Posts by Sara Annie

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Adventures at the District Convention

by RunningMan in

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well, after a 15 month absence from the kingdom hall, i once again found myself in the biggest kingdom hall of all the district convention.

as in previous years, the material presented was dull and repetitious, so once again, i was forced to provide my own entertainment.

so, like last year, i am pleased to present a further installment to my assembly adventures, called:

Sara Annie

Possibly the most entertaining post I've read on this site. Barry-esque and great fun!

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new study about JW mental health

by Jerry Bergman in

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author.

humpl, lukas title.

translated title the jehova's witnesses - psychological aspects of membership and leaving the group.

Hardly surprising, is it? You'd have to be already a little bit unstable to buy into the whole thing, and even if you weren't it wouldn't take long on the inside before you were well on your way to being so...

It's been my experience that JW's have a higher incidence per capita (astronomically so) of mental illness within their ranks than the population at large.

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"Pray for J's blessing on Blainville case"

by wheelwithinwheel in

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had dinner in a resto with a dub friend.

he told me the bros were very very concerned about the latest court proceedings concerning blainville.

seems the wt thinks it might lose.

Sara Annie

However, freedom of speech is not an issue for majority rule. In fact, it is quite the opposite. The principle is designed to protect minorities.

While I agree with the spirit above, the issue at hand is the exercising of this freedom on other people's private property. I absolutely agree that a person has a right to say and think whatever they damn well please, but as soon as they cross into my yard, and ring my doorbell on my porch, I get to decide what kind of behavior they can engage in. Let them 'witness' 24/7 for all I care, just keep it off my property--and if this ordinance restricts the time in which they can be knocking on my door, I say bring it on.

Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.

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Just wondering...

by zeena1998 in

mornin' all!.

k...i've got a nosy question here.

for those of you out there who were never jw's, what brings you here?

Sara Annie

Rocketman--I edited it to include a different link--if you refresh, it should be there now.

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Just wondering...

by zeena1998 in

mornin' all!.

k...i've got a nosy question here.

for those of you out there who were never jw's, what brings you here?

Sara Annie

I'll bite...

I'm a 'never was', and my reasons for being here are spelled out on this page: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/44589/1.ashx

Welcome, by the way!

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Thank God for Satan!!

by PopeOfEruke in

how grateful all jw's must be for satan and his rotten wicked old system of things!!!.

for example, i have a relative who has been a regular pioneer non-stop for over 40 years!

as he is now 60 years of age, he is entitled to a pension from the government.

Sara Annie

I was also counselled on volunteer work I did for the Senior Center and the Center for Independent Living

Well, the name alone would send the Elders into a tizzy, I suppose.

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What are you currently reading?

by Sirona in

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as ex-dubs we are free to read whatever the hell we want to read.

in celebration of that fact (and to give me some ideas on what to read next .

sirona

Sara Annie

StinkyPatnz- You know, you're totally right! I got to thinking about it just now and Alex Cross was a James Patterson character (those novels with the nursery rhymes names). Color me stupid! I guess that's the hazard of reading too many books from the same genre, right?

Now I suppose I can stop thinking of Freeman while reading Kellerman books...

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What are you currently reading?

by Sirona in

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as ex-dubs we are free to read whatever the hell we want to read.

in celebration of that fact (and to give me some ideas on what to read next .

sirona

Sara Annie

Hey Stinky-

I love Kellerman's Delaware novels--I've read them all, and the most recent one is masterful. The major problem I've had with them in the last few years is the casting of Morgan Freeman in the role in the film adaptations to date. Freeman is a superb actor, and he tackled the roles expertly (as he does every role) but the character is NOTHING like Freeman in the novels, and now all I can hear in my head is his distinctive voice and cadence while I'm reading. As a connoisseur of what my husband calls the "Popcorn Mystery Novel" (since I go through them like popcorn, and they are low brain power, mind-candy reads), I can highly recommend Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series as another set of well-written, entertaining novels in the genre that you might enjoy.

I read voraciously, sometimes juggling two or three books at once--depends on what I'm in the mood for. Currently I'm reading "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn" by Diane Ravitch, "The Face" by Dean Koontz (though formulaic, I've read and highly enjoyed all of his books), and we're reading "Where the Red Fern Grows" by James Whitmore aloud as a family (a timeless classic, we felt it would be better to read it aloud to the children as to-hopefully-minimize the weeping at the end. I re-read the last half of the book in it's entirety the other night just to make sure I could get through it without breaking down, and I still wept like a child...). When we finish that book, we're really looking forward to June 21st when our new copy of the fifth Harry Potter book is delivered!

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Spying On Your Kids

by rocketman in

on last night's installment of 20/20, there was a segment that dealt with parents who use modern technology to spy on their children.

one dad used a gps installed in his car to track the movements of his daughter.

another dad installed spyware in his computer and monitored the e-mails and im chats of his daughter.

Sara Annie

As a parent, I reserve the right to do whatever I think is in my child's best interest. That will definitely mean monitoring ALL internet access, and my son will NOT have a computer in his room. He will have one in a central location where anyone can walk by and see what's on the screen. This is a recommendation from law enforcement, and one I am happy to follow. I doubt I would ever install a camera in my home, definitely not in his room, he gets dressed in there, and that leads to too many privacy issues. However, I would have no problem going in his room and looking around if something caught my attention, or if I felt there was something going on I needed to investigage. On average, I do think children have too many liberties, and I think that it has been a huge detriment on our society. As Yeru stated earlier, if the Columbine children's parents had been more active in looking in their children's rooms, a tragedy could have been avoided. And believe me, parents frequently think their kids are "normal" when in actuality they are into alcohol, drugs, and worse. I am my son's mom first and foremost, and I will do that job to the best of my ability, even if it sometimes makes me unpopular.

I meant to type out a thoughtful reply, but happyout already said pretty much everything I wanted to.

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Question for SwordofJah

by happyout in

given that your wts has frequently warned its members to stay away from the internet, and that bad association spoils useful habits, why is it that you persist in posting on this site, which is quite obviously populated by those that are disfelloshipped, disassociated, or, at the very least, spiritually weak?

if you lived near one of the more vocal posters would you willingly be seen by your body of elders having a conversation with them?

or, is it the ease of anonymity that allows you to be such a hypocrite and flaunt the rules of the organisation you pathetically claim to follow?

Sara Annie

sword is a girl???

I got that distinct impression at some point, it seems. I can't put my finger on where, and I could be mistaken.