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remembrance day (also known as poppy day, armistice day and veterans day) is a memorial day observed in commonwealth countries since the end of world war i to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.

Mary

As a witness you are taught to diminish this loss as a waste of life, now we show appreciation for all those who were caught up in conflict and did what they could even to the point of death.

Ya, it's ridiculous how insane their thinking is: thousands of Witnesses can die due to their "no blood" doctrine and that's something they're proud of. Yet people who they don't even know, went off to fight and give their lives in war so that these same ungratefuls could enjoy the freedom of religion that they deny their own followers.

Makes perfect sense eh?

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Remembrance Day Today 11th hour 11th day 11th month 2011

by finallysomepride in

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just 11am in queensland australia.

from wikipedia:.

remembrance day (also known as poppy day, armistice day and veterans day) is a memorial day observed in commonwealth countries since the end of world war i to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.

Mary

I was getting some groceries the other day and got a poppy off of a WWII veteran, who insisted on pinning it on my sweater which I thought was very sweet of him. He was 90 years old and served over in France and said he still thinks about all those who went over with him but never came back home.

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I'm sorry, but I have to say this re Kim Kardashian (fluff thread, sort of)...

by AGuest in

but i do so to be fair (may you all have peace!):.

if she were my daughter, and kris humphries said to her what he said to ms. kim, when she voiced her concerns (again) about not wanting to move to minnesota (which she did before getting married and he "pretended" to accept), i might tell her he's the wrong guy/man, too.

no, i don't believe in divorce "just because,"... and don't know that i would tell my daughter to divorce him (she made her bed, so to say), but.... what did he say?

Mary

'cause after awhile no one's gonna care about YOU anymore, anyway."

'After a while'? I don't know anyone who cares about her now. I didn't even know who she was up until her separation was announced a few days ago. Imagine: $10 million for a marriage that didn't even last 3 months. And Americans wonder why their society is going bankrupt both monetary and morally.

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Is There A Nice Way To Say, 'It's Dying?'?

by metatron in

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i got into one of those extended conversations with relatives i haven't spoken to in ages.

it was full of things unsaid and careful avoidance of saying too much about the organization.

lots of nice social hypocrisy, so nobody gets upset in the fairy-tale world of watchtower-ism.. is there any discreet, tactful, inoffensive way to tell them, "the organization is dying"?

Mary

Is There A Nice Way To Say, 'It's Dying?'

How about:

"...The Organization is passing away and so its desire......."

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Is There A Nice Way To Say, 'It's Dying?'?

by metatron in

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i got into one of those extended conversations with relatives i haven't spoken to in ages.

it was full of things unsaid and careful avoidance of saying too much about the organization.

lots of nice social hypocrisy, so nobody gets upset in the fairy-tale world of watchtower-ism.. is there any discreet, tactful, inoffensive way to tell them, "the organization is dying"?

Mary

Billy said: I never expected that they would have to discontinue Gilead

OK. I missed that one. Somebody wanna fill me in?

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Millions now living with emotional scars..... scars that will never die.

by koolaid-man in

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many former jehovah's witnesses are now coming forward and reporting of traumatizing events when they were young witnesses, that have left them emotionally chalenged and scarred.. crying babies only weeks old are taken in the back room of the kingdom hall and spanked, many young jw's are severely beaten with belts, rulers, wooden spoons ect.. the physical abuse in the organization is extreme and excessive...... but it does not stop there.. when a jw youth is disfellowshipped the emotional damage can be very dangerous even pushing many to commit suicide.. one of our guests on the six screens of the watchtower conference call sat.

nov 5, 2011 at7:pm edt is a former jw named shane who was disfellowshipped at age 16 and has been suffering for many years since then.. .

our second guest is former jw joe hewitt the author of the new book rescuing slaves of the watchtower.. .

Mary

Crying Babies only weeks old are taken in the back room of the Kingdom Hall and spanked

I heard one even more disturbing than that. A few years ago, there was another ex-Witness site called Thoms Chat that some of us were on. I remember one poster relating something that happened in her old congregation: The CO was visiting and he noticed that a 7 or 8 month pregnant sister was tapping her stomach with her pen. He asked her about it afterwards and she replied that she thought it was never too early to try and get your children to "sit still" during the meeting and since the baby was kicking in her womb (how dare they!), she thought she'd "correct it" and that's why she was tapping her stomach.

That was probably 5 or 6 years ago now so I can only imagine the beatings that poor kid has endured since leaving the womb. Frigging psycho people....

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Dec.15th WT -WTS Expects JW's to Preach Despite Chronic Illness - Sick !

by flipper in

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in the dec.15th jw only version in an article titled " do not let illness rob you of joy " it promotes being a martyr in jehovah's witnesses preaching door to door in spite of debilitating and often life threatening illnesses .

ask yourself if jesus would have stood with a whip to the back of his disciples if they had these illnesses or medical conditions ??.

under the subheading entitled " they keep preaching despite chronic illness " with pictures of these alleged sick people sharing how they " sacrifice " to spread the wt society's message i will share the quotes with my takes.. izabella who suffers depression states, " i like the door to door ministry , but when i am not feeling up to it , i engage in telephone witnessing.

Mary

Ah yes.....don't let little things like depression or life-threatening illnesses prevent you from banging on peoples doors Saturday mornings. Remember the sister with the iron lung who somehow 'preached' for years before she died? It's nothing but another scare & guilt tactic to try and get those numbers up.

The only positive thing about field serve-us, is that it got people out of the house and got them a bit of exercise. In the nicer weather, I can understand how Service could help some, simply because it's a proven fact that both the sun and physical exercise can help eleviate depression. However, I find it disturbing that they are hinting that even if you have cancer, that's no excuse to stop Serve-Us. The fact that the patient is probably having chemo or radiation and should NOT be around alot of people since their immune system would be very low during this time, is totally ignored. Not to mention that the person would have no energy to be going out knocking on doors. Do these idiots have any functioning braincells at all?

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Insanity starting tonight

by JeffT in

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national novel writing month starts at midnight.

last year i wrote 52000 words in 29 days.

may not be so fast this year as i'm starting a new freelance gig.

Mary

Make sure you count it as time on your Field Serve-Us Report Jeff. Then send it into Crooklyn!