Gypsy Sam

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  How many in the cong visited you when you started fading

  by joe134cd in

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  i'm just curious speaking from a person who has stopped going to meetings.

  i have heard reports from inactive ones (or from ones who the elders suspect of going to the dark side) of having so many visits from elders (cong members) that it got to the point of harassment.

  surprisingly i have to say from personal experience and from numerous others that i have spoken to that the exact opposite has been the case.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Zero and quite relieved about it :)
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  31 years young tomorrow, B Day...four years of freedom from the towers...

  by Joliette in

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  2. friends

  joined this website in july 2010 and havent looked back...so happy to be watchtower free!!!!

  (i was born feb 16th 1983).. i'll be 31 years old tomorrow and i feel indifferent about it.

  as usually my mom said your gonna be 31 but she didnt say happy birthday.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Happy Birthday!
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  Does seeing a flood make you think of gods promise not destroy the earth again by rain, or something else?

  by UsuaIusern@me in

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  please tell.

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  Gypsy Sam

  no. I saw a rainbow January 1st this year and realized it has now become my reminder to keep saving for retirement.
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  At what point did you destroy your Blood card?

  by BU2B in

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  2. friends

  i know for me it was soon after lurking here for awhile and reading some threads on the issue.

  i remenber when i tore it into little tiny pieces.

  it felt so liberating..

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  Gypsy Sam

  It wasn't a conscious decision, but after the blood fractions article, I think they changed the wording on the card and I didn't sign a new one.
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  Simon, I love the new CAPTCHA

  by pixel in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  simon,.

  just for the records, good job with the captcha lately.

  numbers and cute texts like today's make it easy to log-in!.

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  Gypsy Sam

  I thought it was special...for valentines, lol.
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  Dub Glossary

  by Farkel in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  many of you have already seen this, but there are also many new ones posting and lurking.

  this is a little handy reference to help you understand dub-speak.

  i've updated it an added a number of new terms and expressions.. ----------------------.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Priceless.
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  JW uncle in hospital

  by finally awake in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i just found out that my uncle, who is a staunch jw elder, has an aortic aneurism and is in critical condition.

  he's in his late 70s and he probably won't survive.

  he lives several hundred miles away, so i don't see myself making the trip for his funeral..

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  Gypsy Sam

  I'm sorry to read of how this was handled. Healing thoughts are with your this time.
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  The Memorial campaign: What question from a householder would have made you think?

  by Faithful Witness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know that soon, the jws in our area will be out in full force, on their hit and run campaign with invitations to the memorial.

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  did you ever encounter a householder during this campaign, that made you stop and think about what you were doing?

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  Gypsy Sam

  I honestly think if one person had mentioned the change with blood fractions being allowed and said something to the effect how pleased that made them that now we'd be giving back to the community by also donating blood, that would have started me questioning. Out of any comments I've made to active JW's, this gets them thinking the most.
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  Jason Cobb's new podcast explaining Menlo Park scandal

  by Rufus T. Firefly in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  https://soundcloud.com/jtv-16/jtv-podcast-ep1.

  this podcast is very interesting, especially the latter half.

  in a nutshell, the scheme is this: after determining that a complete kingdom hall remodel will cost the congregation $100,000.00, the regional building committee arbitrarily inflates the estimate to $250,000.00, fleecing the congregation and misappropriating the additional funds for other purposes.

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  Gypsy Sam

  Has anyone from here reached out to him? Apologies if I missed that somewhere in previous posts.
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  Jehovah Witness Yahoo answers Nazi's at it again

  by Watchtower-Free in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had the question below reported by jws and removed for "misuse of question format" .. .

  it received a bunch of outraged reponses from people critical of the jws and i'm sure shocked.

  a few jws also .. .

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  Gypsy Sam

  Wow! I've never seen this quote! Great find, well, disturbing actually, but this is a keeper.