ShirleyW

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  Patty Duke

  by glenster in

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  anna marie "patty" duke (december 14, 1946 – march 29, 2016) she won an academy award for best supporting actress at 16 for her role in"the miracle worker," starred in the sitcom "the patty duke show," etc.

  she wasdiagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982 after which she had devoted much of hertime to educating the public on mental health issues such as with twobooks--"call me anna" and "brilliant madness: living with manic depressive ill-ness.

  " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/patty_duke

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  ShirleyW

  I see we share the same birthday, but different year. Her show was my favorite when I was growing up. Her book was an eye opener about be bi-polar before people really knew what it was an how to treat it.
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  JW Hypocrisy Rears It's Ugly Head...As Usual

  by babygirl30 in

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  so about last night.... i am out at a local club (not restaurant, not event venue - a club) to see a rap concert.

  now, i am with some friends minding my own business, and i find that i am standing right behind 3 active jw's - one of whom used to be my best friend.

  this girl is as fake as they come: 1) she used to live with me and would bring non-jw guys home all the time, 2) was living with a man when she lived down south - until he dumped her, and then she decided to go back to jw's the 1st time and got reproved, and i supported her.

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  I would call and elder in the Hall and say that I"m confused about a certain issue, and read and/or send him her msg and ask him to explain why you were Df'd but this girl goes back and forth like a revolving door and nothing has happened to her.
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  Is it true: the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away?

  by FinchAndWeston in

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  i heard that the memorial will stop after the last anointed have passed away ... is this information true/false?

  just curious.

  it's secondhand.

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  ShirleyW

  Well the last of the anointed should've passed away a long, long time ago, the numbers have gone up of the folks that are partaking. How does that happen?, those in the Cong who aren't wrapped too tight think that Almighty Jah spoke to them and said I want you to float up to heaven and be one of my chosen people.

  They used to say something like the memorial will end or that's when the Big A will come decades ago, I'm a born-in so didn't really listen at the meetings, but I don't know how they currently flip-flop around that issue.
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  Sweet 16 - Happy Birthday to Us !

  by Simon in

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  it's the forum's 16th birthday today!.

  amazing that not only have we lasted so long but we're still thriving and growing.. thanks to all the people and often colorful characters who've contributed to the site over the years.

  some are still here with us, some have since moved on, but all have touched each others lives in some way along our different journeys.. .

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  ShirleyW

  Congrats Simon! Happy sweet 16!
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  Why dont you go to the memorial?

  by atomant in

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  l guess we all have our own reasons and thought it would give insight to others considering going to reconsider and not go.

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  I haven't been to a meeting including the memorial since the 80's. My mother used to come home and brag that we had 'such and such" a huge number at the memorial, which I remember them having because the hall I used to go to along with the other cong that used to meet there used to rent out a school auditorium or gym for it. However, keeping in mind I haven't been to a meeting since the 80's and my mother passed in early 2006, I noticed that the bragging stopped, which was due to the lack of attendance, which either this site or Tishies site (which I used to follow before I found Simons site) pointed out. Even when they used to get the huge attendance numbers I asked where are these people during the rest of of the year? To which my mother gave the embarrassing answer of " oh, some of them come to the other meetings" which is an absolute lie. Never been to the Ministry School or even the Sunday meeting where people were wrapped along the walls or standing outside because there wasn't enough room.
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  Prince memoir coming in fall 2017

  by the girl next door in

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  http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/20/entertainment/prince-memoir-thr-feat/index.html.

  wonder how much he will talk about jehoober..

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  I think someone posted about this the other day, I have to say I just don't get it with Prince, how folks think he's such a genius and all. He's not the first person on the planet to write and produce music and won't be the last. I personally think he's one sandwich short of picnic. How people totally idolize and fall over themselves because they're so in love with him is beyond me, but then again to each his own.
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  The memorial beauty pageant

  by BlackWolf in

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  2. friends

  since the memorial is coming up soon and its about time for me to go shopping for a new memorial ( aka easter) dress, i've realized what the memorial really is for us teenage girls, a beauty pageant!

  the memorial is the day i spend painting my nails, curling my hair, and carefully applying makeup because my mother says i have to "represent jehovah" and look my best.

  in reality its just to impress the newcomers and to compete with the other girls.

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  ShirleyW

  I remember when I was a kid, all the girls at school would talk about their new "Easter shoes and coat", my mom used to buy me the same but I noticed that they were purchased so they could be worn at the memorial, like all the other little girls my age in the congregation.
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  Gross! Grooming of young brothers in the KH to do more for Jehobadahhh and his organ-nigh-say-shun! I saw it myself.

  by macys in

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  so there is this young brother probably 14 or 15 and the elders are already grooming him to do more for jehobadahhh.

  most of the elders in this kh are old like 60+ and sometimes there are not enough brothers to do the mics or sound so you will see a 70 year old elder forced into action.

  almost comical to see a brother who thinks instagram is an email service try to operate the sound system and projector as he plays the wrong song or brings the screen down during a prayer.

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  or brings the screen down during a prayer.

  HA! Don't know if it actually happened this way but I'm actually picturing a scene out of a Jerry Lewis movie when he plays the bumbling idiot, trying to bring down the screen during the prayer and it hits the ground LMFAO ! !
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  This is absolutly hysterical. OMG I havnt laughed so much in years.

  by joe134cd in

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  warning!!!

  ladies this probably isn't for you.. this html class.

  value is https://youtu.be/sfl.

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  ShirleyW

  Yeah, whenever I see "this video doesn't exist" I'm laughing for the rest of the day.
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  R.I.P Keith Emerson

  by BluesBrother in

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  keith emerson , the virtuoso keyboard player of elp has sadly passed.

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  another good one gone.

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  ShirleyW

  Seems like 2016 is not a good year for the musicians I remember from my teenage-young adulthood years.