Diogenesister

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  My first Halloween Party

  by 3rdgen in

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  warning!

  long post ahead!.

  i didn't know what to expect but i was really excited to be invited to accompany my daughter and her closest friends to a large (300+) party held at a famous hot spot.

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  I love to hear that we older gals know how to have fun!

  Hell yeah!
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  3 words to describe.....

  by punkofnice in

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  ..your experience with the watchtower corporation:.

  i'll start...... bully boy elders.

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  Driving force ? x z

  
  x xenophobic xerox myarse

  z zzzzz zzzzzz zzzzz
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  3 words to describe.....

  by punkofnice in

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  ..your experience with the watchtower corporation:.

  i'll start...... bully boy elders.

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  women hating pri@&s

  misery for kids

  No hanky panky
  
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  How have you felt since you learned TTATT?

  by tornapart in

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  it's been 4 years since it happened to me.

  an almost overnight experience.

  i read ray franz coc in 3 days and that was it.

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  oh and I always think of Stephen from the bible - stoned for nothing, poor boy
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  How have you felt since you learned TTATT?

  by tornapart in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  it's been 4 years since it happened to me.

  an almost overnight experience.

  i read ray franz coc in 3 days and that was it.

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  Huge sense of relief, I can do so many things now GUILT FREE YAY!

  However, I still struggle massively with death. Not so much the long & happy life well lived, surrounded by friends & family pain free kind of death. But the unjust death

  Of the murder victim

  Of the child with cancer

  Of the young slave who died under the lash
  

  Those who disappeared in the gulags or camps

  Of the pig or monkey whose only life has been lived in a cage filled with cruelty
  

  The still born baby

  The generations of our ancestors whose lives were nasty, brutish & short

  Cheerful sort, aren't I?
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  Something interesting!

  by John Aquila in

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  2. experiences

  i was invited to a small get-together by a long time friend.

  we both served as elders for years.

  he is in his late 70s.

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  Earlier this year they sent a representative to Brooklyn to resolve certain doctrinal issues with the governing body.

  I don't see anything particularly unusual in this. I don't see why a group of long term JW/elders/anointed should not visit bethel and whilst they were there "resolve",in other words clear up, issues they were not absolutely clear on.

  I certainly don't think disliking the shiny new tech savy org makes the older ones "apostates"either, in fact it's par for the course & what the org would be expecting in many ways.

  Nothing unusual here imho.
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  Bethel layoff question

  by CookieMonster in

  1. watchtower
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  hi,.

  with the layoffs of bethelites and special pioneers, does anyone know if they get some sort of "redundancy" payout?

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  There is a reason you have to sign a vow of poverty.

  Aha, that explains it thank you Morpheus. Never could get my head around that as it smaked so much of Christendom, now I know why!
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  Joe The Crow

  by truthseeker100 in

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  https://www.google.ca/search?q=joe+the+crow&oq=joe+the+crow&aqs=chrome..69i57.9969j0j1&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=utf-8.

  where i grew up we had this furious little bird that liked shiny objects like the earrings that little girls wore.

  he would fly into our school bus and drive the bus driver nuts and he was hated by the school teachers and all of our parents.

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  That's Jauuuuu the crau!

  He's even got that accent!!Where is it from!! LOL I love him!😄
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  What I Hate About Halloween....

  by konceptual99 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ....is that it has totally wiped away the distinct celebration of november 5th and bonfire night.

  fireworks and bonfires are still ubiquitous this time of year but it's just merged in with halloween which, whilst always being celebrated, was not as promoted and so overwhelming as it is now.. bring back the guy!.

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  Halloween has been pushed as a "safe"and commercial alternative. I'm in my 40's and it was barely celebrated in these 'ere parts when I was a child really.
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  What I Hate About Halloween....

  by konceptual99 in

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  2. friends

  ....is that it has totally wiped away the distinct celebration of november 5th and bonfire night.

  fireworks and bonfires are still ubiquitous this time of year but it's just merged in with halloween which, whilst always being celebrated, was not as promoted and so overwhelming as it is now.. bring back the guy!.

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  Diogenesister

  I agree, the food on bonfire night is the best!

  I think it's just not very pc to cellibrate burning catholics, although I only recently found out his real target was not parliament but the King, James, a prize rotter.

  You Americans would be a bit odd celebrating the execution of someone campaigning for religous freedom. Was it not this mean King James that precipitated the poor pilgrim fathers from leaving our shores?