such sad news indeed
condolences to Sac's family and friends
chickpea
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I am so sad to pass this news along to you about our Dear Sacrificial Loon
by BabaYaga ini just heard from his brother that he has passed.
several of you know that he has been fighting cancer for a while now.. oh, sac!
i am so very sorry you have left this world... rest in peace, joy, and light... your fight, suffering, and fears are put to rest.. strength and love to all who love you.. .
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Fury after reading Watchtower article for this week
by Eclectic ini hope i do not repeat thread.
paragraph 15, w2011 6/15 p. 23 states:.
paul set a fine example for christian elders.
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chickpea
i had a then, PO, tell me that elders were worthy of double honor...
when i looked it up in the "all scripture is inspired" volumes, at his
suggestion, it referred to the financial support of said elders by
those they "serve"1 timothy 5:17
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What's The Worst Thing About Being A Witness?
by minimus infor me, a jehovah's witness does not have a real life!
jw's are like trained soldiers.
they could be fervent or lax or happy or unhappy in their role but they are trained to drone on like stepford wives.. what an utter waste of an existence being a jehovah's witness!.
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chickpea
the worst part was being played, duped, suckered...
leaves a very bad taste in the mouth once one comes
to their senses and has to look back and see what a
patsy one has been... just doesnt sit well at all.... d'oh! -
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Update: I got the shun at my dad's funeral- the best outcome really!!
by Coffee House Girl inhello all jwn .
so glad to have that over with- it was surreal to walk in the kh after two years...it is just a building to me now (not "jehovah's house").
i must say that now i'm on the outside...what a boring sad building- the people were not joyful and friendly (just older and fatter than i remember)- i got the nervous stares and shaky "hi" when i looked at all of them and said hello.. my mom was sitting all by herself in the front row of the hall...i went and sat by her side.
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chickpea
love that poem!!
i take offense that there are those taking offense!
ahhhh chg, it is a task one never welcomes,
this one of mourning loss of loved ones,
but it must be a relief to be able to do it
in your own terms, in your own way, with
special understanding about your father's
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Saturdays piss me off...
by pubtruth inthanks to the watchtower... i have to deal with mother preparing herself for hall each and every saturday.
she makes it so blatantly obvious, and tends to put me down, on a sort of guilt trip.
even though she disagrees with certain doctrine she still holds on tight.... during the week she hums kingdom melodies.. only when i'm around... i need a damn job so i can move... just a small rant..
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chickpea
so dont be there on saturdays! go to yard sales or
the local humane shelter and volunteer to walk
the dogs or anything that typical people might
enjoy on a typical saturday... light a candle
instead of cursing the dark... dont create ill-will
esp since you are in her home and she might
actually be humming kingdom melodies even
when you AREN'T home because as far as it goes,
it maybe comforts her since she is convinced of your
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Would You Be Shocked If You Found Out That A JW That YOU Knew Was Here?
by minimus ini bet there's a lot of jws in "good standiing" that frequent this place.. what do you think?
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chickpea
totally depends on who it is,
but there are plenty whose
presence would elicit a YAY!anyone from the KH i attended
is free to make contact of the
non-preachified variation since
i am pretty sure my openness
about being the mother to a
transgender son gives me a
distinctive characteristic of
identity, because his story was
a front page feature 2 yrs ago
in the local daily paper ... if you
are out there, say hello.... i am
no longer living a lie as a dr0ne
and i would like to experience YOUR
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My friend and mentor has published his first novel ... at 84 years young!
by compound complex indear fellow bibliophiles:.
today i received my own copy of who's killing all the lawyers?
from a.g. hayes, that in payment for trimming the grevillea.
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chickpea
individuals such as your good friend AG
inspire and lead me to believe that the
best years are yet to come!hearty congratulations for his becoming published!
glad you have such a splendid influence in your life, dear coco!
have a great sunday!
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Thanks for your support JWN!!! Dad dies monday, JW family goes to convention on thursday
by Coffee House Girl incoffee shop guy directed me to his thread...thank you so much everyone for your thoughts of support, it means a lot to have people who understand and show genuine sympathy.
here's my experience so far.... my father dies monday night & my brother (nonjw) calls me to come home, when i arrive my father is still sitting on the couch- all the jw family is sitting in a semi-circle around him, my non jw brother is standing in the next room.
no one is crying, no one is talking.
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chickpea
you and your brother paid a WONDEFUL tribute to your dad!
i hope my kids sit around a campfire drinking honeyweiss
and listening to milw brewers on the radio when i am gone....
that would be the ultimate!!godspeed you thru these days ahead as you deal with the
arrogant and misguided behaviours of your family members...they seriously are not using their minds and it shows
(((((hugs))))))
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were you made to feel guilty if you missed a meeting / service ?
by man in black ingoing along with the last thread ( great subject matter) .
i'm sort of hitching along here.. we had a bookstudy at our home for several years, every week we were prepared, and we handled service arraingements every saturday morning, even with two young children.. one saturday morning, ( in the middle of winter) one son had a bad cold, and our furnace konked out around 8:15 am.. i was running around trying to get ready for service, calling a repair man, and help my wife get ready for service.. the group comes in at 9:00, and i'm on the phone talking to the repair man who wants to come out between 10-2.. so i'm not going out this morning, and i'm staying home with my sick son, wife and son #2 are going out in service.. conductor comes downstairs and looks at the furnace ( he is a school teacher, no mechanical experience at all, check out my earlier thread video under friends, page 5827 titled "elder makes a video,,,, this is the same guy ) and gives me the classic guilt trip because i'm not going out in service for at least an hour this morning.. i remember thinking just who is this guy, trying to make me feel bad because my family is #1, service is not my focus today.. after all of these years, i cannot help but think of this comment now :.
"nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent", e. roosevelt.
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chickpea
an elder, the then "PO", came to my house one sunday
after i had missed the meeting to finish work on a re-
modeling project i was doing by myself and was quite
frankly sick of and just wanted to finish... the DH had
taken the kids to the mtg.... and when they were asked
where mom was, they told the truth....that guy had the stones to come to my home and tell
me that missing the meetings for anything not an
emergency was a sin... A SIN....i responded with the words he wanted to hear
but my attitude was definitely tongue in cheekwankers
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What's on your bucket list?
by rebel8 inhttp://www.43things.com.
mine is pretty much summed up as follows: justice, recognition, travel, fashion, and arts..
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chickpea
MLA = Master's in Liberal Arts
lots of other things i WANT to do
but i am pretty busy doing the
things that NEED doing atm! so
i guess a bucket list entry is
"finish the 3 year plan aka
the project of 1000 cuts"