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  Any seniors looking for association?

  by cultBgone in

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  life is tough when you've spent your best years in the borg...how do you reconnect when kids are grown and you're close to retirement age?.

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  Hortensia

  I guess we need an over-the-hill gang on JWN. I'm retired, living at Mount Shasta. Would gladly have a cup of coffee with any of you, any time you cruise by here. Right off highway 5 so no excuses if you're going this way.

  Meanwhile, having coffee by myself, thinking of picking up the little socks I'm knitting and getting on with it. Terrible brouhaha in the community garden today, still recovering from that. I was just a witness but it was pretty distressing just the same.

  I never knew a community garden could be such a hotbed of gossip, rivalries, jealousies and just plain abuse. See, if you had a cup of coffee with me I'd have some good gossip about people you don't know!
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  Are You Raising An Introvert?

  by darth frosty in

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  its not easy being an introvert in an extrovert worldespecially when youre a kid.

  it is even more difficult if none of the adults in the kids life recognize that the child is an introvert.

  this doesnt happen only when the childs parents are extroverts, but also with introverted parents who have never understood their own introverted nature.. .

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  Hortensia

  Thanks for bringing back this discussion. I've always been highly introverted, and sometimes being in a crowd feels like being nibbled to death by ducks. Too much input, it makes me tired. But, I like people and like being around them. I'm occasionally misunderstood -- people think I'm stand-offish or arrogant, but I'm just quiet and prone to leave groups earlier than anyone else.
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  Freaky Pepsi Ad

  by metatron in

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  http://www.businessinsider.com/pepsi-ad-shocks-londoners-2014-3.

  check it out.

  metatron.

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  Hortensia

  Clever, but not funny.
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  Fred Phelps is dead

  by zound in

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  two cults leaders in two days..

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  Hortensia

  Some people are just awful, and he was certainly one of the worst hatemongers around. No one will miss him.
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  Fred Phelps is dead

  by zound in

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  two cults leaders in two days..

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  Hortensia

  couldn't happen to a nicer guy
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  What Ailed Those Pilots ... ?

  by snowbird in

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  the pilots and crew of the missing plane, was something wrong with all of them?.

  sylvia.

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  Thanks Under the Radar for that info. I agree that the talking heads are not clearing anything up, just fomenting lots of theories. My guess is that something went terribly wrong with the plane and it's at the bottom of the ocean.

  I actually heard an FBI person today say on television that if they find something out that could reveal the capabilities they have for surveillance, computer stuff, whatever, they might not reveal their info because they don't want other nations aware of their abilities.
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  Do any ex JW' s/ God believer's, Agnostics or Atheists believe in Karma? And WHY?

  by rip van winkle in

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  just reading a thread and the mention of karma popped up.

  ( it happens, lol).

  a lot of people believe in karma: what goes around comes around.. some months ago, while on another exjw site, karma was mentioned and i thought it a little odd, as they are atheist.

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  No, I don't believe in karma -- no one is keeping score and making sure you get your just deserts. I am surrounded by people who claim to believe in karma. What I have noticed is that it gives them a fabulous excuse to not show compassion, not care about others. In fact, one person here told me that starving babies in Africa are paying for sins commited in another life. So, she doesn't have to suffer thinking about their suffering -- they deserve it. That is contemptible in my opinion.
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  My son has made his decision

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  this is the followup to this thread:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/276119/1/well-its-march-and-the-college-answers-are-coming-in#.uyjdu_ldv2e.

  the financial aid offer came in.. the first year of attending is actually cheaper than what we were going to pay at the state university after their scholarship offer.. i mean, really cheaper.. we would be fools to turn it down.. they are even flying him in for the preview week.. .

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  You must be so proud! It's wonderful, isn't it?
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  What if I am a disfellowshipped public school teacher?

  by bsand20 in

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  could a parent put in a complaint to the school district and request that their child be transferred out of my classroom because i am exjw?

  if they give me the jw school brochure (do they still do that?

  sorry its been 16years since i've been out) can i just tell them i'm familiar with their teachings or should i just pretend i'm new to their teachings?....i'm a freshman in college so i have still a long ways before this situation is presented, however i"m trying to get prepared for it.

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  I don't think that it's your problem at all. No reason to tell them anything about yourself, you don't have to answer to JWs. If a parent of any religion writes a request that the child not participate in some activity, I think you have to go along with it, but maybe school policy would have some effect on that too. Don't think you have to follow JW rules, just because you know what the rules are. Outside the KH, they have no real effect.
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  Where Do You Think That Plane Is?

  by minimus in

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  what do you think happened?

  ?.

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  Hortensia

  Well, whatever craziness happened on that flight -- and it does sound like some sort of hijack was happening -- I imgaine that plane is at the bottom of the ocean. Poor passengers -- how frightening it must have been.