Buy your neice a bicycle (and a helmet and lights) and she can take herself to any school she wants. Or she can use public transport - no "hassle" for her mum then; it ought to be the perfect solution.
I hope this turns out well for her.
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Talking with 9th Grade JW Niece
by Why Georgia inlast night we went to visit my sil and her 3 kids.
my sil is a jw but very nice and never pushes her beliefs upon anyone else.
she's been df'd 2-3 times but is currently reinstated.. i was trying to talk with our niece.
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Beware of PC WORLD
by Sam the Man inhi everyone, just thought id tell you about my recent troubles with this scumbag retail monster.
i brought a printer and it has just gone faulty on me, but it was a few days after the 28 days that pc world say i am entitled to take the product back.
they told me that i was not able to take the item back, and that i would have to call cannon and get them to come out and sort it.
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^ Agreed.
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Beware of PC WORLD
by Sam the Man inhi everyone, just thought id tell you about my recent troubles with this scumbag retail monster.
i brought a printer and it has just gone faulty on me, but it was a few days after the 28 days that pc world say i am entitled to take the product back.
they told me that i was not able to take the item back, and that i would have to call cannon and get them to come out and sort it.
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Piss poor customer service, beware of buying from PC World
I've been warned sufficiently by reputation and others' experience that I've never bought more than the odd PC game from them. I wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole for hardware: local independant retailers are almost always best in customer service and value. -
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why disfellowshipped?
by knothead34 inas a new unbaptized publisher, i would really like to know why some of you were disfellowshipped if you don't mind sharing your stories.
thanks.
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I'm neither disfellowshipped nor disassociated. I believed until I dropped the "Truth" like a hot brick after seeing a documentary about the paedophile scandal. I spent the next couple of days on the Internet (I'd never searched for Witness-related things until then, even to find pro-JW boards or anything), and I was heartbroken and appalled to learn it was all lies - but I was happy I'd broken away.
It's still a secret that I am apostate, though - purely to save my mum from from awkward questions about how much "apostate material" she knows about and knows to be true.
I knew of people DA-ing because they woke up to what was going on, or simple couldn't take the pressure anymore - of course I thought this was terrible back then! But I only knew of three disfellowshippings:
1. The husband of a Sister my family was close to. I don't know what he did, I just remember that he worked at the Houses of Parliament as a cleaner (maybe that was it) and was working towards reinstatement.
2. A Sister who was disfellowshipped for going to see "The Silence of the Lambs"!
3. A Sister whose husband cheated on her, but denied it to the Elders. She then divorced him and eventually re-married in her new congregation. She got disfellowshipped for adultery because she wasn't free to marry... She's reinstated.
that one was not to speak too much or too highly of Jesus, and householders in FS who did were viewed as a bit "imbalanced"...ok then.
This is soooooo true. I remember feeling so uneasy about people who talked about Jesus on the doors, as if they'd started talking about something *totally* non-JW like Allah or ghosts! I knew Jesus was supposed to be important, but I didn't feel the same way about Jesus my Fundamentalist Christian friend does - and I certainly wasn't encouraged to!
Just the other day me, mum, and some JWs were talking about the "Chronicles of Narnia" and how it's allegorical. There was so much embarrassment! My mum (a fan since childhood) was very defensive about whether she's "allowed" to read it and said "Well, we don't *have* to think of it that way". A JW's verdict on the controversy about "The Passion of the Christ" was "It's making such a fuss about Jesus!"
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
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I am stunned that not one person noticed
Mr. Anderson .
I noticed! I didn't post a new theory though cos I wanted to be surprised! :D
But my theory was that the HLC have been instructed to dissuade patients and parents from taking blood fractions and the "new light" in the Watchtower was just a front to keep the R&F, judges, and governments sweet.
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How big does the "Big News" have to be for you to not feel disappointed?
by GetBusyLiving ini hope this is huge.
like massive bethel schism huge.
like families reuniting in a blur of tears and joy, huge.
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If it's even as big as when we found out the WT's revenue from that top 50 companies list, then that's fine.
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
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Welcome Sunday!
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
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glitter
I love the new GB members whistleblowing part! We're due a bit of dissent in the GB again, surely! :D
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
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I'll place my bet on *long-standing* embezzlement of funds by high-up JWs. With close involvement with dodgy worldly businessmen as a bonus. The sort of thing the media and the law would be all over like a rash; and devastating to heartfelt, ordinary, honest-to-a-fault JWs.
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THE NEWS IS BIGGER THAN DATELINE, BBC, CBC, ETC.
by AndersonsInfo inif i told you that something bigger is on the horizon than dateline, bbc, cbc, sunday (australia), and all other tv programs which exposed the sexual child abuse cover-up by watchtower in 2002-2003, would you believe me?
have i ever misled you?
i'll answer that--no!
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Say they got rid of the blood ban tomorrow, even admitted it was a mistake - I reckon many many JWs would still not accept transfusions for them or their kids. I don't think it being about blood would shock current Witnesses no matter what - even if the GB all have had blood transfusions; "They're just imperfect men. We follow Jehovah, not men."
Edit: And unless the medical records of the GB could be produced, then how could it be proved?