Posts by aSphereisnotaCircle

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Medical treatments you (or others) put off for the "Noo Sistum"

by darthfader in

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on another thread i stated that i didnt get braces for my teeth as a child as my parents believed that the ns would be here soon.

i am very glad that i did it as an adult.

darth fader (smiling happier) .

aSphereisnotaCircle

In Portland oregon in the early 70's there was a young sister in our hall, she was in her 20's, married, with one or two small children.

She had dark hair and full lips, she was pretty and very friendly.

She also had a very pronounced hump in her back, her spine was a twisted mess.

I remember her saying that her doctor had told her that therapy and wearing a brace would help strainten out her back and help relieve her of her chronic pain, but the process would take 2-3 years and the new system would be here way before then so she was not going to waste her time and money.

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JW therapist????

by maninthemiddle in

i read on a facebook thread some talking about going to a jw therapist, i didnt't know there were any.

i remember a young girl that da and my mother blamed it on a "worldly" therapist.

knowing what i know of her family it had to be the best decision of her life.. .

aSphereisnotaCircle

I remember the sister telling me that she had to sign a waiver stating that if during one of their sessions she mention breaking a bible principle she was aware that he would call the Elders in her Hall.

A new couple moved into our hall from California, they were both therapist, both trained before becoming JW's. Now I don't remeber if they were licensed social workers or exactly what there traiining was, but of course it was way more then any JW ever was allowed to get.

Anyhoo, they moved to this area, they both hung out there shingles and overnight they both had full time practices, the need was that great.

But of course they had there clients sign a waiver like the above poster described.

They both seemed to be really nice people, wonder if the're still in.

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Cookie Monster cops a feel

by RR in

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do my eyes deceive me or is that the cookie monster copping a feel on tyra banks?.

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aSphereisnotaCircle

She must have a cookie in her back pocket

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what do you think of the elders who df'd you?

by c.t.russel the IVth in

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your thoughts on the elders that made up the 'comittee' that disfellowshipped you.

did you want to get even somehow or?.

aSphereisnotaCircle

I was never DF'd, I left of my own free will.

Groups of men who gang up on under age minors, verbally abusing them, sexually harassing them, judging them and casting them out of there social groups, aught to serve jail time in my opinion.

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My oldest daughter (22 yrs.) got married this afternoon.

by SixofNine in

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heh, that got your attention .

sharing another "jw's came to my door" experience from a political discussion board:.

edited on sun dec-27-09 09:08 pm by rateyes google_ad_section_start beautiful bride, if i do say so myself.

aSphereisnotaCircle

The man snidely remarks with a smirk on his face, "Is this the usual response you give when people like us show up at your door?"

This is a governing body indorsed reply to “I’m not interested”.

It is in the literature, I can’t remember if it was a watchtower or a book.

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Minors going door-to-door

by doublelife in

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i just went to the silentlambs website and there is a link to criminalcheck.com where you can find registered sex offenders by zip code.

so i typed in the zip code of the territory from my old congregation and i was surprised at how many people popped up.

there was three pages of names and on almost all of those names i recognized the street address as one that i went door-to-door on.

aSphereisnotaCircle

I heard of one woman in the central part of Washington state that was raped and killed by going door to door by herself. She was in her 20's if I remember right. I was a teenager at the time and it was kept as hushed up as could be. You could not get anyone to talk about it. Scarred me to death but all I heard was it was her fault really because she went by herself. Sick

I heard this story too, but I heard it was a sister in Seattle. It was told to me by an elder in our congregtion, he said "the elders told her not to go out alone, but she did, so she did not have jehovahs protection."

The JW's, once again, blame the victim.

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Would the WATCHTOWER sell a Kingdom Hall to the Catholic Church? YES!

by Nathan Natas in

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in 1993, a former jehovahs witness kingdom hall in commerce became the new spiritual home for some two dozen catholic families and it was named st. catherine laboure to honor sister catherine and the french nun who was given the vision of mary now inscribed on the miraculous medal.. .

see: http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2009/12/24/st_catherine_laboure_dedication/.

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aSphereisnotaCircle

i know personally that the Kingdom Hall in question here had dry rot and was filled with every sort of rats and vermin imaginable

Wow, so the brothers did a really lousy job of caring for Jehovahs house, huh?

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Honesty in Field Service Reports....This week's CBS topic (among others)

by Open mind in

this week's congregation "bible" study.

the drone running the show asked an auxiliary question (tm):.

"so, what could be some of the consequences if people weren't honest in reporting their field service?".

aSphereisnotaCircle

How Would You Reply?

My previous, Jdub self, would think "Jehovah would know, and me and the kids would die at the big A"

My current self thinks "isn't that kind of counter productive of them to harass the R&F about accuracy? Don't they WANT those big, big numbers? The amount of hours is completely meaningless anyway, so the bigger the better!"

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Share Your Favorite Aphorisms

by Farkel in

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i'm a great fan of aphorisms.

zen has some of the classic ones.

the moral consequences of doing whatever you do is that you will be the sort of person who did that.. "it's best to ride the horse in the direction it's going.".

aSphereisnotaCircle

If you want to keep getting what your getting, keep doing what your doing.

or,

the difinition of crazy is to keep doing what your doing and expecting a different outcome.

This one was key to getting me out of the borg. I did exactly as they told me to do for decades and my life was miserable on every level. I finally had to admit that no matter how hard I tried I would never get different results.

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I just feel like crying... I'm so fed up of the hypocrisy!

by cattails in

i was very disgusted with the wt study for today.. towards the end of the article it refers to matthew 15 (see quoted scripture below).

this is a beautiful passage where jesus says his followers need to be hospitable, care for sick, hungry and imprisoned brothers.. they turn it around and say that for jw's this means they need to support the "faithful and discreet slave" by going in door-to-door witnessing, making monetary contributions to support the worldwide witnessing work, and following the directions and counsel of congregation elders.. and the worst part of it all is that there were several commenters giving almost word for word answers to that effect, they didn't even seem to listen to previous comments, they just repeated mindlessly what the paragraph said... i was ready to burst.

mom knew i was about to have a fit right there and then.

aSphereisnotaCircle

Honey i feel for you.

The last few meetings I attended were just brutal, it brought out an anger in me that I did not know existed.

That type of stress is not good for you, is there ANY way you can get out of it?