Posts by VanillaMocha73

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Newbies - Give us your stories....

by AK - Jeff in

most of old posters have hashed and re-hashed our backgrounds, history, and method of discovering the 'truth about the truth'.. your turn newbies!.

those who are lurking without the benefit of registration - it only takes a minute, and you too can give us your stories!.

those registered lurkers - what holds you back?

VanillaMocha73

I have been here for awhile now, but I don't actually remember if I ever posted my story.

I ended up df'd and alone. Looked around to Yahoo groups for a support group to help me get reinstated - some kind of social life. After all, you end up df'd with no friends and you are not supposed to have worldly friends, what are you to do? Anyway, Roy Milton send me a copy of his book - Truth or Consequences. I talked that over with my mom (anointed sister), and she told me to get CoC.... Let me tell you, my blood pressure went up on that one!!! Touch an apostate book....... And my own mother recommended it..... So, I got it. Wow.... All the things that I had known all along, but you didn't dare talk about. From there, I started wondering what mainstream Christianity was all about and found it very very different from what the JWs say. Then I found this board. And here I am....

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Parents - Be Vigilant as Regards those Toys.....

by AK - Jeff in

i purchased a small green dinosaur for my almost 3 year old grandson yesterday.. it was one of those real 'rubbery' ones, soft to the touch, about 6 inches in length.

in the center of the belly of the beast is a small hole that was created by the injection press that produced it.

[for those in the know, a sprew hole].

VanillaMocha73

Was it shrink-wrapped in any way, or just sitting loose on the shelf? 'Cuz some kid might have entertained himself by stuffing batteries into toys at the toy store.... My son was of that type. My mother watched him when he was about 8 months old and told me that he just sat for an hour and took off the door stop and put it back - took it off and put it back. He would put popped balloons in my shoe, cheerios in the printer....

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Public talk will be reduced to 30 minutes

by martinjw7 in

have you heard about a letter for all congregations announced next new change in wts politics?.

in letter is information that the time for the public talk will be reduced to 30 minutes.. does anyone have a copy?

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VanillaMocha73

Hey - why don't they just send around an approved CD set of talks and they can just play that? Or a DVD if they want to get really inspiring.... I mean, we lost the real music - heaven forbid there might be a spark of originality.

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Dear Abby

by SixofNine in

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mother learns late in life to accept gay son as he is .

dear abby: my husband and i raised our two sons and two daughters.

one son and both daughters married well.

VanillaMocha73

And by their love you will know them.... Shall we tell the story of the Good Samaritan here and ask the JWs "So, who showed love for his ~~neighbor~~mother, the children who didn't want her or the one who took her in?" 'Nuf said.

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I am so angry.....

by minu in

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i am so angry and since i am some of this may not make sense.

i have a sister in law who has recently taken up the pentecostal religion.

before this she was devil/goth child.

VanillaMocha73

This is nephew's bday and your parents are going? There might be hope for them.... But yeah, sounds like a personality of the SIL to breed conflict. The joy of families.

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When you were a dub, did you shun DF/DA'd people?

by exwitless in

actually, in my 14 years as a dub, it only came up with one person in our cong.

who got pregnant out of wedlock (and used drugs during pregnancy).

she was df'd but still came to most meetings.

VanillaMocha73

Some yes, and some no. We had a good friend who got a bit too much into partying and he was df'd. I did shun him and it felt BAD. The very time that he and his family could use some support we were not there for them. I always had a hard time with the concept. My best friend were df'd as well. Then, near the end, a friend's dad was df'd for working in a casino to provide for his family (he could not find other work) and they were walking in extreme heat all together from the bookstudy to their home (which was some distance away). I saw them and figured there was no earthly reason I should not offer them all a ride. They refused and I got censured by the elders for offering the ride. Made no sense to me.

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For people who know anything about cell phones and computers.

by roflcopter in

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i was wondering... i have been avoiding someone on the phone for months.

i usually keep my cell phone off for days and weeks at a time.

but somehow whenever i do turn my phone on, i get a call within a couple of minutes.. now at first i thought it was just a coincidence.... but not anymore, it happens every time i turn on my phone.

VanillaMocha73

I work for a cell phone company. There is no such software. In fact, it would be a violation (in the United States) of FCC regulations. Are you positive the person is actually calling you at the time, or is the phone just ringing with the missed call message? If you do have IM that automatically signs in on your phone as status: mobile then that could be a possibility.

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NEWBIE- MARKING TALK

by Tallman64 in

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newbie here.

i feel i will enjoy my stay.

interesting talk last nite on marking.

VanillaMocha73

It is UnChristian and yet another example of the judgementalism that keeps Dubs so far from Christ.

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update time

by thebiggestlie in

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ok first of all i want to apologize for not coming in more often and saying hi, i guess im just lazy.

richierich did show me that thread from last week with yall asking about me and i intended to post but i completely forgot and other things got in the way but i do want to say thank you for being so kind and caring.

ok so i had my first elders meeting the other day with the subject at hand as "bad association" seeing that my parents caught me sneaking out to hang with my "worldly" girlfriend and her friends.

VanillaMocha73

yes... Firefox does not preserve your formatting - you have to use for real HTML tags. Imagine my surprise when IE brought up that nice formatting box? But IE at work wont read aspx pages, so Firefox it is.

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Coquitlam To Ban "Front Door Pests" But Excludes JWs

by Justitia Themis in

http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=ae1d8b8a-8085-421e-bca4-9dc6f11c1e16&k=99813.

coquitlam to ban front-porch pestspushy gas pedlars targeted, but not girl guide cookiescheryl chan, the provincepublished: thursday, july 05, 2007door-to-door salesmen are about to get the bum's rush from coquitlam.. council voted unanimously on tuesday to ban door-to-door sales following complaints about the pushy sales tactics of some natural-gas marketers.. the bylaw when it is introduced in september will exclude charitable causes like girl guide cookie sales, political campaigners and religious organizations such as jehovah's witnesses.. email to a friendprinter friendlyfont: ****"it's only meant to apply to commercial for-profit door-to-door sales," coun.

richard stewart said yesterday.. "unfortunately it means a summer of seeing door-to-door sales of natural gas.. "i believe door-to-door discussions of religion are protected constitutionally.

VanillaMocha73

So, don't JWs mislead just as much as gas pedlars? (Altho I don't understand the conept - here in the states you have natural gas from the utility company if you need it - no sales involved). And it is harder to get out of JWs than out of some sales contract.... much more dangerous.