Posts by Pierced Angel

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Do dubs deal with death better than others?

by SpiceItUp in

jw
friends

going to that funeral this week made me think about a few things.. first the family members that attended, who btw were not dubs, were shedding tears.

i did not see anyone else there crying even though the woman who died was a great friend and will really be missed.. now since the dubs have the hope of the "resurrection" does that allieviate their grief that they should normally posess?

does that mean they are "happy" when someone dies because their wait is over?

Pierced Angel

When my brother died, I was attending and believing still in the witness beliefs. It did help me through the rotten shock and pain of it all, but I remember people commenting on how I didn't express the same amount of grief as my sister. I remember feeling a loyalty to god was required. That to show I had faith, I had to not act so emotionally distraught. I've been coming to terms with the loss lately and realizing that I don't know if I'll ever see him in any shape or form is hard to deal with sometimes.

Yes, you're in a trancelike state, a false sense of hope that helps, but also takes away your right and need to grieve properly.

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5 Year Old Cousin Says Who Will Live & Die

by Scarlet in

my husband and i took my 5 year old cousin to see lilo and stitch the other day.

(her mother has been a regular pioneer for 18 years) mind you this child cannot read or even count to 100. she out of the blue says to me "do you know if you do not go to meetings you will die at armagedon?

" she goes on to say that if she salutes the flag or eats birtday cake she will die and she knows her friend at school will die because she slautes the flag.

Pierced Angel

When my daughter would get sad and start contemplating life without her grandma, cousins, etc. That's when I started seeing what a crock it was. I didn't believe that they were wicked and evil people just because they didn't worship Jehovah, but that's what we were being taught at the kingdumb hall.

I'm so happy to be free of that and that my kids can live life without that gloomy fear hanging over their childhood.

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Ever lie on your service reports?

by The_Bad_Seed in

jw
friends

*laughing just thinking about it*.

did anybody out there lie on their service reports that they maintained the 'national average' when in reality you got .005 hours of service in any given month?

i magically always used to always get "10" hours out in service, while nobody ever saw me at the groups, no one ever caught on, or seemed not to -- maybe they just didn't give a shit.. i always lied so i could keep my microphone 'privelidges' -- that being, the privelidge to walk around at the back of the hall giving my deflated ass a break from those awful chairs they had.

Pierced Angel

The last 4-5 months, I would get a phone call asking for my time for the month (I wasn't attending many meetings by then). I always said at least 4 hours because I didn't want them to know I wasn't "studying" with my kids and I wanted them to count a couple hours a month for that anyhow. When they'd call and I'd say 0 , they would be sure to sigh and act like "well, maybe your workload will lighten and you'll be able to get out more next month". The worst thing was when one elder and his wife decided to "help" me by offering to pick me up for service. After that, I suddenly stopped answering the phone and turned my answering machine off.

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Brain Sex Test

by patio34 in

brain sex test .

introduction .

it is possible to text how male or female your own mind is.

Pierced Angel

That's ok Moe, I got a 45 too

11

Strange Feeling.

by Undecided in

jw
friends

i just saw on tv that they found the body of the little girl from st.louis that was missing.

as i was looking at her picture i could hardly keep my hands on the arms of my recliner, i wanted to grab the man that killed her and choke him to death.

i really felt strange, she reminded me of my daughter and i just wanted to kill the bastard that took her, i really got emotional over this and wanted to cry.

Pierced Angel

I think the mother is in shock and the reality is going to hit her when she can handle it. She's strong, but there's no way she can hold it in for long. I feel so bad for them. I know it would just kill me if something happened to my kids.

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Hey my JW daughter is coming to visit .

by mouthy in

jw
friends

if any of you pray.please do for me.after the aug kingdom ministry allowing the active jw to help an aged sick parent .

my jw daughter is coming from montreal on the 29th of july....... i was in hospital for pain management-thanks watchtower !!

for allowing a bit of humanity to creep in.

Pierced Angel


Grace,
I hope everything goes well with the visit.
I'm so sorry to hear about your health problems and pain.
If you want company, I'm not too far, could come and help
you out if you want. Just let me know in advance a little.
Take care, hoping good things for july 29th!
Anne

Edited by - pierced angel on 26 July 2002 13:15:16

Edited by - pierced angel on 26 July 2002 13:18:30

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Construction Guys

by Pierced Angel in

subject: construction guys .

this is truly a heart-warming story about the bond formed between a little girl and some construction workers.

this makes you .

Pierced Angel

Subject: Construction Guys

This is truly a heart-warming story about the bond formed between a little girl and some construction workers. This makes you
want to believe in the goodness of people and believe there is hope for the human race. A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on
the empty lot. The young family's 6-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and started talking with the workers. She hung around and eventually the construction crew, gems-in-the-rough all of them, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there
to make her feel important. At the end of the first week they even presented her with a p ay envelope containing a dollar. The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the dollar pay she had received to the bank the next day to start a savings account. When they got to the bank the teller was equally impressed with the story and asked the little girl how she had come by her very
own pay check at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I've been working with a crew building a house all week."
"My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week too?"
She replied "I will if those useless sons-a-bitches at the lumber yard ever bring us any drywall that's worth a shit."

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Shunning? What About The Children??

by Tish in

hi to eveyone,.

i was d'fd 18 months ago, i was prepared for the shunning within my family and the borg of all my friends (as i never associated with "worldly people") but i have been totally blown away with how nobody cares about my 2 young children!!.

my kids have not heard from their aunties and uncle since i was thrown out in feb '01.

Pierced Angel

My daughter misses her friend L... very much. She calls, but rarely can L... talk to her very long. My daughter was in tears because she went to a pool party of a school friend and found out L... is allowed to call this school friend and visit all the time even though she and her family are "worldly". It's not fair to the kids and I've told her we'll wait till her parents are gone to work and she can call her and talk. I will do whatever I have to to make sure she can keep her friendship, while encouraging her to make new friends. It's a shame, you'd think the family would want to encourage my daughter and eventually it might encourage me to go back (no way in hell, lol). But, they don't,they shun her too.

so sad.

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Ex-JW Singles

by SpiceItUp in

inquiring minds want to know who out there is single.

lets see if we can hook anyone up.

how about a love connection on the jwd.

Pierced Angel

Peter Stride is still single. This is totally unbelievable. Ladies, get to Toronto, pronto! You're missing out on a sexy Canadian Stud, I'm not kidding.

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Anyone ever rub elbows with a Celebrity?

by RubyTuesday in

when i was in the sixth grade in roswell n.m. i met this girl whos father had recently died.my father had also passed away recently.we were both very shy and haveing the lose of our fathers in common we stuck together that year.we never did anything outside of school however, not sure why,she never invited me over and now i think it was because of her horrible home life.but we ate lunch together everyday and chated in a class we shared.i never saw her again until..... when i was in my 20's my cousins wife told me that my friend demetria guynes was....... drum roll..plz.

demi moore.

please share simular stories.

Pierced Angel

I love Suzanne Somers. Is she as nice as she seems?