This design looks like a bank or credit union to me.
That seems about right.
La Capra
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New kingdom hall Washington State
by Are you serious inyesterday i drove passed a town a couple of hours from my home and saw this kh under construction.
this is the first new design kh i've seen in washington state even though i would think by now another one or two have been built.
maybe not with their financial situation being the way it is.
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La Capra
Why only sisters with minor children need provide information regarding their care? Why are they not concerned about the brothers with minor children going off and abandoning their parental duties? Wow.
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Home schooling website / system for JWs
by sir82 inso, apparently, there is an organization which provides structure, curriculum, etc.
for home-schooling of jw kids:.
http://www.newsystemschool.org/index.html.
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La Capra
http://www.osbeckeducational.org/curriculum.html
Don't forget this one out of California. On it's face, not so obvious a dub school. But it is.
You have to check out the last course recommended for each of the four years of high school. This one takes the poor dubs money and then suggests that they hit up the public schools for Career/Technical or Music.
Now that's ironic. I got "marked," even though I wasn't baptized for participating in my high school's music offerings.
This school claims credentialed teachers plural. That's two. I know one that effectively only made about $7/hour for those "credentialed" services of grading all the papers that the parents were producing for their kids instead of actually teaching their children how to do it.
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2005 Big Announcement (Disappointment)
by Fred Franztone ini remember around 2005, there was an announcement made from the platform that in a few weeks time we would have to remain at the end of the sunday meeting for a big announcement, directly from the society.. i remember all the murmuring, people thought maybe this was going to be related to armageddon.
everyone was excited, people were speculating.
only the po in each congregation had any idea what was going on, and they were frequently pestered for information, but sworn to secrecy, which only hyped things up even more.. then the meeting came, anticipation was in the air, the announcement started, you could hear a pin drop.
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La Capra
The first time I saw A Christmas Story, the scene where Ralphie got his LIttle Orphan Annie Secret Decoder, only to find out that the secret message was a commercial, I was reminded of all these "special announcements" that were just crappy commercials. An early ah ha for me as a teenager in the 1980s.
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California Tubbs Fire photos you might not find find anywhere else...
by La Capra into quote someone near and dear: they should have built the whole kingdom hall out of the same thing they built the signs.... i had to wait nearly two weeks to get into the neighborhood to get these pictures for your voyeuristic interests...this is peanuts compared to the over 5,000 homes that were destroyed (this number includes individual units in large apartment complexes that were completely razed).
those pictures and videos are available in the media.
wine country is a community devastated..
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To To quote someone near and dear: They should have built the whole Kingdom Hall out of the same thing they built the signs...
I had to wait nearly two weeks to get into the neighborhood to get these pictures for your voyeuristic interests...This is peanuts compared to the over 5,000 homes that were destroyed (this number includes individual units in large apartment complexes that were completely razed). Those pictures and videos are available in the media. Wine Country is a community devastated.
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What is Ibid?
by Belladonna75 inhi all, i'm diving deep into historical jw literature research and i keep seeing ibid as a frequently cited source - what is this?
i've tried the old google, but no luck.
does this stand for something (i'm probably missing something incredibly obvious) or have i spent too many hours reading 1930s the golden age magazines and depleted all my electrons already?
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La Capra
The Latin abbreviation ib id. or ibid., followed by a page number means that the source of the material is the same as the previous source but on a different page. It can also mean a previous source (but not the source immediately prior) and will be used with an accepted diminutive form of the cite, and the page number.
Now, if the source is exactly the same as the previous citation, including same page, the writer would use id.
Style and Form manuals are essential to have around for anyone who communicates to a professional audience in writing. No one reads an article or a legal brief that is properly cited and says, "geez-what a prick, everything is properly cited - OCD much?" However, if the citations are loose, incomplete, missing a year, volume number, or page number, you can bet that some of the readers in the know will start to discredit the message because of the laziness of the writer or the mistake of the writer.
However, in the legal briefs and points and authorities I read regularly, the citations I see messed up all the time are ib id. and id.
