after reading this thread, i started wondering whether online dating sites work well.
has anyone had any success with dating sites?
if so, which one?
I have.
Met a few guys. One I dated for 3 and half years. I just broke up with him about 3 months ago. Thinking of signing up again. Maybe next month.
Unless you have any single guy friends near me...
Course then I won't have much time for JWD. Can you all carry on without me?
-Aude.
can any one tell me what the 'significant differences' are between the old green bible and new black bible?.
having been a jw for almost forty years i never knew of a difference except that my mum is the only jw i know who still uses one.
is it possible that i could show her anything 'interesting'?
Do the Brooklyn Bethel buildings still have 'Bible Green' trim??
Or have they now adopted a more neutral color???
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and most importantly, as we all know that this education in the life saving work is second to none, have you placed this grand accomplishment on your resume?
i went in baldwinsville ny around 1988.
YES! PUT THEM ON EBAY! I just got $125 for mine!!!
Y'all might not see me for a few days. I'm gonna go dig up that book...
the only wt publication i brutally destroyed was a brand new copy of the revalation book.
i was so frustrated with the religion that i ripped the goddam thing into a hundred pieces.
it was a great way to take my anger out on it.. years later when i was dating this one girl, she had a copy of that same stupid book.
You know, I could just picture it. Garbage man discovers Watchtowers in the trash, feels moved, gets a study, and gets baptized.
Seems that I remember an experience in a yearbook to this effect...
The closing prayer by one of the governing body at the end of a 5-day convention.
In the hot, humid, stinky stadium. I swear some of those prayers went longer than the talks!
-Aude.
well it has been alot of years since we engaged in the rooming work.
did anyone of you experience postive results or were people nasty.
share some of your stories.
1969. My parents started studying because of rooming work.
One of my dad's employees was a witness and mentioned to him that there was to be a big international convention in NYC and would he be interested in putting up a visiting family from another country.
My dad said, well, I don't know. How long is the convention? 5 days. So my dad figures family (2 adults and 2 children) arrive the day before and leave the day after.
Wrong. 2 Adult women and 2 teenagers (17 and 19) stay for 3 weeks.
*Heavy sigh* from both my parents. OK our house is your house. We will share our food and our home with you but NO PREACHING.
And they didn't preach a single word. For 3 weeks. My parents were baptized at the next district convention in 1970.
-Aude.
Edited to add: OH! the fun part that I remember was weeks and weeks leading up to their arrival my brother (6 y/o) and I (9 y/o) were imagining where they would be from. What language would the speak? How would we understand them??? Two days before the convention we got our answer: England!
My brother asked: "oh good! But what language do they speak??"
(umm actually, *I* asked that question, but i didn't want y'all to think I was that stupid....!)
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and most importantly, as we all know that this education in the life saving work is second to none, have you placed this grand accomplishment on your resume?
i went in baldwinsville ny around 1988.
I went in summer of 1985.
Woodland Hills California. I probably still have the 'Illuminators' book on one of my shelves.
My employer at the time closed the office so I could attend.
I never put it on my resume. Never anything about JW on my resume...
-Aude.
even when i was active with the cult i always bought the forbidden cookies....my mother-in-law a lifer in the borg, always forbid my wife to even take a bite of one, let alone purchase them!
my wife works in a small doctors office everyday with two witness gals.
gets real dicey at times with my wife being dissassociated.
They are forbidden??? Forbidden??
Oh, yes. Girl Scouting is very nationalistic.
Buying Girl Scout cookies would be like supporting the United Nations - covertly, of course...
-Aude.
and giving your first talk?
i found my first talk i gave.
i was so corny and nervous and get graded for your efforts and the rehearsing for sisters with other sisters.
I remember my first talk. I was 9 and my parents had only been studying for a few months. I was the first in my family to join the TMS.
Subject: 'Court Judicial, The Sanhedrin' - for a 9-year-old newie??!!? LOL
It was in the main hall and everyone clapped.
They also congratulated my parents on writing such a fine talk for a child. Parents said, 'Huh?? We don't do her homework. She's the one that's in the school, she wrote it herself.' No one believed them, but it was true. I never got help with any of my talks.
Hated giving them in the 2nd school, though. If I had to go through all the effort to put it together, EVERYbody better pay attention!
I remember being annoyed that noone clapped for my second talk...
-Aude.
can anyone tell me if the organization believes that when a married spouse is addicted to pornography, they are actually cheating?
i mean cheating in the sense that the "innocent" spouse can then declare that they are victims of adultery, and be free to marry again?
i looked around their website and found nothing that specifically stated that it is considered cheating.
I think the real reason for this is to further demonize the Net to the R&F. If young brother zealous is afraid to look for porn online, he sure isn't going to be looking for apostate sites.
I tend to agree with this statement.
