Shortly after I had gotten baptized, I was in the post office, picking up the mail for my father's business. I was in a side alcove and saw the P.O. walking in to pick up his mail (we ran into each other frequently around the center of our little town. His office was just a block from my dad's). Anyway, he didn't see me in the alcove, so he didn't know anyone else who knew him was in that area of the post office. Apparently he had to get something from the pick up window and buzzed for a mail clerk. There was some disagreement or misunderstaniding about the parcel and he really ripped her a new one. He was just awful, in a snide, sarcastic, demeaning, condescending way. I walked past him towards the end of the tirade, so he could see me. From that point on, he began to treat me like he treated that clerk. And he must have been right about me because it was less than six months later that I decided to leave for good (10 months before actualizing it). Shoshana
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It just doesn't add up
by micheal in.
was there any particular event, teaching, experience where it all came together for you when you really questioned the "truth", or believed it wasn't it couldn't be god's organization?.
when did you realize and say to yourself, this just doesn't add up?
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Are we just being "sifted" out?
by micheal inthis is an expression all of us heard and read about in the wt.
this is also an agrument someone used on me because i am not and have no desire to go to meetings.
i for one believe this agrument that i as well as all of you are just being "sifted" out of "jehovah's organization" because we are "hard headed" is nothing more than a pile of crap.. .
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Sure, Michael, why not. That analogy is backward (or is it?), because what gets "sifted out" is what goes into the cake-it is what is the desirable. What stays IN the sifter is what I toss down the garbage disposal. (That reminds me, I was going to have chocolate cake for breakfast-hope it's FULL of 'postates, they're delicious.) Shoshana
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my hair
by LukeN inlately ive been getting alot of negative comments from brothers,sisters and others about the length of my hair.
i mean sure its long but theres nothing wrong about it.
is there anything in the sciptures about hair length in men.. god its ridiculous when others try to put you down.. well you can judge for yourself.. .
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It's a pretty good start. You have lovely curls that don't frizz, you should enjoy them now. When you "grow up" you may end up having to look more professional for your job, then no one will get to see how beautiful your hair is. I was always a goner for the long haired boys when I was in high school and college. Well, I'm still a sucker for 'em, but not that I'm older and they're older, the partially balding longhaired men just look goofy (that's another thing, you may get bald one day. Enjoy it now!) Shoshana (P.S. backcombing it will make it "bigger" thus creating the illusion when you do comb it out that it's shorter than it was before!)
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More Talk About Relationships
by sandy injust wondering how long it takes to really get over someone.
it has been about six months now since my ex boyfriend broke up.
we were together for four years.
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My great-grandmother's motto was "Next!" announced as she pointed one finger forward to emphasize her readiness to move on. Shoshana
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What Did you Plan On Doing In The New System?
by minimus inevery child and bible student was told about how wonderful the "new system" was going to be.
"and what animal do you want to have in the new system?
"......that was a very typical question.
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I was like Joannadandy (no not sailing around writing poetry), I knew I would not be making it through. I had no delusions-I didn't have what it took to be completely obedient: I hated meetings, I hated service, I hated elders. I never once fantasized about what I might do in "The New System." But I also figured I'd grow old and die before it ever came (but that I was so "bad" I wouldn't even get resurrected). I'm glad I decided to make a life now and not postpone. Shoshana.
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Sending "Love" from the Platform
by RubaDub ini have never been able to understand the "the brothers from xyz cogregation are sending their love" at the end of a public talk.. it always seemed to occur when the speaker was from a far-away place.
then, we all have to clap when he rhetorically asks "do you want to send our love to them?".
they never seem to do it when it is a near-by congregation .. only one far away.
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Love my ass. This was just another example of how the rank and file get drummed into their heads that this is a religion of love, when it isn't. (Like the Autumn tract campaign) Shoshana
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"why are you instructed to leave literature where a passer-by can't see it?" Because leaving crap on the porch would be a sign to potential miscreants that the occupant was not home and therefor could be burgled...Oh, the tract campaigns. Yukk. What a bunch of kooks (did you catch the note in the KM about special service arrangements for November 27th? They just can't bring themselves to say "Thanksgiving" can they). Shoshana
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A couple of questions about summer conventions (spinoff)
by razorMind inbeing as i haven't been to a convention in years, i have a couple of questions:
do they still come out with that list of special-jw-rate hotels at the service meeting for the summer conventions?
also, i remember times when the list would be practically useless by the time my parents got home from that service meeting and started trying to make reservations.
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This is such a hoot. I remember my mother driving straight to the motel after each circuit assembly, after the next date was announced to make reservations (in a dive). I was so young then. I never had to do this myself, though. Those lists were carefully guarded for the district conventions, though. Lots of talk about being fair, etc. Fair would have been to stay home, save money and not only miss the convention crap, but also a Thursday meeting, Saturday service and a Sunday meeting, and little to no chance of getting caught in your own home town!!!! Best deal on the list if you ask me. Shoshana
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Got caught throwing magazines in the trash
by unbeliever ini had to take my dad to the va hospital for a doctor's appointment and in almost every waiting room there was magazines not even recent issues.
you have to wait for freaking ever at the va hospital so i decided to do my civic duty and i went around this huge hospital collecting magazines and would throw them in the nearest trash can.
nobody cared until i got on the 4th floor.
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When a JW leaves the magazine, she counts it as a placement. Meaning she voluntarily gave up title and ownership to it. For the magazine to belong to someone else, possession and title MUST be accepted by someone else. Otherwise, the magazine was abandoned, and the finder may keep it. Since you found the magazines abandoned, you are free to keep them. If that means you want to throw them out you can. This in no way infringes on freedom of speech. Abandoning magazines is not exercising freedom of speech. We all know they were left there so someone could pad their time report and not have to talk to anyone in the process (sounds like someone was AVOIDING their freedom of speech, if you ask me). Shoshana
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Solve this problem you dumdums :)
by JH inmy nephew sent me this problem that his teacher gave him.
you have to go through each line only once and come back to the starting point.
start wherever you want but you have to come back to that starting point without missing one line.
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Uh....yeah, endpoints are included in segments, so the vertices count. Two intersections in one pass. MANY solutions.... These types of problems have nothing to do with mathematics, but unconventional problem solving. The example shown is designed to lead solvers down an entirely impossible way to solve it. An earnest adolescent (that follows directions and examples) can be VERY frustrated by these types of things-particularly the ones that tend to think very traditionally. I used to give these to my students, then quickly noted how seriously they took them, and how pointless it was when one student happened upon the "trick" and then shared it with everyone else. Once shared, the students stop thinking about creative ways to figure it out. Oh well-I bet nephew's teacher didn't get it herself, but had a solution given to her. Shoshana