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  Scuba Diving - advice please.

  by nicolaou in

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  i have my final dives this weekend to qualify as an open water scuba diver.

  i have to admit i'm nervous so if anyone here has passed can you let me know what to expect?.

  all tips would be appreciated.. nic'

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  FreeFromWTBS

  Stay relaxed and remember everything you will be doing, you have already done in the pool. People have problems because they panic. You have an instructor with you with a safe second. Even if you went under water, freak out and threw off all your gear, the instructure would hand you his regulator and you would be fine so stay relaxed, enjoy the view and have a great time. I did my certs in the ocean and even with the new introduction of current, I did just fine. I grew up on the beach and the majority of accidents can be traced back to stupidity. Lack of proper gear, no buddy, no flag etc.

  Always dive with a buddy and if you are doing a shore ocean dive make sure you are with someone that is used to dealing with currents, tides, and navigating.

  Diving is the most peaceful experience you can have. I love being under the water.
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  Matt. 10:35

  by gspradling in

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  my jw mom always uses this verse to justify her distance from me and my family.

  i have never been able to come up with a reasonable response to her.

  does anyone have any good suggestions?

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  If you continue to read, in 26; it is opposers of Christians that would cause the seperation. So your mother really cannot use this unless you are attacking her.
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  If you had a chance, what would you have done differrently (JW experience)?

  by Steve Lowry in

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  ya know whatamean?

  if you could go back in time, back to those days as a jw and react then as you would now knowing what you now know, what would you do differently?

  it could be a particular day, or an event or something you went through.

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  My second JW meeting there was a baptised women beating a very young child(maybe a year an half) right outside the meeting door. THe whole time everyone just sat in the meeting talking about the evils of Christmas Carols. Note:Before the women dragged her child out, she looked at him and said you disgust me. I was shaking through the rest of the meeting. It was 8:30 at night and this child was just a baby. I regret not getting up and stopping that women.
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  YOUR LAST MEETING.........................

  by vitty in

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  ........................at my last meeting, the elder was talking about 1975 and said "it never happened, it is appostates using a time when (some) brothers took the info in the wt wrong"...................i just blinked and finally woke up.. i had been on this site lurking for a couple of weeks, and realized thing werent right, but to have some creep say on the platform " it didnt happen"............when this ruined my and my siblings childhood, just made me snap.

  on the way home, i told my hubby "that was the last meeting im going to"................boy was he pleased.. .

  so if you didnt get df ......................what happened at your last meeting.?.

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  I started reading some of Russell. I had attended my first Bible Students Meetings. I was going to still go to book study and compare the the two groups. My last meeting was a book study. The following weekend two Elders showed upto my door with a letter I wrote to the Society questioning their policy against abuse. The Elder told me if a women couldn't prove she was abused, he would tell her to return to her husband. I told him how dangerous and sad that was and I never attended another JW meeting.
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  Question About Eyeglasses

  by Big Tex in

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  my wife just spent $900 on 4 pair of eyeglasses.

  is it just me, or is that waaaaaay too much money?

  i don't wear glasses anymore (laser surgery), but isn't this too much?

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  Doesn't sound bad to me. I usually end up spending about $600.00 before insurance deductions for my glasses. You have the frames, the lenses, scratch proofing, glare proofing. It kind of like buying a car. Oh, you wanted all 4 tires that will cost you extra.
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  NO BENEFITS TO BLOOD TRANSFUSION...?

  by Gill in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  the august 2006 awake, makes the claim that there is no benefit to blood transfusion except in trauma, according to proffessor bruce spiess:.

  there are few if any (medical) articles that supposrt transfusion actually improving outcome.

  " in fact, he writes that many transufusions 'may do more harm than good in virtually every instance except trauma,' increasing 'the risk of pneumonia, infections, heart attacks and strokes.'.

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  These articles make me so mad. I hope they get sued into non-existence.
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  id JWs RIP you OFF in the MARRIAGE Dept.?

  by Ms. Whip in

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  this photo (taken from a jw group on aol) is quite typical of jw marriage matches.

  don't get me wrong, i'm sure they are great people as far as jws go.

  but, it made me think.

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  FreeFromWTBS

  I see nothing wrong with the couple in the picture.

  I have heard of young female witnesses being pushed to get married. This I do not approve of.

  I have also heard a few say they married to young.

  I am also apposed to strict shaperone dating because you need to spend time with someone you are going marry to get to know them. If you can only see them once a week for a milkshake with your parents that isn't going to happen.
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  The last tug of trained fear.

  by Steve Lowry in

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  2. friends

  i was wondering if anyone here could remember their last tug of fear in their stomach after they left the watchtower society, concerning armageddon coming where you may have had a moments regret or fear of not being a jw, and so you wouldnt be "saved".

  you know, the stupid conditioning we as jw children received growing up as jw kids.

  i realize this may seem like kind of a weird question, but i remember my moment, and going through that experience it was very a freeing feeling once i came through it on the other end.. i was visiting a church in about the 1984 time frame.

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  Yes it is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Cult Exposure
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  That's it. I'm selling my books - over 700 of them.

  by Lady Lee in

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  it's time to let them go.

  the majority of the books are abuse related or about recovery.

  many are academic books.. i'm not selling the cult related books.. this is going to be hard to do but i have a small apartment and no where to put things.

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  WIth Books Amazon is the way to go. You only pay them a percentage if the book sells. You set the price you want and you can even set your vacations so that your listings will be temporarily removed
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  As far as I know, I will be missing for 3 days...

  by AuldSoul in

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  2. friends

  as much as i love reading what you all have to say, i must be gone for a few.

  my wife has this crazy idea that she needs to go to the district convention.

  what a life we unbelieving mates (ubms) have, eh?.

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  FreeFromWTBS

  Pick up a new hobby. I have a friend that took up wood carving, she makes these cute little characters and it is pretty portable. I personally crochet and sew and love an afternoon by myself. You could also search the net, I am sure there are things to do in Georgia.