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  Awaiting Mother's call...

  by mrsjones5 in

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  i'm gonna be patience, nice, and take the high road with my mother when she calls.

  last night my mother called while i was at my night job at target and spoke to my husband.

  when i started my night job a few weeks ago, my schedule didn't include tuesday night, but schedules change at target from week to week and now i am working tuesdays.

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  Finally-Free

  Oh well there will be more turkey and peach cobbler for me.

  Alternatively, you could send some up here. I'm accepting donations of stuffing too.

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  ontario, canada

  by telltruth in

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  hope everyone is having a good day.

  wondering how many fellow ontarians there are here?

  please drop in and say hello, thank you.

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  Finally-Free

  I'm ok with this weekend or next weekend. I get this Friday off work!!!

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  WT AGAINST GOING INTO EMERGENCY SHELTERS???

  by stillAwitness in

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  in the sunday talk the brother was saying how the society has given the brothers loving counsel against going into what are called "emergency shelters" during disasters and instead follow society's direction instead.

  then he used what happend in the superdome during hurricane katrina to bring this point home and even pointed out many brothers did not follow this counsel and as a result had to suffer in the superdome with all that was going on.

  is this true?

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  Finally-Free

  First they tell you what hotels you're allowed to use at conventions, and now this.

  They didn't do anything to help a sister™ I knew who lost her home due to illness and subsequent unemployment. The elders refused to offer any help. She eventually went to a womens shelter and no one has heard from her since.

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  % Women vs. % Men in JW

  by void in

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  i read a scientific study a few months ago that stated the women where more susceptible to religion than men.

  (i am trying to find this article as i dont like not backing up my claims.

  anyway it got me thinking a lot.

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  Finally-Free

  I'm not lifting my ass no matter how much you want to use guilt, fear, and/or shame.

  That's generally my attitude, whether it's about doing the dishes, taking out the garbage, or mowing the lawn.

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  Why stay married to a JW?

  by kid-A in

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  having read a recent thread on "mixed" marriages between active jws and non-jw (either faders or df'd) two things stood out for me.

  first, there was a profound underlying sadness on the part of the non-jw poster (as there may also be on the active jw mates part) on the reduced intimacy of the relationship, both mentally and physically.

  not being in this situation, but understanding what makes a marriage successful, i cant help but ask a rather harsh question....can anybody in this situation realistically envision how such a marriage can last in the long term?.

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  Finally-Free

  my wife told me to basically stop talking. i tried, i really did.

  Mine too, and I tried. However, I decided it had to work both ways. If I had to be quiet about religion then so did she, but she would not accept that. She kept bringing up the subject of religion, no matter how much I tried to avoid it. And I refuse to sit and listen to watchtower propaganda without giving my response.

  If someone has the right to express their beliefs, then I have an equal right to express my disbelief.

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  ontario, canada

  by telltruth in

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  hope everyone is having a good day.

  wondering how many fellow ontarians there are here?

  please drop in and say hello, thank you.

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  Finally-Free

  Next Friday's fine with me!

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  ontario, canada

  by telltruth in

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  hope everyone is having a good day.

  wondering how many fellow ontarians there are here?

  please drop in and say hello, thank you.

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  Finally-Free

  I'm up to an apostofest. I could use a few beers right now.

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  Why stay married to a JW?

  by kid-A in

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  having read a recent thread on "mixed" marriages between active jws and non-jw (either faders or df'd) two things stood out for me.

  first, there was a profound underlying sadness on the part of the non-jw poster (as there may also be on the active jw mates part) on the reduced intimacy of the relationship, both mentally and physically.

  not being in this situation, but understanding what makes a marriage successful, i cant help but ask a rather harsh question....can anybody in this situation realistically envision how such a marriage can last in the long term?.

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  Finally-Free

  There are REASONS we picked each other in the first place, and it doesn't hurt to sit down and think those through once in a while.

  That may be part of the problem in my case. My wife and I had similar goals in the organization when we met. Full time service™.

  I changed while she stayed the same.

  I think there is a difference when comparing a marriage with an unbelieving mate™, someone who's never been a JW, to a marriage where one spouse becomes an apostate™. We apostates™ are viewed as the lowest of the low by JWs. We are demonized, almost rabid, in their estimation.

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  Why stay married to a JW?

  by kid-A in

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  2. relationships

  having read a recent thread on "mixed" marriages between active jws and non-jw (either faders or df'd) two things stood out for me.

  first, there was a profound underlying sadness on the part of the non-jw poster (as there may also be on the active jw mates part) on the reduced intimacy of the relationship, both mentally and physically.

  not being in this situation, but understanding what makes a marriage successful, i cant help but ask a rather harsh question....can anybody in this situation realistically envision how such a marriage can last in the long term?.

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  Finally-Free

  Leaving the JWs wreaked havoc on my marriage. My ex viewed me as someone who was going to die at armageddon, so I was essentially a walking corpse in her eyes. Everything I said or did was viewed with distrust. No JW would associate with me, but my ex didn't want me to have "worldly" friends either. My ex felt she had the right to express her JW beliefs, but if I disagreed with anything I was accused of "attacking" her and trying to undermine her faith. In other words, she had freedom of speech and worship in our home, but I did not. A true JW will make the JW activity the central, most important thing in their life, with everything else taking second place. An ex JW does not.

  How can a marriage survive if a couple does not share the same goals and priorities in life? I don't think it can.

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  KATE MOSS OR KATE WINSLET?

  by Mary in

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  i just read that kate moss has been given more modelling jobs now that she's been a whole month "clean" of using cocaine which is how she kept her body at skin and bones.

  i hear lots of women say they'd "love to have a body like hers", when we know the only way she can keep that skinny is by using drugs.

  i was told that i was "just jealous" and that "all women would like to be that thin.

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  Finally-Free

  During the Renaissance, I would have been worshipped as a Goddess!!

  I would have been Buddah.

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