WHen I cleaned out my parents house, the first thing I had them throw in the bin was those bound volumes, going back to the early 60's. But then, I think we're doing what the Borg is doing with them now, they don't acknowledge out their bullshit and lies from way back when, so I guess we made them happy by throwing them out?
ShirleyW
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Hooray! Bound volumes in the trash!
by stillin inmy wife has held onto them like they were family heirlooms.
we are cleaning and clearing out accumulated stuff and i pointed out that there is the cd-rom library now and that the society has made revisions and really doesn't want us to be reading the old stuff.
she said that even though there have been changes to the teachings, the wrong understanding served its' purpose at the time.
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Encounter with a long time elder. (Jehovah's happy people)
by freddo inso i'm at work and go to my vehicle parked outside the empty property i'm working at and an elderly man comes out of next door and we recognise each other from when we were elders in the same circuit.
he is early 80's in age, a jw since the 1960's and so the next generation in age up from me.. he's an outwardly jolly sort and asks how i am etc.
(knows i'm not an elder but thinks i'm pimi) and asks if i want a cup of tea so i go in and sit in his kitchen for my lunchbreak and have a chat.. i have a little fish around and ask about how jw's in his hall are.
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ShirleyW
after reading that update about his family and friends, he's still holding on, sad
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Work Colleague Went To a JW Funeral - His Experience
by pale.emperor inso the guy in my office on the desk next to me has just got back from the funeral of his wifes sister.
this was his first time in a kh and full on exposure to jwdom.. bit of background: the deceased jw was not a born in, she was a convert when she was in her teens.
she died last week at the age of 82. the poor old dear was still zealously knocking on doors while in ill health.
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ShirleyW
I didn't have my mom's funeral at the KH, but I let a brother give the talk, I pointed out to him DO NOT make it sound like a sale pitch for the Dubs.
He didn't, but if he was going to veer off subject and do it anyway, I would've had no problem whatsoever calling him out on it in front of everyone.
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ShirleyW
What NewYork44M said . . . .
No such thing
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How do I handle this?
by Phoebe ina little advice please.. it's now 7 months since i stopped going to meetings.
we still get regular calls by elders - at least every 2 weeks.
i can handle them.
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ShirleyW
They are using a child to emotionally engage you. It is a manipulation.
When I moved into my own apt my mother gave my ph number to one of the young sisters in the KH to call me so she could invite me to the hall. I told her when she called " when I used to see you at my mom's house you never came into living room to stop and have a convo with me, so why are you calling me like we're friends? She had to admit the above was true, it was just a sneaky ploy by mother, to whom I had a conversation about giving out my number !!
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What’s The Strangest Belief of Jehovah’s Witnesses?
by minimus inthere’s a lot.
i think one strange view is how only 144000 go to heaven.
since the number is mentioned in the symbolic book of revelation, you would expect that the number would be viewed as figurative, but jws say otherwise.
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ShirleyW
Whats not a strange belief of the JWs??
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November Is The Cruelest Month
by JRK ini have been going through old papers and photographs since my mother passed away.
it has reminded me of some of the reasons that i really hate november.
this year has added to it obviously.. thirty-four years ago, my father passed away in early november.
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ShirleyW
Wow, very interesting, did she have any cameo or background shots in movies and TV shows?
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Hee Haw was not clean
by The Real Edward Gentry inso, my son bought me a device that allows me to look up and watch anything i want.
i remember years ago , i enjoyed the television show hee haw on sunday evenings.
i naively thought it was wholesome family entertainment.
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ShirleyW
MORPHEUS - I know Road Runner doesn't speak, do you remember he used to hold up a sign that had funny sayings on it?
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Hee Haw was not clean
by The Real Edward Gentry inso, my son bought me a device that allows me to look up and watch anything i want.
i remember years ago , i enjoyed the television show hee haw on sunday evenings.
i naively thought it was wholesome family entertainment.
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ShirleyW
I remember the show, I remember the women wearing the "Daisy Mae" shorts, I'm sure their shirts were a bit tight too and tied at the bottom. Don't remember for sure but I"m sure the double entendre joke were plentiful, but back in 1969 and early 1970's they couldn't get away with what they do now. It was meant to be a family show.
Something I've noticed as an adult that I didn't pick up on as a child is cartoons are made primarily for kids, but if you watch Bugs and Daffy, Road Runner now, the things that they say, (I don't mean anything sexual) their jokes and stuff goes right over a kids head, only an adult would pick up on it.
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Secret sex in the Org
by pomo6780 in2 pioneers of the opposite sex.
the brother is in his mid-20s, sister is in her late 20s.
both are alone in car as the only 2 out in field service.
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ShirleyW
I remember this sickening story. These two young sisters in there 20's were best friends, Alice and Betty I'll call them for this story. Alice's father, a brother, was a widower, so Betty married Alice's father. Alice and Betty are best friends and all of the sudden she's marrying her father, but they remained friends though and even had babies around the same time !! This brother wasn't exactly the "handsomest brother on the planet", remember what Al Roker looked like before he lost all his weight, imagine that look on a fifty something body I imagine this old geezer is either dead now or in a nursing home. I don't even know if the marriage lasted because they relocated to another state in the 1990's.
So this pedo-brother must've been checking Betty for quite some time and just waited until he felt it was safe to make his move and when he did she fell head over heels for him. That's the sickest part about the whole thing to me.