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  Missed it by that much ----------23

  by John Aquila in

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  i almost had a freaking heart attack.

  i even threw my coffee cup at the wall and starting yelling like crazy when i got the the 5th number correct.

  i was checking my texas lottery ticket for this past saturday.

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  I love playing the lottery, it's entertainment for me. It's fun to dream and I win often so it keeps it interesting 😀 it's one of my favorite things!
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  "mum, i been naughty, i'm disfellowshipped."

  by Sabin in

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  2. friends

  so last night we get a phone call from our girl & she tells me the above.

  turns out she has been d'ed for a month.

  infact she made me turn off the speaker phone so her dad wouldn't hear & i could tell him quietly later.

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  Atonement- are you kidding me???? You think shunning isn't as bad as some people on this board make it out to be......... Why don't you talk to one of my young relatives whose parents have done terrible things to him/her and haven't spoke to him/her since he/she was df'd. It's a terribly cruel thing to do to a young person. Hell I'm not even Df'd and my siblings haven't spoken to me in years.

  Sabin - I hope your daughter can see tatt before she goes back.
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  JW marriages: “They” looked good on paper.

  by Londo111 in

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  2. beliefs

  i applaud anyone, male or female, who overcomes shallowness and looks at a person’s deeper qualities, especially in regard dating and marriage.

  the movie and fashion industry does much to institute shallowness to the point that, in my opinion, it promotes outright discrimination and judgmentalism even as they give lip service to tolerance..

  on the other hand, among jehovah’s witnesses, there seem to be a preponderance of incompatible marriages.

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  I think when you are not allowed to be your true self, and are obsessed with pretending to be something you are not, there is no way a marriage could be fulfilling.

  I am so glad that I didn't get married until after I left. I have been married for more than 15 years and love my husband more today than ever. We also are able to let each other grow and learn and change without the confines of a cult. I know I wouldn't have the opportunity to explore different interests if I had married a JW.
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  An inguinal hernia.

  by Fisherman in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  there are a couple of schools of thought on this.

  some doctors recommend postponing surgery others recommend laparascopic surgery, etc.

  how about local anesthesia, complications during and after surgery and other concerns.

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  Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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  Shunning: is it still practiced?

  by FinchAndWeston in

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  are df, da and apostates still shunned?

  are each treated differently?

  i heard a secondhand report that they seemed to have eased up on this practice ...

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  I am not DA or DF and my siblings haven't spoken to me in years. It's alive and well.
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  June 2016 WT (study edition) Bashing Higher Education....AGAIN!

  by ToesUp in

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  2. friends

  paragraph 14: .

  "this means that we need to examine our heart constantly to see if it is being enticed by worldly entertainment, associations, and styles of dress and grooming.

  or the love of the world might involve efforts to attain “great things,” such as through the pursuit of higher education.

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  I also think college teaches you to think. Can't have that going on in the JW religion.
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  June 2016 WT (study edition) Bashing Higher Education....AGAIN!

  by ToesUp in

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  paragraph 14: .

  "this means that we need to examine our heart constantly to see if it is being enticed by worldly entertainment, associations, and styles of dress and grooming.

  or the love of the world might involve efforts to attain “great things,” such as through the pursuit of higher education.

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  Yes it is terrible to get a degree. My first job after college graduation offered $72k it was just awful to have to figure out what to do with the money. Paying our bills off, taking a small vacation etc. The yacht and island will have to wait I guess............

  My still in siblings are always having a hard time with their bills and if the kids need anything or they have unexpected doctor bills it's a disaster. I feel bad for their kids, I used to help them out, but once they started shunning me and still expected me to help them, I said no thanks.
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  I would rather be in the JW cult than the ex-jw cult

  by questioningmyfaith in

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  i have posted one other time on this website.

  just for the mere fact that i wasn't anger and bitter and ready to declare the gb the sociopathic criminals that so many here ascribe to, my initial question digressed to bickering over ad hominem attacks against the gb and not my beliefs that i'm questioning.

  some did give me some help on my questions.

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  It's hard to understand the dynamics of all the disagreements around here, when we all spent so many years around people with identical beliefs. Disagreement is good, and if you are sure if your beliefs no one is going to sway you from them, but they might help you to think along some different lines if you take time to consider other points of view.

  i won't ever belong to a cult again.
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  Have you ever had your oven door explode?

  by Ucantnome in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  the other day the glass in my oven door exploded and sent glass into the next room, fortunately i wasn't peering in at the time.

  about a year go the previous oven door shattered one morning.

  the oven was cold.

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  I haven't had that happen. I think you have somehow angered the oven gods........... Best go out to eat from now on, and for heavens sake don't go to one of those open kitchen places where that oven might get you. :-)
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  I like the fact that XJW's are passionate about politics

  by minimus in

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  the fact is we could never talk about politics or of use toward political issues as witnesses now we can and we can disagree without being disagreeable .

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  I think I am more passionate about just having the freedom to have an opinion. It's kinda funny sometimes because people get so mad and think we all have to agree on what's best, but we don't. And it's ok. In fact it's great, because we are all thinking without the cult telling us what to do.