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  Turning 60 today (Happy Birthday to me)

  by NewYork44M in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it is my birthday today.

  given that i turn 60 today means that i graduated high school in 1975. time flies when you are having fun.. i remember the council i got about not worrying about a career because this wicked system was rapidly coming to a conclusion.

  now i am 60 and most of those bastards are dead and the end is still in the future..

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  Has anyone else experienced this?

  by ToesUp in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my spouse and i have faded 4+ years ago.

  we know the jw rumor mill has gotten back to our family that we no longer attend.

  most of our family is out of state.

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  JWs and invasion of privacy

  by deanxxx in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  hi all.. so i had a jw visit me at home accusing me of telling stories about another jw.

  i said something to a friend in a private message on facebook who went on to share what i said with a jw (third party) who then shared it with another jw (fourth party).

  my question is.

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  Watchtower/Bethelite Volunteers and US Self Employment or FICA Tax?

  by EnlightenedEphesian in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  with so many aging bethelites being "laid off" after years of volunteer service, what hope do they have of collecting any social security retirement?

  i ask because i recently learned that my mother will not receive any government retirement benefits because she did not work enough to collect the 40 credits required.

  this got me to thinking about bethel volunteers.

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  “Well…it was a test”, says a laid-off Bethelite

  by My Name is of No Consequence in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i got this account second hand.

  a former bethelite was reassigned to a local congregation.

  he had been at bethel for years and is now in his fifties.

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  Women are a "stack of bones and a hank of hair" - J.F. Rutherford

  by krismalone in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i have heard rumors and anecdotes of j.f.

  rutherford calling women "a hank of hair and a stack of bones" but i never thought it was documented.

  well thanks to jwfacts i finally found the quote in print.. this j.f.

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  Hit by a car evacuating due to oroville dam. Ever been hit?

  by Wasanelder Once in

  1. social
  2. current

  went back to get info from driver who tapped our car in line of cars exiting the area.

  after getting her info, she waited till i walked back to our car and punched the gas, hitting me.

  then drove off.

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  What are some of the best movies ,musical catergory you have seen .

  by smiddy in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  some that come to mind for me.. seven brides for seven brothers.

  brigadoon.

  carmen.

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  One Big Family... Except For When You Need Them

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i was in, we all used to claim us jw's were "one big family" all around the world, and how we're the happiest people on the earth.

  except that isnt true is it?

  i knew that when i was in, but i've just had some news which shows me how unloving, uncaring and un-family like they really are.. my ex-best friend (he has to shun me doesn't he?

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  Elders School 2017: New instructions to handle sexual abuses?

  by sp74bb in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  an informant in spanish forum, active elder in a congregation in madrid (spain) has posted new info regarding elders school 2017. important changes are to be done for "child" or sexual abuses.

  https://abusostj.vbulletin.net/forum/main-forum/audiencias-judiciales/5506-escuela-de-ancianos-2017.

  doing a summary:.

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