No. Altho some of y'all have very enticing avatars.
Hortensia
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Did You Ever Have A "Crush" On Anyone Here?
by minimus ini know that many many have had crushes on me..
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Where to go from here...
by Patrickday ini'm new around here, but i've been browsing the site the last few days in hopes of finding the answer to the situation i've been going through, so hopefully you can help me.
i met this girl in highschool, but never really spoke with her until about a year after i graduated.
she's three years younger (however it's legal where i'm from, don't fret) and still a teenager.
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Hortensia
Not much of a chance of happiness with her. She needs to figure out what kind of life she wants before she's ready for any mature relationship. She's living a double life which is pretty common for JW teens, but not very fair to either her JW or her non-JW relationships. Until she can live authentically don't take a chance on her.
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Kate Wild
by quellycatface ini've been given permission to post news of our friend.. kate hasn't been very well.
not well at all.
i think much of it has been a delayed reaction to her df'ing, the general fallout when leaving the wtbs and family issues.. i just wanted to give you guys the heads up and give you a chance to show how much we care about her.. thanks for listening..
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Hortensia
Take good care of yourself -- and I hope you feel better soon.
Hortensia
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"You don't pee next to a cop," and other rules from the mens room that women don't know
by GrreatTeacher ini was recently at a baseball game with friends and family when i learned something new.
beer had been drunk and the men made their way to the men's room to relieve themselves.
when they got back i asked them what took them so long.
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Hortensia
grreatteacher - hi! Very funny thread
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OSCAR WILDE'S BROTHER
by The Searcher inoscar wilde the famous writer & poet, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oscar_wilde) had a brother called toby.. after oscar made his name in london, toby decided to follow his brother to the u.k. however, he chose to settle down north of london, in the market town of bourne which is in lincolnshire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bourne,_lincolnshire.
he became well known for his song writing, and his most famous composition - which reflected his life - is still popular today - "bourne toby wilde"!!
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Hortensia
I don't know what to say!
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received text from my mom
by GoUnion inso my wife and my parents are at their convention today.
this will be the first time in my life that i will not have seen a drama or baptism.
i will miss the public address, i will not see many of my lifelong friends that i have moved away from.
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Hortensia
Hang tough -- it makes a difference in the long run. I grew up in a staunch JW family. Mom and that generation have died, and NONE of my generation is still a JW. Not my sisters, not my cousins. Woohoo!
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The Venting Thread
by minimus inthis thread is for you to vent about anything (within guidelines) that you want.. i'll start.. i'm sick of people who complain about how cold the weather is and then you have two 85 degree days and now they can't wait till autumn!.
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Hortensia
I banged my forehead really hard against a door last night. My neck and right shoulder hurt now. I'm tired of people, especially people who can never ever not even one stinking time keep their mouths shut. Negative people who can never keep a negative opinion to themselves. I'm tired of not being perfect, and of being gracious about criticism, and being reasonable and nice, dammit. Or at least, I'm tired of trying to appear reasonable and nice! See, I have to be reasonable about being unreasonable. Grrrrr. Would bang my head against a door, except, of course, that I already did that and it hurts!
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Muhammad Ali fought the US Draft 47 years ago today, June 20th, 1967
by designs inwith the help of jw attorney hayden covington the supreme court ruled in favor of muhammad ali's exemption status to the draft.
i admired him for taking his stand.. meanwhile we young jw guys were being hung out to dry by the wt.
goons- knorr, franz and schroeder.
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Hortensia
I agree, although boxing is a sick sport, I admire Ali for refusing to go to war.
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"Hello from Phats"
by phats inhay out there.. wife got back from her thursday meeting & now she's setteled down with the dog, a v large g&t (maid be me) & watching terminator 2 on the telly with her ipad on her lap looking up places to go for our holiday (& googling symptoms of to many antibiotics as my 16 year old is getting signs of ibs).
so now is a good time to say hello.. well hello.
my name is phats & i'm an ex jehovah's witness.. there, i've said it.. this must be like it is going to your first aa meeting.. i've already used up some of my posts for a newbe but i'm not in to the whole long story thing.. basically i've been out now for 8 years (mentally out for all but four or five of those years of my life when i made the commitment, got baptized & married.).
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Hi from northern California!
Hortensia
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An old Watchtower offshot in Africa
by Londo111 inhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/religion_in_the_democratic_republic_of_the_congo#kitawala.
a much more radical product of the synthesis of african and christian elements is the kitawala movement or so-called "watchtower movement", which appeared in katanga province during the 1920s.
influenced by the black american missionary activity in south africa of the watch tower bible and tract society (jehovah's witnesses), the movement converted miners who then spread elements of the movement northward from their south african base into the katangan copper belt.. the british "reverend" james booth and his african associate elliott kamwana, both black, used watch tower publications but did not limit their preaching to the bible students message of charles taze russell (it does not seem that russell understood this at the time).
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Hortensia
Interesting -- thanks for sharing.