..."Chicken!"...how cute! My husband is a crusty, old coot too, but our grandkids always make him smile. The two-year old went to him with a banana peeled half-way, and she ate it to that point. She handed it to grandpa with the order, "Put more nana on it!"
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Lighter Subjects
by LoneWolf inhi, folks,.
i had a good laugh at broken promises' question back on the uniter - part 1 (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/216396/1/the-uniter-part-1-it-was-sent-with-my-declaration-of-war) where he asked where i live so that he'll know who it is when some crazy old man goes nuts and instigates a mass killing.
t'ain't gonna happen.. nonetheless, i guess i can understand where he's coming from.
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jamiebowers
So sorry for your loss...what a senseless death...the Watchtower has so much for which to answer.
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What would the WT do if anti shunning laws were passed?
by Aussie Oz inwhat would the wt do if say, a country or countries enacted a law that made shunnung illegal?.
punishable by time in prison or heavy fines?.
would they have the gall to 'obey god as ruler' rather than man, and actually continue the practice in defiance of the law even though they would incur the wrath of governments?
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jamiebowers
From its past reord I ould guess that the society would load the literatrash with weasal words and leave the rank and file twisting in the wind.
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My story, one of the lucky ones
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ok, finally here is an abbreviated version of my story.
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jamiebowers
Welcome to JWN...glad to finally hear from you!
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told my parents to never ever tell me they love me again....
by oompa in...i told them in a very serious sitdown in their living room....said..."because if you cant show it then it does not count...that is not real love no matter who tells you it is....because it is how it makes me feel that determines if it is love....not if you just say it...and me and my sons do not feel that love at all now"....and i stayed calm and talked slowly and barely shed a tear as i held them back...and i had asked them to not say a word but just listen...dad said they would as long as it was not about religion as i knew he would.
this was two of the worst days of my life in a row..i told them the pain me and my boys feel from their shunning is worse than if they had died...that then i could grieve naturally and move on because that is normal....grief helps you cope...my grief is different because they choose to act like i am dead and normal grief does not seem to work on that.
i shared an epiphany with them i had about mens rules vs gods great idea of dna (but no i am not sure about a god anymore)it went kinda like this:.
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jamiebowers
Oompa, I'm glad you've taken one more healthy step forward. You and your sons are free. You've accomplished something that your parents, grandparents and great grandparents couldn't do!
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It's my birthday today and i did NOTHING.
by Aussie Oz indo you find that years after leaving the jws birthdays just don't matter?.
i just can't get into it.
in years past the inlaws have made an effort and given a little party but now we are out country its just not a big enough deal to be bothered with.. no presents, no cake.
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jamiebowers
Happy Birthday Aussie, belated Happy Birthday to JWFacts, and future Happy Birthday Beks! I keep my birthday low key, because all I want is to left alone with no responsibility for the day. The kids get me a few trinkets, and my husband gets take out for dinner and a cake. I sit on my ass and read or watch movies, and that makes me happy.
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{Sigh}, I could use a hug...
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite inmy first two exams were this week.
things didn't go well.
the classes are tough -- math and science.
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jamiebowers
Try to find ou how everyone else is doing in the class. If the vast majority aren't doing well, there will be a grade curve. Talk to your professors about extra credit. If neither of those work out, look into dropping the most difficult class and take it later. Don't be discouraged. Just about everyone has a few problem classes.
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References: what did the elders say about you to your other half during courtship?
by truthseeker inwhen you announced your intention to marry, what did the elders say to your future bride/groom?.
in a long distance courtship, did you have any trouble getting a good "spiritual" reference?.
an elder in my hall told the elders in my wife's hall that i was a low hour publisher.. .
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jamiebowers
I wish they would've said something to me, but I wasn't baptized, and he was when he started pursuing me, so it would've been a bad witness. Despite the fact that the elders knew he was mentally deranged and violent enough to beat his own mother, no one said a word to me. I was only 17 when we married, and he was 25.
Ironically enough, after I fled for my life after enduring almost seven years of physical and mental torture, his elder uncle wanted me to warn his next prospective victim...I mean bride.
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i got involved with a woman from work ugh!
by jeckle init was like a rock and roll relationship and ive broken up with her 4 times but she comes back and i let her and i almost moved in with her but now i dont want to talk to her ever again!.
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jamiebowers
Hm this brings to mind the little ditty "don't shit where you eat".
My thoughts exactly...great minds think alike!
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maybe they will build compounds in the desert...or join the muslims
by Aussie Oz indo any of you remember as i do, in the 80s some in our congo's would muse about whether the society would build huge compounds up north to house us all as persecution and armageddon escalated.. led me to wondering in the light of all the recent slapping they are getting whether it could actually happen.. i mean, could they possibly talk the flock into believing that babylon the great has fallen and been destroyed invisibly and the current 'persecution' is the poking god in the eye.
move upstate to patterson, cash in brooklyn.
build these centres out in the middle of nowhere to contain and isolate the cash cows.
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jamiebowers
It wouldn't be to the Watchtower's benefit to gather the faithful in one place, because there is no one geographical area that could sustain the need for jobs that bring donations into the orgaization.
Edited to add: The Watchtower and Islam combining forces would be like putting two divas in a single dressing room, LOL!