Madame Quixote

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  Someone please inform me as to why I have not gotten enthusiastic response

  by Shawn10538 in

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  ... from you jwd members, to my idea to bombard bethel with phone calls.

  it seems to me to be a very effective way to protest and i have had great experiences with it.

  i just can't understand the lackluster response from you all.

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  Madame Quixote

  Yeah - give us the number - we'll call - when we're sober - maybe.
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  Restaurants and bad experiences

  by greendawn in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  people in countries like the usa and britain take for granted eating out as if eating always at home will be a maddening experience, the social dimension with a change of environment is needed.

  but there are some bad experiences as this: once in a restaurant i went to pay before eating my pancakes and as my companion also went to the toilet at the same time one of them went and very quickly in seconds took away the pancakes which were totally intact, without me seeing them from the paying point.

  very sneaky.

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  Half-way through a salad, found a pubic hair in it. Also, found a thumb-tack in some take-home last year.
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  Favorite love songs

  by littlerockguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anybody got a favorite love song?

  if i name one i would later probably name another one that i like better so i can't say i have a favorite.

  i will post an old one i like; love the foreign accent of this 70s group, lol.

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  Madame Quixote

  Ooo yeah! "Love Me Tender" by Elvis and "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper.
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  Favorite love songs

  by littlerockguy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  anybody got a favorite love song?

  if i name one i would later probably name another one that i like better so i can't say i have a favorite.

  i will post an old one i like; love the foreign accent of this 70s group, lol.

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  Madame Quixote

  "Imagine" by John Lennon, a love song for humanity. And a romantic love song or two I adore: "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers and for love of one's children and grandchildren: "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler On The Roof. Also, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."
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  Are Jw's trained to be just plain mean spirited?

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  not long ago, i would have defended them slightly with opinions about those 'under mind control' etc.

  but the further i get from jw think, the more i believe that jw's are just plain mean and hateful asses!

  two situations that i relate in my life.. 1- an elder i know works in a grocery store.

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  "It's nothing peculiar to JWs. Do a Google search for the "Milgram Experiment". It turns out MOST people will obediently do hurtful things to others when someone in a position of apparent authority tells them to." -Tenebreaux Good point, Tenebreux, and it is perhaps why many here have repeatedly brought up discussions of this classic experiment.
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  I told a lie

  by purplesofa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i very rarely lie, but i took off work for personal reasons, and that was not a good enough explanation so i told an acceptable lie which no one really gives a rats ass or not.. there was a time when the telling the truth about eveything was important to me.

  i thought it made a difference.

  sometimes i suffered for telling the truth.

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  But you fail to realize that in another parallel universe you did take off work for exactly the reason you gave. That's a lie! But only in an un-parallel universe!
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  Hey! An all-purpose mental healt med!

  by Madame Quixote in

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  2. friends

  common uses:

  "this medicine is used to prevent or treat seizures.

  this medcine is used to treat acute manic episodes.

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  Common Uses: "This medicine is used to prevent or treat seizures. This medcine is used to treat acute manic episodes. This medicine is used to treat anxiety. This medicine is used to treat multifacial tic disorder. This medicine is used to treat painful nerve diseases. This medicine is used to treat panic attack. This medicine is used to treat Parkinson's disease. This medicine is used to treat restless leg syndrome. This medicine is used to treat schizophrenia." I wonder if it can be used to treat cats.
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  I told a lie

  by purplesofa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i very rarely lie, but i took off work for personal reasons, and that was not a good enough explanation so i told an acceptable lie which no one really gives a rats ass or not.. there was a time when the telling the truth about eveything was important to me.

  i thought it made a difference.

  sometimes i suffered for telling the truth.

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  Madame Quixote

  Purps - If I ever manage to be able to afford a new sofa, it will be purple, in honor of you! Fewer black and white approaches, where ever possible! Good for you, ya' lyin' liar, you!
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and Showing Off

  by Good Girl or Bad Girl? in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i guess it's convention time again back in wisconsin or illinois or wherever the hell they drive nowadays.

  someone made me unfortunately have to remember this.

  so i got to thinking about the conventions and the showing off that took place there:.

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  "And then when I realize my family is at the convention and my mother is no doubt depressed because I'm not there and that makes me angry. I'm angry because I miss my mother desperately, and because she will never see the truth about "The Truth." And she won't allow herself to have any kind of normal relationship with me because of my choice to not be there."
  
  But how is your choice not to be there forcing her to do something so abnormal? She has also made a choice, based on many irrational assumptions about you and the outside world. If your mother is depressed, it is more the result of her sickness, and far away from the fact that you aren't at her dumb convention, sharing her misery and familiar pain. Her depression is not about you. It is about her. Period.
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  Re: Record Length of time as JW

  by fedorE in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i cant find any stats on jws #'s re disfellowshipping.

  does anyone know of any studies?.

  by no means is this "statistically sound" but its of intrest on the #'s that emerge from about 28 persons, the years are respectively:.

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  Madame Quixote

  "I would love to know what % are Dfd for apostasy in relation to other issues." Self-reporting on a public forum is a dubious, if not unscientific method of research; although it's interesting! If only one can account for duplicates and those unable to report their experiences objectively . . . you would have a very long list of people whose reasons for disfellowshipping included, but were not limited to "apostacy," at least in our own opinions, (and in the elders' opinions, as well). It's actually quite complex, don't you think? I mean, there's your truth, my truth and the truth. You , me, the elders and the outside world - and the intervening years of reason and counseling (by actual professionals) to help un-distort and sort it out.