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  I thought it was time to talk.....

  by wozza in

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  i'd like to relate an experience i had yesterday with a couple of jw's "working" with a cart yesterday.. been coming to this site for many years and these days i don't feel i've got much to contribute ,but i was out yesterday doing some voluntary work for a friend who has gone on an overseas trip .travelling around my local seaside area doing the job at hand ,i came across a couple of jw's sitting in a shelter overlooking the beach and had their trolley propped against a large public rubbish bin ,it was actually hard to see ithe trolley from most angles - whatever happened to lifting the basket to show the light stuff ...oh well .the large carpark was pretty empty except for us ,we've had pretty wet weather here lately ,bad storms and here they were set up for a days witnessing rugged up with wind and spitting rain ,i sort of thought " well that's dedication " ....that was my first thought then i pulled myself together and then thought "if i wanted to get some time in and not have to work at it too hard this maybe the place to go if i was a jw still".. well i finished my pickup and looked over at the two and realised i'd read other's experiences about approaching the cart people and wondered if talking to them would be of any benefit as i had witnessed this area for many years and my stance against the wts for hiding molestation of children is well known ,i thought, and they avoid me like the plague.. they were'nt familiar to me so i went up to them and introduced myself and quickly let them know who i was and what i am doing now as regards jw's.

  they were a married couple middle aged been in for a long time and could relate to changes in the org very well to pre 1975 when i had first contact.

  they pretty much suggested i was blinded to the truth ,when challenged on the royal commission into sex abuse they pointed to a case where they believed a victim they supposedly knew of in the jws was a liar ,so that's their case for the org -unbelievable.

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  rebelfighter

  Great job, continue to plant those seeds.
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  This is what Real Charity Work is all About

  by rebelfighter in

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  i love this organization.

  i have been involved with the shriner's since i was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life.

  i belong to their counterpart the ladies of the oriental shrine.

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  rebelfighter

  LV101,

  Yes we do work very hard raising money some of the other fund raiser we do in our area are New Year's Eve Balls, sell Christmas trees, BBQ, concerts and many dances. For visibility we participate in a lot of parades.

  The last time I checked there are 23 hospitals.
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  This is what Real Charity Work is all About

  by rebelfighter in

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  i love this organization.

  i have been involved with the shriner's since i was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life.

  i belong to their counterpart the ladies of the oriental shrine.

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  rebelfighter

  Thank you Stillin, we appreciate the help. I love Myrtle Beach.
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  This is what Real Charity Work is all About

  by rebelfighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love this organization.

  i have been involved with the shriner's since i was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life.

  i belong to their counterpart the ladies of the oriental shrine.

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  WingCommander,

  I asked the "Elder" many a times what charity work does the JW perform especially when he went on one of his the way I read the Bible the Masonic organizations are Babylonian blah blah rants. I heard that rant so many times, I made a point to join another one while we were dating.
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  Hi everyone!

  by cognac in

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  was just listening to a song that made me think of the jws so thought i'd say hi and see how everyone is.

  i'm doing ok. kids are fine.

  i'm good, making tons of friends, very successful in my career, bla bla bla.

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  rebelfighter

  Hi Cognac,

  I am happy you are ok and the kids are fine. Most importantly that you do have some contact with your parents.

  Never a JW but also a single Mom and business woman.

  I am far older then you with grandkids now. Funny the song you attached was one of my all time favorites, little different version by Simon and Garfunkel. OK just dated myself.

  Great to hear from you.
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  This is what Real Charity Work is all About

  by rebelfighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love this organization.

  i have been involved with the shriner's since i was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life.

  i belong to their counterpart the ladies of the oriental shrine.

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  Diogenesister,

  
  

  That is wonderful, how much the medical community can do today. It is totally amazing.
  
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  This is what Real Charity Work is all About

  by rebelfighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love this organization.

  i have been involved with the shriner's since i was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life.

  i belong to their counterpart the ladies of the oriental shrine.

