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  I GIVE UP...............

  by ThiChi in

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  i give up!!.

  after the post regarding the "jw fact sheet" and all the good, damming info there, i would like to share this:.

  a good jw friend visited me in the cover of darkness last night to say hello (i am da).

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  Scully

  Thi Chi writes:

  My friend AGREED with me on most topics. However, the JWs keep him in line from sinning and going astray and for that, he is staying.

  Your friend is giving the JWs far too much credit. Almost every single one of us who posts here is evidence that you don't need to be a JW to be a good person, a law-abiding citizen, a great parent, or a terrific friend. Isn't that what the apostle Paul was referring to when he said that the people of the nations didn't need the Law, because God had written it on their hearts??

  Love, Scully

  
  
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  What "the Judge" and I might have in ...

  by TR in

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  colon cancer.. in a week, after medication i'm still bleeding, i'll have to do a colonoscopy to see what's up.

  (pun intended).

  tr.

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  Hey TR

  Sorry to hear you're not well. I hope the test results come back quickly and with good news for you.

  If I can help you with some medical info, please let me know.

  Love, Scully

  
  
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  France court asked to pay the tax in dew

  by bj in

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  jw in france were asked by the court to pay the tax in dew which since 1998 they been contesting.. joe.

  le parisien , 1er mars 2002 .

  [texte integral.

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  Communique from the National Treasury
  - 28 February 2002 -

  On Thursday, February 28, 2002, the Court of Appeals in Versailles ruled on the proposal of the revenue administration which will tax, retroactively, up to 60%, the donations received by the religious association of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  This tax claimed by the administration is colossal. Other than creating an insurmountable debt for a century old religious group, it confiscates the financial support provided by about 250,000 followers.

  Yet, the revenue administration maintains the non-profit nature and the charitable status of The Association of "The Jehovah's Witnesses". The only resources of the Association are the donations from followers, it remains to be seen whether the donations received toward settling this tax will in turn be taxed at up to 60%.* Each person realizes the gravity of this situation.

  Must we sadly speak of, in France, of 'excommunication by tax'? In light of the extreme emotion elicited by the decision of the Court of Appeal of Versailles, the Treasurer for the Jehovah's Witnesses, presided by Jean-Marie Bockaert, believes that such a decree, if it is passed, constitutes a heavy menace for religious liberty and a serious hinderance to the helping communities in France.

  Loyal to their Christian faith, Jehovah's Witnesses continue to render worship to God.

  "If this scheme or this work is from men, it will be overthrown; but if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them." Acts 5:38, 39.

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  * If this is the case, it means that in order to settle the 45 million Euros (300 million francs) in taxes, the Association would have to collect 112.5 million Euros (750 millon francs) in donations, which in turn would be taxable at 60%!
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  The "Right" to sell Useless WT

  by JT in

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  i jw sent this to me today to let me know that "we" got the right to "spread the good news of god's kingdom".

  enjoy.

  on august 14, 1997, former president bill clinton unveiled new executive guidelines aimed at protecting religious expression in the federal workplace, provided that it does not conflict with an employee's work.

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  JT writes:

  (5) Expression Directed at Fellow Employees. Employees are permitted to engage in religious expression directed at fellow employees, and may even attempt to persuade fellow employees of the correctness of their religious views. Some religions encourage adherents to spread the faith at every opportunity, a duty that can encompass the adherent's workplace. They are entitle to do this as long as a reasonable observer would not interpret the expression as government endorsement of the religion and it does not interfere with workplace efficiency. Employees must refrain from such expressions when a fellow employee asks that it stop or otherwise demonstrates that it is unwelcome.

  OK, so you tell the office dub "Sorry, I'm trying to get my work done, please stop preaching to me", right? And whenever they open their mouth on any JW topic again, you write them up to management for religious harrassment.

  Peachy!

  Love, Scully

  
  
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  my goal in life.........

  by flower in

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  i dont know if this is good or bad and i'm intersted in opinion, comments ect.

  my one and only real goal in life is to make sure my kid is happy all the time.

  i dont mean literally every second cause thats not possible but i mean from now until hes an adult i want him to have everything that i didnt.

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  flower,

  I think we all, as former JWs, want a totally different childhood for our own children than what we had ourselves. Lots of us, myself included, probably feel that we didn't really have a childhood the way our peer group did at school, and the way we want for our kids.

