Posts by ShirleyW

Before all you Trumpsters go crazy and state what Brokeback Watchtower has already posted above, don't forget the above sentence (especially the last six words) is also included in the report.

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Lazy field service

by Addison0998 in

did anyone else have really lazy people in their congregation when it came to the field circus.

people where i live are shamelessly lazy, they drive door to door even when the houses are 3 feet apart!

yes even in town houses they drive door to door.

This coffee stop thing is something fairly new, when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's we never stopped for donuts or anything, I don't even remember stopping for donuts or anything when we were totally thru in FS and were heading home, everyone went their own way. I really don't remember anyone doing the "pioneer shuffle" crawling from door to door either. Now it seems that's it's a must-do thing to stop for coffee and donuts now.

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Question for Mulan.......

by jimbob in

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you mentioned a little while ago that you were going to post something from reinhard lengtat.

i was wondering if that was still in the works?

i'd sure like to read what he has to say.

ShirleyW

THats a flash from the past, I've always wondered if Mulan is still alive since she suddenly disappeared from the board. I enjoyed reading her posts

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Do you have a Facebook account, important message

by Tameria2001 in

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i'm not sure where to put this under, but i got a message from my anti-virus service.

they were informing me that facebook left everyone's password open for any employee of facebook to see.

they strongly recommended people to change their password to their facebook account.

ShirleyW

Tameria- I don't know what kind of working environment you're in, but if you have an email account through your job, the IT people can read your email without knowing your password.

To give you an example I used to work for Morgan Stanley, one of the MD's (Managing Director) I worked with was in charge of reading over various employees company emails to make sure they weren't saying anything x-rated and sending jokes out on the companies account, needless to say she certainly didn't have the email to those accounts she was reading over. Don't ever think a password is key for anyone not to view your emails and social media.

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Qualifying For A Kingdom Hall Funeral

by minimus in

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one of the most despicable things i can remember is having the elders determining whether or not you “qualified” for proper funeral services in a kingdom hall and if the talk could be given by an elder.

people are hurting terribly and the family is then told, even though the deceased was a member of the congregation, they still weren’t good enough to qualify for proper burial services per the congregation!

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ShirleyW

I made sure that the brother who gave my mothers memorial talk didn't make it sound like a recruitment.

and if he did try to do that, I was on the front row anyway, I would've called him out in front of everybody

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When you were an active JW, did you ever have dealings with a pyramid scheme?

by Tameria2001 in

i'm not sure why this memory popped up, and i was wondering if any others, when they were still active jw had dealings with a pyramid scheme involving other witnesses in the organization?

at the time it was 1993, and my husband and i were still newlyweds.

once in a while, we would attend a neighboring congregation because that was where he grew up, and some of his family was still attending there at the time.

ShirleyW

I remember two sisters in the Hall sold some kind of cleaning detergent, but it wasn't Amway. I don't remember the name of it, but I remember this particular product wasn't very trustworthy, I remember watching an investigative report on the news about it, this was in the late 70 or early 80's and it was kind of funny to me, but this woman here in NYC agreed to sell the product, she could barely speak English with the reporter, but she pointed to the living room of her apt and the room was FILLED with boxes of this product that she had to sell !! Funny to me because these two sisters were involved with it, but surely not funny to that woman who got stuck with a shitload of the stuff in her apartment.

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Will You Stop Listening To Michael Jackson’s Music?

by minimus in

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since the hbo documentary, more people are condemning mj.

will these child abuse allegations affect you if you ever liked his music?.

ShirleyW

Brothers . . . the society has a new proclamation that any music from our former brother, Michael Jackson, is no longer appropriate to be played in our homes for entertainment. If you feel the need for some musical enjoyment,. we will be releasing CDs of the spiritual melodies from our songbook. I can think of no other way to fully enjoy the gift of music than the music of Jehovah . . . .

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Michael Cohen... sleazebag or patriot?

by Queequeg in

so, what do you think?

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fwiw, i say sleazebag....

ShirleyW

It's the southern New York district office that Trump has to watch out for not what Cohen had to say.

YESS!!! As Sunny Hostin pointed out today on The View, she is a former prosecutor in the state of NY, and she says the same exact thing. So I'm just thinking how Drumpf and his henchmen are following the playbook of Watergate, if so, bye bye Drumpf !

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My conversation with the "Fixer" attorney for Pentecostal TV evangelists

by TerryWalstrom in

i had occasion to chat with a man who was the attorney for a large cabal (all related by blood) of pentecostal tv evangelists.

how it came about was as follows.i was finishing my first book about my stint in prison as a jw (i wept by the rivers of babylon)and a man in a suit walked over and asked me what i was working on.he said he'd seen me every day and got curious.i told him.he jumped at the chance to unburden at that point.in the course of our conversation, he opened my eyes to a great many things, not the least of which was the poisonous inevitability of larceny which comes with being a spokesman for god's 'truth.

'he described the process.

ShirleyW

He told me about Robert Tilton, a local TV evangelist who had been taken down by an investigative report. Tilton had owned so many satellites used for TV ministry, NBC leased some of them for their broadcasts. His ministry required one million dollars per day just to break even! The hardest part of being Tilton's attorney was finding ways to hide all the cash.

As long as Tilton keeps me laughing on YouTube,where's he known as the farting preacher, I don't care what he does, he doing the same as all the other bogus evangelists and the GB now with their videos they're showing at the meetings now.