PaintedToeNail

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  kingdom hall packed from memorial invitees!!!

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  after spending a month in cold,rainy, snowy conditions, and using up 100's of gallons of fuel in service.

  jehovah certainly blessed our efforts!!.

  we must have had zero invitees up from zero the year before!!!

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  There were 14 less this year than last year. Many of the people I've seen in past years were not there either. There were quite a few empty seats. I did my familial duty for the year and went, everyone was nice to me.
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  There was a knock at the door....

  by exwhyzee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  or more like a thunking sound really, which set our little dog into a fit of barking.

  i crawled out from behind the fridge where i was doing a repair on the waterline for the icemaker, so i could go see what all the commotion was about.

  i fugured it was going to be my neighbor returning my ladder but instead it was jw's handing out memorial invites.. the woman and the young man (her 20 something son) were people i had known but hadn't seen since we faded 4+ years ago.

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  exwhyze-How wonderful that your son is cancer free...and that he has that angel of a wife with him. He is a very lucky man and you are a very lucky father-in-law and you know it, which is wonderful too! The best of health and happiness to both of them.

  Your content and happy face must be a shocker to the 'happiest people' on earth. I'm glad you were able to explain yourself...bravo!
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  The Mantan the lost tribe of Wales

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  we have been researching our ancestry and so far on my father's side we have located the family land in wales in a little village called machynileth just off the coast of cardigan bay and our search dates to 1749. someday my son and i will visit our family-tree homesteads in europe.. legends develop in anyone's family and one of the curious legends was of an american native tribe called the mantan who lived near the ohio valley and wisconsin and later moved east to the dakotas.

  what was interesting about the story of these peoples is that they were blue-eyed and some green-eyed with lighter skin and it was thought early on by anthropologists that some of their words were welsh.

  it turns out they were not descendents of welsh explorers but they may have been the result of earlier encounters with europeans.

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  designs-Just a thought, there is a fairly large Welsh presence in the Delaware River area due to the mining operations. Some of the old timers still speak Welsh and crossed the Atlantic as infants, some are first generation Welsh.

  The Slate Belt area of Pennsylvania, located on/near the Delaware River, has an abundance of Welsh, Cornish and Italian people, the worked in the slate quarries. The Slate Belt area is made up of Bangor (named for Bangor, Wales), Pen Argyl, and Roseto. The Slate Belt Heritage Center has a "Welsh Room" and Bangor still celebrates Welsh Days, and their are Welsh churches in the area.
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  The Mantan the lost tribe of Wales

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  we have been researching our ancestry and so far on my father's side we have located the family land in wales in a little village called machynileth just off the coast of cardigan bay and our search dates to 1749. someday my son and i will visit our family-tree homesteads in europe.. legends develop in anyone's family and one of the curious legends was of an american native tribe called the mantan who lived near the ohio valley and wisconsin and later moved east to the dakotas.

  what was interesting about the story of these peoples is that they were blue-eyed and some green-eyed with lighter skin and it was thought early on by anthropologists that some of their words were welsh.

  it turns out they were not descendents of welsh explorers but they may have been the result of earlier encounters with europeans.

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  designs-The Lenape are also known as the Delaware Indians, which is also the name of a state and a river. The Matawans were a sub-tribe in the group of Native Americans that shared a common language, Lenape or Delaware. The Delaware/Lenape groups were decimated by European disease, such as small pox and measles to fighting with other groups making up the Iroquois Nation, the French-Indian War and the Revolutionary War, to white settlers invading their lands. I do not know if how many of the Matawans are left, or if they are represented in any of the Indian Reservations in the Eastern USA.

  Sorry I don't have any more accurate numbers.
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  The Mantan the lost tribe of Wales

  by designs in

  1. social
  2. current

  we have been researching our ancestry and so far on my father's side we have located the family land in wales in a little village called machynileth just off the coast of cardigan bay and our search dates to 1749. someday my son and i will visit our family-tree homesteads in europe.. legends develop in anyone's family and one of the curious legends was of an american native tribe called the mantan who lived near the ohio valley and wisconsin and later moved east to the dakotas.

  what was interesting about the story of these peoples is that they were blue-eyed and some green-eyed with lighter skin and it was thought early on by anthropologists that some of their words were welsh.

  it turns out they were not descendents of welsh explorers but they may have been the result of earlier encounters with europeans.

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  PaintedToeNail

  It could be the Matawan Indians, a Lenape tribe, that is/was in New Jersey. 'Matawan' was an adulteration, by the white settlers, of what the Indianscalled themselves. There is still a Matawan borough in New Jersey.
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  Hello from Totally ADD. I am back.

  by TotallyADD in

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  hopfully many of the older ones do.

  since our move to wild's of pa many things have happen to my wife and i. our donut business went out the window.

  we closed it last july.

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  ADD-It is so good to learn that you and your wife are happy and well. Sorry about your donut business, though. Being a master gardener is wonderful! Congrats on that new endeavor. You must be treating your kitty right to still have him/her. Could you let me know where in the PA Wilds you are? I'm not far from them.

  PTN
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  For the born-in/raised in, you ever get resentful upon seeing kids involved with organized sports?

  by Theocratic Sedition in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this past saturday, i was watching the georgetown/syracuse game, and a nike commercial was played during one of the breaks.

  i couldn't locate the exact commercial, but below is a variation of it that has scenes from the same one that aired on saturday.

  man did i feel some heavy resentment towards the wt during and especially after the commercial aired.

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  Roberta-That is so very sad! To have such promise in a sport and have it ripped away! Ice skating was a salvation for me too, I skated every time I had the opportunity, the outside rinks were free where I lived. I wasn't good, but I loved it. My brain made up fantasies that I was good enough for the olympics...To have been of competing calibre and to be denied, how horrible and depressing that must have been and still is. So very, very sorry.
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  JW bumper stickers

  by innerpeace in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my husband (who was never a jw) saw a christian bumper sticker today and asked me if the witnesses have any.

  i said no (not that i know of anyway) so here are a few he came up with.. 'honk if you're a zombie'.

  'my other car is noah's ark'.

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  JWRU12-I know someone who has this as a vanity license plate.
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  For the born-in/raised in, you ever get resentful upon seeing kids involved with organized sports?

  by Theocratic Sedition in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this past saturday, i was watching the georgetown/syracuse game, and a nike commercial was played during one of the breaks.

  i couldn't locate the exact commercial, but below is a variation of it that has scenes from the same one that aired on saturday.

  man did i feel some heavy resentment towards the wt during and especially after the commercial aired.

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  PaintedToeNail

  I was asked to be on the track team after running timed sprints in gym class...I didn't even bother to ask my parents, I knew what the answer would be. Being a cheerleader would have seemed like heaven to me, as well as taking the SATs...I knew what the answers to those queries would be too. I was stupidly obedient to my parents.
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  How do I tell my husband?

  by dissonance_resolved in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i'm a born in, baptized as a young teenager, whole family is jw.

  i just recently woke up after the new understanding of the fds was announced and it seemed to me to smack of power-grabbing.

  i started looking at all the websites we're not supposed to, and now i know why.

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  PaintedToeNail

  Let me add a welcome too! I'm in the same boat as you, my hubby wasn't a gung-ho JW either, but became one when I abruptly stopped going to meetings. It is annoying to say the least. However, he does occasionally agree with me on select points brought into general conversation...so I do have some hope for him.

  Wishing you the best, maybe his redoubling efforts won't last long and he will forget about everything.