Our only retirement is in 401ks from work. We will receive no pensions. It was hard to watch them go down 30-40%. They say to ride it out though and it will balance out.
I sure hope they are right?
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401K, do you still have one?
by DJK inseveral years ago i considered starting one.
didn't understand it at all.
the hr dept where i work had closed and to start a 401k i had to do it online.
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Why did there have to be a TEST???
by nomoreguilt inso, god created adam and eve.
hmmm he also created satan.
hmmmm he placed the pair in the garden, and said that they must not eat of a certain tree.
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There was no need for a test. If God could read hearts, he knew whether Adam and Eve obeyed out of love. It is all a fairy tale.
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Depression or Recession?
by lisavegas420 ini went to jobs and family resources yesterday.
the man i talked to said the country is not in a recession like the president said on december 1st.
he said we are in a depression, much like 1947. he said things will continue like this for decades.
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Definately a deepening repression. My husband lost his long time job twice in the last 2 repressions. It all matters if we are able to get through this one without job loss. It is still hard, but not near as much as when you don't know whre your next paycheck will come from.
I know Obama is wanting to help, but things are going to take time to improve. At least, we now will have an intelligent president who desires to help this country rather than exploit, lie and pillage it like the last one.
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I'm sad
by Newborn inhi all, it's been a while, for most part i'm happy but.
i finally had to send a "i don't want to be a jw anylonger" to the elders, since they were very anxious to talk to me, which i've refused so now my only sister who's still a jw with husband at bethel, told me she won't call or see me anymore.
i've been crying all day.
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Sorry you are sad. The shunning policy is breaking up way too many families. Sometimes I wonder if they can see the sorrow it brings.
One of the things that taught me there is no real love in the jws. Can't be from God.
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BURNING AT THE STAKE SOON TO RETURN.
by hamsterbait ini dont just mean in the islamic world but in the world of ex jwd.. i am so thankful that at the time i was seeking help and new ideas this board did not ritually hang draw and quarter those who wanted to hang on to thier witness views (even thought they were already swimming alone in a pacific ocean with no boat in sight).
we need to be kind to those we disagree with, not make them feel like satan.. why complain about shunning when we treat those who disagree with our views just as badly.. reniaa is now going back to the cult because there were too many judgmental posts - some of which i found very offensive because they disrespected her as a person.. all of us matter.
so many come here hoping for support.
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She was always looking for an argument. Seemed to thrive on it. She has to make her own decision on religion and I respect her choice.
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JWD is Back And So Am I! NEW VIDEOS
by V inthanks simon for continuing this forum!.
new www.watchtowercomments.com video series in progress here (parts 1 & 2 so far):.
question jehovah's witnesses: no blood?.
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Looking good V!
Renai, Baptists, Catholics and most other mainstream religions do not hold their members hostage, destroying family relationships and causing deaths by refusing to allow their members to make their own healthcare decisions.
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On a scale of 1 -100 , rate my chance of attending the meeting tomorrow
by stillajwexelder inon a scale of 1 -100 , rate my chance of attending the meeting tomorrow .
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by the way i am drinking real russian vodka diluted with noilly pratt vermouth
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How difficult it is to extract yourself from the tentacles of the watchtower.
Still in 74, I wonder how many have been to meetings drunk or stoned? I remember hearing reminders from the almighty platform not to drink alcohol before coming to the meetings.
Maybe if they would just let people walk away in peace, there would be no need for such reminders.
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When SHOULD you have "woken up" ?
by wobble ini can look back to a number of occasions when if i had at the time not left my braincells at home on charge, i should have "woken up" and walked from the wtbs.. one such was 15 or 20 yers ago we had a washtowel on daniels prophecy with the really wacky explanations of the 1260 days and 2300 days etc.
i had about 12 questions on this,like what on earth happened on the supposed finish date that marked the fulfillment of a great prophecy,i also had this thing that showed the 2520 years to be crap,i gave the list of questions to 7 or 8 elders,and none of them gave me a decent answer!.
one kindly elder,who has since faded,warned me to be carefull who i showed my questions to,and hinted that he felt it was all suspect too.. what a big banana i was not to wake up then!.
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I should have never gotten involved. I ignored a bunch of red flags in the beginning. The blood issue, holidays, the headship thing, they all bothered me from the start. They always seemed to stress the paradise and tell me to ignore other things. I am too trusting a person.
I would have never joined if the internet exixted then. I google everything I need to know about now. Hopefully, that will limit a lot of their recruits these days.
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Brothers who were Gay but couldn't admit/accept it! Did you have some?
by Witness 007 ini have come to realize that being gay is something you are just born with....so why judge them if it's like being born a certain race.. a brother g_____ i knew was a zealous pioneer pushing 43 years old.
he never married though the sisters thought he was dreamy and he had plenty of offers....."she's not for me" he would always, many times tell me some excuse.
he loved to give only brothers a big hug...say if you gave a public talk or something.
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I knew of an elder's son who was extremely feminine in his actions and speech. He is out now and his peers say he is gay. That has to be a really difficult road to travel as his family are really hard-nosed dubs.
Never could stand his parents. They were the PO and his elderette wife. I can't imagine they will ever accept him.
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What do you think about the Muratorian Canon?
by Awakened at Gilead inin doing research on this subject, i noticed that the society uses this fragment as a basis for the canon of the nt.
theevidenceofearlycatalogs.
a glance at the accompanying chart reveals that a number of fourth-century catalogs of the christian scriptures, dated prior to the above-mentioned council, agree exactly with our present canon, and some others omit only revelation.
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After reading some of the apocryphal books, I realized that the selection of the canon of the Bible was partly to back up the beliefs of the Catholic Church and partly a crapshoot.