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  What Are Your "Senior Moments" Like?

  by compound complex in

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  2. friends

  dear friends:.

  i imagine by now we old timers have adjusted to the fact that we are getting older and, one day, will make our exit.

  are your "senior moments" ever a cause for worry to you?

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  I have to say that everthing the first five posters said has happened to me. This past week I turned 69 and consider myself in marginally good health. The only meds I'm on is a low dose blood pressure med. Recently had what I call an "old persons" procedure done on the veins in both legs to increase blood flow and stop my feet from swelling. It seems to be working and I should know for sure within a month when I go back for a post op exam.

  What really makes me stop and think about my mortality is that in the two years since I moved to Florida from Pa, 19 of my friends and acquaintances have died. Some older than me and some younger. But most within 5 to 7 years of my age. I get the obits from the newspaper from where I came from and from friends via email and Facebook.

  In the meantime, I'm trying to enjoy life as much as I can as a free man.

  HappyDad
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  Walking a thin line - Resigning Elder

  by Sanchy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  warning of a long boring post ahead.

  i feel like i need to vent my story out, as i feel quite helpless at the moment.. i'm 31 year old, married, father of toddler with another one on the way, due later this month.

  i've been serving as elder for about 4 years now in a south florida congregation.

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  Hello and welcome Sanchy.

  I went through something similar as you are going through. What was in my favor was that other than in-laws, I had no family to worry about since my daughter was also out. (my wife had passed away).

  I'm in SW Florida. Bonita Springs.

  If you are anywhere near, you can PM me.

  Wishing you the best,

  HappyDad
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  26 years WT free!

  by Wonderment in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  this month makes 26 years since i disassociated from the wt org.

  i have not visited a kh or assembly hall once since.

  that includes no memorial attendance.

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  Good for you. I was mentally out in the late 1990's but went to memorial a few years until 2003. Haven't been back since. I am totally free from the cult.

  HappyDad
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  What is happening with Stoops?

  by OrphanCrow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  stoops manufacturing, the wt approved distribrution company for "all things jw" for many years, has been dissolved because of a "failure to file an administration report" with the state of missouri.. https://bsd.sos.mo.gov/businessentity/businessentitydetail.aspx?page=besearch&id=404520.

  you can download the full document from that link.. .

  does anyone know anything about stoops?

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  There are a few companies selling JW products. Madzay, Peglala, Ministryideaz, and others. Just google jw products and it all is shown. They remind me of the JW's who get into anything to sell to make a few bucks.

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  Hello all just moved to Lakewood NY

  by Still Totally ADD in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it has been along time since i have posted something.

  my wife and i have just moved to ny just west of jamestown.

  our log house in pa was so far from everything it was costing us to much time and money.

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  Hey.....good to see you post again STADD. You moved to some beautiful country. Haven't been by Lake Chatauqua since 2007.

  Hope all goes well for you guys. I'm now living in Florida. (took your place) lol I'm in Bonita Springs for the last 23 months and do not want to see snow or ice again except on TV.

  HappyDad
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  The Hermit's story PART 1

  by The Hermit in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my great-grandmother was a jw, my grandmother is a jw, my mother and two of my aunts are jws.

  in 1983 mom, then 18 years old married my father, a wordly man and was baptized later the same year at a district convention.

  i was born in 1984.. my bedtime stories consisted of the bible stories and you can live forever books.

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  Sounds familiar. Keep it coming. And welcome to the forum. You are not alone!

  HappyDad
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  A Big Hello From Mouthy/Grace and.....

  by label licker in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a special message to her daughter, ann marie if you are watching this site.

  your mother is eighty-eight now and her memory is going fast.

  please call her, ann marie.

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  Lord Jesus......let Ann Marie see this post and talk to her mother before it is to late.

  Amen,

  HappyDad
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  Evolution is a Fact #1 - Protein Functional Redundancy

  by cofty in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i intend for this to be one of a series of bite-sized ops on the evidence for evolution.. introduction to dna genes are sequences of dna made up of words (codons) each of which are three letters (bases) long.

  there are only four letters in the genetic alphabet (acg&t) each word or codon is the recipe for one amino acid.

  there are 20 different amino acids in living organisms.

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  HappyDad

  With all the hundreds if not thousands of posts about evolution, trinity, soul, the true religion, and everything else where posters want to debate scriptures and everything else about God...........at my age (68 and about to be 69 shortly........I really don't give a shit about any controversies anymore.

  I just wat to live the life I have with what time I have left and let the cosmos figure it out when I rot.

  HappyDad

  PS...I still enjoy all of your posts on a daily basis even if I dismiss you as a person still searching.

  The best life to you all!
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  Divorced by Layoff

  by Lostandfound in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  after decades of "marriage" to bethel being laid off is like a divorce, shattering and devastating with feelings of betrayal and distrust.

  i have been made redundant from an employer with generous terms yet it was an emotional trauma being torn away from what i as a big part of my life.

  being laid off so casually by an organisation that claims to be far superior toanywordlyemployer must be devastating.

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  Hopefully some of them will wake up and maybe we will see a few on this forum in the future.

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  First Entry for Jehovah's Witnesses on Google

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://whyimcatholic.com/index.php/conversion-stories/jehovah-witness-converts/125-jehovahs-witness-convert-lou-everett.

  this story of a jehovah's witness who became catholic is at the top of the heap.

  i was angered at what happened when he opened up and poured out his heart to a "caring" brother.. cc.

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  HappyDad

  Several other famous/infamous ex JW's have become or returned to the Catholic religion. Tom Cabeen who was a pressroom overseer at WT headquarters and part of the 1980 purge became Catholic. Then there is Jeff Schwehm who at one time posted on this forum returned to the Catholic church and was on the Catholic TV network called EWTN talking about his experience. I never met or spoke with either but did quite a bit of great back and forth emailing with Jeff Schwehm. Both are good men and sincere in their belief.

  I wish them the best.

  I was born and raised Catholic and even thought for a while that I might return to the church, but that would never be. The church does a lot of charity but like all religion, history has shown the horrible things that have taken place.

  Even though I still believe in God and have attended various churches, being an actual member is just not for me.

  HappyDad