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  If You Got a Call or Visit From The Elders How Would You Deal With Them?

  by minimus in

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  just curious..

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  ShirleyW

  Well, let me see, what would I say to the elders if they came a' knockin on my door?

  I think the convo would be the same as the time some sisters decided to visit my mother in the hospital and of course they had to report to the elders that she was receiving blood during their visit. Besides being "of her flesh" I was appointed her legal guardian, so the decision was mine. ANYWAY Bro Pious called me and I told him a most colorful way to mind his F** ing business and so many other kinds words I felt the urge to share with him.

  Also left a msg for him later on that evening when I knew he would be at the meeting, still wasn't thru making my point with him. However I guess all was forgiven, he and his wife were most gracious at her memorial service, considering how others here say there were treated like a forgotten stephchild at funerals, so I guess "he heard what I was saying ".
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  What is the world´s biggest religious fraud?

  by Bugbear in

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  among several hundreds of candidates i have only picked 3, my question is, who of these is the world s biggest religious fraud?.

  founded by russel, claiming to have about 8 mill.

  followers, who are dedicated to give their time and money voluntary to 8 old men sitting in a golden palace, whit a number of treasure directors, investing in bonds and real estates.

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  ShirleyW

  THat pic that Witness My Fury posted above sums it up, that's the book that started it ALL !
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  ...What do you Do,when People Ask You for Spare Change?...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  .. .........................some people are truly in need..some are not... a man passing by on his 10 speed bike,asked me for $2.00 for a cup of coffee... .................................................."uhhh,no"... ............another asked me for spare change outside a super market... ......................................i said i didn`t have any... ...................so he say`s "how about a credit card?!"......lol!!...

  .. ....................what do you do,when people ask you for spare change?...

  ..... .. ..........................................whats the most outrageous thing... ......................................you`ve been asked forby a stranger?...

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  ShirleyW

  Like what Mum saw when the guy opened his wallet and he was loaded, there's a guy that looks homeless that just walks thru the subway cars with his hand out and just moans "please ladies and gentleman", he been at for a few decades. I saw him one day on the street and he had a thick wad of bills, took out a few and put it back in his pocket.
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  Port Washington/Floral Park/New Hyde Park, NY Congregations

  by Simon Templar in

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  does anyone have any experience with any of these congregations?.

  i am moving to a location where i could go to any of these three congregations..

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  ShirleyW

  I see you're more or less in the proximity as I am Simon.

  Used to be familiar with a few in Floral Park Cong but that was decades ago, but for all I know they could still be there.
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  Why Is Alcoholism Deeply Embeded In JW Culture?

  by RottenRiley in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  we get plenty of company men passing through our circuit, often filled with misinformation and lugging around a suitcase of guilt, they bring more guilt to the weak while praising the braggart pioneers and slapping the "righteous over much" elders.

  why are the wrong people getting praise in this distorted community?

  i know for a fact many of the elders i served with have issues with alcoholism, when "brother guilt" brought his emotional hurricane through our circuit, i had the chance to eat and help pay for his "seven shots of tequila", both him and his wife were not immune to over-indulgences.

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  ShirleyW

  No, JW's certainly aren't the only group with a "few alcholics", which is an illness, but they certainly have a whole lot of "extremely heavy drinkers".

  A few folks here have shared there stories and a few have even said when they left the Borg they stopped drinking.

  I guess it deadens the pain when you're living a lie, trying to follow every insane rule that seven old guys in Brooklyn made up, wouldn't be surprised if few of them could benefit from a few AA meetings.
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  ...What do you Do,when People Ask You for Spare Change?...

  by OUTLAW in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  .. .........................some people are truly in need..some are not... a man passing by on his 10 speed bike,asked me for $2.00 for a cup of coffee... .................................................."uhhh,no"... ............another asked me for spare change outside a super market... ......................................i said i didn`t have any... ...................so he say`s "how about a credit card?!"......lol!!...

  .. ....................what do you do,when people ask you for spare change?...

  ..... .. ..........................................whats the most outrageous thing... ......................................you`ve been asked forby a stranger?...

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  ShirleyW

  Well, living in NYC and riding the subways daily I have a laundry list of stories/scams I could tell you, when you ride the same train at the same time you usually run into the same people.

  The latest scam appears to be a group of Romanians who ride the subway, always a girl with a baby strapped to her holding up a sign begging for money, funny thing is although it's always a different girl, the cardboard sign they hold up is written perfectly, nice block letters, similar to what cue cards looks like, how does that happen when apparently you have no money for food or shelter but the signs are so perfectly written and they're all similar? Also, some of them ride the trains and play an accordion (a guy), while usually it's a little boy that goes from passenger to passenger with the hat, and sometimes there's a woman there also, with the kid strapped on her plus the kid and the accordion, must be a family affair..
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  Pete Seeger, the great peace activist and folk singer, has passed

  by designs in

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  pete seeger wrote songs that became the heart and soul of the civil rights movement- where have all the flowers gone, if i had a hammer, turn turn turn, waist depp in the big muddy, we shall overcome.... we traveled to the newport folk festival, which pete helped establish, and got to sing with the great man himself.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2siieqy34.

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  ShirleyW

  Had no idea that he was the one who wrote Turn Turn Turn, love that song, but i though The Byrds wrote it since they recorded it. Also didn 't know until watching the news this evening that he wrote "We Shall Overcome"
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  Encouraging Experience

  by pixel in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  we all know how the the witnesses love "encouraging experiences".

  i will leave one for you.

  enjoy.. 2014 yearbook, page.

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  ShirleyW

  I think the only thing kids that age look forward to in FS is knocking of the doors !! I recall doing it myself, they must be running out of things to print in the yearbook.
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  Purged songs of the Watchtower

  by LogCon in

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  2. scandals

  my memory of singing the kingdom songs go back to when i was a child in the 1950's.

  they still hold a place in my memory and my heart.

  how can something that is so much a part of your childhood not stay embedded in your heart.?.

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  ShirleyW

  What about that Hawaiian song from the purple songbook, I think it was #19, but can't remember the title. Has that one been dumped also?

  The last song in the same book, Keep Your Eye on the Prize, has that been purged also?
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  Sunday School etc....

  by quellycatface in

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  2. friends

  i have never understood why the jw's did'nt have a sunday school or some kind of educational thing going for children.

  it seems pretty selfish and antiquated.. i remember growing up, i was terrified of "satan" and "the demons".

  not forgetting the "jehovah is watching you" crapola.. i think it's wrong letting young kids listen to fairly adult themed talks, items etc....it's got to affect them mentally.. any thoughts?.

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  ShirleyW

  My mother always used the sickening brainwashed response for why Dubs don't have a Sunday School, "the other churches always separate the children from the parents when learning the Bible, but the JWs and their children learn together at the meetings" . . . that's so pukeorthy, but I have to say, I wasn't sitting next to her but one of my friends on that Sunday afternoon in the 1970's when the Watchtower meeting went into a full-on explanation of oral sex, I was just eleven or so at thet ime, so I have to say my first time of learning about oral was at the meeting, how fitting is that for a house of worship?