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  Need a good laugh !!!, what is this person on ???

  by run dont walk in

  1. watchtower
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  you cant believe everything you read, .

  i found this story, i almost pissed my pants laughing, who comes up with this,what drugs is she on, as much as i dislike the jehovah's witnesses, this story is too much.. she needs medical treatment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

  enjoy ....................the truth about the jehovah?s witnesses.

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  oh my that is a riot!!!
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  Is this true?!!! No way!!!

  by Doubtfully Yours in

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  a couple of childhood friends of mine, henry caban and alberto caban, both bethelites at one time, were said to be going to law school compliments of the wtbts.

  is it true that they put some 'cream of the crop' bethelites through college depending on what field the society needs?

  i can't believe it?!!!

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  WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL??
  Really, it is appropriate for them to pay for them to go to college so they can have their own homegrown lawyers.

  If they are good JWs and put their time in at Bethel for the crappy pay, I say good for them! At least they will have something good to fall back on if they leave, whether as a JW or not.

  I am actually amused that anyone would be surprised by this. The official view of education has changed so much over the past 5 to 10 years at the WTS. I, for one, am all for the WTS providing useful training to all their bethelites so that when they leave, either as a JW or not, that they can be productive members of society, and not have to rely on their table setting and mopping skills.
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  Disneyland gets rid of passes for special needs kids, PETITION TO SIGN

  by neverthere in

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  i got this from a web board that i am part of for asperger's kids, please, if you can, sign this petition.. please go to this and sign...disneyland has got rid of the pass for speacial needs kids.

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  THAT makes much more sense.

  thanks
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  Cure depression with a good diet

  by RubyTuesday in

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  depression relief diet.

  sue gilbert, m.s.. .

  if it sometimes seems that food is the only thing that will make you feel better, it's not just in your head.

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  Chocolate always cures my depression for about 20 minutes hahaha....

  a good diet and excercise certainly can help, but for serious depression that is not often enough, and in fact, some with serious depression are not even going to recognize or care that they need to eat better or excercise.
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  IRS & Salary at Bethel

  by Phil in

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  the answer to your question is:.

  for more information, see publication 517, social security and other information for members of the clergy and religious workers.

  you ask the internal revenue service (irs) for an exemption from se tax for your services and the irs approves your request.

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  tax stuff aside, every baptise witness is considered an ordained minister
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  Where were you when you decided to quit being a JW?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  2. friends

  for me, it was at the hall.

  it was an evening meeting.

  i felt a kind of mental surge within me brewing and i got and went to the men?s room.

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  I was standing outside in the KH parking lot, stand near the truck of my car, having a long, difficult conversation with one of my closest friends...I think it was right around the Memorial..it may have been right after THE Memorial...it was 1998. I was telling my friend, that I didn't know if I could step back in the KH ever again, that I just didn't agree...it had come over me so suddenly after the meeting...things that had been brewing subconsciously for years....the way women were second class citizens, how we did no work to benefit those that were not witnesses, the shunning...

  After that I got online, and started asking questions of people in various chat rooms about spirituality in general....but only for a few months, just cursory stuff. Then, after I got together with my now husband (whom I met online...never would have met him if I had not dared to go online hahah), I was reading a book that he had, called Job A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein,...it made me soooo angry...it was a good book, and it made me so pissed off at the same time. It stirred in me thinking I had never really thought about before.

  I didn't think about it too much for about a year or two.after that....then when I was very pregnant, I saw a tv report on two girls that had been molested by a JW and was SHOCKED...not because that it happened...that happens in every religion, but it was the first time that I had heard about the society getting sued over it...so I went online to look more up...and ended up on this site.

  This is where I found out about CoC. I good read.

  I have not gone to a meeting since that night. I have been in the parking lot of a KH or two over the years,.to drop my mom off or pick her up...I even went into the entrance of my old hall to get her once...shudder!

  All I can say, that experience, although I feel I have a better life now, it was like a divorce. But I don't regret being a witness...it was something I was raised in, rebelled in, then came back and 'made it my own" for several years. I was a true believer when baptised, and ready to go when I did. No one lead me to get baptised, and no one asked me to leave...it was on my own terms. It is part of who I am.
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  Light A Candle To Remember

  by cruzanheart in

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  tonight on the news i saw yet another story about that dear little 11-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed.

  i thought of her.

  i thought of the 77-year-old woman who was kidnapped and killed in our area last week.

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  Yes...I have no candle pic...but I light one for the following:

  ...my best JW's friend baby who passed away last week

  ...my father who passed away 12 years ago

  ...my ex boyfriend and his wife and unborn child who all died in a car accident in 1996

  but, instead of just saddness..remember at least one moment of joy for each person. It is not pity that honors thier memory, but remembering the person they were
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  The Two Cow Theory

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  the two cow theory

  a christian democrat:

  then you covet it.. a socialist:.

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  THE TWO COW THEORY A CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor. Then you covet it. A SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his. A DEMOCRAT: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous. Barbara Streisand sings for you. A REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour. A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage, which ultimately blows up the cows. CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows. DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government. BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain. AN AMERICAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2 nd one. You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised ! when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts that you have reduced your expenses. Your stock goes up. A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You go to lunch. Life is good. A JAPANESE CORPORATION: You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of their class at cow school. A GERMAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year. AN ITALIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows but you don?t know where they are. While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch. Life is good. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows.! You count them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. You produce your 10 th , 5-year plan in the last 3 months. The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have. A SWISS CORPORATION: You have 5000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge for storing them for others. If they give milk, you tell no one. A POLISH CORPORATION: You have two bulls. Several people are killed while attempting to milk them. A FLORIDA CORPORATION: You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best looking one. Some of the people who like the brown one best vote for the black one. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for neither. Some people can?t figure out how to vote at all. Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you! which is the best looking one. A NEW YORK CORPORATION: You have fifteen million cows. You have to choose which one will be the leader of the herd, so you pick some fat cow from Arkansas. FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your Lord takes some of the milk. FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk. COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You must take care of them, but the government takes all of the milk. CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. ENRON: You have two cows. You borrow 80% of the forward value of the two cows from your bank, then buy another cow with 5% down and the rest financed by the seller on a note callable if your market cap goes below $20B at a rate 2 times prime. You now sell three cows to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at a 2 nd bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more and this transaction process is upheld by your independent auditor and no balance sheet provided with the press release that announces that Enron as a major owner of cows will begin trading cows via the internet site COW (Cows on Web.) I am sure you now fully understand what happens. Top
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  Crude

  by simplesally in

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  now who would want to claim this toilet in their house?

  well turns out that mess is not what it looks like.

  its oil.

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  Wow....I hope they don't have someone that smokes in the bathroom living there

  boom!
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  If You Found A Wallet----Would You Turn It In??

  by minimus in

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  would you have to think about it??

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  I just read Simon's question....finding a winning lottery ticket....even I have to say that is a TOUGH one.

  ouch, ouch, ouch....you know I think if I found one, and it won, I would wait a few days and see if it turned up in the press...if they did find someone that could prove it was theirs, I would give it to them, and hopefully they would give me a reward. But if a reasonable amount of time goes by, and no one says they lost it, then sure, I probably would claim it.