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  Are single-never-married heterosexual males approaching their forties...

  by DanTheMan in

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  ...losers?

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  Layla33

  Majestic, yes sorry I got your nick mixed up. Just don't give up on your life and what you could do, that's all I was saying. The past is done, it's over, stop looking back and beating yourself up over it, look ahead to the future and plan for what you would like to become.
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  Are single-never-married heterosexual males approaching their forties...

  by DanTheMan in

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  Layla33

  That’s the bit I have been personally robbed of…….

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  I guess each person creates their own reality. One person may see it as robbed, while another person gets married, has kids at 45, plays with them, gets on the floor with them and everything else, and lives to see their grandchildren and it is all because they have a very high quality of life and a postive attitude. For me that is a reality that I happen to know of personally for about five people I know, whose fathers were well into their forties and early fifties when they were born and they are my age and still have a healthy loving relationship with their dad and mom and would scoff at someone thinking their father was robbed because he waited a little while.
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  Are single-never-married heterosexual males approaching their forties...

  by DanTheMan in

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  Layla33

  I suppose you could say that we are losers in the sense that we have lost out on having a family when we were young enough to.

  A man can have a family well into his sixties, I know of cases where men waited until their late 40's and 50's and had children and a nice family. Age can't be used as a determing factor so much anymore, even with women. I know of several women that I have worked with that had their first child after 40, two have one more child and then there is adoption as well. I think honestly, that those that wait are more mature, have a long instance of staying married than those that get married early, and have kids, etc.
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  "We are the only ones going door-to-door" with the message

  by OnTheWayOut in

  1. jw
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  i wind up sitting next to a friend of my wife.

  the hall, but has no idea why.

  nobody is doing the worldwide work except jw's.

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  Layla33

  The bottom line is that going door to door is not bible based. It is something created by the WTS to promote their magazine distribution corporation. They use unpaid volunteers to do their work and imply that those that do the most time are more spiritual. It's a crock of you know what.
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  Is Jdubs practice of Teenage baptism really any better than Infant Baptism?

  by blkblk13 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  so i was thinking the other day about how the jdubs always mock the catholics for baptizing infants who can't make a true commitment to god so the sybol of dedication is empty.

  well, as anyone who's been in the org knows there is a culture of pressuring teenagers to get baptized.

  if u r over 12yo it is a question that is constantly asked.

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  Layla33

  I think this is a great question because I really didn't understand enough about what I was doing because it was what I was raised to believe. Contrary thinking was so discouraged that I wasn't able to really think for myself until maybe around 16 or 17. In a way, there was so much pressure to do it, like once you are approaching 16 and you have two generations of family in it and you are not baptized, they start to imply things. It's gravely unjust.
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  Are single-never-married heterosexual males approaching their forties...

  by DanTheMan in

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  Layla33

  I certainly don't think that it makes a man a loser. Everyone walks their own path, some people decide to settle down later, working hard, getting their education and finding themselves, there is nothing wrong with that. I have a female friend that is 37, no kids, but she is cool with that, she wants to settle and have a child or two but what's the point of doing it just because of societal pressure?

  Do you know how many people I know who got married for the wrong reasons, are miserable, going through a painful divorce or gone through one where they are forced to pay thousands of dollars a month in spousal and child support? Now, of course I know people that are happily married, but being with someone is not a guarantee of anything, so be happy you are living your life of your own choosing.
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  What is the one thing you will never give up no matter how hard times get?

  by snarf in

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  with the talk of everyone trying to cut back and reevaluate their necessities due to the rising cost of products from gas to food, what is the one thing that will never go in your life...a "luxury"item that has wound itself so deeply in your soul you would be incomplete without it?.

  my item is a daily frapuccino, those little devils are so delish that i can't even think of going a day without.

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  Layla33

  Chocolate, at least once a week. If not, I can't be held accountable for what could happen.
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  Wife gets in trouble for Lord of the Rings book, Cong. Kids for H. Potter!

  by Witness 007 in

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  2. experiences

  my wife went witnessing and happen to go with the c.o's wife and she mentions she has been reading lord of the rings {wife-not in the truth that long} she comes home and tells me how they were "not impressed.

  } the c.o came to visit since i had missed the servants meeting due to work.

  the elders thought we needed encouragement.

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  Layla33

  It always interests me how a person that is not a police officer can come inside someone's house and go through their things - as something like that just wouldn't happen in my house. I would ask them to leave and make such a big stink about it, they would never even consider doing such a thing like that again.
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  Well, I'm nauseated now. Gag inducing dramatizations at my DC

  by Lady Zombie in

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  during the hour long symposium: empowered by holy spirit.

  under the part "to fight temptation," a little dramatization of a young married man doing some work on his laptop.

  he is tapping away when he suddenly slams his laptop shut.

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  Layla33

  I'm convinced they redo the same dramatizations over and over and over again. I would have fallen asleep.
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  Are Witnesses Sexually Normal?

  by minimus in

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  jws are obsessed with sex and sexual sins.

  the elders are specifically told what classification a sexual sin falls into.

  touching the breasts, genitals, looking at porn, looking at various types of pornography, kissing, petting-----you name it----it is technically classified so that the elders know which charge they can hit you with judicially.. even if you're married, the watchtower disapproves of certain consensual sex acts.

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  Layla33

  Over repression of natural inclinations is never good. Our sexuality is apart of our nature, repressing it can lead to a lot of sexually issues. Doesn't mean every witness has these issues, but I would say a good deal probably do.