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  What's Your Fantasy Job ?

  by Taylor S. in

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  i was in nassau sitting on the beach, sipping a 151 pina colada, watching the jet-ski guy, all toned and tanned.

  i remember thinking, he's got the coolest job in the world ... sittting on the beach all day, renting & teaching drunk & horny tourists how to ride them.

  that's my fantasy .... i wanna be the jet-ski guy.

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  Fighter pilot.
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  Process still going on..........Help!!!!

  by purplesofa in

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  this is like an update to my progression/unraveling.

  it has been two weeks since reading coc.

  i have tried to read in search of christian freedom and it is going slow for me.

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  Just remember that you have friends here and on the outside, don't be afraid to reach out when you need to.
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  Favorite Movies

  by purplesofa in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am sure there is a thread out there somewhere about everyones fav movie........there are so many good ones.. today for the first time i saw the birds by alfred hitchcock.

  yikes!!!.

  and now the quiet man is on with john wayne.

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  Alien-Aliens

  Blade Runner

  The Quiet Man

  The Godfather

  Bullitt

  Dirty Harry

  Casino

  Maltese Falcon

  Mr. Roberts
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  social retard

  by MerryMagdalene in

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  i finally figured out why i'm so socially retarded...it just hit me.. here i was sitting and wondering why i have such a hard time meeting new people, making friends, thinking of relevent things to say, and so on.

  it really is painful and scary for me.

  i was told who i could talk to, who i couldn't talk to, what i could say, what i couldn't say.

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  Big Dog

  Hell yeah, I am all for that aposta-lovefest deal Merry suggested! Hugs to Merry, Jeannie, Jez, and everybody else with battlewounds.
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  social retard

  by MerryMagdalene in

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  i finally figured out why i'm so socially retarded...it just hit me.. here i was sitting and wondering why i have such a hard time meeting new people, making friends, thinking of relevent things to say, and so on.

  it really is painful and scary for me.

  i was told who i could talk to, who i couldn't talk to, what i could say, what i couldn't say.

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  Big Dog

  I hope I don't get hammered here but I want to add one thought if anyone can stand it. Anytime there is a thread about growing up JW the expressions "double life" and "hypocrite" are thrown around alot and I'd like to comment on that. For those of us that were born into the faith we had no choice about how we were going to be raised, the only choice we had (maybe) was how we were going to react to it. It seems to me children raised JW fall into 3 categories: 1) Children that totally bought into the program, really believed and wanted to please God, and their parents, etc. and followed the rules of the organization because they thought it was right; 2) Children that at the hall acted the part they knew they had to play to win their parent's approval and not have their life turned possibly into a living hell and acted another way at school and outside the kingdom hall, the way they felt "normal"; 3) Children (of which I am of this group) that never bought into the program for whatever reason (no moral superiority is implied here) and acted pretty much the same way at the KH as they did anywhere else and depending on their parents and KH caught varying degrees of hell for it.

  Now my understanding of a hypocrite is one that professes one idea yet practices another, the closest group to that would be group 2, but I don't see them as hypocrites really, they were born into the faith, they did not join of their own accord, so they were doing what they thought they had to do to get by and possibly keep their sanity. Yes, living a double life as people are sometimes forced to when trapped in an unyielding rigid social structure, so I would not label them hypocrites in the way I would an adult who joins of their free will, professes the faith yet does something else in private.

  So, I ask that people be a little more gentle with the labels hypocrite and double life, etc. when talking about us poor slobs that were born into the WBTS lifestyle and did what we had to do.
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  JW's just came to my door

  by Heatmiser in

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  jw's just came to my door and i blew an opportunity.. man, i wish they didn't have the kid giving the presentation though.

  i wouldn't have had a problem discussing stuff with them.

  what would you guys have done?

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  I am always torn when the JW's come to my door as to how to handle it. Most of the time I just let them do their spiel and tell them no thanks. If it was a child there is just no way I could go off, that would just be too hurtful. I have thought about trying to talk some sense to them but most of the time I just assume that is going to be a waste of time.
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  I'm sick to death of talking about the Memorial

  by GetBusyLiving in

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  lets talk about sex or something funny.

  or just make fun of scholar or something.

  gbl

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  Big Dog

  And what would those emblems be dragonlady? Inquiring minds want to know.
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  Hey... We're home!

  by Bryan in

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  i took evelyne a copy of everyones wonderful thoughts... she cried more than once.

  so, she saw the specialist just after lunch time.

  it looks like, after 3 liters of iv, she has gone from 4.7 to 14!

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  Congratulations! There is nothing in this world like holding a new born in your arms. Total innocence, total peace.
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  Memorial experiences 2005 thread

  by Jez in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  lets put all of our memorial stories/thoughts on one thread.

  mine: 45 mins.

  quick and boring.

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  Big Dog

  This is kind of off topic, but with all the comments about the free bible study pitch, they did the same thing at the end of my dad's memorial service. A large number of people where there to support me and this goon wraps up the service with a free bible study pitch that has all these people looking at me like wtf, how inappropriate is that?
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  UNBELIEVABLE WT ARROGANCE please help.

  by yesidid in

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  really their egotism knows no bounds.

  the text for the memorial day is:.

  who really is the faithful and discreet slave?

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  Big Dog

  Hey Shania, no problem, your indifference only left me mildly suicidal. *Sniff*

  I remember talking to my die-hard dub sister and telling her that her/WBTS views and comments were just incredibly arrogant to which she replied, "well, what can I say, when you are right it can come across as arrogant."

  I just sort of sputtered for a second until I got out, right about what? They have never been right about one thing in their whole history. You know, this goes beyond arrogance, it is these folks really think God is talking to them, they are divinely guided. That is scarey.