Posts by Doubtfully Yours

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Its 10.45pm here..........what can I eat......

by vitty in

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..........thats not fatning.

im starving any ideas.

Doubtfully Yours

Drink a tall glass of water and go to bed. You'll like yourself better in the morning.

DY

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Potty Mouths?

by Low-Key Lysmith in

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when i got out of the dumbs, i use to cuss non-stop i think as a pathetic tactic to make worldy people think i was a little more worldy.

i still swear from time to time, and foul language does not offend me at all, but i was talking to my sister the other day, she just turned 21, has discovered alcohol, is currently on public reproof, and i think is really close to being on her way out herself.

she cursed like a sailor the whole time i was talking to her.

Doubtfully Yours

I dislike obscene very much. There's just no need for it to get any point across.

Obscene language was never used by my relative adults when I was growing up. I'd have to be extremelly upset for me to crank out any offensive language; and even then I don't think it's justified.

DY

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Any Lefties?

by Why Georgia in

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my oldest son is left handed.

everytime he does anything different from the rest of us.....my husband relates this to being left handed.. he is very artistic, detailed, and extremely particular about how he wants things in his little world to be.. this may be because he's 5 - who knows.. are there any traits of left handed people that you lefties may want to share so i can be prepared in the future?.

thanks in advance,.

Doubtfully Yours

I've heard left-handed people are very smart, math oriented.

Hope it's not a myth.

DY

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Roger Ebert not thrilled with War of the Worlds--2 stars only

by blondie in

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war of the worlds

by roger ebert / june 29, 2005 .

cast & creditsray ferrier: tom cruise.

Doubtfully Yours

Never cared for reviews.

The movies that got the best reviews are among the most boring ones I've ever seen.

I'm watching it come Saturday!

DY

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A Common Dub Type?: The henpecked ubm who joins because of his nagging wife

by Check_Your_Premises in

i have been around enough to recognize certain patterns in dub membership.

for instance there is a very common situation, where a dub gets df, marries a worldy promising never to return, has a kid, gets reinstated, and then we have to console some poor sob who shows up here trying to figure out what the hell just happened to his/her life.

i think i have isolated another common dub type; the weenie husband, whose wife joins, and then he joins too because his wife wears the pants and he does what he is told.

Doubtfully Yours

It happens in all realms of life.

When in a partnership/relationship, the stronger of the two personalities will draw the other one in any which way.

Take for example Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes. She'd never looked into Scientology, much less convert, if not for the strong willed Tom. Poor girl! She looks so young and naive.

DY

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If You Were Never A Witness-----You Would've........??????

by minimus in

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what?

Doubtfully Yours

Never turned in my full scholarships and would've for sure have been a doctor or someone of similar caliber.

DARN!!! But my parents had to go buying into their paradise dream!!!!!!! DOUBLE DARN!!!!!

I'm not doing so bad for myself these days, though. I just know I would've done even better.

DY

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Learning surprising things about the jws

by greendawn in

after you left the jws and entered your post wts era what sort of things did you learn about them that you found surprising?

there are some recent jws that haven't even heard of russell or even rutherford let alone of their objectionable conduct especially that of rutherford.

or they don't know anything about malawi and mexico, the ray franz incident and the witchhunt of the early 80's, or the organ transplant ban.

Doubtfully Yours

I only found out about the UN/NGO and many other characters and behaviors of the WBTS by coming to this forum.

Thanks JWD!

DY

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WT article: InfertilityThe Treatments, The Questions

by Dragonlady76 in

a baby boom .

through assisted reproduction .

nine months earlier, louise had been conceived in a laboratory through a process called in vitro fertilization (ivf).

Doubtfully Yours

Even prior to that article, I knew JWs frowned upon/prohibited any form of infertility treatment.

Perhaps if kept hush hush the couple would get out of getting public reprove. However, some type of discipline, loss of privileges, would be applicable for those couples that would seek fertility treatment of any sort. It's quite the strange approach in this day and age we live in.

Another area they need reforming. Soon. Soon!

DY

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Why cant JWs celebrate Holidays again?

by Mary Phooty in

what is the dumb reason behind that?

is it satanic too like horoscopes and thanksgiving?

Doubtfully Yours

Since taking life in the lighter side, I rather enjoy celebrating certain holidays. I cannot conform to their strict views on holidays anymore.

I don't care about the roots of some of these, I just enjoy celebrating. Not going overboard, of course.

DY

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New member - quick hello

by melmoth in

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just registered and thought i'd say hello.

been browsing the board here occasionally for a while, and thought i might want to join in now and then, so here i am.

for me, a lot of this brings up odd memories from long ago - though for many struggling in the jehovah's witless grip currently, it's clearly a lifeline and i wish it had been around when i was 'doing the fade' (as i've seen it referred to, and a great way to put it, btw) nearly 20 years ago.

Doubtfully Yours

Welcome Melmoth!

DY