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Is the first year really the hardest?????
by mama1119 in
1. jw
2. friends
i have been married a year and a half, and everyone says the first year is the hardest.

well, the crappyness seems to be creeping right on into the second year.

i thought it was suppossed to get easier each year.
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Were the "Annointed" that got disfellowshipped still "Annointed"??????
by mama1119 in
1. jw
2. friends
when i was a teenager we had these two annointeds in our hall, man and woman, very very gung-ho elder, pioneer type.

well, they had an affair for many years and then got df...i always wondered, if god chose them to be annointed, did he now reject them.....or did they just take a break, because as soon as they got reinstats they were partaking again?????

what was the official stance on that???
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Were you ever jealous of ones that left????
by mama1119 in
1. jw
2. friends
i always wondered how they had the balls to do it.

and especially if they seemed happy with no remorse, and were able to celebrate holidays and live "normal" lives.

i remember wishing, in my early twenties, that i had the strength to do that.
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JW at the door...thanks for the tips...
by mama1119 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
this morning we had a fleet of jw in the neighborhood and they came a knockin...my husband answered the door, (as they would have recognized me..he is "wordly").

we used some of the tips off of the "how to get rid of a jw thread" he kept asking them if they were with the jehovahs and if they were a jehovah, they kept correcting him bless their souls and he kept doing it.

then, when they tried to place the mags he said, "first can i get your address?
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Has anyone had Shingles???
by mama1119 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
hello.... i was in the er last night because apparently i have shingles!!!!!!!!

the doctor said it is caused by stress, which re-activates the chicken pox virus that lays dormant in your system.

so i guess i need to learn some stress management skills.
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Here is my families story
by mama1119 in
1. jw
2. friends
hi, i have been posting for a while now but haven't shared my story, and feel it would be theraputic to do so now.

my family is also on the site, although they dont post, just read.. i grew up a jw.

my parents were baptized when i was just a toddler...they were brought in by the only jw members of my dads side of the family.
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Can You be announced DF w/Out a JC Meeting?
by mama1119 in
1. jw
2. friends
my parents just got a phone call from a longtime inactive witness who heard from his very active witness wife that they were announced df'd.

we don't know if its it true or not becuase none of us go to meetings anymore and have no inside sources at the hall to tell us (as we are apostates, who would tlak to us????

) the elders have tried a couple times to talk to them but my dad avoids them.
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new quotes website
by mama1119 in
1. watchtower
2. scandals
can anyone tell me what the new quotes website is????

i got to it the other night and now i cant find it....
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Need to help Brother
by mama1119 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
i am trying to figure out a way to help my brother get past the guilt of being a jw.

we were raised jw, pretty much your classic jw life and childhood.

i got df'd about 3 years ago, tried for a while to get reinstated in the meantime i did alot of research and found suprise this wasnt the truth.
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Fourth of July
by mama1119 in
1. jw
2. experiences
i was just wondering.......i know jw are not allowed to celebrate the fourth, in fact it can we a jc issue, but where we live there is a huge celebration downtown and every year i see 90% of the witnesses i know down there, "not celebrating".

they are doing the same thing all the other "wordly" people are doing to celebrate the fourth...and alot of times jw will buy fireworks and let them off the day before, as if thats different.....how do they justify this???

does anyone else have anything around them that jw will participate in but not call celebrating????