ShirleyW

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  Do you frown upon tattoos?

  by confusedandalone in

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  i am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.

  i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.

  today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.

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  That guy with all the tats on his face, I wonder how he will feel about all that ink when he "matures", when he reaches his 40's, 50's and so on.

  I worked with a woman in her mid 30's who had tatts on her legs, done when she was a teen, but when you work in the financial area, she realizes that the ink wasn't the best thing to do, she wears white opaque stockings year round, inlcuding summer which every woman knows is exactly hell on earth in the summertime if you wear stockings ask any Uber pioneer sister, but she will probably be in denial about that, like she is regarding the religion she's trying to get all that time in for.
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  Do you frown upon tattoos?

  by confusedandalone in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.

  i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.

  today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.

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  ShirleyW

  confusedandalone - I used to work at PWC also, just curious as to work for them in the NYC area.
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  I am going to buy 1st Lottery ticket tonight!

  by BU2B in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is yet another baby step in my exit from the watchtowers control over my life.

  in the us the mega-millions jackpot is up to 587 million $.

  tickets are a dollar.

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  Years ago one of the local papers ran some kind of contest with different levels of cash prizes, which supposedly most Dubs viewed as gambling, I remember after the book study one night the subject came up somehow about the gambling or something and the study conductors son said "my dad plays " . ..", whatever the name of the game was, you should've seen the look on the conductors face !

  Then a week or so later I remember he made sure to mention to my mother and whoever was standing around that he stopped playing the game . .. yeah, right.
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  Peter O'Toole passes

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  lawrence of arabia made him an international star, but his acting gifts showed in many of his films.

  goodbye mr. chips, in which he starred with petula clark, is one of my favorites.. rip .

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  He is/was one of the "last of the greats", but I always wondered if that was his original name or just a big "F U" to Hollywood since he started way back in the day of the Hayes Office, which was heavy on censorship.
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  10 Years out of the JW Organization- What I've Learned ( For what it's Worth)

  by flipper in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  10 years ago i stopped attending jehovah's witness meetings for good.

  walked out of the kingdom hall cold turkey never to return based on injustices i observed among others and myself at the hands of elders giving out not god's counsel but personal opinions as counsel .

  some of them weren't even giving out wt society counsel- just personal opinions.

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  Once again Flip you nailed it on the head.

  When you watch the travel shows and they show churches built even going back to the 1600's with all the ornate statues and pictures but yet according to the Dubs that's all garbage and they're right. A cult that's the same age as the light bulb started by a man with a drinking problem, who if I'm not mistaken was involved with the Masons, and now they blindly follow seven out guys in Brooklyn who have them believing everything they same is coming straight from Jehovah .
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  Today I received my first ever birthday gift!

  by NVR2L8 in

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  i received a parcel at work from my daughter and her boyfriend.

  it contained a birthday card in the shape of a motorcycle leather jacket and a book on rides you can take using the back roads in my part of the world!

  my eyes filled with tears as i was reading the card.

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  NVR - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! This is my Bday weekend too. Although you got your present today I hope you were good to yourself on previous Bdays by buying or doing something special! I have a bottle of champagne in the fridge and tmw I'll be enjoying a favorite meal with friends at a fave restaurant. I hop you will.be doing the same ! i always did that since I was a born in and Bday was barely menfioned.
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  Walk into your Kingdom Hall and tell us what you saw !

  by RULES & REGULATIONS in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this was me driving into the parking lot and into the kingdom hall:.

  every week the same brothers and sisters are late getting to the meeting.

  elders are talking with other elders ( who always have notes and folders in their hands).

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  You summed it up quite well except for Bro Juststartedattending's mentally ill sister who instead of raising her hand to comment just blurts out whatever comes to mind.whenever she feels like it.
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  What are the best questions?

  by MissyM in

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  what would you say are the best questions to ask a jw which they will not be able to answer and may make them question their beliefs?.

  what (if you are a former jw) made you question the "truth"?.

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  ShirleyW

  Well this tine of year i would ask if they have seen that pic of the bethel family with the Xmas treee then ask why they don't celebrate now
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  Has anyone else gotten rid of their TV?

  by NewYork44M in

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  we have not had a tv for about 2 years.

  and even befor this we did not have cable and spent very little time in front of the tv.

  that does not mean that we are anti entertainment.

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  Wow ! No tv ! I am a child of the 50's - 70' s, can' t imagine not havng one. In my day parents just put the kids in front of tge set, now kids supposedly need crafts to keep them busy. SMH at the many aspects of chld rearing these days
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  I have a legal TRUST and want to change the blood option, any ideas?!

  by Sittingstraight1212 in

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  so 14 years ago we went to a lawyer, a witness and set up our trust.

  now because of ttatt, i want to change it to have blood.

  my husband is very witness and if i change it he needs to sign it.

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  ShirleyW

  Whatever you signed off on ars you sure it's final? Just asking because a will can be changed, so pehaps your document can be too