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  Say a prayer :)

  by JH in

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  yes brothers and sisters, feel free to say a prayer on my thread.

  no need to wear a hat sisters.. i'll start: god almighty, i want to thank you for jwd, a place where beer and women and funny posts collide.

  thank-you for the beer i'm drinking right now.

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  Big Dog

  In heaven there is no beer, so we might as well drink it here.
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  JW Ladies: starved for love?

  by 144001 in

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  ok, in another thread, a poster referred to incidents of "sisters" out in "field service" attempting to "hit" on the males they encountered at the doors.

  i have personally had this experience, and also noticed that the last time i visited a kingdom hall, the females in the hall were very, very flirty (including those who were married).

  it was as if i had entered a place inhabited soley by women who had been denied male companionship for years!

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  Big Dog

  Well, think about the men in the congos, I mean, looking back the group at the hall I grew up in were pretty well emasculated by adulthood. Never participating in normal young man activities and being taught that being a spineless wimp was the ideal mode of existence, well, I just don't see these guys inflaming their ladies with passion and taking care of business in the bedroom. I can recall in the gossip mill that was the Kingdom Hall many stories about brothers that didn't have the desire much less the first clue about what to do in the bedroom.
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  "This just can't last much longer...."

  by BrendaCloutier in

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  2. experiences

  i went over and visited my parents today.

  my mom broke her hip while we were in hawaii, and i've been mostly house/bed ridden myself since we got home.

  so i finally got over there today.. we talked a little about the hurricane, which was on the news she turned off.

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  Big Dog

  Virgogirl, first welcome to the forum. Second, my 85 year old mother is one of them, she clings to it because she has invested so heavily in it. She told me recently though if her father was still alive he would have left the org. She just figures at this point in her life what can she do.
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  Question for Defd

  by gringojj in

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  defd we were talking earlier and i didnt want to hijack the other post.

  we were talking about how i believe it is unfair for god to murder his children even though it is his fault that they dont follow his wishes not because they dont want to but because he did not make his wishes clear.. you said that his wishes are clear, but the devil distorts them.. you promised me you would provide me with some examples.

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  Big Dog

  Cool, it appears reports of Defd's demise were greatly exaggerated! Hang in there Derrick.
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  Is there anything that "only the JW's preach" you still believe in?

  by JH in

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  i don't know what to answer to my own question.... i guess that i still believe in a paradise earth where humans could live forever.

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  Big Dog

  No, if there is anything to christianity, certainly none of their exclusive teachings make any sense to me at all.
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  The "Stella" Awards

  by Scully in

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  i would have posted this in jokes & humour if they weren't actual awards.. things that make you say what the hell were they thinking?

  sometimes these are so outrageous they are hard to believe.

  enjoy..... .

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  Big Dog

  The thing is, with some of these cases, when the papers and news report it they leave out some key elements that just totally make it seem bizarre. The McDonalds case for instance, my understanding is that the reason that case went that way was that the counsel for McDonalds was just a jackass, insulted the jury multiple times, basically telling them they were a bunch of dumbasses, etc. Also, McDonalds knew the coffee was at a temperature that was way above what other restaurants used and could cause severe burns in a much shorter time and in greater severity than one would expect and had settled cases like the Stella case in the past, paying for the medical bills, but this time decided to play hardball.

  So all that went into the jury saying fine, you want to be the corporate giant and call us dumb a-holes, well, we'll fix you and they did. Of course the news and the papers usually don't add those sorts of facts to their reporting as it dilutes the shock factor.
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  Question for Defd

  by gringojj in

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  defd we were talking earlier and i didnt want to hijack the other post.

  we were talking about how i believe it is unfair for god to murder his children even though it is his fault that they dont follow his wishes not because they dont want to but because he did not make his wishes clear.. you said that his wishes are clear, but the devil distorts them.. you promised me you would provide me with some examples.

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  Oh man, I'm out of the office for a couple of hours and Defd bails? That sucks, I thought we were starting to get through to him. I bet he comes back.
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  The "Stella" Awards

  by Scully in

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  i would have posted this in jokes & humour if they weren't actual awards.. things that make you say what the hell were they thinking?

  sometimes these are so outrageous they are hard to believe.

  enjoy..... .

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  LMAO! Unreal.
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  Explain monogamy to me

  by joelbear in

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  my preferred social construct would be a group of 5 to 10 men sharing space, chores, well everything.. if i were heterosexual i think i would prefer the same situation, 2 or 3 families living together and sharing all.. actually i believe this should be a worldwide goal, total community in every sense of the word.. i see no advantage served by social and sexual diads.. please explain it to me.

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  Big Dog

  I think Penn & Teller did a show on this, about the "traditional" family structure being a recent construct.

  I don't think most people would be able to handle a situation like you describe Joel, it seems most like being exclusive to another person.
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  I have alot of questions

  by MrsBee in

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  2. beliefs

  my husband is a d'fed jw and i think he is gonna try and make his way back there .

  they dont believe in fate?

  (long story short, we were high school sweethearts, didnt see each other since xmas 1993 even though we lived in the same city then he ran into my mother xmas 2003, while i lived in charlotte and he was here in maryland, i moved back to maryland 3 weeks later and we were married 7 months after that- i believe in fate, i dont think its far fetched to believe that god has a plan for everyone).

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  Big Dog

  I've seen it work, my sister is a dub and her husband isn't and never was and they have been married and pretty happy for 25 years. From what I have seen in their case the key was my brother-in-law laid down the ground rules right from the get go. He would not interfere with her worship in any way, but he didn't want to be preached to, by her or anyone from the hall and he was not going to change what he did, ie. christmas etc. They don't have any kids and that probably made it easier, but on a positive note, it can be done, my advice is just lay down the rules right from the beginning in a loving but firm way.