joe134cd I think you solved the mystery of why the elders say nothing about the unusual living arrangements. They are very well off. Betting she gives generously to the cause!
SafeAtHome
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My yoke is easy and my burden is light, unless you're a JW than you will have many strange complicated rules
by adjusted knowledge inthere is this jw husband and wife i knew from the 80's when i was a child.
they got a divorce a few years ago and never remarried.
they are older now and unable to afford to live on their own.
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SafeAtHome
I'm sorry, I am out of the loop here. Since I have not picked up a Watchtower for 30 years or had the desire (or stomach) to check out jw.org, what exactly is it supposed to depict? The headbands are really funny, is it something from a magazine in the 60's? -
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The BEST day of your life-------and the WORST day of your life?
by eyeuse2badub inthis topic may have been an op previously but i didn't get an opportunity to comment so here goes;.
mine are pretty simple;.
it was the day i married my beautiful wife of 49 years.
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SafeAtHome
If I don't include all the very sad days when family members died or the very happy days like marriages or the birth of children, you know all the normal events in the circle of life, then I would have to say they were the same day. Although at the time of course I could only see the worst. It was a spring day in 1984 when my childhood sweetheart, then husband of 12 years, the man who I loved more every day, who I was wildly attracted to, who I would have trusted with my life and all I held dear...came to me and said he didn't want to be married anymore. It literally felt like I had been hit in the chest with a hammer. But now looking back, 31 years later, I realize it was the beginning of my escape from the JWs. Had we stayed married I no doubt would still be in since most all our family is in. So looking back on that day and what my life has been since, to steal a line from a famous book: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. What I thought was the worst day of my life was just the beginning of a wonderful, full life to come. -
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IMPOSSIBILITIES IN THE WORLD
by GodZoo inimpossibilities in the world .
1. you can't count your hair.
2. you can't wash your eyes with soap.
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SafeAtHome
And as the late, talented, comical song writer and singer Roger Miller said, "You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd". Your post made me think of that song. Thanks, now I have that song in my head and I am showing my age.
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Funny encounter at work
by respectful_observer ini just had a meeting with a client and we both paused to watch a group outside of the conference room present a cake to a group of colleagues.
i made the comment that it seemed to be a pretty frequent event in their offices.
his response: "yeah, it happens all the time here, but not in our group.
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SafeAtHome
Pretty funny. But goes to show that with all their door knocking and now standing around with the carts, the Witnesses are more likely known because they don't celebrate holidays and not for any "good news" they are preaching. And this was a rather negative reference to the JWs. Lovin' it! -
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But wait, you must have missed the small print that this shouldn't be seen as "soliciting for funds"! It's only there because so many requested a site just like this. And if you believe that, well............ 😉 -
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"And what happened next was simply unbelievable!"
by Terry ini always sit in the same spot, just outside starbucks in a vestibule area with a table in the air-conditioned space.
i say "always," but not today.. somebody with two laptops and a table filled with business ledgers was in "my" favorite spot!.
so, i took a tiny wooden table inside the coffee shop on a long padded bench next to 3 other identical tables.. as the clickbait banner ads like to say: "and what happened next was simply unbelievable!".
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What is most frustrating about this experience is that it shows how even though this is a really big story picked up by many news outlets, it's still not out there enough and most in the U.S. are not aware of it. You know these two will probably go home and Google it in private but who knows if they will pass it on. Sadly, probably not. -
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G.B. & J.W.'s Becoming Clap-Happy
by The Searcher inat the regional convention (national!!
) for scotland, mark sanderson elicited 13 rounds of applause during his closing talk, (for the least little things!
) plus a final one for his closing prayer!
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New York Post. Jehovah's Witnesses hid over 1000 sex abuse cases
by ToesUp inhttp://nypost.com/2015/07/27/jehovahs-witnesses-hid-over-1000-sex-abuse-cases/.
ny post.
i hope many people see this information.
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SafeAtHome
My niece who lives in Naperville Il. sent me this link in a text message this morning. Her mother, my sister, faded when she left high school and pursued a college education. (She is my hero, one of the few of us siblings and cousins who had the courage and brains to leave in time to make a real life.) Anyway, given the connection of JWs in her family, she noticed this from where ever she gets her news. I did a fist pump, right on!!! when I saw the text. So yes, news is getting out. As a side note, when my niece got married in a lovely historical little church in Florida, her grandparents (my elder father and mother) did not go to her wedding. They attended the reception but would not go into the church! Still shaking head over that. -
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Jehovah's Witness meets a Born Again Christian on a Train. Oh and a Muslim
by passwordprotected ina couple of saturdays ago i and my girlfriend (who happens to be baptised into the greek orthodox religion, but practises greek catholic...no, she's not greek) were on the virgin train from glasgow to london.. we had reserved seats on the quiet zone of the train, because y'know, a 5 hour train journey shouldn't be sullied by mobile phones ringing and noisy conversations.. somewhere around the lake district a very tall woman sits at the table across the carriage from us, a table already occupied by a very chatty, bearded man in his late 50s, along with his wife.
this man was directing people where to stow their luggage and asking random travellers questions about their journey to the point where i sent my girlfriend a text message (easier to communicate that way without others overhearing us) asking if he was the "train boss".. he struck up a conversation with this new passenger about his travels, but i wasn't really paying attention as i was watching a movie on my ipad, wearing noise cancelling headphones.
after a little while i noticed they'd stopped chatting and the woman was now reading.
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SafeAtHome
Are those actual photos of the situation you descibed? If so, that young woman should be reproved for studying the watchtower in public wearing jeans. She should at all times be in KH attire. She probably made Jehovah very sad.😉