Same thing happened to me on Saturday, two men, from a congregation in our area, they knew we did not go to meetings but said they were out in service and would not just go by without calling. I was very kind and polite, told them we were just fine and explained a little of the trauma we have had with our son being injured in Afghan. They said we were always welcome at the meetings and I said I knew that was the case. I told them we never discuss our reasons for not attending with anyone and would not do so in the future. The said they would pop by another time and I was very kind and said they were welcome but that we are just fine and happy as we are. I felt no panic, no need to tell them about their religion, no sense of anger ...nothing. Just like a worldly person who gets called on, on a Saturday morning. Quite funny though because my husband was downstairs marking school papers and he had come up to see who it was, he had on a black tshirt with a huge devil head and underneath it says: God is busy, can I help you? I laughed so much thinking about how they would have responded if he had anwsered the door, former elder and speaker at district conventions etc. Funny.
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A JW mother and her children just came to my door......
by haboob48 infirst of all let me say that i choked!
i choked because i told myself if they came back that i would have a field day!
didn't happen.
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I would love for you to know my Oompa.... (from one of his closest friends)
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chicken little
Thank you for writing, what must have been painful and sad to write. Thinking of you and your family and so sorry for your loss.
It should have been different.
Love
Chicken little
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SAD news about OOMPA......
by redredrose inour friend, oompa, has passed away.
just recieved the news a couple of hours ago, and have almost no details.
it happened today or yesterday, he took his own life.
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chicken little
DEAR OOMPA, I WILL MISS YOU.
TEARS AND SORROW.
CHICKEN LITTLE.
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A message from youtube regarding negative votes on Sparlock videos
by Amelia Ashton ini don't seem to be making myself clear these days.
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there has been so many "dislikes" on sparlock clips i received a message from youtube.. i asked for people to "like" the videos instead of "dislike" because this will also push the videos to the top of searches and hopefully get more views especially for jws searching from it .. i am now getting abuse.. please can people "like" the clips so the balance between like and dislike gets reversed.. ty x.
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chicken little
I thought I was helping by pressing dislike, sorry.
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Frustrated
by jemba insitting in the local cafe enjoying a coffee this morning when the witnessing group showed up.. before i had a chance to escape i was sharing my table with 2 'sisters'.
one was my best friend for years until i stopped going to meetings.
(such conditional friendships).. before i knew it i was being bombarded with questions like how i was going spiritually.
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chicken little
I usually control the conversation (jep I hog it!) by telling them about how busy I am and how good life is, I talk about my kids (not Jws anymore) and how happy we are even though we have been through an awful lot of trauma this last year (son injured in Afghanistan). I do not give them a chance to preach. When they say, as they always do; we miss you, then I reach out and touch their arm and look them in they eye and say, thank you so much, it is nice to be missed, but I am really very happy so do not worry. It works everytime. They go away looking completely confused as they did not get to make me feel miserable, they are the ones feeling odd after talking to me. Try it.
Love Chicken little
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Hear ye!hear ye!!!!Take notice
by mouthy intomorrow the 22nd i will be 85 years old .
good wishes only please,remember if you say something nasty i will cry.
and my mum told me it is a sin to cry on your birthday .
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chicken little
Hope I am not too late, Happy Birthday Grace, enjoy your day and remember all the people thinking of you. You are only as old as you feel in your mind.
Much love
Chicken little
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I AM. The documentary by Tom Shadyak
by I quit! intinker told me about this documentary and i finally got around to watching it.
i thought it was great.
i'm wondering if anyone else has seen it.
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chicken little
Dear Jamie, thank you so much, it was a wonderful documentary, very inspiring.
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NEVER GIVE UP!
by Snoozy ini saw this on yahoo and had to share for those that haven't seen it yet..a truly inspirational story..shows anything is possible.
you just have to work for it!!!.
never give up!.
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chicken little
Thank you snoozy, this is just so good to watch. I posted it on my facebook because I think that so many of us give up on ourselves even when our problems are nothing in comparison to this persons.
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Finally, a simple cure for depression
by rebel8 inhow to good-bye depression: if you constrict anus 100 times everyday.
malarkey?
or effective way?.
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chicken little
This is catchy, I am doing it in time to my local pop station, lal pinch, lallah pinch, hoho pinch, yeah yeah pinch...just worried I may have an accident.!
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Ten years later, where are they now? Youngsters moving to London where the ministry is more exciting
by truthseeker inabout 10-12 years ago, some of the young pioneers in my hall moved to london because they thought the ministry would be more exciting than the poorly supported field service groups in my sleep town in sussex.. i was thinking the other day what became of them.
i know that one is now an elder and married, the other one i'm not so sure about.. one of my relatives once said that the truth is more exciting in london, people are warmer, there's more opportunities for young witnesses.. if you lived in the uk, perhaps in the south of england, was it a fad for some of the youth to move to london where they thought the ministry was more exciting?
have they left or are they still in?.
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chicken little
I moved to London area from up north when I was 18, I was in Middlesex at first, called the pioneer graveyard. I had a hard time as a young girl, only one old badtempered pioneer who thought working with me was meeting me at 5am to hand out watchtowers for 2 hours at the train station. UGGH!
Moved to foriegn congregation in scandinavia for one year, totally fantastic experience where everything was cool, laidback and different. Of course it could not stay like that and eventually it became like all the rest but it did attract loads of young people who became pioneers there. Many stayed. I met my husband and we went back to London, to Brixton/Peckham/Southwark area and we pioneered there. Again I can say that it was very different, loads of studies and lots of pioneers. Now when I think back and can see that there was nothing else for the brothers and sisters, we lived in relative poverty and in awful housing and the meetings and service was their life and ours. We had people come down to try it, but I remember one sister from bethel was scared of our territory, she felt like she was in a missionary assignment when she went out with us.
We moved back to scandinavia to help in the english circuit and were pioneers here, the numbers coming over tailed off before I left, but there were a lot joining spanish, chinese, arabic, turkish groups. We spent most of our time looking for names that just might indicate they spoke english. Waste of time.