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  Follow up to my Patterson call

  by Mulan in

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  yesterday i posted this: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=25490&site=3.

  last night, the po called me, because i had left a message for him.

  he was also very nice, and said he would tell the elders what i said, and he would come visit mom on saturday.

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  Lost Diamond

  Mulan,

  I'm glad the elders are supporting you and your mother. My father was an Elder until his death a few years ago. Before that they called on him for every little problem in the cong.,and to fill in on talks...they kept him very busy. My mother is not the healthiest person, so she is home-bound a lot. Her friends from the cong. visit her every once in while, but and Elder hasn't made a visit for months! As soon a Dad passed away, it's like Mom was forgotten. They did call when my JW brother let the elders know that Mom had mentioned she had some doubt about the 144,000. In fact, they called her the very next day and I was there to hear the conversation. I had just brought her back from the hospital when they called. After I heard my mother defending herself and her doubts I took the phone from Mom and told the elder exactly what I thought of them. How dare they put more stress on a very ill woman! I had to hang up on him, after I asked him, "since my father died, where have you, as an Elder, been? Why haven't you called my mother all this time, but with something has trivial as this you are quick to call? You have no heart". I worry about what they will do with my Mom. She doesn't need the extra stress!
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  Would you kiss up to your boss to get ahead?

  by butalbee in

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  this is a question, that i am very curious about, wondering or pondering, thinking if some people would kiss up to their bosses to get ahead in the company that they were employed in; to get a raise, or a promotion, and then i'm thinking of the 'special treatment' clause if you had a personally relationship w/ your supervisor?

  i guess w/ my present day situation the thought has crossed my mind, and i can't help but wonder this...if one particular person is "using" me to advance his career.

  this is a jw issue, cuz this person is a jw.

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  I'm with Sirona!

  A smile and a positive personality goes a long way, and of course competence is very important. I would never kiss up to nobody, though.
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  Where to find "Crisis of conscience" ...

  by Nicolas in

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  i tried to buy it on amazon.com but it doesn't accept my credit card number and i know that my credit is not the problem.

  so, i would like to find a site in canada instead of in united state.

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  Lost Diamond

  Have you tried barnesandnoble.com?
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  Daddy's Little Girl

  by Lost Diamond in

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  i was feeling a bit nostalgic this morning in my way to work..and i guess i just feel like venting, so feel free to back out of this thread if you'd like.. i was raised as a jw since i was seven yrs.

  i'm the only girl out of four kids.

  we were the "ideal" witness family..my dad was an elder, mom stayed home and waited for us to get home from school, all of us kids pioneered and got to go to pioneer school.

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  Lost Diamond

  I was feeling a bit nostalgic this morning in my way to work..and I guess I just feel like venting, so feel free to back out of this thread if you'd like.

  I was raised as a JW since I was seven yrs. old. I'm the only girl out of four kids. We were the "ideal" witness family..my Dad was an elder, mom stayed home and waited for us to get home from school, all of us kids pioneered and got to go to pioneer school. Our family was even used a lot in symposiums for assemblies, and I had quite a few parts at assemblies too. Dad would comment how proud he was of us kids.

  Time went on and I married a JW man, thinking that I found my Mr. Wonderful. He was everything to me and I help him on a pedestal. To me nobody could ever compare to him. I couldn't do enough to make him happy and show him how much I loved him... That soon changed after our wedding. He became abusive, mostly with words to the point that I became feeling numb..like a robot going through the motions of being a good christian wife, and tried to raise our two children with a plastic smile painted on my face.

  My parents never knew of this...they too thought my husband was great christian man. I didn't want to burden them or dissapoint them in any way, plus I was protecting my husband's reputation. This was my war...my fight. My parents eventually moved out of state, as did my brothers. I felt lonelier than I have ever felt.

  Dad eventualy had a massive heart attack and was diagnosed with Congestive Heart failure. I re-located and moved closer to them. During this time I was going through my divorce, and this dissapointed Dad tremendously and I could see it in his eyes each time I looked at him, because witnessed could not get divorced without scriptual grounds. He wasn't proud of me anymore, and this really hurt and it cut right through me. My Dad was never a man to show his feelings, much less say, "I love you". How I wanted to hear those words from him so deperately! He took a turn for the worse and needed a triple-heart bipass. After surgery I visited him many times, rembering that the doctors said the firs 48 hrs. were the most cucial. One one visit, 30 hrs. after his surgery, the doctors told us how very well he was doing and they planned to remove all the tubes he had attached to him the very next day. How relieved I was! I held my Dad's hand, and I could feed a slight squeeze..I said, "Goodnight Dad, I'll see you tomorrow. I love you" I kissed his balding head, the one I gave a hair cut to the day before surgery. He looked at me with tired eyes and knodded every ever so slightly. I think he was trying to tell me he loved me too.

