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  Australia: Jehovah’s Witnesses to join redress scheme for child sexual abuse survivors

  by yalbmert99 in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  australia: jehovah’s witnesses to join redress scheme for child sexual abuse survivors.

  https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/03/03/jehovahs-witnesses-redress-scheme/.

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  Wasn't there some testimony during the Royal Commission to the effect of:

  'We really wish you would make it (reporting) mandatory. It would make it easier on us.'

  Looks like Australia took them at their word. Mandatory it shall be.
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  Rotator Cuff Surgery: Anybody Have Experience?

  by GrreatTeacher in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  my husband is going in on tuesday to have surgery to repair a badly torn rotator cuff on his right shoulder.

  he is right handed.. he's 51 and is great about exercising and staying in shape.

  however, while doing push ups, his shoulder just snapped.

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  My husband is going in on Tuesday to have surgery to repair a badly torn rotator cuff on his right shoulder. He is right handed.

  He's 51 and is great about exercising and staying in shape. However, while doing push ups, his shoulder just snapped. He knew immediately something was wrong.

  The doctor requested an MRI and the news was bad. Do not pass go. Do not attempt physical therapy. Go directly to a surgeon.

  He was fortunate to find a highly recommended hand surgeon who does rotator cuffs. A little bit of good luck later and he is going for surgery at an outpatient surgery center in Annapolis, Maryland this coming Tuesday.

  Does anyone here happen to have any experience with this and any advice?

  He's got an ice chiller apparatus for his shoulder. He's been told he'll be in a sling for 6 weeks and he's not to move his arm or he will do unfixable damage.

  I'm just worried because he's an active, stay busy all the time guy, and I'm afraid he's going to drive me crazy.

  He can go to physical therapy after 6 weeks and hopefully back to work by 3 months. He does a physical job.

  Fortunately we have excellent health insurance, but for the first time we are becoming acquainted with our Out of Pocket Maximum and will be paying $1500 to the surgery center to play. Then, surgeon fees and anesthesioligist fees. The OPM is $2200 for the year, so if I break his other arm out of frustration, that'll be covered 100%!
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  I turned 38 Feb 16th!

  by Joliette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i can't believe it.

  it doesnt even seem real.

  my mother told me that the world would gone by the time i was 25. .

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  Joliette, I'm a February baby too. Except I'm heading for 50!

  Don't spend the last years of your 30s worrying about hitting 40.

  Didn't the JWs use to say something like: "Sufficient for each decade is its own badness?"

  Wait, maybe I remembered that wrong . . .

  Happy Birthday!
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  Is there a renewed iemphasis on the "go bag" in the past mont or so?

  by nonjwspouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my soon to be ex moved out over a year ago.

  he left most of his things here ( i guess he thinks of my house as his personal storage unit).

  one thing he left was his survival backpack, i assume his "go bag".

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  Makes me suspicious there was money in it. Or something else "precious." How hard is it to get a new one?

  I absolutely cannot stand having things underfoot. My mom and dad have it literally right next to the door, but it looks a little deflated. I don't know what they have in there, but it apparently doesn't take up much space. It's just that it's right there to trip over every time you go in or out of the door. One of these days it's going to get kicked!
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  Since Myself and our sons left the JW cult, My wife has been M.I.A has a mom and wife

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i would like to get some feed back from pomo's who's spouse is still pimi.

  since myself and our son's left the jw cult.

  my wife has been m.i.a has a mom and a wife.

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  She became worse when her mom died because they are holding her hostage.

  Your wife thinks she needs to "remain faithful" in order to see her mother again.
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  3 alarm fire

  by pontoon in

  1. social
  2. current

  3 alarm fire called at watchtower farms about 2.5 hours ago.

  no details yet..

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  GrreatTeacher

  Anybody know whether they were volunteer or paid firefighters?

  If volunteer, I wonder if WT will give a big donation?

