I was casual friends with a girl from work the last year I was still living at home. She went on vacation and dropped by with a couple small souvenirs for me. Right after that, I started suffering from bad headaches and feeling crummy. My mom quizzed me about the origin of the gifts, my friend's background, religion, lifestyle, her friends, etc. She wanted me to throw out the gifts. I wound up at the doctor. Turns out I had a bad sinus infection and went on antibiotics. End of headaches.
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Minimus Is Demonized
by minimus ini posted this on a different thread regarding my mother but her sister (my aunt) told her that because i left the "truth" and am living my life outside of bible principles, that the "demons" are affecting her.
she told my mom that twice last week, "the demons pushed her" and caused her to fall.
because my mother associates with me and my mom associates with her sister----therefore the "contact" is made thru my mother to her.
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Does anyone find reading in here dpressing?
by klinton insorry to be a downer...but i'm just new here.
i've been scanning topics and reading people's various stories....and i have to say, a lot of what i'm seeing is just eating me up.
i've actually teared up a few times.
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No, it's really helpful to me. After being raised from a baby in the troof, a tiny piece of me wonders what if the end IS coming soon, they were right, and I really blew it. Reading the posts of so much evidence comforts me becuz I see, to my relief, they are not right. And, some of the posts are really funny, and I laugh my fanny off! The laughter is good for me before I go to work.
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Haunted Hall
by Virgogirl inwas it just me, or did anyone else experience unsettling, wierd vibes inside a kingdom hall?
it used to creep me out, it felt almost eerie and spooky inside.
sometimes we opened the doors on saturday afternoon to clean, and it was all dark and sinister inside when we entered, and it almost felt like something was in there, not good vibes, either.
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Was it just me, or did anyone else experience unsettling, wierd vibes inside a Kingdom Hall? It used to creep me out, it felt almost eerie and spooky inside. Sometimes we opened the doors on Saturday afternoon to clean, and it was all dark and sinister inside when we entered, and it almost felt like something was in there, not good vibes, either.
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WHAT DUB THINGS WILL YOU NEVER FORGET?
by Mary innow as much as no one wants to admit it, we all know that there are things we learned in the borg that we'll never forget even if we live to be a hundred.
what is something that you know you'll always remember (despite your best efforts to forget!
for me, it's matthew 24:14 and the names of the three hebrews thrown into the firey furnace (shadrach, meeee-shack and a-bed-we-go)
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Saturday mornings, listening for my parents to get up for field service...hoping they'd stay in bed. Stepping into the drafty Hall with it's very wierd, unsettling vibes, always spooky to me. Being so tired on a school night and having to wait around on my dad to come out of another late elder's meeting, trying to finish homework in the car under the streetlight. Forcing myself to chat up phony-friendly people to kill time till we could go home. Being instructed to make at least two comments at the Witchtower study, or dad would be SO disappointed I wasn't setting the example for the other kids; freezing up when the microphone(specially priveleged)guy came, and I couldn't think of anything deep and spiritual to wow them with. Bookstudy groups, where it was even harder to avoid participating cuz there were only 10 people there and five were snoring! Getting the evil eye for lip syncing the songs. Boredum! Always daydreamed how the speaker might look naked.
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info about selling houses and pioneering right before 1975???
by bitemeWT ini seem to remember a kingdom ministry (or was it a watchtower?
) that praised the bros. for selling their houses and using the last few years of "this old system of things" to pioneer... right before 1975. does anyone know which one it was?.
i need it for a ebay person that is calling their fellow bros and sis idiots if they thought that armageddon was coming in 1975.
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"Many marvelous priveleges" bla-bla = passing the microphones when someone gets elbowed to comment, cleaning the Hall on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, parking lot attendant, timing talks/buzzer-presser. etc. My parents turned down scholarship opportunities for me, but I'm so thankful they didn't bite for selling the house and pioneering till the end, cuz they'd be homeless now and still pounding the sidewalks!
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Skirting the issue
by Virgogirl inwhat argument is put forth that women must only wear dresses or skirts to the meetings or in service and are not permitted to wear slacks?
where does it say it's wrong for sisters to wear pants, and how are they convincing women in 2005 to buy into this?
i remember many bitterly cold chicago mornings with frozen legs running to doors and back to the warm car as quickly as possible, wearing a skirt which was ridiculous and inappropriate to the weather conditions.
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Virgogirl
So, maybe this is one of those things where they have taken a stand and don't know how to back down from it? Maybe "new light" will come to a dressing room in Brooklyn soon!
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Skirting the issue
by Virgogirl inwhat argument is put forth that women must only wear dresses or skirts to the meetings or in service and are not permitted to wear slacks?
where does it say it's wrong for sisters to wear pants, and how are they convincing women in 2005 to buy into this?
i remember many bitterly cold chicago mornings with frozen legs running to doors and back to the warm car as quickly as possible, wearing a skirt which was ridiculous and inappropriate to the weather conditions.
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Virgogirl
Yep! My last, best and final answer was, "Stop arguing with the elders!" (and gitcher little skirt on, sistah!) haha!
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Skirting the issue
by Virgogirl inwhat argument is put forth that women must only wear dresses or skirts to the meetings or in service and are not permitted to wear slacks?
where does it say it's wrong for sisters to wear pants, and how are they convincing women in 2005 to buy into this?
i remember many bitterly cold chicago mornings with frozen legs running to doors and back to the warm car as quickly as possible, wearing a skirt which was ridiculous and inappropriate to the weather conditions.
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Virgogirl
Exactly, lol! So a woman in a nice pantsuit at the Hall really wouldn't be adorning herself in the garb of a male, because males don't wear pantsuits!
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How many here were mistreated by their "elder" fathers?
by hubert ini am starting to notice some posts about ex-j.w.
's being mistreated, abused, by their fathers who were elders.. i wonder if this is quite common?.
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Mine seldom spanked me, but when he drank, he was verbally abusive and said cruel things sometimes that made me cry. At the Hall he was distant because he was too busy with important elder matters and meetings in the back room.
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underfunded and desperate?
by colorado5591 inhey!
what site can you recommend to buy the cheapest plane ticket?
my g-pa is sick and i need to get from dallas to burbank or lax california?
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Virgogirl
I've had great fares from Airfare.com and Airgorilla. Better than Travelocity.