mummatron
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The J Dub Culture of Skirt-Wearing
by mummatron inthis 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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Astounded Newbie Here...*Waves Hello*
by mummatron inall i can say is "wow!
" in the 10 years i've been out i had no idea that forums like this existed.
a tad naive-sounding for someone with a background in it, i know, but it's taken me this long just to feel comfortable enough to type 'jw' into google.
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What was your volunteer job(s) at DCs?
by mummatron inseeing as it's that time of year i've been reminiscing.
i used to volunteer as i really struggled to sit still all day, even with all the note-taking and sitting next to the deaf loop system and watching the bsl interpreter to try and learn a bit of bsl.. i have.... counted and voided food tokenspacked fruit bags at a sandwich stallcleaned the stadium at opening and closingcleaned and attended ladies toiletsmanned (or should that be womanned?!
lol) contribution boxeswhat did you do?.
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"JW" Says Donor Organs Cause Personality Changes (and other nonsense) on TV!
by mummatron inhttp://www.4thought.tv/4thoughts/0354-derek-house-should-organ-donation-be-made-compulsory-.
4thought.tv asks if organ donations should be compulsory.
derek house is a jehovahs witness who believes an organ transplant could lead to the recipient having a change of personality.. this was on tv here in the uk this week.i couldn't believe my eyes and ears when i saw this!note the comments - many of them are defending jws saying he can't really be one.
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A Typical Witnessing Letter from JW Family
by mummatron inthought i'd share this as this is a typical example of the kind of letters i get very occasionally from my jw family.
in this instance it was sent as my daughter had spent some time in hospital.
note, very little information in terms of family news.
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Notes from my Baptism - WARNING! May induce vomiting...and sarcasm
by mummatron inin 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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Waaaahhh!!! The Pentecostals have my OH held hostage in a field
by mummatron inwell, ok i admit i exagerrated a little bit there.
they don't actually have him held against his will.
he's stuck in a field in essex being paid to do the sound for some pentecostal convention/rally/festival thingy.
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Something has really annoyed me and I need to get it off my chest
by mummatron inmy children's paternal grandmother (g) and great grandmother's (gg) racist attitudes.
i'm sorry but i really need to vent about this.... g was saying how she'd taken my son to the beach yesterday.
she parked away from the seafront so had to walk through the fairground to get to the beach.
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'Stop Trading Yourself Down' - Brilliant Article That Applies to Life as a JW & the Cult Persona
by mummatron ini'm a regular reader of baggagereclaim.co.uk.
i find it helps me deal with many of the relationship-based hurts in my past, but this latest blog post, although it's written about romantic relationships, just made me think of my life as a jw and puts a lot of it in perspective!
so i felt it was worth a share... thought it might help some lurkers, faders & those questionning the cult.. have highlighted the most relevant parts.
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A Tax on Street Hookers - Whatever next? LOL
by mummatron inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14730704.
german city of bonn taxes prostitutes with meterthe prostitution meter is said to be the first of its kindthe german city of bonn has installed a meter to tax prostitutes for soliciting on its streets at a rate of six euros (5.30; $8.70) per night.. those who fail to pay face fines or even a ban, and 264 euros were found in the meter when it was first emptied, according to afp news agency.. tax has been levied on prostitutes elsewhere but bonn is the first city to use a meter, a spokeswoman said.. but a prostitutes' rights activist said the scheme amounted to double taxation.. prostitutes are expected to pay the flat rate, regardless of earnings.. the machine, which looks like an ordinary parking meter, has been installed in an industrial area near the city centre which favoured by prostitutes and their clients.. 'consummation areas'.
isabelle klotz, a spokeswoman for the city, said they expected to get about 200,000 euros per year from the meter.. the "consummation areas" are wooden cubicles designed to screen cars"women who work in brothels also pay the tax but until now it had been difficult to get women on the street to pay," she added.. "thanks to this new method we will be able to tax them in all fairness with the others.".