LOL @ Shirley I was thinking the same thing.
Joliette
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Big convention in Milwaukee June 2014
by Joliette ini work at a hotel, and our hotel literally sold out in two days.
the jdubs aint playing!
you would think that the end of the world was coming how they were calling for hotel rooms.
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Joliette
I work at a hotel, and our hotel literally sold out in two days. The Jdubs aint playing! You would think that the end of the world was coming how they were calling for hotel rooms. Literally every 10 mins they were calling: Do you guys have rooms for the Watchtower convention. There is gonna be a convention going on at Miller Park this year. I think I'm gonna go just to check it out.
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How do you guys feel during the holidays?
by Joliette inthis is a very lonely time of year for me i admit it.
i'm suppose to be going over my aunties house wednesday after work.
but going to christmas/holiday parties and get togethers, i still kinda feel out of place.. i really wish i grew up celebrating the holidays more.
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Joliette
Great replies. Thank you.
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How do you guys feel during the holidays?
by Joliette inthis is a very lonely time of year for me i admit it.
i'm suppose to be going over my aunties house wednesday after work.
but going to christmas/holiday parties and get togethers, i still kinda feel out of place.. i really wish i grew up celebrating the holidays more.
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Joliette
This is a very lonely time of year for me I admit it. I'm suppose to be going over my aunties house Wednesday after work. But going to Christmas/Holiday parties and get togethers, I still kinda feel out of place.
I really wish I grew up celebrating the holidays more. I got influcenced by it but never celebrated it. I left the kingdom hall back in 2010, and mentally I still am not a very 'fesitive' person . Not only did my parents not celebrate the holidays growing up, but then I had a grandfather who did allow his daughters to celebrate it (my grandparents were not J-dubs). But as far as I knew, he didnt believe in holidays and he thought work was more important than celebrating the holidays. Besides the holidays I have a birthday coming up on Feb 16th, I'll be 31.
I am free to celebrate the holidays now, but the holidays, not just Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Years, but all of them, seem so forced and commericalized, captialized, etc. It just seems so....fake. If I have kids (which I dont) I dont care if they want to celebrate or dont. This lady that came to my job (I work at a hotel ) was telling me that its too expensive, especially Chistmas. She said that kids are very ungreatful nowadays. I still have mixed feelings.
My parents are so anti Holiday, anti Birthday that its hilarious. I dont care either way, and I never understood what was the big deal growing up. I mean if a person gives me a gift, I'll appreciate it. A lot of people did give me cards and gifts for my graduation from high school, and I deeply appreciated it. Buuuuut the J-Dubs in my congo and circuit were so hypocritical growing up when it came to graduation parties and bridal showers, wedding anniversaries, etc. OMG, I couldnt believe how they could flip the scriptures around to go in the directions that they wanted it to go. It made me sick to the stomach.
How do you guys feel?
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A story about Reggie and Reginald... and why it makes me cringe... more vomiting
by confusedandalone inso i grew up in new jersey in a very urban part of the state.
i literally only saw white folks if they were in a police car or if i went to the assembly.
the funny thing is at the assembly there was still a level of segregation as well although it was self-imposed.
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Joliette
To be honest I saw it both ways...I saw blacks and whites getting treated bad, as well as other races. But I think that the experiences has all been the same. Religions like Jehovahs Witnesses dont care if your rich, poor, black or white. There just looking to exploit people, thats all. I'm trying to work on not getting so caught up in the racial thing and focusing on who the real enemy is.
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Joliette
2 + 2 =5, thats pretty much what I was told growing up. That Big J would take of it, lol.
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Jws and poverty
by Julia Orwell inwhen i say poverty, i mean not knowing where your next meal is coming from or being unable to pay your bills or afford necessary medicines poverty.
i'm talking the kinds of poor people who have to get food from charities kind of poor, or long term unemployment living in a trailer/caravan kind of poor.
holes in clothes poor.
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Joliette
Yeah a lot of Witnesses that I knew grew up struggling. They would still manage to make it to the conventions and the assemblies. Didnt grow up with a lot, but still managed. But of course, they had to do more, cause in the JW's world, you never can be good enough. A lot of witnesses I knew (especially single mothers with children) grew up in housing projects, and a lot of single elderly sisters, or widowed or divorced sisters, are in senior bulidings. There wasnt too many who I knew that owned businesses or had college degrees. That was very discouraged.
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Ray Franz
by thedog1 inam reading coc at the moment, about half way through.
just finished reading some of the details of what happened in malawi and mexico years ago.
which reminded me that in the early 80's a very well known elder in the country i was then living in went to new york as he had discovered all the discrepencies between what had happened in malawi and in mexico and wanted to know what the gb had to say about it.
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Joliette
I read that book and that was the turning point for me. I never went back to the kingdom hall.
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A story about Reggie and Reginald... and why it makes me cringe... more vomiting
by confusedandalone inso i grew up in new jersey in a very urban part of the state.
i literally only saw white folks if they were in a police car or if i went to the assembly.
the funny thing is at the assembly there was still a level of segregation as well although it was self-imposed.
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Joliette
A video that I did on racial supremacy in watchtower's artwork. Look out for part 2!
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A story about Reggie and Reginald... and why it makes me cringe... more vomiting
by confusedandalone inso i grew up in new jersey in a very urban part of the state.
i literally only saw white folks if they were in a police car or if i went to the assembly.
the funny thing is at the assembly there was still a level of segregation as well although it was self-imposed.
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Joliette
Yeah I can cosign on that one, and yes I have heard stories of GB members being racist, some of them probably still are, as well as racism stories from the districts and circuits. Pictures of white angels in publications, a white Jesus, etc. It basically teachers that whites are elavated and that other non whites had no culture, and that they learned culture and christianity from whites. The watchtower was bulit on white supremacy anyways so it doesnt surprise me one bit. But nowadays the JW's will downplay and say that happened 'way back then.' 'That was then and this is now bull crap.' Then they'll get up on the stage and talk about how bad other religion are.
Any non white person who makes it up to the top ranks of the watchtower must be a real sell out.