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  Dissed by a Sister!

  by finally awake in

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  2. friends

  i was running the cash till at the annual boy scout fundraiser yard sale yesterday, wearing my finest boy scout t-shirt and enjoying the blistering heat, when i saw a local family of witnesses browsing the merchandise.

  they studiously avoided looking at me, but eventually a bargain nightgown proved irresistable and the wife was forced to approach the cash table and ask about pricing.

  we avoid putting prices on each item because there is just too much stuff and we remind everyone that the money sends the kids to summer camp so the guilt kicks in and people pay more.

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  finally awake

  I was running the cash till at the annual Boy Scout fundraiser yard sale yesterday, wearing my finest Boy Scout t-shirt and enjoying the blistering heat, when I saw a local family of witnesses browsing the merchandise. They studiously avoided looking at me, but eventually a bargain nightgown proved irresistable and the wife was forced to approach the cash table and ask about pricing. We avoid putting prices on each item because there is just too much stuff and we remind everyone that the money sends the kids to summer camp so the guilt kicks in and people pay more. Anyway, Sister Bargain Hunter asked the price and I advised her that it was $1, which she paid and off she went. After she left, I told the other ladies sitting with me that Sister Bargain Hunter had once been one of my closest friends, but since I stopped attending the meetings, she no longer would associate with me. They were all appropriately puzzled and asked if we had argued - I explained that the simple fact that I don't attend meetings has marked me as a dirty apostate and that's all that's needed to shun me. Lovely little reverse witness given that afternoon I think.
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  The Beast-Tower #11: God's View of Trolling

  by sd-7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "did god really say that you must not eat from every tree of the garden?

  " with those words, satan the devil became the first troll.

  (gen. 3:1) what is trolling?

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  finally awake

  Spot on, Brother SD-7
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  How much time/ money do you spend to look nice?

  by new hope and happiness in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  haircut, cosmetics, perfume/ aftershave, clothes, botox, surgery, tan, cutting nails, feeding the body, showering.

  is there no end to the needs of the living corpse?.

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  I am not vain, I spend very little time worrying about how I look or what I wear. As long as I am clean and covered, I'm good to go. I am uninterested in fashion or make up or hairstyling, but I will spend a small fortune on comfortable shoes.
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  Baptism?

  by Brainfloss in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i know what the questions ask of baptismal candidates are, but does the one doing the dunking say anything as he immerses the one being baptised?.

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  they asked me if I had ever been baptized as a witness before, then the hold your nose routine.
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  How old were you when you left the Watchtower - SURVEY

  by usualusername in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .

  i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .

  uun.

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  I was exposed to the Borg as a child through my uncle, but I didn't start studying until I was 29. I was baptized at 30, and left at 41.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses "New Donation" Arrangement Update!

  by Littleleslie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  please check out this you tube video on the "new donation" arrangement update.

  its pretty interesting.. see link below.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsodgtx6d58.

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  I don't generally watch videos, as I have a strong preference for the written word and low tolerance for rambling, incoherent flapping which infests far too many youtube clips. Even professionally done news clips turn me off, because I can read the information faster than some talking head can read it to me. I certainly won't watch a long clip unless it promises to be hysterically funny.
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  Ostracism more damaging than bullying

  by jgnat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  new study out of the university of bc:.

  http://news.ubc.ca/2014/05/29/better-to-be-bullied-than-ignored-in-the-workplace-study/.

  we tend to underestimate the damage that social ostracism does.

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  Having been the recipient of all three - verbal and physical bullying and ostracism, I am not sure that I agree that ostracism is worst. I can't say that I enjoyed being ostracised, but simply being left out and ignored was less terrifying and hurtful than being threatened and harassed. The occasional mild physical or verbal harrassment would probably be less upsetting than constant ostracism, but it's all a matter of degree. And also, in my opinion, ostracism rarely occurs without at least an undercurrent of verbal harrassment - snickering when the target walks by, eye rolling, etc.
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  Without Fail...

  by mrhhome in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on a non-jw related note... my wife put up a bee hive on the back part of our property two weeks ago.

  her and my daughter are very proud of it.. there is an old dead tree that needed to come down.

  i meant to do it before she got the bees, but circumstance was that i didn't.

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  Glad the bees are safe! Dropping a tree can be scary - Just Ron dropped one right where I had been sitting in the truck just a few minuted prior - I had a bad feeling and decided to move the truck just in case, so the only thing that got smashed was the empty dog house and kennel.
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  As a parent, did you ever have a swimming pool and invite neighbor kids?

  by 4thgen in

  1. social
  2. family

  being 4th generation, i realize that am socially stunted, in regard to those that are not jws.

  i am forging ahead and endeavoring to build a life outside of jw's.

  i am trying as i can to socialize my child to make friends and be a normal kid.

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  I would not permit kids to swim without an adult at home, even teenagers. We had neighbors who had a pool, they went somewhere and the teen son had friends over. They got the brilliant idea to jump off the garage roof into the pool. One kid missed, and was paralyzed. They got sued and lost, of course, because it was their duty to supervise.
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  The do not call list

  by LisaRose in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have posted before about my experience trying to get on the "do not call" list.

  despite repeated requests, a phone call to the hall and mailing a letter, and then giving a copy to a jw, they just keep coming by.

  i was going to put up a no soliciting sign, then i can call the police on them, but my husband doesn't want me to do it.. so, i decided if they come back i would have some fun.

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  You should hang a little Sparlock figure by your door