Posts by reneeisorym

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JW Website Barf alert

by reneeisorym in

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He is listed on the Registered Sex Offenders website in 6 different states on the U.S. mainland.

OMG!!!

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The Candy Jar

by reneeisorym in

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i thought i would ask for advice after reading the post about the common refridgerator.. i have a candy jar on my desk.

for a while i would put candy in it especially around holidays.

now why can't he buy his own candy?

reneeisorym

this thread is why women shouldn't rule the world....

You have so got to explain this comment ninja!!!

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The Candy Jar

by reneeisorym in

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i thought i would ask for advice after reading the post about the common refridgerator.. i have a candy jar on my desk.

for a while i would put candy in it especially around holidays.

now why can't he buy his own candy?

reneeisorym

I have discovered something today. I put some of those nutter butter variation things in my jar and he only ate one. Apparently he didn't like them.

Then I made a orange and pineapple cake and he said it wasn't sweet enough. hum.....

Maybe I need to investigate what kind of candies he likes and doesn't and just put those out. I think I see a pattern that he doesn't like stuff that's not super sweet. I don't really like candy that's super sweet anyway so this might just work out.

Wow, Renee. He's a bold, greedy S.O.B., huh?! I guess every office has one.

Now that just made my day.. and YES HE IS!! :)

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The monthly allowance of candy has run out early this month. Please return next month for a piece. I'm so sorry for the inconvenience.

Great Idea. I was considering this.

Renee

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Crazy neighbors.......you got any?

by ButtLight in

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ok, i about had a heart attack this morning.. i have two cats, and they get out once in a while when someone doesnt shut the door.

so my fluffy got out about 10 pm last night.

i left the patio door open a crack for him to get in........but he didnt come back.. first place i went at 8:00am this morning?

reneeisorym

Once when I lived in the college coed dorms, we heard a big commotion and looked outside to see a girl screaming (there were two guys in the apartment) and banging on the door. I was more concerned with the tv program I was watching and besides she wasn't screaming anything juicy anyway.
But then the next morning when I open the door I see where the door had been knocked in and there is a blood trail down the stairs. I found out from security that she had knocked in the door and stabbed her boyfriend .. . .

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Netflix or blockbuster online

by 5go in

which is better ?

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i am trying netflix and i am little disapointed with them two days still no movies..

reneeisorym

I use blockbuster but the more I rent, the slower it gets. I'll sometimes hold on to a movie for a week or two before returning it and then when I do, I get new ones immediately. But if I send in for new ones every day or every other day, it starts go get slow sometimes a week turnaround.

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todays watchtower/marriage counselors

by aquagirl in

today at the watchtower study,they said that marriage counselors encourage folks who are having issues to divorce..is that the stupidist thing that youve ever heard?

like,how many of them have gone to marriage counseling lately?.also the thing about the man being the head,the decision maker,that aint'jus' aint'a settin' right w/me...so,i assume if i get reinstated,i cant be an elder?like,because i dont have a penis?..um,hello,its 2007!!

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reneeisorym

They, the Society, are afraid of anyone seeing a therapist, because the therapist might wake up the JW patient to the fact that they are being brainwashed by a high control group pretending to be a religion.

That's the truth!

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The Candy Jar

by reneeisorym in

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i thought i would ask for advice after reading the post about the common refridgerator.. i have a candy jar on my desk.

for a while i would put candy in it especially around holidays.

now why can't he buy his own candy?

reneeisorym

I thought I would ask for advice after reading the post about the common refridgerator.

I have a candy jar on my desk. For a while I would put candy in it especially around holidays. I kept noticing that it would disappear after one day even though it was full after I left work. (I leave at 4 and the place closes at 5) I buy this candy because I want to be nice to my coworkers and they appreciate it. I only spend about 3 bucks once a month or so. I figured that people were just eating it after I left because they were less embarassed to grab a piece which is fine.

Well, I brought some candy two days ago and this one particular guy kept coming by every 15 mintues and getting 2 or three pieces every time he passed. I was glad he enjoyed the treat even though I did think he was being a little greedy considering that he had eaten half of it by the end of the day.

I got to work the next day and again, the entire jar was empty. I asked him point blank where the candy went and he said he took it home to give to his kids!! Now why can't he buy his own candy? And why couldn't he have asked? And I don't feed people's kids! If they need candy, you can go buy it for them!

Now an easy solution would be to lock the candy up at night but I really think getting him to stop being greedy would be the best solution. Considering the following facts:

We have company dinners a few times a year. He always ends up taking the rest of the food home with him to his family and then we can't eat it the next day for lunch. I remember the last place I worked, we would all eat lunch on the left overs from our dinners the next day. We can't do this here because of him. And also we end up having less dinners because he gorges himself with the food and then takes lots home and management hates dealing with it so they just don't feed us.

I tried to talk to him about it but he just doesn't think he's greedy!

Help.

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Blood card scan- any generous souls here...?

by Kudra in

would someone here be generous enough with their time to scan the current blood card- the one that i believe has the parts where you check off all the blood fractions that you can take?

perhaps there is an additional form that goes along with it as well?

i am still confused about what % of whole blood that is... .

reneeisorym

I think that if you add all the fragments up plus a little fluid (which the JWs allow too) .. you end up with 100% blood. So just ask them if they will take all of the fragments at once .. lol

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Why they won't try again...

by besty in

i have spoken to two jw's today's who are well acquainted with my non-conformist stand and absence from the meetings.

much difference in their readjustment approach <emotional v logical> but they shared this in common: .

they both explicitly refused my invitation to pursue the conversation to another session - both said they saw no basis for 'getting anywhere' and didn't see the point of endless conversations...i accept that but also think... .

reneeisorym

You aren't brainwashing material and they can sense it.

