Posts by Soledad

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Your STRANGEST most SHOCKING marriage, death..or event at the KH. !

by caliber in

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i've lived through some ... a death where my brother caught an elderly lady as she dropped dead while singing !.

a girl in early twenties marries a man (elder) 27 years older ..still married 30 years later !.

an elder is stabbed with a knife.. but it hits his belt buckle.. police called.

Soledad

One funny one sad:

This one congregation that used wireless microphones. One of the brothers had to use the bathroom and took the microphone into the bathroom with him. Within a few minutes you could hear over the loud speakers the sounds of------how should I say-------pushing and then the tell-all kerplunk into the bowl. The brother was moaning and cursing out the beans he had for dinner. Impossible to keep a straight face, even the person on the platform was dying of laughter. When he came out of the bathroom and realized what happened he went home.

The sad story: my grandmother suffered a brain hemorrage while giving a talk and never recovered. Died 5 days later.

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My Wife is mentally ill and does crazy things diary.

by Witness 007 in

luckly she is going to a mental health proffesional soon.. monday - bought her a nice hat as we were going to the races.....tuesday - she decides she doesn't want to go because of the crowds...wednesday - re-arranges furniture and tidies house from 8pm till 8am making lots of noise.

in the morning flys into a rage when i ask her to find library books that are overdue....rings a brother we know and tells him we are get divorced...she sick of them interfering {havent seen him in a year?

} tells him she will sleep with my father like in the bible so i can get an inheritance from him???....

Soledad

I am so sorry you are going through this. I never knew. How hard this must be.

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Remember when .....?

by RR in

found this at the bottom of a box ..... not actual size .

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Soledad

WOW that brings me back to Monroe NY and the Acqueduct, back when there was hot food served: on Saturdays arroz con pollo or pasta w/ground beef on Sundays there was usually pizza, left overs from Saturday and the soft-serve ice cream machines were cranked on. Breakfast could be pancakes, scrambled eggs on an english muffin, grilled cheese sandwiches on a hot dog bun or pastelitos w/guayaba (that's a turnover pastry filled with guava jelly for you gringos ) we kept any left over slips for next year or if it was possible to buy a pudding snack or soda before we left for the day. What memories!

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The End is Here....The JWs gleefully watch the economy crash!

by LovesDubs in

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dont these idiots know yet that when it goes it takes them too?

have they not learned from the depression?

or either world war?

Soledad

My thoughts exactly insearchoftruth!

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Things That Irritated You When You Were A JW

by minimus in

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there were some witnesses that loved taking notes for every meeting.

whatever you would say, the note takers were busy as a bee writing down every word.

especially if you went out of town to give a talk, certain ones (only sisters) would take their note taking very very seriously.. another thing that used to get to me was when you'd see the same people every assembly on the platform giving a talk or being in a part.

Soledad

Mainly field service, the cliques, double-lifers, the kissing up to both the CO and families who were wealthy

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Singing at the KH

by Iwonder17 in

ok, i know that i am being petty when i say this, but it bugs the hell out of me.. i can't stand it when they are singing the song and then someone leaves their chair and walks to the back of the kh or somewhere and they continue to sing !!!!!

is it just me or is that jus weird??

it like they are hypnotized and have to sing if there is a song being played .

Soledad

What about when the chairman or school overseer stands right at the front edge of the platform and rocks band and forwards on the balls of his feet, song book held aloft not even needing to look at the words, singing right into the audience.

Sure sign of being super spiritual.

Oh yes, those kinds were prevelant in our congo. Elder's wives, visiting COs DOs, regular pioneers----they were above everyone because they knew the lyrics to almost every song in the songbook. While traveling to the assemblies on the bus, there was one pioneer who always broke out singing, and everyone just had to join in, you got dirty looks if you didn't.

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Ladies, what kind of stuffed toy do you like?

by asilentone in

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Soledad

Try a different kind of toy so you can both have fun.

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WHERE WERE YOU 7 YEARS AGO?

by Mary in

guess i'll be the first one to do an (inevitable) thread about 9-11. hard to believe it's been 7 years already.

i was at work when one of my co-workers came up and told me that a plane had hit the world trade center.

i thought it was awful, but i figured it was a small single engine plane that maybe lost its way in the fog.

Soledad

I couldn't help but notice you mentioned Montague St., Brooklyn in your post. I have a corporate apartment there that I'm actually typing this very post from at the moment. I'm here in NYC working on the City's 911 emergency call center project.
Today was a very somber day for the NYPD and FDNY personnel here.

Cool. I used to work at 185 Montague st. I'm a project assistant at the 311 call center now. I spent some time 2 years ago at Metrotech working on another project with 911.

Yes today is a horrible day for EMTs FDNY and NYPD. The pain never goes away.

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WHERE WERE YOU 7 YEARS AGO?

by Mary in

guess i'll be the first one to do an (inevitable) thread about 9-11. hard to believe it's been 7 years already.

i was at work when one of my co-workers came up and told me that a plane had hit the world trade center.

i thought it was awful, but i figured it was a small single engine plane that maybe lost its way in the fog.

Soledad

I was at my job on Montague street in Brooklyn. It was a client who told me that planes hit the trade center. I thought she was lying. The radios came on in the office and one of my co-workers said he was going up to the Promenade to see what was going on. I followed him outside and saw a black sky. Couldn't still believe it. We walked 1 block to the right, I believe that was either Henry or Remsen street, then turned up on Pineapple st. As soon as the tower came into my sight, it started to collapse. I stood frozen in the middle of street. A car that was behind me also stopped. People gathered on the Promenade were screaming. I went back to my office and gathered my things and left. When I went back outside, someone stuck a handmade sign on the side of a public payphone "Please donate blood. People are dying."

Cant even begin to describe the horror of that day in NY.

The walk home was surreal, thousands of people were getting out of Manhattan and here I was walking into Manhattan. Churches and other businesses had put up signs reading "restrooms/phones available." There was this incredible eerie silence, even though thousands of people were all around me. Noone spoke at all. When I looked up, this large gray/black column of smoke was all there was in front of us, where once 2 towers stood. The acrid smoke was all in my face. While we were walking across the Manhattan bridge someone started to climb over the siderails and was threatening to jump. Noone paid mind and the idiot climbed back over to the bridge's walkway.

Thousands of people were standing at 7th ave and W14th st, in front of St Vincents hospital. People were gathered in groups around signs that read "O+, B-, AB+." The smell of burning debris or bodies lingered in the air for days afterwards. Smoke could be seen for several weeks afterwards. The homemade signs of people missing stuck to streetlight poles, telephone booths, building brickfaces, gates and doors also lined 7th ave for weeks. My home telephone didn't work properly for several days on end, making some of my relatives panic since they couldn't reach me. I was ok, but the memories of that day never leave me. On ocasion I still have nightmares about being trapped at the top of a burning building or about trying to get everyone to leave a building that is falling. It was so horrible.

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Got My Nose Pierced

by Quester55 in

i've always wanted my nose pierced cause i think its so cute and sexy.

my boyfriend thinks so too.

so anyway, i got the piercing and went to the hall.

Soledad

oh yes I almost forgot---tattoos are not painless. the ones I got behind my shoulders were painful but not excruciating, maybe a 7 out of 10, and I have a medium-high tolerance to pain. Keep this in mind in case you want to go thru with it since you are considering the same location where I got mine.