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  Bizarre Urban Myth...have you heard it?

  by Preston in

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  i remember a couple of years ago when i was out in field service i heard a story (haven't we all) about a district convention in california where the speaker was invited to give a talk, and as he was standing before the platform, he unexpectedly began to tell a slurry of sex jokes, profanities, and stories about his sex life.

  everyone in attendance was shocked, and after he was removed from speaking, an elder had to inform the audience that what happened was completely unexpected and uncalled for.

  being that i was a jw at the time i had no use for critical thinking, so i thought every word of it was true.

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  Tammie

  Here is some odd things that happened at meetings in the past. About 15 years ago, a fairly young brother was giving his very first Sunday Public Talk. He was extreamly nervous, but he tried not to show it. On the very front row sat a 300 plus pound sister. She got up to go to the restroom. On her way back to her seat, she sat down. As she sat down, her garter snapped, and flew past, bairley missing the young brother's ear.

  The second story happen during the ministry school. The sister, who had the #3 talk was pregnate. Infact she was a week past do. But as a "spirtual" sister she went ahead and did her part. She happen to wearing a maternaty dress, with buttons on the front. As she was walking up to the stage, one of her buttons caught on one of the brothers topay. But being so large she did not see the wig. (Every one else did) She sat down at the table, on the stage and looked down. She noticed, what she thought was a huge furry rat. She jumped up and screamed. The next thing happen, was that her water broke.
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  Scan of new tract: "Who Are Jehovah's Witn...

  by expatbrit in

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  given recent events, some of this is almost funny.. side one: .

  side two: .

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  Tammie

  They must be feeling a finical pinch or something. I felt like puking when I was reading that tract. [>:(]
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  JW & SUICIDE CASES

  by bj in

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  i need all cases that you know about.

  if possible, names and dates.

  if you have newspaper articles, photos, court cases, web-reference, would be glad to learn about them.

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  Tammie

  Hey I forgot about another suicide case. But I am not sure if this one will count. I had a cat committ suicide. Yes it is true, and I am not pulling anyone's leg. Let me tell you the story and you will know. You must know first that his hearing was good. He would go out to the road in front of our home, and lay down. Normally when an automobile would come by, any cat or any animal at that would get up and move. RIGHT! But not him, the person driving the truck or car would have to get out and pick up the cat and move him. We'll we thought that was weird, so we took him into the vet. Acording to the vet he was ok. No hearing problems, or sickness. Well about a month later the next door neibor was getting in his car to leave. My cat ran over to the car when he started, and layed under the wheel. I could not get there fast enough to stop the neibor from leaving. My cat was killed. So that was that, I never thought animals would kill them selves. But I guess some times they do.
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  Pets

  by kilroy in

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  i have noticed in a few posts lately that there have been negative articles concerning being owned by pets.

  the only bound volumes i have are 1991 through 1995 and the only things i can find in the index are a few snippets in watching the world except for an article in the 1/22/93 awake which was quite possitive.. the negatives that i read are that pets take time and money away from service to our dearly beloved printing society.

  can anyone give me some quotes?

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  Tammie

  HMMM, so it is not a good idea, the Watchtower says to have pets, children, or anything that takes precious time away from them. Sounds a bit like the BORG on Star Trek. What is the point in living if you can not enjoy life. Yea, sure babies will take up time, cost money. But just think when they grow up and have babies of their own. Then ain't that where the fun begins, with grand children. Me personally I could not picture my life with out my children. I remembered this couple in a congeration that I went to. The brother was sent to prison for not going into the military back in WW2. He got married to a sister. This couple never had any children, they said we can have them in the New System. Well the wife passed away about 5 years ago. And the husband, he is in his late 70's now. He has no children, great grand children. He is just a lonly old man now.
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  What's a parent to do?

  by Tammie in

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  i don't know if i am the only one with this problem or not.

  but i have two boys ages 4 and 6. i get them up at a normal hour (the older one is in school, now).

  i even put them to bed around 8 or 9 pm, depending on what is going on for the day.

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  Tammie

  Thank you for all your replies. You all have given me a couple of ideas that I have not tried yet.
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  How to REALLY punish the Taliban

  by JanH in

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  look carefully at this hilarious flash movie featuring three known, ahem, politicians performing as a boy band: .

  http://www.madblast.com/flash_shows/taliban.cfm.

  then notice what the solution to "the taliban problem" is!!.

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  Tammie

  I like that. ha ha . Before I saw that, I was thinking the solution to "the Taliban problem". I was going to say tie them up and force them to listen to the distric convention "ALL OF IT". It would put them to sleep for one thing. he he Then it that did not work, force them to sit through a Sunday morning talk, given by the most boring brother they can find.
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  What's a parent to do?

  by Tammie in

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  i don't know if i am the only one with this problem or not.

  but i have two boys ages 4 and 6. i get them up at a normal hour (the older one is in school, now).

  i even put them to bed around 8 or 9 pm, depending on what is going on for the day.

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  Tammie

  I don't know if I am the only one with this problem or not. But I have two boys ages 4 and 6. I get them up at a normal hour (the older one is in school, now). I even put them to bed around 8 or 9 pm, depending on what is going on for the day. But my problem is it is now almost 12:30 am, and they are still wide awake, and driving me NUTS. Has any one ever had this problem, and if so how did you fix it? If you have wondered what I have tried, spankings (but I don't like to do those), and yelling (and I don't like doing that either). Now this is an every night problem. And I am looking for solutions.
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  More of you might be an apostate if...

  by Mindchild in

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  you might be a apostate if........... .

  you've ever woken up at 3am with an urgent need to use the bathroom, and on the way back thought, "i'll just check and see whos on jehovahs-witness.com".

  you've ever dreamt about disfellowshiping the governing body.. .

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  Tammie

  Hi Snoozy, good to see you over here.
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  More of you might be an apostate if...

  by Mindchild in

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  you might be a apostate if........... .

  you've ever woken up at 3am with an urgent need to use the bathroom, and on the way back thought, "i'll just check and see whos on jehovahs-witness.com".

  you've ever dreamt about disfellowshiping the governing body.. .

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  Tammie

  Hey what is wrong with dinosaurs?
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  JW & SUICIDE CASES

  by bj in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i need all cases that you know about.

  if possible, names and dates.

  if you have newspaper articles, photos, court cases, web-reference, would be glad to learn about them.

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  Tammie

  I knew of 2 different JW's that committed suicide. I can't remeber the names right off. The first one was 6 years ago this comming March. This one happen in Joplin Missouri. We was having our circuit assembly. The JW that did it waited till after his 6 year old son had his part on the program. Told his son good by, and left. Later that day his wife came home to discover her husband had hung himself in the garage. He was about 35 at the time, left behind a wife and 2 young children. Oh yes he was an elder. And the second JW to kill himself happened at Paola, Kansas, July or August 2001, on a Sunday. His wife called the police when he walked out of the house with a gun. They used a helocopter to search for him. The moment the police located him, they got there just as he was blowing his head off. But he was not dead just yet, so they rushed him off to the hospital. He died at the hospital shortly after getting there. He left behind a wife and a daughter.