I never heard of the wooden spoon but there were plenty of parents who took their children to the bathroom and let them have the hand.Everybody in the hall could hear"smack,smack,smack!But everyone just let it ride and chalked it up to just one more kid interrupting Jehovah's spiritual meal.That could be avoided if they would just have a Sunday School program.
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by little witch indoes anyone remember the advice from from the stage, encouraging mothers to remove babies from the room when they were hungry?.
how about, wooden spoons to beat toddlers into submission, preferably in front of the congegation, as to set an example in disipline?
was this just in our hall, or was it from the borg?
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IF YOU COULD TELL A JW OFF, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?
by minimus inafter reading all the sad stories of how some here have been abused in a multitude of ways, if you had the opportunity now, would you speak up?
if you tended to be shy or insecure, would you want to speak out now, if you could?
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dsgal
I would say "Get your uppety a#ses out of here and go back to your cliques.Why are you wasting your time on a nobody like me?Y'all never invited me to your stupid get-togethers so what are you doing here now?"
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Anyone ever mess up??
by freedom96 ini remember once doing the closing prayer for field service.
at the time, i didn't know what to believe, and was simply going through the motions.
i would much rather been in bed.
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dsgal
I screwed up all the time as a dub.Screwed up talks,choked up at the doors when asked a certain question,nothing but a big screw up .Couldn't do anything right so I got out.
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Where were you?
by joannadandy in.
sorry if this has been done to death, i only did a quick scan and didn't see a topic like this, so i appologize in advance if this was started someplace else.. this morning i woke up and thought about where i was last year, and the complete shock i felt at this same time last year...and i was just wondering if any of you had those same feelings this morning.. so where were you?
i always find stories of what people were doing at the time they heard to be really interesting-please share if you'd like.
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dsgal
I had just dropped my daughter off at beauty college and came home and turned on the t.v. a couple of minutes after the first plane struck the WTC.I watched in absolute horror and cried.
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Helping Others - Dubs on Charity
by Stephanus inon the back of the october 1, 1997 wt, there is a piece on charity dub style.
the title promises a lot, but sentence number 1 immediately qualifies the concept - dub charity is for dubs.
the rest is a testimony by an un-named brother about congregational kindness shown him and his wife while she was dying and after her death.
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dsgal
Where the hell have you guys been?All my wife got so far was a friggin' phone call.And why did you bring flowers?We need food!Guess I'd better call one of christendom's churches.I ought to give you a damn knuckle sandwich! And next time call first so I can take this damn curtain down and put up the real door!
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JUST ASK QUEENIE (gossip column)
by QUEENIE ini will try to answer any and all questions either here or privately at [email protected] bestest ones will appear in my net-newletter and or in my snail mail newsletter..first names only will be used or anonymous as i am in no mood in being sued though you can not get blood from a turnip...so friends let us have fun for a change..hugs ya all queenie
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dsgal
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
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Which did you prefer? Watchtower or Awake?
by LDH inwhen i was a jw, i really couldn't stomach the watchtowers.
the only articles i would read would be for the family study/watchtower study.
it seemed so archaic and old-people-ish.. i did read the awake from cover to cover almost every time.
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dsgal
I always looked forward to the latest issue of the Watchtower,hoping there would be some"new light".When I finally realized that "new light"was in fact just something made up to cover their @$$e$ for mistaken "old light" I quit reading it altogether.I never found the Awake! very interesting.Who cares about the monarch butterfly's migratory pattern?
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ELDERS AND OTHERS
by minimus inelders have the right to talk to disfellowshipped ones.
the average jw can't.
elders can call you for a judicial meeting and charge you with anything.
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dsgal
Elders tell elderettes personal matters that don't concern them.I know this for a fact.If anyone else in the congo did this,they would be counseled for gossiping.
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Shepherding calls in a non-JW church
by Dawn ini have been reading through a number of posts here regarding shepherding calls in the past few days.
having always been the "troubled child" i sure received my fair share.
i got pregnant when i was 19 (unmarried) and know firsthand what a woman goes through during these so-called "shepherding calls" - having to tell every detail of your sex life to 3 old geezers, feeling dirty and worthless, and terrified of loosing everything if you're df'd.. i've been attending a non-denominational church now for a couple years and discovered that they also do shepherding calls (yikes!!
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dsgal
I knew a single mom who was studying with witnesses.She was in bad shape financially.One day in the middle of her study the water company disconnected her water.She was embarrassed but all the study conductor(who was an elder's wife)said was "go to your mom's and take a bath and be at the meeting."So she took all three of her children to her mom's and got ready and made it to the meeting.She was hoping they would offer her some help but no one even mentioned it.The next day she went to a Baptist church and told them her problem and they paid her water bill and donated groceries for her and her children.Needless to say,she stopped studying with witnesses because of lack of christian love.They are sorely lacking in this.Get showed up by "christendom's churches"every time.
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Why has God Permitted Wickedness?
by hillary_step inyes, i know what the wts teaches....but what do you believe?.
if god exists why is there is so much suffering both among humans and even more so among his creation, where all animals must, deceive then eat one another to survive?
if he does not exist why is there is so much suffering both among humans and even more so among nature where all animals must eat one another to survive?
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dsgal
We are pawns in a dispute between God and Satan.Even the Bible says it.