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  What Was Your Biggest Gripe About The Elders???

  by minimus in

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  after reading some of the pain that you've gone through, in many cases, the elders weren't there at all for you.

  i'm wondering what your biggest complaint about the elders is.

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  The elders (small letters intentionally) that DF'd me were evil. I can't think of a point in my life where I was more humiliated and shit upon than that day. I hate to say this, because I'm generally a kind and loving person, but the day I saw the obituary in the paper for one of those elders that sat upon that judiciary committee, I was happy. He was not that old when he died and I was glad. Is that bad?

  My step-uncle is also an elder and when he "officiated" at my grandmother's funeral I was furious as he did not know her at all.
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  You Know You're Canadian When...

  by dottie in

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  i just recently recently received this email (yet again) but seeing as i am a "transplanted canucker" now living in the u.s., this struck me as alot more funny now because of interactions with my new american friends .

  1. you are not offended by the term "homo milk".

  (yes, i was quite intrigued by the us term 'whole milk') 2. you understand the phrase "could you pass me a serviette, i just dropped my poutine, on the chesterfield.

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  I've driven through Canada, does that count? Actually, living in Michigan, I know what a "pop" is. I refuse to use the term, however. To us Hoosiers, everything is a "coke".
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  Anyone from Cincinnati?

  by Coop Man in

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  hello to all, just trying to find a few old friends of mine from the cincinnati ohio area.

  i haven't been around for a while, as my job took me to colorado for a while, but now i'm back and trying to catch up with a few pals.

  i am not currently disfellowshipped, though i am inactive.

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  I used to go to a lot of assemblies in Cincinnati! At the Reds stadium. Then they moved them to Louisville, KY for a while.

  I'm originally from Indianapolis.
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  AOL - what's your opinion?

  by TresHappy in

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  i've had aol for several years now.

  i am dumping it very soon.

  anyone else have aol and what is your opinion?

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  AOL sux.

  Be careful when you dump them, especially if they bill your credit card for your monthly service. We used them BRIEFLY before we got our cable modem access and almost a YEAR later, they started billing our credit card again! We had to call the bank and cancel the card! THEN, they sent us a bill for over $100 and said they were sending us to COLLECTION! It took a couple of months to get it straightened out. They would not believe that we had not been using their service, even though they could SEE on our account that it had been inactive for the entire year.

  ALSO beware when you call them to cancel, they will transfer you to one of their high pressure salesmen that will offer you all these free minutes to stay. This person will NOT take no for an answer! The guy my husband talked to was so persistent, that my husband had to SCREAM at him and then hung up!

  AOL is bad. Very bad.
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  What was the first "Bad" CD/Record/Tape you ever bought?

  by ColdRedRain in

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  i was looking on the thread on music when i just thought to ask that question.

  for me, it was gwar's violence has arrived.

  i remember loving that band so much when i first heard of them to the point where i downloaded everything they had, from album mp3's to rare bootlegs.

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  Fleetwood Mac, Rumours. Stevie Nicks was a witch, remember? Hid a lot of other albums by Styx, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
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  Your Favorite Scary Movie?

  by Valis in

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  i watched this on bravo last night.

  so what's yer favorite movie for spookiness on halloween?.

  creature: "i have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine.

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  I LOVE scary movies! Imagine that! My favorite? Session 9 with David Caruso. If you are into horror, supernatural, creepy, etc, this movie is a MUST. You may have to look for it, but most Blockbusters have it.

  I will have to admit that not a lot of movies actually scare me, but among my favorites are Poltergeist, The Shining (I know the TV version follows the book a lot closer, but I have to agree that no one puts terror in my heart like Jack Nicholson with an ax), Exorcist I and Exorcist III (seriously creepy movie). The original Halloween scared the crap out of me when I was a teenager. I'll also admit that The Ring was the first movie to make me jump in a very long time. That girl coming out of the TV about made me come unglued!

  Forever looking for that real supernatural experience......
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  What to expect at a JW funeral

  by lovinglife in

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  i hope someone can "enlighten" me.

  my grandmother recently passed away (91 yrs old) and they are having her funeral at the kh.

  i can't remember ever having to attend one when i was a kid.

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  My grandmother died about three years ago and it was a very traumatic for me, if not a turning point in my life. For many years, I had been happy living my "disfellowshipped life", not having to think much of my family shunning me as I lived so far from them, anyway. When hearing word of my grandmother's death (we had been very close before her dementia had set in), all the bad feelings and fear that the JW's instilled in me when I was a child came rushing back.

  Parallel to Lovinglife's story, my grandmother had been "inactive" for many, many years and was a JW in name only. She stopped attending the KH several years, even before her mind started to go. However, she was a very kind and loving woman and had many friends over the years (JW and Non-JW). Her funeral was not held at the KH, but at the funeral home. My step-uncle (who is an elder) gave the sermon, which I was not too happy about. He has always been a very cold man and did not feel he was the person to put Grandma into the ground. But, I had no choice. He did talk several minutes about my Grandma's life and how many people loved her. Of this, I was grateful. He did, however, turn it into a JW recruiting sermon and my husband (never a JW) had many questions afterwards. He was especially confused that there was no mention of the after-life.

  Ironically, my grandmother's funeral was in Indiana.
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  Going to a Halloween Party Tonight!

  by Ghosthunter in

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  love, love, love halloween!

  i think more than christmas!

  going in full costume, of course.

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  Love, Love, LOVE Halloween! I think more than Christmas! Going in full costume, of course. This year, I'm going as my version of Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the Stephen King movie, It.

  Anyone else dressing up and acting WILD this weekend for this pagan holiday?
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  Sex,Sex, and more Sex????

  by morty in

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  now that i have your attention,i would like to know if some of you experienced teenage parents could give me some advice.you see i have a teenage boy.he is going to be 15 real soon.the topic sex has come up many times in the past and i usally just pass it off to his dad.

  ( i think that that is dads territory..lol)i have to say we have a pretty good open communication when it comes to most things.this weekend though,my husband says he is going to actually buy him some condoms and show him how they work.my problem is this.

  (a) my son knows that we really think that sex should be saved for the one you love.

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  Let me speak from EXPERIENCE. Condoms are not as effective as everyone thinks they are and I agree with the post that you need to start talking to your kids about sex as young as 10 or 12. Let me LAY IT ON THE LINE.......I am a 39 year old grandmother of an almost one year old baby girl fathered by my (now) 17 year old son. We figured out he was probably 15 when she was conceived. We TALKED to him about sex and gave him condoms as well. If they want to do it, they're going to do it.

  I love my grand-child with all my heart but I know from experience what is in store for my son.
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  workplace woe(s) - your opinion sought

  by DFWnonJW in

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  i work in a very small shop and the secretary has been the owner's mother-in-law.

  sadly, she has been in the hospital for the past couple of weeks and in fact the family was summoned to the hospital late this afternoon and apparently she doesn't have long to live.

  who knows what tomorrow will bring.

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  Working in a small shop, it is very hard to be "politically correct" as the same laws don't apply to small companies as they do to larger companies.

  If it were me, I would discreetly tell the owner about the relationship and suggest that you should hire a temp from another agency in the hopes that she/he would work out better than the last temp. If you don't feel comfortable about telling the owner about the whole thing, then just strongly suggest a temp just in case the regular receptionist gets better and comes back to work. Bottom line, whatever the size of the office, you don't need that kind of sh*t as it will turn out to be a cancer in your office.

  Trust me. I work in Human Resources!

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