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  Guess who called Sunday morning

  by Tammie in

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  2. friends

  some time around 7 am, my mother in law calls.

  hubby answers.

  we were still asleep.

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  Tammie

  Some time around 7 am, my mother in law calls. Hubby answers. We were still asleep. The last time we saw her was back in May, and before that was May a year earler. Any way she calls to ask if she can see the boys. Same old thing, she wanted to take them some where else. And of course the answer was still no, but she could come to our home for a visit. And then the tears started. OH BOO HOO, Ah buh humb bumg!!!!
  Hubby said no, and then she wanted to speak to me, but I would not come to the phone. I'm getting a bit tired of this stuff.
  
  She even asked if she could take the boys to the park, and you all know that is with out us. She asked my 7 year old if he would like to go to the park. At first he said yes, that was until I told him that mommy and daddy would not be going with him and his bubba. He changed his mind real fast. And he told his grandma, that he did not want to go.
  
  I almost forgot, learned that there was an assembly about an hour away, that she was trying to sneak them to. She made the mistake of telling her sister that, and hubby's aunt told us.
  
  Then she wanted to speak with my younger son, but he was still asleep.
  
  To make a long story a bit shorter, she was on the phone for nearly an hour and a half. In that time period, she did start in the name calling (that's why I won't let her take off with the children.) She called hubby an apostate, and he returned it back saying that JWs are the apostates. And Russell, and Rudfords were liers. He told her about the date line story and the child molestors, and the involvement the watchtower had with the UN.
  
  Hubby was getting agervated with his mom, that he was the one that hung up first. But she heard every word he said.
  
  He said that he mom is starting to crack (meaning that one day she might leave the JWs). I said good, then maybe keeping her from taking off with the boys will eventually get her out of that DAM CULT.
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  NEW Barbara Anderson News Story!

  by UnDisfellowshipped in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  thursday september 26, 2002 6:40 am .

  tullahoma, tenn. (ap) - joe and barbara anderson have been abandoned by their peers.

  their son won't talk to them, and won't let them see their 3-year-old grandson.

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  Tammie

  ``I love my parents dearly, but the message they have chosen to accomplish this is harming good people,'' he said. ``They are putting themselves, really, in harm's way.''

  That sounds like a threat to me, don't you?
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  Did YOU CHEAT on Your Time?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  one of the things the congregation secretary has to do is tabulate field service reports.

  i always loved it when i would get a report that had an enormous amount of hours and placements.,especially if the person never was seen in the ministry.

  i knew a lot of "phantom pioneers".

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  Tammie

  No I never did cheat on my time reporting. Now looking back on it, I sure wished I did. I managed to pioneer for 3 1/2 years. And it seemed like those last 10 or so hours was the hardest, especially in the very hot or very cold months.
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  Fashion Disaster Bandit Is Foiled

  by Tammie in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/06/29/national/main210843.shtml

  edmonton, alberta - a crudely disguised man wielding a samurai sword burst into a canadian jehovah's witness church and tried to rob 65 congregation members before he was foiled by one who used his cell phone to alert police, authorities said.

  police responded quickly and arrested the man after convincing him to drop the two-foot blade in the incident late tuesday at a northeast edmonton jehovah's witness kingdom hall, police spokesman dean parthenis said.

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  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/06/29/national/main210843.shtml

  EDMONTON, Alberta - A crudely disguised man wielding a Samurai sword burst into a Canadian Jehovah's Witness church and tried to rob 65 congregation members before he was foiled by one who used his cell phone to alert police, authorities said.
  
  Police responded quickly and arrested the man after convincing him to drop the two-foot blade in the incident late Tuesday at a northeast Edmonton Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall, police spokesman Dean Parthenis said.
  
  Officers also recovered a kitchen knife and a medieval-style mace from the 41-year-old suspect, who was dressed in a trenchcoat, a mask fashioned out of bandages, sunglasses and rubber gloves.
  
  The man has been charged with robbery, wearing a disguise with intent, possession of an offensive weapon, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a prohibited weapon. (Reuters)
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  Cardboard Cops

  by Tammie in

  1. social
  2. humour

  strange news - ap lithuania deploys cardboard cops tue sep 3, 3:52 pm et .

  vilnius, lithuania (ap) - lithuania this week launched a novel program to deal with a shortage of traffic police: it's cut new ones out of cardboard and propped them up on the side of streets to scare motorists into slowing down.

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  Strange News - AP Lithuania Deploys Cardboard Cops Tue Sep 3, 3:52 PM ET

  VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Lithuania this week launched a novel program to deal with a shortage of traffic police: It's cut new ones out of cardboard and propped them up on the side of streets to scare motorists into slowing down.

