there. It still hurts.
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  Sent my letter in yesterday

  by HockeyMullet in

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  five pages of therapy and they probably won't get past the first sentence that says i'm disassociating myself from the corporation (oh well).

  i just wanted to say that i've been lurking here for awhile and that this is really a helpful forum.

  lots of good info and advice!

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  I'm still mad at Norm Green for moving the Northstars to Dallas. I loved watching Basil Mcrae, Mark Chumura, and Tinordi gooning it up.
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  Sent my letter in yesterday

  by HockeyMullet in

  1. jw
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  five pages of therapy and they probably won't get past the first sentence that says i'm disassociating myself from the corporation (oh well).

  i just wanted to say that i've been lurking here for awhile and that this is really a helpful forum.

  lots of good info and advice!

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  No mullet here.

  As far as the elders are concerned, I'm not worried at all. I actually welcome a verbal confrontation, but since I explained in my disassoc. letter that I do not want any contact from them, I don't forsee any visits. Who knows though. Hope their feeling lucky.

  Arrowstar, I love hockey, but never played competitely (unless you count the jw get togethers that always ended up with injuries). I'm more of a boxing/football person.
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  Nightmares?

  by elliej in

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  i don't know if anyone else has this problem or if i'm just crazy.

  i have been attempting to fade.

  my family recently moved to a new area and we have never attended the kh here.

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  My wife was having the nightmares. Pretty extreme. She dreamt(sp?) that she was in the kh, armeggeddon was going down, and our two children and I were locked outside dying. In one form or another she would always have this type of dream and it really affected her. I would wake up and she'd be crying trying not to wake me.

  Then she visited a therapist who helped her out incredibly. The doctor said he's been visited by many jw's. The dreams are gone now.
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  Elder Horror Stories

  by Saoirse in

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  ozzie suggested we get all these stories together so i started a new thread.

  post yours here!.

  i have a friend that hasn't been to a meeting in over a year.

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  Here's one that just happened to my mother. She had just sent in her letter of disassociation last Friday (she beat me to it). Wednesday rolls around and she has to run into town so she hastily backs out of her driveway and is hit by a fuel truck. She has my 7 month old neice in the back, and thankfully noone is hurt. Just startled. The fuel truck ends up in the ditch with the driver really freaked out because of the crying baby. And who drives by at this time as well? One of the elders(at least when I was a jw). He drives by under 5 mph and smiles as he's looking at the totalled vehicle and goes about a 1/4 mile up the road, turns around and gives my mother the "It serves you right" look and waves as he continues on his way. The accident just happened and this !@#$% doesn't stop to see if everyone is alright. We will have words if/when I see him in public.
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  Sent my letter in yesterday

  by HockeyMullet in

  1. jw
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  five pages of therapy and they probably won't get past the first sentence that says i'm disassociating myself from the corporation (oh well).

  i just wanted to say that i've been lurking here for awhile and that this is really a helpful forum.

  lots of good info and advice!

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  The apostate thing made me laugh. I'd post the letter, but I don't have it on file here at work. I started "studying" with the jw's about 1989/1990 and was dunked around 91. Did the whole regular pioneer thing and "privileges" in the KH, and even applied for bethel service. But the presiding overseer held onto the app for four months without telling me, then finally told me they aren't going to turn it in because of a RUMOR that I was courting a girl from the congregation. Alot of crap happened that I could write a book about but I won't (dont have the time ) Anyway lets just say this elders daughter was in a similar situation with a "brother" from the same cong. and they quickly sent the bethel app in for him to get him outta town. I was DF'd around 92. Married in 93 and reinstated 94. I quit going meetings around 99 and about six months ago read "Crisis of Conscience" . I started looking up info on the WTBTS, and was disgusted. So here I am.
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  Sent my letter in yesterday

  by HockeyMullet in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  five pages of therapy and they probably won't get past the first sentence that says i'm disassociating myself from the corporation (oh well).

  i just wanted to say that i've been lurking here for awhile and that this is really a helpful forum.

  lots of good info and advice!

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  HockeyMullet

  Five pages of therapy and they probably won't get past the first sentence that says I'm disassociating myself from the corporation (oh well). I just wanted to say that I've been lurking here for awhile and that this is really a helpful forum. Lots of good info and advice!