sign me up...
brilliant idea!
chickpea
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Church of the apostate, and baptism nullification
by avishai instarting a no church church for depbaptisms, only belief is that your old religion no longer has power over you or rights to your info if you don't want them too., with possible legal ramifications.
here is a rough draft of what we're trying to do, whaddya think?.
we're tired of organizations that you have left keeping you on their rolls, or keeping records of your behavior even though you no longer believe as they do.
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home equity loans... any pointers?
by chickpea insoooooooo.
my educational institution is about .
to block any further registration .
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chickpea
it is tuition and CC debt .... looking to be less than $20K
after reading JeffT's suggestion, it occurred to me that
the adjacent property we bought about 10 years ago
(unimproved small bldg on .33 acres) is not on the deed
for the major property, so we will likely use that property
for any collateral required.....keeps the house off the tableit makes it all seem less urgent
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home equity loans... any pointers?
by chickpea insoooooooo.
my educational institution is about .
to block any further registration .
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chickpea
soooooooo
my educational institution is about
to block any further registration
until i come up with some major
tuition, even tho i HAVE been
timely in my "installment payments"
seems i am taking courses at a much
faster rate than my payments are
covering tuition, so i need to get
the balance zeroed in order to stay
registered in the last 4 classes....
we own our home outright, no mortage,
and the loan would be to cover tuition and
zero out about $3500 in CC debt, directing
all payments to one source, with a single
(hopefully lower) interest rate.....
does this sound sound or am i totally missing some
critical aspect of the home equity loan process?
if anyone has info or experience. i would appreciate
hearing your experiences, good or badi go to the bank next week to start asking
and would really like not looking stoopid
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Did your Kingdom Hall have kitchen?
by asilentone insomeone told me there are few kingdom halls with kitchens, i was surprised about it.
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I'm brand new and my mind is 'tight'...please come in 'with ease.'
by Joliette inhello....my name is 'joliette' ...i'm a 2nd generation african american jw's (well, actually 3rd generation) my great aunts are all jehovah's witnesses.
my late grandmother was not.
i'm from milwaukee, wi.
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Holy Ghost 'Explosion'
by leavingwt inthis looks like way more fun than being at a kingdom hall.. .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsdotyerui.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btfznha1hds.
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spent all day in service on saturday
by chickpea inthe small town i live in (pop 1600) has a regular.
event every 5 years called "homecoming" that.
beckons everyone smart enough to have escaped.
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chickpea
i dont know what is scary about me, syl!
i have to say, i am glad my son* wasnt there
because their bald-faced contempt for him
might have precipitated an ugly incident!!!(mebbe i AM scary after all!)
someone pointed out to me that there might
well be JWs who need to know there are
organizations out there where they can find
support as they come to grips with their
divergent realities, within a cult of pharisitical
hypocrites who will gladly remove the rafter
from their eye only to beat their brother with it*my 17 YO son, the youngest of 4 kids,
is an FtM (female to male) transgender
boy and the catalyst for my break with
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What do you think about the anointed?
by MrFreeze indo you think most of those who claim to be anointed are faking it or do you think they actually believe they are anointed?
it's something i've always wondered..
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chickpea
blondie... thank you for that insight...
it really humanizes the people who are
often mischaracterized by the JW version
of urban legends....to answer the question: i think the
whole concept of heavenly class,
earthly hope, yada yada is absurd....
crikey, even the concept of heaven is beyond
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spent all day in service on saturday
by chickpea inthe small town i live in (pop 1600) has a regular.
event every 5 years called "homecoming" that.
beckons everyone smart enough to have escaped.
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chickpea
the small town i live in (pop 1600) has a regular
event every 5 years called "Homecoming" that
beckons everyone smart enough to have escaped
to come back and spend some money .... comes
complete with all the rinky dink nonsense of a
small town event: booths, parade, local HS show
choir performance, yada yada, right?
sooooo i am a VERY active board member in the
local chapter of the national advocacy group
PFLAG (P-FLAG): parents, family/friends of
gays and lesbians (totally inclusive of the oft
abandoned transgender commmunity)
OUR booth happened to be almost directly across
the street from a local café owned by.... yep, you
guessed it .... a JW!!!! and as is the custom on this
bay, in these small towns, all of which funnel their
JW population to the one KH in the area, there
was a swarm of JWs hanging out in front of his
café to watch the parade.... incl the elduh who
had conducted the BS that met at our home for
a solid decade..... and his VERY pregnant wife
and their 4 kids....
i was sitting under an awning next to a gay
ex-priest who became some sort of other
denomination minister, the female lutheran
minister who is the chapter leader for PFLAG
and a retired real-estate agent who is one foot
out of the closet, having recently moved in with
her 80 year old partner (they grow 'em hardy here
in the northwoods)... we were all quite animated
and chatting up the crowd, hollering to the parade
participants and generally engaged in cultivating
awareness of our chapter and the activities we
present
the JW contingent was sweating in the sun and
basically giving us the stink eye... go figure
we were raffling off a quilted wall hanging to raise
a little $$$.... and not one of the JWs wandered
over to say hi or buy a chance.... what is up with that??
i get to turn in 11 hours for field service... as if any
other "volunteer" group gives a rat's rear end about
keeping track of that kind of nonsense..... all i know is,
in spite of being pretty wiped out, i knew i had made a
difference, a REAL difference in a community that surely
has LGBTQ people hiding in fear, who might now know
there is a group in their midst that works publicly to
advance the cause of social justice and equal rights
thru the PFLAG mission: support, education, advocacy!!!
i joked with the chapter leader when i pointed out that
this publicly "witnessed" activity might stir the ashes and
actually call for "official" condemnation (as far as i can
tell i have not been DF'd cos some still wanna chat) ....she asked me what i would do if the edluh called and
i said i would ask him why he didnt buy a raffle ticket!!!!! -
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YOU TUBE My Jehovah's Witness Story: Raped By a Circuit Overseer
by Lady Lee ininteresting story.
this fellow needs encouragement to go to the police.
the co was later promoted to do .
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chickpea
@ the true one
the details this young man offers, including
the VERY artful "grooming" practice of an
abuser, asking him about what clothes he
likes and how they feel when he wears them
shows that the "alleged" perp knew the game
and knew how to find/make opportunities to
devour another soul..... despicable human offal!!!