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  I Am Jumping For Joy!!!!!!!!!

  by Legolas in

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  my husband and i are now kid free!

  we have been looking forward to this for over 19 years!

  we will miss our daughter

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  Quentin

  Your never free, it's from their craddle to your grave...they come back...especialy the daughters...

  (Twilight Zone music plays softly in the background)
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  An Unbeliever's Guide to Believing the Bible

  by thinker in

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  2. bible

  jws believe the bible is god's word and that every word in it comes from god.

  it's a waste of time to try to disprove the bible based on science or any source outside the bible, because they just don't stand up to something someone believes came from god himself.

  so i've decided to use all that i've learned from jws about the bible to show them that they can't trust everything in the bible.

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  'figurative' or 'prophetic'.

  Sounds like type...anti-type...will the real Fred Franz please stand up...
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  What's the hardest thing you ever had to do?

  by Country Girl in

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  i think the hardest thing i ever went through was my divorce.

  it was something i knew i needed to go through, and get over, but it was the hardest thing of my life.

  i wanted the divorce, but it was so very painful.... what's the hardest thing you've ever gone through?

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  Edit:I've got to take my time when posting, too quick with the keys... Hardest thing? Sitting down with my nine year old grand-daughter and explaning the who, when, where of her mother's molestation. What happened, how it happened and what it did to her mother. It was one of my uncle's by marriage. Cutting off my side of the family was easy(she asked about that)but not this and I belived I was a tuff guy...not anymore....
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  Is there a story behind the beer you drink or is just that it tastes better

  by JH in

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  2. friends

  some people drink a certain beer because they really find that it's the best tasting beer on the market, while others drink what their friends or spouse drinks and see no difference, no matter what beer they drink.. when i first started drinking beer when i was in my teens, i drank what my parents had at home.

  free beer .

  honestly, i used to drink labatts but a friend initiated me to budlight, and i really love that beer now.

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  Quentin

  Guinness is good...any dark beer with a little salt...no story here, a beer now and again, maybe some Early Times...
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  He wouldn't read anything she showed him.

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  remember how my daughter's boyfriend's step-dad was now going back to meetings?

  and he was a dub years ago but never told anyone?.

  well, after printing out 31 pages of wts quotes on the un being the wild beast etc...............then showing how the scandal was addressed and reponses by the wts.................he refused to read anything!

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  My father went back after twenty years, never knew why. He too had the same mind set. Didn't know about the UN, did know about Malawi/Mexico, but his mind was shut. All he wanted to talk about was my returning , when he realized that wasn't going to happen we parted ways. To this day my daughter doesn't understand why he let "that cult" take him away from his family.
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  He wouldn't read anything she showed him.

  by BLISSISIGNORANCE in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  remember how my daughter's boyfriend's step-dad was now going back to meetings?

  and he was a dub years ago but never told anyone?.

  well, after printing out 31 pages of wts quotes on the un being the wild beast etc...............then showing how the scandal was addressed and reponses by the wts.................he refused to read anything!

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  People we've known

  by coffee_black in

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  2. experiences

  thought it might be interesting to list some names from our jw association.... maybe someone on the forum knows or knew them... maybe catch up... i've been out since the early 90s... and have no idea where these people are now.

  i'll start with a few.. i've been in congregations in new england, california and florida... so here goes.... hyde park ma.... earl durst... harkins family... dekofski family... mills family...lennox family.... evenson family (from the early 60s) al rubin, john gonzales.

  sharon ma baltazar family... colmanaro family... .

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  My cousin moved to Washington State about twenty years ago. He and his family were JWs when thay made the move, have had no contact since he left Texas..... Vernon Daugherty and wife Phyllis... don"t remember were they went in Washinton....
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  What "Position" Did You Hold While A JW?

  by minimus in

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  I was a ninety day wonder pioneer...couldn't hack it...Watchtower reader...assistant to the assistant School servant, that is to say sometimes given the privilege of conducting the School in the library...right before I left was given the temporary assignment of conducting the WT study in a newly formed KH...gave one public talk...otherwise a rather lackluster JW career...
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  did you actually pay for magazines and literature?

  by arwen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  although i did put money into the contribution box untill i found out about silent lambs, i never really counted how many magazines and books i picked up or ordered and no one ever said anything about paying for them.

  i just assumed one put in the box what one could.

  did anyone actually figure out what they might owe and put that amount in the contribution box?

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  Quentin

  When I was in you paid for everything...lets see...hardbound NWTs,in black or green, were a dollar...soft cover NWTs were two dollars...Truth book was twenty-five cents, other books varied from fifty cents to seventy-five cents...tracts were a penny...the Aid book was three dollars, I think and Watchtower and Awakes were either three cents or a nickle, can't remember...now they don't pay for anything, just donations?...thats gotta be some heavey duty donations to keep those wheels greased...
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  Wild Kingdom...

  by Quentin in

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  we rent a small rock house from my employer that sits behind the office...his wife uses up about fifty pounds of cat food each week feeding every cat within a mile radius...pours it up in two large pans that sit on the back poorch of the office...seems the cat's are not the only one's that partake of this outdoor feast.. so, i am sitting in the yard just as it's getting dark...relaxing, thinking about nothing really...no outside light on, just the light coming thourgh the front windows, when i hear some noise and notice movement down the sidewalk...next thing i know there's a pack of skunk's (5 or 6) sniffing my shoes...i slowly stand up while they mill around my feet and retreat into the house...went back out after a few minutes and discovered i was right...they were over on the poorch helping themselves to some easy food...damest thing thats happened to me in a long time...i didn't get sprayed because they appeared to be young skunk's who were just curious about me being where i was...anyone else with wild kingdom stories?

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  Squirrels are cute little beggers, aren't they?

  I've had several wild life encounters over the years: saw a bobcat chasing a rabbit one morning, that was beautiful, had a fawn come close and follow us around for awhile...had a wild turkey follow us for a whole morning once, we fed it some crackers and can't tell you how many times I've jumped deer in the brush...always a heart stopper...but that pack of skunk's last night, and I was in town, in my yard, is the goofiest thing thats ever happened...