Damn! I thought the WTS was slowly going mainstream.....but this is re-dinkulus!
TR
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the overseer gave me a hand to decorate the hall last night edited by - jh on 5 december 2002 8:34:30.
Damn! I thought the WTS was slowly going mainstream.....but this is re-dinkulus!
TR
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so this morning at around 5am, my girlfriend and i were driving in north fresno and we noticed that there are two huge christmastree like trees in front of the hall, outside of the oh-so-welcoming gates... and so i got to thinking... and... hmm.... should i???
in the words of ts eliot, "do i dare disturb the universe?".
You have my blessing.
TR
dear friends,.
my wife & i have some days ago talked to our maid, she had been studying the bible with a pioneer for almost a year & was beeing pressured into baptism.
we informed her all about the wt-un scandal & other things... she has just cancelled her study.
any college/university students here?
where do you go, what are you taking, and hows your experience so far?
don't be shy!
My daughter goes to Gonzaga U. She just changed her major to business. She's not a party girl like Viv. She does her school work and starts a new job at a florist today.
TR
what should i do with my books .
we are in the process of buying another house and are on the move again.
packing stuff up, chucking it out, selling the surplus you know the story.
I donated all my WT books to Freeminds.org. Actually, there were several old books that I wish I would have kept. But oh well, I donated them to a good cause, and I have a '99 WT CD. If all you got is magazines, I'd use 'em to start fires.
TR
i'm relatively new here and this site has helped me a lot.
however, i think i'm going to need more help... i was dfed back in july just after my 18th birthday; i just couldn't take it any more.
things have been very hard for me to say the least.
Well, hey, sorry you're dumb enough to get a 17 year old TEENAGER pregnant. You gotta deal with it. My best advice would be for her to carry the baby to term and put it up for adoption to a decent 2 parent family. Either that, or make sure you support that kid to the best of your ability. Option #1 is better, though.
Sorry dude.
TR
my friend and i went to rent a movie from blockbuster video and they charged us a late fee for a movie i rented 3 months ago.
i have rented dozens of movies since then and they never said anything and i am positive i got it back on time.
this has happeded before.. soooo...to make a long story short....i went home and got on line and did a search on blockbuster....nothing but locations and stuff on new releases...blah blah blah...so i started to think ...hmmm maybe they just made a mistake with me...thats cool.. on a whim i typed in blockbuster ripoff and poof!!
Well, I guess it's a good thing that I've never used Blockbuster! I've heard of Netflix. Actually, sounds like a deal, but ya have to wait a few days to get your movies, and you don't get another until you send one back. But hey, for 20 bucks, might be worth it.
TR
well actually it wasnt a meeting, it was my grandma's funeral but it may as well been the 'special talk' for the year with all the bullshit they were spewing.. the 'brother' giving the 'eulogy' (haha..) was an elder from my former congregation, my parents current congregation and to my knowledge (i'm 99% sure) has never met or seen my grandmother before that day.
neither had any of the other jw's that were there 'supporting' my family...well the jw family anyway, the rest of us dont need support since we are df'd.. i hadnt been to a meeting for almost 2 years now and i cant tell you how hard it was sitting through the twisting of scriptures and arrogance know it all attitude coming from the speaker.
my bf and i just looked at each other in disgust while scripture after scripture was read to prove the dead are just dead and their soul is dead and all we have to do is wait till the ressurection if we want to see them again.
Hi Flower,
So sorry about your grandma. She sounds a lot like my f-i-l. Likes the slots. LOL! Very much the characters.
TR
things i saw as a jw:.
* the "f" word spelled out on the information board in the back of the hall.
the person used the tacks used for posting letters and talks and spelled out the expletive.
This stuff is so retarded that it HAS to be true. LOL!
My contribution:
An elder that said from the platform: "Bigfoot is a leftover race of Nephilim."
The "brother" that married his own brother's wife.(all three were 'hovahs in good standing at the time) Gunshots were fired. No deaths, though.
The "sister" that ran from the meeting screaming, "this is a buncha shit!"
The "sister" that ran sreaming from the stage during her TMS part; "I can't do this!"
An elder said this from the platform; "We party with JW's only."
Young "brother" who greets me for the first time at the hall; "Let's go to a Motley Crue concert!"
Two elders sparring back and forth during the "special needs" part of the TMS:
Elder A: We need contributions for a hall renovation with new seats.
Elder B: Why? These seats work just fine.
Elder A: Well, why don't we remove these seats and put in wooden benches?(heavy sarcasm)
Elder B: Because we're in the 20th century!
Elder A: let's get rid of our cars and get horses and buggies.(heavy sarcasm)
and on and on I swear for about 20 minutes.
TR
well, it is 32 minutes into my second year of posting here.
when i came here, i knew nothing of h2o, kent's place or freeminds site, though i did get his newsletter.
when i came here, i certainly did know the jw experience.
Larc,
Glad you're here! Keep it up!
TR