Posts by chicken little

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79% of Americans Believe in Miracles

by behemot in

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http://abcnews.go.com/wn/miracles-world-news-question-day/story?id=9908545.

the full study here:.

http://pewforum.org/docs/?docid=510.

A term that put me in my cult mind set...but only for a second

by doublelife in

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i was just hanging up my husband's shirts and started on the section where he had his dress shirts.

but what i thought in my head was "meeting shirts.

" and i quickly realized that i have to start saying "dress shirts" instead.

chicken little

Yes...I understand that one! Remember the old joke..how to tell a jehovah's witness? Only window cleaner with five suits in the wardrobe!

The first thing my husband did after we left was bundle all his suits and ties into a black sack and give them to charity. I think now about those crazy days when we would get home from work change into field service clothes, then drive home for lunch and change into meeting clothes. Then sometimes home after the meeting and change again into work clothes....so idiotic.

I used to wonder what our neighbours thought, we must have come across as soooooooo weird!

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Faith complicates a young mother's life-or-death decision on lung transplant

by behemot in

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/16/ar2010021606057.html.

chicken little

Thank you for posting this. I am so relieved that this woman changed her mind. It is true she may die under the forthcoming operation, but she is not a martyr for the Jw religion. Hopefully her children will also be kept away from the religion in the future.

How sad that her "spiritual family" turn their backs on her at such a critical time. The much used expression "what would Jesus have done?", comes to mind and there is no way he would behave the way these people do.

All the best thoughts to this lady.

Chicken little

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Should the Ten Americans Accused of Kidnapping Stand Trial in Haiti?

by The Berean in

chicken little

Kidnapping children that are not registered or even proven to be orphans is a terrible crime. These people are taking advantage of the chaos in the country and they should be held accountable for their actions. I hope they are given serious sentences as that will discourage other religious groups from doing similar things in other poor countries.

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Your worst field service experience.

by littlebird in

my worst field service experience was this.. i didn't have a car at the time and so a pioneer sister was picking me up of service every couple of days.

she was my partner and i got a door where the woman was clearly not interested.

as i am stepping away the pioneer sister starts in with all the objection stoppers.

chicken little

On service with my pioneer, ms, boyfriend, together for the first time. I was quaking as I had not tried preaching with a brother before, and one I wanted to impress (shallow, I know!). Well I rang the bell and a glass door with wrought iron work over the top was opened. I had a huge smile on my face and said "HELLO!" The man who opened the door had lipstick on and had a look of fury on his face. He slammed the door shut and the glass shattered leaving us staring at him through the wrought iron railings. I looked at my boyfriend and he said what do we do? I said Run! The guy was spitting hate by then at us.

Not the best start to a doomed relationship...thank goodness.

I had a door where my pioneer partner, a shy prudish sister, suddenly froze and went red. I carried on talking to the lady and could not understand what was happening. When we left the door my friend was in a real tither. She said she felt unclean and had to go home. Apparently a naked man had been standing playing with himself at the top of the stairs, unaware that my friend could see right up the stairs. I was in stitches, I thought it was so funny. She was unmarried and said she had never seen a mans bits before. Funny.

One bad, yet sad experience when I was 12. We went on a bible study to an older ladies home. The place was so filthy and stinking that it was terrible to be there. The lady had a dog that peed on the carpet and nothing was cleaned up. When we came home we all were itching and had to put all our clothes in the washing machine. When I think back we should have got her some kind of help, we were not interested in her as such, just counting time.

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a dub at my door said my childs abuse was an isolated case !

by looloo in

i left town after the court case for a fresh start , it was 18 months before dubs knocked on my door , so i told them why i was not interested in their message , aswell as the watchtower payouts in may 2007 ,with gag orders attached , they seemed quite shocked by that but warned me to be carefull what information i read on the web !

i told them that in america they do not make up the news !

they seemed quite shocked about what happened to my child but said it would have ben an isolated case !

chicken little

Welcome!

