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  Name Things that AGGRAVATE You

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i hate pop ups on my computer.

  i can't stand getting salespeople calling from the same company 3 times in a day!

  i hate being behind asian or indian drivers........

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  People who don't seem to understand it's ok to be quiet if they don't know the answer to something.

  People that think talking louder to someone who doesn't speak thier language will make them understand.

  People that try to skip ahead in lines ( I say try because I do speak up and inform them they have to wait, then of course everyone else with sheep mentality gives them dirty looks and follows suit)

  People ignoring the fact you're obviously in the middle of something and ask "Are you busy?"

  People who forget to bring a lunch frequently and try to glean off everyone else's plates etc

  People who can never say anything positive about thier spouse, I'm sorry but its not saying much about thier own mentality if all they can do is mention how bad they are, if you're that unhappy leave, end of

  People bragging loudly about exploits in cheating or drinking or getting arrested for any number of reasons

  My favorite saying when someone really annoys me:

  "Your IQ is showing"
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  Funny little story to share with my fellow pet lovers…

  by jeanniebeanz in

  1. social
  2. family

  dumb-dumb the cat has become the neighborhood sweetheart.

  it is common to see little neighborhood children and adults alike stoop to pet him in passing.

  he often makes the rounds in the evenings, going from door to door in the complex and saying hello through any open doors.

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  Ahhhhh....thanks for sharing.

  I love black kitties too, I have a new kitten in my home which I got about a month ago, he was born in april. Absolutely funny and entertaining, though his second name at the moment is bitey. Him and my puppy keep each other busy.

  Used to have a cat much like dumb dumb called "Ack". He was black and white though, but seriously kitty had no brain left to harm.
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  Would You Be Afraid To Go To An "Apostofest"?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a year ago, i would've never attended.

  what a difference a little time makes, huh?

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  I'd be tempted if there was one locally esp since a few ex jws I know have gone to them already, but presently the whole working ft and juggling a schedule keeps me from seeking out ones out of state at the moment. Especially when I'm keeping my days off for the return of my boy from England.

  Would go if there were some in Mini Soda.
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  Wedding jitters

  by sass_my_frass in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  okay, i've got the frock, got the man... got the guy to bring the papers, it's all sorted.

  finalised the numbers, faxed off the menu, programmed the ipod, waxed the legs... and it's not saturday that scares me, i think it's going to be a hugely fun night.

  it's the fifty or sixty years after that.

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  riotgirlpeeps

  You can let that breath out now.
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  Reasons to make you leave a spouse/partner

  by greendawn in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  what would it take for you to break up a relationship with someone you really love?

  would it be physical abuse, refusing to go out and work, abuse of child, or whatever else?

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  For me I got my divorce because of several things:

  • Not working/ or working bare minimum hours required at employment (he had child support to pay for his kids which thankfully I never paid)
  • When home more than I, not taking up slack on housework
  • Inability to accept any manner of responsibility for marital or other issues
  • Abuse especially mentally/emotionally
  • Alcoholism

  The reason I stayed as long as I did was the misguided sense of duty. When telling my devout JW parents of the divorce they always emphasized I needed to make sure I was making the right decision. Post divorce my mom has stated they would have helped me get out of it sooner had I let them know it was so bad, after urging me to stay in it previously. Thanks Mom, I'd appreciate the honesty before not after the fact.

  Best choice I ever made, and I can say I learned what I needed from a relationship from the bad one. He cheated too, but it was after he knew I was going to divorce him, though he lied about it at the time. I'm very pleased I was protected while married to him by his own laziness in a way, all the information I've had about him since then is that he has cheated on and slept with any number of girls, and he's dumb enough to brag about it.
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  More DEMENTED JW MURDERS in the news

  by DannyHaszard in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  victim's family dresses down murderer

  boston herald, ma - 12 minutes ago .

  ... kevin and nancy hensley, jehovah's witnesses, had been separated only a couple of weeks when he beat and choked her to death and then dumped her body beside a ... .

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  riotgirlpeeps

  Although JWs would like to think otherwise, among them there are all sorts of people. JWs is just one more religion among thousands.

  Very well put. And yes this is horribly sad, and it does happen. Again at the DC in Minnesota they brought up the case of the very pregnant woman who was a JW and she was murdered and her baby taken. And of course they turned it into a case of Jehovah allowing her spirituality to stay intact.
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  Entitled to Reach Out For Privileges?

  by FairMind in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  one of he paragraphs in yesterdays watchtower lesson spoke of brothers presumptuously reaching out for positions or privileges within the congregation to which they are not entitled.

  the indication was that doing this shows arrogance and lack of humility.

  no one commented on this wt statement when the paragraph was covered and my guess is because it made no sense.

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  That article, I agree with Ithink esp on the aspect of time tracking. There were so many levels of wrong with that article it's hard to know where to start.

  Quite amusing and scary to see people nodding in agreement with it then.
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  About The Book, What Does The Bible Really Teach? New Release at the DC.

  by Blueblades in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  what's new about the information in it?

  a friend gave me a copy to read, nothing new in it for me.

  you find anything new?

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  Ohhhhhhhhhh what I REALLY liked was how one of the comments made about the book was how the first 5 pages are designed to start a bible study without the person at the door realizing thats what you're doing.

  And there was emphasis from the platform about how too some people may not believe the bible is inspired by God, yet later on of course there are scriptures to back up the beliefs.

  They are trying to simplify the messege again.

  Be afraid, be very afraid.
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  How did you get the "troof"?

  by dorayakii in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was assimilated at birth... .

  my maternal grandparents came to england in the early 1940s, and learnt the troof here.

  my grandfather opposed my grandmother for a while, but then he decided it wasn't worth the fight and studied the blue "troof book" and my grandparents got baptised at the same assembly.

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  riotgirlpeeps

  Hung by my toes and dripped dried in it.

  Baptized at 11.

  DF'd 21, went back because of family.

  Working on grand finale exit now.
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  Told my nonJW brother-in-law I'm done with the JW thing

  by ithinkisee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am slowly ramping up the wheels of apostacy and have begun telling a few people to help brace the fallout of me telling my wife.

  i have many relatives that aren't jws - both on my side and on my wife's side.

  i've already told my dad (who was never a jw - to which i am eternally grateful), and some nonjw business people that i am also friends with.. my wife's brother was never a jw.

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  *Cheers*

  Ithink, I'm in a very similar situation where almost everyone in my life with the exception of the family and JW's around me know I'm leaving.

  I have been out one time before so its a little easier on me because I already know the reactions from my family, and it really helps that I have one sister who has been out for about 6 years.

  Obviously still its going to be hard as I was born relying on the org for everything support wise, which is funny since they never did support me in any of my times of true need.

  Congrats to you, huge steps. So you'll be my apostate sibling in the sense that we exit for once and all around the same time, though I'm holding off til after september 1st because thats when my main support returns to town, which I will need.