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  Got Accosted by 2 JW Women While Pumping Gas Yesterday - Weird

  by flipper in

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  absolutely weird.

  minding my own business while pumping gas - this 60 year old short jw lady with fluffed bun styled 60's hair and her 30 year old attractive 5 ' 10 inch jw lady partner came straight up to me as i'm pumping.

  they picked the wrong hombre .

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  Way to go, I hope someday to be able to do that it would be so cool. You did a great job.

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  Head coverings yet again in the latest KM

  by life is to short in

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  my husband just gave me the latest km the novermber 2013 and it yet again has a question box on head coverings.. question box "should a female publisher wear a head covering if she is accompanied by a male pubisher at a doorstep bible study?".

  it says "when a female publisher conducts a reagular, scheduled bible study and a male kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering.

  (1 cor 11: 3-10) the july 15 2002, issue of the watchtower page 27, explains: "this is a prearranged session of teaching where the one conducting the the study actually presides.

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  life is to short

  My husband just gave me the latest KM the Novermber 2013 and it yet again has a Question Box on head coverings.

  Question Box "Should a female publisher wear a head covering if she is accompanied by a male pubisher at a doorstep Bible study?"

  It says "When a female publisher conducts a reagular, scheduled Bible study and a male Kingdom publisher is present, she should wear a head covering. (1 Cor 11: 3-10) The July 15 2002, issue of the Watchtower page 27, explains: "This is a prearranged session of teaching where the one conducting the the study actually presides. Under those circumstances, a study becomes an extensiion of the congregation. If a baptized female WItnesses conducts such a study with a baptized male Witness present, she would rightly were a head covering." This is true whether the study is conducted in the home, at the doorstep, or in some other setting. On the other hand , if a doorstep Bible study has not yet been established, a sister would not need to wear a head covering in the presence of a male Kingdom publisher, even if the purpose of the return visit is to demonstrate a Bible study or to consider material in one of the recommended study publications. Since doorstep studies are often established gradually, through a series of progressive return visits, publisher will need to consider the circumstances and be resonable in determining at what point a head covering should be used.
  
  So when are the GB going to start demanding we were Burkas? Seriously if they start making us women wear head coverings door to door the JW's will look more like a cult than ever. Maybe in other parts of the world it would be OK but here in the USA it will look really stanage and push even more to see them for what they are a cult.

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  My Review for Terry's new book, "I Wept by the Rivers of Babylon, A Prisoner of Conscience in a Time of War"

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  grappling with conscience .

  a must read, i wept by the rivers of babylon,a prisoner of conscience in a time of war, is an important self-portrait of a naive young man, terry walstrom, who in 1967 thought he was obeying his conscience when he refused to take up arms and kill.

  inasmuch as he was a conscientious objector, walstrom could have availed himself of noncombatant service in the military, but he was opposed to that arrangement.

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  Thank you Terry, you are one of my favort posters here, I will ordering you book soon. Looking forward to reading it. All of your writting is so great here on JWN and I know you have helped many to learn the TATT, thank you for all of you you do.

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  Marilyn Zweifel of the 800-why-1914 Helpline passed away yesterday

  by coffee_black in

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  marilyn manned the helpline for many years, and touched the lives of so many effected by the wt.

  she will be missed.. coffee .

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  I am also so sorry to hear of this though I did not know her I also heard such great things about her, my thoughts are now with her husband, I hope he has support.

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  Terry's book: I WEPT BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON

  by tec in

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  i just finished reading this book, by our terry, and i thorougly enjoyed it.

  terry has an amazing gift for words and expression - as most of you already know - and he lured me in from the very start.

  reading this book is an actual experience... and i don't want to say much more than that, because i don't want to color your experience as you read for yourself.. .

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  Did you ever volunteer at or visit Bethel? What were your impressions when you were in the WBTS vs. now (looking back)?

  by Poindexter Lionel Humperdique in

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  2. bible

  did you ever volunteer/visit bethel back when you were in the borg?

  at the time, it opended my eyes as i saw a lot of red flags.

  for instance, volunteers were kept so busy without reasonable accomodations that everyone became in a robotic-zombie state of compliance with an unreasonably strict fast pased schedule.

