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  USA parts not worth visiting

  by greendawn in

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  for a tourist that intends to visit the usa and engage in travelling around and sightseeing, what places in that country would you advise will be a waste of time to visit?

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  LuckyNun

  hey, that's my home newspaper!! we call it the Lawrence Urinal-World when we're not happy with the news!
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  Yet another "What Are You Listening To?" thread

  by Nosferatu in

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  so here's what's up and playing in winamp today (let's see how many are underlined with links):.

  1. accept - no time to lose (4:36).

  2. accept - seawinds (4:29).

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  Ilya
  
  Neko Case
  
  Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
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  JW teenage pregnancies...............did you know of any ?

  by vitty in

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  i was in the borg for 20 of my adult years and i must say that in all that time i only knew of one sister who got pregnant before she was married.

  she was given a public reproof and was never treated badly.. considering a lot of the teenagers did most things they shouldnt have and many did get reproved for immorality, i am surprised that many didnt get pregnant.

  especially as they would of likely not have been taking contraception.. was this common in you kh or area?.

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  It really makes me sick to hear how often "I was raped" is used as a reason for pregnancy when the girl then goes on to date the guy and or have another kid by him. God knows, rape causes enough unwanted pregnancies, but the more girls who use it as a flimsy excuse, the less people are to believe someone who actually has to endure something so horrible!
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  A Message To All The Lurkers

  by Anitar in

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  in recent weeks, i have seen several posters that some call the jw "lurkers," meaning the witnesses who read the articles of this site, and are perhaps questioning what the watchtower has been teaching them, yet are still very defensive of the watchtower's actions.

  as a result, i have seen and participated in several heated debates.

  it seems the main criticism of us is that we focus too much on the "negative," that we dig up the past too much, and worst of all, that we have nothing to really complain about, other than the personal vendettas some of us have against the watchtower.

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  All of us kids were physically and sexually abused. The teachers at school discovered bruises and we ended up in foster care. Eventually it was determined that since I hadn't been abused as much, I would go back home. By that time, my parents were being shunned. My mom wasn't df'ed, but my dad was. People avoided us like the plague. Eventually, my brother and sister were disfellowshipped (for smoking, underage drinking) after they came back from foster care and by then my dad had been reinstated. He was dfed for six months for what he did. Eventually, since my parents were in good standing and my brother and sister had left, everyone new in the cong. started to assume it was just another case of good parents having bad kids. My mom even managed to convince people that we had made it all up because we didn't want to follow their rules.
  
  When my sister's df'ed husband attempted to rape me when I was fifteen, my parents refused to let my sister and I press charges. They told her husband if he went back to the meetings, they'd forget what happened. He went for a month, and then stopped. Sadly, I had to recount this to the police five years later, when it was discovered he was touching my niece inappropriately. Rather than fight all this crazy, I left home at seventeen. My mom and dad are now seen by the cong. as two nice elderly people who are too sick to attend the meetings, and have awful children who left the truth. I understand the congregation shunning my dad, but they ignored us kids and we had no one to listen or believe us except people in the world. They just washed their hands of us, too, even though we hadn't done anything wrong. And later on they took my parents back with open arms.
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  A Message To All The Lurkers

  by Anitar in

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  in recent weeks, i have seen several posters that some call the jw "lurkers," meaning the witnesses who read the articles of this site, and are perhaps questioning what the watchtower has been teaching them, yet are still very defensive of the watchtower's actions.

  as a result, i have seen and participated in several heated debates.

  it seems the main criticism of us is that we focus too much on the "negative," that we dig up the past too much, and worst of all, that we have nothing to really complain about, other than the personal vendettas some of us have against the watchtower.

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  this is a really good message to get out there. something similar happened in my family. if we had been "in the world" my parents would have been put in jail. as it was, none of us children escaped unscathed, and my parents basically got off scot-free.
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  Roll call time - What KH's have you attended.............

  by Check_Your_Premises in

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  naperville, dekalb, joliet......... il.

  i tried to bump an old thread on this topic, but i couldn't find it.. anyone?

  beuller?.

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  LuckyNun

  Belvidere, IL
  
  Rockford South, IL
  
  Rockford East, IL
  
  knew people from:
  
  Marengo, IL
  
  Sterling, IL
  
  Beloit, WI
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  The Best Revenge

  by CountryGuy in

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  i've taken a part-time job working nights and weekends.

  i'm doing this to save up to start grad school next fall.

  my new job is in a new shopping center.

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  Agreed. I live by a similar motto: The best revenge is living well.
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  Show us your picture

  by Honesty in

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  that is, if you are able to without the prospect of facing a three-man kangaroo court appointed by jerhover to keep the congregation clean from apostate influences.. i'll go first: .

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  my most recent pic, taken last month.
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  ...and if you've never eaten

  by merfi in

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  "natural" peanut butter -- don't!!!

  it has got to be the most foulest tasting crap ever made.. .

  so much for that healthy idea.

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  LuckyNun

  Skippy makes natural peanut butter that doesn't separate, and it still doesn't contain those hydrogenated fats that can literally kill you (I learned WAYYYY too much about it in my Chem class last year). Normally I'm a laidback mom, but what I learned scared the crap out of me. I've cut all trans fat out of their diet. They never even noticed. Better living through food chemistry? Not in this case.
  
  
  I wonder if Jif is going to change its slogan from "Choosy Moms Choose Jif" or come up with a natural peanut butter themselves.
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  Young JWs..damned if they do and damned if they don't!!!!!

  by Gill in

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  the july 1st watchtower is one that i'm sorely tempted to kick into oblivion....yes it irritated me greatly.....mind control at its bluntest!.

  young jws are being encouraged to stop dilly dallying around and get dunked!!!!.

  '....why would you put off getting baptized?.

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  So, how do the baptism vows read these days? Can anyone do a comparison of then and now?
  
  I never got baptized, although I went over the questions when I was 14. All that preparation really pounded into my head just what kind of commitment this was, and it scared the h*ll out of me! I told my parents I'd changed my mind and ended up running away from home right before my 18th birthday.