Posts by lighthouse19something

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"Pioneer Syndrome" - Pioneers from the 1990's are getting very sick in 2009! Theories?

by Witness 007 in

just heard sister g______ is very ill and not looking good at all.

shes in her 40's and looks like an old lady!

very tired she can barely manage to work a day or two because she has to...i myself crashed with glanduar fever and was tired for 4 years...still others have developed "pioneer syndrome" tired, always ill with no cure, increased need for sleep.

lighthouse19something

My wife was a pioneer in the 90's, later she was found to have COPD, had to use oxygen, also got foot infections which cost her a leg. She died 3 years ago., still a firm belever in God and Christ, but not wtbts

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Forbidden Pleasures ......

by BobsGirl in

jw
friends

this morning on the way to work, i burst into song.

not just any song ... but the heretofore forbidden "star spangled banner".

i just felt like singing and i wanted to sing something challenging and it seemed like the perfect choice.

lighthouse19something

1-choosing my own mate by my feelings, not by her 'standing' in the borg

2- volunteering to help 'Toys For Tots'

3- giving cross jewlery to my girlfriend

4- having great self improvement books not from wtbs

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Name Things JWs Would Do If The GB Told Them To

by minimus in

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friends

this could be veryyyyyy interestinggggggg.

lighthouse19something

Not buy life insurance- (it's gambling)

give up internet

not take Viagra or Levitra, if God does give you errections naturally.then you shouldn't have sex

Ditto personal lubes

give up bar-be-ques because it is associated with holidays

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Have you ever caught Elders in compromising situations?

by Cheetos in

i ran into two of them at a (r) rated violent movie during a very boring assembly once, i knew them and they knew me i didn't give a dam and they knew it, they seen me go out and i seen them go out of the theate so we were all even and grinning all the way back to events center.

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I know of one that ran a bingo hall

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Which would be easier to defend, JWs or Mormons?

by undercover in

whenever i ponder on the beliefs and practices of the mormon church, i wonder how anyone can belief such rubbish.

even when i was an active jw i looked at mormons as down right kooky, what with their special underwear, the book of mormon, the american indians being isrealites, the tablets, etc, etc, etc.

i was glad as a kid that i wasn't mormon because at least as a jw we could drink sodas.... even after i discovered that i was in a f'd up religion and made my way out, i still see mormons as so out there, that there's no way you can defend their beliefs, yet so many people become or remain mormons.. when i compare mormon beliefs with jw beliefs, it seems easier to disprove or discount mormon beliefs vs jw ones.

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At least Mormons encourage getting a collage education, wtbs does not

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Stupidest thing a JW ever told you

by Nosferatu in

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friends

what is the stupidest thing a jw ever told you?

we all know that they say a lot of stupid things, but what really topped the cake?.

for me, it was an elder telling me i was progressing really well when my meeting attendance was down and my field service hours were slipping.

lighthouse19something

1) When I was 19, someone said ' Marry 60 year old so& so, Armageddons close and she'll get younger looking in the new system, and she was hot when she was young

2)Don't go to collage, the end is too close to make it worthwhile

3) Start a business so you pioneer

4) Oral sex is a homosexual act, and heterosexuals shouldn't imatate them

5) No one speaks in tongues anymore

6) Ask Jehovah for healing and he will IF IT'S HIS WILL

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New Name For Watchtower?

by sweet pea in

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ok everyone, just some fun here - no i haven't got wind of any change in the pipeline but, if the watchtower bible and tract society were to ditch the name watchtower altogether, what would they call the watchtower magazine instead?

all suggestions warmly welcomed......

lighthouse19something

Sweet Pea, I hope never use my lighthouse nickname.

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Relief for nighttime leg cramps

by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in

okay, i'm closing in on 500 posts, but have almost no 'new topics' to my name.

i don't feel like starting anything profoundly spiritual.

so, i'll share this tip that has worked for my kinfolk.. on both sides of my family, we frequently suffer from nighttime leg craps.

lighthouse19something

curezone.com listed taking a spoonful of mustard as a treatment

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* Name a reason people wont make it through Armegeddon *

by FlyingHighNow in

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friends

let's start a list of reasons why you were told, or overheard people telling, won't make it through the big a day.

i'll start.. 1. they don't take showing up for cleaning the kingdom hall seriously and never show up.

i overheard a sour puss old elder say this to his wife after he just gave a scolding talk on it.

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Recruiting members to Amway

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What's the BEST thing about being "out" of the "truth"?

by B_Deserter in

for me, it's having friends that i don't have to hide my lack of meeting attendance/service from.

it's amazing how they teach you that only jws can be your real friends, but in reality, it's all contingent upon your religious "performance.

" sure, if you're not going to meetings, they'll try to be "friends," by encouraging you to go back.

lighthouse19something

Seeing non-jw relatives during holidays

looking forward to a varied sex life with my soon to be wife, the only boundries are the ones we set

not being 'thrown-out' of a loving church for any little thing

being in a church that gives real advice and counsel

comtempary Christian music

being free to be human