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  I'm at a loss here

  by sabastious in

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  my little 23 year old brother and his wife have been living with my wife and i, and our infant, for a few months now.

  it has been a good bonding experience for all of us, at least it was on my end.. my little brother is in a band.

  they travel all around the surrounding areas and play a mix between punk and 60s surf rock.

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  AnneB

  "Do I have a moral obligation to ensure the children's safety?"

  When I was a child and terrible things were happening at my mom's house, I used to be terrified and wonder why no one was coming to help. When I grew older and discovered that people did know what was going on but all had their reasons for not helping, I felt like I wasn't worth anything.

  Kids need protectors...even against relatives. If the only option is Children's Services then use them.

  You have no idea the anguish in a child's mind when that child thinks no one can save him/her....that nobody sees or cares.

  You can always call them and say you're not sure, but you were told.....then leave it to them to handle.
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  Prank ideas

  by trevorbv in

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  AnneB

  A former poster here, LDH. called J. R. ("Get Down") Brown at Brooklyn headquarters and posed as a reporter. She had quite a lengthy conversation with him. If you go through her posts you might find a link to the recording.
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  how about the kid who met jesus

  by chase in

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  and his dad serves as a pastor?

  ha..

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  AnneB

  I noticed that "the holy spirit" didn't have a name. Jesus did, his great grandad did, but "the holy spirit"? Nada. How can you sit on Jesus' lap, conversing with the holy spirit, and not get its name?
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  Prank ideas

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  AnneB

  Proverbs 18:13
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  Jehovah's Witness children and creativity...

  by Tuesday in

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  hey there folks,.

  i remember some time ago there was a wonderfully written website which dealt with jehovah's witness children specific type of suppression causing a higher number of very creative children than other religious forms of suppression.

  i was wondering if anyone remembered what this link was?.

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  AnneB

  The perfect complementary thread to this one is Mr. Falcon's thread on "going Galt". There's a time for letting creativity show and a time to keep it hidden; not denied, but not so out there that a person feels forced/midlead into using what they know/do against their better judgement.
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  Mr. Falcon is going GALT!

  by Mr. Falcon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  raypublisher started this thread: http://www1.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/207626/1/best-way-to-step-down-from-being-a-servant.

  it got me thinking, for some wacky reason, of perhaps how i could go about getting relieved of my "privileges".

  in the ridicously long-winded novel atlas shrugged by ayn rand, there is a character named john galt.

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  Terry, honey, the topic of this thread is "going Galt", or, as it is known elsewhere, "strategic incompetence". Now, it's really nice of you to offer your literary expertise, but what the man wanted was a way out of MS responsibilities. Whether or not he comprehends the text in the same way you (or anyone else) does is irrelevant. He got the info he was seeking.

  AnneB (who is truly awesome...see above)
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  Jehovah's Witness children and creativity...

  by Tuesday in

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  hey there folks,.

  i remember some time ago there was a wonderfully written website which dealt with jehovah's witness children specific type of suppression causing a higher number of very creative children than other religious forms of suppression.

  i was wondering if anyone remembered what this link was?.

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  CoCo, you're right. That's what Jesus was trying to tell the apostles when he said if they only had faith the size of a mustard grain they could tell a mountain to move from here to there and it would happen.
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  Mr. Falcon is going GALT!

  by Mr. Falcon in

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  raypublisher started this thread: http://www1.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/207626/1/best-way-to-step-down-from-being-a-servant.

  it got me thinking, for some wacky reason, of perhaps how i could go about getting relieved of my "privileges".

  in the ridicously long-winded novel atlas shrugged by ayn rand, there is a character named john galt.

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  It's called Strategic Incompetence in other circles. Google it. Lots of interesting info, including military uses of this tactic.
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  A lightning fast POLL: Two questions about CONVERSION

  by Terry in

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  1. were you yourself converted from a religion other than jw to becoming a jw by door to door work?.

  2.did you succeed in converting somebody in your own door to door work causing them to change religions to the point of baptism?.

  quick answers, please.. .

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  AnneB

  1. Yes

  2. No
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  what was the worst meeting you ever attended ?

  by man in black in

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  here's mine :.

  back in the early 90's we went to the sunday talk and wt study.. lo and behold, a friend from the 70's who was df'ed ( he had just been reinstated) was there along with his parents.

  i had no idea that they would have been there.. one of my kids was getting sick, so my wife and i were up-down the entire meeting walking him around.

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  AnneB

  Hmmmmm, the worst meeting....

  Maybe it was the one where there were only 27 people (including children) in the KH, all the elders were on vacation, the speaker didn't show up, and an MS brought out a cassette player, set it on a stool on the platform so that those of us who had dragged ourselves (and our children) out in the SoCal heat into a KH where they refused to turn on the AC, could sit for an hour listening to this mechanical representative of Jehovah.

  Or maybe it was the one where my then-husband was announced as DF'd at the end of the Service Meeting and, right after the closing prayer, the family of the one of the elders on his committee surrounded me and kept pressuring me to let my teen aged son come to work for them because, as they put it, he was now the head of the house. When I objected that working for them would mean he would no longer be able to auxilliary pioneer they said the money was more important.

  Or maybe it was another meeting that same summer when, due to to the extreme heat in the KH, my youngest was uncharacteristically fussy and I decided to leave the meeting to take her home where she could be more comfortable. It was only after I was at my car and ready to drive away that the elders came out and asked if there was anything they could do to help me stay for the rest of the meeting.

  It could have been after my auto accident (hit and run that totalled my car) when we were walking to the KH (in the heat) and the PO told me that he and his wife (no kids, three cars for two people) decided to take the freeway to the meetings so they wouldn't see us walking.

  Keep your eyes on the prize...