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JW Website Barf alert

by reneeisorym in

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Here's something else to barf on .....

\http://media.www.theranger.org/media/storage/paper1010/news/2006/05/18/UrbanJournalismWorkshop/Teen-Jehovahs.Witnesses.Share.Beliefs-2118143.shtml

Teen Jehovah's Witnesses share beliefs

By Cody Cruz-Edison High School

On a humid June morning with the sun peeking out after a welcome rain, a young man watching television hears a knock at the door.

He finds two teenage girls standing on his porch, one of them with magazines in her hand.

The girl with the magazines tells the man that terrorism and war will be over soon and a paradise on Earth is coming. All of this is explained in the magazine Awake!, she tells him. Awake! and The Watchtower are publications handed out by Jehovah's Witnesses.

The man accepts the magazines and agrees to a second visit, where she will sit down with him and share what the Bible says.

This is how 18-year-old Health Careers High School graduate Julie Conover spends most of her Saturdays. While not all of the houses she visits yield a "favorable response," she is always happy to spread the word about her religion.

Jehovah's Witnesses are not required to go door-to-door, but that doesn't stop the almost 6.5 million Witnesses in 230 countries around the world from spreading the word.
Jehovah's Witnesses view their visits as a sign of friendship and as a way to show concern for their fellow man, said Steve Durocher, 55, a Witness who attends meetings at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 15720 Huebner Road.

Jehovah's Witnesses promote their religion because they believe everyone should have an equal opportunity for salvation.

"If we share what we know about God, and if we share the Scriptures in the Bible with people, that not only leads to their salvation, but to our own salvation as well," Durocher said. (Wait, didn't you just say that it wasn't required??)

Durocher has been one of Jehovah's Witnesses since he was visited by two Witnesses in 1991. Fifteen years later, he is a regular pioneer, the term used to describe Witnesses who spend at least 70 hours a month promoting their faith.

He works five hours a day as a Northside School District bus driver, leaving the rest of his time free to go out and talk to people.

Unlike Durocher, Conover is unable to devote so much time to visiting people, but she, too, wants to become a regular pioneer.

Conover is juggling working as a ticket seller at Six Flags Fiesta Texas, attending five Jehovah's Witness meetings a week and spending time with her family, something all Witnesses are taught to appreciate.

She will soon have to throw in classes at Northwest Vista College, where she plans to study for two years before transferring to the University of Texas at San Antonio to major in biology or chemistry. (Oh so now that's a good thing?)

No matter what, though, Conover tries her best to spend from 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays and one or two additional mornings promoting the teachings of the Bible.

So who are Jehovah's Witnesses, and what do they believe?

Jehovah's Witnesses consider themselves Christians, but unlike most Christian denominations, Witnesses do not believe that the three parts of the Holy Trinity -the Father, God; the Son, Jesus Christ; and the Holy Spirit, the guiding force of God - collectively form one God.

"Most people who profess to be Christians view Jesus as God, but we know our creator by the name of Jehovah, and it is mentioned in the Bible over 7,000 times," Durocher said. "We worship Jehovah as our creator, and Jesus as God's son."

Ultimately, Witnesses are a part of a "worldwide Bible education program," staying true to the denomination's origins as a Bible study group founded by Charles Taze Russell in Pittsburgh in the 1870s.

"We're really not trying to convert you; we just want to get you to read the Bible and help you understand what it says," Conover said.

When she schedules a second visit with people, she talks more about the Bible and offers to return for further study. She has knocked on hundreds of doors in the three years she's been witnessing and has led two studies on subsequent visits.

Jehovah's Witnesses use every opportunity to inform others about their religion, Durocher said.

"We go door-to-door. We talk to people in the grocery store. We call them on the phone if it's a gated community where we can't visit their houses. We reach them any way we can," Durocher said.

Before going out on this June morning, Conover meets with seven other Witnesses at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 5950 Lockhill Road, where they briefly discuss Scriptures and listen to what amounts to a pep talk by Jason Burnett, an elder. Similar meetings occur daily before Witnesses go out and spread their faith.

Witnesses are assigned territories and keep records of addresses where no one answered the door so they can stop by at another time.

Conover will go with another teen and her parents.

She is determined to promote her religion, and, like Durocher, has alternate methods of doing it.

"When it's raining, we go to Plan B, and that's just making return visits to people who were interested when we first talked to them," Conover says. "If it starts raining hard, we go to Plan C, which is when we go to places like laundromats or gas stations, any enclosed area, really."(Ha! We used to use that as a good excuse to stay home!!)
After driving through the Oxbow neighborhood attempting to make return visits, Conover, her teen partner and adult Witnesses drive several blocks to the Parkwood neighborhood.

They park and walk door-to-door on Bonita Park Street. The teens knock at 10 homes. Three residents answer the door. Two make it clear that they are not interested. The young man, named Zachary Ostrando, OKs a second visit.

"You have your good days and your bad days," Conover says. "There are days where everybody you talk to is interested, and there are days where nobody wants to talk to you."

Conover believes many people view Jehovah's Witnesses negatively because they do not understand what the Witnesses are trying to do.

"We're definitely not trying to bug you," Conover explains. "I'm trying to promote the use of good morals in everyday life."

She resents people refusing to answer the door when she visits them, saying that people should not be afraid of her.

"We won't force you to become a Witness," Conover says. "If you answer the door and tell us you're not interested, we'll respect your wishes and leave. We just want the best for people." (um... isn't that refusing to answer the door the same as saying you aren't interested??)