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  Eve and Adam

  by MsMcDucket in

  1. social
  2. humour

  "lord, i have a problem.

  god asks, "what's the problem, eve?

  "i know that you created me and provided this beautiful garden and all.

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  Adam should have met Steve no apples just Polish sausages no problem
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  Has a “brother” ever screwed you?

  by noontide in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was always very cautious with worldly people but of course i trusted everyone in the congregation 100%.

  i trusted someone from the congregation with a business deal and got raked over the coals.

  its a long and frustrating story, suffice it to say it cost me a lot of anguish, time and money.

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  Not now! I manage an auto repair business and everything is in writing if they don't pay I take the car and sell it it is called a mechanics lien.
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  Brad Pitt support for gay marriage

  by BizzyBee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what a clever way to avoid tying the knot!.

  new york - brad pitt, ever the social activist, says he won't be marrying angelina jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped.

  "angie and i will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," the 42-year-old actor reveals in esquire magazine's october issue, on newsstands sept. 19.. is brad pitt morphing into tom cruise, or is that just my imagination?.

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  Heck I'll take Brad Pitt any day he just need more chest hair lol
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  It seems ex jw's in the UK are angrier than anywhere else why?

  by hambeak in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i admittedly am new to this and i am not being judgmental.

  why does it seem that when i read the threads from folks in the uk it seems they are preoccupied with a lot of research into the wts and changes into their beliefs?

  why not just let it go and go on with life.

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  I admittedly am new to this and I am not being judgmental. Why does it seem that when I read the threads from folks in the UK it seems they are preoccupied with a lot of research into the WTS and changes into their beliefs? Why not just let it go and go on with life. I have received many responses from a lot of folks and all seem so full of love. Is the branch office in the UK different than the USA?
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  My shunning mother called me....accidently

  by restrangled in

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  2. friends

  this was such a sad exhange and just shows how unnatural this bogus rule by the wbts is.. i see my moms name on the caller id and i immediately pick up.

  (keep in mind we live 2 blocks apart).

  my mom says julia?, and i say no mom its me, you must have dialed the wrong number.. mom: oh, i'm sorry, how are you?

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  That is so sad maybe subconciously she is trying to reach out to you. I hope that is the case I know how you feel as my mom disowned me and I found out about her death years later. It leaves a chasm in your heart. Be glad for the words she had for you maybe she will understand that love of family is what it is all about not some dominating org.
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  Kids under the age of 18 who get baptized...

  by WTFBBQPWNT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  should be allowed to revisit their decision and either revoke or keep their baptism.

  this is too major of a decision to be placed in the hands of minors.

  the mental anguish that can result from it is something that kids should be protected against.. how would one even start the process of getting this passed as a law?

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  Actually a person who was baptized and not really aware of the commitment they were making at the time can go before the jc and let them know they don't believe their baptism was valid, therefore they want to be either rebaptized or initiate another BS or claim they were under pressure from family or friends. This happened in my cong. several times. I was baptized at 10 and rebaptized at 19
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  Does the society keep records of all JW's past and present?

  by hambeak in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was a very active jw pionered ms etc.

  i voluntarily left the org.

  and was never df'd to my knowledge.

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  Thanks Blondie. I really don't care if they do or not but so much is made of the org. being in total control. as when co came and we had meetings with him and he went all over the cong. records and sent a report to the society. So much like a business.
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  How many hours do your work a week?

  by liquidsky in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  just curious.

  i work between 50-to 65 hours a week, sometimes 70. in fact i don't of anyone in the company i work for that works less then 48. does anyone here work a "normal" 40 hour week?

  does it even exist anymore?.

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  I work 58 to 60 hours a week 6 days add 1.5 hours commute time each day I am ready for a 40 hour work week but alas I live in Bush land. It is for the rich here in the USA not the working stiff. I am now a devout democrat and I do vote
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  I think I am finally free!!

  by hambeak in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  thanks to all who have responded with my questions about law and and illness and my legal rights.

  i now know from my attorney that i actually do have more control than i was led to believe.

  now my kids all in their mid 20's and early 30's get only what i want them to have.

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  Thanks to all who have responded with my questions about law and and illness and my legal rights. I now know from my attorney that I actually do have more control than I was led to believe. Now my kids All in their mid 20's and early 30's get only what I want them to have. Like one of my friends told me if you don't fly first class your heirs will.
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  You Will Know By The Love They Have Among Themselves

  by Corvin in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the organization of jehovah's witnesses boasts of having true brotherly love for one another.

  i always believed they did, although i never felt it growing up in it.

  i reckoned that there was something wrong with me since i never felt that "joy" and "spirit of love" that supposedly permeated the congregations.

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  The so called love they have is superficial and totally devoted to the org. Loyalty to family and friends is on the surface only and you will get turned in and shunned if you don't follow the way of the body of elders. Recreation is controlled and get togethers are frowned on if they get to big. TOO MUCH CONTROL