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  Sisters crying in the kitchen/lobby

  by highdose in

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  years ago i was at the revamp of a kingdom hall.

  one of the sisters told me that since they got rid of the kitchen it was so much better, becuase there were always sisters out there crying!

  and now they have no place to go, so they just have to stay in the hall and listen to the meeting!.

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  I was one who cried a lot towards the end of my attending meetings. When I say a LOT I mean it. I was having severe panic attacks and was being emotionally abused by my clinically depressed husband at that time. Just trying to stay in the building took every ounce of strength I had. I was most definitely not seeking attention, that was the last thing on my mind.

  No one even asked if I was alright, ever. No one ever offered a hug or a drink of water or even a damn kleenex. That's why I stopped going, it was just too much to handle. The fewer meetings I attended, the better I felt.

  I almost never get panic attacks since I stopped attending.
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  Can I interest you in a room temperature "soda"

  by Lemon_Lime_Shasta in

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  2. friends

  long time lurker (like half a decade), first time poster.

  it took a post about assembly food to get me to register here.

  i think we need to start a project to piece together the menu from an early nineties circuit assembly...would be strangely nostalgic.. i got myself a "worldly" education and took that opportunity to leave "the troof".

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  We had a couple parakeets when my kids were small. They named the birds Lemon-lime and Shasta

  Welcome Lemon Lime Shasta
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  Did any of you ever feel so sad a depressed in field service

  by life is to short in

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  i used to go out in service and i always felt not wanted.

  i would meet for service and if they could they would send me home, no one wanted me with them in their car groups.

  and yes i did shower before going.

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  I anm in much the same position.

  Lack of love is the outstanding feature of the Witnesses I know.
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  Did the elders ignore you when you need their help?

  by asilentone in

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  YES!!

  They ignored my parents when they were elderly and in poor health, even though my parent's house was less than a two minute drive from the Kingdom Hall.

  They ignored my family when we had severe health problems and our children had severe depressions.

  They ignored me when I started missing meetings and finally just gave up.

  They ignore our door when they are out in service.

  They ignored our family when my mother, a dedicated believing JW died this past July. We recieved no phone calls, no visits and only one card from an elderly sister who was friends with my Mom. This despite the fact that my husband is still an active Witness. No Witnesses outside of our family came to the funeral home.

  There's a lot more but this is an overview of how it is for us.
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  Birthday Greetings to Flying High Now & Mr. Flipper - Oct. 15th !

  by flipper in

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  2. friends

  thought i might be so bold as to get this party going !

  lol!

  happy birthday to fhn and meself, and anybody else born on this date or last few days !

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  Happy birthday to both of you !!!
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  MOUTHY DONT LEAVE US!!!!

  by WuzLovesDubs in

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  sign this petition!!

  dont let our granma leave us!!!!!

  dont go mouthy!!!

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  Please don't leave
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  I made it!!!

  by purplesofa in

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  to fifty!!.

  never dreamed life would be as it is now, .

  there are times i did not think i would make it.

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  Happy Birthday!!
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  What do you think about David Letterman now?

  by asilentone in

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  i am sure all of you know about it by now..

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  Meh, it's sordid, but it really is no one's business except for the people involved.

  I think he handled the situation well , but he would have been smarter to not play with the underlings at work in the first place.
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  MY BROTHER-IN-LAW HAS DIED

  by Mary in

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  2. friends

  this is one post i had always hoped i would never have to do, but after a long and brave battle, my beloved brother in law has died.

  i have done a couple of threads on this in the past, so many of you know the battles he was facing.

  he had been diagnosed earlier this year with myelodysplastic syndrome and the mortality rate of this disease is quite high.

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  Deepest condolences on your loss.
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  $29,000.00 Tip Given - Notre Dame says, 'Oops... give it back!'

  by jeanniebeanz in

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  notre dame sues caterer mistakenly given $29g gratuitythursday, september 17, 2009. the university of notre dame has a new tip for a catering employee they mistakenly gave a $29,000 gratuity check: give it back.. a lawsuit filed by the indiana university claims sara gaspar used the accidental check to pay bills and buy a new car, myfox chicago reported.. notre dame claims the check, which was supposed to be for $29.87, not $29,387, was issued on april 17 and alleges caterer gaspar never notified university officials about the blunder.. gaspar claims when messages she left regarding the check went unreturned, she assumed the amount wasn't a mistake.

  she also said her supervisors told her the check was legitimate and they would pass on her messages to the human resources department, myfox chicago reported.. "i guess because it was there and i was in a bad situation, i went out and spent it," gaspar told the south bend tribune.

  "i was so excited ... i thought, i could pay some of these bills.".

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  The amount of the check should have been written both in numerals and in words and they shoould be the same.

  It might be easy to make a mistake with the numbers but there is a big difference writing 'twenty nine dollars and 87/100' and writing "twenty-nine thousand three hundred eighty seven dollars.'

  If the numbers and words matched, then she might have a case for keeping it. Though I think she should have done more to inquire about it.