One year at Hawthorne park in Chicago a young child fell from the 2nd floor walkway, it was unbelievable how the children were running up and down those ramps !
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DC Seating
by RR inokay, how many of you got to the convention site nice and early so that you could get the best seats on the house?.
having met in yankees stadium (difficult for me as i'm a mets fan) i always made sure i was in the shade.
hey someone had to come in early and make those watchtower hoagies (by the way, i never washed my hands).
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some quirks of the DC talks...
by metaspy inhere is a run down of some special things i noticed at the district convention.. i probably took better notes now than when i used to go as a jw.. however, my notes now are mostly "stupid" things that they say on stage.
saturday.
symposium: directed by god's spirit in our ministry - speaking the word of god with boldness.
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lancelink
Thanks for the statements, you must have great self control to sit ALL through those sessions !!!
reading the titles, I started to get a headache thinking about all the years I spent driving to,
sitting all day and listening to this crap.
I have to go and take some aspirin right now,
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Do you have pets? What kind? Names?
by White Dove ini do believe that introductions are in order.. ok, me first.
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waaaaa!!
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lancelink
Yesterday I stopped off on the way home at a K-hall construction I passed in Chicago and I overheard several ladies talking about pets.
One story really irked me, she stated how people from Mexico cannot comprehend why Americans let their dogs
1) live in the house
2) sleep on the beds
3)and sometimes even eat at the same table / room.
She said how weird the Americans are for letting this go on.
I felt like telling her to go back to Mexico if she did not like it, why complain about our customs?
If I go down there and complain about their lifestyle, I could end up dumped in a ditch somewhere with a hole in the back of my head.
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Embarassed at school for being a Witness - Did this happen to you?
by Witness 007 inwhen they played the national anthem everyone stood up...except afew of us witness kids who stood out like a saw thumb....a brother two rows ahead of me had a teacher physically drag him to his feet as he struggled to explain himself...i would sweat like a pig as others pointed and laught and told me off...from then on i would hide in the toilet till i heard the anthem finish then come out.. then theirs birthday holidays, sex education, religious studies which i wanted to do since i would be a star but i was banned by my family.. do you have an embarassing hide like a rat in the toilet moment..
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lancelink
I remember when I graduated from high school. The ceremony was held in the field house, and I was the ONLY ONE out of 400 graduates who sat during the national anthem. Good grief, was I embarrassed !
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Wrote a letter to the Catholic Chruch.
by Blueblades init was 1969 when i answered that first knock.
1970 when i got baptized.
it was suggested that i write a letter to the catholic chruch where i was baptized and disavow my baptism,that i no longer considered myself a catholic.
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lancelink
Voideater states :
My next baptism will be a Mormon In Absentia deal.
My sister who is a fading witness is going this way also, could you possibly fill me in
as to
1) how you feel leaving the witnesses this way
2) what made you gravitate toward the Mormons.
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Have you taken CPR? Does Jehovah Approve??
by horrible life ini took a 4 hour refresher cpr course this morning.
boy have things changed!
i think everyone should have cpr.
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blind finger sweeps ?? my instructor who is a nurse stated that this should NEVER be done.You could loose a finger.
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Are active JW's seeing the light?
by boyzone ini ask this because i had a strange experience this week.
for a brief bit of background knowledge i'm being shunned like most on here, but i see witnesses every day in my place of work and at the school gate, there's no avoiding them, and like many of you, i've found it really hard to get over the hurt and heartache this has caused.. yesterday my mum (an active witness) went into hospital to have a tumor removed (successfully) as i'm the only daughter nearby to help, the other witnesses were asking the elders what they were supposed to do if they wanted to visit my mum and i was at her bedside, should they talk to me or turn round and go out again.. one elder said to do that would be utterly ridiculous, of course i should be spoken to.
he was very annoyed even at the suggestion.
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I heard that my aunt wanted to come, but she was afraid of getting into trouble again.
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I Do Not Understand Why JWs Leave & Become Catholics!
by minimus inout of all religions, catholicism, to me, is wrong and clearly could never be the truth.
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lancelink
I am very happy now, and I never try to push my views on anyone else, I just know what I feel inside. wordly andre, thank you for saying this !!
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RE : 2008 Assembly
by lancelink inthis afternoon i was flipping in one of the june magazines, and i noticed the assembly content page.
i started reading it and almost fell over because of this statement : .
the theme of friday will be " the spirit will guide you into all the truth" .
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lancelink
This afternoon I was flipping in one of the June magazines, and I noticed the assembly content page.
I started reading it and almost fell over because of this statement :
The theme of Friday will be " The spirit will guide you into all the truth"
After picking myself up off of the floor, i just scanned the rest.
Most of the assembly after this deals with the theme of letting the spirit guide you.In other words keep on rollin' with the flow
After the 1914 change, (among others) how could anyone just attend an assembly, and actually LISTEN
to anything assembled by the Brooklyn boys regarding being guided by the spirit ????
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Did you ever feel like a "Traitor" posting here?
by Dirty Rat inmaybe at first, or maybe you still feel this way, that you shouldn't be here........
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I noticed that when I reached a certain middle- age, my spirituality really started to make itself known.
I was a jw for over 30 years, and suddenly it started to make no sense to me.
Basically it was many, many wtf is THIS! moments.
So instead of going forward like the wtbts states, I started going backward.
Thinking about my spiritual life from years ago,,,,, before I was a jw.
I recently went to an all night May vigil at the local church, and guess what, I got more encouraged from sitting there thinking about the past, and what I used to believe than any meeting could have done for me !!
I actually was THINKING about God, by myself, with no one pointing out to me what the wt believes, or states what we should believe, etc. and to stay in line with this thread, a certain amount of fear sometimes flirted thru my thoughts, but i thought what in the world is my problem ?
It is very obvious to me that God does not dwell in only one religion, if the elder body were to discover what I was doing, too bad,
I finally started to grow a backbone.
A spiritual life is mine,only mine, and I'm really weary of uneducated fools who think that they are gods personal receivers and mouthpieces regarding his thoughts and what people should/should not do in every aspect of their lives.
So no, I do not feel like a traitor, I really feel for the first time in my life that I am understanding what spirituality really is, and this site assists me in understanding how far off track some people have been pulled, or allowed themselves to disengage from their own personal feelings toward God.
As a final thought I recently heard this statement from st. Frances, think about it sometime by yourself with no one around :
• Preach the Gospel always, and if necessary, use words.