Ahhh. The stories I could tell. But.....no one would believe me!!
Posts by Mulan
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24Rainy Days & Monday Mornings
by Outaservice inmost normal people i know, and am around look forward to the weekend and nice weather.
even though i have not been a publisher for many years now, i still assoicate week-ends with taking the group out in service and baby sitting a lot of the kids from the hall.
what a pleasure monday mornings were when i could go back to work!.
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Urban Legends!
by ISP inits amazing the extent these circulate in the wt world.
i am not so sure, but it develops a powerful folklore amongst jws....often with a moral at the end!
typically these circulate as experiences given in talks and are then adopted by the masses as truth.. for example, anyone hear the ul about the married couple where the wife had to have a routine blood check.
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Mulan
Here's another earthquake story: This one is from South America in about 1972 or 73. One KH was completely destroyed. Moments before, when the rumbling started, the speaker told everyone to get out into the street!! Everyone obeyed, of course, and were saved. At another KH in the same are, the speaker said for everyone to stay where they were. The KH was spared, but in the street, electrical wires were falling and anyone out there would have been electrocuted if a wire had touched them, and big cracks in the road would have made them fall in and be crushed. The moral: Do what the brothers tell you to do and you will get life. Obviously they had divine direction! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
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Rainy Days & Monday Mornings
by Outaservice inmost normal people i know, and am around look forward to the weekend and nice weather.
even though i have not been a publisher for many years now, i still assoicate week-ends with taking the group out in service and baby sitting a lot of the kids from the hall.
what a pleasure monday mornings were when i could go back to work!.
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Mulan
Oh Venice. You are just too, too pure. How about the time the meeting was cancelled because of icy roads so you had people over to watch videos? Huh, huh, huh? How did they get there, girl? Just kidding. Looking foward to seeing you soon, kiddo.
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Rainy Days & Monday Mornings
by Outaservice inmost normal people i know, and am around look forward to the weekend and nice weather.
even though i have not been a publisher for many years now, i still assoicate week-ends with taking the group out in service and baby sitting a lot of the kids from the hall.
what a pleasure monday mornings were when i could go back to work!.
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Mulan
When I was a kid, I would wait until about 9 on Saturday mornings, and get in the shower. I had long hair, and we didn't have blow dryers in the 50's either. Mom would come in and yell at me "what do you think you are doing?" We had the meeting for service at our house at 9:30. I had other ways of getting out of it too. Now I feel so badly because my kids are telling me things they did to get out of it. My second son, who is now 35, said that he would be sleeping on Saturday mornings, when he was a teenager, and would look at the clock and it would be about 8:45 AM. He would tell his older brother, that "we must not be going out today", and the big bro would say, "any minute now.....just wait." And I would yell through the heat register to them downstairs, that they had better be getting up. And they would just get heart sick. Now, that is sad. Makes me feel just awful. Now, weekends are my favorite!! We had NO life before. The weekends were completely taken by "theocratic activity". Now I do anything I want to, and the best thing is sitting in the living room in my robe, as long as I want to, drinking coffee, and no one is coming to interrupt my day. YAY!!! Freeeeee!!!
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JWs and Alcohol Abuse/Addition/Escapism
by LovesDubs inwhen i first started studying in 84 at the ripe ol age of 29, i was told oft and repeatedly that jws did everything in moderation, and nothing sinful or unbiblical.
apparently, like everything else, they have added footnotes to the scriptures that say not to get drunk, as that seems to be their only "legitimate" (read, unregulated) escape from the reality that is the witchtrowel babble and trash sectciety.. there was one elder in my first congregation that reeked of alcohol even first thing in the morning at field service.
i was told by someone "born in the truth" that he had a "body chemistry problem, whereby when he would sweat it would smell like alcohol, and he did sweat profusely...hence the reddenned face.
