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  X-mas cards.....Hooray for Xmas cards

  by lola28 in

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  ok, for any one that would like to be added to the xmas card list, please send me your info by tomorrow evening, for those of you that have already sent me your addy's a few of them got deleted from my inbox before i could save them ***weeps***, please if you sent me your info verify that i have it, i don't want anyone to feel left out, i am planning on having the list done by monday night.

  i know for a fact that i do not have your info in my inbox noni, crazyblonddeb send your info again and to the lovely poster who offered to get stamps ( sorry i forgot your name) please send me your info again so i can add you to the list.. lola.

  i'm really looking forward to this!.

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  Lola,
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  X-mas cards.....Hooray for Xmas cards

  by lola28 in

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  ok, for any one that would like to be added to the xmas card list, please send me your info by tomorrow evening, for those of you that have already sent me your addy's a few of them got deleted from my inbox before i could save them ***weeps***, please if you sent me your info verify that i have it, i don't want anyone to feel left out, i am planning on having the list done by monday night.

  i know for a fact that i do not have your info in my inbox noni, crazyblonddeb send your info again and to the lovely poster who offered to get stamps ( sorry i forgot your name) please send me your info again so i can add you to the list.. lola.

  i'm really looking forward to this!.

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  HappyDad

  Lola,

  You got a PM from HappyDad
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  Who denied holidays first - WWCOG or JW's?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  another thread indicated that wwcog had been ahead of jw's in saying that holidays were 'verbotten' - and that the wts then picked up on the cue as additional ammunition to keep witnesses under control and 'seperate from the world'.. can this be confirmed with dates/times ?

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  Post 8292 of 8292 since 01-Sep-02

  Do you know what happened to that Korean guy who had those mass marriages? He got coronated as the Messiah in a ceremony hosted by the United States Senate:

  Is this really true Leolaia?

  If it is.........then we have a big problem in Washington. ( like we don't have already)

  HappyDad
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  I have been here

  by mouthy in

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  <<<<<< 5 years,,,,

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  Grace,

  You missed this part.........

  with good health.
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  I have been here

  by mouthy in

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  <<<<<< 5 years,,,,

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  Love you Mouthy.............

  And want to see you around here for at least another 10 plus years with good health.

  Love,

  HappyDad
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  Do you remember giving talks?

  by klydia in

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  i'm trying to remember the process for giving a talk.

  i remember getting a slip with a topic on it, but what else was on that slip?

  did it tell you what scriptures you should cite, or what book the talk was based on?

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  It was the sisters I felt bad for. They were paired up by the third party.......the TMS overseer. And it had to be very trying if you were paired up with a brain dead sister or her kid or someone you didn't like. I'm sure you were most likely to cancel for one reason or another and I couldn't blame you. Looking back, it was all BS.

  As a person, I'm what you would call a "humble" man. I don't like putting myself on a shelf and prefer to be an indian instead of a chief. Giving talks was an ego boost for me though! The "friends" would tell me that I was a good speaker and they could learn from me. In 1986 I was "promoted" to elder. That was after a few years of prodding by the other elders to increase my FS time. They said I needed to improve because the cong. needed me to "reach out".....that I could be a real asset. So I did! Some of my time was fudged as most of everyone's was, but once appointed an elder, they started to schedule me at other KH's for the Sunday talk and I loved it. My ego was boosted when comments would come back that I was really a good speaker.

  I eventually was "promoted" to Theocratic Ministry School Overseer. Probably because no-one else wanted it. I tried to do the best I could in the interest of what was right. When it was time to make the schedule, I would consult with my wife who was very attuned to the personalities of the cong. If two sisters were not getting along, they would not be assigned together. As far as I was concerned, it would only make for more problems (for me-because it was a given that one or the other would cancel at the last minute) and then I would most likely have to ad-lib that particular talk because no other sisters would want to do it.

  Then there was the problem of assigning brothers to a particular talk. In my opinion, it was never appropriate to give a detailled talk on subjects that were about sex. When a subject like that was to talked on, (like masturbation) I would only give it to an older one.....someone mature and not to Brother Jack Off or Brother Humph Itoer who once was DF'd for immorality. Sometimes a talk like this was for the sisters and before I would schedule it, I would call the sister to see if she was comfortable with the theme and also ask her advice on who she would like for a householder on this one. It usually worked out because I put effort into the schedule.

