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  E-Harmony...

  by betty boop in

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  ..or any online dating website.

  my friends want me to try being that i have horrible luck with men.

  i've never tried any of these websites but i'm kinda thinking eh why not.

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  Eharmony was a waste of money for me and I didn't think the matches were very good. Also, they compressed photos and mine looked weird on there. I like plentyoffish.com and okcupid.com & they are free.
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  Sister, your husband is right because...

  by Tired of the Hypocrisy in

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  hi all, i had to share this little tidbit i just learned of this week.. my elderly and disbaled father in law as you may remember is married to one grade - a bitch of an abusive wife/regular pioneer.

  she has been going three times per week to a variety of different local churches and collecting bread from their food-for-the-poor programs.

  now she is not poor.

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  Take a picture of the woman and distribute to local food banks telling them that she is abusing their generosity and that she doesn't need the food. Of course, if she has a disorder, tell them that instead. :-)
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  What Do You Worry About?

  by minimus in

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  your health?

  job?

  family?

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  I worry about finding a job I actually like. I worry about my daughter. I worry about my health a little bit, though I don't have any major problems and would like to keep it that way.
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  What do you think of people playing hard to get?

  by asilentone in

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  Some people like to take things slowly. Doesn't mean they're "playing" hard to get.
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  News Flash !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  by TooBad TooSad in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  my wife excitedly told me that she talked to the wife of an elder that just came back from.

  the special training for elders in upper state new york and that the elders are being told .

  to go back to their congregations and to get them ready for the great tribulation.. i said to her that is great news !!!!

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  I had one JW tell me recently that this system can't last more than 3 years. I think many are expecting something to happen before 2014.
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  Women being in subjection...a sore subject

  by milligal in

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  i was raised jw and of course the whole theory that a man is the head and the woman must respect her husband and be in subjection to his authority was ingrained in me from a young age.

  my mother, (oddly enough) chose the jw religion, dragged my father in kicking and screaming (he later served as an elder for 17 years) and she complained constantly about men being in control and her pains as a woman in subjection.

  now, i already have a good idea about my mother's problems.

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  This was a huge problem for me even when I was a JW. I wanted a partner not a "head". Ugh.
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  Letter to My Mother--FINAL!--After 2yrs3mos--Incomprehensibly Long...

  by Confession in

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  2. experiences

  [2 john 9 11, nwt].

  [john 14:6, nwt] .

  [john 14:6, nwt] .

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  Fantastic!
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  Elder in my old hall is DFed – wow!

  by Alexia in

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  2. experiences

  i ran into an old friend spontaneously over the weekend.

  (one of the few jws i actually considered a friend back in the day).

  we were briefly catching up and she mentioned an elder in my old hall is now dfed.

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  A friend of mine married a guy who abused her. When she wanted to leave him with her little 1 year old daughter, her elder father told her she had to stay with him. At least some elders have a heart and an appropriately paternal, protective reaction.
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  What is the problem with new age stuff?

  by loosie in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when i speak to some christians they seem to have a fear of things new age related.. i was speaking to three christians today who i thought are very rational.

  i tolf them how my jw friend says the only good thing about getting older was that we are closer to the end of the world.

  their response was well the bible says the world is gonna end.. then they started in about oprah endorsing these new age books ( a new earth by eckhart tolle) and how it is so wrong for her to do that.. i was giggling and i said yeah well some people think that obama is the antichrist lol.

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  To confirm what candlelight said: New agers are concerned with themselves while Christians are concerned with others (yeah right).
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  Anyone else having this problem with Witness Friends and Relatives

  by Evidently in

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  2. friends

  they are all over me with all of these "end of this system of things" signs......earthquakes, cyclones, pestilences, cost of food to lead to food shortages, blah, blah, blah....did they make an announcement at the kh that "this is it!!

  " they say that we've never had all of these things happening all at once like we've had the past few weeks...... .

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  My JW relatives love me so much, and are so worried that I'm inactive and not attending meetings, that they spent the better part of 4 hours telling me how bad the world is, how Satan controls the government and that's why we don't have tax credits for alternative energy, that the system won't last more than 2 or 3 years and that the tribulation can't last more than a few months. I know they are so desperate for the end that they find solace in any bad conditions because it gives them hope.