anyone try this "snapshot" tool that snaps into your vehicle to save on auto insurancel?
let you know if i get savings.
i don't drive much, if any, these days.
From what I heard it essentially checks how many "quick brakes" you have.
Well, jeez. Yesterday I had to "quick brake" twice because of apparently suicidal squirrels! I was inside my apartment complex, not on the main road, so there were no other moving vehicles around.
is there new info coming out in june watchtower about how to treat families?.
They've been harping and harping on this subject lately.
''Don't associate with DF'd relatives."
"Don't communicate with DF'd relatives. Not even an email, now! Y'hear?"
"Hey! We said don't do that! What are you, deaf or something?"
"Listen you morons, if you soften on your DF'd loved ones, you are disloyal scum and we'll kick your a$$ to the curb so fast it'll make your head spin."
"Okay, okay, we'll try positive reinforcement since you don't seem to be getting the point. Robert, here, was deprived of familial love for 16 years before he cracked. See what good can come of unspeakable cruelty? If his family can do it (and notice we didn't mention that any of them were elders or otherwise better than your sorry a$$) you can do it too!"
What's next? "If you so much as nod at a DF'd relative you are in league with the Devil and we will burn you at the stake."
http://www.vice.com/read/an-11-year-old-is-suing-000919-v20n4.
Wow, bucking the law of the land! Wish the U.S. had a policy like that, although apparently the JWs would find some loophole to avoid exposing the pedophiles lurking in their kingdom halls.
"the congregation elders can certainly offer loving aid and encouragement.
(isa.
32:1, 2) but it is wise to have realistic expectations.
"The congregation elders can certainly offer loving aid and encouragement. (Isa. 32:1, 2) But it is wise to have realistic expectations." -w08 6/15 p.5
Translation: "The butt-kissing, uneducated, power-lusting janitors who are in charge of keeping you in line might notice you're slacking and drop by to beat you over the head with a few verses from a bronze-age fairy tale. Or not. Depends on their mood."
and another one:
"the guidance of God’s Word is certainly demanding" -08 4/1 p.16
Translation: "It's forking impossible to live this way unless you become a mindless robot, so surrender to the mind control."
i don't know how i made it back to my computer in one piece but here goes.
yes i know that some people probably won't remember or recognize me.
i made only a scarce amount of threads after joining up.
Welcome back, Jbeau!
by a split second rescuing our handicapped son from being pushed down the stairs by a flood of sisters rushing out to see as the drama had started.. the main offender being a special pioneer..
I got the bum's rush from a self-important attendant once, toward the end of my going to conventions.
My ex-husband had a 50% hearing loss, so he needed to sit in the hearing-impaired section and use the headphones. I was sitting with him waiting for the session to begin when this attendant came up to us and said I couldn't sit there. I protested and said I always sat with him in the hearing-impaired section. He wasn't having any of it and insisted that I had to sit separately from my husband. Twit.
Disgruntled and in a huff, I went down to the floor section and found a seat by myself a couple of rows from the stage. Just forcing myself to go to the convention had pushed me to the edge of my sanity.
Apparently, my inner shrieking showed on my face because my husband told me later that an attendant was assigned to keep an eye on me. I never noticed the guy, but he was sitting right behind me. What did he think I was going to do, rush the stage?
I think that was the only day I attended, and I never went to a convention again.
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i was looking for the lamp book which was printed 1967, a very old book.. i goolged for hours but end up coming here for help.. does anyone have the pdf form of the lamp book?.
it would really helpful!.
That's the name! I'd forgotten. My parents got baptized in 1972 and went through the 80 questions in the Lamp book. A little over a year later my brother and I went through the 120 questions in the Organization book.
yesterday we had to make the decision to put our cat down as her health had deteriated so much in the last few months ,and especially in the last week.
many of you will know it is such a traumatic experience to go through and very painfull emotionally .. i had never considered myself a cat person , we rented a house ,double story with an outside balcony and next door had what i would describe as an umberella ?
tree ,where a cat sat, and looked over at us at the second level.. it started hanging around the front door and i said dont feed it as it will never go away.
So sorry, Smiddy. Every pet teaches us something and leaves us better for the experience of loving unconditionally.
This is my Willoughby:
My ex-husband is short like that. Some of the friends used to joke that he could barely see over the lectern.
so i get a text message this morning from an elder (also an old friend) from my hall.
(mind you i haven't been to meetings in months) he says the following:.
elder: did you hear about what happend in bos?
On 9/11 I was working for a JW boss, and she was positively ebullient about the tragedy unfolding. With sparkling eyes she said to me, "Oh, Sally, just imagine - you'll be able to tell your father (who had just passed away) that you saw the start of the Great Tribulation!"
I said to her, "My god, Jean, thousands of people just died tragically!" I was still a Dub at the time, but even to my cult-controlled mind that was going way over the top.
