Posts by Brandy5

Pioneer, attend all meetings, always answer, be a part of that boring school give talks, if a sister be a householder or the one giving the five minute talk. If male be or strive to be an elder. Believe all of the horse sh@*. Never think for yourself!

brandy

Edited by - brandy5 on 13 February 2003 19:50:49

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Please forgive me.....I didn't mean to

by Tatiana in

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..get anyone in trouble.

what i thought was a good idea....seemed to be a bad one.

innocently, i wanted to send each person here a valentine card.

Brandy5

I nominate you as the St. Valentine's Day poster girl for JWD

I second that emotion. Wow what a nice thing for you to do.

brandy

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Does anyone here still go to the meetings

by Brandy5 in

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i was just wondering if anyone here still go to the meetings.

if so why do you attened?

eddited to add are you married to an active jw .

Brandy5

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if anyone here still go to the meetings. If so why do you attened?

eddited to add Are you married to an active JW

btw I have not be inside a KH in 17 years & am married to a wonderful Worldly man.

brandy

Edited by - brandy5 on 13 February 2003 15:40:45

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I have been free for 1647 days!!!

by Elsewhere in

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i've been free for 1647 days!!!

four years!!!

i left the borg on august 9, 1998 and have been enjoying every minute of it!!!

Brandy5

6,244 Wonderful Days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

brandy

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telemarketers & junk mail

by Brandy5 in

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tired of telemarketers & junk mail?

here are some good ideas about getting rid of annoying calls and junk mail: three little words.... .

i suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner hour, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.. .

Brandy5

Tired of Telemarketers & Junk Mail?

Here are some good ideas about getting rid of annoying calls and junk mail: Three little words...

I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner hour, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.

Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed Three Little Words, based on his brief experience in a Telemarketing operation, that would stop the nuisance for all time.

The three little words are: "Hold On, Please.

"

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each Telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that sales boiler rooms would grind to a halt. When you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.

Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end? This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering: If you notice there is no one there, immediately start hitting the # button on your phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Since doing this, our phone calls have decreased dramatically.

Other Good Ideas:

When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return them with your payment; let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away. When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to second mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelopes. Most of these are postage-paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail by putting it in these cool little postage-paid return envelopes.

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day then just send them their blank applications back! If you want to remain anonymous, make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can even send the envelopes back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail. Best of all they're paying for it...Twice!

In addition, this will help keep our postal service busy since it's saying that e-mail is cutting into its business profits, and that's why it needs to increase postage costs again. This just might be one of those junk E-mails that you'll want to forward to
your friends ;-)

Send this to a friend ... or two ... or three...or fifty! Maybe if enough people follow these tips, it'll work... :-)

I recived thie e-mail today & thought I'd shre it.

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Apostates getting smarter?

by freedom96 in

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back before the internet, jw's who left, either df'd or da'd had nothing to rely on.

they didn't have the communication with others, nor did they have access that they now have with the internet.

now, anyone can log on, even jw's, and see sites like this one, that talk about the real truth.

Brandy5

One time while nursing my baby in the Library I was reading an old book by Russell. I was told that I was NOT supose to be reading that. As it would confuse me.

If you believe what they themselves tought in say 1974 you would be df'ed. cause the 1914 generation thing was not correct.

brandy

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Do YOU answer the door now?

by christopherceo in

when i left the org the elders would come by at the most inopportune time at least every day sometimes twice.

i never answered the door, i just continued doing whatever it was i was doing and ignored the pounding at the door knowing it ticked them off because they knew i was home.

when the witnesses randomly come to my door now i still don't answer but have thought about it just to give them hell.

Brandy5

Well I've lived here for nine years. I've been called on only twice. The last time two sisters came. I told them that I was no longer a silent lamb but a roaring lion and if they would like to discuss the way my daughter's case was handled I would be happy to talk to them.

They looked at each other and the one talking said "I think that I should come back with my husband. He is an elder. I said fine I'll take him on anytime. That was months ago. I guess that he did not want to get me started. lol

brandy