I am glad you bumped this to the top Open Mind. It was beautifully written and it made me sit and think of those that are special in my life. Clarice is a special lady and we would all do well to live life to the fullest like she did. I am happy to hear your family is out and you are together!
Aunt Fancy
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In Memory of Clarice. Musings from the Hills.
by Open mind inthis weekend i went for a spectacular, solo, saunter in the hills and woods where i live.
if you keep reading, you'll be heading down the rabbit hole of where my mind went.
you've been warned!
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Has JW-N been hacked?
by Terry inwelcome nadie.
welcome tim hooper.
that is what my log on name said when i got to jw-n just now!
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Mine said I was Poppers!
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Your Baptism
by Aunt Fancy inwe have been going through our literature and throwing away a lot of it which feels great.
my hubby came cross the program from my baptism in 1986. the divine peace dc held in the astrodome in houston, tx.
he always wrote the attendance and the amount baptized so on that day there were 30,894 in attendance nd 531 baptized!
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Backseat and 3rdgen wouldn't it be nice if we could void our baptism! I am sure many people ish they could do that.
Wasblind, you were very smart you didn't do that.
Ucantnome, I am sure many can't remember much about that day either.
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classification of Jehovahs Witness members by when they joined up
by besty injust got to thinking how long can the watchtower peddle the 'soon' story with any credibility?.
i would say there are the oldtimer or born ins in the 70+ age group - they possibly remember the 2nd world war, and maybe joined for 1975 or made life affecting decisions meaning they are so commited with 'nowhere else to go' that they have surrendered to the resurrection hope.. then you have the '1986 international year of peace, the 1914+70 year' generation crowd.
people in their 40s and 50s now.
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For me I was a convert and I had an education and came from a great family but I know exactly why I came in. I was young and moved 1600 miles away from my family with a brand new baby. It was hard to make friends and I ended up divorced. I met my current husband and he was disfellowshipped at that time but his mother and best friends wife got ahold of me. She took me to social gatherings (weddings) and I was love bombed and I instantly had all of these friends because my hubby was a born in and they were one of the original families in that large city plus his grandmother was a very beloved anointed special pioneer. I do agree with what Simon said because for the most part that is true. The last few years I even told my husband I could hardly stand them any longer because they were scraping the bottom of the barrel with a lot of the recent ones coming in.
One thing we see and it is so sad, is the real old timers. My mother in law is in her mid 80's and she was brought up in the religion and she heard all of those talks and was told she would never get out of school or have children and now she has great grandchildren and none of that has come true. She is very depressed because she never thought she was going to die and most of her close friends have died and she is having to face reality that she will die too. My parents on the other hand live life to their fullest and have everything planned out and are enjoying life. It really stunts your life when you live with this fairytail that isn't coming true.
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Your Baptism
by Aunt Fancy inwe have been going through our literature and throwing away a lot of it which feels great.
my hubby came cross the program from my baptism in 1986. the divine peace dc held in the astrodome in houston, tx.
he always wrote the attendance and the amount baptized so on that day there were 30,894 in attendance nd 531 baptized!
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We have been going through our literature and throwing away a lot of it which feels great. My hubby came cross the program from my baptism in 1986. The Divine Peace DC held in the Astrodome in Houston, TX. He always wrote the attendance and the amount baptized so on that day there were 30,894 in attendance nd 531 baptized! I looked at the program and busted out laughing because in it was a section "program points I plan to use". He had written all of the items for lunch and the amount of tickets they were! He laughed hen I showed it to him. He said that was one easy and fun job he enjoyed doing was handing out the food so he was memorizing the wht each one cost. I remember those conventions as being fun but that changed quickly when we moved and had to go to the Vet in Philly! Times sure have changed! Anyone else have info from your baptism?
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Black Friday Stampedes VS. District Convention Morning Gate Openings
by Mr. Falcon inhas anyone had a jw rant to them around christmas time about how "horrible" it is to be a "worldly" person at that time of year?.
certian jws love to use the infamous black friday shopping riots that tend to occur as examples to back up this argument.
now, while those incidents are indeed disgraceful, they are hardly isolated to the "world".. among my "priveliges" was to be an attendant at a few district conventions.
