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  Did You Ever Tell An Elder Off??? How Did It Feel???

  by minimus in

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  some comments here, suggest regret---that you were afraid of these simple men.

  have you ever told an elder off?

  what was the result?

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  CoonDawg

  I understand what you are saying. Why demean yourself? It's as the bible puts it about kindness to your enemies. It is like heaping coals upon their heads.

  I lived next door to the PO in our congregation. At the time, my wife (now ex-wife) was freakin' out and in a nut house. She was so distressed because she and another elder were engaging in a little hanky panky and I found out. Anyhow, I had a house, a job, two kids (one still not walking) and a nutty wife who "tried to kill herself". This PO took the opportunity to start bitching about the clutter in my carport. My home was next door to his, and the KH was on the other side of his house. He made the ususal arguments about it being a "bad witness" etc.

  I came Un-freakin' glued! I told him that he was overstepping his bounds. This was not a KH matter, but a matter between neighbors. He was being abusive and insensitive to approach me about it right then. I then told him that I would treat hiim as I would any other neighbor and that if it bothered him so bad, he could clean it up and reorganize it, seeing as I had all these other responsibilities to look after and since he was an elder who was supposed to "look after the flock" that I was a part of rather than kicking us around.

  He realized that he would have 3 options...1) treat this as a cong. matter and thereby be obligated to assist me 2) treat this as a matter between neighbors and call the law on me (it wasn't really THAT bad) or 3) shut his pie hole and leave me alone.

  He chose option # 3, apologized and I never heard anymore about it.

  Yep, it felt very good.

  I was not disrespecfull, just told him the facts.

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  SCARY: My First Letter From Patterson!

  by marriedtodamob in

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  hope my attachment works- i will keep trying or perhaps someone can help me get this official letter posted if i fail...i just got this in the mail .

  yesterday and finally opened it today.

  i did not write to them!

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  CoonDawg

  Additionally, those who write for our journals are Christian ministers who volunteer their time for this and are not interested in receiving recognition for themselves, but are dedicated to bringing praise the Author of the Bible. Additionally, we do not feel that simply giving the names and scholastic achievements of those who prepare the information is what should make it acceptable to readers.

  Read:

  Most of our writers are kiss asses who barely graduated highschool. They couldn't even get a job as a hack reporter for "The Weekly World News". They have no journalistic credentials, so if anyone knew, we'd be exposed as the ignorant manipulative SOB's we are.

  They are here telling us that it matters not about accreditation as journalists, but that if anyone questions the qualifications and impartiality of the articles, they aren't really of the faithfull anyway.

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  Hell Test

  by SpunkyChick in

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  http://www.madblast.com/funflash/swf/helltest.swf

  i scored 49

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  CoonDawg

  I got 143...I'm goin' there, but all my friends are too, so what the hell?

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  A Question for all those who DO live in the US...or anyone else

  by Xena in

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  cause unlike some...i value all opinions..even when they don't agree with me .

  so tell me please people....how often do you and your friends sit around saying this: "what other country would you rather live in?

  stated of course in this manner: the question is stated in such a fashion as to say that nothing is better than living in the good 'ol us of a.

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  CoonDawg

  Canada's too damned cold. My wife and I bandy about the idea of retiring to another country where the value of our dollars would be increased, the land cheap, the government relatively stable, and the climate a joy. At the moment it's just talk. Of course, we've also talked of retiring to the N. Georgia mountains or to central South Carolina. Who knows. I figure we have the next 10 to 12 years to make up our minds.

  I have a friend who lives in Guatemala and he is doing very well there. He's adapted brilliantly and is flourishing. I think I may have to go visit.

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  Country Quizzzzzz

  by Xena in

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  what country are you...gonna lmao if simon takes this and is the us

  http://bluepyramid.org/ia/cquiz.htm

  you're thailand!.

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  CoonDawg

  Crap!

  
  You're the United Nations!
  Most people think you're ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there's always going to be a long way to go. You're always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you get very schizophrenic as a result. But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York.

  I'm not THAT indecisive.

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  I may be trying out a new church....

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  my husband is agnostic, and i really have not been able to find a religion that i am comfortable with.

  the last year or so i have really been missing having something community based and a wee bit spiritual to belong to, especially since moving to texas, where i know just a few people and oh my god...everyone down here seems to go to church.

  an organization that does not make me feel like i have to look at others and view them as bad becasuse they dont believe as i do.. my husband and i have been joking that we needed to find a church of irreverence...but then i started re reading the uniterian universalist posts, and checked out the local website.

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  CoonDawg

  I go to the church of racing. No, seriously...when I move to Nasvhille, I knew no one. I got interested in racing and joined a car club. We have races about every two weeks at the speed way for about 10 months out of the year. For me, it was the perfect social setting. No religion, but a commonality and a way to meet new people. About 4 weeks ago, one of my friends that I met at the track (the first time I actually raced) got married, and I was one of his groomsmen. For me, social clubs were a great way to meet people. Most of these guys are white collar workers...engineers and the like. We welcome anyone who has a need for speed. I wouldn't limit my options to church if I were you. Look for charitable organizations to be involved with too, or other clubs. It can be really good.

  Good luck in your search.

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  ARE ELDERS TAKING A CHANCE?

  by Dansk in

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  i ask this in all seriousness because we all know that each of us has a different boiling point.

  i've spoken to quite a number of exjws (and even jws when i was a borgite) who've said something like "i'd really like to smash (put elder's name here)'s face in!".

  well, what if someone had his or her loved one separated from them through shunning, for example?

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  CoonDawg

  If a particular elder got run over, I wouldn't even go to the funeral to piss on his grave. I don't like standing in line for that long.

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  Sunshine State

  by Dimples in

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  anyone here from florida?

  you don't have to say what city.... i was just wondering.

  i live in the sunny south.. dimples

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  CoonDawg

  But I drive the Panhandle every week. I drive from Jacksonville to Mobile, AL every week. Maybe some would want to get together for coffee sometime. That would be really cool.

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  How have our views changed on tolerance?

  by Phantom Stranger in

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  as jws, we were taught that we had all the answers - that we knew the truth and no one else did.

  we were taught that no one knew as much as we did.

  we were taught that we were better than others.

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  I was speaking with my daughter last weekend about tolerance. We were going to a wedding that I was in. One of my non-JW friends was getting married. They were having a Methodist minister, pastor Dorthy Anne, do the traditional service at a beautiful, but not opulent Presbyterian church. To prime my daughter I told her that a woman would be doing the service. She said "That's really weird." I told her that it wasn't. It's only weird to you because it's not what you are used to. There are many people for whom this is the most normal thing in the world. Just because it's different from what you are used to does not mean that it's bad.

  Of course, she had a bit of a hard time swallowing this. After the wedding, I told her, "see, it was a simple service. They are just as married as any JW wedding. They even talk about the same things...looking out for one another's happiness and being true to one another. Even having god in the marriage." She finally agreed that we aren't so different.

  The intolerant attitude is alot of why I left. The taliban like treatment of women in some congregations, the exclusion and labeling of any who are not at least studying. It made me sick.

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  I met Logansrun and Amazing Yesterday....

  by teenyuck in

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  yesterday i was in chicago on a business trip with my husband.

  we flew into chicago wednesday night and left yesterday afternoon.

  yesterday, for lunch, i got to hook up with logansrun and amazing.

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  CoonDawg

  I've met Brad before too. My JW wife was with me. She really liked him too. We'll definitely be giving him another call when we get to Chicago again. Wife says he's more like a young James Spader in the looks dept.

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