Posts by LoisLane looking for Superman

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heart troubles

by zeb in

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dear all,.

my health took a beating over the years with stress from various sources, not a little from the wt; and dangerous areas of work involving fumes and so on.

the arc also took its toll and i have had recently a heart attack.

If you want to look superior when you are walking the halls at the hospital after your operation, pack a snazzy bathrobe/house coat/happy coat. All the other men will be wearing the usual cotton hospital issue that makes everybody look like they are in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Also slippers. (The jammies are up to you. If you wear theirs, you won't have to wash yours when you get home).

Sending you virtual home made organic chicken soup, right to your door.

Get well soon! Hugs.

LoisLane

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Is it true that they decided not to build Walkill Recreation center and then buried the foundation?

by Indian Larry in

i saw this on ex jw reddit:"this may not be news to you but it was to me.

forgive me if this has already been posted before.

it came from a reliable source working on the warwick project.. wallkill bethel had broken ground and laid the foundation for a new recreation building.

LoisLane looking for Superman

Help me out here if I am wrong but isn't the property they are building on a chemical dump? The same with the property they bought in England. Both properties they bought on the cheap because no one wanted to live on a toxic waste site. Did their JW Law degree graduates tell them buy the land, start building and then oops, file a substantial claim, sue everyone, and say that this property should never have been sold to anyone, thus getting all their money back plus interest? That's what I am waiting to hear. Cha ching.

That is what has been going through my mind, evil though the thought.

@As to the OP and 'burying" a foundation for a rec hall, I cannot figure what these 'enlightened' ones have done in the past, let alone what's the next idiotioc thing they are going to do. Whatever it is, WT/GB is all about making sure no one wises up and takes money AWAY from THEM. lol

LoisLane

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Are we participants in this forum because of bouts of "loneliness"?

by Wonderment in

i wonder how many of us here hold on to this meeting place out of "loneliness.

could it be that we harbor feelings of "abandonment" and "loneliness" from being left cold and dry by the wt people and our families?

perhaps we do have a need to reach out to people with similar experiences.

LoisLane looking for Superman

As in the sit-com, TV show 'Cheers', this is the place 'where everybody knows your name'. lol After waking up and leaving WT behind, it is relaxing and fun to be part of a forum such as this, where you are sorta 'known'.

Someone talks about the New York asembly in 1958, I was a little kid but I was there. Beth Sarem (I almost wrote harem lol) most of us know what that is.

At Simon's 'house' I always feel welcomed, understood and cared about. Coming here is in a way, coming 'home' a place that only exists now in my memories.

Lonely? Sure. Sometimes. But I enjoy the camaraderie here. We all have been through trauma not really understood by others.

LoisLane

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One reason behind the slow steady decline of JWs

by AllTimeJeff in

hello first of all to those that remember me.

i'm doing well, 10 years since my missionary trip to cameroon.

i've met a couple of goals.

LoisLane looking for Superman

@AllTimeJeff Hi Hello! It is so nice to hear from you again! Just passing through town or can you stay a while?

LoisLane jumping up and down and waving. So happy to see ATJ again. or

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Northern California Elder Charged with Lewd Acts with a Child

by cappytan in

this guy, dale standridge, was the coordinator of the body of elders in the eureka east congregation in humboltd county california.

http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/11/100000-bail-for-dale-standbridge.html?m=1.

it's not getting a lot of play in the press for some reason.

LoisLane looking for Superman

He allegedly did it to someone less than 14 years old for 6 years.

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So How'd you like your Last Resting Place?

by snugglebunny in

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friends

like this perhaps?

it is pretty cool after all... .

(i took both of these pics and the difference was, well, obvious!).

LoisLane looking for Superman

I saw a head stone recently where on one side of the tall, upright stone it said the usual credentials, on the other side it said, "Over My Dead Body..." and listed the ingredients for her favourite, Christmas cookie recipe which she wouldn't give out to anyone. Thus the heading...

LoisLane

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The most widely distributed magazine in the US !!!

by Calebs Airplane in

1. watchtower & awake - under review as these is now a 16-page anorexic pamphlets (not magazines) .

2. espn: 42.9 million 3. people: 28 million 4. allrecipes: 24.5 million 5. forbes: 21.6 million 6. time: 18.1 million 7. entertainment weekly: 14.3 million 8. cosmopolitan: 13.7 million 9. bloomberg businessweek: 11.2 million 10. new york: 9.8 million .

LoisLane looking for Superman

The most widely distributed mags destined for trash bins, attics and as fire starters.

LoisLane

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Young couple invited to School for Kingdom Evangelizers

by StarTrekAngel in

a young couple from our cong has been invited to attend the school for kingdom evangelizers.

we found out because they rent a small home from my mil.

they came to tell her they will be leaving for florida for one month to two months.

LoisLane looking for Superman

So, your MIL is out one or two months rent?

That is a major favour.

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No Kingdom Halls would definitely work!

by John Aquila in

last night we were invited to a get-together with quite a few heavies attendingelders and regular pioneers.

there was beer and later some music.

everyone got relaxed and let down their guard and starting talking all kinds of non-theocratic stuff that you only discuss after a few beers.

LoisLane looking for Superman

@John Aquila. That group is thinking along the lines I've been thinking.

I agree with all of the above plus I think old rubber lips himself will want to have a program on TV (or internet, which ever brings in more money) for children. I do not think he was kidding that the WT/GB wants little children to give them their allowance i.e. ice cream money.

They will get rid of the name Watchtower.

And I also agree, everything will be a conscience issue between god and yourself. No more issued blood cards.

Sell off the KHalls.

Do whatever it takes to make THEM more MONEY. After all, going back to the days when they were selling MIRACLE WHEAT... WATCHTOWER has always been about the MONEY.

LoisLane

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Does the W.T have financial problems are are they just rebranding?

by The Rebel in

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it is evident that the w.t has recently re-branded itself, and has become fairly modern in its marketing techniques.

so the organisation is in that respect forward thinking, and the former way of doing things has past.. .

but this rebranding has been done by marketing experts, who maybe realise progress is progress, and that with modernisation many bethelites " even as free volunteers" are possibly no longer required.

LoisLane looking for Superman

CommitteeChairman: Very insightful words you wrote.

WT/GB really won't care if their game is up because the less sheeple that come, WT/GB will just turn around and sell the KHall that they, now, conveniently own. They will make more money from selling the KHall versus what those sheeple would happifyingly give from what ever is left in their pocket(s).

PS After waking up, I was lost for a bit. Going by WT/GB rules, regulations... every day for a life time, it takes time to dilute absolute thinking into normality.

Thankfully, it can be done. ^^^^^ Truman did get out.

LoisLane

PSS Really good illustration CommitteeChairman. You get all G's on your card!