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Conventions/Assemblies in England

by ScottyRex in

does anyone remember haysbridge, crystal palace, twickenham, dorking from the 80's/90's.........so many memories there.

the 5p lunch vouchers, the aroma of bacon rolls and hot doughnuts at twickenham, the smell of coffee as 50,000 odd opened their thermos flasks at lunchtime.

walking around endless laps of the perimeter of the stadium at break times, watching the airplanes flying low over twickenham stadium en route to heathrow.. cinema style seats at dorking assembly hall, the baptismal pool built into the stage, flapping my hands in the water and getting told off.

chicken little

Just remembered the doughnut making at Edinburgh Conventions, we all had to close our eyes for the prayer and everyone was crying when it finished because of the fat from the doughnut fryer! Had to laugh, we looked so funny. Remember black forest gataux? Best thing ever at a convention.

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Conventions/Assemblies in England

by ScottyRex in

does anyone remember haysbridge, crystal palace, twickenham, dorking from the 80's/90's.........so many memories there.

the 5p lunch vouchers, the aroma of bacon rolls and hot doughnuts at twickenham, the smell of coffee as 50,000 odd opened their thermos flasks at lunchtime.

walking around endless laps of the perimeter of the stadium at break times, watching the airplanes flying low over twickenham stadium en route to heathrow.. cinema style seats at dorking assembly hall, the baptismal pool built into the stage, flapping my hands in the water and getting told off.

chicken little

My husband worked on Haysbridge, the former naughty boys school. I went with our little boy on weekends to help kick out old window frames and try to chip off old linolium off the floors.

I never liked it as an assembly hall. Remember being told to appoach by different roads so as not to irritate the neighbours? We did mystery tours every time and it took ages to get there.

My husband used to do the baptism dunking in our circuit (SE London), had some laughs with it though. I remember a poor jamacian brother getting his afro caught in the overflow pipe and my husband couldn't see it. The poor brother tried to come back up and my hubby was pushing him down. From the audience it looked like he was drowning the poor guy, he looked so panic stricken.

I remember at Dorking being told not to buy food from outside...support the theocratic mush. Half our circuit went down with tummy troubles after an assembly once.

Worked on the book covers and pens at Twickers, we had our own little booth outside the arena with a speaker and deckchairs. Never actually got to be inside the stadium as we were not allowed to leave the booth. We had our own little way of drumming up business, bit like East Street market in Southwark.....come on Bros and Sis's, 10 for a pound, going cheap today....Fun! We did get to see all the cruisers going around the grounds all day, dressed to kill and after fresh meat!

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Another Scotsman reporting for duty :)

by cofty in

jw
friends

hi all, its time i stopped lurking around here.

i've been posting at jws for just over a year, i know a few names here and it looks like there is lots of good banter going on.. i am a second generation, born-in who grew up in west-central scotland.

i pioneered in edinburgh and later married and settled in berwick just south of the border.

chicken little

hej cofty,

I WANT TO SAY WELCOME, I used to be in food prep at Murrayfield in late 70s early 80s, making doughnuts and preparing the cakes and pastries.

I count myself as "scot", as my dad was a bagpiper with the caledonian pipe band even though he was a sassanach. I married a pioneer,ms later elder. We got out together nearly 3 years ago. Much happier now than ever, son in army on way to Afghanistan, daughter engaged to a soldier, so we certainly do noy fit in the jw mindset anymore.

Love chicken little

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Please Join in Celebration! My DFed brother is coming to dinner!!!

by Open mind in

we're killing the fattened young bull and having osso bucco (spell?

) tonight.

i'm going to the airport right now to pick up my long-time dfed, over 20-years shunned, gay older brother!.

chicken little

Love Osso Bucco, and I am so happy for you and your family. I have been in the same situation and I was the one crying for forgiveness, I really can't believe it took so long to wake up!

Enjoy your family!