Julia Orwell

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  Doc says it looks like my cancer is gone! How goes the health of y' all?

  by humbled in

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  i am pleased to announce that i get to retain my bottom intact for the foreseeable future.. .

  milestone check-up just done.

  i had a stage 3, 4t anal canal cancer for which i underwent chemo and radiation this past spring.

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  YAY!!!!! You beat cancer!!! Well done!!!!!!
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  IS there anything one moment or experience that still haunts you?

  by confusedandalone in

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  2. friends

  last night me and the wife were talking about things that happened to each of us while in the borg that we wished we could have reacted differently... i mean really put someone in thier place for the foolish thing they said or the deplorable action that enacted upon you.

  my wife literally almost came to tears relating something that i was not aware... i wanted to end up going back to the hall for a monthy or so just too handle it.. .

  do you have anything you would like to share to help us remove our own thoughts from our minds lol.

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  I was always blunt, but knowing what I know now, there are certain people I would tell are self-righteous pharisaic twats rather than just 'turning the other cheek.' Most JWs I knew were pretty decent though. There were a couple I actually did get shirty with, and knowing what I know now, I would have gone from shirty to giving a right ticking off.
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  What are you doing on Christmas day?

  by Jen1 in

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  any one out there doing field service?

  i have not gone out on that day in years.

  and have no intention of ever doing that again.

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  Probably the same as always: staying home and vegging out.
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  Please don't take the mick....but I got disfellowshipped for kneeing an elder in the nads

  by outinthemeadows in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  an elder in my congregation got on my nerves because he kept putting his arm around me and i'd asked him to stop.

  a few weeks later he did the same thing again so i used my knee against his micro-penis.

  a judicial committee was formed even though i was being sexually harrassed by this octapus of an elder.

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  Whoa that's heavy. Talk about abuse of power. What do your family think? Do they shun you?
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  The 1914 generation is still going strong 100 years later - 2014 study article.

  by THE GLADIATOR in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  january 2014 watchtower study article.

  let your kingdom comebut when?.

  this generation will not pass away.

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  They're just gonna keep twisting and changing that scripture to suit as time goes on. People do gradually wake up, and things like this get thinking JWs going, "WTF?" The sillier ones will be like, "OMG, the second lot of anointed are getting old now, the end must be sooooo close!" Just like when the 1914 group started dying off they were like, "OMG the number of anointed is smaller and smaller each year, OMG the end must be sooooooo close!"

  Or if another change happens, "OMG, nu lite, the end must be soooo close!"
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  The packages will arrive today... What do you think will happen?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i have decided that ignoring my niece and nephew during the holidays, is the most unloving thing i could possibly do.

  they stopped celebrating christmas and birthdays, after my sister began studying with jw's about 6-7 years ago.

  we did not celebrate either, until 3 years ago, when my son was 2 and my daughter was 4, and we'd figured out that the jw's are wrong about this decision.

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  Yeah they'll tell the kids satan's trying to buy them with gifts or something, but I'm surprised your sister hasn't asked you to not send gifts. If you want to avoid offending them and show that you respect their beliefs, (even though they have no respect for anyone else's) just send them stuff a few weeks earlier. But JW parents coat their kids in cotton wool to protect them from 'the world' so who knows to what extremes they'll go. Shame you can't visit the kids and take them to an amusement park for a day. That would mean so much to them.
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  Revelation, It's Grand Climax at Hand

  by Cold Steel in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  it's a rather large red book.. if i wanted to purchase one from a pioneer, how much would it cost?.

  i'm reading a borrowed copy now.. thanks!.

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  Heck had I known you wanted one, I would have kept mine and sent it to you. You should be able to get one free, but they don't give them out to non-Jws that much. Just say you're really really interested in the book of Revelation and you've already studied with JWs in another town or something next time JWs come around. Still, I think it will be hard to actually get one. You could rock up at a KH in your suit and that and say you're visiting from interstate and need a Rev book for some reason, ie masquerade as a JW at the hall before the meeting starts and go up to the literature counter.
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  Do you frown upon tattoos?

  by confusedandalone in

  1. social
  2. physical

  i am very interested in hearing from people who really think that people with tattoos are somehow weird or cagey individuals.

  i would just like to get your outlook on this matter.

  today i was in a grocery store and i sawe this guy with his two kids and his wife shopping.

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  They're so mainstream where I live that most people under about 30 and heaps over 30 have them. I certainly don't frown upon them. I wonder though, if what they thought was cool at 18 will still be cool to them at 40, but laser tattoo removal is a growing industry around here too. We also have a lot of Maoris, Samoans and other Pacific Islanders here, and they have tattoos for cultural reasons. They look very beautiful.

  As for employment, where I currently work no tats are allowed to be visible, but blue-collar industries (and blue collar workers are the majority of tat wearers, along with Islanders) don't care if you have sleeve tats and that. A lot of women get tats on their thighs and backs, which can be easily covered up with work clothes.

  We have a saying here which goes, "Think before you ink," and I think it's appropriate as you are making a lifelong commitment by putting something permanently on your skin. Some people get their kids' names and that tattoed on them, which is never something you would want burned off though. Some tattoos are just stupid, and like I said, what's cool to you at 18 or 20 might not be so cool when you're 40 or 50...
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  Instructions To Elders Re: Pursuing Higher Education

  by baldeagle in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  underlining is mine.. march 6, 2012 letter.

  pursue divine education:some of our brothers are pursuing higher education, feeling that they can acquire a measure of financial security.

  as you are aware, the educational system varies from country to country.

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  It's threatening to the dummies. They are threatened by people with education. The ones most threatened by the fact I was studying and then had a degree were the ones with the least education: the ones who dropped out in year 9 (one year before Australia's first school exit point). We had an elder in one cong I was in, an elder friend of mine who has his MBA and his wife, also a pioneer with him, was doing her degree in accounting. He didn't mind two straws if someone wanted to go to uni because he was educated himself and saw the benefits of it. He and his wife being able to earn $70- $100 an hour meant they could pioneer in comfort without leaching off others. He certainly wasn't going to be threatened by someone going to uni. It was always the ones who'd never finished high school who were most vocal about education.

  Funnily enough, it was also those ones who bleated the most about the evils of the university environment. I would calmly say, "Oh, which university did you go to?" and they would always say, "Um, I've never been..." which made my point exactly. However the ones who'd been never ran it down and went on about how evil it was.
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  Sighhhhhhhh, the Draw Close to Jehovah book again for the Congregation Bible Study.

  by Stand for Pure Worship in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  check out this gem from the dec 2013 km which explains why it's good to over this book a second go round.. "congregations previously considered this book during 2004 and 2005. however,for many of the approximately two million publishers who have come into the truth since then,this will be the first time that jehovahs endearing qualities have been discussed in detail.for those who studied the book before, the review will help them to deepen their appreciation forjehovahs attributes.ps.119:14".

  i gotta kick out of this because i can only think of maybe two or three new ones in our congregation who weren't present when this book was first studied.

  at the same time, going over jehovah's qualities isn't something new.

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  They couldn't do the Revelation book again without practically rewriting it because's riddled with patches of old light. I guess they'll just keep rehashing the same old garbage again and again. My money is on doing Isaiah again. Even when I was a JW I hated that book. Told no one of course. Every bloody week it was the same: Jews are bad. Jehovah warns Jews. Jehovah punishes Jews. Jehovah frees Jews. Be obedient. Bleh!