Yes but I am lucky I work with another ex Dub, we often crack jokes about the polyester suits he used to wear. And sometimes discuss how great birthdays are and the good times with our families at xmas.(Not however our extended families) I remind he, if he has to go to a customers house he is not to sell magazines or call the customer "householder"
Posts by Teela
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23Do you ever discuss having been....
by SpunkyChick in.
a jw to new friends?
what's their reactions?
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Jst2laws, Rugby and England.
by Englishman inengland are through the semi-final with france whom they beat today 24 - 7. now we face the aussies, who, btw, get absolutely paranoid at the thought of england being better than them at anything.. the final takes place next saturday in australia.
england v australia.
wow!.
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Teela
I live in New Zealand, anyone would a close family relavtive had died on Saturday when we lost to the Aussies
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What does your name mean?
by Insomniac inok, i'm sure this topic has been covered before, but i'm new here, so indulge me.
what do everyone's screen names mean?
some are pretty self-explanatory, but a few have me intrigued.
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Teela
Teela as in Teela Brown a character from a Larry Niven novel called Ringworld. Her life was controlled by luck and in lots of ways my life has had a lot of good luck in it, also it has changed my direction in life .
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Have you been able to make up for the lost years?
by woodland ini feel that my education was stunted due to the jw belief that education is not important.
as a result i have not been able to follow my dreams, or follow the career i?m sure i was put on this earth to do.
does anyone else feel this way?
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Teela
No I haven't. How do you make up for a childhood?
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1932 / 1935 and The Great Multitude,Dying Off Too?
by Blueblades inanother watch tower teaching that could shorty cause the society a serious problem is the great multitude of 1932 / 1935.if the great tribulation fails to occur reasonably soon,this too could bring about a major change, i.e generation teaching,while the two teachings may appear to be linked,the dates are almost twenty years apart in application,i.e.
1914 --1932 / 35.. the great multitude of 1932 / 35 who stood up to be identified are well into their late 70's ,early 80's at this time,2003.just as the long standing "this generation" has been reinterpreted,perhaps a new doctrinal reinterpretation of the great multitude will be made, adversely affecting untold numbers of potential ones who will come out of "the great tribulation"as "the great mutitude "of survivors.. i know that the society is trying to put off these teachings,"this generation,"the great tribulation" "the great multitude" and "armageddon" into the indefinite future,however life goes on,people grow old and die.so, how long can they keep this up.. my guess is that the winds of internal turmoil will get stronger,the near future will be telling as members of the great multitude die off.as they see another hoped for fulfillment die off along with them.
blueblades,who has felt the effects of these things too.what are your thoughts?.
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Teela
Its sad these people have spent all they lives believing in a lie. Now they are old and need help.The only help they recieve is welfare, healthcare from the Govt and living in cheap rental accomodation. The witnesses do not help , but will come along for a study to get the hours up. To top it all off armagedonn hasn't come, the faith that has kept them going all these years has slowly being going, I see it in their eyes. Old, sick and no one cares. Their life has been a waste.
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Anti-Witnessing -does it work?
by Phantom Stranger ini keep reading posts from people who "need" to get their family members out of the wts.
look, a few background points: .
1) i'm out and have been for 17 years.
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Teela
I don't know if it works, but I had one thinking about it. They had enquired about my father (who died over a year ago) I said that he had passed away. Person made some bland witness remark to which I replied. He seemed a bit diappointed that amargeden hadn't come in his lifetime. The look of made me realise he must have felt the same way, as he shuffled off on his walking sticks.
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Ever been conned by smallprint? Dixons/Currys Coverplan
by Brummie ini brought a top of the range lexmark 73 printer/scanner/copier about a year and half ago and got it covered by coverplan mastercare.
it cost me approx 230. .
the coverplan insurance told me that if it broke down i would get full cover for parts and labour or a brad new top of the range printer.. it broke down and without even looking at it coverplan told me to "throw it away" and they will send me vouchers to replace the value.
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Teela
I never had a cover plan, but I did purchase a camera from Dixons whick broke a year later. I took it back to one of the main stores in London to get it repaired to be told it was not repairable because no parts are available. In my LOUD NEW ZEALAND accent I acused them of ripping of tourists but they where out of luck because I was a resident and perhaps I should let all the tourists in the shop know that anything purchased here was unrepairable after a year. (people had started leaving the shop at this stage) The manager was called and I repeated my claim of them selling items to tourists because they had no come back, and surprising enough he was able to replace my faulty camera . Scrum I also had trouble with whiteware chain (Comet?)with a washing machine under guarantee, even with my invoice for the washing machine without a recipt they wouldn't repair it. Threatened to walk outside with a billboard and hand out flyers telling my version and not to shop here. After repeated phonecalls to the manager, in which my english friends would ring up and get through to the manager, reception recognised my accent and wouldn't put me through they finally sent a repairman to fixed the damm thing.
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Witness sayings
by Teela inas i was growing up in the troof.
there were sayings used over and over again to control my behaviour.
the biblical on bad associations spoil useful habits and another on just because everyone else does it doesnt mean you have to do it to, would you jump off a cliff just because other people do what were the sayings that bugged you?
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Teela
As I was growing up in the Troof. There were sayings used over and over again to control my behaviour. The biblical on “ bad associations spoil useful habits” and another on “Just because everyone else does it doesn’t mean you have to do it to, would you jump off a cliff just because other people do” What were the sayings that bugged you??
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I have been shunned!
by shera innot that i really care...but my daughters family has a few of them that are jw's.for many yrs they talked to me very limited,i guess they have found out that i no longer believe the org has truth to it.so now the shunning has started...lol when we met in the coffee shop my daughters father did this little dance shuffle, backwards to get out of my way...even a few weeks back when he picking something up from here for my daughter they had to get him to carry it(this happened before i knew i was a shunnee) he peeked around the corner of my door and took a weak step in..he leaned a bit couldnt reach what he was trying to pick up,then he took another step..leaned...still couldnt get it...i was watching him like..good gawd!!
does he think a demon is going to get him?how sad..i am amazed at what this cult has done to persons minds.....back to the story... =0).
my hubbies brother is married to my daughter's aunt and she is a jw.....and we went camping with my hubbies family and they were to meet my daughter's father and other jw...well when they seen me pull up in the van,i thought they were going to have a stroke.my daughters stepmom was about to pop her last nerve.they sat behind the tent and chatted forawhile and my brother in law came over and said they are leaving because of me.so they took down alll their camping gear and moved far enough away from the evil..bad bad heather.(lol).
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Teela
My old witnesses have the good sense to say well away from me. But in the local hardware store, ( I do woodwood for a hobbie) I ran into one of the elders. It was a wonderful one way conversation. Ask him how he was, he looked straight ahead. Mentioned I was sorry to hear about his son (killed himself). He looked staright ahead, as we were at the counter and I was speaking in a loud voice people were staring. Asked him if there was a problem that he wasn't speaking to me and which point he left the store without purchasing anything and about five people all watching him leave, looking puzzled.
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Pulled out of Sex Ed classes
by Nosferatu infor those of you who had a jw childhood, were you pulled out of sex education classes?
did it bother your conscience if school surprised you with one?
after being deprived from sex knowledge and since the society doesn't make diagrams, how did you learn about it?
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Teela
My Mother to this day (I'm 40) still has not explained sex or puberty. My sister who is eight years older than me gave me a book when I was about 13 which explained everything in graphic detail. Thank you sis. Off course I wasn't allowed to attend the sex ed classes at school. If it hadn't been for sis I would have been a single mum at 15