Posts by SnakesInTheTower

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Does anyone see the dates of topics?

by bsmart in

i have no idea when someone has posted.

it has been a few days at least.

i am in edge or explorer mostly.

SnakesInTheTower

At one time, didn't the system post the actual date of the post, rather than the more generic "5 months ago" or "1 year ago"? I miss that.

Just a thought, always grateful JWD is here.

Snakes ( Rich )

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GDPR: Get your data from the UK Branch now, before 25-May-2018

by Fay Dehr in

get your data from the uk branch now, before gdpr kicks in on 25-may-2018.

use this free template letter, which has been tried and tested.

under uk law they can (and will) delay their reply if you miss out any of the important points in the template letter - for example they are allowed to ask for "costs" from you (£10 is an established fee in the data industry), or if you fail to prove your identity by means of passport or driver's license.

SnakesInTheTower

No, but the cards moved from one congo to another when you moved.

They used to just send the time as an aggregate of the congo. Usually locally only kept no more than a couple years, others kept their whole history in archive files. Bet they are purging now.

I haven't been an elder since Dec. 06 or a secretary since Oct. 06., so a lot has probably changed. The Borg was just starting to migrate to electronic records and communications.

Snakes

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GDPR: Get your data from the UK Branch now, before 25-May-2018

by Fay Dehr in

get your data from the uk branch now, before gdpr kicks in on 25-may-2018.

use this free template letter, which has been tried and tested.

under uk law they can (and will) delay their reply if you miss out any of the important points in the template letter - for example they are allowed to ask for "costs" from you (£10 is an established fee in the data industry), or if you fail to prove your identity by means of passport or driver's license.

SnakesInTheTower

The Borg is lying.

When I attended MTS, one of the instructors who was also a DO, had spent time in Service Department. I promise you he told tales of all the info they have on you. Anything you have applied to do for them was there.

The local congos are a mixed bag. One congo I was assigned to after MTS the secretary had a file on every single person. I purged them when I arrived. 5 contractor bags full, and this was a small congo. But I read some before burning it and it was creepy. Very invasive, definitely invasion of privacy. Not sanctioned by the Borg. Other congos barely had publisher cards.

Of course, in anticipation of these data laws, they may indeed have purged their files.

Glad I am out.

Snakes ( )

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Interview with Dagney

by Dagney in

tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i was born and raised in southern california, with a brief stint with parents as need-greaters in central america.

my parents accepted a study in the d2d work, i believe my father was interested in the revolutionary aspect of the religion, and my mom said she wanted to learn the bible.

they were baptized in 1937 i think, and attended the one and only los angeles kh at the time.

SnakesInTheTower

Dagney... That makes sense. Yes, Indian food. I had just left the dubs and ended the relationship with the JW sister in India. Do you remember the young gal that was there, drank too much, had the truck with no brakes, she used to go by Eclipse on JWD. She was drunk, but had the presence of mind to put brake fluid in her truck. LOL.

She stayed in the room at the hotel with the gals, guys were next door. She left early to get home to her family. Always wandered what happened to her. I have a pic of the two of us. Good times. Funny, I only drank tea. No alcohol. Drove home straight through 15 hours. Ended up with kidney stones. LOL

Wasn't Uzzah and BB there too?

We want to do Tahoe, maybe next year. I have the vacation time. Life is good.

Snakes

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Interview with Dagney

by Dagney in

tell us a little about yourself and your family.. i was born and raised in southern california, with a brief stint with parents as need-greaters in central america.

my parents accepted a study in the d2d work, i believe my father was interested in the revolutionary aspect of the religion, and my mom said she wanted to learn the bible.

they were baptized in 1937 i think, and attended the one and only los angeles kh at the time.

SnakesInTheTower

Dagney..

You are right about Apostafests. Never got to go to Tahoe yet. On our list, maybe next year after Hunter graduates.

We met at the Toronto Apostafest...What year? At the big microbrewerery.

Nice life summary Dagney.

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Gerrit Lösch gives a special talk the Norval Assembly Hall in Georgetown Canada

by wannaexit in

jw
friends

the first part was all about the the evils of higher education.

i couldn't stand it and left.

was anybody there today?

SnakesInTheTower

I was still an elder in 2006 when I went to college. One of the reasons they deleted me.

My first class I took was Ethics. I took stances on every issue we discussed that was opposite of what JWs believed. And it woke me up. I left JW in 2007.

A few years later, when my non JW wife took her class, I had a chance to thank that instructor and tell her how her class changed my life.

No wonder JWs don't want anyone educated.

Snakes

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"You owe Jehovah humility and HONESTY" - an email from a JW

by Wake Me Up Before You Jo-Ho in

hey forum goers.

i'd like your opinions on constructing an email reply to this shocker below.

bit of background about the sender: she is a middle-aged, cheery uberdub whose siblings left when a schism occured in her congregation in canada way back when.

SnakesInTheTower

OP...,

Tell the nosy ass JW the 411....1 Thessalonians 4:11, from their own precious NWT ...."Make it your aim to live quietly and to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we instructed you,"

Snakes

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Anti-JW movie on Netflix?

by Ray Frankz in

jw
friends

i'm watching the new netflix movie "come sunday".

it's one more film about a person who has turning point in life that demands the person to reevaluate his own faith and belief system.

in this case, the man is a petencostal bishop that gets very famous and has a big church preaching about salvation to heaven and punishment in hell.

SnakesInTheTower

My family and I watched Come Sunday this evening. I wouldn't have watched it or known about it if not for listening to This American Life on NPR, which did this story in 2005 and rebroadcast this weekend because this movie came out on Netflix. TAL produced the docudrama.

Interesting movie, makes more sense if you hear the original story first. I enjoyed it. 1:45 a bit long. Big name actors though.

As for a movie based on anything JW related, it is too limited an audience to be economically feasible. As much as the ex-JW community makes of them, the religion is of little consequence in the minds of non JWs. The carts are a joke, the door knocking is limited, and it is a dying religion. Just not fast enough four our tastes.

Snakes (Rich)

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