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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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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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.
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See JW's, this is what we have all missed out on....
by Newly Enlightened inby not having dreams and goals outside of the watchtower box and encouraging our children to expand beyond the cult.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=digfo2dgc9y.
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Wow! She is a very talented young girl.
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Former Longtime Elder : Contributions
by James Jackson infor a year now, i have been handling the accounts.
we have 6 elders and 7 ms, and none of them ( i am not serving), want to do the accounts, so they asked me to do it.
here is what i have noticed.. 4 elderly sisters cover the whole congregation in donations monthly!
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Aunt Fancy
We always gave the contributions by check for the three different boxes along with the DA and the CA. My hubby also worked on many KH projects and gave supplies and his labor. One day about two years before we left he just decided he was done with giving to them and would only put money in the literature box and I would still do the DA and CA. I finally asked him and he said they don't need our money, he had part of it figured out but not the hole picture. After we found out the truth we were so glad we stopped supporting them and giving them our hard earned money. It feels good to give to a charity that is worthy of our money not one that pays off people because of their protecting pedofiles.
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Most Awkward, Embarrassing, Comical things you Experienced as a Witness ?
by flipper inmany of us i'm sure experienced embarrassing or comical moments as a witness.
some things we'd rather just forget , i'm sure, but some things helped us think on our feet, quickly in helping others .
here are a few of mine.
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Aunt Fancy
Lol SafeAtHome!! I literally have tears running down my face and can't stop laughing my stomach hurts! Dogs are not dumb!! Some of these are so funny but for some reason this is the funniest.
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My sister almost died.
by redvip2000 inever since i was a little boy i've been aware of this vague story about my older sister having some issues at birth, but never knew the details.. yesterday i was having a conversation with a much older cousin, who is a non-practicing jw about different watchtower issues.
while discussing the blood issue she totally came out with the story about my sister, which i never knew before.. when my sister was born some 40 years ago, my mother had the delivery at home with the help of a midwife.
i'm not entirely sure why this decision was made instead of going to a hospital.
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Aunt Fancy
Wow. I am so glad your sister survived and your uncle had the courage to take her from your Mom and make sure she lived. I would have a hard time making a decision on weather to tell your sister or keep it quiet especially if she is still a JW. I am so glad I was never faced with that when I was in. I have a feeling I would have caved in.
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49 years ago today
by Glander inhappy anniversary, sweetheart!
(the minister is my dear uncle.
retired to hawaii and just turned 92.).
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Aunt Fancy
Happy Anniversary!