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  I didn't expect to be here at age 49. Here as in my employment

  by wha happened? in

  1. social
  2. family

  it's been a terrible economy these last few years.

  i had a very successful loan brokerage and watched that crash and burn in 2011. i went back to my previous firm in the computer industry that was struggling after i left.

  it seemed like a good match.

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  zeb

  You are damn lucky to be getting anything out of the'partners'.

  My brother was ripped off by another 'brother' (business partner)and went from a hard won wealthy life to 'hand in your credit cards please'.
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  Orangeburg Assembly Hall - designed to be sold as a future supermarket?

  by cedars in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've just been watching a youtube video that reveals the new assembly hall in orangeburg, sc.. two things struck me when watching it.... firstly, everything is attributed to jehovah, right down to deciding the location where the hall is to be built.

  "we examined over 300 properties," said one interviewee, "we were reminded that jehovah knew where the site was, we just had to keep looking and show him that we were persistent.

  " other workers interviewed throughout the video attribute everything to god, as though it is impossible to build anything without divine direction.. here is the video.... .

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  zeb

  Then they will have lots of cash to pay out judgement claims made against them (Conti)
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  Jonathan and Charlotte

  by compound complex in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdfge0dronc.

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  zeb

  just loved it.

  Sure beats the the tired singing in KH. Where songs dont meet the roll and pitch of the average voice and some of the words are made up words.

  Opera forever!
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  Nancy Yuen China 1953- 23 years jail for refusing to stop door to door! Why did she do it?

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  the new communist government were reasonable.

  you can preach in your halls just not "door to door.

  " missionary stanley jones and other non chinese stoped...but encouraged the chinese brothers to continue.

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  zeb

  My respects to the departed Ms Yuen.

  I wonder what her reaction would have been had she learned of the protection of paedophiles policy of the wts?
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  Grey's Anatomy 1/31/2012 - "Bad Blood" about a JW kid in the ER

  by Gopher in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i don't closely follow this show, but this week's episode (bad blood, season 9 episode 13) was captivating for me as an ex-jw.

  one of the story lines centered on a 19-year-old boy whose family is jw (but he is obviously a fringe jw) - brought into the emergency room after a serious skateboarding accident by his friend who was totally unaware he was jw.. the episode summary along with a "watch this episode" link is linked below.. i found most of the jw storyline quite realistic (except for a "we believe prayers can yield miracles" quote from one of the jw's - i think it was the mother).

  after the parents refused a blood transfusion for the boy, the resulting chaos and philosophical arguments were riveting to watch.. http://abc.go.com/shows/greys-anatomy/episode-detail/bad-blood/1062764?page=1.

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  zeb

  you mean they are doing something medical and not screwing each other?
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  Cell Phones Distracting from the LIfe-saving message

  by AuntBee in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i dont' use my cell phone when with friends, to show them how important they are to me, and i am focusing on them, etc.

  i turn it off completely.. i'm doing a free bible study with 2 really nice jw ladies.

  but today, one of their phones went off loudly twice, and she had to check each time who it was etc.

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  zeb

  People and their phones! A doctor put a letter in the local newspaper saying he has patients anser their phones while theyare in consult with him!

  It is a disease! Turn the damn things off! Who the hell do they think is going to call them the President! The Queen of England?

  and i wont start of the radiation that going into their heads.
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  MY babies were spayed today

  by wha happened? in

  1. social
  2. family

  i don't have children, and my wife and i decided not to have any, so we have kittens.

  we rescued some kittens and they were in pretty bad shape when they came home.

  thought one might not make it.

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  prrrrruh!
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  Sickening Dilemma

  by ItsMyLife in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  i would like to have your opinions on what i should do about a situation please.. i have recently discovered that a 'brother' in the congregation (which i no longer attend) is a child molester.

  i've seen documentation from his psychiatrist dated a few years ago, stating that he doesn't feel that this person is likely to offend again.

  the 'brother' has said to the elders at some point that he has it under control but cannot be 100% sure it won't happen again.

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  zeb

  Go to the Police.

  and be prepared to be shafted by the cong if you tell the bride to be.
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  What is the most out of line / disturbing experience you have seen from Circuit Overseers?

  by Poindexter Lionel Humperdique in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i once heard of a circuit overseer blaming a loyal ministerial servant, that served as the accounts servant, of steeling from the contribution boxes, simply because he deposited the congregation funds bi-weekly instead of twice a week.

  due to the accusation, the ms was immediately removed without hearing his side of the story.

  isn't this rather counter-intuitive and innefficient?

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  telling us at a conv not to watch the movie 'ET' as he represented the anti-christ. Followed by an audience wide "Wha!"of disbelief.
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  My Jw mother hates me and always has

  by 20yearfader in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just need to vent,you see i was a born in.it's taken me 20 years after fading from the org to finally get my mind free from the wt dogma.i was on the phone with my aunt today and the subject of my mother her older sister came up.now mind you i haven't spoken to my mother in a month or so after my daughter stayed the weekend at her house and she was being tag teamed about the hall and how i took a vow to jehovah and i'm a failure and i'll be destroyed at armagedon.this exchange upset my daughter so much that she was near the point of tears when she returned home and she hasnt spoken to my mother or father since.anyway back to the conversation with my aunt,she let it slip that my mother told her that she wished she had let the seamen that fertilized the egg that produced me had slid down her legnno bear in mind i can remember as a child running into her room playing and she would say to me as a 7 year old child "i wished i had left you in oblivion"this is one of many such saying my mother had for me......i wasn't a bad child i just wasn't allowed to do anything such as going outside going over a friends house....etc,i have struggled for years as to why this woman hates me so.i got baptized at 15 really as a way of pleasing them what the hell does a child know at 15??

  ?granted it took me some time to get myself together and put those hurtful comments in the past,but today when my aunt let it slip about what my mother has said about me it was like pulling a scap off of a wound.my wife always complains about how im emotionless and distance,this was done by me as a way of protecting myself.so i've decided and i hate to say this that my christian god fearing parents...are dead to me there is no way i can have a relationship with people that are so wicked and since she never wanted me anyway....it works out for the best thx i just needed to vent i felt like i was going to pop..

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  zeb

  She is a charmer. I can imagine her as a patient in an aged home..

  Its her loss not yours.