Posts by FreeFromWTBS

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Ok after the earthquake

by caballoSentado in

jw
friends

dear friends, .

we had a scary earthquake in peru... from cnn "a 7.9-magnitude earthquake centered off peru's coast killed at least 337 people and left another 1,350 hurt, the nation's health ministry said"... but everybody in the family is ok... we just had a big fright.

we had to run out of our homes & wait for it to pass .

FreeFromWTBS

Hi Caballo,

I volunteered at the Puericultorio Perez Aranibar (PPA) a few years ago. Have you heard if the children were safe?

Serena Williams Health Magazine

by FreeFromWTBS in

there was a whole article about her love for yoga.

i don't have a scanner but if someone would like it to post i can mail it.

FreeFromWTBS

There was a whole article about her love for yoga. I don't have a scanner but if someone would like it to post I can mail it.

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Lazy teenager....need help before I lose it!!!

by snarf in

jw
friends

i have a teenage daughter and she is very lazy.

we have to get on her constantly to get her room clean, when asked about her progress, her answer is always"i am working on it".

then when we check, it is usually worse than the day before.

FreeFromWTBS

Instead of nagging, just establish actions with consequences.

1)There is a laundry basket for white and colors next to the washer. If your wash gets there, I will wash them. I do x numbers of loads per week so if it backs up you might have a long return rate.

2)Only dishes and glasses that get to the dishwasher will be washed. (Put a lock on one cabinet for you and your spouses stuff)

3)Any trash found outside of your room will be placed inside your room.

4)Any stuff found outside your room will be confiscated(You can establish a chore for things plan for the returning of items) These should not be tasks she should be doing listed above but additional chores that she doesn't do). Clean out garage, scrub bathroom etc

This way you don't yell and she will eventually improve. Not too many teenage girls are neat but she'll get better.

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Give us your explanation of what personally drew you to the JWS.

by Brain Dead in

thats right give us your explanation of what personally drew you to the jws.

and what is your opinion of it today ?.

for myself i was born into it so there wasn't really any choice for myself, but now that i've been out of it for some 30 yrs.

FreeFromWTBS

I trusted my boyfriend (dumb dumb dumb)

I married him and I love him. Neither of us go to meetings since I got so sick there I spent two years in therapy and on medication. The biggest lessoned I learned from the Watchtower is NEVER TRUST ANYONE.

And to think I was a happy Liberal Catholic before that.

17

Social Anxiety Disorders

by Thinking of Leaving in

hi everyone, the guy i'm currently dating suffers from social phobia and it's beginning to affect our relationship.

does anyone have any experience dealing with this?

i have to admit this is all new to me, most of the guys i've dated are pretty normal, but this one seems to need some extra care.

FreeFromWTBS

Baby steps would be my recommendation.

You say I think you should go to a therapist. He thinks, I have to call a stranger, I have to go to a strange place, I don't know what to say, I can't do this ......

instead

Try, if I find a therapist that will meet with both of us and come to your house would you meet with him. That is only 1 step for him. Still a big step but much less to tackle.

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If Children grow up in the Truth but never get Baptized, why no shunning?

by NotaNess in

jw
friends

i kind of understand the "never made the real commitment" part, but isn't learning the "truth" for 15 to 20 years, and going out into the "world" as opposed to committing,... the same as choosing to not accept jehover's (aka wts) ways and be with the brothers and sisters in union?.

why is the shunning treated different?

is it because, there's always hope by the parents, that they will come around?, etc.. .

FreeFromWTBS

When I was studying, the women I studied with was telling me about a couple in the hall that I knew. This couple had started attending the Hall, the wife was baptised but had left many years before, the husband had never studied. They had pre-marital sex. The girl was publically reproved and not allowed to answer questions at meetings. The wife then said to me that they couldn't do anything to the husband since he wasn't baptised. She seemed sad about that. Such a soap opera

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JW KH in UK Attacked by Arsonist

by kwr in

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1342581.0.arson_attack_on_jehovahs_witness_hall.php.

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only the walls of a jehovah's witness hall are left standing after an arson attack.. five fire crews tackled the blaze at the kingdom hall of jehovah's witnesses, watling street, dartford, at 11.30pm on april 19..