Beach witnessing...how to really stand out in a crowd! LOL Yep, we spent afternoons harrassing beachgoers, usually with tracts/pamphlets. We dressed as per usual witnessing standards so we really looked a treat on a warm summer day.
outbackaussie
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A year in the life of a JW - February highlights
by outbackaussie inwitnessing for 6 hours, worked with aafke in morning then calls.
then nh in davistown with stuart and dannie.
stuart made me sit in the front so e didn't have to sit next to me.
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A year in the life of a JW - February highlights
by outbackaussie inwitnessing for 6 hours, worked with aafke in morning then calls.
then nh in davistown with stuart and dannie.
stuart made me sit in the front so e didn't have to sit next to me.
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outbackaussie
February 3
Witnessing for 6 hours, worked with Aafke in morning then calls. Then NH in Davistown with Stuart and Dannie. Stuart made me sit in the front so e didn't have to sit next to me. He must really hate me. I wish I was as good as Sophia.
February 4
Going beach witnessing with Darryl.
February 6
Circuit Assembly. 18 baptised. Janet said that she wanted to talk to mum about me and that she'd been to the elders about it. I told Stuart and he thinks Jehovah may be testing me to see how much I want to pioneer.
February 22
Turn 16. Lois came around, said Graham knows where we live. (He is my ex-stepfather).
Februay 25
Auxillary form accepted, to start in March.
Field Service StatsHours 58.5
Mags 10
Return visits 6This month contains the first hints of my downfall, I skipped witnessing to hang out with an older inactive girl, who became a close friend. We start to spend alot of time together. The infamous Stuart, my crush, is her older brother. She starts to feature heavily in the coming months.
My ex-stepfather was sexually abusive to my half-brothers, and luckily(??) for them my mum went straight to the ppolice. He was arrested and charged. His penalty? A 3 yr good behaviour bond with the condition not to approach a male under 18...excluding his children. Hello??!!! They were the ones he abused! So we were in hiding from him. Turned out he had tracked us down. But nothing came of it, fortunately.
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Youngest df or da?
by avishai in.
what is the youngest you've known someone to be da'd or df'd, and what for?
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outbackaussie
I was baptised at 15yr8mo and DF at 17yr5mo. For disobedience/unclean thoughts. We had a couple of girls in my cong get DA at 15/16 for similar stuff. If I recall correctly one girl was DA for "alleging" an elder had sexually abused her. She had apparently "led him on". What a load of......
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Happy thanksgiving and happy bday to me!
by hamptonite21 inim 28 on turkey day.
im thankful i have a lot of years left without the dubs.
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outbackaussie
Happy happy day to you :) Hope you have lots of fun and breasts and stuffing....in the TURKEY!!!!!
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Whining....
by Vivamus inwho do you whine to?
i use my mum to tell all my problems to.
i'll phone her, write her, haunt her down if i want to get anything of my chest.
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outbackaussie
I have a fantastically supportive and attentive hubby who is always ready for a D&M on whatever may be troubling me. I think I would go mad if I didn't have that outlet...for specifically girly stuff I still talk to mum or my SIL.
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The Big Dry - Report #3
by ozziepost inthe heat of the fast-approaching summer is with us now "downunder", worsening the already dire drought.
now the fires have started in the past few weeks and the heat (41 degrees celsius in sydney) of the past couple of days has made the eastern states a tinder-box.
rain is sorely needed and those accustomed to prayer have been praying for rain.
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outbackaussie
Aww, c'mon now Stephanus...don't be like that! 'Tis a welcome relief to be a "small fish" in the big pond of the world. Otherwise we'd have to be doing all that huffing and puffing that GWB is currently doing over Iraq. Being unimportant has its positives you know
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The Big Dry - Report #3
by ozziepost inthe heat of the fast-approaching summer is with us now "downunder", worsening the already dire drought.
now the fires have started in the past few weeks and the heat (41 degrees celsius in sydney) of the past couple of days has made the eastern states a tinder-box.
rain is sorely needed and those accustomed to prayer have been praying for rain.
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outbackaussie
:( This drought is just miserable, and now the bushfire season is upon us. Methinks this shall be one long, stinking hot, dusty, smoky summer.
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What was the worst outfit you wore?
by outbackaussie inremember going to conventions during the mid 80's?
sisters all dolled up in lolly-wrapper dresses of sparly taffeta with balloon sleeves and brothers strutting about with shiny grey siuts with narrow lapels and black leather ties?
ooooh what a look that was!
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outbackaussie
Remember going to conventions during the mid 80's? Sisters all dolled up in lolly-wrapper dresses of sparly taffeta with balloon sleeves and brothers strutting about with shiny grey siuts with narrow lapels and black leather ties? OOOOH what a look that was!
I had a shocking little number, that was a white full-skirted to just above the knee taffeta creation that rustled with every movement. It has bright multi-coloured splotches on it. It was hideous in hindsight, but I was popular as it was rather plunging in the front ;)
Who has some shockers to report??
Edited by - outbackaussie on 26 November 2002 7:13:1
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Why be so nice to religion?
by IronGland init seems to me that in the u.s. most anything religious is always considered a good thing.
nearly all media go out of their way for religious organizations in ways they rarely would for anything else.
for all the religion bashing whining that the christians do in this country, i rarely see anything in public that bashes religion any more than anything or anyone else.
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outbackaussie
Iron, I don't know if it is a USA thing or specifically a post-9/11 thing...but with all the sensitivity about muslims and wars etc...it seems that on MB's especially (or at least the couple I visit apart from this one) it is strictly a "no go zone" to talk about religion. It is like everyone is paranoid about religion and offending someone (I say work it out as you go, but that doesn't seem to be how it gets done) and so noone talks about god/religion/politics.
I would be cautious in paying "blind" respect to any organisation, religious or other, trust and respect in my book, has to be earned.
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My JW story
by Aztec ini don't think any of this is really all that unusual so i'm sorry if you find it dull.
i was raised in the jw cult from birth, a third generation member to boot.
my family was full of elders, ministerial servants and overseers of all sorts.
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outbackaussie
{hugs} Aztec, thank you for sharing your experience. It was not boring or dull, but reveals you to be a strong and loving woman.