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  photo of 'the Princess'

  by Mulan in

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  the regulars here may remember that my daughter starting posting here last week, under the name princess.

  in chat, people have asked if she is pretty, and i say she is.

  she also looks just like me, but thinner, and prettier.

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  Monica

  Very funny Venice!!

  In all seriousness, cute pic Princess. Our profiles are very similar: 31, married, two children! Welcome to the board! Although it looks like you have already posted more than I have!
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  Please Respond To Survey! 25 more needed please.

  by Big Jim in

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  it seems like to me the majority of people who are in the truth, are were in the truth was a result of either a family member are a friend witnessing to them and not many seem to have been found in the door to door work.. from my years of associating with the borg i cannot recall many coming in the truth from the door to door work.. how were you sucked in?

  for me it was my aunt who has now even though i am not disfellowshipped decided to write me out of her will to the tune of about $150,000.00 (maybe i should hang around a couple more years)dont think i will.. please respond .

  thanks.

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  Monica

  My parents were reached through the door-to-door work in 1975, when I was 5.

  My mom brought in two others going door-to-door, but she was the only one in the family who was able to bring anyone else in.
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  Embarrasing Moments

  by Free2Bme in

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  just so certain ladies do not feel alone in cringedom i will confess my red-cheekers !.

  i was a well-developed 15 yr old getting too volupteous for my school uniform ( ok too fat then) and the zip had bust on my only school skirt.

  my mum replaced it using an old zip from another garment which happened to be quite a bit longer than a normal skirt zip.an unmarried brother came to visit one morning and was sat in our living room having a cuppa while i was frantically getting ready for school.

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  Monica

  These stories are hilarious!!! Free - what a great topic!!! There are some great laughs here!! (Tracy, the tampon story is killing me!!!)

  I have had a few of uncomfortable moments myself. One time when I was about 16 or so, my dad let my brother and I take the boat out to go water-skiing. We were both allowed to bring a friend and my brother brought a friend that I was pretty fond of. While we were in the boat, my brother decided to push my friend in the water.

  We were laughing at this, but then my brother's friend decided to do the same and try to push me in. Being a little skilled at getting away from people on the boat, I managed to climb out on the front of the boat and although he was having a hard time reaching me, he was able to push me enough so that I started sliding and with everyone moving to one side of the boat tilting it, it made me slide even more. Just as I was dropping into the water, my bathing suit caught on something. I was almost spared from going in as I was kind of hanging there trying to release myself! Then my bathing suit ripped. Everyone heard the ripping, but the only one who could have seen anything was this guy and I don't know if he got a good show (he never told and I never asked!), but I was sooo embarassed. The ripping sound was so loud! In the water, a huge part of my bathing suit was floating and it was quite difficult treading water trying to hold my suit together! My brother was in hysterics laughing and his friend kept saying, "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" I had no other clothes in the boat, but I was lucky because my friend was wearing shorts over her bathing suit that she so kindly lent to me.

  Thanks for all the great laughs!

  Bye for now!

  (edited for typos!)
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  When things started to "fall off"

  by comment in

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  i was thinking about this in several areas today.. 1) district conventions and house-to-house work.

  if you were a witness for a long time, you probably remember a time when going to the conventions seemed perfectly "normal" to you: it was absolutely "the thing" to sit in a sports arena all day listening to bible talks and counsel from men in suits.. but at some point, did you ever start to feel like you were participating in a cultural relic, so to speak?.

  as in, "here it is, the 1990's, and the society is still using fundamentally the same old format they've been using all century long.

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  Comment,

  The field service thing is what did it for me. After being inactive for about 6 mos, I attempted to go back to meetings and after about a week of attending, an elder approached me and spent about 1/2 hour chewing me out for being inactive and not turning in time. When he was chewing me out, I just kept thinking, "all he cares about is if I go out in service!". I realized he cared about nothing else. I just kept waiting for some encouraging words to kind of give me some boost, but it never happened. He then tried to set it up so that he could pick me up the following Saturday to go door knocking. That was it!! I told him no - that I would arrange it with a friend. I walked out that night knowing I would never go back and that Saturday I slept in till almost noon! I guess though, all of that was a blessing in disquise. I am soooo glad now that that happened! It was the final straw for me, which resulted in my freedom.

  Sslipnslidemaster,

  You cracked me up!! You sound a lot like my brother. My brother would pretend to knock and ring the doorbell. He was really good at it! He also would not go through his practiced routine and when the door would open he'd hold up the mags and say, "would you like the latest copy of the Watchtower & Awake?" with a huge grin on his face! This would usually result in the door being slammed in our faces! I was so shocked the 1st time he did this, but the 2nd time, he actually sold them to an older guy who I think thought my bros presentation was quite hysterical!
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  Circuit Assembly Dates?

  by TR in

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  can anyone here find out about local circuit assembly dates?

  eastern washington specifically?.

  tr.

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  Monica

  Hi TR!

  I don't know if this helps, but this site below has the district convention locations/dates listed. If you contact them, maybe they might be helpful in letting you know how to get the Circuit Assembly dates/locations since they were obviously able to get the DA info somehow.

  http://www.truthandgrace.com/picketing.htm

  Take care,
  Monica
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  *The WTS and the Internet

  by MacHislopp in

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  *the wts and the internet.

  normally we do believe that allmentions about the internet.

  are negative...but as usual it depends from which side of the fence you're.