  Giving talks at another KH was fun but many times disheartening. I could probably count on one hand the KH's that seemed friendly. The majority were just like the majority of all of Jehovah's Witnesses........unfriendly and unhappy! It is a UNIVERSAL truth.............JW's are not a happy people in their private lives. To the public, yes!..........because the brainwashing makes them blind to what they really feel.

  Anyhow.......it only took about 5 years as an elder to open my eyes to a lot of BS. Because I was a "good guy" and a "good elder"..... that young and old alike......... brothers and sisters....would come to for comfort in their problems, some of the other "shi&heads"....Oops........I mean "shepherds" (especially the power hungry PO who is still PO and two of his kiss a$$ cronies.....one who is now PO of the cong. that meets in the same KH ) didn't like my attitude and told me that I was not doing a good policing shepherding job. They broke me ! My ego (which was only a private thing and never public) and my attitude of helping and giving was now changed. Emotionally, I became a different person. My very being was affected by the things that took place and I resigned as an elder in 1991 for the final time. (I tried to resign in 1990 but they talked me out of it.......another story)

  Today.......giving a public talk is something I really don't want to do, but I have done it on a couple of occasions. It has been a real privilege for me to give my testimony at a couple of churches on how I was a captive slave of a high control religion (can you say cult?) and how I learned that that is what it is.....and of now being a Christian, and how it all came about.

  Do I remember giving talks? I sure do.

  Sorry if I have made a rant here, but this topic struck a chord with me.

  HappyDad
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  OSU-Michigan, was anybody else watching?

  by DanTheMan in

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  best college football game i've ever seen.

  and the good guys won!.

  i hope that the national championship game isn't a rematch.

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  Sorry.............................

  The good guys lost...........

  HappyDad
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  Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan Really Necessarry?

  by frankiespeakin in

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  link and clip:.

  http://www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm.

  hiroshima:was it necessary?part 1 of 2. by doug long.

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  YES..................

  NOTHING ELSE NEEDS TO BE SAID!
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  Farmers Branch Tx. assault on illegal immigrants (Mexicans)

  by hambeak in

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  the farmers branch city council ( a suburb of dallas, tx.

  ) has voted unanimously to make english the official language of the city.

  also to fine landlords that rent to such ones.

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  hambeak

  The Farmers Branch city council ( a suburb of Dallas, Tx.) has voted unanimously to make English the official language of the city

  Jim-_TX

  The company that I work for has a production/assembly facility in Farmers Branch, TX. I can tell you - for a fact - that there is a larger majority of 'other' nationalities - and not Hispanics. I am not sure the nationality... it's some sort of Asian cultures... and not just one. Several.

  Whatever the nationallity of the "legals" or "illegals"..........if you want to live in a country that is not your birth country.....then learn the language. The Polish, Hungarian, Czechs, Croats, Serbs, and many more who came the the U.S. shores 100 years ago might have kept their original "tongue" at home and in family but the majority learned the language....broken as is may have been.......of their adopted country. It was a must in order to become a U.S. citizen (the dream of the majority.) And I am out front in the statement....."This is America. Why should I have to press #1 to continue in English?"

  I do..however..agree with the work ethics of the newcomers to the U.S.. Their work ethic puts most of us Americans to shame. They will do what it takes to better themselves. On the other hand....we have too many "original" U.S. citizens (and I don't mean the American Indians) who think they have "entitlements" (and I'm not pin-pointing any race either....so don't even go there) without any effort at all. And they are the ones who probably do the most bitching about "foreigners."

  Who is to blame for the influx of "foreigners" and "illegals?" Hmmmmmmmmmmmm............could it be the same ones who are in charge of the policies of the U.S. government? I think they are called POLITICIANS!

  Just the two cents worth of someone who has spent almost 45 yeas in industry and labor.

  HappyDad
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  Hello all here's an update.

  by Es in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello all, missed you all lots.. thought id pop on and update you, well bubs has missed both of her due dates, im as big as a whale and looking forward to having it all over.

  i go into hosp today for my last app where i will be booked in for inducement, seeings tho she doesnt want to make her appearance at all.. ive been in and out of hosp with health problems, and those braxton hicks well they hurt like hell and made me think i was in labour more than once.

  but at least i get a date today which should be in the next few days i will be holding my baby girl.. hope you are all well.

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  Good to hear the GOOD news Es.

  I hope all goes well and another little one comes into the life of loving parents.

  Man..............I'm sure glad us guys don't have to go through that! We are wimps to the nth degree when it comes to discomfort. Me being one of the biggest wimps.

  Love,

  HappyDad