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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I Was Asked To Perform A Marriage Ceremony But Don't Know I'm Qualified
by minimus inmy 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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news item...9 yr old baptised
by returnvisit ingrrrrrrrrrrrrr!.
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.
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Actress Glenn Close reveals childhood spent in a Cult
by WingCommander inwhat an amazing story.
to hear her describe it, it sounds exactly like the controlling, abusive environment many of us were raised in, except i didn't get to spend 2 years confined to an extravagent hotel in switzerland.
she escaped at age 22 after: dum-da-da-dum!
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ShirleyW
You just know if a JW reads that the obvious points will go clear over their head and they won't even see that basically they're lving the same life but belong to a different cult.
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Please Give Me Your Thoughts On Unusual Elderly Behavior....(thanks)
by minimus inmy girlfriend's dad who is 82 lost his second wife to cancer last october.
while she was dying, he secretly was seeing another woman, in her 60s.
long story short, a month after the wife's death, they both moved in together and in early june , they secretly got married.
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ShirleyW
The story that Lois Lane tells on the first page of this thread makes sense to me, I'm just wondering if that woman that LL talks about is the one that married someone's father that I know. After the father died this professional widow had things sewn up and taken care of and proabably moved on to her next victim/husband, but I guess as long as she remains a faifthful servant of Jah, well, that's the MOST important thing . . .isn't it ?
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Trained to Exploit Emotionally Vulnerable People?
by dontplaceliterature ini don't post here much anymore, but i am working on a project with a few academics from my area who are in the psychology field.
we are looking for printed evidence in their literature that jehovah's witnesses train their publishers/pioneers to target people who are suceptible to being recruited - i.e.
people who have experienced a loss, or who are emotionally vulnerable.
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ShirleyW
Don't know if they use this anymore but there was a tract called "Hope for the Dead" that my mother used to give people who just lost a loved one, which was bascially promising them that they would see that person again during the Paradise . . . (makes me sick just to think of that)
As soon as a Dub found out you lost someone thru death they'd whip that one out on you
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ShirleyW
I heard you on the conference call this past Saturday, but unfortunately they were having technical problems and your audio was fading in and out.
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Frieking Bethel Heavies/COs and their second rings!
by lambsbottom indude, every picture i see of any bethel heavies or gb members (a lot of cos also) have them wearing a second huge gold ring!
this is a clear sign of "hey i'm a bigshot!
" you just dont see that in interviews of celebrities or politicials.
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ShirleyW
Toweragent - I bet you can figure out where else the rank and file can kiss them . . . .
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Let's suggest some programs for tv.jw.org
by rebel8 inweekday afternoons: a soap opera featuring judicial committees, demon possessions, and wives clamoring to be the ones who host the circuit overseer's lunch.
saturday mornings: sparlock cartoon.
friday evenings: reality show featuring jw dating.
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ShirleyW
To borrow a title from an old game show, how about they start a show called "To Tell the Truth". On second thought i don't they're capable of doing so.
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can anyone verify the new "basic pioneer" rumor?
by Chris Tann inso it's rumored started by one member that there is a new pioneer rank called basic pioneer, announced at annual meeting.
can anyone verify this is true?
everything else presented at the meeting has been verified except this.
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ShirleyW
10 hour pioneer - 10 hours is more or less what the average publisher puts down on their time sheet every month, whether they made an actual 10 or not.
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ShirleyW
JWTV. org - All I can picture in my mind is some hokey quiz show with that organ music in the background like the quiz shows from the 50's and Carol Merrill from Let's Make a Deal standing in front of the boxes as some loser elder wearing a plaid sports jacket and bow tie asks you do want Box number two or do you want what's behind the curtain?