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  Were you ever scared of going to prison as a JW?...

  by Hecklerboy in

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  i remember growing up a jw and always being told that someday the goverment would turn on us and throw us in prison.. i was watching a documentary on national geographic about san quinton prison and it brought back old memories of those fears.. i remember thinking how scared i would be if i had to go to prison and what i could do to protect myself.

  i would think of how i could just stay in my cell all the time so no one could hurt me.

  especially after seeing stories on the news about riots and rapes and people getting stabbed.. leave it to the jw's to make a kid worry about going to prison.

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  I feared going to concentration camps and what might happen to my kids.

  My Grandpa went to prison in WW II for 3 years.His brother (my great uncle) went to prison for 7 years and his JW wife who married him right before he was hauled off, divorced him 2 years later(wonder why).

  My Grandpa is still alive and kick'n today and he's the PO of a cong. He's a total "brown noser" and if the WTS says it's a green book and it's really blue,well then, by golly, it's a green book. It makes me sad to think of all the things that go on behind closed doors in JC meetings and what these elders do.He's been a PO for like 50 years.I know that whatever the WTS would told him to do he would do and wouldn't even ask any questions.He's a nice man but that part of him I have no respect for, it makes me disgusted.

  Morwen
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  There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&ssheet=/news/2006/04/09/ixworld.html

  there is a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998 .

  by bob carter .

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  I love global warming! I live in one of the coldest places on this planet,we're talk'n 50 and 60 degrees below zero! I do my part by running my diesel truck all winter long.LOL!!!!!!!!!!

  Governments generally choose not to receive policy advice on climate from independent scientists. Rather, they seek guidance from their own self-interested science bureaucracies and senior advisers, or from the IPCC itself.

  I think this is true in many aspects of life and that's why it's important to do your "homework". I've learned a hard lesson being a JW,don't always take "their" word for it,or "their" proof of it. You may be quite surprised what you find once you start looking/digging. And I have to be willing to look at myself and laugh at how stupid I was to believe what I thought to be so true and be humble enough to admit I was wrong and be free to change my mind. And there are plenty things that I look at and have to admit that 'I just don't know'.

  Morwen
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  rock climbing

  by aoxo in

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  any rock climbers in here?

  when i was a jw it was frowned upon very much in the surrounding cong.

  so one wanted to do it with me because the elders (who didn't know what the heck rock climbing was) didn't think that it was safe and that it was more of a thrill sport like bungy jumping.

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  Rocky state isn't it? LOL

  Yep! Lots of cool places to explore.

  Morwen
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  rock climbing

  by aoxo in

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  any rock climbers in here?

  when i was a jw it was frowned upon very much in the surrounding cong.

  so one wanted to do it with me because the elders (who didn't know what the heck rock climbing was) didn't think that it was safe and that it was more of a thrill sport like bungy jumping.

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  unclebruce: You are so funny! I love reading your posts! The one about the sabbath was so dam funny, ROFLMAO!

  aoxo: The picture in the WT shows a guy climbing with a rope.Can't really see his face in the pic but I'm sure he'd tell ya, if you asked him, that it sucked and he'd never do it again LOL! What a horrible SIN he's commiting.Sheeeesh

  Alaska has about 6 months of sticking it where the sun don't shine, right?

  LOL!! Well maybe not that long,ha ha!! Above the arctic circle it would be, but I'm a bit below that.In the darkest part of the year,winter solstice,we have maybe 3 hours of daylight,great for watching the northern lights. But in the summertime it's hella cool with bearly 3 hours of darkness and it never really get's dark enough to see the stars.It's the Home of the Midnight Sun!

  jeeprube:Thanks! Your from the "show me" state. I was born and raised there. Lived in a little town called Peculiar.South of KC.Always loved the Ozarks.

  bickerchic:Thank you!! Did your son climb in California? We lived there for a few years.Slaine (my hubby) was born and raised there and loved climbing in Yosemite.

  being out of it is such a relief.

  I'll second that!!!

