Posts by Merry Magdalene

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Share your pictures of being a child/baby whatever...or your childrens!

by KW13 in

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me .

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war coming to Isreal?

by Sasha in

is this the beginning of the "abomination of desolation"????

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Merry Magdalene

If Israel stopped fighting there would be genocide? There already IS genocide.

On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and yet decided to adopt it. Indeed, the responses I received, including from some leading human rights activists, indicated a certain unease over the usage of such a term. I was inclined to rethink the term for a while, but came back to employing it today with even stronger conviction: it is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip.... -- Ilan Pappe (http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6374.shtml)

~Merry

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HAPPY 37TH BIRTHDAY SPARKPLUG !!

by juni in

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happy birthday decki !!

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love with a big hug, juni .

Merry Magdalene

I can't do it.......i just can't wait until tomorrow......

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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HELP....My Daughter Has FLEAS!!!

by onlycurious in

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has anyone here ever dealt with this????.

i have tried olive oil, tea tree oil, flea shampoo and now mayo with tea tree oil.. they are so small it's hard to tell what they are but i saw them the first time she came home and they were big sand fleas.

she had gone to the beach the week before and then when the school did a head lice check they told her she had fleas.

Merry Magdalene

I used diatomaceous earth for fleas and it worked great.

Best wishes!

~Merry

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The Person you were Engaged to Marry had an Accident & became a Paraplegic

by new boy in

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.................would you go through with the marriage or back out of it?

Merry Magdalene

I believe I could and I would still marry.

I have emptied bedpans and cared for bedsores, dried tears and listened to rants and sorrows, so I believe I could do it. I do not think my love and my life would be necessarily be diminished, but would definitely be challenged. And I feel it would be very important for us to get extra help to whatever extent possible so that we would not be going it alone and I would not burn out.

Them's my thoughts on the matter. Then again, I am a hopeful romantic.

~Merry

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A bit of Rutherford info

by Lady Lee in

you just never know what you might find out when you look at the small print.. i have seen many references to the judge's drinking habits - most often to excess.. the us prohibition started in 1920 and continued through to 1933. life must have been miserable for alcoholics and pushed many to create their own booze.

prohibition in the united states (1920-1933) was the era during which the united states constitution outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.

wiki.

Merry Magdalene

Great stuff!

Watchtower of November 1, 1924 article here--Prohibition.

~Merry

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Official Australian records of E C Henninges and Rose Ball

by Doug Mason in

if you go to the site of the australian government official archives at.

http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html.

select "search now".

Merry Magdalene

"should be considered and treated as an adopted daughter" after the death of her brother. Do we know when that was?

"Some months" after the death of Rose's brother, according to the quote. Do we know when that death was? Hmmm...

~Merry

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Official Australian records of E C Henninges and Rose Ball

by Doug Mason in

if you go to the site of the australian government official archives at.

http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html.

select "search now".

Merry Magdalene

And from the 1906 divorce transcript (I think), a portion as found here:

Q.What did Rose do at the Watch Tower?A.She attended to the correspondence.
Q. Where was her desk with reference to the desk of Mr. Russell in the Watch Tower Society?
A. It wasn't near his; it was in the office.
Q. When would he go to the Watch Tower in the morning?
A. I don't remember; he generally went down alone.
Q. Who would return with him?
CT Russell response
A. She came with him in the evenings, and they came home about eleven o'clock and the young men that were in the office - she was the only girl, and the young men would go home, and he wouldn't allow her to go home with them, and she must wait and always go with him.

I like the bit that comes after your 1906 WT quote also Leo:

The brother came first, and shortly after "Rose's" coming he died.
It was some months later that Mr. Russell in the WATCH TOWER office, hearing sobbing, turned to find "Rose" in tears. Inquiring the cause, "Rose," still weeping, came over and sat on his knee, and complained that Mrs. Russell had worked her too hard before she started for the office; and that she felt weary and friendless. He told her that all that was a mistake. He defended Mrs. Russell as not intentionally unkind or unreasonable, and told "Rose" to do what she was able to do, cheerfully, and then to explain her weariness, and that he was sure nothing unreasonable would be asked. Then, suddenly drying her tears, "Rose" kissed [R3815 : page 222] Mr. Russell. Although surprised at all this Mr. R. did not resent it nor reprove it; but rather reproved himself for not having been previously more fatherly. That very night he talked with his wife about "Rose," and pointed out that she was surely lonely since her brother's death, and that it would be a duty to look after her interests more carefully.
Mrs. Russell agreed, and it was mutually arranged that "Rose" thereafter should be considered and treated as anadopted daughter. "Rose" was so informed in the presence of the three, and invited to spend her evenings in the large study and reading room with the Russells. This course was followed; and when "Rose" retired, usually at 9 p.m., Mrs. Russell kissed her good-night and told her to "pass the kiss along" to Mr. R. also. This custom continued several years, until Mr. R. said to "Rose": "I think it best that I should discontinue kissing you; you are now wearing long dresses and looking more womanly, and Mrs. R. might get to feel jealous;--although she has never said a word to that effect, I would not wish to give her the slightest reason for so feeling."

~Merry

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Official Australian records of E C Henninges and Rose Ball

by Doug Mason in

if you go to the site of the australian government official archives at.

http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html.

select "search now".

Merry Magdalene

Free copies of the Henninges' books can be obtained from Christian Bible Students Melbourne

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Allow me to introduce myself

by RollerDave in

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i was raised among the witnesses and left in my early 30's due to a mixture of doctrinal disputes and social isolation.

my mother and both of my sisters remain within the organization.

i also have two brothers, one df'd, one who never quite caught the watchtower bug.. my road within the organization was a rocky one that eventually lead to a place where i found myself socially isolated within the congregation as a person simply unfit for fellowship with proper, upright, theocratic people who must cut off all 'worldy' association, suffer the ensueing isolation, and eat humble pie until such a time as they determined i was 'spiritual minded' enough for them to associate with.. baptism was held up as my expected goal, but despite trying, i was never quite good enough for them.

Merry Magdalene

Loved the introduction! You're a pleasure to read...

~Merry