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  "She Sells Sanctuary"

  by SPAZnik in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not sure if i should have posted this here or in entertainment :) http://www.postmodernsass.com/blogger/2007/03/she-sells-sanctuary.html

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  brunnhilde

  Thanks for sharing this, Spaz - I LOVE the way she totally caught and nailed the dub who was "witnessing" to her, ROFLMAO!!! I live near Portland, wish I knew who Stacey was!

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  What are you Paying?

  by sammielee24 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  while out yesterday - gas 3.89...diesel 4.34......food rioting got 5 people killed in haiti and at least 150 arrested in egypt...sammieswife.

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  brunnhilde

  Where are you getting your gas, Lysmith? I filled up at a Circle K yesterday and paid $3.48 in lovely east Vancouver, Washington. Nearly $40 to fill up my little 12 gallon tank *sigh*

  brunn
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  Was it better to be an elder's wife, or a CO's wife?

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend of mine was asking about the cult we all hold so dear, and i was explaining some of it to her.

  i told her about elder's wives, and how they have both the prestige of that position, plus the social standing.

  logically, it would be even better for a co's wife.

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  brunnhilde

  I totally get what you're saying, wildfell! If you were a bitch before you were an elder's wife, you were a bitchy elder's wife, but man it was miserable always having to "set the example." And wasn't it just good fun trying to keep your kids in line while your husband was on the platform (like he was all meeting, every meeting) or in the back having little hushed elder conferences or doing whatever the hell else they were always off doing...

  I hated being an elder's wife. It was like having a husband maybe 10% of the time.

  brunn
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  Was it better to be an elder's wife, or a CO's wife?

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend of mine was asking about the cult we all hold so dear, and i was explaining some of it to her.

  i told her about elder's wives, and how they have both the prestige of that position, plus the social standing.

  logically, it would be even better for a co's wife.

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  brunnhilde

  I was a Can't Leaver because I was a True Believer, Dave. Once I woke up and realized it WASN'T true, I couldn't get out of there fast enough!

  brunn
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  Did YOU "Do More!" & Yet Feel Worse?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  everyone was always being told, "do more" and you'll feel better!

  if you're depressed, simply do more!

  if your life trying to be a good jw was getting to you, you were admonished to stop thinking about your problems and just do more!

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  brunnhilde

  I absolutely bought into that load of tripe! I was a regular pioneer, married to an MS and later an elder and even moved to where the need was great! NOTHING helped, nothing changed, because the bottom line was it was crap. No matter how nicely you decorate a pile of crap or how busy you keep yourself running around the pile of crap or trying to convince other people to believe in the pile of crap, it's still JUST CRAP!

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  I was puzzled...

  by Shadow1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on the weekend, my jw wife and i were invited to her sister's home for dinner, to celebrate my wife's daughter's reinstatement.

  shortly before the meal, my sil informed me that her family always says a prayer before the meal.

  here's the thing...she asked me if i would be offended!

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  brunnhilde

  I'm surprised, most Dubs aren't usually that considerate! Of course, they're probably trying to softpedal to maybe suck you in later...

  brunn
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  Was it better to be an elder's wife, or a CO's wife?

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a friend of mine was asking about the cult we all hold so dear, and i was explaining some of it to her.

  i told her about elder's wives, and how they have both the prestige of that position, plus the social standing.

  logically, it would be even better for a co's wife.

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  brunnhilde

  I was an elder's daughter and it sucked. I was an elder's wife and it sucked. It seemed to me that unless you were, as oompa says, a stepford wife, being a CO's wife would also suck. I mean, the R&F sisters were either total brown nosers or scared to death of you. Hearing the same ludicrous talks over and over again and pretending to love it, being ambushed by all the elder's wives looking to score some prestige points, and having to listen to all the crazies and smile and smile. Like I said, major suckage...

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  JW visits the ranch in Guthrie

  by hillbilly in

  1. social
  2. current

  we've been here about 6 months... yesterday (sat) a carload of jw pulls up over the cattle guards and up the drive way.. wife and i are working in the yard.

  the guy gets out with a pair of magaizines.

  i noted he had no bag nor a bible... he's running mag work like a little kid.. so, he strides over to me... i cut him off.

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  brunnhilde

  You mean one like this??

  http://www.cafepress.com/buy/jehovah%27s+witnesses/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_22182363/opt_/fpt_/c_666/

  There's all kinds of fun little items at this site.

  brunn
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  JW membership turnover - a real-life study

  by besty in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  much has been commented here on how jw's rely on an ever-changing membership for keeping their 'the sky is falling, the world is ending' doctrine fresh.. recently it was posted that fully 2/3 of born-in jw's leave at some point, and i thought you might like to see how this works in practice.. so lets take sam and i and our extended families - we were both born and brought up jw's.

  start with me.

  mum and dad were converted in the 1950's.

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  brunnhilde

  It's an interesting that my cousin just commented this week that I was the last one of our generation to leave. Now my parents are in and hers, and that is it. None of our kids are in so when our folks are gone, that's it.

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  Poem from dub friend.

  by searchingforfriends in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i got this in an e-mail from a childhood friend that is still an active jw.

  i found it to be very upsetting and was wondering if anyone else gets the kind of e-mail forwards from friends/family that are still in?

  and how you handle it.

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  brunnhilde

  What a load of horseshite! I was married to an ELDER for gawd's sake and couldn't get him to freaking work more than fifteen hours a week! The other brother's loved it because he was always available to be "blessed" with extra assignments (do all the talks and crap jobs they didn't want) and he was such a stupid git it totally flattered his ego! My marriage ENDED because of being married to a "brother!"

  brunn