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Mulan
We had a former CO in our congregation, back in the 70's. He had a drinking problem, but I didn't know that. He always sat in the back behind the literature counter, in a folding chair. One day during the Morning meeting, Sunday, we heard a loud crash, and he had tipped over in his chair, and was out cold. We were told he had hit his head, but he had passed out. His wife told me all about it later. They separated, he died, and she is remarried and doing well. Still a dub too. The most drinking I had seen in my life, though, was on camping trips, when it would be raining. The beer was out before noon, because "It's Noon in Idaho" they would say. (we live on the West coast) By two, the whiskey was out, and by dinner time, who cared? I had small children back then, and rarely drank anyway. The men were funny, and I excused it by saying they had such stressful responsibilities in the congregation, they needed to do this once in awhile. If it wasn't raining, they often would find a reason anyway.
But we had fun too, hiking and swimming, and those good ole Watchtower studies in a circle. Sometimes it was 10 or more families. Better attendance than the KH had I'll bet!!! :) And lots more fun, and we even may have learned something. -
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Late Lloyd Barry`s Prophecy
by JWD inmost brothers know that former gb member lloyd barry was a missionary.
here to japan many years ago.
i have a japanese friend, elder for .
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Mulan
Hi Venice, Maybe Fred has seen your Dad's picture. He is pretty cute you know? Maybe you don't see that!! Don't you DARE tell him I said that. M
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A Scenario For Witnesses to Answer
by Law inwhat if theres a catholic in love with a witness?
this aint me or nothing just someone i know.
just send some feed back.
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Mulan
If the witness isn't real involved as a JW, it might be okay. Don't expect lots of support from the JW family though. No Kingdom Hall wedding, and certainly not a Catholic church wedding. No holidays, etc. It might depend on whether the girl was the Catholic or was she the JW? Or vice versa. What is the attraction? There has to be something familiar there, to begin with? As in most things in life, it is usually better to marry within your culture, whether that be religion, nationality or race. There are exceptions to that of course. Don't jump all over me, everybody. I said USUALLY.
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Urban Legends!
by ISP inits amazing the extent these circulate in the wt world.
i am not so sure, but it develops a powerful folklore amongst jws....often with a moral at the end!
typically these circulate as experiences given in talks and are then adopted by the masses as truth.. for example, anyone hear the ul about the married couple where the wife had to have a routine blood check.
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Mulan
Has anyone posted before about the Avon lady story? Supposedly, two female witnesses were working in a territory where an Avon lady had been viciously murdered by one of the men they had called on, the same morning. When he was caught, they asked him why he didn't try to lure them inside and kill them. His reply "I would have it they didn't have that huge man standing there with them." Obviously the point being that it was an angel protecting them. When our CO caught wind of that story (circa 1958) he tried real hard to track it down, and validate it. No go. Just an Urban Legend!!
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In the model prayer, why wasn't God name used ?
by nojw86 inwhen jesus taught his followers how to pray why wasnt the name of god used in the model prayer.
our father in the heavens, let your name be sancitied.
with so many people and religions in the world how many would have known the name of god if it were used in that popular prayer.
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Mulan
What child calls his father by his given name? (okay, I know some do, but usually they don't) The close relationship of a child to his father, and even an adult to their father, is evident by the endearment used, or title, whatever you want to say. I call mine, Dad. Some say Papa, or Daddy, no matter how old they are. My mother used to tell me that "it's only an illegitimate child who doesn't know his father's name." I can add to that. An illegitimate child might well know his father's name but is not allowed to use the term, Dad or Father, but may HAVE to call him by his given name. A true child can use the endearment. Case closed!
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To ALL EX-JEHOAGIES SCHMITNESSES esp. N.W. AREA
by VeniceIT inas a matter of fact i'm interested riz & unaswered.
we're going to be up there about that time, hmmm i'll just email ya k.. venice
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Mulan
I've not been posting because of some other issues I'm dealing with. Hard to believe that I am not on this computer all the time, isn't it? I am having to make some big changes, work wise, and it takes lots of time to start over. I will stll pop in from time to time, but not like I used to.