Posts by restrangled

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Your final WTF? Moment!

by restrangled in

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it was a long time coming for me.....when i read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end.

i was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind.

i finally am free and hope others can eventually look in instead of inside looking out!

restrangled

Wonderful WTF moments, you learn something new every day....thank you (James Wood)!

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Your final WTF? Moment!

by restrangled in

jw
friends

it was a long time coming for me.....when i read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end.

i was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind.

i finally am free and hope others can eventually look in instead of inside looking out!

restrangled

Wonderful WTF moments, you learn something new every day....thank you (James Wood)!

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Your final WTF? Moment!

by restrangled in

jw
friends

it was a long time coming for me.....when i read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end.

i was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind.

i finally am free and hope others can eventually look in instead of inside looking out!

It was a long time coming for me.....when I read about the extened generations, after being raised on1914 being the be all end all, and millions would never die....that was the end. I was part of the 1975 fiasco, the 6 month only truth book studies, suffered through a disifellowshipping and their version of a rewind. Out, in and out. I finally am free and hope others can eventually look IN instead of inside looking out! What a relief......its all a farce, a horrible farce!

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I'm afraid I'd be single for life

by ohnightdivine in

this is quite embarrassing for me to share, but as a 30+ year old single female i have lingering doubts as to whether i can still meet a decent man and get married.. you all know how difficult it is for sisters to find an appropriate partner in the congregation.. and now, all the more so that i've learned ttatt.

i still am bound by low self-esteem, and i do have trust issues, especially with men.

i am very lonely and so i just keep myself busy with work to avoid depression (although it is also a great source of stress).. any other single females out there having similar thoughts?.

restrangled

Oh Night Devine, .....I haven't been here for a while. I am going to be 55 this month. Was married for 35 years, and my husband up and dumped me.... at 50. So I moved in with my mom, a JW, and I was lonely, tired, a smoker. Got my self a job and worked my butt off. Made new friends, found myself. I wasn't looking to date or get married. In fact I had decided it was all over.

I visited a cousin and she insisted I needed to start dating. For the life of me I couldn't picture it. She made me join Match just for a month. I was mortified! She took some pictures and posted them and helped me write a profile.....it was pathetic, I assure you! I got lots of responses, but there was one fellow who I hoped to hear from after reading his profile. He responded and we went back and forth for a week on the internet. After that we exchanged phone numers. 3 weeks later we met in person and it was magic. We are so happy.....we were meant for each other. We have lived together for over a year and its like we've known each other all of our lives. We adore each other.

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Complete list of how "The Watchtower" make money

by usualusername in

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friends

i have been reading this forum for umpteen years and have heard of so many ways that the watchtower is making money.. .

would you mind contributing to help me compile a list?.

to start:.

restrangled

pfft...loaning money at an old age.....you make interest as long as you are..... alive...thankfully regulated by the governement......Oh my, my mom has made almost all of her money back but the principle belongs to the wbts. quote " the best investment she ever made". .......yep she comes out even and its the best money she ever made. Relgion sucks!

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The March 1, 1952 Watchtower says, "Go back... and Die!"

by Londo111 in

"those who are acquainted with the situation in the congregation should never say hello or goodbye to him.

he is not welcome in our midst, we avoid him.

such an individual has no place in the clean organization or congregation of god.

restrangled

Would that include the milllions who would never die........, promised in the late sixties, early seventies?....There dead......whoops part of the jw orginization!

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Wives - How do you "manage" your husband?

by hamsterbait in

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friends

as far as my experience goes, most males once married go back to "little boy" mode.. wheres the butter?

(while looking at it in the fridge).

where are my clean socks (where they always are).

restrangled

Manage? I would call it a cooperative existance after 30 years.

You cannot change a man. Its like stripes on a Zebra, it goes down to the skin. You can shave off the hair but the stripes are in the skin, (in other words in the genes.)

For any newly married wives/husbands learn to live with it...what ever it is.

I'm the neat freak, my car is always spotless, along with my home. As I get older...I tolerate a bit more slop but not much.

I do all the laundry, shopping, housecleaning, cooking, banking, lawn and pool care.....and take out all the garbage. In recent years I have hired people, for the pool and lawn. But I still go out and weed, trim, etc.

I have worked outside the home on and off through the years, but expect my husband to earn the living..... and that he does. So I don't complain.

My husband still treats his vehicles like a garbage can/hamper....the same as when I met him in 1976. Whether it be a brand new vehicle or used, eventually it turns into a rolling garbage can. I don't understand it, I am angry every time I have to ride in his vehicle, but it does no good to bitch and moan.

When all the coffee cups are gone in the house, I tell him to go bring them in from his truck. Most are stuffed with trash, and occasionally old banana peels. I'll never comprehend it!

r.

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