So Jam - you were cursed out twice on the subway and even kicked out of a restaurant here in NYC? Were you absolutely innocent in both situations, especially getting kicked out of a restaurant.
ShirleyW
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You Americans are the friendliest people I've met
by not bitter in........ well at least the ones i encountered on my recent holiday to orlando.
now i know that its a tourist destintion so everyone working in the hotels and parks are on their best behaviour.
but i have been to tourist towns here in the uk and europe but not one is on a par with you guys.. my husband and i haven't stopped talking about to anyone that wants to listen.
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Anyone recall asemblies actually being fun?
by tim hooper inwhen i was a wee lad, there was a carnival atmosphere at assemblies as this old footage will show:.
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http://www.britishpathe.com/video/witnesses-baptised/query/jehovahs+witnesses.
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ShirleyW
Well as a kid the excitement was always the food.
I remember the first year they started doing dramas at the assemblies, since it was new and I was kid then as well that was exciting at the time.
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Is JW.org blocking this site?
by Comatose intried accessing a picture linked and got this... access deniedyou don't have permission to access "http://assets.jw.org/assets/m/w14/20140315/w14_20140315.art/2014205_univ_lsr_lg.jpg" on this server.. reference #18.39e24cae.1400781585.632ce346.
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ShirleyW
So is the Society now admonishing it's faithful flock to have their family study while wearing paper hats?
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I believe I'm the record holder for travel distance to a convention
by joe134cd inwell it was announced the other night that the new convention venue will be about a twenty hour drive away.
in that 20 hours will include at least 3 hour boat ride.
i'm guessing the cost of the boat ride + the cost of fuel would probably be about $us800 - $us 900. that wouldn't include the loss of wages for the 4 days just to get there and return.
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ShirleyW
Record holder for your travel to a convention, I can tell by just that statement you are so much younger than I am.
In the 60's we always had to travel from NYC to either Washington Dc, Baltimore,Atlantic City, not until the 70's did they start having more close to NYC, although Yankee Stadium was always used when available for NY area, as well as Shea Stadium, Belmont and Acqudecut Racetracks
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BOE: Re: Midweek meetings during visit of circuit overseer
by pixel inyou read it here first!.
to all congregations.
re: midweek meetings during visit of circuit overseer .
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ShirleyW
I haven't been to the KH since the 80's but that was what happened whenever our CO visited, we always had usual ministry school meeting and he spoke at the end.
But I remember we always had an extra meeting on Saturday where he spoke for the whole meeting, do they still do that?
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Just ordered this
by dynamiterose77 ini just ordered this book.
(ok... it's not linking, it's called "i'm perfect, you're doomed: tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing" by kyria abrahams).
i came across it when trying to explain to a coworker about the end of the world images that would be in watchtowers when i was growing up and why they gave me horrible nightmares.
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ShirleyW
as she just made poor choices (not everything in life can or should be blamed on being raised JW).
MY thoughts also, keep that comment in mind from Gypsy Sam as you read the book
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Just ordered this
by dynamiterose77 ini just ordered this book.
(ok... it's not linking, it's called "i'm perfect, you're doomed: tales from a jehovah's witness upbringing" by kyria abrahams).
i came across it when trying to explain to a coworker about the end of the world images that would be in watchtowers when i was growing up and why they gave me horrible nightmares.
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ShirleyW
Yeah I read it, it has some interesting parts to it.
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Who is the biggest Loser JW you have known
by Clambake init seems every cong seems to have some guy who is 35 and never had a job or moved out of mom and dads basement.. i knew a guy who just hand out magazines at work so he would get eventually fired and could sleep in till noon everyday.
of course his elder father though he was a real matyr cause he kept losing jobs for jehovah.
i have an electrican friend who apprenticed some jw kid till he got his ticket and he quit him to pioneering.
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ShirleyW
TOOOOOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION !!
But the most visual losers are the folks that just stand with the literature in their hands in the subway stations, not talking about the table set up or anything, just the ones that still stand like statues with 2 mags, doing it all for Jah. How could you possibly think that filling out a timesheet every week with a certain amount of hours on it will get you everlasting life . . . .LOSERS ! ! !
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Christmas, Mother's Day etc etc..
by Mikado init's mother's day today, a lovely tradition that probably raises lots of thoughts and emotions in ex jws... i was walking around the local supermarket and remembered my family's next door neighbours, who were very intellectually disabled.. in hindsight they probably weren't able to look after themselves, as they lived in absolute squalor.. they didn't have two coins to rub together, yet they went to the effort to buy my family a card and get them a small gift.. i was newly out, and watched in absolute shame and horror as my mother said, in a very superior manner " we don't celebrate christmas", .
it's something i think of often with shame... i too was that superior... to my shame..
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ShirleyW
Mikado, Now that you know better, you do better
Yeah, I remember the pompous attitudes of the Dubs when I was growing up also, which by the way they still have.
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BETHELITES - Whatever Became of?
by Black Man ini often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.
while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).
a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.
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ShirleyW
While we're throwing out names of Bethelites, anyone know Keith and Becky Hopper? Last I heard they were still there, they were in my mother's Cong and he was the top Elder of the Cong. can't think of what you call it now.