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  My Dad's funeral was yesterday

  by JH in

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  2. experiences

  last sunday, my dad passed away at age 76. he knew since last april that he had cancer.

  his funeral was yesterday afternoon.

  many friends and family members attended.

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  Roski

  ....they could have used this occassion to bring me back but they didn't...Ditto.....

  Sorry for your loss - it takes time to make your way through it.

  All the best in your journey.
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  WITNESSES REACTION TO FACING DEATH......

  by Mary in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i went to see someone in my old hall last night, who's recently been diagnosed with cancer.

  she's only in her late 40s, healthy, so this was a shock when i found out about it the other night.

  apparently it's gone in to her liver and her doctor has not given her any hope of surviving it, although they're going for a second opinion, as the doctors in our area are notoriously incompetent.. even though i stopped going to the meeting 2 years ago, i thought going to see her was the human thing to do, since she studied with me when i was 15 years old and i thought it would maybe be comforting for her to talk to someone else who had had cancer.

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  Roski

  When I had to make arrangements for my son's burial I asked my parents (elder) if they would like to contribute to a family plot at the crematorium, where everyone would eventually be together. The response was an overwhelming 'no'... definitely a 'denial' reaction...and my father is 84!! Their attitude seemed to border on my 'lack of faith' that they would survive into the new system/world. I just hope they will go quickly as dealing with the recognition/resignation will be very difficult.
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  Mom Died -- and I found out from an old friend!

  by BrendaCloutier in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  ok, i'm writing this thru tears as i just found out in the last 5 minutes.

  my dad died in august, and they had been together just 1 or 2 weeks over 70 years married!

  i didn't expect her to last without him, and visa versa.. i just tried to call my sister, and no answer there.

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  Roski

  So sorry for your loss - it's a double-edged sword - the 'loss' and the behaviour of JW's....I know.
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  Did any of you ever have "overzealous"parents?

  by Ex-Jo Ho in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this may have been discussed before but did any of you have crazy strict parents...i mean did they have even more strict ideas than what the religion already had put restrictions on?.

  my stepfather had been a crazy drug/alcohol addict before dragging my family into the "truth"...then it seemed he became obsessed with the religion.

  honestly...i don't know which was worse!

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  Roski

  OP

  Apart from the "having been an alcoholic" - that is the story of my life - and except that my mum was right there too.
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  Story from Brisbane Australia

  by why144000 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the courier mail friday november 3 page 7. jail for sex crimes.

  a long-serving member of the jehovah's witness church has been jailed for sexual offences he committed against two young brothers more than 30 years ago.

  rex peterson, now 69, was brought into brisbane district court in a wheelchair for his sentencing yesterday because of multiple debilitating medical conditions.

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  Roski

  That's him

  (unless there are two people with the same name).
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  Are we all gonna die?

  by kittyeatzjdubs in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i mean, what's to stop this psycho from north korea from sending nukes over here and blowing us all away?

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  ~luv, jojo.

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  Roski

  America is but one of the players in this game, and is not the objective.

  I think the POOF theory is a little simplistic....a least from where I sit - I hope so.
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  Whats the funniest/most bizarre comment heard from the audience during a WT

  by chiddy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  whats the funniest comment heard from the audience during a wt study/book study/service meeting?.

  we had a young retarded kid in our cong , who had his hand up for every single question , usually the bro would take his comment as he would just say "jehovah" but this time he takes the mic and starts this long winded comment rounded off with"satans going to cause a civil war!

  priceless !.

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  Roski

  At the book study (can't remember which book) an older, and always very vocal brother, commented that many women - selfishly - do not breast feed their babies because they do not want to ruin their figure....wonder what pregnancy does??
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  ANY SCANDALS INVOLVING POs AND COs?

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any takers?

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  Roski

  jwfacts - of course there could be more than one of those but it sounds like the same - they had a baby when I saw them but were still DF. I've been out of the country for a while. Had a CO relative too. Family still in....you would no doubt know them.
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  ANY SCANDALS INVOLVING POs AND COs?

  by badboy in

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  any takers?

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  Roski

  ...one with an 18 year old from his congregation.....

  If that happened about 15 years ago they ended up in my old congregation. Of course there was R Cowling's dad - but that is ancient history.
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  Sting Rays Being Slaughtered and Mutilated in Irwin backlash

  by Crumpet in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/12092006/140/irwin-backlash-stingrays-slaughtered.html.

  at least 10 stingrays have been found dead and mutilated on australia's eastern coast since crocodile hunter steve irwin was killed by one of the animals last week.

  the killings have prompted fears of "revenge attacks" against the normally docile fish.

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  Roski

  For another side to this story see -

  http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,2373920400096-952,00.html

  or visit the Courier Mail website and find the article about mutilated stingrays listed under 'archives'.

  Regardless of the rights or wrongs of cutting off the tails - not everything one reads in a newspaper can be taken at face value

  (maybe this too).