Posts by candidlynuts

i've never had mormans at my door i dont think.. i remember some riding bikes and pausing in front of our house..i figured they saw we were too poor to be useful in their religion

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How to teach young adults courtesy, etiquette, and manners? Feedback please

by flipper in

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friends

hello folks.

mr. flipper here.

my two daughters, both jw's are 20 and 19 and the oldest got married last april, the youngest in may.

candidlynuts

maybe buy a pack of pretty thank you cards and send those to her as a gift?

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Do you know how strong you all are?

by jgnat in

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friends

i'm thinking this morning at the enormous effort required to leave the witnesses.

that you all found your way here is amazing.

you are a select group of strong people, who will not allow life or any organization to knock you down.

candidlynuts

a very nice post.

i dont feel very strong right now..but i sure dont feel WRONG. maybe strength will come after i heal some.

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after very little discussion and even contact with my parents in the last few months, they seemed to decide, either for themselves, or maybe they were put up to it, to confront me on my view of the watchtower society and condemn me, my husband and children to death.....any time soon.....when armageddon comes.

i'm afraid they continually called me an apostate and told me how apostates are , 'evil, horrible, bad and satanic people!

' i asked them if they knew what an 'apostate' was and why they didn't look the word up in the dictionary.

candidlynuts

isnt it amazing how people who've known us our entire lives can call former witnesses evil or satanic?

it doesnt matter that we have factual reasons for knowing the watchtower is flawed. it doesnt matter that most of us were hurt personally by witnesses, it doesnt matter that in most other areas of life our loved ones would seek out our opinion and listen to our reasoning.

it's heartbreaking , it sounds like you handled yourself well and got your point across.

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Rollerdave returns to the KH!

by RollerDave in

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friends

well folks, it had to happen, i returned to the kingdom hall.. or at least to its parking lot.. but not to worry my little jwd'ers, my return was in true rollerstyle!.

i had dropped off my mom a few days previous when she made some remarks that steamed me, i had felt she was talking through her teeth, but i now know i could only have been half right.. she calls and rambles a while, then directs me to keep her teeth safe.

after i got the explanation for this cryptic remark from her i go and investigate..... there, on my bathroom counter, next to the tushie-cleanliness paraphernalia, is an unexplained white plastic container which contained my mother's lower plate.. smelled 'minty.'.

candidlynuts

lol dave!

my 20 year old uncle buck backfiring vehicle just wouldnt make the same statement.

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The Time and Effort you gave as a JW is worthless

by JH in

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friends

this always bugged me.. no matter how much you did or spent for the watchtower, the moment you stop attending meetings and stop going out in the field service, it's as if you never did anything.

isn't it written someplace in the bible that god remembers your actions of the past?.

when i became inactive many years ago, i realized that all i did as a jw was down the drain because i stopped going to meetings and going out in the field service.. .

candidlynuts

my dad, faithful witness for 50 or more years, went to prison for 4 years because of the draft stuff.

was told by an elder a few years ago when he was seeking comfort about his old age and its limitations, to come to the meetings, they needed the seat fillers.

broke his heart.

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No DC next year, last DC?

by doinmypart in

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friends

a relative said there may not be dcs next year.

he said on the last day of this year's dc when the final speaker goes through all the reports & experiences, the speaker said next year's dc have not been planned yet and the gb will make an announcement later this year.

did anyone else hear a similar announcement?

candidlynuts

well i read a press release for one convention this year and it said the convention center was reserved for the next 3 years for the jw's.

so the society is planning on more.

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How many happy JW marriages do you know of?

by Bonnie_Clyde in

just reading frequent flyer miles on the subject of feeling guilty for having a happy marriage with a non-jw.. in our congregation which i haven't attended for about a year, i can only think of two or three who seem to be happy.

of course, i don't know what happens behind closed doors, but i know of several who admit they are unhappy.

i wrote out a long list of couples who have divorced over the last 20 years--including three elders (one is on his second divorce).

candidlynuts

i can think of a couple of seemingly happy jw marriages but for the life of me i cannot think of one complete family that the watchtower hasn't ripped apart in some way.

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which celebrity death....?

by nowisee in

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friends

just heard about the death of joel siegel, the entertainment critic for abc, and found myself, surprisingly, in tears.

maybe it was because he had such a young son and made plans to let him know how much he was loved, long before he died.

maybe because i have watched him for so many years.

candidlynuts

Gilda Radner

her dying of cancer just tore me up.

how could anyone so funny and full of life be killed by such a horrible disease. it was so unfair!

i admire her efforts in her last years to reach out to other people with cancer and there are still foundations in her name today.