  Fundraising can be difficult for volunteer companies.
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  Saving Money While Stuck At Home

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so you're stuck at home, you may be worried about your income, welcome to the world of filling your stuck-in-the-house time with saving some money!.

  here in canada, our energy costs are going up because we have a carbon tax.

  today, in the middle of the crisis, trudeau is raising it by 50%, probably as some perverse "thank you" to all the truckers delivering vital goods.

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  Our house is entirely electric, no gas or oil, so the electric bill can get expensive.

  We learned that one of the biggest electric hogs in the house was the water heater. So, we put it on a timer. We only have it on in the evenings from 5 to 11. That's the time of heaviest water usage with cooking, laundry, showers all happening during that time.

  And believe it or not, it keeps the water in the tank hot from 11pm until 5pm the next day. So it's only on for a quarter of the day. It still gives you enough hot water for one load of laundry or a shower without depleting the supply.

  If I'm home doing lots of laundry and running the dishwasher at an earlier time, I just manually override it and turn it on.

  Also, we set the temperature down at 120°F. It will still give you a hot enough shower, but it's below the threshold for scalding burns. Important when you have small children.
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  My letter of disassociation, what do you think?

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  dear brothers, july 27, 2020. in 1919, the president of the watchtower society made a bold prediction, “millions now living will never die”.

  that quotation was constantly repeated by the organization till the year 2000 when they realized that everyone in attendance at that assembly, who listened to j.r. rutherford repeat those words, are dead.. that teaching has guided my life.

  statements were repeatedly made at assemblies, conventions and in print that there was no career in “this system of things” so you don’t need a job with benefits or retirement, your fulltime job is to “preach the good news”!

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  Oh, that was just for getting your face known and your name out there. Next time they'll remember you, and be more likely to vote for you.

  My husband ran for a small office and did a lot of campaigning during local civic parades. Firemen's parades, homecoming parades , holiday parades. He walked the parade route giving out tchotchkes like pencils with his name on them. (He was running for school board.)

  Might be a good way to advertise your business. Put your name and "for town council" on an inexpensive item like a pen, ruler, pointer for electronic screens, a few plastic coffee cups, paper fans etc. And then your personal business ad on the flip side. We also throw candy in parades around here.
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  Saving Money While Stuck At Home

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so you're stuck at home, you may be worried about your income, welcome to the world of filling your stuck-in-the-house time with saving some money!.

  here in canada, our energy costs are going up because we have a carbon tax.

  today, in the middle of the crisis, trudeau is raising it by 50%, probably as some perverse "thank you" to all the truckers delivering vital goods.

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  It makes me laugh when you guys talk about how wasteful it is buying Starbucks because I totally agree, making your own and putting it in a to go cup makes so much more sense monetarily, but also it reminds me of when I was dating my husband.

  We would be out riding around, and he would fill up the tank and go in and buy a soda which I thought was outrageous! Who does that? You bring your own drinks from home. You pack your own lunch for work. What an absolute waste of $2! My God, if you do that everytime you're out and about, you could waste $20 a month! What kind of a monstrous profligate spender are you?

  And then, he paid the bonus $1 on top of the fill up to buy a token for the, wait for it.....drive thru car wash!! What in the actual...? Who does that? You wash your car at home use the vacuum there, too! I had only a few times used a public car wash, and it was the do it yourself kind where you put the quarters in and you'd better get finished before the water ran out and there was no dryer!

  I had never been in such a thing. Wait! You can stay in the car? It drags the car along the platform? It soaps and washes? And then dries? And spits you out the other end? I was absolutely dumbfounded. And also a little enchanted. I was a very cheap date!

  30 years later and we still have very different money styles, but I won on the packing of lunches. We both still pack lunches, drinks and coffee every day for work. If I ever get a Coke from the machine it's because I'm very stressed or overheated and dehydrated, but it's very rare and it still pings my heart to hear those three quarters clink in the machine!
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  Can we stick to topics that we came that we came to this forum in the first place?

  by James Jack in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i don’t care about politics, books you are reading, movies and tv programs you’re watching, etc..

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  GrreatTeacher

  James Jack, I salute you, sir.

  No one gets out unscathed. No one.

  GT