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  Biggest mistake of my life

  by SixofNine in

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  that's how i titled my response to a thread (on a non-religious discussion board i frequent) asking: "in honor of the lord's baptism today, were you baptised?

  (poll)".

  my reply:.

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  Funny how the WTBS brags about not baptising babies like other churches do, because in the Bible, only men and women were baptised.... yet they will allow children as young as 7 to get baptised! How did we ever overlook that? I'm sure most of us thought "wow, that child is so mature!" - not really, they just know all the answers to the questions in the green book and that life is all they know.

  I was baptised at 16 (started studying when I was 14) and at the time, I felt like I was dedicating myself to GOD, not the WTBS. Admittedly tho, I didn't feel all excited and everything - being baptised at an International Convention was weird, mass baptism. It caused a lot of problems with my non-JW family, and I do regret it very much. I should have listened to them (and my gut - which I attributed to pressure from the world). I was not ready for it, and did not really think of the consequences should I change my mind down the road.

  Like many others here, I am very socially inept, from those formative teenage years being so messed up. Sure, I had my fun, went to worldly parties (before, not so much after), had good friends (who I pretty much left when I got baptised ) , but then I became a real goody-goody and forsook the rest of my teenage years. Now here I am at 24, and I went to a bar last weekend FOR THE FIRST TIME. That is sad! I am struggling to learn social skills now, to make friends, to branch out and learn who I am all over again.... for someone who is naturally shy and anxious, that is not a very easy thing to do.

  At the same time though, if I had not studied and gotten baptised, I would not be married to Kwin or have our wonderful kids, so it turned out ok in the end. I just chalk it up to experience and am trying to move on and move up. Now I can get a better education and a decent (non-minimum-wage) job that actually stimulates my brain. (I thought my brain had gone numb from having kids and no time to myself - turns out it was the WTBS' fault, lol).

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  What do you make of this picture?

  by heart2heart in

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  mum took this picture in the summer (she loves to photograph flowers, mushrooms and insects) and this one really shocked us - look at the head of the moth!

  to us it looks like a little human head!

  very strange.

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  City Fan: sorry for my ignorance, but who is Vincent Price? That's not the Silence of the Lambs guy is it?

  kls: It is really weird and we can't figure it out - the picture is too close-up to be someone walking in the background who just happened to line up perfectly in the shot. This is the only moth she's taken a picture of that had a head like this - it is really bizarre!

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  What do you make of this picture?

  by heart2heart in

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  mum took this picture in the summer (she loves to photograph flowers, mushrooms and insects) and this one really shocked us - look at the head of the moth!

  to us it looks like a little human head!

  very strange.

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  Mum took this picture in the summer (she loves to photograph flowers, mushrooms and insects) and this one really shocked us - look at the head of the moth! To us it looks like a little human head! Very strange. The photo was not modified in any way. I believe she used the macro/zoom to take this close-up. What do you think?

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  Sexual Harassment

  by LittleToe in

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  i thought i'd pose a question especially (but not exclusively) for the girls regarding sexual harassment.

  what would you deem as unfitting behaviour?.

  is it appropriate for a guy to ask if you are wearing any panties?

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  Maybe this well help those of us, male or female, who do wonder what a true Scotsman wears under his kilt, therefore halting the need to ever ask that personal question again

  (All in good humour, this thread reminded me of this photo I saw a couple of days ago ,sorry if I offended anyone!)
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  Worse neighbor experiences

  by unbeliever in

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  some family moved in across the street a few months ago.

  i have never talked to them.

  all i know about them is what the other neighbors had to say.

