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  Meet Lucy

  by chachasmum in

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  wanted you to meet lucy, she is the latest addition in my doggy family.

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  Did you name her after the real Lucy?
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  shhhhhhhh...it's a surprise

  by arrowstar in

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  whatever you do...don't tell comf!!

  comf's band broken code will be performing at joe's crab shack in plano this saturday night.

  the band starts at 7pm.

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  Cruzan - wish I could have made it. Hubby and I celebrated our belated 5th wedding anniversary (July 14th). Tomorrow marks the last day of my sabbatical, and well, spoiled rotten me must return to work Monday. I didn't do a whole lot, but I have reached the 20 lb. mark in my weight loss trek!
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  Why don't they preach on TV or Radio?

  by JH in

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  we all know that witnesses go door to door in order to give bible studies.

  but since their message is so important to them, why don't they use all the available methods in order to reach out to the most people possible.

  we live in an era of telecommunications, wireless phones, internet, and so on.

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  How about the days of old when the colporteurs would go door-to-door, ranch-to-ranch, farm-to-farm carrying that record player (perhaps another term - phonograph?) and play Judge Rutherford's diatribes against everything. I've heard some of those, SCARY!
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  C.T. Russell's grave vandalized

  by RR in

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  i attended a week long [six day] bible student convention in johnstown, pa, just outside of pittsburgh, there was a sister from romania who wanted to visit pastor russell's grave, so we drove the 2 hours up there, the last time i was there was in 1999.

  well, apparently russell'sgrave was vandalized, on the front and back of the tombstone there are these photos of russell embedded into the granite, someone decided to keep a momento and ripped them off, so there's just a hole where the pictures were.

  no respect for the dead, oh well.

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  I vote for the drunk teenager theory. You can always blame teenagers for everything!
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  Eight Days Vacation per Year

  by Satanus in

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  how much vacation do you get per yr?

  according to this article, hard working americans get 8 days off.vacations are being downsized by the same forces that brought us soaring work weeks: labor cutbacks, a sense of false urgency created by tech tools, fear and, most of all, guilt.

  managers use the climate of job insecurity to stall, cancel and abbreviate paid leave, while piling on guilt.

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  I work at a college, so my time off is less than the faculty but more than most people.

  3 weeks at Christmas (include Christmas and New Years)

  Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, July 4, Labor Day, Memorial Day, MLK Day

  1 week spring break (always in March)

  The weeks at Christmas and Spring Break are not counted against my accumulated vacation.

  I have been at my job almost 9 years, so I accumulate 8 hours per month, or 12 vacation days per year. We can roll any leftover only to the next year, then we have to take it by summer's end.

  I earn 1 day of sick leave each month. I can use 3 sick days each year as personal leave.

  Bereavement leave - up to 3 days for each family member (Unfortunately, I have had to use this form of leave twice in the last two years)
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  JW funeral! Help!

  by smurfette in

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  my grandma died yesterday.

  i love her very much and miss her terribly.

  she joined the jw's late in life after years of my mom coaxing her to join.

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  Smurfette,

  Perhaps I need to clarify.. My grandmother spent the last 2 years of her life in the care of her JW daughter and JW elder son-in-law (my parents.) My grandmother had a brother who became a JW and she had respect for them because her brother was a real creep before then and he turned his life around. So she had respect for the JW's in that sense. She asked her son-in-law to perform the eulogy. It was held in the chapel of the funeral home. But that dumb JW song "Life w/o end at last" was played at the beginning and end. Practically the whole time was spent defending the JW theology and going back and forth from Scripture to Scripture. My parents did a wonderful job caring for her and I know grandmother is at peace and not having to fight to breathe anymore. But that rambling bunch of words...I had a cousin tell me she thought she'd been abducted by aliens!
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  JW funeral! Help!

  by smurfette in

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  my grandma died yesterday.

  i love her very much and miss her terribly.

  she joined the jw's late in life after years of my mom coaxing her to join.

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  Sorry for the death of your grandmother. My grandmother died in May at age 87. I have spoken of the frustrations of my non JW grandmother having a JW funeral in previous threads. I miss my grandmother very much. Listening and sitting thru my grandmother's JW funeral was sort of like experiencing Chinese water torture except the water torture was much more enjoyable.

  Remember the good times with your grandmother. You will have wonderful eternal memories of her and remember her unconditional love. I did, that's the only thing that got me through the grief and bereavement. I know she wouldn't me to exhaust myself in grief and it's gets easier through the passage of time. I still feel her love and she's in my heart forever.

  I miss you Mima!
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  good guy or shmuck?

  by DFWnonJW in

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  have you ever done a good deed for a stranger and then after, just felt odd about it for some reason?.

  today i got off work a few minutes early and went to pay a bill then go to the grocery store.

  but, as i was on my way to the store, there was an older man standing under a tree trying to catch my attention by waving a rolled up bill(s) and motioning for me to roll down my window.

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  I think one has to use their intuition. Examples:

  Recently I was at a pay at the pump and a guy steps out of his car and starts acting crazy. He says "I need gas money, and pulls out some money out of his pocket (just change.) "That's all I've got." He scared the crap out of me. He was with another woman. I looked at him, and said "I pay via pay at the pump." I then started to go back to pumping gas when he started screaming at everyone around him. There were other people around and I quickly put my cap back on my car and took off. This guy didn't show a weapon. I personally think he was on drugs or something. I will NEVER, NEVER give a stranger money in that sense. I have learned not to let my car run out of gas, as this part of town is really seedy. I only fill my car up near home and always lock my purse in my car. The only thing I have is my keys and my gas credit card.

  About 10 years ago I was at a mall in Fort Worth and 2 guys came up to me and asked me to help me with their "baby" as their car was not working and it was too hot for the infant. I stepped away and told them I would get security to help them. I then went in to the mall and told the police what happened. The guys were gone by then but later they caught 2 guys resembling them shoplifting in the mall. The guys had these huge shopping bags taped with some sort of tape so they could bypass the metal detectors in the store. The police told me later they were accosting women in the parking lot in an attempt to rob them.

  If an elderly needed help, most likely I would help them. It depends on the situation. Elderly people really need to be cautious though, they get scammed out of their money by people telling them they have a winning lottery ticket and they can't cash it because they're illegal aliens. They want the old person to cash it for them, and they promise them a cut of the winnings. Then some "lawyer" comes up and says he can handle it, but the elderly person must put up some "good faith" money, usually thousands of dollars. Of course it's all a scam. Most crimes like this go unreported because the elderly person is too ashamed to admit being duped.
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  Any funny responses on this one?

  by William Penwell in

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  hey i just picked up my phone messages and there was a message from a dub.

  it said; "hello how are you today?

  i was just calling with a bible message.

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  This must be the script they use in telephone witnessing.

  I would say "for my parents to get the hell out of an abusive and cultic organization and not be so damn judgmental about their child."
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  What is the best thing and worst thing about being a JW?

  by micheal in

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  i would say the best thing is when one has just started studying and coming to meetings for the first time they are treated like gold.

  but things really start to detiroriate quickly from there.

  the worst thing is the control.

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  Best thing "unconditional love" at the Kingdom Hall in the beginning - only to learn you're being love bombed, which is common among the cults.

  Another good thing - not having to buy Christmas presents for my relatives. Worst thing, most of those relatives are now gone.