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  Do your parents still talk to you?

  by scootergirl in

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  2. friends

  just curious if your parents still have contact with you after you have been df'd/da'd.

  mine have stood by w/strong convictions not to have contact w/me.

  they have to have some being that i have kids that they want to see (but that is very minimal).

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  My parents do as the are told, and do not talk to me. Except to talk to the kids. I moved up north, and my mother will call to speak to the kids, if one of them answers the phone she will not even ask to speak to me.

  She came to my college graduation, which actually shocked the hell out of me. What was really cool is that during the ceremony, they called out three outstanding students and told about some of what they did at college, and I was one of them (the school I went to has an enrollment of like 30,000...so it was a BIG deal). Afterwards, everyone else was so surpised, as was I, that I had to stand up and be acknowleged like that....I asked my mom if she was suprised and she said, no I knew they would talk about you too because that is always how you have been. I have a "surragate mom" of sorts, she is the one I call to ask mom things to...and she was really struck by how my mom will just look at me with such love and sadness at the same time. I know she loves me.

  I think she is shocked that all the bad things that are supposed to happen to you when you "leave jehovah" did not happen to me. I am not even what you would call christian anymore, very spiritual still but not in that organized religious way. I think that people who teach that the greatest commands are love should be ashamed that they teach women to ignore all of their maternal instincts and treat children who dare to leave this religion as if they were dead leave this god. Yeah, thats love.

  My dad wrote me a long letter when I graduated. He really doesnt talk to me either. I know he is proud of me, and that is all I can really hope for at this point.

  I friggin hate that religion. I do miss my folks alot.
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  Help! Is it possible to earn a living under 40 hrs

  by Leander in

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  on a few posts here and there i've noticed some of the people on the board have been able to create their own careers without working the dreaded fulltime hours.

  i've been wanting to do this for years but i don't have a clue as to how to get started.

  i've really wanted to get into the field of real estate development.

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  If you are in the US, go to the Better Business Bureau, they have a program for people wanting to start businesses. They walk you thru all the basics, including writing your business plan and how to apply for grants.
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  What's Your Pet Peeve?

  by DB in

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  of course, the wts is pretty much a pet peeve of almost everyone here.

  but besides that, what's your pet peeve?

  i'm in a playful mood today, so here's mine, with some tongue-in-cheekiness, of course: .

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  Bendrr,

  I so miss John Boy and Billy!! That is one of the things I bring back north when I go home, their grillin sauce.
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  What's Your Pet Peeve?

  by DB in

  1. jw
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  of course, the wts is pretty much a pet peeve of almost everyone here.

  but besides that, what's your pet peeve?

  i'm in a playful mood today, so here's mine, with some tongue-in-cheekiness, of course: .

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  mine is talking to people in normal situations (work, dr office, restaurants) and people from out of the blue saying, WOW ARE YOU FROM THE SOUTH I LOVE YOUR ACCENT

  particuarly weird when you are disrobed for your physical and the dr assistant, who has been asking medical questions, decides to say that.

  silly yankees
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  What's the one thing you miss about the WTS?

  by Naeblis in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there are times when ilook back fondly on my days in the witnesses, especially when i think on the congregation get togethers we would have every once in awhile (not too often) people from our hall and sometimes others would show up (not too many) and good times were had by all.

  this is how the schedule usually went.. 8pm: arrive at the community centre.

  8:05pm: scope the room.

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  i miss my mom.
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  Canadians in Hell

  by jst_me in

  1. social
  2. humour

  two guys from toronto die and wake up in hell.

  the next day the devil stops in to check on them and sees them dressed in parkas, mittens and toques warming themselves around the fire.

  the devil asks them, "what are you doing?

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  Two guys from Toronto die and wake up in hell. The next day the devil stops in to check on them and sees them dressed in parkas, mittens and toques warming themselves around the fire. The devil asks them, "What are you doing? Isn't it hot enough for you?"

