Posts by dissed

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How Did You Handle Sitting At The Meetings?

by minimus in

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did you pretend to listen?

did you actually follow along, listening intently?.

at the end i was listening more intently and getting more irritated by the whole sham..

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I had back problems and couldn't sit long, so stood at the back most of the time.

Saw everything. Who came late, left early, met new ones, vistors passing through, irate non-JW husbands, sisters crying as they came back??

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Have you ever heard of a situation where a speaker had to leave the platform/stage?

by StoneWall in

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and if so how was it handled?.

was it because of illness?.

or extreme case of nature calling?

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We had a speaker in Pomona, CA die of a heart attack on the stage. Its more common than you think.

Our water was out at the KH and a guest speaker had a dry throat, kept coughing, couldn't go, so one of us (me) went to the store for a bottle of water.

And for the stupid one me. Recovering from surgery, our PO forgot and assigned me out for a talk, 100 miles away. He demanded that I go and keep my assignment, so as not to put them out.

I show up for the talk, in pain, on drugs. I try and give the talk, it lasts about 25 minutes, as I then struggled back to my seat.

Afterwards, they want to know why I was such a trooper, when they have over 20 qualified speakers in their hall. I mentioned this to him and when it came to Elder recomends later, he cited my bad attitude over the assignment. UGH!

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Did your big toe get baptized? Did they re-dunk you?

by Open mind in

bro.

all three of us, ms. hydrophobia, bro.

bro.

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Somehow, I got the impression, that when you were baptized, you would know, that when coming out of the water, if you were chosen as the annointed.

Like JC seeing the spirit in the form of a Dove? Who knows? Didn't happen. I was too programed to being of the earthly second class.

Anyone get gifts? I did. A very nice Young's Concordance from my teacher with a good note to never quit searching as for buried treasure. Not really knowing at the time, once you are a JW, you are not permitted to search anymore.

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The WT is turning out stupid children.

by is there help out there in

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when the children in the kh do not sit still they are taken in the back and spanked and acording to this report it lowers there iq.. .

jeanna bryner.

senior writer.

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To spank or not to spank?

It seems most here are upset with the abusive parents we cringed to see hit their kids at the hall. And mostly with GB blessing.

Not saying I was great at discipline, but rarely did we find it necessary to embarrass our daughter at the hall by spanking her.

My poor wife had that responsibility, and most of the time it only took a visit to bathroom to reason with her. How do you spank a kid for being fidgety at a late night, two hour meeting? Even I found them boring.

If you have ever trained animals and been successful, you don't need to hit them, just the opposite. You will ruin a horse if you do.

Kids deserve even more respect and better treatment than that.

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Always make sure you go fishing with at least 2 mormons.

by lurk3r in

if ya only go with one, they will drink all your beer..

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*he lol

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How much would the WBTS owe you?

by Joshnaz in

if you calulated the amount of time you spent preaching, the money you have given to them, plus time developing talks, with a commision for each watchtower, awake, and other books sold.

how much would the wbt$ owe you?.

dissed

"A workman is due HIS wages"

So that leaves the former sisters out of the settlement. Leaves more for us ex-brothers.

Let's see, after the victims of child molesters get what's owed them, that leaves us about $2.63 when they sell off the last of their buildings.

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What's in a name?

by dissed in

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friends

its friday, and you know what that means?.

its time for the weekly tradition of sharing what your name means and why you chose it.. there has to be a reason, and it must reveal to us something special about you.. sure this post has probably been run by the forum before, but many of us are new here, and 'by golly, we need to get to know you all better.'.

even if you are using your real name, why and the heck are you using it?