Posts by ShirleyW

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Hoping I can stay

by allyson in

i started studying with witnesses about 21 months ago.

started going to meetings in march 2017, went to the memorial and attended my first convention.

i love it.

I remember more than twenty years ago someone told me that I mom's Cong there was a trans, they always compared him to RuPaul, anyway, of course he got the talk from elders, which I'm sure basically said if you don't Identify with being man you cannot be a part of Jehovah's Organization.

I have a feeling you love them now is because you're being love bombed, they welcome you and hope you see the light your self that you are doing what is wrong is Jah's eyes. In your future you will be SO GLAD you got out of such a dangerous controlling CULT

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Is There a TV Show or Movie That You Just NeverGet Sick Of?

by minimus in

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i love the rifleman!

i’ve seen it a million times and still will watch it !

and goodfellas, the movie as well as the sopranos.

ShirleyW

It's amazing how I can still watch an I Love Lucy reruns which I've been watching since early childhood, but then my shows from back then like Andy Griffith, Mary Tyler Moore, Sanford and Son, The Addams Family, Hazel, Dick Van Dyke, Make Room for Daddy, The Honeymooners, and many more are still on and I never get tired of them

The shows I used to watch back then and can't watch a minute of some reason are GIlligans Island, McHales Navy, Batman, Beverly Hillbillies, for some reason I've had my fill of these shows. Golden Girls I'll watch but it gets so annoying sometimes especially when Rose starts up with those St Olaf stories.

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Could You See A Kingdom Hall Getting Shot Up?

by minimus in

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i would never want to see that happen but i’m surprised it has not occurred at this point.

there are many disgruntled people who have had bad experiences with the witnesses..

ShirleyW

The blood issue and shunning could make somebody emboldened to do something crazy!

My thoughts exactly Minimus! I am surprised because of the blood issue some UBM probably lost a wife or baby and gone crazy and shot up the place, just thinking of that yesterday after the Texas shooting, but I've wondered about that before, the main reason being the blood issue

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If you have Windows 10 . . .

by compound complex in

my roommate bought a new dell laptop, operated by windows 10. in the three weeks he's had it, it's online then goes offline (and this repeatedly): when he goes from one e-mail to another, when he engages in a financial transaction, when he opens a new webpage, etc.

he does the basic rebooting, as prescribed in the article whose link is attached.

his pc and my older dell and apple powerbook are all on wifi.

ShirleyW

Nic, what's the secret for keeping your old relic running so perfectly, I have an HP a year older thn yours running Vista. Now when I turn it on just to see if it still works which it does, I now have to set the date and time, always has a 2007 date on it, other than that not many complaints I've poured so much money into it, should've gotten it's replacement much sooner than I did with all the repairs money I put into it

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Witnessing Just After Sunrise

by Iamallcool in

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about everytime i go to the grocery store just after sunrise, i can see the witnesses sitting and waiting inside their cars to distribute literature.

it is not against the law for them to do that.

i was wondering do they allow parking lot witnessing in your area?.

ShirleyW

Sunrise witnessing in NYC is nothing new, but then it's been a while since I've been around the ones that do that, but they used to meet at 6 or 7 and head straight to the subway stations are on the streets where the stations are located. Everybody in a rush to catch the train and they know that, so I'm sure if they actually spoke to one person in a month that would be something.

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Uber Cart Witnessing at the State Fair

by truth_b_known in

last thursday i bunch of us working decided we were going to head down to the state fair and badge our way in to get a fletcher's corny dog for lunch.

we had to go to a specific gate to park and show our credentials to get in.

this meant driving halfway around the perimeter of the entire fairgrounds.

ShirleyW

I was hoping the thread title would be a clue
I was hoping it was the State Fair of Texas

I was wondering more if it was taken at a KH or assembly hall because of all the folks with the carts. as mentioned in my post

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Uber Cart Witnessing at the State Fair

by truth_b_known in

last thursday i bunch of us working decided we were going to head down to the state fair and badge our way in to get a fletcher's corny dog for lunch.

we had to go to a specific gate to park and show our credentials to get in.

this meant driving halfway around the perimeter of the entire fairgrounds.

ShirleyW

darspilver - do you know where that picture was taken of all of them with the carts? You know it can't be after the FS meeting at the Hall because the turnout wouldn't be that big, unless of course that pic was taken at the KH during the week the CO was visiting. I also notice the school buses, I guess they're for them since all the carts and can't fit in someone's car.

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Kleenex Head Covering

by jwundubbed in

growing up a woman in the cult was pretty bleak.

most of the adult women i knew were either depressed sad women or an embarrassment to me.

i was typical kid in that regard.

ShirleyW

I remember one sister who put a diaper on top of her head to conduct the meeting for field service. A regular diaper....not a cloth one
That is really and truly awful.

Well, that's even worse than the slipper, but let's just hope it wasn't a used one, like since the sisters are always in subjection and she just changed her baby's wet diaper and a brother was in the room or whatever and all she had to grab was the wet diaper, I don't even want to think about the only thing left to cover the head with would be a muddy diaper

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Kleenex Head Covering

by jwundubbed in

growing up a woman in the cult was pretty bleak.

most of the adult women i knew were either depressed sad women or an embarrassment to me.

i was typical kid in that regard.

ShirleyW

I have to laugh at that slipper thing, it is funny. Your unbelieving mate walks into the room and you put a slipper on your head for a covering to show subjection to men, that your not as worthy as men are. Just wondering, was it one of those fuzzy slippers?

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Anyone remember LP album circa 68 with Awake on back cover?

by cabasilas in

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i have a memory of some rock artist of the 60s placing a pic of herself and some guy in bed and her reading an awake magazine on the back cover.

it could have been "is time running out for mankind" or something like that.

anyone remember?

ShirleyW

was Maria Muldaur ever a Dub?