Posts by ShirleyW

Oh please, the question should be who didn't misbehave when the were Dubs, which is nothing new I'm sure. There's a bowling alley across the street from Yankee Stadium and although I haven't been at an Assembly there since the early 1970's, the brothers always made a sweep of the place while the Assembly was going on and the funny thing to me is they always left on their badges while they were misbehaving, which is how the brothers could scout them out.

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Matt.5:28 Just looking at a woman and lusting you committed adultery.

by jam in

that's a tough one.

every man between 18-40 years of.

age have broke that law.

ShirleyW

Remember when Jimmy Carter admitted to that back in the 1970's and he got absolutely vilified by other folks who I'm sure have done the same things?

Kinda like a few politicians who were quite vocal and called for Clinton to be kicked to the curb, when it was discovered that they were doing the same thing!

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Twisted Society -

by sammielee24 in

one percenter convicted of raping infant child dodges jail because he 'will not fare well'the huffington post | by ashley almanposted: 03/30/2014 10:45 pm edt updated: 03/31/2014 12:59 pm edt a delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state superior court judge ruled he "will not fare well" in prison.. in her decision, judge jan jurden suggested robert h. richards iv would benefit more from treatment.

richards, who was charged with fourth-degree rape in 2009, is an unemployed heir living off his trust fund.

the light sentence has only became public as the result of a subsequent lawsuit filed by his ex-wife, which charges that he penetrated his daughter with his fingers while masturbating, and subsequently assaulted his son as well.. richards is the great grandson of du pont family patriarch irenee du pont, a chemical baron.. according to the lawsuit filed by richards' ex-wife, he admitted to assaulting his infant son in addition to his daughter between 2005 and 2007. richards was initially indicted on two counts of second-degree child rape, felonies that translate to a 10-year mandatory jail sentence per count.

ShirleyW

I wonder if "Tayquan Washington" would've fared just as well as this guy did?

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Eccentric Jehovah's Witnesses

by snowbird in

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so as not to hijack logcon's thread about crazy things jw's have said to householders, i'd like to start one about just plain old odd jw's.. for example, i knew this dear, dear senior brother who would carry a small bag of peanuts in one pocket of his suit coat and a small plastic bag of brown sugar in the other.. during that time, we would stay out all day long because the territory was extensive.. can't you just picture that precious soul alternately tossing a few peanuts/crumbs of sugar into his mouth as he schlepped from house to trailer, from trailer to house?.

the householders would usually offer us water, lemonade, kool-aid, or soda pops, so no problem with finding something to quench our thirsts.. those were the days!.

sylvia.

ShirleyW

I remember that, I think there was some kind of mention of that in the Ministry School are something about sisters riding in the car with brothers, because of a friend of my mothers, if she was in the car with my father and he was dropping off other folks and she was the last one because she lived close to us, if for some reason she started out in the front seat, when the car got emptier she would get in the back seat. . . just think, all those idiotic rules is what folks still believe will let them live forever without dying!

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Eccentric Jehovah's Witnesses

by snowbird in

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so as not to hijack logcon's thread about crazy things jw's have said to householders, i'd like to start one about just plain old odd jw's.. for example, i knew this dear, dear senior brother who would carry a small bag of peanuts in one pocket of his suit coat and a small plastic bag of brown sugar in the other.. during that time, we would stay out all day long because the territory was extensive.. can't you just picture that precious soul alternately tossing a few peanuts/crumbs of sugar into his mouth as he schlepped from house to trailer, from trailer to house?.

the householders would usually offer us water, lemonade, kool-aid, or soda pops, so no problem with finding something to quench our thirsts.. those were the days!.

sylvia.

ShirleyW

Eccentric JWs? Isn't that redundant, or does Mentally ill better describe it?

I will always firmly believe that something has to be wrong with anyone who willingly follows the drivel they come up with.

I was a born in but never was interested in it. If folks don't see the light after awhile after they've been baptized, then they need psychiatric counseling for a problem they had way before becoming JW.

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Did you ever attend meetings while on vacation?

by keyser soze in

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i remember when i was a kid going on vacation somewhere with my family, my parents would always have to find out where the local kingdom hall was.

god forbid we should miss a meeting because we were actually enjoying our time away from work and school..

ShirleyW

My mom did that a few times on vacay, what every kid looks forward to on family vacation. Well, I guess if we didn't go the KH in San Francisco the day after we arrived I guess I would'nt have had the experience of riding a cable car, that's how we got the KH . . . oh joy.

But then again that was also my first experience of a speaker getting ill during his talk and the meeting still going on, the guy had an epileptic seizure, some of the brothers carried him to the back of the hall and needless to say the meeting still went on, they just started the WT study earlier than expected.

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I have an honest question!

by FL_Panthers in

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it's with regards to disfellowshipping.. is disfellowshipping a legal procedure?

like is there something i can use to prevent this from happening to me if it does happen.. no jokes about me being a bad little boy.

i need honest answers to this.

ShirleyW

Miz - Why are you asking about being DFd? I thought you were an elder unless you got removed, but you should know the answer to your question.

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News article: Watchtower buys former motel

by AndersonsInfo in

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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20140322/biz/403220306 watchtower buys former motelgroup may also purchase site in tuxedo the former hampton inn on route 300 will provide housing for volunteers working on the watchtowers new headquarters being built in goshen.steve borland/times herald-record.

by james walshtimes herald-recordpublished: 2:00 am - 03/22/14town of newburgh the watchtower tract and bible society closed friday on the purchase of the hampton inn on route 300.. watchtower spokesman richard devine said the building will be used to provide housing for short-term volunteers working on the organization's world headquarters, which is under construction in warwick.. the sale price wasn't disclosed.. another property, sterling forest apartments in a rural area of the town of tuxedo, may also be purchased by watchtower.

that would provide housing for long-term volunteer construction workers at the headquarters.. "we talked to the owner there," devine said of the apartments, "but we're still investigating that.

ShirleyW

ABibleStudent - No, they're not transitioning, they've always been a printing company as well as real estate company, you can't just wake up one day and decide to sell a few buildings in Brooklyn Heights (which is prime real estate in NYC) that you've owned for an eternity, they know what they're doing.

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P R O U D of H E R: Daughter's column in the New York Times

by humbled in

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she called last night to say it's online now, front page.

it'll be in the print version sunday.. not everyone's cup of tea, at first consideration: she is slightly embarrassed to be featured in the modern love column in the style section.. the times people asked to make a short video of her article "fight or flight".

they went to her bronx apartment to talk to her.

ShirleyW

Glad you pointed it out Humbled, I use the NYTimes as my homepage, but I usually don't pay that much attention to the Style Section unless something catches my eye. Interested to know how your daughter was approached to share her story, do have to know someone on the payroll or perhaps a freelance editor or something?