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  GOV BODY---STUMBLING CHILDREN

  by crawdad2 in

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  hi gov body!

  matt 18:6 says; but whoever "stumbles" one of these little ones, who put faith in me, it is more beneficial for him to have hung around his neck a 'millstone' such as is turned by an ass, and to be 'sunk' in the wide open sea.

  i understand that alot of child abuse victims from your organization are comming forward!

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  Golden Girl

  Hey Crawdad...I understand your anger! Hopefully something will come about from all the publicity!

  A least I hope so!

  GG
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  Model Boat Race

  by Undecided in

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  just checking to see if it worked.

  this is one of my hobbies.

  i haven't been very active this year but i have had a lot of fun racing these r/c sailing boats.

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  Golden Girl

  So who won the race?

  My husband builds sailboats and airplanes! He is asleep right now so can't tell you what kind except the airpanes are 50 % . Just sold quite a few he built plus the trailer to haul them in. I know one is a Pitts...He got a lot of stuff from John Light in Tennessee.Had half Barby dolls in the front seat! They (Him and our son) have won a few trophies. He has also buit them for other people. I think we have 2 saiboats left and one cruiser. All R.C. We also had a helicopter..those are bizarre! He wants another one of those. The other planes cost anywhere from $500.00 to $10,000.--To expensive to wreck!!!!

  We also had a 25 ft Catalina w/ roller furling.(Nice!). Sailed it on Carlye lake in Illinois...Bad lake..Waves get as big as a ocean... If I can figure out how to post a picture ..maybe I can show off some of them!

  GG
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  PRECIOUS THE CAT

  by crawdad2 in

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  my jw neighbors were just young, 18...... when they got married.. they had cats and dogs.... soon the pressures of life, and being a jw took effect, and they seperated,,,,,,,,,, the girl left precious, her cat behind.......it was a better place for her here.. precious was heatbroken...... she was never the same.. it's been around ten years now, ...... and in the last few years, my nieghbor didn't have much time for precious anymore.. so she started hanging around me, over here most of the time.. i buried her just now,...... in my backyard, where she laid down and died.. i hate death,...... it brings back memories of what 2 young beautiful people wanted....... love happiness......pets.. goodbye precious......... i learned alot from you..... i wish i would have given you more love.

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  Golden Girl

  Hi Craw..miss your wit on Tim's boards...
  So sad about the kitty!
  Are you going to get a new one?

  GG
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  Dissociated family excluded from funeral services

  by Pardus in

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  2. beliefs

  apparently, disassociated relatives are not allowed to be in the procession lines at kingdom hall services.

  they can attend but they cannot be with their relatives to receive condolenses.

  this happened recently to someone whose aunt had passed away.

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  Golden Girl

  Well my JW Father in law passed away 4 years ago.I have been disassociated for a long time. They go to a different K.H. Way in the country.
  I attended the memorial talk they had for his funeral at their local KH.
  They are aware that I am not a JW any longer. I had no problems at all in their K.H. I sat in the front row with my JW Mother in law and my inactive husband. People came up and talked with us.

  I only had one that shunned me, but his wife had no problem talking to me!:) They were from the KH I used to attend. That couple was also the ones that took hubby and I out to drink for the first time and I got totally drunk! Now thats a strange story!:) Wonder if the other "Brothers" ever knew about that?

  We also had a get together at my Mom in laws house after the memorial talk(He was cremated)for my Father in law..We all sat at the same table and they said a prayer. No one was sad because they all said they would see him "Real soon!".

  Well my Mom in law still carries around the box of his ashes in her car. They joke about how he goes everywhere with her. Course I don't think THAT's a JW teaching..

  I am always amazed by all the different stories about JW beliefs. The more I talk to XJW's, the more I can see how inconsistant they are in their teachings.It seems like each region has it's own way of believing certain things.

  Oh Well! Glad to be out!

  GG
  ps..I forgot to mention their was a "Brother" on the front porch smoking a cigarette!When I inquired about him..thinking he was someones study..I was told he was "Brother so and so..he is working on quitting smoking! How's that for a lenient congregation?:LOL
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  After 70 years of sacred service........

  by Makena1 in

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  for a privileged few, you get an article with your lifes story published in the wt.

  most at least receive a grand send off with a kh memorial service.. my father passed away a couple of weeks ago.

  he was just shy of his 89th birthday.

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  Golden Girl

  Hi Mak!Sorry to hear about your loss!It was the same at my Father in Laws funeral!Very few were in attendence.He had only been in the religion for about 15 or 20 years ..but his wife was in it for 50!Very sad!And they hardly mentioned him at all in the talk..:(
  No Tears! Almost like robots!never want to go to another one!
  Love GG.. or better known to you as.. Snoozy... from Tim's boards...(We miss you!)Say Hi to your wife!
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  Little Shop of Horrors

  by teenyuck in

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  in my previous thread: .

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=25969&site=3.

  i discussed my dental experience.

