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  testing my patience

  by Mommie Dark in

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  2. friends

  i got an unsolicited email from a dub recently.

  she read my stories at free minds and recognized one of the characters.

  my brief reply was taken as an excuse to question me about the possibility of my returning to the jws.

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  Mommie Dark

  I got an unsolicited email from a dub recently. She read my stories at Free Minds and recognized one of the characters. My brief reply was taken as an excuse to question me about the possibility of my returning to the JWs.

  I replied honestly but far less bluntly than is my wont. In short I was pretty damn restrained, for me. Today I received yet another letter, this one referring to me in third person as if two Jdubs were talking about me. They prayed Jehovah would forgive me.

  I have replied yet again with uncharacteristic restraint, for me. I exhorted them to save their prayers for themselves and their own slavery, as I am now free and not in need of their assistance in order to procure a better life for myself and my loved ones.

  I will let you know if I receive a reply stupid enough to goad me into my usual curmudgeonly crust. The anticipation is dreadful... I hope it lasts...

  I should be the poster child for Prozac, this stuff works smegging miracles! I don't know whether to hope this clueless cultist gives up or continues to press buttons...(Mommie stumps off muttering 'clinical trials, clinical trials...)
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  watching the skies

  by Mommie Dark in

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  http://www.spaceweather.com/.

  i get email updates from this site, it helps me know what's happening in the universe around me.. canadian friends take note, there is a strong chance of aurora display tonight.

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  Mommie Dark

  http://www.spaceweather.com/

  I get email updates from this site, it helps me know what's happening in the universe around me.

  Canadian friends take note, there is a strong chance of aurora display tonight.
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  JW Jokes, If easily offended DO NOT OPEN THREAD!!

  by Brutus in

  1. social
  2. humour

  what do you get if you cross a jehovah's witness with an agnostic?

  someone who calls at your door, but doesn't really know why.

  feel free to add others!

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  Mommie Dark

  Difference between publisher, aux pio, and reg pio as described for me by a pio:

  All three order iced tea at break. All three glasses have flies floating in them.

  Pub politely sets glass aside, says nothing.

  Aux pio removes fly quietly, drinks.

  Pio snatches up fly , shakes it, says 'spit that out!'
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  Street paved with gold

  by Mommie Dark in

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  2. friends

  we have had thundershowers for the last hour, and the sun is setting through the last of the rain.

  the wet street is reflecting the sun and the whole neighborhood is glowing; the streets are running golden rivers of runoff, and the sky looks like a molten metallic bowl.

  it's changing even as i type this while gawking out the window.

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  Mommie Dark

  We have had thundershowers for the last hour, and the sun is setting through the last of the rain. The wet street is reflecting the sun and the whole neighborhood is glowing; the streets are running golden rivers of runoff, and the sky looks like a molten metallic bowl.

  It's changing even as I type this while gawking out the window. This ephemeral glory will be gone in minutes...but oh mother! It was gorgeous while it lasted!
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  Ritzville News /Deepthroat

  by silentlambs in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  tri-city herald.

  by shirley wentworth.

  ritzville - erica rodriguez and her mother, alejandra garza, broke down and cried when the verdict came in.. it took slightly less than four hours for a seven-man, five-woman adams county superior court jury to declare manuel beliz, 48, of othello guilty of two counts of first-degree child rape and two counts of first-degree child molestation.

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  Mommie Dark

  You can go to Dateline's website and sign up for program updates, that way you will be notified in your email of what program is scheduled to air.
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  Some Witnesses Enjoy Witchcraft!

  by metatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i guess i've just been naive.. i was surprized to find that some 'super loyal'.

  witnesses i know have been practising witchcraft.. of course, they'd never call it that - it seems that.

  when various illnesses arise you get out an assortment.

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  Mommie Dark

  I once worked for a freshly-minted young chiropractor who graduated from Life-West Chiropractic College in CA; she was young and smart and way too hip for a pissant West TX town, and she hired me more for personal comfort than for secretarial work: I nursemaided her (and her firstborn) through two pregnancies while assisting in her office in her first two years of solo practice.

  She always averred that a great deal of chiropractic theory was goofy, and would not hesitate to refer her patients across the road to their family doctor when they needed muscle relaxers and pain medication.

  I saw, and experienced, some amazing health benefits in that office, and received careful and scientific explanations for them. We discussed the peculiar combination of theoretical mumbo-jumbo mixed into the rigorous clinical studies in her education; I was surprised by her frank admission that a great deal of it was useless in actual daily practice. She said that she could train me to effectively read X-rays and diagnose quite as well as she in less than five years' apprenticeship, and pay me for it, if competence were the only criterion.

