Posts by rebelfighter

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Intersting Visit from our local JWs yesturday

by little_Socrates in

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way to early on a saturday morning we got a ring on our doorbell.

someone else answered the door.

after they left i walked by our entry way and gagged from the smell!

rebelfighter

For an example, as a homeowner I have hired electrical, plumbing and other contractors forewarning them over the phone that my home is a free and clear zone and going into great detail as to what that means. I cannot tell you how many times I have turned these fouls away and NO I do not pay their mandatory service call because you did not follow my explicit instructions of showing up fragrance free.

When wearing fragrances you are correct it should remain in that personal space. the real killer is when it is worn so strong that when the person leaves the fragrance stays in the area. This makes things like elevators next to impossible. Think about places most people go without giving any thought, scented air fresheners public restrooms are totally off limits. Yes, a lot of thought is given to everything single thing a migraine suffer avoids through out the day.

There is a long list of foods to be avoided.

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Intersting Visit from our local JWs yesturday

by little_Socrates in

jw
friends

way to early on a saturday morning we got a ring on our doorbell.

someone else answered the door.

after they left i walked by our entry way and gagged from the smell!

rebelfighter

Actually I agree with the OP 100%, for those who unfortunately suffer from sever migraines fragrances can be an instant killer to every thing we do in life. My home, my lifestyle, my life 24/7 is controlled by what I can and can not do to prevent the next migraine. I take a migraine preventative medication most people who take this drug take 25 to 50 mg to control their migraines, John Hopkins Hospital found the correct dosage to be 200 mg for mine. So yes your fragrances to some of us are very toxic, very unfortunately.

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Kick Back and Relax to Some Music

by Finkelstein in

that's right folks time to kick back , pour a cold one and in take in some tunes.. what are you listening to right now ?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu87294pvx8.

rebelfighter

Grreatteacher that is to funny about that cat. I love Country Gospel and my mother hates it. She is a very violent alz patient and when I had to transport her from place to place I told her if you hit me I WILL turn my music on and each time she hit me the music got louder. She finally got the idea and stopped hitting in the car.

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Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse

by Dissonant15 in

all states in the us mandate health care workers and teachers to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement.

this year our commonwealth expanded the law to include clergy, and to include a mandatory two hour training on what to look for and how to report, required for all mandatory reporters.. my coworker at the hospital said she and her husband did the training together, because her husband volunteers in the sunday school at the church, they required him to take it too.

i asked several witnesses when this law came into effect if all the elders and ms are going to be taking the training and everyone looked at me like i was an alien and they had no idea what the heck i was talking about.

rebelfighter

I work with a youth group between the ages of 10 and 20. All parents are aware that all adults are trained to be on the look out for physical, sexual and emotional abuse and if we suspect any of the above we call the authorities to investigate. We are very proactive. If nothing is found we are very happy but we are out to protect the children first.

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These guys just freak me out!

by John Aquila in

ok, i didnt think anything about it.

but last night some friends from across the city called me up and said that the co was visiting their hall and in his talk he said that the society is getting geared up for a massive kingdom hall and assembly hall construction project worldwide next year.

they told the publishers; "get ready".

rebelfighter

Sounds like a new gimmick to get donations coming in since the May broadcast, ice cream plea and all other did not work.

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knock knock

by Sabin in

if jw`s come knocking at your door, do you open it & engage in conversation, tell them to sod off, or just not answer the door?.

my husband`s has asked me not to answer the door to them if he isn't here?

he hate`s the fact that they make a point of calling when they know he will be at work.

rebelfighter

They always knock, never ring the bell. My first comment is obviously you cannot read the sign it clearly states "Absolutely No Soliciting" in red posted next to the door bell. They always respond back we are not selling anything. Look I am very busy I work from home thus I really need to get back to work. And the last one that ever called one me I just looked at him and said if you really want to help find me about 5 husbands to handle all the bloody things I do not have time to get done as a single mom. You know I never saw them again.

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What’s the deal with all the Smart-Educated JWs?

by John Aquila in

we talk a lot about most jws being uneducated, uninformed, and that they lack critical thinking skills, but in my area there is a lot of jws that went to the university, medical school, law school, and came back to the organization.

in my circuit, that i know of, we had two electrical engineers, one computer engineer with a ph.d. eight teachers with a bachelors degree and three of those with a masters in education.

we had two medical doctors, one was a pediatrician who closed his business about 3 years ago and went to bethel.

rebelfighter

I was thinking exactly that when you posted a question the other day. The "Elder" from my past is extremely intelligent with a good education and very good critical thinking skills.

But I have 2 kids now adults who are extremely brilliant one at age 30 all kinds of education still cannot figure out what to do with it so he is supervisor of banquet setup at a resort. I am paying all these loans for this, really. The other one dean's list top of her class choice of any job she wants. Full scholarship offers for her masters. Not ONE once of common sense anywhere in her brain, her boyfriend and I run after her continually picking up the missing pieces.

So maybe the answer is they just do not get the picture when they are that intelligent.

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2015 Questions and Answers!

by Atlantis in

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2015, questions and answers!.

.. these are some of the questions we have received and the answers to those questions.. .. 1. what happened a few months back when atlantis had to disappear.. .. answer: it wasn't so much that atlantis had to disappear.

it was that atlantis had to take a break due to a serious family situation.

rebelfighter

St. Augustine has got to be the best city in the USA. By far my favorite. I spend a couple of days there every month. Love the art galleries, so much history, the college, have you been in the college cafeteria it has the largest stain glass collection in the world. The architecture in this town is spectacular.

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JWs and Education

by cognac in

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my parents were always of the belief that, "the end is right around the corner".. i was a zealous kid, with a learning disorder, so my parents never gave me a hard time or pushed me in regards to my education.. this not only hurt me, but, pissed me off insanely.

fast forward to me having my own kid.

ava is not doing well in school.

rebelfighter

Are you in the US? If yes, the school must test your daughter for learning disabilities you may have to fight for it depending on your jurisdiction. It is covered under the Federal Law. My daughter, I thought was reading to me before kindergarten because I read to her all the time. When I got the call from school that she could not read a single word in second grade I thought they had the wrong parent. She had been memorizing what I had read to her. It turned out she had extensive learning disabilities across the board. I am telling you this because early intervention IS important and YOU are spot on to react now. As I write this my daughter is in her final semester, on the dean's list, full academic scholarship of a teaching degree for hearing impaired education. She will start her career as a teacher in January. It was a long hard struggle of tutors and special help but neither of us regret a minute of it.

She is 24 and we both laugh today because I am a financial accountant and back when she was 6 months from graduating from high school with all kinds of honors, top of her class after completing calculas and all the other math classes, I actually lost my temper in a meeting with the principal and school counselor. All I said was "how can you possibly graduate someone with all these honors who has NO clue how to count MONEY?" Boy did I get a deer in headlights look.

Learning disabilities can be overcome with the proper techniques, you just need to get the right people with the correct knowledge on board to help.

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November 2015 Awake

by username in

ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.

my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.

well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.

rebelfighter

CultBgone, just a personal thing with me. I am and have been involved with the Masonic community for over 40 years, it is not a religion. It is very much a charity organization and the "Elder " just was all over my case how he found it wrong. We just do so much for kids and treat kids so differently then the JWS.