  I went home that night, and as soon as I got home, I got a call from the hospital. My Dad had become worse and they were calling the family in. My the time I got there, Dad had passed away.

  I will always carry the pain of knowing the dissapointment I had caused my Dad and never hearing the words "I love you", but I hope that that very night he tried to tell me...I'll never know.
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  Smoking and apostates

  by Elsewhere in

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  mrmoe got me thinking... is it just me, or does a disproportionate number of apostates smoke?.

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  "as every one knows, there are mistakes in the bible" - the watchtower, april 15, 1928, p. 126 .

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  Lost Diamond

  I don't smoke. I think it stinks! I have to admit, though , I do like the smell of cigars, and the men that smoke them usually are hot and look so yummy and...I better stop.
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  Feng Shui

  by Lost Diamond in

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  have any of you ever looked into feng shui?

  if so, what is your feeling on it?

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  Lost Diamond

  Have any of you ever looked into Feng Shui? If so, what is your feeling on it?
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  Whats the worst 'get-together' game you endured?

  by Latte in

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  dear all,.

  as a young teenager, we were always having get-togethers.... you know the spiritually upbuilding' kind ie.

  bible quizzies, really boring stuff.

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  Lost Diamond

  I went to a lot of skating parties. It was the only time we got to hold hands and get away with it! We were so naughty!!
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  This is the way it should work.

  by seven006 in

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  for those of you who have been on this board for a long time and have grown tired of the little wars i think there is something that might give you a bit of comfort.

  in the past few days there has been an exchange between mark (outonalimb) his wife julie, lark, myself and a few others.

  it stated out with a post by mark (a fairly new poster 52 posts in all) saying a few things to larc in an obvious negative vein.

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  Lost Diamond

  Dave,

  I'm knew here and right at the beginning I felt the little

  insecurites of some surface. Life is a road in which we are always

  learning and bettering ourselves. What a great thing it is when we

  can forgive ourselves and others, and just accept each other for who

  we are and what we believe. We all have the right to live our life

  the best way we can. For someone to apologize with a truly open

  heart is an admirable quality to have...may we all learn from this,

  and continue to be a net for which we can fall on.
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  One of my Elders was a Flasher.

  by sleepy in

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  i don't know whether its good to spread stories regarding individual cases of perverts in the congregation.. but this case shows to me that you just can not tell very easily who is likely to be a pervert or not , even if are elders in the congregation.. this particular elder was very prominent in our area and was a regular pioneer for some time.i belive he also served on the hospital liaison committe.. one day it just appears in the local newspaper "****** has been charged with flashing in a public park" i believe young girls were the victims , though i cant remmeber.. it was only when this appeared in the newspaper that he confessed his crime to the elders, well he couldn't hide it now could he?.

  even though he had been caught and charged and then taken to court , a process that most have teken many months , he had not confessed and continued serving as an elder and on the hospital team.. no one could believe he could actually do this , yet he admited his guilt in court.. just goes to show , that in this so called clean organistaion there could be many more covering up their crimes.. (in my area also two brothers were covicted with rape and jailed).

  so if anyone thinks that in general jehovahs witness are better than normal people, well i know a flasher and two rapists, there are plenty of "good" associations in gods organisation.

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  Lost Diamond

  I've been flashed many times in my pioneer days. On one occasion (I'll never forget this...quite a learning experience) I went up to a door and there stood a man totally naked sporting all his glory! All I could do was laugh loudly, while my friend tried to yank me away. I'll never forget the confused and puzzled look on that mans face. I bet he could hear me laughin a block away. I too like the zipper idea, but there was a screed door between us....and...well...no zipper.
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  Water or Coke?

  by Mulan in

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  this was really interesting!!!

  don't jump all over me if you spot an urban legend, guys.

  it's just interesting........okay?.

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  Lost Diamond

  I will take water over pop (what we call coke or pepsi in my neck of the woods), anyday!! Now coffee....well that's a different story.