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  Golden Girl

  I can top that!I had Root canal on a tooth that bridge work was to be connected to.They put me in a room...gave me the shots ..and disappeared!Well I kept waiting and waiting and waiting!Meanwhile I can hear them talking in the next room.Apparently a co-worker of theirs was also getting a root canal!I hear them talking about the smell from her tooth...I hear her getting the shot... hear them go back in to see if she is numb..they do the work and put the temp in and she left!I'm still there in my chair..laying down so I can't get up.I'm saying...is anyone there???Finally an hour later someone comes in and asks how I am...Then they start to work on my tooth and of course the novacaine is wore off..Well they had to give me shots in the tooth itself to numb it!I was furious but they had my tooth in their hands!I was afraid to say anything because they could have made me miserable and this was my first root canal..I didn't know what to expect!I kept quiet for 3 more trips!Finally I got the permanent cap.Then I exploded!They looked at me like I was making it up to get a discount or something!Well I had to go back for work on another crown they did and I noticed that dentist wasn't there anymore!I wonder why...GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! GG
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  RANDY WATTERS WE LOVE U

  by QUEENIE in

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  i was going to keep this a secret but i just could not...those very touching gifts you got us on u hawwian vacation are sooo very very pretty...we are not use to getting such things from men / black eye / a fat lip and body bruses yep that is quite usual...i am still teary eyed from emotion randy (good emotion) i am so very serious that i want the entire cyber world to know what a dear you are especially to the likes of us and giving us a good memory to remember as well..if this is gossip then i am guilty as charged and the moderator can figure out my punishment...i am still lookinng at my pretty gift from a very loving man !!!!

  xoxo ((((((()))))) peace

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  Golden Girl

  You deserve it Queenie!Did he send any pictures????GG
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  Whats the cruelest thing a JW has eva done to you

  by VioletAnai in

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  i think the most thoughtless thing they eva did to me...and it's rather embarrassing...is when i was still a jw at 14.. i'd just had an operation to remove a cyst and my left ovary due to polycystic ovarian syndrome.

  so i'm sitting at the district convention and i get up to go and have lunch with my mum cause i was sitting with an sister a little older than me - in her 20's.

  so i start walking across the oval and there's people everywhere and i'm getting a few looks, but hey, i was a paranoid teen, they made me agoraphobic, so i didn't think too much of it.

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  Golden Girl

  ONE of the meanest things they did to me?Out of many!I had sent a letter of disassociation probably 20 years ago.My JW Mother and Father in law were having a 60th wedding anniversary party.My JW sister in law in NY was helping to plan it.Well I had met several of the JW's from my mother and father in laws congregation and we were friendly.Even went to lunch together.(My hubby is inactive)We had received a invitation in the mail addressed to my husband and myself!We were all excited!I was busy getting the clothes ready and a present.I even demanded the grown grandkids go.(3)And their children.So I had arranged for everyone on our side to go to surprise them.They hadn't seen the whole family for a long time.It was to be in a rented hall.Not the Kingdom hall.Also invited was my mother in laws sister and her family who had studied years ago but now were "worldy".To make a long story short.A few days before the party my husband received a call from his JW sister in N.Y.It seems they had made a error when they invited me!I was uninvited.I was so mad!Not because I wasn't going,but because they waited so long to tell me and excluded only me ,not the other ex JW relatives!!.They caused an uproar in my family.Everyone had to choose what they were going to do.It turned out that no one went from our family.That made me feel so good,but angered me because it was probably the last time the Mother and Father in law would have a chance to see us all together!They didn't even know about it until it was all over!It was all his sister!It seemed they had talked to an elder of their choice there in NY and he thought there might be a chance I could stumble someone!(Remember they would have lunch with me when hubby and I were visiting his mom,they also knew my history as a JW) This was in spite of the person doing the arranging here asking her Elder and him saying it was OK.Now none of my grown kids want anything to do with the sister and brother in law.2 of my 3 kids do go visit the Grandma!!The Grandpa passed away about a year after that.I wrote her a letter after it was all over and she replied with some scripture based reasoning of course.We didn't talk for a long time after that.Later she had to depend on us to pick her up at the airport so she could go visit her mom!So she decided to get friendly again!Hypocrites! One of my many many stories! GG
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  Hospitality........Texas style

  by Makena1 in

  1. jw
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  the highlight of a recent business trip to texas - austin, dallas and houston was to finally meet in person - xena and tim, and andi and neil.

  what great, lovely people!

  thanks for making my wife and i so welcome and "at home".. we have all been through a lot - posted, chatted, emailed - but visiting in person is the best.. we have also made some wonderful friends locally too - mulan and her husband in particular.

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  Golden Girl

  Hey,are you Mak from Tim's boards?Hi .We miss you!Glad you are OK!How's your beautiful wife?My name here is GG but I am Snoozy on Tim's board!Diggy just joined us again. I see Xena is here also,and April (Tatiana)Come visit sometime,and bring your wife!LOL! Bye.GG (Snoozy)(Somebody had that name here!)
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  Tough Question for ExElders...

  by Xena in

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  with a friend suddenly confronted with the prospect of being disfellowshiped recently it got me wondering about how an elder feels the first time he disfellowships someone.. the first time you disfellowshiped someone was there regret?

  sadness?

  or a sense of justice?.

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  Golden Girl

  You have friends that are witnesses???Don't you know bad associations spoil useful habits? GG