  The two guys reply, "Well, you know, we're from Canada, the land of snow and ice and cold. We're just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, eh."

  The devil decides that these two aren't miserable enough and turns up
  the heat. The next morning he stops in again and there they are, still dressed in parkas, toques and mittens. The devil asks them again, It's awfully hot down here, can't you guys feel it?"

  Again the two guys reply, Well, like we told ya yesterday, we're from Canada, the land of snow and ice and cold. We're just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, eh."

  This gets the devil a little steamed up and he decides to fix these two guys. He cranks the heat up as high as it will go. The people are wailing and screaming everywhere. He stops by the room with the two guys from Canada and finds them in light jackets and bucket hats, grilling sausage and drinking beer. The devil is astonished, "Everyone down here is in
  absolute misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourselves."

  The two Canadians reply, "Well, ya know, we don't get too much warm weather up there in Toronto so we've just got to have a cook-out when the weather's THIS nice."

  The devil is absolutely furious, he can hardly see straight. Finally
  he comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in hell. The next morning, the temperature is below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere; people are shivering so bad that they are unable to do anything but wail, moan and gnash their teeth. The devil smiles and heads for the room with the two Canadians. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, toques, and mittens. NOW they are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men!!

  The devil is dumbfounded, "I don't understand, when I turn up the heat you're happy. Now it's freezing cold and you're still happy. What is wrong with you two???"

  The Torontonians look at the devil in surprise, "Well, don't you know? If Hell freezes over, it must mean the Leafs have won the Stanley Cup!!!"
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  Wakeup Call for Sister-in-law

  by Carmel in

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  last evening my cell phone rang and it was a sister-in-law of mine who had left her jw husband (one of my older brothers) because he was molesting their daughters and the elders blamed her for not being an adequate wife.

  she left and was df'd for it.

  anyway, we have had correspondence for the past four or five years but never did we talk about the "private" matters.

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  That is similar to what Andrew Jackson said when he was killing Indian babies..."lice make nits"

  that is so gross
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  Hearing Kingdom Songs on Dateline.......sickened

  by Mulan in

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  did anyone else have the bile come up, when you heard those "kingdom songs" during the dateline show?

  it made me feel ill.........and almost like leaving the room.

  i wonder why i have such an aversion to anything connected to a kh meeting?

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  My kids were at their dad's this weekend, and he makes them go to meetings, and they said that was the song this Sunday.

  The show freaked them out. My daughter has said for a while she knows they are corrupt. What made the biggest impact to them is that Bill Bowen is still a brother, and that the other people they saw were df'd for speaking up.

  My daughter also caught the lawyer-bethel guy in lies when he was talking about the proceedure for df'ing people, because she knows what happened in my case.

  So, even for those of us who have not had to deal with the molestation issue, the show was great. I hated hearing the songs, but my kids heard them and knew that the story was real.
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  Let's have a Hawaiian Luau!!!

  by TheRedPill in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i ran across an interesting disclaimer in the june 8, 2002 awake.

  there is an article in there titled "let's have a hawaiian luau.

  " the first paragraph says that "millions of visitors come to hawaii to...take part in our world famous luau, or hawaiian feast.*".

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  I wonder if native Hawaiians would agree that the word has come to mean simply a banquet?
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  Rodney Stark and Pedophiles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by herbert in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  email stark's colleagues - those that dislike him will love it, and there will be many since not all univ.

  of washington profs are as newsworthy as he, or have bestselling books, and those that like him will be concerned.

  all it will take is an email header "does stark back jws in pedophile scandal?

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  You may want to chill out just a bit. He is a prof, and this is a horrible time of year to try and contact anyone who teaches, esp at universities. You may not get a reply for several WEEKS, and that would be quite normal.

  He seems to be an authority in his field, and I for one would like to see if he was quoted out of turn. He may think everyone who writes him on this issue has a dangerous agenda if you try to rile things up too quickly, esp without knowing facts.