ShirleyW
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Anyone know CO Gordon & Risi Lewis, used to serve North Carolina and NYC ?
by ShirleyW inthey may still be in raleigh, have no idea, before that they were in queens, ny area, in 1990's, last i heard they were in the raleigh area of north carolina, seemed like they were a couple that "knew what wazzup" with the borg, but since their room and board and car was paid for by the borg, hey, they had a good thing goin', .
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"Gas prices almost near five year low"
by ShirleyW inaccording to cnnmoney, so, will the elders receive some more new light from the almighty saying that they are going to reinstate the weekly book study after their new light announcement this summer saying it was being done away with due to the price of gas ?
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Passing of a JDub Sisters Jazz Musician husband
by ShirleyW indon't know how many of you are truly what i would call a "jazz-aholic", but jimmy cleveland passed this past saturday, he was well known back in the 40's until 80's as an outstanding musician who played with all the greats, you can search his name and just find out how major he was, but, the reason you probably didn't read about it in any daily publication is that his wife janet is a jdub and probably didn't want to alert the wordly media.
she was a piano teacher in the queens, new york area from the 60's up until they moved to california in the 80's, while they were here in nyc he was a part of merv griffin's studio band, when he had his late night talk show.
she was a singer back in the 40's under the name of janet thurlow, quincy jones even mentions her in his book as giving him some good advice about his career, wonder how well they know each other .
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Coming Ex-JW Play on Broadway
by ShirleyW inhope my cut and paste of the article worked and is showing below, but this afternoon i heard the radio commercial for a play coming to broadway called don reed's east 14th street.
as he said in the commercial, he was raised in the religion that rhymes with "mehobahs vitlessness", then finds out his father is a pimp.
anyone remember br.
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Anybody see 20/20 re House of Yahweh ?
by ShirleyW inwe all know the jdubs are going to straight to hell, but these guys .
wow, jdubs still have them beat, but their followers even changed there last name to the leaders last name of hawkins .
sexual abuse, as we all are familiar what goes on in the jw cult, but these guys take it a few steps "worse' than the borg .
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Addendum . .Brenda's conf call tonite
by ShirleyW insince for somer reason i can't join the call and they are talking about suicide in the borg, i've known several dubs that took that route, the daniels family orignally from brooklyn, moved to queens, had a son, andre, that obviously was very worldly, clothes and hanging out (this was during the disco era) he was called into the back room, heard from quite a few that he cursed out the elders that were counseling him, however, he commited suicide, and of course his mother was saying in public (however, none of us know what was in her mind about losing her first born and only son) said "oh well, he didn't follow jehovah .
.sad commentary from a mother.
another family that endured suicide is the arthur goode family, last i heard they were in the poconos, had a very large family, one of their daughters whom i was told was quite popular and a pioneer, was learning the deaf hand language to use at the assemblies, pulled her car into the garage and let the engine run.
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can/did you hear me?
by ShirleyW inanybody else try to make their presence known on the conf callat 7pm and couldn;t get through, i kept saying i'm calling from jamaica new york, but got no response .
.. would've loved to get through and exchange experiences.
.oh well, the ccall is now in the beginning discussin shunning, saying pennsylvania jdubs are very loyal, what i what've like to have shared is i know family where the youngest got dfd and was told that she should take her meals by herself, however,, one pompous a-hole elder told her mother, "well, if you really want to sit down with her for a meal that's ok,where's the uniformity in the bs cult, as if i didnt know .
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Furman building prime real estate
by ShirleyW infor those of us in the tri-state area, (ny, nj, ct) did anyone see in the new york post today the advertisement for i believe the number of the bldg.
was 360 not sure, but definitely on furman, it wasn't a photo but an artists rendering, and the picture even had that part on the top that had the sign "read the watchtower" on it, saying that they were ready to open for tenants in the spring, which we're already at.. the picture definitely looks like the old craptower bldg to me, any of you ex-bethtelites can confirm if that is indeed the bldg.
but what really bothers me (as if i didnt know is) just who's pocket did all of this huge real estate sale pockets does all this money go in, especially since previous posts state that they're pushing the same old' bs "tomorrow is the last day on earth" bs !
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Something I remember from Tishie's Ex-Jub Board
by ShirleyW inonce again, it seems i only refer to things that us 50+ ex dubs would remember, (for the record, i just hit the big 5-0 last month myself) but i remember a co being mentioned on her board that committed suicide that served the cong i used to attend in jamaica, queens.. his name was bro.
catanzaro, had the most pleasant sounding voice, couldve made a fortune doing voice over work im sure.
i heard through the grapevine that he killed himself, and of course when i asked my mom, she made believe that she never heard that story, and surely a faithful servant of jah would never do such a thing!
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Self Proclaimed Doctors within the Dubs
by ShirleyW ina previous post regarding herbal meds brings to mind two people, of course they're dubs, that swindled those in "da troof".
back in the day, when my mother was first brainwashed and attended the edgecombe cong in harlem there were two teenagers, shirley and gladstone widdick, whose father was a jw but there mother was not (smart woman) they even relocated to queens around the same time we did in the early 1960's.
many, many decades later, there seems to be some kind of buzz within the congregation that iridiologist (sp), i'll just call him the guy that looks in your eye and can diagnose every problem you've had since birth, is going to be in his hometown in new york and that he was "hangin' up the shingle" while he was here, needless to say this self-proclaimed dr/quack was dr. gladstone widdick and his book of appointments i'm sure was longer than the dr. that performed bill clinton's open heart surgery.. i believe he was/is located in the north carolina area, are somewhere in around there, any of you every had your eyes gazed into by this dr/quack ??.