Joel Wideman

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  Should I quit my job?

  by Jordan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm getting a little sick of being taken advantage of.

  don't get me wrong there are times when it is a great job, it's probably my ideal job, but it has such a negative effect on me, i'm depressed when i think about going there, i lose practically all of my friday and saturday nights and there are people there that i absolutely detest.

  and i'm a keyholder, so for a small increase in salary i get so much extra responsibility and bs over it.

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  Joel Wideman

  I was going to say stick it out, but 16 hours?!? I'd keep it just long enough to find something else.
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  did this ever happen to you?

  by joanne_ in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  just wondering if this happened to any of you.

  did you ever go to the service group and be assigned to the different car groups.....and then....the sister that is assigned to go with you...decline and say...'i am just going by myself today and do my return vistits by myself'..... damn, i should have complained about that one!

  it was very rude!

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  Joel Wideman

  Sounds like the return visits were going to be at the coffee shop.
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  Would love some input if you feel like it.

  by pc in

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  2. friends

  my husband and i are involved with a group of people and we have what we refer to as a "small group".

  we get together have wine and cheese and read the bible or discuss things that we might need help with.

  it is a very cool group of people no over the top christians.

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  Joel Wideman

  Taking advantage of tax loopholes isn't the same as lying about what you owe. Paying more taxes than you legally owe isn't honest, it's foolish. Besides which, your taxes go to causes you do not support or are even morally opposed to, as well as ones you favor.
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  Halloween Joke

  by xjwms in

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  on halloween, a little boy knocked on my door.. he took a look at my wife in her mudpack and gave her candy!.

  i had to do that for my 666 post.

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  Joel Wideman

  That defeats the purpose and takes all the fun out of it, luna. :P
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  My Scan Results

  by Dansk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  as many of you will know, yesterday i received my scan results from the haematologist.

  when i entered his office he was beaming and so i thought the news would be good.

  the chemotherapy has shrunk the cancerous lymph nodes in my stomach substantially!!

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  Joel Wideman

  Yay! Thank God for modern medicine! :D
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  Would you contribute to expose the Watchtower?

  by nicolaou in

  1. forum
  2. suggestions

  jost tossing an idea about.

  would anyone be willing to make regular contributions to an 'exposure fund'?.

  it wouldn't be a 'fighting fund', we couldn't hope to compete against watchtower finances or its legal department in that way.

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  Joel Wideman

  Welcome, Velvetflower. Maybe if you start a thread and post YOUR story, others may learn from it, and be able to move on.
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  An Update

  by MM090503 in

  1. jw
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  some of you may remember me.

  i started posting about a year ago around this time.

  my bf is invovled with the jw's.

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  Joel Wideman

  Does he truly understand all the consequences?
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  Louis Farahkaan?

  by gringojj in

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  how many people follow this guy?

  he is a real wacko.

  he talks about being on spaceships and stuff.

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  Joel Wideman

  Useful information here.
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  I bought a utilikilt

  by cyd0099 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  and i really love it as does my girlfriend.

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  i get a lot of attention from the average passerby and i got to thinking, what kind of reaction would somebody get from wearing one to a meeting [do you think]?

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  Joel Wideman

  Ah...
  It has pockets.
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  Shunning: Is it really a bad thing?

  by thinker in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i met my jw wife about 5 years ago.

  she da'd shortly after we met and like most people i thought it was terribly strange and wrong that her family shunned her.

  for the first two years of our marriage my wife would call her parents on a fairly regular basis.

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  Joel Wideman

  The way people behave when in a cult is largely due to their cult persona, which is layered over their real selves. The behavior displayed while in a cult may be entirely different than their behavior once they are deprogrammed and the real persona is freed.
  But that isn't to say that some people are simply natural jerks.