  It's important to know what service you're buying when you deal with a chiropractor, and to ask questions until you understand why they are doing what they do. If you think it smells like snake oil, it probably is. The usefulness and efficacy of manual adjustment, properly applied to misaligned vertebra and joints, is self-evident; as for the rest, in this as in so many, many areas: CAVEAT EMPTOR.
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  Reform....why?

  by Deacon in

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  2. friends

  the organization cannot be reformed from outside; that can only come from individuals who have the guts and will to do so inside, and the determination to get rid of hardline thinking that is so strangling.

  my personal desire is to see immediate change regarding the child abuse policy, and that will come.

  to see a clear, quick change in the horribly inconsistent blood policy rather than drag it out over years; kids are dying in the process.enforced shunning is also an evil that they will have to deal with eventually; it's ripping them apart.. .

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  Mommie Dark

  "Maybe we really are on our own.'

  Yes we are. All grown up and having a big old slice of real life in the real world all on our very own! No Big Brother heaping big old chips of guilt and shame and fear on our shoulders, no Skydaddy keeping score of our collective and individual failures...

  it only feels scary because it's a brand new taste sensation, brother. You've been spoonfed spiritual glop for so long you don't yet recognize the taste of true nourishment.

  Don't panic. You can develop a nice rounded palate and appreciate life's subtler nuances, but you will get a spiritual tummyache if you try to digest all the facts too fast. Paradigm shifts swallowed without sufficient careful mastication can reflux on you bigtime!

  Take a deep breath, and remember...YOU ARE NOT ALONE. God isn't going to kill you for using your brain and your heart...not today anyway .
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  Amish - JWs similiar problems

  by larc in

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  2. friends

  something to read,.

  i just found a site where david yoder describes the amish culture in great detail.

  it is fascinating to get an inside view of their world.

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  Mommie Dark

  I always caution tourist who are tempted to buy preserves and baked goods at roadside Amish stands. Remember that Amish customs vary widely between groups. Some of these people do not believe in germ theory and do not practice basic sanitation hygiene. If the hands don't appear dirty, they may not get washed after Mutter wipes her privates in der outhouse. Der gorgeous pickled beans may have been open kettle canned after being wiped off by yesterday's dishrag. The myth of the spotless Amish kitchen is the ideal, not the standard.

  If you crave Amish recipe treats I strongly suggest you go to a licensed Amish bakery or restaurant. One that receives regular inspection by the local health department.

  In this as in so much of life, CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!
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  JW Kids Leave the Organization: Facts

  by Maximus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the october 1 watchtower 2001 features articles on training children "properly" and dealing with a "prodigal child.

  the latest inside u.s. figures reveal that 86% of jw children leave the fold, with some 29% who eventually come back for reasons of family ties, most never "reaching out.

  " that means over half leave permanently.

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  Mommie Dark

  "I could not agree more. On the other hand, those with a position on the hill, so to speak, may have an impact where pip squeaks like me have little to no influence."

  Even the smallest pip can influence someone or something; have you ever had a pip stuck in your teeth? And it just goes 'squeekysqueek' against that floss no matter what maneuvers you try to dislodge it?...you just never know what will be THE straw that breaks a camel's back. You never know when some tiny seed you planted will suddenly bloom up in a questioning JW's heart.

  'Position' is relative. Every sincere voice raised against the Tower's abuses is speaking from a position of power: the power of real unvarnished truth.
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  Do bethelites get social security?

  by sleepy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just wondering you know whether in bethel workers get credited with whats called in britian national insurance.. in britian you carnt miss six years of payment and expect a full goverment pension which isn't much anyway.also you cant claim full income support , sickness benifit or job seekers allowence if you have missed or underpaid you ni.. this came to mind as my wife worked for a company that didn't pay contributions for her .. when latter on she lost her job the goverment wouldn't pay her any job seekers allowance as no ni contributions were credited for that year.. so does bethel pay ni contributions for bethelites and circuit overseers and the like.

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  Mommie Dark

  A Bethelite would only receive Social Security retirement money if he had paid into the system. If you haven't paid the tax you don't get a check.

  Certain disabilities can qualify you for Social Security Disability, or SSI, whether you have ever worked and paid into the system or not. This pays a maximum of $532 per month.

  An old ex-Bethelite is mostly SOL in the USA.

  State welfare and disability assistance varies wildly from state to state. Food stamps are usually administered by local welfare departments but are in fact a whole separate system under the Dept. of Ag. In Ohio you gotta register to work and either take the first job offered, or work for the county in a workfare program, to get any of these for more than thirty days (or have proof of disability.)

  And of course we have no National Health anything, and state medical assistance programs(and the providers that will serve them), although most children can now get basic preventive care mostly free, also differ widely in different states and even counties.