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  Monica

  Great post Mac!

  I was reading DogDown's post and thought this site might be of interest to some:

  * http://www.truthandgrace.com/Watchtower.htm

  A christian site that comments on each issue of the Watchtower. My babies are calling for me so I don't have time to comment further. bye for now
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  WHY APOSTATES THEMSELVES ARE DOOMED!!!

  by You Know in

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  all mankind stands condemned before god, and yet some are more reprehensible than others are.

  as an example, christ called the original christian apostate, judas, the son of destruction.

  so too, and not surprisingly, the activities of modern day apostates are said to awaken the judgment from of old, so that "the destruction of them is not slumbering.

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  Monica

  You Know,

  Your quote:

  “True, such blasphemies against the name of Jesus or Jehovah can be forgiven, but apparently not if those doing so know better. Most XJW's cannot claim ignorance, although obviously there is a great deal of ignorance in other areas. “

  So if I understand correctly. XJW’s cannot claim ‘ignorance’ for forgiveness, but others can? Then I think every ‘newcomer’ JW has the right to know that if they become a JW and are shown ‘the truth’ and later state that they no longer believe that it’s ‘the truth’ or call the borg a bunch of false prophets, that they will die in the big A because they cannot claim “ignorance”. I think this should be printed as a disclaimer in every publication printed by the WTS and should state something like:

  “Warning, reading this material could be hazardous to your chances of everlasting life. You are hereby advised that by reading such material you are showing that you have been informed of 'the truth' and by this exposure, any doubting, refusal to believe, refusal to join the JW religion, joining the JW religion by baptism then claiming to not believe ‘the truth’, may ruin your chance for claiming “ignorance” at judgment day thus resulting in eternal death for you and possibly all of your family members. If you throw away this literature after reading this disclaimer, you may gamble and claim "ignorance" at judgment day.”

  I think you would be doing a service to many people here on earth – just think of the children the WTS could be saving. Most people would rather gamble with the “ignorance” plea than join the JW religion. Heck, this would mean my unbelieving hubby could claim ignorance and my children could go right along with him into an eternal life here on earth (although I know he wouldn’t do such a thing, because he agrees with me that eternal death would be “heaven” compared to eternal life here on a ‘perfect’ earth).

  Just my 2 cents.
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  SAVING SEATS

  by Amazing in

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  taking a brief break from my 'deceptive jw elders' series, i thought about conventions and recalled the annual exhortation from the congregation service meetings and the kingdom ministry about not saving seats.. in the early 1970s, my wife was pregnant with our second child.

  we were attending the disctrict convention at the oakland, california coliseum where the oakland raiders and oakland a's teams play.

  the stadium hold about 70,000 give or take 5,000 with extra seats on the field.. during the summer in the bay area, sitting all day in the sun listening to speakers you can barely understand due to planes flying overhead, poor sound system, and crying babies, becomes a tortureous event.

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  Monica

  Amazing,

  Regarding:

  "I am not sure if I necessarily did the right thing."

  Believe me!! You did the right thing!! I am sure your wife appreciated your efforts.
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  Hair-raising Tale!

  by Free2Bme in

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  let's have some fun.did you find out some juicy gossip about a witness that you are just dying to blab?.

  here's one from me.. i went to a hairdressing salon for the first time and the stylist was a camp male who never stopped chatting from the second he got his gesticulating paws on my scruffy mop.. my mum who is a devout jw was sitting reading a mag waiting for me.. next thing he's telling us about his gay male friend who is a bit down because he is having an affair with a jw.

  to make things worse he is married with kids (the brother not the gay friend).. stifling my shock and trying not to look at my mum who is staring wildly and unseeingly at her mag i asked his name or address and although he didn't know the name he told us his street and district!.

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  Monica

  TR, That's a good one! It's strange for me to think of the town that happened in!
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  Hair-raising Tale!

  by Free2Bme in

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  let's have some fun.did you find out some juicy gossip about a witness that you are just dying to blab?.

  here's one from me.. i went to a hairdressing salon for the first time and the stylist was a camp male who never stopped chatting from the second he got his gesticulating paws on my scruffy mop.. my mum who is a devout jw was sitting reading a mag waiting for me.. next thing he's telling us about his gay male friend who is a bit down because he is having an affair with a jw.

  to make things worse he is married with kids (the brother not the gay friend).. stifling my shock and trying not to look at my mum who is staring wildly and unseeingly at her mag i asked his name or address and although he didn't know the name he told us his street and district!.

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  Monica

  Jezebel,

  I think the elder's kids have it so tough trying to be 'perfect'. This friend never started the rumors, it was her mother, but I was upset that this friend didn't defend me (long story). She had many other problems as well, including drinking. One night she was caught drunk after she had driven home from a party. She lied and said she was with me and I let her drive home. I was furious and told her she better tell her parents the truth. It kind of put a wedge in our friendship and we didn't talk much the next few months. To make a long story short, almost a year after this argument, she was in a tragic car accident - need I say more?