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  Could Britain become a racists paradise?

  by Gill in

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  my husband works for an engineering company.

  he is a highly skilled engineer and runs the maintenance department.

  in britain at the moment it is very difficult to find highly skilled engineers and so firms have been recruiting abroad, only to find that these 'high' skills are just as rare abroad and also nearly as expensive.. so, my husbands firm have basically decided, to cut costs, they have written out a new contract for all their workers.

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  no sick pay, etc.? Welcome to America.
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  Personal Ethics of XJWs

  by NanaR in

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  while reading on jwd last night and this morning, i was reminded of a situation that i had with my husband when i told him i was not ever going back to the kingdom hall (this happened in october 2006 so relatively recently).

  this statement should not have come as a great surprise to him, as he knows that i now belong to the american legion auxiliary (in fact i am the local unit president), that i vote, and that i helped convince our daughter to have a blood transfusion that may have saved her life.

  also i had told him in the past that he should not set up any meetings for me with the elders as i would not talk to them.. in spite of his knowledge of my present activities, his reaction to my "never going back" statement was severe.

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  I think you've about said it all! Good for you, and THANK YOU for sharing!!!
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  think you've guessed someone's identity?

  by J-ex-W in

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  i'm just curious.

  i wonder how many readers out there think the stuff they've read sound so much like someone they know that they're going, ohmigawd!!

  or if circumstances described seem like big fat give-aways.

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  Abandoned---- Here's looking forward to HI Def! Oh, wait...I'm not supposed to toast......
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  think you've guessed someone's identity?

  by J-ex-W in

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  i'm just curious.

  i wonder how many readers out there think the stuff they've read sound so much like someone they know that they're going, ohmigawd!!

  or if circumstances described seem like big fat give-aways.

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  Abandoned---- ...I appreciate the encouragement.......but I have no idea what that last figure of speech means. ??
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  I Am An Atheist

  by Abandoned in

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  wow!

  i am currently enjoying richard dawkins the god delusion.

  i was reading chapter one and going, "yeah, yeah!

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  Right now it's not so much 'terms' I'm looking at; it's perspectives. Terms can come in later.
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  think you've guessed someone's identity?

  by J-ex-W in

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  i'm just curious.

  i wonder how many readers out there think the stuff they've read sound so much like someone they know that they're going, ohmigawd!!

  or if circumstances described seem like big fat give-aways.

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  Well...don't know that I am........just hoping/ wishing it would be so. More wishful thinking than anything. Like that elder, calling himself 'lurker,' who posted tonight. Right now he's my fantasy elder [please take this with a grain of salt, lurker]. I would LIKE to BELIEVE that he's the elder who tried to help me and my ex-husband so much (but who's hands were really tied because of WTS policies). He, about a year or two ago--two, I think--very nearly left the org. because of a C.O. bastard [yes, I said it!] and whatever else this elder is aware of that I'm not.

  You know...it would just be nice to believe that someone who I believe is a genuine, kind soul finally made the sanity-saving jump. And, of course, the selfish part of the fantasy comes in: That at least part of what motivated him to leave is what he has seen of unjust handling of ME...MY family's situation.

  Still smarting quite a bit here, obviously. Enough to really need a person 'in the know' be also IN MY CORNER, I guess.
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  I Am An Atheist

  by Abandoned in

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  wow!

  i am currently enjoying richard dawkins the god delusion.

  i was reading chapter one and going, "yeah, yeah!

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  Abandoned----- I've been wondering where you're at. When you're done with the book, can I borrow it?
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  think you've guessed someone's identity?

  by J-ex-W in

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  i'm just curious.

  i wonder how many readers out there think the stuff they've read sound so much like someone they know that they're going, ohmigawd!!

  or if circumstances described seem like big fat give-aways.

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  I'm just curious. I wonder how many readers out there think the stuff they've read sound so much like someone they know that they're going, Ohmigawd!! Or if circumstances described seem like big fat give-aways. Sometimes I read something that I would SWEAR is someone I know...or that I would at least hope is someone I know....
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  I don't know what to make of this one

  by truthsetsonefree in

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  check out this email i got from a jw today: .

  the recall of all humans .

  the maker of human beings is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of make or year, due to a serious defect in the primary central component, or heart.

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  DEPRESSION is a sign of lost moral judgment... HUH???
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  UPDATE!: THEY ALL ADMITTED EGGING US -Elders now know, heads are rolling!!

  by Lady Liberty in

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  oh.... how the saga goes on!!

  i swear we could write a novel about our life exiting the watchtower!!

  ok..many of you read what happened..our house was egged and so was my sisters car that was parked here, and "frosty" was attacked!!

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