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Witness owns Flower Shop-advertises-sells birthday-holiday arrangements
by Thechickennest in
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i have been away from the organization long enough not to know how this family is allowed to sell and profit from selling birthday and holiday gifts.

as far as i am aware they are active jw's.

they do a lot of advertising on the internet specifically for all the holidays and birthdays that jw's are not supposed to be involved in to the best of my knowledge.
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LDS-New leader invites all former members to return to the fold.
by Thechickennest in
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i read on aol today that the morman church is inviting former members to return to the church.

food for thought....would former jehovah's witnesses return to the organization if the invintation would be extended from the society?

would you go back if being disfellowshipped or disassociated was not an issue any longer?
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Have you expanded your entertainment choices post witness?
by Thechickennest in
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we live in a small ranching community in western south dakota where chicken roping on saturday nights at the local redneck steakhouse tavern is the feature entertainment in town!

if we drive about 80 miles north we have more choices.

without 5 meetings, door to door, assemblies, study, study, study, etc, etc, that kind of frees up quite a bit of time.
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Have you purchased your Girl Scout cookies?
by Thechickennest in
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even when i was active with the cult i always bought the forbidden cookies....my mother-in-law a lifer in the borg, always forbid my wife to even take a bite of one, let alone purchase them!

my wife works in a small doctors office everyday with two witness gals.

gets real dicey at times with my wife being dissassociated.
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Shunning via US Postal Service
by Thechickennest in
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in today's mail came a envelope from ms. b[edit] c[edit] of rawlins, wyoming.

betty and her family were our longtime associates while were in the cult of jehovah's witnesses.

enclosed were photographs of my wife, daughter, myself and my wife's sister.
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What kind of Curcuit Overseers visited your congregation?
by Thechickennest in
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thinking about the co's i have encountered over the years.....it went something like this:.

) brother sleeparound: took up with a young pioneer sister on a visit to the congregation.

his wife did not approve..
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Coming Full Circle-Conducted full Methodist Sunday Service yesterday.....
by Thechickennest in
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two years ago my wife i resigned from the wt.

my wife was raised by the borg.

i was a baptized and confirmed methodist until i was 18 and assimulated by the borg.
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Did you get a better job and/or obtain higher education after leaving JW's?
by Thechickennest in
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Congregation Book Studies in a brothers home-What weirdness did you endure?
by Thechickennest in
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when i was new witness in the late 70's i was assigned to young couples new home.

we were required to park our shoes inside the back door and proceed in our socks to the front room...fine.

the other piece to this was the couple hosting study had a big male blood hound dog of some kind.
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Re-activtion: Half-assed attempt!
by Thechickennest in
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2. experiences
well, after 12 years of inactivity we got our call about three weeks ago on the phone for the borg's reassimulation effort.

a young elder and good friend of my wife and i called to invite us to the co visit, and by the way "is there anything we can do as do encourage you and moneic to return to the meetings?

" i said just plain "no".