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I remember those years and saw it all, it was so frustrating for me. We use to have to go to Vet Stadium in Philly and that was a hell hole. There was no relief from the hot humid air, you could cut with a knife and the only "good" seating was under the cigarette signs and they closed it off so you couldn't go there. You could catch a breeze up there. Finally we stopped going because I had health problems and the last day there my Bible was sitting out in the sun and I reached over to pick it it and it was so hot it literally burned my finger where I had a blister! That was it for us! We traveled 5 hours to stay in a nice air conditioned place with nice seating. The place was so disgusting because you would see people with blankets laying all over the hallways until they finally put an end to it and the weird thing is during football season some men would urinate in the halls when they got drunk and then these people would lay in it. Most of us were so glad when they blew it up!! Hubby was a parking attendant and an attendant inside and he saw all of that rude behavior. I saw all of the crazy shoving and pushing and it drove me nuts. When we went to the vet there were over 20,000 at a time and the people you saw made you wonder where they came from, I hated that place. The other thing at that venue was people brought tarps and so they would run to get a hole section for their families and friends and would set up poles and rope everything off with it.
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Hi all
by Saltheart Foamfollower infirstly, love and greetings to all - i've been lurking here and elsewhere for a long time and have benefitted more than i can say.
i'm still in - i have a genuine fear that coming out would kill my mother - but i've recently taken the first step away.
i told a non-jw friend that i knew it was all a load of nonsense and i didn't believe any of it.
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Welcome, I hope you can eventually fad. My family is not in but my husbands is. We live on the other side of the country and his mom kept asking if he was going to the meetings because they always talked about the meetings (she is in her mid 80's) and he finally told her we were not going to the meetings and he didn't believe it any longer. She would never turn us in at least not at this point. I hope you find peace and happiness!
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I wonder if my mom will ever go back to the meetings ?
by scary21 inwell, my 89 year old jw mom has been in her new apartment now for over 4 months.
my sister and i moved her back to mi.
from fl.. we were forced to by the jw's who wanted to commit her.
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Sherry, I hope your Mom will be happy there and I agree with Jake to check and make sure no one had her will changed to include the WTBT$. I have never heard of that one where the congregation can't help because she has family, what happened to brotherly love and being kind to one another???
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Scary Stuff
by Farkel intoday's high school students in the usa:.
less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.
she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.
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Also my grandkids are both straight A students and one will be in advance classes this year and the other in the National Honor Society so it wasn't because they weren't aware.
I see a lot of problems with our education system, parents not involved or deciplining their children then sending them to school for the teacher to take care of, teachers that aren't allowed to really teach because they have all of these tests and reports that they are required to do, unions that protect bad teachers, underpaid teachers so it does not attract some of the really good teachers that go into other fields because of the pay. I also think children learn differently than we did because of the computer age. I know my husband and I were talking about how we are always going to our I Pads or I Phones every time we want to know a fact but when we were kids we had to go to the library.
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Scary Stuff
by Farkel intoday's high school students in the usa:.
less than 1/2 of them cannot identify the century when our civil war happened.. one in four thought columbus discovered america sometime after 1750.. one in three cannot name one right enumerated in the bill of rights.. three out of four cannot name the first us president.. two out of three do not know the length of term of a member of the house of representatives.. half cannot find britain on a map.. one out of four cannot find america on a map.. when my oldest daughter, who is now a physician was in 9th grade in this once-great state of california, i asked her about the three branches of our federal government.
she was clueless and told me she would take civics in her junior year in high school.
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LongHairGal, cursive has stopped in many areas. I was writing a note in the office and my grandkids (at the time they were 8 & 11) said they couldn't understand some of it and I was shocked. I said you never write cursive and they said no. My sister is a teacher in the same school district so I text her to see what was going on and she said they don't have time to teach it any longer because there are too many other things they need. My grandmother would roll over in her grave because she was a 4th grade teacher and that was her pet peeve. She had beautiful penmanship and wanted us to write beautiful like her too.