HappyGuy
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Working for a JW, what a horrible experience...
by HappyGuy inone of the things that made me start doubting the wtbts and jws was the way jws treat their jw employees.. i worked for jws several times.
the experience was always the same.. 1. pay was less than the going market rate for the same work at "worldly" companies.. 2. there were no benefits of any kind, no paid holidays, no sick time, no overtime, no insurance.. 3. whenever possible the jw forced the jw employees to pay their own company related expenses like gas, pager, company uniform, etc.. 4. any attempt to discuss the poor working conditions was always responded to with "but you get to make all the meetings and you get to go to the assemblies and you get to work for brothers.
" and, if you said "i would go to meetings regardless of who i worked for" and pushed back on that answer then they started in on your "loyalty" and you were unspritual if you questioned a "brother" and were not "loyal" to your employer.. 5. any attempt to find another job was met with harassment, being told you could not give the jw employer as a reference, being threatened with lawsuits, etc.. 6. the jw employers themselves were lazy and would not do the things they expected of their jw employees.. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------.
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Princess and the frog, best movie I have seen in a long time....
by HappyGuy ini don't usually go in for this sort of movie, but the princess and the frog is the best movie i have seen in a long time.. funny, charming, wholesome.
the attention to character detail and development is incredible.
a granny firefly with a walker, flying along with the other fireflies but pretending to walk with the walker.. my favorite line in the movie "i think i chipped my favorite tooth".
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Black Sabbath - Your favorite all time song from them, UTubes welcome
by HappyGuy inthis is a tough one.
so many to choose from.. i have to go with nib from their self titled first album.. "my name is lucifer, please take my hand...".
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The great coco nutty monkey adventure...you have to read this it's uncanny
by HappyGuy inokay, last night my wife is still on the road trying to get home, and she calls me and asks me to go to the store and buy her nephew a "coco nutty monkey" playdoh toy.
i have no idea what that is.
so, i go to toyz 'r us and i find it.. then i go next door to a clothing store to buy my wife a gift.. as i am coming out of the store a couple (black gangbanger types) are coming out of the store at the same time.
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...but luckily my wife's car ran off the road.
by HappyGuy inmy wife is traveling from new england to the deep south by car (i told her to fly, but nooooo).
she called me earlier today saying that she was in a bad snow storm.
i called the best hotel i could find at the next exit from where she was when she called me.
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An example of how nice "worldly" people are
by HappyGuy ini was seriously injured in desert storm.
long story.
my wife is out of town and i was going to give her a nice christmas by putting up a real tree, going crazy with tacky decorations, all that.
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The Theocratic Ministry School OVERSEER bits off more than he can chew
by HappyGuy ini distinctly remember the last talk i gave.
it was a talk in the "back" school.
everyone in the room was someone i had known most of my life.
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How "worldly" people REALLY view Jehovah's Witnesses
by HappyGuy inwhen you are a jw it is pounded into your head that the "world" hates you, wants to kill you, runs around saying all kinds of horrible things about you, and would take away all your rights, freedom of religion, etc, if it could.. when i first left the wtbts organization i told "worldly" friends and family about being a jehovah's witness.
not one of them said anything disrespectful, rude, insulting, or even unkind in any way.
i could just as well have said "i'm a baptist", or "i like comic books".. a few people who know that the wtbts is a cult were concerned over my emotional health, but that was out of a sense of friendship.. i have never met anyone who on hearing the phrase "jehovah's witness" got upset or said "those xxxxx".
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God and the golden hemorrhoids
by HappyGuy ini have been on a "totally messed up stories in the bible" kick lately.
here is one that i uncovered, i don't remember having read it before.
enjoy.. 1 samuel chapter 5. the philistines, having captured the ark of god, transferred it from ebenezer to ashdod.
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JW child forgotten and left behind at assembly when family goes home
by HappyGuy ini was a precocious child.
i started studying in april of 1973, i was 15, and was determined to be baptized at the international assembly in atlanta in july of 1973. my parents were opposed so i hitchhiked from beaufort sc to atlanta, a trip of about 6 hours.. as i was leaving on the last day to go hitchhike back to beaufort, i saw a 10 year old boy crying.
i asked him what was wrong and he said "my family forgot me and left without me".