Posts by Dagney

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1958 Convention Program. 8 days from 9am till 9pm. Anyone attend?

by StopTheTears in

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friends

how in the world did they justify this torture?

imagine the children forced to sit in the summer heat at yankee stadium for 12 hours a day.

for 8 days.

Dagney

My mother took a train, alone with a 3 yo from CA to NY without any rooming arrangements. She just landed at the train station with a suitcase and a toddler, followed the signs, and stood in an endless line to receive a room, which we indeed did receive.

I to this day can't believe she did that. She was basically quite fearful of everything. I don't remember the convention but do remember a little about the hotel. I was just together with my older brother and sister last month and they were teenagers during the convention. They got to go by themselves with their mates to the convention, again, from CA to NY.

A different time.

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1958 Convention Program. 8 days from 9am till 9pm. Anyone attend?

by StopTheTears in

jw
friends

how in the world did they justify this torture?

imagine the children forced to sit in the summer heat at yankee stadium for 12 hours a day.

for 8 days.

Dagney

Newly found picture of me at the 1958 convention, never saw this before. You can tell by the look on my face I was having a great time.

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My "best" friend (active JW) has just died

by Terry in

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friends

johnny santa cruz and i met around 1959 at a movie theater in fort worth, texas.. the purpose of that meeting was to create a fanclub for horror movie director william castle.

a week or so later, johnny stopped me as i was walking home from elementary school.. "hey--i think i know you.

weren't you at the william castle fanclub thing?".

Dagney

Condolences. Very sorry for the loss of your friend.

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Patty Duke

by glenster in

anna marie "patty" duke (december 14, 1946 – march 29, 2016) she won an academy award for best supporting actress at 16 for her role in"the miracle worker," starred in the sitcom "the patty duke show," etc.

she wasdiagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982 after which she had devoted much of hertime to educating the public on mental health issues such as with twobooks--"call me anna" and "brilliant madness: living with manic depressive ill-ness.

" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/patty_duke

Dagney

Just saw this on FB.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-patty-duke-dead-story.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/29/472278182/oscar-winning-actress-patty-duke-dies-at-69?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160329

RIP Patty.

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"I should have known" moments

by dubstepped in

i got ready for the meeting.

my wife did too.

we drove out to the kingdom hall and the closer we got the higher my anxiety would spike.

Dagney

I'm feeling a little silly. After reading the OP, it just dawned on me that I too had anxiety...many many times turning around and going back home...hoping I couldn't find a parking space, feeling dread as I drove down the street toward the KH.

I think I just would feel guilty about my actions rather than thinking it through and identifying the anxiety which would have led to figuring out the source. Duh.

So glad to be away from all that. Phew.

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I got my Memorial invite! I got my Memorial invite!

by Dagney in

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friends

my first one!

even though i got it saturday, march 26, in the mail in an envelope addressed to "my dear neighbor.".

it's the thought that counts..

Dagney

Rebel and Pete...lol, one can dream how that scenario would play out.

Okay, I see the invite is two-fold including the "special talk" TM. I didn't even look at it yesterday, I guess I'm so disconnected/disinterested. So even though I didn't get it time for the "free event" as its referred to as, I will still be able to learn how to be in paradise with Jesus. phew.

Jake, there is story after story of conditional love from JW family. Just heard another one in person from a visiting family from Australia. I shake my head at the cruelty of it. You will create fabulous mates outside the Borg. It's not so fast or so many, but they are true. Thank you for sharing your story.

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Hello Everyone!!!

by Christian Gutierrez in

my name is christian and my wife is katja, and we have been out of the organization for a year and a half.

we were both regular pioneers and i was a ministerial servant.

we were very much happy to be witnesses and doing our best to do more for the organization.

Dagney

Hi Christian and Katja! Welcome! I too enjoy your videos and know they will help many.

We're friend on FB, and it's good to see you here.

I am always wondering, I "had" a very good friend who ended up living in Denmark and became an elder there and raised a family. I saw him a few times before I left and wonder how in the heck he could still be in. I'd like to ask you/Katja if you knew him.

Keep up the great work! x

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I got my Memorial invite! I got my Memorial invite!

by Dagney in

jw
friends

my first one!

even though i got it saturday, march 26, in the mail in an envelope addressed to "my dear neighbor.".

it's the thought that counts..

Dagney

It was mailed on 3/23, not sure why it took so long. I've lived in this gated complex for eleven years and I thought we were all doomed because I've not had one single attempt at contact.

It was in a hand written envelope, but no accompanying note or letter, which was not how we did letter work in the past. Just an invite thrown in an envelope.

Tech49 has a good point. JW's love to bash the "world" and exJW's with their "blood guilt" bat. The reality is they are such slackers now preaching wise. The message is still stern and condemning in the literature to the flock for just about everything...and emphasis has lessend on the preaching work. It's such a different JW world now, yet the same.

This "dear neighbor" of mine may have thought they were doing their part to avoid blood guilt, and sadly if they thought about it...it makes no sense. The cult mind...ai yi yi.

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