just wondering if anyone has ever heard of elders being referred to as independent agents before.
i called the legal department and spoke to an older brother about the child molesters in my hall about a month ago.
he did not want to speak to me because i am just a stupid sister but he did finally agree and that was one point he made.
I know one PO (COBOE) who is in his 80s, has a little money set aside.... needs to keep it protected...
He once told me he has a million dollar umbrella liability policy. He had it when he was a car salesman. I think he kept it after that.
Wonder if it would cover a lawsuit for his JW elder activities?
Snakes (Rich )
it has come to my attention that there have been numerous posts on the board asking posters personal questions like:.
where do you live?are you male or female?do you know people from a certain congregation?do you know a certain district overseer or circuit overseer?do you know of certain conflicts in your congregation?post some pictures of where you liveif you are an active or fading jw ...?if you are an active elder ...?there are plenty of other personal type questions that can be used to narrow down who you are.
some may seem quite innocent like the post pictures of where you live but if i post a picture of ottawa but don't want anyone to know i live in ottawa i have just told the internet world where i live.
Good reminders Lee... I am sure you mods don't have time to go and cleaning up everytime we regret posting something and our edit time has expired.
In the beginning, I am sure I posted info that, if read in its entirety with other posts, would have outed me. Since then, I have publicly identified myself because I no longer care if I am DF/DA. But that was not always the case.
And remember, anything posted on the public part of the board gets hit by Google bots within hours, sometimes minutes. I have posted, then did a Google search on key words from my post and up it pops. Try it with my post here...
Presume that anything posted on the internet, public or private, is out there forever.
Snakes (Rich )
what a cool kitty... hope the allergies dont pose a problem. the animals will work it out....usually... lol
we got a new kitten back around april 1.... my Resident Cat is not amused even now.... they alternate between fighting and playing.... when resident cat (who weighs 13.8 pounds) gets tired of little cat (probably not even 2 pounds), Max swats and hisses pretty good...but always keeps her claws retracted....
my resident cat... Max (short for Maxine, named by the shelter) came from 5A's... (Alton Area Animal Aid Association www.fiveas.org )....I posted pics of max before... will have to post more of both of them soon... little cat (named Adventure by our 9YO...but renamed Beasty because...well...she is) came from a litter from my future MIL's house....
Snakes (Rich )
well, its been about 2 1/2 years and have slowly done less and less.
i've been to about 30 minutes of a meeting in the last month and a half where i stayed out back and with my daughter.. i've been looking for the right timing to leave but had decided i will go anyways by the time my daughter is about 1 years old.
but, it just so happens that my some members of my family including and mostly my parents have actually given me a good enough of an excuse to get out.. they have broken to many rules.
congrats cognac.... I wondered what has been happening with you...
freedom is sweet.
Snakes (Rich )
i thought it might be fun to interpolate a traditional african chant (ngenzini) with john barry's love theme from out of africa (the music of goodbye).. .
here is my arrangement.. enjoy!.
[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>normal</w:view> <w:zoom>0</w:zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser /> </w:worddocument> </xml><![endif]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1595587/barryesques/the%20music%20of%20goodbye.mp3.
Nice... I like it... I downloaded the MP3 to listen to again...... and it reminds me I havent heard that soundtrack from that movie in a long time. I have the cassette but no longer have a player that works. I will have to order it from Amazon on CD. Made my day with nice music.
Snakes (Rich )
commentary on mp3s: (in addition to circulate as you see fit!).
in light of the wts's recent attempts to conceal it's talks from broader inspection and documentation, mp3s to the public are now mostly the works of the 'conscious class' and those exjws who force themselves to endure hours upon hours of control-laced presentations.
kudos to all those who embody anonymous.
marking
quick bio: born-in, third gen jw, devout family, dad an elder/po, mom pioneered off/on, baptized at age 10 (my elder dad asked me to wait but i didnt), had overall good childhood, toured bethel, aux pio off/on, finished hs early, reg pio for a year then pio school, met amazing jw girl (also third gen devout), spent a year in community college (paid for by fairly conservative jw parents), got a good job, married amazing jw girl, appointed as ms, delivered public talks and parts on ca/dc, wife and i had first child.
it was a near-storybook jw life (except no bethel).
i had a couple of normal issues in teenage years, but sought the assistance from the elders and ironed it out.
welcome cheezits....excellent telling of your story. My JW mom, who is 66 and has been dub since 1970, will not hear anything about questions about the Org. She just keeps repeating the mantra: "I know its not perfect. We have the Truth®. Where else will we go? Jehovah is still God. The light gets brighter and brighter." **gag**
Q. How do you fight that kind of cult mentality?
A. You don't. They have to figure it out and want to find out something different.
Snakes (Rich )
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currently we don't have family health insurance here in the us.
could you please recommend a good company/plan that deals with the self-insured?.
i used ehealthinsurance dot com to compare rates and policies. I ended up getting a temp (bridge) plan until I chose a permanent individual plan ...ehealthinsurance connected me to a major provider, Aetna. The ehealth people were knowledgeable...licensed insurance agents.
It is expensive. I have a $3,000 annual deductible plus copays... so I have to pay out of pocket for everything since I dont go to the doc much. What it does do is you pay the contracted rate to the providers instead of the rack (highest..uninsured) rate. Provider submits to insurance, insurance makes the contracted adjustment, tells provider to send you the remaining bill (if you havent met the deductible).
I pay $175 month.... it keeps going up though I have few claims. Cant get my fiancee on a family plan because of pre-existing conditions. Have to get a plan through an employer to get her covered (she has soemthing else right now, which she hates, because she works for a living..but at least she is covered).
good luck navigating US health care.
Snakes (Rich )
one of the things i really like about being out of the cult is that i no longer have to go to those long, boring district conventions.
instead, i can do other things with my new family (fiancee and soon to be step son).
we were out and about sunday, i had taken the day off from work, no point in bothering people with collections on a sunday and a holiday.. we had planned to go to a suburb of st. louis, mo (st. charles) and see some of the vendors on the riverfront in the afternoon and then wait for the fireworks in the evening .
OUTLAW:
Just be happy your not one of the clowns in the circus
Amen.
LHG:
I hated those name tags. I remember once I forgot to remove mine after attending the summer assembly. I needed to go shopping afterwards and when I was in a pharmacy I detected a few people looking at me. I then looked down and realized I was still wearing my stupid tag. Boy did I feel like an idiot! Too bad I didn't qualify for a discount in the store.I feel the same way when I am working and go into a store or restaraunt for lunch. I work for a cable contractor, and that cable company is hated for its lousy service. I can feel the eyes of death staring at me. I usually leave the work name tag in the car. Funny, when I was a dub, I always left my name tag in the car. Or if we were just out for lunch (in violation of Command 5 not to go out to eat during lunch), I would put the tag in my jacket (if I wasnt violating Command 6...brothers wear jackets).... Snakes (Rich )
i've posted before about someone i'm friends with who was going to go to the elders with his girlfriend about some things they've been doing.
well, they got young and very liberal elders who weren't by the book.
the experience didn't end up being quite as bad as i prepared him for and they both only got private reproof.
notverylikely:
Oh, snakes....not because i don't beleive you, but when i read that i thought "he's lying!"
Of course, I also thought "we should vote to lynch him!" at the same time. I guess that just means I need sleep.
LOL ....werewolf game reference...(I hope) in case you anyone was looking at that and going "whaaat?" Inside joke.
And there is at least one poster on this board that can tell you how I directly or indirectly affected their relative and their wedding plans.
Snakes (Rich )
