Just got a call from my mother. A daughter of one of my mother's cousins just died due to complications of breast cancer surgery. The funneral will be this Saturday. Jws as far as the eye can see. The father is a doofus of an elder. I have no desire to go.
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Hmmm...
by mrsjones5 injust got a call from my mother.
a daughter of one of my mother's cousins just died due to complications of breast cancer surgery.
the funneral will be this saturday.
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I Got Deprogramed While Attending Kindom Hall Meetings Doing Research On My iPad 4
by frankiespeakin inwith the internet becoming availible almost anywhere and ipads become more and more common, do you think this scenerio will be a relatively common experience as well?.
i'm thinking it will..
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As well as killing a few kittens
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Are the Witnesses Really Losing Their Young People?
by What Now? inthat article about jehovah's witnesses having the lowest retention rate for born ins keeps popping up every now again ... i'm just curious if any of you have noticed that this is actually the case.
in the congregation that i grew up in, i'm going to say that 95% of the young people in their teens to mid twenties are either regular pioneering, regular auxiliary pioneering, serving in foreign language congregations or where the need is greater.
both of my younger sisters are regular pioneers - and the young people in their hall even organize 8 pm to midnight service on friday nights of their own accord.
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Pot? Really? I must be strange cuz I bever appealed to me. But the sex did.
In my family I have three siblings. All of us were born-ins to parents who for the mistpart were spiritually weak. They didn't force us to get baptized. My mother said she thought we would naturally do it as we got older. Glad to say it never happened. None of us are drug fiends, sexually loose (well at least not now - I for one did sow my wild oats) or otherwise depraved.
Mother isn't happy that her children are not jws and have no plans to be.
oh and I forgot to add we all have or had pretty successful careers (had for me, I'm a stay at home mom and care provider for my disabled hubby after a career of being a pattern-maker/grader, my sister is an senior account executive for a luxury shoe and handbag line, my brother is a self employed web developer with clients of the like of Stanford).
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But, they're so HAPPY!
by stillin inyou can't deny it.
smiling and brimming with good cheer.
is it sort of like the person who buys a lemon of a car and won't admit it?
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It's a smug fear based sort of joy. My mother is so joyful the result is bouts of depression medicated by prescription drugs.
That's some joy alright.
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Scary moment: Watchtower Study conductor got mad about answer
by Gorbatchov intoday we had a bla bla bla watchtower article: warnings for technology, money and pride.
a repreat of a repreat of a repreat.. but now it comes:.
one of the last summary questions one of the local simple brothers gave the answer that we have to take care for technology.
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It's a cult!
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Scary moment: Watchtower Study conductor got mad about answer
by Gorbatchov intoday we had a bla bla bla watchtower article: warnings for technology, money and pride.
a repreat of a repreat of a repreat.. but now it comes:.
one of the last summary questions one of the local simple brothers gave the answer that we have to take care for technology.
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mrsjones5
i.e. 1984
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new member- my story
by AndDontCallMeShirley in"that which can be asserted without evidence, can.
be dismissed without evidence.
" - christopher hitchens.
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mrsjones5
That was a wonderfully well written introduction.
Welcome to the forum.
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Robin Roxette. ......this cant be life, can it? Can it?
by Theocratic Sedition inif i became a circuit overseer, think she'd give me a chance?.
it aint fair somedays!.
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mrsjones5
Why would being a co matter to a honey like that?
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Why does my family still interact with me?
by stillstuckcruz inhere was my story posted originally about 2 years ago.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/205854/1/as-a-witness-what-view-of-the-world-did-you-have-heres-my-story.
and my extended story on jwrecovery:.
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mrsjones5
Doesn't pay to wait for the other shoe to drop. Don't stress or worry about it. If the shunning happens don't be shock just expect that it one day may happen and you really have no control other than how you respond to it.
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Do you have an arrest record ? Ever been arrested?
by Glander infortunately, i don't have an arrest record.. but i was arrested one day walking through a parking lot when a young woman was struggling to exit her low-slung sports car with no knickers on..
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No and no.