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Sonoma County California Folks-Need Some Information Please
by La Capra inif you would know the name of an elder, about 78 or 79, and a pioneer, who is on the northern bay area medical liaison committee, i would really appreciate the information in a private message.
this request is related to family concerns.
he probably is based in sebastopol, but we don't know for sure..
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La Capra
nevermind...got the info elsewhere. Thanks.
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Sonoma County California Folks-Need Some Information Please
by La Capra inif you would know the name of an elder, about 78 or 79, and a pioneer, who is on the northern bay area medical liaison committee, i would really appreciate the information in a private message.
this request is related to family concerns.
he probably is based in sebastopol, but we don't know for sure..
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La Capra
Hi there,
If you would know the name of an elder, about 78 or 79, and a pioneer, who is on the Northern Bay Area Medical Liaison Committee, I would really appreciate the information in a private message. This request is related to family concerns. He probably is based in Sebastopol, but we don't know for sure.
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Another big step on my journey
by LogansRun in1987 attended the memorial for the first time, and the last time?
2016. it was a big step for me to not go last night i'm convincing myself that i really do have the strength to never return to this living nightmare of a religion.
you may recall i'm a fader my last meeting was 9 months ago and i have deflected a number of attempted visits and dozens of phone calls they now just hang up on my answering machine, as a matter of fact they did it again this morning.
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La Capra
Oh wow. 1987 was the last memorial (tm) I attended. I was 19. It has been 30 years. Weeeeeeeeeee.
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Fading or Disassociating
by Saethydd inhello, i'm new here.. i'm a college student who has been raised in the "truth" for my entire life.
i was baptized at 10 years old, and looking back now i know i didn't fully grasp everything involved, for one thing i don't even recall ever going to jehovah in a special prayer to dedicate myself to him, but anyway that's the past and my focus is really on the present.
i'm currently pursuing an associates degree, but i find myself desiring to pursue a bachelors in my chosen field so that i may have a somewhat more secure future.
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La Capra
I was in mostly the same situation now almost 30 years ago, except I was not disfellowshipped and had not done anything that would warrant that.
However it was extremely unusual for anyone in our congregation to go to college and I was actually pursuing a BA. Even though I was raised JW by my mom, my dad was not JW. My mom had graduated from college prior to converting.
So she really understood the importance of an education. But alas, I didn't make it through my first year of college before I realized I needed out of the religion, for at least a dozen reasons. But I lived at home with my mom and dad and couldn't not participate in the religion without taking a stand.
If could have done anything differently, I would have stuck it out as a pretender until I had graduated, was self-supporting, and I could have moved away and faded. But I couldn't live that lie for longer than a few months.
Life probably would have been a little easier for me if I had been able to wait and fade, but "those people" were really horrid to me solely because I was going to the university.
If I had faded rather than DA, I think I would still have my mom in my life. But now that my dad has passed away, she doesn't have to have anything to do with me or her grandchildren. I don't think the kids are missing out on much, but it is one factor I hadn't considered at all when I was 19 and publicly walked away. I miss the emotional intimacy that was once shared between a mother and daughter, and there is nothing that can replace that. But knowing it was all conditional in the first place, softens the blow. Now I just focus on providing that for my own children, knowing it is really and truly unconditional.
As far as advice-it's not too complicated: Just sock away as much money as you can, don't waste it on eating out, Starbucks, or vacations; and try to pay as you go for college rather than taking loans. You'll be happier later on not being in debt and hopefully not needing to live month to month. It won't be long before you are living the life you want and in the blink of an eye, you'll be a but a few years from the retirement they told you you'd never see in "this system."
I choose not to dwell too much on whether the corporation is corrupt, greedy, negligent, or evil. I'm not sure it accomplishes a thing. However, all I have come to know about its workings over the last 30 years has only given me the peace of mind that if God does exist in their definition of God, that God would have shut down that racket 100 years ago.
Here's to your comfortable retirement in 30 years' time🍾.