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  When we first moved to this area, we lived in an apartment building in a not-so-desirable area of the city (we didn't know that at the time). The neighbours we had above us (3 or 4 in the year we lived there!) were all annoying. The first ones, the baby cried ALL DAY - we think she might have been left alone, but not sure. The second ones fought all the time, slamming doors and swearing/screaming at each other at 1 am, were always stomping around (I used to bang on my ceiling with a broom), and blaring their music at all hours. The third ones apparantly didn't know what a garbage can was for - they threw all of their kitchen refuse out their kitchen window and balcony, which ended up in front of our ground-level walk-out where our kids played. Tomatoes, green peppers, spaghetti, egg shells, tea bags, etc. It was really gross. One time I saw her throwing a ton of popcorn over the balcony (not so bad as the birds all eat it) and I yelled at her to stop throwing her garbage over - she was all pissed off and came down and picked some of it up then left it by the front door. Nice. The kids were making snowmen that winter and bits of spaghetti were getting rolled into them. It was gross. My friend, who was their neighbour, said they were always asking for money and cat food, and their apartment smelled like a really dirty cat box, even with the doors closed. The cops were called many times on them because of screaming, fighting and who else knows. Oh, there were 2 boys down the hall who set fire to their apartment (trying to cook) while their mom was at work and they should have been in school (not that I think they even went - they were always home and trashed the building). Oh, did I mention that the first landlord used to pimp prostitutes out of the storage room, was a lazy druggie, and gave other people furniture that had been stored in the storage rooms for someone else?

  Glad we don't live there anymore!
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  WTBTS PLOTS TO KILL THE WORLD!! (DREAM)

  by maybesbabies in

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  omg!

  what a dream i had last night!

  in it, we had discovered a plot by the governing body to hasten armageddon.

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  Wow, what did you eat before bed?? lol That is one crazy dream, very detailed too. The part about the golden calf was funny! Your dreams sound weirder than Kwin's (my dh) and I didn't know that was possible! (Story for another time)

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  WITNESS MENTALITY TOWARDS THE TSUNAMI DISASTER

  by Mary in

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  i feel like screaming right about now...........the dickhead who takes our bookstudy group just came over and said "...i wonder how many brothers and sisters died in the tsunami disater.

  " while that's a natural concern, his next comment blew me away "....it figures that the media hasn't bothered mentioning jehovah's witnesses helping out in this disaster!

  " i looked at him stunned for a minute and said "and why on earth would they mention jehovah's witnesses?

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  I'm not sure of the local mentality, but I have to agree with everyone here that it is likely the usual "we're always the first to help" "how many JWs died?" kind of thoughts. In reality though, are they the first? Probably not. Are they even helping out? Maybe, but likely only their own, like others have said. After hurricane Juan in Nova Scotia last year, NOBODY helped anyone, except maybe to lend them their generator after their own power came back on. Kwin offered help to anyone who needed it (clearing trees, etc though we would have gladly helped in any way we could) but was never called to help anyone. Our book study overseer called us to make sure we were ok - likely other book study overseers did the same, but we don't think there was any kind of communication between them to organize help for those who needed it. With a lot of elderly people in the hall, as well as families with small children, that is really sad! We saw much more of a "community spirit" in so-called "unbelievers" than we ever did within the Witness community. I've never heard of a congregation collecting money to help anyone, except to pay for the CO's costs while visiting. Besides that, you never seem to hear anything about how the WTS is helping out after a disaster (except for a few articles here in there in the mags). It would have been nice to hear some kind of new along those lines. Instead, like someone already mentioned, you are witnessing for yourself how locally the brothers and sisters don't help those who need it, but you are expected to believe that they are the first to arrive with help after a disaster in some other part of the world. Yeah right... I'm sure what really happens is the closest JW's rush to the scene, briefcases in hand to tell everyone how near the end they are and that they need to start a Bible study right away if they want to be saved. lol

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  Just for Fun! Your Santa's Helper Name

  by heart2heart in

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  very cute and fun!

  find out your "santa's helper name" and email it to your friends and family for a laugh!

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/fun_stuff/christmas/santas_little_helper_names.shtml.

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  Very cute and fun! Find out your "Santa's Helper Name" and email it to your friends and family for a laugh!

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/fun_stuff/christmas/santas_little_helper_names.shtml

  My name is Fuzzy Dancing-Fairy

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  Merry Christmas!

  by heart2heart in

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  merry christmas and happy new year to everyone on jwd!

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  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone on JWD!!

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  Kwintestal's Current Avitar

  by BrendaCloutier in

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  kwintestal's current avitar looks like the fat lady singing, and her breast plates have slipped!

  (along with what her breast plates were protecting).

  hugs.

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  Ahem...

  Thanks Preston -(Not sure which picture you saw of me though, but I'll take the complement just the same!) No insult intended, but I wonder how I should take a complement like that from a guy who's not into girls? Or is it that my amazingly good looks are enough to turn a gay guy straight? lol

  Heart2Heart (Mrs. Kwin)