  Morwen
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  rock climbing

  by aoxo in

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  any rock climbers in here?

  when i was a jw it was frowned upon very much in the surrounding cong.

  so one wanted to do it with me because the elders (who didn't know what the heck rock climbing was) didn't think that it was safe and that it was more of a thrill sport like bungy jumping.

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  My husband is a die hard rock climber and has been for many years. And yes it was very "frowned upon" but he always did it anyways.(I've got to get him registered on here so he can post too)

  Yeah statistically it's far worse for you to go skiing. But so many JW's go skiing for the WTS to "frown" upon it. We now live in Alaska in the "Interior" not much rock but lots of wide open wilderness to ride your snow machines! Besides the tons of other things to do here...skiing/snow boarding,ice fishing/fishing,Ice climbing,shoot'n,shoot'n and more shoot'n,kayaking,polyamy(ha ha, he wishes)oh and apostatizing.LOL! He's in heaven livin' the Alaskan dream.And the WTS can go stick it where the sun don't shine!

  By the way welcome,we're new out of the bOrg as well.

  Morwen
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  15 years of thinking about it and I finally did it....

  by BrendaCloutier in

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  i got my nose pierced and how have a tiny nose stud on the right side.

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  I've been thinking about getting one too You said you got it on your right side. Any special reason why you picked right over left??

  Morwen
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  The Memorial Head Counts

  by Cabin in the woods in

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  does anyone remember about how long it takes for the number of memorial attendees as well as the count of partakers to be announced to the public?

  for the life of me i can not remember.

  i am certain that those numbers are not held back until the yearbook.

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  Maybe they are fudging the numbers ;and the partakers are even higher than the numbers they dare to post.

  I've also wondered about this. The things that make you go hmmmmmmmm..........

  Morwen
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  Im so sick (literally) of morning sickness\all day sickness

  by Es in

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  hey guys.

  sorry i just felt like sooking....my morning sickness which lasts all day is getting worse, ive been vomitting now for 7 weeks, i cant seem to keep anything down.. i know i should be grateful that im pregnant and i am, i am just finding it really hard to deal with the sickness this time round, i have tried vitamin b6 but does nothing for me.

  with my son this lasted bout 5 months.. es

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  Oh I soooo feel for you!! Ugh! It's never easy dealing with feeling like your going to "loose it" alll day....everyday... for months! It's the one thing I hate the most about being prego. I've done it 5 times(although we have 4 'living' children,as one died soon after he was born),but thankfully that icky feeling would go away by the time I reached 4 months.

  Out of the things I have tried nothing was a miracle cure(for me) but sleep/rest seemed to help out ALOT on how sick I felt. When your chasing around other little munchkins and not able to rest when you need to,it can make you feel so much worse.It will all be worth it in the end! Everyday that goes by you get one day closer to holding that sweet baby.I know it seems like forever before that day comes but it surely will!! For me,the very second immediately after my baby is born and it's placed in my arms is one of the greatest moments there is in life!!

  I hope you feel better soon Hang in there!

  Morwen~with 4 arrows in my quiver and I'm not done yet....

  ...(to the utter dismay of my JW parents and *Friends* who kept telling me... "that's what the *New System* is for. We are in the *end of the End* ya know, no time for making babies" Whatever!!!! )
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  Saying goodbye, going back to the truth & Jehovah

  by crazyblondeb in

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  i hurts me alot that i have to say goodbye to all of you.

  whether or not i joined in a topic, you all (well, most) had a way of making me feel like part of the family here.

  you have all made me laugh and made me cry.

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  I was thinking.....how the heck can you do this?? Your crazy! Funny! LOL!!!
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  Comments You Will Not Hear at the 4-2-06 WT Study (Increasing Light)

  by blondie in

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  comments you will not hear at the april 2, 2006 wt study (february 15, 2006 issue, pages 26-30)(increasing light).

  review comments will be in red.

  wt material from today's wt will be in black.

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  I just wanted to say thanks to you Blondie for all the time, energy & work you do on these!

  And I'm a bit surprised(although I probably shouldn't be) about no mention of the "generation change"??? That's a biggy one!

  Morwen