ShirleyW

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  Prince on Saturday Night Live

  by designs in

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  2. entertainment

  did you catch it.. http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-princes-electric-prformance-from-tonights-saturd-1653735759.

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  ShirleyW

  I wonder if her goes door to door with that gigantic afro?

  But then I wonder if he still goes door to door?

  Or, does he even attend the meetings?

  Or does he just send a check a now and then?
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  Since The Bible Sponsors Disciplining Your Children Do JWs Say It Is OK Spank A Child?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  is it ok to spank your kids?

  is it ok to discipline them using any force?.

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  ShirleyW

  A couple in the Cong I used to attend trained their two kids at home to sit for a half hour or so being quiet so they wouldn't act up during the meetings, isn't that just fantastic! Well, the Elders must've thought so because it was even pointed out at one of the meetings how they were training their kids. Something tells me they were not the only Dubs doing this.
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  I am JW.ORG

  by LogCon in

  1. social
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  famous quote from wuthering heights revised.. '... i am jw.org!

  it's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

  so don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable...'.

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  ShirleyW

  I see a guy with a button on his jacket a few times.

  I guess there will be an experience coming up very soon at the asssemblies of how someone curiously asked what does that JW org pin lapel mean and "lo and behold" a study was started and that person is not a faithful servant of the real estate,publishing company and trinket selling Organization.
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  New ExJW here for the first time.

  by WideAwake7 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i am here for the first time ...but have enjoyed reading others experiences that i feel i can relate too.

  i used to be an elder for more than 20 years .

  i have successfully faded with my wife and children.

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  ShirleyW

  Congrats WA7 for kicking the Borg to the curb !!

  But don't be surprised if you're asked questions at the wedding since you mentioned that some know your family has become inactive. You know how they are, "gotta get that time in" mentality. They'll just have to asked "how you're doing in da troof now". Just say you and the family are doing exceptionally well and just enjoy the wedding, after all it's a wedding not a return visit.
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  new assembly experience... what do you reckon to this one?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok so aparently there was this young girl who wanted to study with the jw's because she loved the bible so much.

  she asked her fathers permission but he refused, after much nagging though he said she could have a study if she was prepared to have one of her fingers chopped off.

  he thought the is would stop her but she was willing so he got a knife and cut off one of her fingers... a little while later she wanted to attend the meetings and he said no and again when nagged said she could attend meetings if she had another finger chopped off so she agreed and he chopped off a second finger.

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  ShirleyW

  Well, even if it is true, I'm sure it's safe to say it didn't happen in the U.S.

  Unless it happened in some off the grid small southern town or something
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  Do you remember the 15 minute break at the Sun. meeting?

  by 3rdgen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a poster on another thread reminded me of when there was a 15 min.

  break between the talk and the wt study on sundays.

  the break was supposed to be to allow jw's time to drive their bible studys home from the talk.

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  ShirleyW

  All the meetings on one day? That's pure torture, never heard of that before.

  I thought the fifteen minute break was for us kids to go load up on candy before the watchtowel started. Never knew it was to drive home studies, but then, wouldn't you want them to stay for the whole meeting?
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  17 y.o. Sydney Boy Threatens to fly the black flag over the White House

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. social
  2. current

  i think i'm going to get flamed for this, but it needs to be said.. this kid is full of bravado, and if his head is as stuffed full of muslim ideology, as my head was once stuffed full of christian ideology, he probably believes that allah (the other face of yahweh) wants him to do it, and that if he dies in the effort, he will be rewarded in paradise.. before i post his story, please consider that the ideology of martyrdom, has both a christian face and a muslim face.

  ignatius, the second bishop of antioch, wanted to die for jesus, just as the young man in the following story, likely imagines that he is willing to die for allah.. ok, that's out of the way, so here's the story:.

  bankstown boy threatens prime minister tony abbott in islamic state recruitment videodate: october 21, 2014 david wroe and natalie o'brien.

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  ShirleyW

  Ummm, check out that guys junk, seems like he has some extra pieces to the puzzle
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  baby or no baby?

  by Dudu in

  1. social
  2. family

  that is the question for the next months ... i am 32 and i will turn 33 on december....i am freaking out!!!

  my hubby and i have no children and we are not looking for one right now because im studying a masters.

  i will finish subjects in june and after that i will write my thesis (6 more months).

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  ShirleyW

  Something tells me you're not quite ready, since that's a matter between you and your husband. Everyone's situtation is different, there are some women who were finishing up there education and were able to handle a baby plus school without too many problems and then there are those that probably struggled and wish they had waited.
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  I Was Asked To Perform A Marriage Ceremony But Don't Know I'm Qualified

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my girlfriend's daughter and her fiancee asked me to marry them last night.

  they live in connecticut and will be married in new york.

  i felt honored that i was asked but i don't think i can do it because i am not a clergyman or minister and my u derstanding is that only clergy or judges and lawyers and justice of the peace can perform a wedding ceremony and marry a couple.. does anyone have any information on this subject?

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  ShirleyW

  I wouldn't think it's too hard to be authorized to perform a wedding in NY State, I don't know if you were a fan of Joan Rivers but a month or so before she passed she posted on her Twitter page pictures of a gay couple that she officially married, not just going thru the motions. So if the state approved an entertainer I guess they'd approve just about anybody.
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  news item...9 yr old baptised

  by returnvisit in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  grrrrrrrrrrrrr!.

  check out website for dunedin, nzs newspaper www.odt.co.nz re the 9yr old that got baptised at the convention in dunedin this last weekend... can't you just hear everyone there gushing about it??.

  as i said grrrrrrrrrrrrr .

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  ShirleyW

  Needless to say, this nine year old wasn't the first at that age to get dunked for Jah/8 old guys in Brooklyn

  The thing about it is that the Dubs get all smug and talk about how in Christendom they baptize infants, well nine years old is not an infant, but there's a reason why a child can't sign a contract.