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  Is this girl on the bike Sarah Palin?

  by SixofNine in

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  tis the season for outdoor activities!

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  http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/lonestarnot/?action=view&current=girlonbike.flv

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  I was watching that video...with an eerie sense that I'd been there before. It looked so familiar...then the scare!

  My 1st job was at Playland...I ran that ride...the swings...(the bumper cars and the music express)...

  Not good video!
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  Do we have any elders on here? "secret letter"

  by Muney in

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  2. friends

  recently my wife (pioneer) told me her friends father (who is an elder) told her about a "secret letter" that wont be read to the congregation and to be kept just to elders was sent out.

  apparently it had to do with the changes in the org and the "closeness of the end".

  anyone else hear of this letter?

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  My JW granny, died today around noon. She was born April, 1910. She's been a witness since the 30's. She so expected to see armaggeddon and be one of those who walks into the new system. Just last week she was telling my son to look out the window of the hospital and see the new system....it's just at the horizon.

  Gary Bussellman's words are so bizzarre for me today.......she wholeheartedly believed, she a part of the few left of the generation of 1914... died today. She was so sure that she'd see then end.

  Today, when I found out about her, I looked up to the sky, shed a tear, and wondered...is Grandma up there laughing...realizing she's been duped all these years, seeing her parents, husband and son who predeceased her...and then a part of me wonders, is she right, and just asleep awaiting the new system...or what/where/how happens after death???

  (((hugs, Grandma...I'll miss you.)))
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  Sask. JW church failed to report sexual abuse: Victims

  by Tatiana in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i don't know if this has been posted yet, but i just read this.

  edited for link... http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=c9d1bb57-3db6-4c5d-81d1-6f70fd9f1b4d sask.

  church failed to report sexual abuse: victims .

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  Interestingly, one of my abusers came from Saskatoon, too. Just about a decade earlier, though. The M.O. is very similar. It was a JW friend who was the same age of myself' who probably inadvertenly introduced me to her father. The family befriended me, took me camping, gave me alcohol, treated me really nicely...

  His wife told me "it" was just part of a "therapeutic massage," something he'd evidently been trained in - yet here in BC he was doing business for Trim-Line." He had been a teacher in a high school in Saskatoon. I wondered why they'd left Saskatchwan with him being a teacher (my outright questions to this never really answered) to come to BC to put stickers on cars. It didn't make sense.

  Although I told the elders about everything that happened...in the end I always thougtht that I was disbelievied (3 different times - within 5 years!). I bared my soul to them, and nothing seemed to be done. You'd think that if things were done in a committee situation, they'd at least let the victim know the outcome of the meeting. This is not the case. You're left "out in the cold," with no other information, except to "wait on Jehovah." You think Jehovah sees all and knows all and will make things right...but that's not what happens.

  He died of a heart attack 10 years later...or I'd probably be in court today. This Cult deserves a demise that it forcasts for Babylon the Great. It, it my opinion, is a part of it!
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  Daryl Tucker commits suicide.

  by dogon in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i do not know if anyone knew daryl tucker of vanderbuilt, congergation in michigan.

  i just got word that his wife of 28 years left him and he shot himself.

  even though he was a witness he was one of the good ones.

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  misguided

  (((hugs))) how traumatic for you and his family.
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  DC Drama 2008: A dream come true for the GB

  by outofthebox in

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  2. friends

  for years the gb has been creating these dramas for the conventions, trying to use the bible to provoke guilt trips and make the r/f obey, but none of those have the whole message they wanted to get across, meaning: "the perfect jw family".

  so, they decided to create this non-biblical account and voila!

  they have the perfect drama.

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  An interesting end...to the supposed perfect family...real life....

  1. A complete perfect JW family (no monoparental)

  I was raised 3rd generation, non-monoparental, in a JW family...

  1. A perfect teenager with no desire for comedy, fun or entertainment (basically a GB member in the body of a girl)

  Yup, that'd be me...and turning everybody, my brother, friends, anyone who wasn't following officially the "perfect" jw into the elders...

  1. A representation of themselves: The John Class!

  Yes, my grandmother, on her deathbead at 98 (almost 99) telling my son to listen to the witnesses (while shunning me), when I took him to see him to see her one last time (with me pleading with him to go see her...that it's not about him...it's about giving her closure...especially since she kept saying she was sure she was going to live to see armaggeddon, and survive into the new system ...this past weekend...

  1. A dead JW that went to another city to work. For the extra touch

  almost got killed (well, that's probably an overstatement...he ran a stop sign, nearly nailed me in the driver's side door of my car (i was turning left onto the street he missed the stop sign of), but a dump truck hit him first, and, (amost miraculously ) hit him out of my path by a mere foot to foot and a half...by someone I recognize as a JW today...bizarre really...

  1. A crazy apostate with all his bad qualities

  that''d be me.

