Posts by hopelesslystained

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When and How soon should I start dating?

by Crumpet in

so i've been officially single for just over a week now.

mr c laughed fondly when i asked him in barcelona if he missed me yet and wanted me back.

so how soon is too soon to get back into the dating scene?

hopelesslystained

Bluebell has some good suggestons.

Personally, I wouldn't wait to get out there and about town. But first, clarify in your mind, and have a talk with yourself about what would make you content with a partner. Be clear.

Then follow your dreams and desires, what are your interests? Example: yachting. manipulate yourself into the places where the yachters are.

Focus.

There is nothing wrong with being single and testing many waters, just be smart.

After my jw marriage to a cheater and beater and incestor, I stayed single for 15 yrs and loved it. But then the time came and i wanted a permanent partner. I did the above and couldn't have been happier now for, ahemm, the last 12 yrs!

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Apologies From The Watchtower Society

by The wanderer in

jw
friends

apologies from the watchtower societywhat if the watchtower bible and tract society owned up to its mistakes .

how would you react to it?

naturally, this is all speculation because the .

hopelesslystained

***If the Watchtower made amends for its “sins”***

Amends? Can they bring back the dead (due to refusing life-saving medical treatment)or the lives of those who were abused, whether sexually or emotionally (due to their rules)?

NO!

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Memorial Date This Year?

by hopelesslystained in

jw
friends

when is it for california?

i have a sneaking feeling a screening of calls is in order this year... thanks, .

hope

hopelesslystained

lol aqua. A little witchy, no? well, then, how about the 12 apostles with jesus making number 13?

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Memorial Date This Year?

by hopelesslystained in

jw
friends

when is it for california?

i have a sneaking feeling a screening of calls is in order this year... thanks, .

hope

hopelesslystained

http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/passover/passover-calendar.html

http://www.inner.org/times/nissan/nissan.htm

The last above link, Carla, probably most addresses your question.

I have always found it strange the witnesses should cling to this date. With the full moon being of significance, rings of previous (pre christ)celebrations and/or observances.

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Memorial Date This Year?

by hopelesslystained in

jw
friends

when is it for california?

i have a sneaking feeling a screening of calls is in order this year... thanks, .

hope

hopelesslystained

Thank you

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Memorial Date This Year?

by hopelesslystained in

jw
friends

when is it for california?

i have a sneaking feeling a screening of calls is in order this year... thanks, .

hope

hopelesslystained

When is it for California?

I have a sneaking feeling a screening of calls is in order this year... Thanks,
Hope

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Defending WT changing Doctrines

by stillajwexelder in

ok - dont shout at me -but i know that archaeologists will change a theory based on a new find.

so will historains.

so will scientists.

hopelesslystained

***It wouldn't be so important if they didn't insist that they alone are the only ones who know truth. How can you really know they have the full truth (or even just enough of it) if it has changed so many times?***

Exactly! For almost 1/2 my life growing up jw, the claim made from the podium and being instructed to explain to householders was that proof the organization has j's spirit and blessing is the fact their "truths" do not change, unlike the churches in christendom and especially the catholic church.

go figure.

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Those raised as JWs-Do you recall the path of doubts that led you to leave?

by ithinkisee in

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friends

i posted a similar topic a year and a half ago.

i thought with all the new people it would be interesting to ask it again.

so i began to research ... and here i am.

hopelesslystained

***One girl in my 4th grade class felt so sorry for me that she gift wrapped a little package of kleenex and left it on my desk.***

Oh! that is so sad, made me cry...and remember when a couple of girls and boys in my 3rd or 4th (can't quite remember, it's been a long time) grade class put special valentines in an envelope for me expressing how they knew I did not believe in Valentines but they wanted to be my friends anyway.

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What did you give up for Lent? Let me tell you what I gave up for Lent!

by lawrence in

bogus religions.

jug wines.

dirt weed.

hopelesslystained

Lent?

I was too busy celebrating Carnival in Rio to worry about giving anything up for real!!! Much less Lent.

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Facing reality about getting older

by JH in

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friends

as jw's we weren't supposed to get that old and fall sick, all depending on how old we were when we joined.. but time is passing by and we are getting older, and sicker and uglier....lol.

was it hard for you to accept that you will one day die, after being told that paradise is just around the corner?.

.

hopelesslystained

I suppose I could die at any time. Aside from that, No, I was never to get past the age of 25.
That alone is probably the toughest point I still deal with.

My parents are staunch Jw and I see them still "faithful" yet still very much afraid of dieing. It just was not supposed to happen, that is, getting any older than the date of 1975 put you and actually dieing. There is deep fear in their eyes. And yet, a determination to remain faithful to the organization. Scary, gives me nighmares. I feel so sad for them.

Deny it all the org wants, they are responsible for so many people wasteing their live peddling literature and fake bible studies. All the while believing they will have complete protection from the very end of this world as we know it.

How could we have bought into this? A simple rule should have been considered. 'If it sounds too good to be true...'

Hello - selling printed material supposedly reliable as 'truth' and attending regular meetings, various group assemblies etc., makes a person deserving of the bibllical gods protection and everlasting life in the garden of eden???

Hope