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  rebelfighter

  Barrold Bonds,

  
  

  Yes, you get those "dope" hats at a PRICE. See when I say charity I mean charity. We pay to belong to these organizations. We pay an annual dues, We buy our Fez (hat) starting price $400 without the jewels, if you are lucky someone might be selling a used one for $200. And those cars and trucks the men have to buy them they do not belong to the organization. We normally hold some type of fund raisers each month and we contribute to the fund raiser, we attend dinners and formal dances and we pay to attend, we buy the gowns and tuxes to attend none of this is cheap. Then we donate money. We are just a dedicated bunch for of folks who LOVE kids. Everybody's kids.
  

  
  

  While the men's group raise the money for the hospital. The ladies raise the money for the family needs.
  One of the big joys is going to the hospitals and staying with families while their children are in the hospital making sure they have everything they need. We recognize these are stressful times for the parents and they need to focus on their child not on finances. We see that if they are away from home they have hotel accommodations and meals paid for by us. We also provide transportation if the facility is a distance from their home. We have annual drives for toys for the hospitals.
  
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  This is what Real Charity Work is all About

  by rebelfighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i love this organization.

  i have been involved with the shriner's since i was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life.

  i belong to their counterpart the ladies of the oriental shrine.

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  rebelfighter

  I love this organization. I have been involved with the Shriner's since I was a child best group of men you could ever meet in your life. I belong to their counterpart The Ladies of the Oriental Shrine. A child who goes to one of their hospitals the parents will never see a bill and will never be asked any questions regarding religious affiliation.
  

  Shriner's Hospital in Canada
  

  The Exceptional Care for Exceptional Kids Campaign raised an extraordinary $130,650,327 exceeding the goal of $130 million. The funds supported the construction of the new Shriners Hospital for Children® – Canada, which opened on October 5, 2015, and the Francis Glorieux Chair in Pediatric Musculoskeletal Research.
  Thank you to the over 6000 donors who supported the campaign. Because of you, children will bone disorders will receive care in an ultra-modern hospital.
  “With our children and their families in mind, we created a warm and welcoming hospital,” says Imperial Potentate Jerry G. Gantt. “The building itself is beautiful, each floor designed to reflect a different region of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Great North; each floor is designed to be a place of healing, a haven for the children and families who turn to us for care. But it is much more than a building. It is a place where researchers work side by side with clinicians to find the cause of bone disorders and endeavor to find better treatments and new cures. It is a place where we will offer new state-of-the-art services such as movement analysis and pediatric simulation training. A place where we will focus on improving the lives of the children we treat, the care they receive and the training we provide to up-and-coming healthcare professionals.”
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  Well, they came again. Really this time an Elder.

  by rebelfighter in

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  2. friends

  so after the 2 special pioneers visited i thought i had given them an earful about the arc and the pedophile problem in their organization surely they would have put me on the do not call list.. oh, no not my luck i get an elder and his lovely little mute wife with infant child in the stroller this morning at 9 am.

  don't these people have a job to go to?

  it was a car with 3 men & a woman.. we go through the standard do you read the bible yada yada, i tell them i know the routine very familiar with your game.

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  Thanks Steve maybe now I will get put on the do not call list. LOL But I so enjoy removing some of the blindfolds that they are wearing. Like the "Elder" said one day you research everything! Yeap I do! When I have the time I do or the need.
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  Well, they came again. Really this time an Elder.

  by rebelfighter in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so after the 2 special pioneers visited i thought i had given them an earful about the arc and the pedophile problem in their organization surely they would have put me on the do not call list.. oh, no not my luck i get an elder and his lovely little mute wife with infant child in the stroller this morning at 9 am.

  don't these people have a job to go to?

  it was a car with 3 men & a woman.. we go through the standard do you read the bible yada yada, i tell them i know the routine very familiar with your game.

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  rebelfighter

  Thank you, I saw the stroller and if I can keep a child from getting hurt I would have gone on for another hour. The only thing that stopped me was my favorite doctor's appointment.

  I have major issues with so many of those cartoons as does the general public.

  I hope this young man will take to heart what I said and something I said will sink in. He suggested that I go to their official website and I told him that I used to but refused to because the GB will only report to YOU a slanted version of the WT news. They tell only your good news none of your bad news.