Girl next door, I feel you. We saw 100- foot flames 3,000 feet from our house in the neighborhood where my best friend lives. Her house was saved but 6 of her neighbors lost theirs.
Posts by 3rdgen
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49Worst Fire in California history
by 3rdgen inin terms of destruction.
52,000 people are evacuated.
started thurs.
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Worst Fire in California history
by 3rdgen inin terms of destruction.
52,000 people are evacuated.
started thurs.
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3rdgen
What I find is noteworthy is that almost immediately the Red Cross and the Salvation Army were making shelters available, distributing hot food and other necessary supplies to evacuees, and collecting donations for more.
Not a peep about JWs organizing ANYTHING.( no surprise there) They didn't do anything in Redding either.
We are still friends with a young JW family who lost their home in Paradise. It was a "Wordly" group who started a Go-Fund-Me page for them.
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Worst Fire in California history
by 3rdgen inin terms of destruction.
52,000 people are evacuated.
started thurs.
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3rdgen
Wasanelder, Wow! The smoke is horrible. It was bad in redding at least 6 weeks. Don't forget your mask when you go outside.
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Worst Fire in California history
by 3rdgen inin terms of destruction.
52,000 people are evacuated.
started thurs.
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3rdgen
Smiddy: Thanks, Hubby and I were evacuated late July during the Carr fire in Redding, Ca. so I know the panic that comes from an announcement that you have 10 minutes to gather what you can and get out.
Thankfully, our house didn't burn.
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Worst Fire in California history
by 3rdgen inin terms of destruction.
52,000 people are evacuated.
started thurs.
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3rdgen
In terms of destruction. 52,000 people are evacuated. Started Thurs.(yesterday) morning with bone-dry humidity and 40+MPH winds. in only one day it took out nearly the whole town of Paradise Ca.(Ironic) both business and residential. Even part of the hospital burned as they were trying to get everyone out while people were having surgery, giving birth etc. To date 6,713 homes/structures lost. At least 3 people burned alive in their car trying to evacuate.
It is called the "Camp Fire" Still completely out of control. Don't know if the Kingdumb Haul was destroyed. I sure hope so!
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Things you will never hear a good Jehovah’s Witness say (to another Jehovah’s Witness)
by hoser ini’ll start it off.
boy did we get drunk last night.
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3rdgen
Heard at the meeting for Serve- Us, "THIS is THE WORST LIFE EVER!
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Do you remember this?
by Gorbatchov inwhen g. was a litle kid, remembering the watchtower study at age 9, hearing all the stuff, the paragraph, the questions, the answers, about topics i could not understand, so it became so abstract that it was not entering my ears and brains.
it felt that i was no part of the group, someone alone on a distant planet.. do you remember this feeling?.
g..
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3rdgen
Yup, I remember being bored out of my mind yet, certain words and phrases would make me curious. Like the time I was about 5 or 6 asking, "Mom, what is heavy petting?"
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Family is now reaping what they sowed and they don't like it.
by Gemmel ini resigned from the jw's in my 20's over 30 years ago, i was immediately shunned by my entire family and it's remained that way with a few exceptions ever since.
one of those exceptions was being contacted by a cousin a few years back and during that conversation i discovered that my mother had been and still was the prime mover in my complete and continuing shunning.
i then used what contacts i had left to confirm it.
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3rdgen
In response to those who wonder if we have or intend to sue WTBT$ for the last loan the answer is No for these reasons:
At the time of her need, we were still believers who wouldn't dream of suing as it would mean certain DFing.(You know, a fate worse than death in our minds.) However, their callous disregard for a faithful widowed, sister who had foolishly given them more than she could spare helped wake hubby and me up!!! HUGE PAYOFF
Once we were out of Watchtower we had a legal consultation and found out that the cost of the lawsuit would likely be as much as we could prove they owed her.
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Family is now reaping what they sowed and they don't like it.
by Gemmel ini resigned from the jw's in my 20's over 30 years ago, i was immediately shunned by my entire family and it's remained that way with a few exceptions ever since.
one of those exceptions was being contacted by a cousin a few years back and during that conversation i discovered that my mother had been and still was the prime mover in my complete and continuing shunning.
i then used what contacts i had left to confirm it.
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3rdgen
Count me in as one who agrees with your decision to stay away from these toxic people- including your mother. FWIW: My experience was a little different yet may be helpful in this discussion.
Hubby and I are both only children. My when the time came that my mother needed care we were still active JWs. We went into deep debt in order to purchase a house that would be suitable for her needs.( Extra bedroom, wheelchair friendly, etc.)
She was an absolute ungrateful bit#h in every way and to top it off had dementia. She was impossible to live with. After a while, she declared that she didn't want to be cared for by us anymore! Goody! We put her in a nice rest home where her two brothers lived. The problem? It is expensive. She had squandered her multi-million dollar inheritance and was broke. So we paid for her care until we ourselves had to go bankrupt!
At this point, hubby, who was an ex Bethelite and knew some big wigs personally, wrote HQ a lovely letter explaining that Mom had been a faithful JW since she was baptized in 1937 at the same Seattle convention as WBTS president Max Larson. That she had been on a first name basis with Ted Jaracz, and over the years, her family had outright DONATED 7 figures of CASH to the WBTS. In addition, she had given a conditional LOAN from the LAST of her money. (he provided a copy of the loan on WT letterhead.doc
All we were asking for was for WTBTS to REPAY THE LAST MONEY SHE LOANED THEM.
He wrote 3 letters with NO response so he called the desk asking if the letters had been received. The answer was: Yes, they received them. BUT she had (in her demented state) verbally "forgiven the loan" "Put her on welfare" We were forced to do just that.
When she finally died, nobody told me until a week later. (we had left Watchtower and were being shunned by our ENTIRE extended families even though we weren't Dfed or DAed. When hubby asked the lady at the funeral home "Why didn't anyone tell my wife that her mother died?" Her response was, "The ladies from her church said she had NO children." (I personally knew most of the congregation)
Moral of the story: The GB are assholes. Their policies are greedy and self-serving. They produce followers just like them. They are Toxic as a whole. If you are dead to them they should be the same to you. Being a martyr teaches them NOTHING. Stay away from poison.
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Psychotic Motor Bike Racer
by The Fall Guy intrying to pull another motor cyclists handbrake on at 135 mph!!
this nut job should be banned for life!!.
the bbc news link shows this, while the youtube link reveals his past behaviour.
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3rdgen
Introvert 2, Thanks so much. It's been over 14 years now and I miss him more than ever. Please ride safely!