  Yes, I think we do have the tendency to go overboard where our kids are concerned. Not that it's a bad thing. I'll never be 10 again, but I made sure that my daughter's 10th birthday was a great party with her best friends. Giving my children things like that do a lot for me in terms of making up for feeling like my childhood was robbed from me by those buggers in Brooklyn. I try not to blame my parents, but it's not always easy. It's sometimes hard to separate the deed from the intent, and the source of the deprivation from the ones who carried it out.

  My children know that no matter what, I will always be there for them. That's the one thing I was never sure of as a child, and now that I'm "out" and my parents are still "in", I know I was right to be skeptical of their loyalty to family.

  My own goal in life, after leaving the JWs, was to make sure my kids took opportunities that I felt compelled to forego. They've had swimming lessons, skating lessons. My son plays every sport going. My daughters will be playing soccer and doing gymnastics. We go to movies. They watched me go through Nursing School and graduate with Honours; they know that they can have all the success they want to have if they work at it.

  Most important of all, they know that one mistake is not going to make me shun them or kick them out on the streets. They have the security of knowing that their parents are their biggest fans and their most vocal advocates.

  I think that kind of security is one of the best things parents can give their children.

  Love, Scully

  
  
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  HIV

  by BritBoy in

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  a bit of a touchy subject.

  i have had the week from hell... i have a bad chest infection and have not been well for sometime (as some of you here know).

  my gp suggested an hiv test as beng gay i am a high risk... i agreed and had one.

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  Glad to hear everything's ok, Britty!!

  Hugs, Scully

  
  
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  What to you do when you are being shunned?

  by aprostate in

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  2. experiences

  i used to be quiet around witnesses who were shunning me.

  i changed my mind after my dad's funeral a couple of years ago.

  i was their alone since i live in a different state; but, i guess everybody still knew who i was because of my mom.

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  Dear Aprostate:

  People only can shun you if you let them. So I don't let them (and I'm not even DA'd or DF'd, but still the JWs try to give me the "treatment").

  When I see a JW whom I haven't seen in a while and realize that they're giving me the cold shoulder of shunning, I walk right up to them and give them a big HUG and say, Hi!!! It's so GOOD to see you!! It's been SUCH a LONG time!! How are you?? Of course, they stiffen up because they're in shock. When that happens, I let them go, and in a surprised tone, I'll say Oh my! I didn't realize that you'd been disfellowshipped! I'm so sorry! I had NO IDEA! You, of ALL people! then I turn on my heel and walk away. It does them good to get a taste of their own medicine!

  Love, Scully

  
  
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  This Year's Memorial Talk Outline

  by Kent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you want to read this year's memorial talk outline?

  of course you can, and you can naturally find it on the watchtower observer :).

  yachyd da.

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  YoYoMaMa writes:

  This thread is so funny.
  After all the whining and crying, apostates still need the food that the Faithful and Discreet Slave offers!

  What's even funnier is that while you're getting all dolled up on Memorial night to sit in a stuffy room with stuffy people in order to NOT partake of the emblems, we'll already know what stale information is being passed around with the stale matzoh and rancid kosher wine.

  Love, Scully

  
  
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  This Year's Memorial Talk Outline

  by Kent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  do you want to read this year's memorial talk outline?

  of course you can, and you can naturally find it on the watchtower observer :).

  yachyd da.

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  Scully

  I'm very tempted to run the outline through the 'burn' website.....

  If it makes me laugh, I'll post it here. On Memorial Night.

  Love, Scully

  
  
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  How many hours are falsely reported?

  by badboy in

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  in the january 1 issue of each year, they harp on about how many hours the jws did last year etc etc.. how many hours are possibly falsely reported?.

  discuss,please

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  Scully

  There are plenty of "creative timekeeping" methods among JWs. Some of them were discussed on this thread back in mid-January:
  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=19381&site=3

  My family kept close track of field service time for as long as I can remember. My dad would never "round up" his hours to the next whole hour, he would carry over the extra 15 min or whatever to the following month. I learned to do the same.

  I was taught that fudging your field service report was like lying to Jehovah, so I didn't do it. It seemed like a one way ticket to not making it through Armageddon, even worse than fornication.

  We found out later that there were different "standards" for counting time, depending on whether you were a publisher or a pioneer. For instance, a pioneer could count time they spent volunteering at a convention, where a publisher couldn't. Once I learned about the "double standard", I started wondering 'why doesn't Jehovah value my volunteer work at assemblies the way he does for pioneers?' and 'doesn't Jehovah "detest" double standards, the same way that "two sorts of weights are something detestable to Jehovah"?'

  Nobody could answer that for me, and I became known as a bit of a trouble maker. Lil ole me.... a shit disturber.... who would've thunk?? LOL

  Love, Scully