Posts by LaniB

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Female Adults Praying In The Company of Male Children

by serotonin_wraith in

just a simple question.. within the jws, if a woman needs to pray for the group because no baptized man is present, she has to cover her head as a mark of respect/submission (take your pick).

it applies even if the male is a young child.

my question is, does the rule still apply if there's a male baby present?

LaniB

I've seen a few sister unprepared who ended up putting the following on their heads.... and yes, they did look a little silly

Doily

handkerchief

face washer (dry of course)

and once

a tea towel.....

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Were You Ever Snubbed In The Hall & Didn't Know Why???

by minimus in

jw
friends

were you ever treated by the elders, their families and "the friends" in a way that made you feel you were unwanted?.

there's probably nothing worse than realizing that you are not being treated with the same dignity and love as others.

once we come out of the organization, we expect better but sadly the real world can be cruel too.

Yes, the worst time was when I was sharing a flat with an Elder's daughter. I had been sick and my meeting attendance for the had gone down hill. When I got back to the hall I noticed I was being treated differently. I finally asked a MS who wife was a friend. He said he didn't know why but there were things being said against me but wouldn't say who. I finally found out it was the girl I was sharing an apartment with. She was telling people I wasn't ill I just didnt want to come. At the time I was just having trouble getting to work and back. I'd come in at the end of the day and go straight to bed and sleep for 12-14 hours a night.

I was also a convenient scapegoat. Whenever she did something that people disapproved of she'd blame me. Watched a movie/tv show some one disapproved of, oh no it wasn't her idea it was mine. Got seen somewhere she shouldn't be, oh she was just picking me up as a favour (how she could pick me up when I was home in bed.....) etc etc.

When I found out I went and got the jug of ice water from the fridge and upended it over the top of the shower when she was having a shower. The really weird thing was that she never said a thing about the ice cold drenching...... but she did steal my furniture later.

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Your Cong = Which Songs or Band were "Demonic?" Did you toss albums?

by Witness 007 in

let me start = "kiss" stood for knights in satans service, "ac/dc" was anti-christ devils children.

"hotel california" was demonic who knew!

"yummy yummy yummy i've got love in my tummy.

LaniB

I forgot the Eagles.

Hotel California was apparently about satanism

Doobie Brothers

Taking it easy was about immoral group sex according to one ministerial servant

"I'm a running down the road, trying to loosen my load

I've got seven women on my mind"

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Your Cong = Which Songs or Band were "Demonic?" Did you toss albums?

by Witness 007 in

let me start = "kiss" stood for knights in satans service, "ac/dc" was anti-christ devils children.

"hotel california" was demonic who knew!

"yummy yummy yummy i've got love in my tummy.

LaniB

Kate Bush, I had to get rid of one of her albums as it contained "Wuthering Heights" which was about ghosts..... I really loved that album.

John Farnham - because a ministerial servant and his wife went to one of his concerts and said afterwards that he told really disgusting jokes and they had to get up and leave so we all had to get rid of our Farnham albums but it didn't bother me that much as I wasn't a big fan.

John Denver (urban legend). I was told his ex wife was a JW and that is why he hates witnesses.

Anything that could be considered "heavy metal"

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How many Australians do we have here?

by jefferywhat in

jw
friends

1.

LaniB

I'm another aussie. Sydney

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Fluffity fluff fluff. Word puzzle, can you solve it?

by RisingEagle in

jw
friends

i found this word problem on the net from another website i frequent.

have fun and post your answer below.

facts:.

LaniB

I'll try going for the strange, outside the square, there is a trick to this answer

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How many legs are in the bus. "the bus" has no legs

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Mum's need help with possible pregnancy questions

by LaniB in

well as you see from my avatar i already have one, she's about to turn two.

i found out about the pregnancy at just past 4 weeks.

always was clockwork regular, but i'd just had a feeling in myself that month that something was, you know, different but couldn't put my finger on it.

LaniB

Hi all,

thanks for the answers and I would appreciate any midwife answers as well. Don't worry, I'm not stressing out as more totally bemused by everything that is happening. After all... how could I be losing weight but be pregnant... where has my brain gone.... why did I just unknowingly kinda reject the occasional ciggie and am not even taking the patches...

Life is just generally weird, amusing but weird

Lani

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Mum's need help with possible pregnancy questions

by LaniB in

well as you see from my avatar i already have one, she's about to turn two.

i found out about the pregnancy at just past 4 weeks.

always was clockwork regular, but i'd just had a feeling in myself that month that something was, you know, different but couldn't put my finger on it.

LaniB

Well as you see from my avatar I already have one, she's about to turn two. I found out about the pregnancy at just past 4 weeks. Always was clockwork regular, but I'd just had a feeling in myself that month that something was, you know, different but couldn't put my finger on it. I did a test because I thought I was tired, rundown, had the flu or something and didn't want to waste my time at the doctors doing pregnancy tests..... and guess what, it was positive

This last month has just been weird. I'm not sure if I just "know" again or if it's wishful thinking or hypercondria :)

I've, according to the doctor, had gastro which is the reason for me being ill a few weeks ago. (If I am pregnant it would have been about a week after I'd conceived) . I'm losing weight (4kg or almost 9lbs so far even with my darling fiance's been bringing me home ice cream). I use to smoke (but never in the house or within the vicinity of my daughter outside). I'd been going to quit and bought nicotine patches to help but I wore one, took it off within a hour or two and have been going cold turkey ever since. I just couldn't do it for some reason, nor can I smoke. I've realised that I was getting very forgetful with my tablets all of a sudden (my epilepsy medication is in the 2nd level of things you are not suppose to take while pregnant). However it's not intentially that I am forgetting, I've just had to set an alarm to remind me, and I've been taking these drugs for the past 20 years of my life. And, I've just been feeling not a movement or flutter but it's almost like a warm soft vibration in my abdomen. It's not there all the time but happens during the day on and off.

I've got a few more days before I can really test (I've just realised I forgot when my last period was, which also is not like me). I know if I stress and worry it can just delay it, so I'm just waiting to see but has anyone else ever had an experience like this?

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