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  About 300 of the cardboard cops have been placed at road crossings near 90 schools in Vilnius, the capital of this former Soviet Baltic republic, a spokeswoman for the municipality, Rasa Razgaitis, said Tuesday.

  She said the program coincides with the start of school in the nation of 3.5 million people. The life-sized replicas, painted turquoise green of actual Lithuanian police uniforms, are expected to stay in service for several months.

  It's the first project of its kind in the former Soviet Baltic states, which include Latvia and Estonia.

  Nearby Denmark tried something similar in the 1980s. But the program ran into trouble when many of the replicas of police sitting on motorcycles were stolen, apparently for souvenirs.

  The some 35,000 litas ($10,000) of materials required to fashion the police impersonators were donated by Kappa Packaging Baltics, a leading producer of boxes in this Baltic Sea coastal country.

  Razgaitis said anecdotal evidence suggests the sight of the replicas, first deployed Monday, has, as hoped, caused drivers to hit their breaks.

  She said Vilnius has made improving traffic safety a high priority.

  Lithuania registers among the highest road fatality rates in Europe, with over 700 people dying each year, or around 20 deaths per 100,000 residents. The average annual rate in European Union ( news - web sites ) countries is under 10 per 100,000.
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  XJWs what do U do with your TIME now

  by QUEENIE in

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  2. friends

  what do you all do with your free time now guys..like hobbies and what not..like you pioneers there is 75 hrs you have to play around with if you know what i mean not to mention meetings and bible studying etc.

  please do share !!!

  (((((hugs)))) queenie

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  I have been actually able to slow down, spend more time with my family, and througly enjoying it. After my youngest is in school, this is his last year home. I am planning on going back to school. Hubby is in all support of what I am doing and my plans for the future. And I live in the perfect town for that, there are two universitys here.
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  DF = DA = non-assocciation?

  by truman in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was wondering if anyone else is feeling it on the wind that there seems to be a coming.

  equivilency between officially disassociating onesself, and simply being in a state of.

  non-association as a walkaway, fade-out, inactive person.

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  If I read this correctly, then I really hope that is true. Now please don't take this the wrong way. The reason I say this is because of this.

  Both my husband and I are dissocated. And of course we are being shunned by our JW relatives. In that group are a number of inactive JW's who are also shunning us. Infact they are worse, if I may say that, than the active JWs. I feel that my inactive JW relatives are being very hipocratical. They have not attened meetings in quite some time. They chose to just go inactive, so they would not be shunned. Yet living their lives no differantly than I am. Infact, my father in-law, a former elder, refuses to ever step foot back inside the hall ever again. But he also bitches at his wife for even saying a short hello to her dissocated son. He is one of the biggest hipocrates I can think of. I am really wanting him to get a taste of his own medican.

  And the other reason I say this, this might also cause a back fireing in the faces of the Watchtower.
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  Tragic JW car crash

  by Crystal in

  1. social
  2. current

  august 26, 2002 .

  kids lost in wreck mourned

  alcohol believed factor in accident that killed 5 on trace .

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  I do not understand the father going on with the wedding. It seems like they would want happy memories to look back on.It's weird.

  That is just plain weird. I don't know about anyone else here, but who would want to have their marrage anniversary that close to the (not sure what to exactly call it) anniversary of your children's death. Not me, I don't think I could even bear the pain.
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  WTS Changes Media Info on DF'ing

  by FreePeace in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know if this has already been posted (as i don't visit as much anymore).

  the wts has changed the info in the faq section of their media site,

  http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/beliefsfaq.htm

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  Tammie

  Those who simply leave the faith are not shunned.

  I about choked on my tea with that one. What a line of BS, lie is that one. My whole family and hubby's whole JW family do indeed shun us, and that's not counting all the other JW's that we know who are shunning us. I do remember this man from my old congeration who DA himself, about 6 months before I did . We as the congeration was very much told to shun him. If I only had the forsite to record that.
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  Tragic JW car crash

  by Crystal in

  1. social
  2. current

  august 26, 2002 .

  kids lost in wreck mourned

  alcohol believed factor in accident that killed 5 on trace .

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  Tammie

  Family members say Miller, a single mother who divorced last year, was heartbroken that her ex-husband and her two children's father, Arthur Miller, did not postpone his Sunday wedding date.

  At 3 p.m., he married Tynette Solomon, a co-worker at Double G Coatings in Byram. The ceremony and reception were at the Hilton Hotel in Jackson.

  Prisca, you did not read that wrong. I don't know about any one eles here, but if I lost my children I know I would not be getting married, before I buried my children. He must be one cold hearted jerk.
  

  Edited by - Tammie on 27 August 2002 2:25:24

  Edited by - Tammie on 27 August 2002 2:26:44