i hated going from door to door.
it was really bad when the neighbors would call each other and say that we had arrived.. what pests we were!.
now, i don't bother anyone if i can help it!
Knock Knock:
HH: Merry Christmas what can I do for you
UberBud: Christmas is a pegan and heres a poorly put together cupon book of a magazine telling you why
HH: Ive seen the error in my ways, how much shall I donate? Shall we do a bathtub babtizum?
I mean really...
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can anyone confirm the WTBTS gets a kickback from hotels for filling them up?
my oldest child was barely 4 months old and not an easy baby.
she cried all the time....and getting her to sleep during the day was a pain.....especially in a facility that was 80 degrees with a/c.
on sunday afternoon of the dc....knowing we had a two hour drive home (she also didn't sleep in the car well).....i went to an "off limits" area with her.
After nearly 30 years of going to a DC plus two other assemblies per year I honestly cannot think of a single positive thing about it. I look at the DC’s as a 4 day nonstop brain washing session. It starts months before you even leave your home. You cannot chose your own hotel, you must pick one off of a list…. A few weeks before the event there is a public needs talk that tells you everything from how to behave in the hotel room that you paid for à how to tip a waitress after a meal. The prep people on how to behave in public and everything. The whole process is horrible. I actually look forward to the weekend where my local area goes to them it gives me some sort of sick pleasure thinking of them sitting in there suffering. wahahhaahah
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I have never understood how these big sports complexes somehow manage to park hundreds if not thousands of cars once a week all season long without 100 guys standing around flapping their arms "directing" yet the most loving organization in the world cannot park themselves without instruction.
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They are not very good at negotiations either. I remember several years in a row we went to convention in a sports arena...that had concession stands selling food... before the convnention we cleaned the place spotless, removing trashbags full of popcorn and wrappers and empty cups from past games... we spit cleaned the place when we left too and yet we were not allowed "due to contractual reasons" to eat in the seating area.
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The post about people racing for OJ and Barrel seats at the Hawthorn Racetrack reminded me of something I witnessed while working at a DC several years in a row… Ok so it wasn’t quite fist fighting but I’m pretty sure someone wanted too. I know I did.
So inevitably when the doors open at 8am there is a line of people waiting just itching to get in to the hellhole and get “the good seats”. The place we had DC’s was in the desert and the brothers (rumor had it) were too cheap to pay the extra fee for the AC so they just used fans. So imagine if you will the outside temperature being north of 100 degrees F and by north I mean at times it was 110 in the parking lot. You are in a basically a big tin building with 3,000-5,000 of your CLOSEST friends with no AC aaaaand this thing lasts hours upon hours.
The good seats were either on the floor or the coveted few sections where the fans were pointed. I was working the front door one year and was the guy who got to open them to the masses.
So there we are, a half dozen attendants VS a few hundred of gods people and we are the only thing standing between them and the next 8 hours of pure hell. Anyway, when the doors finally opened it was like a scene from a war movie. People were running in heels and suits to get the good seats. If someone fell down they would all but trample others to get in. I saw elbows being thrown, arguments flaring up it was truly a sight to see.
I noticed a family with someone who was obviously a study (dressed in jeans and a nice shirt) standing clear of the mayhem and once the herd of zealots fought their way in the study walked past me and I heard him tell his escort “You JW’s will die for each other in a concentration camp but you will kill each other over a lousy seat?”
yes, this month is the presidential election in my country and im going to exercise my right of voting .......... what im not sure about is if i let mom know, she is still a jw and im basically fading so, i dont want to mess it up, but at the same time i feel that i shoul be free for once and all.
i dont live with her anymore but that would break her heart, and she has high blood pressure problems so, why to bother?
i dont know :s.
My wife and I registered and voted for the first time here in the USA last November. It felt like we were finally part of something real, it was nice to have some control or at the very least have some sort of say in the laws and representation that gets handed down to us. That was a sobering moment compared to the way everything is forced on us by the WTBTS.
do any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
Wha Happened-
Amen to that,
I had forgotten all about the insomnia. I have had a script for Ambien for several years that I had to take every night otherwise I wouldn’t sleep… Since I started smoking every day I only fill it when I run out of weed. In my life alone smoking weed has replaced at least 4 prescriptions I would be taking daily just to function. I know that sounds horrible and it is, but that is what my generation is, pill poppers.
I too abuse alcohol, I used to drink a fifth of whatever was cheap every day or so… I maybe have one drink a month now… probably more like half a drink a month as I never finish it.
do any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
Here is perhaps the biggest benefit in my opinion:
It is non-addictive and you cannot die from an overdose. The drug THC itself will not take ahold of your soul the way many prescriptions and street drugs do (see Xanax, painkillers, crack, meth…). I now smoke every single day of the week, I do so by choice not out of need. I found out after getting my friend hooked up with a doctor that knew the subject well that a few of my weird medical issues could be aided with a puff instead of a pill. I now treat my mild depression, ulcer and social anxiety/anxiety in general with a few puffs a day. I can stop (and do) anytime I want too. If family is coming over for a visit or I am going to visit them, I leave it behind. No shakes, no cold sweats, emotional outbursts… just depression, anxiety, and heartburn lol. If anyone tells you they are “addicted” too MJ they are lying. They are in fact addicted to the relief it brings them.
As far as overdoses, there has not been a single not ONE death every caused by someone smoking too much weed. Smoking weed and taking pills, yes. Smoking weed and drinking booze, yes. Smoking weed, drinking booze and taking pills, yes. Pills alone, Yes. Weed alone, Never.
do any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
MMJ is a subject near and dear to my heart. A few years ago I had “a friend” who had a very serious medical condition that caused an unholy amount of pain and nausea that could not be treated. He had buckets of Vicoden and other chemistry that the doctor prescribed but they just caused him more issues, like a bleeding stomach, constipation, and the fact that he was quite literally nonfunctional when he took his full dose. Long story short, the side effects of the drugs and the potential for a very nasty addiction made him think twice taking them, it was a horrible cycle and frankly he was contemplating suicide.
Being good little MS JW’s we had never touched MJ, I had some worldly friends who were MJ patients and had recently had a family member go through cancer treatment so I had studied up on the effects and the potential good things that could come from it.
Anyway, my buddy and I were scheduled to go to a concert one weekend a few years ago and he tried to bail on me, well he did bail on me. He said he was in too much pain to do it and he couldn’t take the drugs due to his stomach so he was just going to kick back at home and wait to die or help the process along. Either way he was in a very bad place.
Being the good friend I am I took action, bought a small bag and then got him a small water pipe and headed over. That night changed his life. The MJ took care of pain and nausea within about 10 minutes. Alas the magic plant had masked what modern medicine could not. My buddy ended up getting his “Green Card” meaning he got a prescription from a doctor saying he needed MJ and that provided him some protection from the state law, not the feds mind you just the state.
My friend still has the condition and he has his good days and his bad days. He treats it however with a few puffs of the magic dragon and not a handful of pills.
So the plus side of MJ is as follows:
The down side
