all the pioneers in our hall were married women whose husbands had good jobs. we live in an area where it is still possible to live on one income if that person has a good job. It never seemed to me that any of the pioneers were poor - a couple of them went on regular fancy vacations and they all had very nice homes and cars.
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Who pioneered with the promise of having 'Jehovah provide' and ended up dirt poor anyway?
by Julia Orwell ini ask this because the wt always bangs on about if you trust in jehovah and make that leap into pioneering, you will always be provided for.
at the time i joined the cult, a friend was continuous aux.
pioneering.
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Is this true? Don't Call 911 If The Guy In The Next Seat Falls Ill at The DC?
by Room 215 inthis from a recent thread: .
"recent ridiculous instructions about not calling 9-1-1 yourself at district conventions if someone is having a heart attack but, instead, telling an attendant, who is supposed to let the first aid department know so they can come and assess the person and then call the paramedics.".
i hadn't heard this before.... sadly, it seems in perfectly in character for them.
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I believe I actually read that same explanation in a KM - also that the 911 operators actually complained about receiving multiple calls for minor non-critical events. I actually agree that having 50 people call 911 for a non-life threatening emergency is a problem, but for a real emergency like a heart attack or a stroke I think 911 should be called by whoever is there when it happens.
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I have an idea
by Crazyguy inhow about those of us that are still going to the district conventions this summer, take a permanent sharpie pen and go in to the bathroom into one of the stalls and write on the stall wall a quick one line message followed by jwfacts.com.
do this once a day in a different bathroom all three days, we may actually get to a few people..
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a good idea, but I'd hate to vandalize property. Maybe plaster the stalls with sticky notes instead.
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Which meeting goes first ?
by 5go inif the gb.
me the school because it would allow more time for brow beating in the service meeitng wihch would be one hour.
then no one would complain about thier kids being up way past thier bed time on school nights..
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I don't remember what year it was, but I know it was sometime after my youngest was born, which was in July 2007
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JW family made contact....
by LouBelle in.....after 8 years of us being disfellowshipped.
the made contact through my aunt who is still 'in' - as in she has faded but is not disfellowshipped and will pop to a meeting now and again - she does this for my grans' sake.. the contact was from my aunt and uncle (he's an elder) these were the 2 witnesses used against me in my judicial case.
they contacted my aunt and said to forward the message onto us.
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Good for you Loubelle - I'm sorry your relatives are so awful
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Delicate subject "Gay youths in the Boy Scouts.
by jam infirst of all i,m not against gays, i have made a 180 degree.
turn on my view on homosexual.
i thought my son was gay and.
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I'm glad to see the Boy Scouts moving in the right direction. I had hoped that gay adults would be allowed in too, and it will happen eventually. I don't think there is any "risk" to allowing gay youths or leaders to participate - gay doesn't equal pedophile.
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Bible Writers not just ignorant "goat herders"
by applehippie inreally, the bible was written by nothin' but goat herders?
i don't post much but this does irk me.
yes a few may have been shepherds or fisherman, but a fair amount were far more educated and were professionals in their fields of occupation.
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People - humans - have always been highly intelligent and adaptable. That's why we are still here despite our obvious physical weaknesses compared to various other species. However, the specific knowledge needed to live and thrive in different circumstances vary widely. I would be hard pressed to live comfortably in a pre-industrial society, and I suspect a person who lived in Egypt in 500BC would be hard pressed to adapt to modern life without coaching.
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USA | California | 10-year-old Jehovah's Witness Girl Shot Dead
by jwleaks inslain 10-year-old girl spoke of devoting her life to ending violence hours before she was shot.
by stephen magagninipublished: friday, may.
just hours before she was shot to death, 10-year-old elvira campos said she wanted to devote her life to teaching people the bible "and its promise that one day all the violence would end," said her best friend and teacher, olga cruz.. "that afternoon i picked her up for bible study, and we talked about the future," a tearful cruz recalled thursday afternoon.
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If she was studying with someone outside the family, I wonder if her parents were dubs at all. Poor kid.
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To our fading and in-suffering friends, status report please
by Mad Sweeney inif you're still in for the sake of others, how's it going?
what specific plan are you working on to get your loved ones out so you can leave, too?
how is that plan progressing?
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It's been 18 months since I attended my last meeting, and I don't even know when I last went in field service. I don't know what the official explanation for my absence is and I don't care. Life is so much better on the outside - like getting out of prison. I am very glad that my husband - Just Ron - and our 3 boys are free too.
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Drinking at meetings / assemblies / conventions ... who's done it?
by HarryMac infor me .... 1).
last district convention after having 'read up' (took some family to it).. 2).
last 'meeting' to watch step-father-in-law finally get his and get disfellowshipped for molestation.. ...both were taking vodka shots in the bathroom.. i'm sure there's lots of good stories out there..
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I never did, but it sure would have helped