I love to vote! I'm a registered Democrat/Independent too. The canidates I've picked haven't won recently but at least I've put in my 2 cents. I figure if you don't vote you have no right to complain about the current state of affairs, and that's something I love to do too.
smurfette
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Are you comfortable with voting now?
by Brummie ini admit i have never voted (shame), the last couple of years i have decided to vote but when the time comes i back out.
i like having the freedom to choose whether to vote or not but i never know who to vote on the day that counts and then i feel uncomfortable at the last minute.. how about you?
brummie
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Urgent Legal Help Needed: Asylum for a Minor
by kitties_and_horses_oh_my! ini'm going to be very vague and stick to just the most essential details (for reasons you will see):.
i am aware of a 17 year old (parents are dubs, he doesn't want to be but is forced to go to mtgs) who has been suicidal and asked a friend to come and get him from his home.
he left a note to his parents saying he is safe, etc., but his parents are already fairly sure of where he is.
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smurfette
How sad! A couple of friends of mine (sisters) ran away from home due to a highly emotionally and physically abusive JW stepdad. They were both around 16 or 17 and ran away at different times. In both instances their parents tried to retrieve them, the state got involved, and they went into foster homes until they were 18. In our area the local social workers recognized the problems facing JW kids and were very helpful especially with my friends added issues. Hopefully if the authorities do get involved in his situation they are as helpful as the ones in our area are. There are only 2 kinds of social workers the really good and the really bad, so it's a chance-y situation.
I personally came from a very emotionally abusive household and stuck it out until I was 18. Not easy but it's over now.
I would not recommend the institution idea unless he truly is suicidal. I know someone who did exactly that when he was 16 and it was a horrible experience. He wound up with more issues from being in the institution than he had before he committed. Professional counciling is better than an institution in my opinion.
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Top Ten Bands/Artists in no order whatsoever
by Lycurgus inall right folks... the number one most important thing about a person is?
you guessed it, what kind of music they listen to.
so list your top ten bands/artists in no particular order.
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smurfette
The Dead Milkmen, They Might be Giants, The Ramones, Nirvana, Harry McClintock, Arlo Guthrie, Frank Zappa, Joe Hill, The Pouges, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Van Morrison, Peter Tosh, Annie Humphrey, Bill Monroe. I guess mine wound up to be the top 15 I couldn't leave any of them out!
Huxley- I saw Joe Hill on your list and I was amazed. Not many people I know have heard of him. Did you mean "wobbly" IWW Joe Hill or is their another Joe Hill?
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Bad odor expereinces at the Kingdom Hall
by Joker10 ini personally didn't smell anything funny inside a kh.
lol.
but do anyone of you have had bad experiences like having to hold your breath because the person sitting right next to you really smelled?
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smurfette
Wierd topic but it made me remember something I'd not thought of in years. We had a wierd health nut family at our hall. Actually the whole hall was really into bizarre fringe homeopathy but that's another story in itself. This particular family was really into taking garlic capsules and the one son had been prescribed to take huge doses by their "doctor". The stench was unbelievable and permeated the entire hall. You could smell it for days after he'd left. It was truly incredible.
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Question
by MNJAR ini read on one of the posts that elders visit disfellowshipped persons once a year?
is this an accurate statement?
while we were never disfellowshipped, we just faded away over 25 years ago.
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smurfette
The local elder did stop at my door once a year for the first couple years after I DAed. They finally stopped about 4 years ago after I'd been out for about 6 years.
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my dad passed away
by azaria inhe passed away last friday.
i never thought i'd ever enter a kingdom hall but we did it.
it wasn't a pleasant experience.
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((Azaria))
I'm sorry for your loss. Losing a parent is really hard. Sorry this time has been made more difficult for you by having to deal with the added turmoil of dealing with JW's in a time of grief. My Grandma just passed away last month & going to the hall again was not pleasant for me either.
Best wishes & if you want to talk at all I'll be here- Margy
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Would you ever visit Bethel?
by freedom96 inyou ever been driving, and traffic builds up coming up to an accident?
human nature being what it is, everyone stops to see the accident.
of course, by the time we get there, we are so pissed at the traffic, we slow down ourselves to make sure we see what all the fuss was about.. compare that perhaps to seeing the biggest accident of them all, bethel.
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smurfette
I probably wouldn't make it 5 minutes without being escorted out either.
I went when I was a kid and it was a huge eye opener to me then and I swore to myself I would never work there. Creepy worker bee vibes! On the whole the Brooklyn tour is mindnumbingly boring. The farm was by far the wierdest and creepiest to me. It was like they were practicing for the new system or something, well I guess not like, they acually were practicing! There is a garbage dump for the farm where you can see masses of vultures circling which was the most memorable part for me. Someone, I think our tour guide, made a reference that he imagined the dump to look like the aftermath of armageddon and the birds eating the dead unbelievers and then everyone laughed like it was a joke!
I would not recommend the tour of Bethel as it is downright boring. The Farm is interesting just for the creepy factor.
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Stupidest thing a JW ever told you
by Nosferatu inwhat is the stupidest thing a jw ever told you?
we all know that they say a lot of stupid things, but what really topped the cake?.
for me, it was an elder telling me i was progressing really well when my meeting attendance was down and my field service hours were slipping.
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Wannaexit- My mom got "counciled" all the time about her rusty car when we were kids and the elders used to say her car brought reproach on Jehovah's org. when it was parked in front of the KH! It had no muffler too and was quite loud too. She wanted to pioneer and they advised her against it until she could get a new car. At the time we were the second poorest family in our county, subsisting on government commodoties, food stamps, and wild game mostly fish. Our welfare check barely covered the cost of housing. The fact that we even had a car was because an elder in a neighboring hall sold her the car for $50 so she could get to the meetings. Talk about "shooting the pipes"! She eventually sold our house and moved into a
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Stupidest thing a JW ever told you
by Nosferatu inwhat is the stupidest thing a jw ever told you?
we all know that they say a lot of stupid things, but what really topped the cake?.
for me, it was an elder telling me i was progressing really well when my meeting attendance was down and my field service hours were slipping.
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smurfette
Some of the all time stupidest things I ever heard were-
1- That E.T. was an inapropriate movie for "christians". The reason given was because Steven Spielberg was diliberately trying to undermine "christian" faith by showing E.T. being resurrected like Jesus but without God being the resurrector.
2- That if I yelled "Jehovah" while being attacked by criminals or demons the attacker would release me and God would save the day!
3- That men are better than women because women are the weaker vessel?!
4- The band Poison being posessed by satan definitely ranks in my mind too. The only thing those boys were posessed by was a horrible hairspray addiction and a disturbing lack of talent.
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smurfette
Wow! That is the sweetest most bitchin'est hair family of all time! The dude's my favorite. He looks like a roadie for RATT or Winger. Incredible!
Funniest thing I've seen all day!