  1. A sexual deviant wordly person that desire little girls

  that'd be my kids' grandfather, he has a baby with is daughter. Oh yes, he is a JW. (I was also molested by 2 JW's ... one an elder, one a "brother".) in the 80s

  1. A pefectly family that want to go and preach where is more need

  Yup, that'd be my family....

  1. A father with no desire to get more money

  Yup, a famiy, who could have a good retirement...but turned it down...to keep their "live's simple." This cult has taken so much from my parents/grandparents. They're so "faithful.." it makes me want to puke.
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  Did you ever go in field service after realizing it was not the truth?

  by Samuel Thorsen in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i did not, but i did fs when i had seriuos doubts and i thougt some householders had pretty good arguments some times, but i could not admit it of course.. and i did fs for a long time after i realized the magazines was very very poor.

  i still remember my very last hour from door to door.

  geee that was torture, i hatet myself and hoped no one was at home.. do you remember your last fs hour?

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  I quite honestly cannot remember my last day in field service...although I think it was round about the year 1999/2000.

  I feel embarrassed now to think that I spent 35 (well, maybe 30...some I was just an infant) years of my life preaching a lie. I feel horrible for having dragged my children out in FS and subjecting them to it. I'm glad I never brought anyone into it.
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  well, we had a baby...

  by drew sagan in

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  i've mentioned this to a few jwd friends but haven't posted it.

  on september 1, 2008 me and my wife (who posts here as 'amber rose') had a baby boy.

  just wanted to share!

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  Congratulations! He's a cutie!
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  How often do you go to the meetings at the KH this year?

  by asilentone in

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  2. friends

  the only meeting that i went is the memorial this year.

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  funerals...no, their now called, "memorials" (glorified recruitment meetings) are the only events that jave got me to enter the KH in the past few years.

  Unfortunatley, I'm going to have to attend another one in the next few weeks.

  No meeting or anti-jesus memorial since 2005.
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  Black Widow Spider bites beware!

  by Thechickennest in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this year in our part of the county all spiders and black widows seem to more visable this year than in previous years.

  this brings me to the subject i would like to share with all in with idea that someone might saved some agony.. last thursday night just before i was going bed, a large black spider fell out of my pajama shorts to the floor landing in between my feet.i tried to step back but the spider spun a web between my feet and when i moved the spider moved!

  i finally got a good look at the spider before i wrapped her in tp and flushed her down the toilet.

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  We have black widow spiders where we live. When my son, now 11, was about 2, one came through the garage into our laundry room. It got into the laundry pile, and while I was putting a load into the machine it came out and bit my little guy on the ankle. I freaked. I put the spider into a jar, and headed off to the ER with him.

  His ankle got very red and swollen. At the ER, they were not in any panic. The ER doctor says to me, that yes, it is a "classic black widow bite," commented on how quickly the female spider had made a web in the jar, and then told me that for some reason, in BC the spider's bites are usually no worse than a bee sting. He was fine - so I guess they were right.
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  Autism Times six.. on discovery health

  by Cc81 in

  1. social
  2. family

  has anybody seen the ads on the discovery health channel for the show autism times 6?

  they have 6 children and apparently all 6 of the children have autism.

  i was doing some reading about this family.. its very sad.

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  When I was 16 weeks pregnant with my last baby, he was diagnosed with a condition called cystic hygroma (also known as cystic lymphangioma). He had a huge sack of lymphatic fluid that grew off the neck of my baby like a big balloon. He had the more deadly septatious version...where the sack was divided into sectors. This sack went from the head of the fetus down to his mid-back (ultrasound pics are available.)

  I was still a JW at the time. The medical field suggested that it would be best that I abort my baby, because there was and 80 percent or more chance it would either have a chromosomal abnormality, heart, brain, or liver defects. They gave him a very little chance of survival even, stating that most pregnancies in which this occurs, a condition called fetal hydrops occurs, and the fetus dies, usually by the 25th week.

  I wanted to abort. I was hoping that it would happen spontaneously. He was my 6th baby - the father was abusive to my other kids and myself. It was his first baby. But, my JW conscious chose to let "j" decide.

  By the 28th week, this baby was kicking...and Im thinking for a baby that's supposed to by dying, he's kicking pretty hard...

  He turned 11 this month. He's challenged mentally, with an IQ of around 74. He's no trouble. He's not autistic in any way...just slow. I wouldn't think for a moment to "send him back." He has no chromosomal, heart, liver, or any heath issues...He brings joy to our lives. I guess what I'm trying to say is that...

  Sometimes abortion for medical reasons is (in my opinion) a good option. Sometimes the medical profession is wrong. No one should be judged for the choice they make. The medical profession is not infallible; and, as a result, you could take their advice and abort a perfect fetus. Or, the medical profession coud be right, and you could give birth to a child with a defect. As in my case, it could be somewhere in the middle. Either way, in my opinion, it is up to the individuals (mom & dad) to make that descision, and no one should judge another's choice.