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  The J Dub Culture of Skirt-Wearing

  by mummatron in

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  this is something that has always bothered me.

  as a born-in jw i was raised as a little girl wearing skirts and dresses which is clearly quite normal in terms of gender-appropriate clothing.

  however, the older i grew, the more i realised that all jw women and girls wore skirts to meetings and when out in fs, but would wear trousers in their everyday life.

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  mummatron

  I'm sure you did look younger and sexier. Just without the Christmas negligée and gown.
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  The J Dub Culture of Skirt-Wearing

  by mummatron in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this is something that has always bothered me.

  as a born-in jw i was raised as a little girl wearing skirts and dresses which is clearly quite normal in terms of gender-appropriate clothing.

  however, the older i grew, the more i realised that all jw women and girls wore skirts to meetings and when out in fs, but would wear trousers in their everyday life.

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  LOL Rebel8! The lemonade was supplied after the bookstudy had finished.

  I have mentioned this story before--I was once taken to the back room by the elders for having a skirt that showed my kneecaps--a straight skirt, no less. It was very modest and businesslike. Also I was wearing black hose with it, and a bro complained b/c I "looked like a prostitute".

  And he knew what a prostitute looked like because....?
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  How do you make a living?

  by paulnotsaul in

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  since most of us believed it was right around the corner, how many of you went to any secondary schools or training?

  what do you do now to survive?

  are you working or unemployed?

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  I've worked since I left school at 18. I went to University and continued to work (on average 25 hours a week) retail jobs to support myself. When I graduated with a degree in I.T. I landed a job as the daytime tech support supervisor for a company providing managed hosting services to manufacturing clients. I did that for almost 4 years. I later got a job as the Support Manager for a firm that provided similar services and various communications solutions but on a larger scale. I liked the problem solving aspect of the job but hated being mostly office-bound. It wasn't very fulfilling. I had a baby, went back to work and realised I hated it, so I handed in my notice and started a post-grad course to become a teacher. I completed the 1st module. Did some temping in schools working with kids with special educational needs (autism mainly), had another baby and am now waiting to go back to Uni to finish module 2 and graduate again so I can start teaching unsupervised and get my QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) a year later.
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  Notes from my Baptism - WARNING! May induce vomiting...and sarcasm

  by mummatron in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in my last thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/214315/1/just-found-a-memory-box-of-priceless-artifacts-hilariously-priceless-jw-artifacts-that-is i promised to type up my notes from the '98 dc baptism talk from when i was baptised at the age of 18. so here they are... (i would say enjoy, but, um, yeeeaahhh..... warning!

  - paper sick bag required!.

  dedication & baptism 1998 dc.

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  @Outlaw

  Yeah, my local one:

  The Ridgeway, London NW7 1RN

  Probably the only store in London that hasn't been looted!
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  Notes from my Baptism - WARNING! May induce vomiting...and sarcasm

  by mummatron in

  1. watchtower
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  in my last thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/214315/1/just-found-a-memory-box-of-priceless-artifacts-hilariously-priceless-jw-artifacts-that-is i promised to type up my notes from the '98 dc baptism talk from when i was baptised at the age of 18. so here they are... (i would say enjoy, but, um, yeeeaahhh..... warning!

  - paper sick bag required!.

  dedication & baptism 1998 dc.

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  Given the benefit of hindsight it possibly now rates as the stupidist thing you've ever done?

  You knows it!

  Also v glad you's here

  Thank you. Ditto.

  OK WMF, question for you... Seeing as you were there, do you remember it? That particular DC I mean, and the one you were dunked at for that matter. I don't know whether it's because I've been away for so long and dealt with it all by blocking it out ('cause I have a very good long-term memory normally) or if the monotomy of being a JW means that eventually all the DCs, CCs SA days, just blur into one...?
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  may I blow my own horn?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some of you may have had the same experience.

  (i hope) i always worked hard on preparing to give talks to the congregation.

  i am self-conscious and i need to feel as though i am really bringing something worthwhile "to the table.

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  I think you need ribs removed to do that. So I've heard...
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  may I blow my own horn?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
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  some of you may have had the same experience.

  (i hope) i always worked hard on preparing to give talks to the congregation.

  i am self-conscious and i need to feel as though i am really bringing something worthwhile "to the table.

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  I thought that too at first.
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  Angels are taking the lead in the preaching work

  by mankkeli in

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  consider one experience in which two kingdom publishers were accompanied by a small child.

  at the end of the morning, the two witnesses were about to stop their preaching work, but the child was unusually eager to go to the next home.

  in fact, he went by himself and knocked on the door!

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  [Sorry, I'm in a particularly sarcastic mood tonight, so I'm afraid this comment comes direct from the Household of Dissidents.]

  How convenient! So she wasn't curtain-twitching and coming over all enthusiastic for the benefit of the kid now was she?
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  may I blow my own horn?

  by stillin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some of you may have had the same experience.

  (i hope) i always worked hard on preparing to give talks to the congregation.

  i am self-conscious and i need to feel as though i am really bringing something worthwhile "to the table.

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  I want to know people who actually have hearts and blood flowing through thier veins, not robots who just fill the allotted time-slot.

  Exactly! I used to sit there whenever we got a visiting robot, thinking to myself that I'd sacrificed a lie-in, a chance to work Sunday for time and a half pay, the opportunity to watch the Grand Prix/football/Stuart Lee & Richard Herring's 'This Morning with Richard not Judy" all to be bored to death by someone who the Theocratic Minisitry School should've failed, for a public talk I'd heard 3 times already done better by the previous speakers. Gaaarrrrggghhh...
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  Notes from my Baptism - WARNING! May induce vomiting...and sarcasm

  by mummatron in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  in my last thread, http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/214315/1/just-found-a-memory-box-of-priceless-artifacts-hilariously-priceless-jw-artifacts-that-is i promised to type up my notes from the '98 dc baptism talk from when i was baptised at the age of 18. so here they are... (i would say enjoy, but, um, yeeeaahhh..... warning!

  - paper sick bag required!.

  dedication & baptism 1998 dc.

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  mummatron

  Thank you tal!