Posts by mrsjones5

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What initially attracted you to your spouse?

by JH in

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was it the looks.....the way he/she talked to you, a certain chemistry?.

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His small feet. He's 6' and at that time he wore a sz 7 mens. The smallest foot I have ever seen on a man that tall.

Josie

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hi this is my frist time here,and i'n not good with these places..so i hope this is going towards meeting people.i'm a 44 year old african american who's seeking companionship,friendship,bible reading partner,and in time a loving committed marragei'm a patient person.but it doens't take away the fact that i'm lonely.i don't have friends in the worlds so i don't have anyone really to talk to but my kids.sometimes i need a guy friend that i can talk to and even date(good clean [edited])even if its reading the bible or just chatting about different biblical topics.i'm a full-figured woman,very caring understanding,honest,believes in communications, faithfulness,and a monogamist relationship and marriage.i'm 5"6medium brown skinned,pretty face and smile.loves poetry.drawing,museums,history,music,carpentry,canavals,sports.

mrsjones5

If I could I'd bring you over a peach cobbler. Even us evil non jw christians can be nice.

Josie

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Ozzie's Weekend Poll #130

by ozziepost in

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so how's things with you?

it's been one of those weeks, hasn't it?

i'm sure many who are roman catholics are feeling a sense of loss and wondering how they will cope with change to a new pope.

mrsjones5

What's an "Awake!" magazine? Is it like "Family Circle" or "Martha Stewart - Living"? Does it carry recipes and articles about home decorating? If not I have no interest.

Josie

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Mental Migets

by mrsjones5 in

yesterday, while i was folding and getting ready my papers for my saturday paper route, i was in the jw chatroom on yahoo.

there were quite a few jws there (which has become an unsual thing - most diehard jw chatters have gone to paltalk where the control over a chatroom is more rigid) and i engaged a couple of these jws.

i asked my usual stumper "is there any historical proof for the year 607 b.c.e.?

mrsjones5

Yesterday, while I was folding and getting ready my papers for my Saturday paper route, I was in the jw chatroom on Yahoo. There were quite a few jws there (which has become an unsual thing - most diehard jw chatters have gone to paltalk where the control over a chatroom is more rigid) and I engaged a couple of these jws. I asked my usual stumper "Is there any historical proof for the year 607 B.C.E.? And if there is, where is it?" Got no answer other than someone giving me an definition of what B.C.E. meant. Asked the question again. Was immediatedly labeled an apostate. Was told that my god was satan. Was told that what ever information I had looked at on the matter was from an apostate site and that I needed to get back to the hall and read my bible because the answer to my question was there - this after no one could show me exactly where in the bible this answer was.

So, I got to thinking. I am so glad that I am no longer involved with a religious organization that causes it's members to be mental midgets. That requires it's members to limit their mental capabilities (not one of these admitted to using google - they seemed to have a fear of search engines). I am no mental giant but compared to what I saw in that room yesterday I feel like Einstein.

Josie

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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ....

by talesin in

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has anyone ever played this game?

"my name is talesin and i'm a kevin bacon fan.

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The Oracle says: Eddie (I) Murphy has a Bacon number of 2.

Eddie (I) Murphy was in Boomerang (1992) with David Alan Grier
David Alan Grier was in Woodsman, The (2004) with Kevin Bacon

So my bacon number is actually 4! wow!

Josie

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when you were babtized and dedicated did you feel a void?

by swiftbreeze in

this has always troubled me:.

i was studying to be babtized although i was raised around the "truth" i still had to have an official study.

so i was taught that i had to go to jehovah in prayer stating my desire to be dedicated and babtized.

mrsjones5

Yep, I felt that void growing up among the jws. And I tried, really tried to feel something. Even when I was studying to be baptised...nothing, the void was still there. I couldn't go through with the baptism and dedicate myself to something I didnt feel or wholely believe. And for a long time I thought that something was wrong with me, that I was just too bad to feel whatever I was supposed to feel.

Josie

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Watchtower and Awake in the waiting room

by kj in

i found a couple of nice wt and awake magazines in the waiting room at work today.

i decided to dress them up with some flourescent green labels with the freeminds.org, silentlambs.org, and quotes' website.

hope the jw who left them will come back and check them out .

mrsjones5

Cool!!

Josie

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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ....

by talesin in

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has anyone ever played this game?

"my name is talesin and i'm a kevin bacon fan.

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i was watching a moving with kevin bacon in it and i found out that my separation is a 6.

kevin to queen latifah, latifah to will smith, will smith to jada picket, jada to eddie murphy, eddie to his wife, eddie's wife to her hairdresser who did her hair at their wedding, hairdresser to me (he used to do my hair too and is a friend)

Josie

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Jehovah's Witnesses and interracial marriage

by what_Truth? in

*this is a bit of a riff off of bluegrass tom's post in the bible research forumn .

in my old hall we had three interracial couples.

in fact i didn't even realise that they were interracial until i was about 12. .

mrsjones5

bttt

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Jehovah's Witnesses and interracial marriage

by what_Truth? in

*this is a bit of a riff off of bluegrass tom's post in the bible research forumn .

in my old hall we had three interracial couples.

in fact i didn't even realise that they were interracial until i was about 12. .

mrsjones5

OK, I decided to jump in on this topic - I'm gonna try to get my thoughts out in an organized manner .

In the early 80's my mother felt that we werent spiritually strong enough so she arranged with our book study conductor (Bro. Knight - one of the elders in our congregation and father of a young ms who I had a crush on - Mark Knight) to come over and preside over our family book study. I think at this moment I should mention that my family is black and bro Knight is white. At some point in the study we came upon the subject of interracial marriage (how we got there I dont remember) and bro. Knight made the comment that even though there were many interracial marriages among the jws the society has never official condoned the practise among the rank and file. My mother was taken aback and quite upset that the bro made such a comment. I dont remember how the study ended but it did soon after and the studies were stopped.

I remember being at a circuit convention at a jw convention hall in Fremont, California. During a talk I had to use the ladies. While I was in one of the stalls I heard a few sisters talking (they were black). They were from Seattle (I think, if I remember correctly) and their conversation was about how they wanted to get married, the lack of available black brothers, and being interested in dating or being courted by white brothers but how interested white brothers seems to be steered away from them to white sisters.

I also remember knowing of young black brothers who had decided to court and marry white or other non-black sisters because they didnt want any "nappy-headed" kids. Needless to say not all black brothers had this attitude but this is what I saw, heard, and was exposed to.

So even though the pratice of interracial marriage among the jw rank and file is common, it's not at all as rosy so some may think. Unfortunately old ugly attitudes may still be there, they are just harder to see especially if you dont know what to look for.

Josie