So how do you get your hours in now, do they still meet every morning and if six or eight people show up it's usually two people to one cart. Does everyone in the Cong get a cart if they're a publisher - "you get a cart! you get a cart! you get a cart!"
ShirleyW
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What is the current pulse in the organization with the reductions?
by SouthCentral ini have not seen jehovah’s witnesses in my neighborhood for several years now.
it appears that the cart witnessing has taken over.
congregations are being consolidated and witnesses are being forced to travel a greater distance than before.the burdens/privileges of elders seem to be ever increasing!.
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Loose Conduct
by Hangin_on inmy friend has been married 25 years.
he works with another jw.
they kissed and he touched her nipples but did not have sex with her.
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ShirleyW
"They kissed and he touched her nipples but did not have sex with her. They ended the affair"
That's an affair? Wow those seven old guys in Bklyn or Warwick really messed up these two as far as sex is concerned. They didn't even close the deal
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ShirleyW
Someone explain to me the need for all the Batman and Spiderman movies, Star Wars is also on the over done list.
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ShirleyW
Ha!! The majority of them. I'm not home now so don't want to use my whole battery on phone to list them
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"One drop of poison in a glass of water"
by stuckinarut2 intime to revive this well known, and often used jw illustration!.
"if you are in desperate need of a drink of water, and the glass in front of you is 99% clean, but contains just 1% poison, would you drink it??".
how often we heard this trotted out from the platform.. recently though, i have heard many examples of still-in jws sharing their observations about things that don't seem quite right with the current activities, direction and culture of the organization.
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ShirleyW
speaking of one drop of poison in a glass of water, tonight on Dateline the Jim Jones story is going to be featured, which is where I believe we here get the "drink the kool-aid" saying from, which of course the majority of the blindly following Dubs would probably drink up and quench their thirst without a giving a thought about "a drop of poison" being mixed in with the drink
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ShirleyW
Since Trump is Putin's girlfriend, any chance that will ever happen in U.S. ??
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Returning from a crash . . .
by compound complex ingreetings, friends:.
my trusty and very old dell died a few days ago; a friend's gift of a toshiba has gotten me here.
fortunately, it uses windows 7 like my old pc.
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ShirleyW
Windows 7 and it runs perfectly?
My old laptop can still be used, but it's ten years old and has Vista, if it stops running I don't think I could get it repaired, these new computers don't use VIsta anymore or W7. When I turn it on now I have to set the date, it always goes back to 2005 or 6 for some reason.
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Circuit Assembly Experiences
by Tallon inmany years ago, in the congregation i attended at the time, there was a brother who had endured bad health over many years.
as result he underwent a number of operations - a couple being life saving operations.
at one or two circuit assemblies he was interviewed on the platform where he related how he endured ill health.. for me, i felt very uncomfortable listening to his experience and, i actually felt embarrassed for him because i have never been one to speak of any health issues i had, let alone publicise it from the platform.
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ShirleyW
Jookbeard, your two posts here have me dying laughing, especially the one about the old sister getting baptized in her wheelchair all wrapped in plastic. She was probably senile and out of her mind, which is da troof seemed so attractive to her.
The other "old bag" as you say that had blocks put under chair, what were they for?
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Re: the woman parking attendants and real life
by carla inwith much amusement i read the thread on women parking lot attendants and it got me to thinking about life at home for the average jw.. i believe i am correct in thinking that anything to do with jw-ism requires a penis, except all the leg work (fs & pioneers).
meaning the mic's, talks, etc... but yet the same guy who thinks his wife (or any other woman) is not bright enough to run the sound system for example doesn't mind his wife hauling hay, digging in the yard, managing the checkbook and other various physical jobs as well as jobs that do in fact require a brain larger than that of a gnat?.
let's say a guy is a bit technologically challenged but he can manage the sound system at the kh ok. i imagine he feels proud that he is getting to do this great privilege?
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ShirleyW
I'm well aware of how the Sister are treated in the congregation, but in the early 1960's we had a sister conduct the "area study" as it was called back then, or the book study, the mtg in certain ones homes usually on a Tuesday night to study one of the publications.
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Anyone ever know gays in the hall that are lying to them selfs or others?
by blownaway ini know of three situations i saw myself.
the first one was when i lived in arcadia.
all the people i use names on are dead and gone so no probs.
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ShirleyW
We had an elder brother who was on the DL (you couldn't really tell he was gay) but back during the days when AIDS was really rampant, his wife got pregnant with twins, ever since the day they were born they were sickly, they both made to the one year mark, but they died about six months apart. About two years later the wife died. Since some of the wife's family wasn't a JW and new the real deal,we found out they all died of AIDS, and her husband was the one who was the last to die.
So, so many brothers I remember that you could definitely tell they were gay Some of them eventually married, I just wonder what their status is now regarding the JWs and their marriage.