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  I was at Bethel as a married sister. It beat the heck out of serving where the need was great as my husband and Iwere doing piror to Bethel. Even though the schedule was very busy at Bethel I still had way more free time then pioneering where the need was great. With pioneering I was never home, I was always either out in service or working or sitting in the car waiting for my husband to come out of one of his endless elder meetings.

  In fact at Bethel it was the first time ever in our than four year marriage that we even had time together as a couple, before my husband was always gone doing some Congo thing. We were just ships that passed in the night. I talked to the CO when we were serving where the need was great and told him I was really loosing it. The CO berated me and told me I was being selfish and the Jehovah needed my husband, I knew that when I married him that I was marrying the only elder in the hall and I had no right to take my husbands time away from Jehovah. I could have a marriage in the new system.

  Now looking back I realize that the hall was a hall from HELL and that the CO did not want to deal with the problems and he was dumping on my husband.

  So to me Bethel was wonderful in many, many ways, at least I could go home in the eveings on non meeting nights instead of sitting in the car or working untill one or two in the moring to support pioneering, I at least had somewhat more of a life and even more money as the little bit we got at Bethel did not have to go for gas in field service, every cent we had pioneering went to car gas and car reparis as none of the other pioneers gave a dime to us to help out. So as crazy as Bethel might have been pioneering to me was way worse.

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  Has The Society, or Any Bro or Sis, Ever Screwed You Out Of Your Money?

  by LoisLane looking for Superman in

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  this thread was inspired because of 3rdgn, and her asking, on behalf of her destitute elderly widowed mom,.

  for the return of her mother's "conditional loan" to the society of $20,000.00.. (this was stated today, under my thread of, "what was the effect on you of knowing hypocritical jw's?").

  the society more or less yes, no, it is now our money, and you can't have it back.

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  When I was a dumb kid of 18 years in the hall and working part time on minium wage there was a couple in the hall who had two kids. They decided they needed new carpet. Now I was living on my own and struggling to make it with no family to help me. I was always so afraid of not having enough moeny and no one to fall back on that I saved 10% of the little I made (an emergency fund) in case I lost my low paying job. Now I had $500.00 in my saving it was all I had to my name. For some reason this couple could not get a loan from the bank and stupid me I told them I had this savings. I let them borrow the money with no interest.

  When it came time to pay me back the wife was so rude and threw the money at me. I was just a kid of 18 she was pusing 40. Finally she told me it was not fare that I had money in savings. I was blown away and I said I work hard for it she said and to quote her "I do not care how you got the money it is just not fair that you have it."

  I have so many stories of the greed of ones in the religion but I am finding it is also outside. People are people good and bad, some will help you when you need it and other will take when you are down. You just need to be careful who you trust. The thing is in the JW's we are taught that we are all brothers and sisters and should trust without question. That is so dangerous.

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  Check this out- JW Car Lot

  by itsibitsybrainbutbigenoughtosmellarat in

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  http://www.circuitvehicles.com/home/.

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  Tech49

  When I was at Bethel the rumor had it that Judah Ben's father-in-law was a Buick car dealer and thats why then went with them as he got them a huge cut in price. He apparantly had has a ton of money. When Judah Ben got married her dad chartered the Circle Line cruse around Manhattan and only the GB and the big wigs were invited. None of the low caste at Bethel had a prayer of going. This was told to me by my overseer who was very bitter at it. I was blowen away at his bitterness at the time as I was new to Bethel and thought the GB walked on water. Now I know why he was bitter.

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  OMG Have you seen this?? This site is sooo hysterical. It reminds me of The Onion, but for exJW's

  by noni1974 in

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  http://jehovahstrumpet.com.

  i read the cat baptisim article and i doubled over laughing.

  one time when i was a kid i asked why my kitty couldn't go to the kh with us and my mom told me that animals were perfect and didn't need to go to the kh.. .

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  I loved it thanks.

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  I told my mother to stop contacting me

  by kyria in

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  after two months of terribly abusive emails from my mother telling me that i "am not capable of appreciating true love" and her weird delusions that i have no friends and my life is a mess, i finally cut her off.

  i blocked her email address, and i told her to stop contacting me.

  yes, the jehovah?s witnesses.

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  life is to short

  LoisLane

  I am fairly sure Kyria is the one who wrote "I'm perfect your doomed". If you have not read it yet I recommend it. You can get it from Amazon. I do not know if anyone else knows for sure if this is the same Kyria but I think it is. She is a great writer.

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