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  The Jehovah's Witness Cult Hires Illegal Immigrants

  by lisavegas420 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  working in retail management is a never ending adventure.

  you never know what is lurking around the next corner.

  such was the case about six months ago when my boss asked me to stay over on a sunday night to watch the store while a floor cleaning crew did a strip and wax.. now with my self being a former jehovah's witness, i already knew that a great deal of the jw's owned and operated their own floor cleaning buisnesses, and there was a good chance that the floor crew on that sunday night would more than likely be a jw operation.. when the guys first walked in, i just had a feeling that my hunch was right.

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  Turn them in to the congr.

  Well, that's the problem. The other elders in the cong. have been aware of it all along. They just bury their heads in the sand because they are all friends, and they've all been elders in the KH for 20-30 years. Part of my gripe with the cong. has always been that it's very stagnant. Same old elders, same old families, they all pat each other's backs, so nothing is ever wrong on their part. The elder in question has been the WT conductor for as long as I've known. We were assimilated about 14 years ago, and he was the WT conductor then and still is (as far as I know). He has always been very close friends with the Presiding Overseer (who's also annointed, for what that's worth). So, as always, nothing will change. But, I don't care anymore 'cuz I'm OUT! It would make my day if he was audited by the IRS.
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  The Jehovah's Witness Cult Hires Illegal Immigrants

  by lisavegas420 in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  working in retail management is a never ending adventure.

  you never know what is lurking around the next corner.

  such was the case about six months ago when my boss asked me to stay over on a sunday night to watch the store while a floor cleaning crew did a strip and wax.. now with my self being a former jehovah's witness, i already knew that a great deal of the jw's owned and operated their own floor cleaning buisnesses, and there was a good chance that the floor crew on that sunday night would more than likely be a jw operation.. when the guys first walked in, i just had a feeling that my hunch was right.

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  We experienced this first hand. We subcontracted office cleaning accounts from a long-standing elder in our former congregation. It was well-known that he hired illegal immigrants to clean for him. He gave the same stupid reasoning, that they were here in the US to worship Jehovah freely and he was helping them by employing them. He felt as though this was a case of "Obeying Jehovah before the wordly government". It always bothered us that he was so pious about being an elder and never missed a meeting, etc. but willingly broke the law, and no one ever held him accountable.
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  Bracing for 12-16 inches of snow in Indiana

  by exwitless in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a blizzard is heading our way tonight and tomorrow.

  they've already cancelled schools ahead of time.

  good thing i have a huge stash of home made hot chocolate mix!

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  We have a good 19 inches of snow on the ground now. It's bitter cold and windy. Drifts are rediculously high. They've extended our snow emergency until 5 p.m. today. Virtually EVERYTHING is closed-schools, county offices, banks, you name it. The only people out are ones who have a snow plow on their trucks. Even county snow plow trucks are getting stuck. Exwitless.
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  Bracing for 12-16 inches of snow in Indiana

  by exwitless in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a blizzard is heading our way tonight and tomorrow.

  they've already cancelled schools ahead of time.

  good thing i have a huge stash of home made hot chocolate mix!

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  Sorry to hear about the ice and power outages. We currently have 17" on the ground and 1-3 more are on the way. The drifts are really bad. Everything is closing for tomorrow; we're under a snow emergency. Our blizzard warning will continue until tomorrow a.m. This is definitely a record-breaking blizzard for our area.
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  Bracing for 12-16 inches of snow in Indiana

  by exwitless in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a blizzard is heading our way tonight and tomorrow.

  they've already cancelled schools ahead of time.

  good thing i have a huge stash of home made hot chocolate mix!

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  Mrs.Jones-how's it looking for your interview tomorrow? They've officially called a snow emergency where we are, so we could get a hefty fine if we're out driving except in special circumstances.

  Your dinner sounds great. I can almost taste it
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  Bracing for 12-16 inches of snow in Indiana

  by exwitless in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a blizzard is heading our way tonight and tomorrow.

  they've already cancelled schools ahead of time.

  good thing i have a huge stash of home made hot chocolate mix!

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  How are the rest of you Hoosiers doing? So far, we have approx. 11 inches on the ground; the snow has been dumping down since midnight last night and hasn't stopped; in fact, it won't stop until after midnight tonight. The winds are very strong. I just walked down our long driveway to get the newspaper and it was brutal!!! Even with boots and a snowsuit on! The snow hitting my face hurt, and the wind chill factor is about -11 F. I shoveled off our back step about 45 minutes ago, and now there's a good inch piled up again on it. I'm going to go make some hot chocolate now. Stay warm and safe, everyone.
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  What was the most hypocritcal thing you saw at the kingdom Hall ?

  by Handsome Dan in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  here's one that comes to mind : are c o gave a sunday morning talk i remember and the theme of the talk was " the dangers of materialistic desires ".

  well after the meeting me and my jw buddies who usually hung out by the cars in the summer were checking out what was a brand new black chysler imperial, big and beautiful with .

  burgundy leather interior we were just wowed and we wondered who owns that ?

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  Being encouraged not to work for material things...as a newly married couple, we gave up good paying jobs to have a cleaning business (LONG story) and bought a mobile home because we thought it would be materialistic to build a brand new home, even though we could have afforded it if we had kept our good jobs. Now the elders and their wives in our former congregation all have really nice houses, some of them built brand new, nice cars, nice furniture, go on vacations to Europe frequently, and so on.

  Another one...constantly being hounded about "regular meeting attendance"; who would you guess were the most likely to miss meetings often? ELDER'S WIVES. Most of the elder's wives missed the meetings very frequently; usually because they 'had a headache' or 'were worn out'. Jeez-if I missed a meeting every time I had a headache or was worn out, I would've never attended a single meeting! And, to boot, most of the elder's wives didn't work outside the home. But heaven forbid, if you were a rank-and-file JW, you couldn't miss one meeting without someone calling saying "We missed you at the meeting...(silence, as they wait for your excuse)"; never mind if you worked full time and had kids and so on.
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  Credit card stolen...

  by Jim_TX in

  1. social
  2. humour

  did ya hear about the fella who had his credit card stolen?.

  he never reported it to the police.. .

  turns out... the individual who stole it was charging less on it than his wife did.. .

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  ExW...
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  Cuckoo!

  by Paralipomenon in

  1. social
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  cuckooed 3 times.

  cuckooed another 9 times.

  said, "well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said, "oh .

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  exwitless

  Hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh.
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  Bracing for 12-16 inches of snow in Indiana

  by exwitless in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a blizzard is heading our way tonight and tomorrow.

  they've already cancelled schools ahead of time.

  good thing i have a huge stash of home made hot chocolate mix!

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  I did get my normal groceries on Sunday, and so yes, I did buy bread and milk. The thing that irks me is that usually the "milk-bread run" people are the ones that live 5 minutes away from a store. So when people like me, who actually live out in the country where the nearest store is 20-30 minutes away, go to the store, all that's left is generic wheat bread that no one else wants. It's a mentality, really, that people think they have to "stock up" before a storm. Have your regular ammenities and maybe a little extra, but don't go bonkers. In this day and age, how often is it really that it storms so badly we physically can't get out to get more food before we starve to death?

  A side funny story: this morning on the news, they interviewed a local grocery store manager about people "stocking up". He said everyone's buying bread, milk, and eggs, so apparently whenever there's a big snow storm, everyone needs to make French Toast for some reason!