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  No windows

  by BlackSwan of Memphis in

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  a couple years back i read posts re the lack of windows in the kh.

  i think at the time i was still so close to the situation that i thought it was a bit extreme and surely it couldn't be anything like it was being made out to be: conspiracy on the part of the organization.. flash forward to recent days.

  i have been attending our local unitarian universalists church (or universalist unitarian?

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  Windows....The Common Dangers.
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  when is the memorial this year? and will you be going?

  by highdose in

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  i won't be going if i can help it, but id like a heads up about it, just to be forewarned.

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  Last time my mother asked me was about five years ago. I laughed and asked, are you serious?

  Haven't been asked again!
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  God will end all suffering! when?how? Dec 1/09 wt

  by bobld in

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  over 2,600 years ago habakkuk asked god that q.what does the wt have to about this q.

  "god really cares how we know.

  do you like good food?

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  So what are we supposed to do? Tell the 800 million people

  that go hungry every night that eventually (probably not in their lifetime)

  they'll be fed, that they need to trust in God? I don't know about you lot,

  but God certainly doesn't pay my bills. Yes, you can argue that God put lots of

  varities of food on the planet, BUT you need money to buy it.
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  JW members and 401Ks...

  by diana netherton in

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  2. friends

  i just would like to open a little debate here on retirement and jws.

  my mother, who is the breadwinner of the family, (dad's quite pathetic) is socking away money like mad for retirement.

  i can't blame her, since i know she'll need it, but she's convinced that the end is so near.

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  Yeah, you're all right, of course. I should be glad she's saving but I guess it does mean that she has doubts.
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  JW members and 401Ks...

  by diana netherton in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just would like to open a little debate here on retirement and jws.

  my mother, who is the breadwinner of the family, (dad's quite pathetic) is socking away money like mad for retirement.

  i can't blame her, since i know she'll need it, but she's convinced that the end is so near.

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  I just would like to open a little debate here on retirement and JWs.

  My mother, who is the breadwinner of the family, (dad's quite pathetic) is socking away money like mad for retirement. I can't blame her, since I know she'll need it, BUT she's convinced that the end is so near. So if the end is so near, why bother? I feel like asking her this question but don't want to add salt to the wound. But if the end is so imminent, why save? Do you think this is a sign of doubt on her part?

  Anyone want to add their two cents of retirement to this?
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  New sex offender in my hall

  by Iwonder17 in

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  just found out that there is a sex offender in my hall.

  the "brother" that i was with said " the brothers will make sure that he is not put with any kids in service".

  wtf !!!!

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  It's public knowledge..just look on the Megan's Law website to see what sex offenders are living near you. Those who are in denial can

  check for themselves....or not. Scary. We had a few suspicious men in our hall when I was a kid. Weirdos.
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  Pink Songbooks - Green Bibles

  by nicolaou in

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  those of us who've been around long enough will understand the title.

  what we are looking for here are examples of the society's lack of taste.. for example, i'm sure our kingdom hall wasn't the only one in the 70's with dark brown carpeting that rose halfway up the walls and a nice trendy rubber plant in the corner of the platform!.

  nic'.

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  I remember the seats in our NJ Hall were yellow, itchy fabric. Everything else was brown or green.

  I remember the womens' bathroom the most. It was all pink and it always smelled. Also, the "second"

  meeting on Thursdays was held in a musty, cold room in the basement. That was pukey green color. I hated it. Mostly I remember the

  smells though, and how bad they were. Strange what we recall!
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  Can you believe this?

  by stillin9 in

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  2. bible

  you guys might have read the article below before but this was the first time i was reading this and i certainly got chills from reading it!

  i couldn't believe my eyes!

  11 well, now, what about this disfellowshiped person?

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  This is from 1952? What would happen if they published that today? I should print this and show it to my mother.
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  JW mother makes sick video.....comments please.

  by koolaid-man in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyakn5ediju&feature=email.

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  Who the heck IS this woman anyway?? I've never seen any more blatant endoctrination in my life!!!!
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  wife took it pretty well i guess...it's over...

  by oompa in

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  i guess it only took three years, but they were hell in so many ways for both of us...she was not happy and lived in denial as much as possible...i was not happy and lived in a bottle as much as possible and glad that is over for me....but it was one of the saddest things i have ever experienced in my life....as was the visit to my parents before i told her....but yes...she said she kind of expected it...was thinking something was going to happen soon as she noticed i had more and more trouble saying i love you back to her when she said it on the phone at the end of goodbyes...and when i was leaving the house...i had noticed it for over a year and it was killing me..... i told her how sorry i was for changing so much again....and that she still walks on water...and is a great person and so pretty....and that she will be ok because she was happy single before me for many years and had all she needs for that again...her closeness to jehovah and her freinds in the congregation...she is very close to both and will be ok i hope...it was very surreal....very calm...very sad.

  my bitterness and disdain for wt rules came through when talking to my parents and i was very open about how i feel as to their upcoming shunning of me, and how it feels to my son since he was just 17....and how the fear of losing them had kept me trying in my marriage for the past few years...dad was firm in his position of future action....mom said they will still always love me...and will still talk to me until i get dfd.....oh how this hurts.....dad said there is a name for people who only live for themselves and deny god but could not think of what it was....i told him i was not living just for myself...that i am a good person and there are values from him and the bible i hope i always have....i cry so hard as i type this and tell you just so you can know how painful this is....i told him i so loved the rule of treating others how you want to be treated and have always done that...even allowing myself to be wronged on so many occasions to keep peace....... he said that was a good rule....i agreed and said it was a big one too....and that while i could do it...treat him the way i would like to be treated...he would not be able to!.......left as i became emotional...big hug from mom, but i just barely put an arm on dad............oompa.

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  Sorry, Oompa, that you have to go through so much. The JW organisation causes so much pain to everyone associated

  with it, even relatives that are not "in." It's torn my family apart and put a wedge there that will never recover

  Thoughts are with you...

  Diana