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  Discovering your parents are human!

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

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  a bit of background: a young actress in a local soapie was killed tragically a few weeks ago.

  the producers of the program which is screened daily, decided to kill off her character.

  today's episode revolved aroung her funeral.. now i am a bit mushy and i shed a tear or two whilst watching.

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  Awe, that's sweet! Once when my middle son was about 4 he saw me crying, I forget what for. But ran and got his story book opened it up and started reading it to me (by the pictures he couldn't read words yet), all the while he was patting me on my leg. I cried even more because he was trying to comfort me, when he finished his reading he kissed me on my cheek and said, "it's gonna be ok", you want some juice?

  All I could is laugh at that point. A story, some juice, a pat on the leg and kiss that's all it took in his little mind to make mommy happy again. It worked because I started laughing.

  This probably was the first time in his little life that your little man realized that mommies get sad too. Give him a kiss for me, it brought back memories of my kids when they were little.

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  Discovering your parents are human!

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  a bit of background: a young actress in a local soapie was killed tragically a few weeks ago.

  the producers of the program which is screened daily, decided to kill off her character.

  today's episode revolved aroung her funeral.. now i am a bit mushy and i shed a tear or two whilst watching.

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  What is the best way to deal with the IRS?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  2. experiences

  i will only give limited details - but let me rant a little.. wifey and i have been raising our grandkids for almost four years now.

  except for a short period of time in 2005, during which time one of them lived for 8 or 10 months with her father, they have all three lived here.

  we have paid all the bills, child care, tuitions, insurance, food, clothing, shelter.... on and on.

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  Is this because their parent(s) filed first and claimed the kids as dependents before you did??

  My thoughts exactly!

  nj
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  What are you Paying?

  by sammielee24 in

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  while out yesterday - gas 3.89...diesel 4.34......food rioting got 5 people killed in haiti and at least 150 arrested in egypt...sammieswife.

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  There was a riot in my kitchen this morning when I went to get my lunch I'd packed for today. My greedy son ate it last night while up playing XBox when he should have been sleeping like everyone else, even the dog! Nothing is sacred in my house, especially food. Damn kids!

  Sorry for rant, I'm hungry!

  nj
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  There's been some CHANGES made - and, apparently, not everyone is pleased

  by berylblue in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  seems likes i'm annoying others and hurting feelings on quite a few occassions when i post here.. oh, well.

  when i first came here, i was a people-pleasing wimp.

  i express my real opinions now and i'll be damned if i ever go back to silencing myself just to fit in.

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  You know what they say, keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. I'd rather know how you really feel then to make the mistake of becoming your friend then knowing that you really dislike this or that person whether it be race, religion, political views, whatever!

  Speak your mind!

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  More on the Governing Body suicide

  by JimmyPage in

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  well i'm sure you've probably heard by now about the suicide of a governing body member.

  what you may not have heard, however, is the rest of the story.

  apparently he was finishing a book that blows the lid off the wtbts!

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  Jimmy, go to your room and stay there for a total of 1 minute per each year of your age! You are officially in time out!
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  More on the Governing Body suicide

  by JimmyPage in

  1. jw
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  well i'm sure you've probably heard by now about the suicide of a governing body member.

  what you may not have heard, however, is the rest of the story.

  apparently he was finishing a book that blows the lid off the wtbts!

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  What? Suicide, who? when? Oprah? Book? Is this an April fools trick?
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  My JW uncle died -- going to visitation.

  by reneeisorym in

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  2. family

  i was a 5th generation jw so i have my whole entire family in this borg.. my uncle died yesterday.

  he was the one that owned the antebellum home i grew up in (built in 1837).

  his son was a very dear friend of mine because we were close to the same age.

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  (((((((((((((((renee)))))))))))))))))

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  Thinking of becoming a Witness again and my reasons for doing so :(

  by reniaa in

  1. jw
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  i've been a faded jw for 10 years i left because of my failed first marriage, i'm no hypocrite and realised i had left completely so i embraced the world and dived in, only christmas and birthdays i could not get into, they were too foreign to me having never celebrated them, like if i suddenly tried to do ramadan or something like that.. 1/ all the criticisms of the people in the truth you say on here, i've found in the world, warts and all only in the world nothing holds them back from being utterly horrible to you.. 2/ i got stabbed by a worldly boyfriend, i got married 2 times of my own choosing to men outside the truth, the first smoked and was an alcoholic, the second gambled every penny we had and defrauded me out of money after we separated, 2 divorces later i am currently pregnant and a single mum since current boyfriend decided kids was to much of a responsibility and he needed his freedom and i was 'too selfish to expect him to give up his life'.. 3/ parents-in-law!

  i have been shunned by them as equal to anything you accuse witness families of and for the silliest of reasons, i had a disabled son and his grandparents said they wanted nothing to do with him because they didn't want to become attached in case he died.. 4/ i miss the honest friendships of the truth, i had friends of all ages from 14 to 80 years old and they genuinely cared for me, many trying to keep me in the faith a long time after i left but i was determined to fade so moved away completely, but i find friendships in the world so shallow in comparison and very hard to sustain :( i've never been a drinker and sometimes thats what friendship means you being a companion for them to goto pub with.. 5/ my recent boyfriend was in a christian religion, i thought why not find out about it, harvest churches if you ever heard of them, unfortunately it still hasn't stop him leaving me pregnant and alone and when i said to him how does he clear that with god, he replies "as long as i repent it doesn't matter" it's like he has a "get out of jail free card" for any wrong-doing in the bible, this is so alien to me and my witness trained conscience.. 6/ i recently out of frustration tried looking into atheism and joined their forums, it wasn't fun, they are as bombastic and arrogant as their religious counterparts can be from any religion, they make a religion out of not believing in god, it's very weird they talk of saving people from believing in god and offer nothing to replace it.

  they said to me "be happy you are in reality now and enjoy it" and i thought "well if this is reality i've had enough of it".

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  We are wasting our time on this thread folks.

  Sirona

  Sirona my friend you are absolutely correct! Great pot stirrer though, huh?

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  Thinking of becoming a Witness again and my reasons for doing so :(

  by reniaa in

  1. jw
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  i've been a faded jw for 10 years i left because of my failed first marriage, i'm no hypocrite and realised i had left completely so i embraced the world and dived in, only christmas and birthdays i could not get into, they were too foreign to me having never celebrated them, like if i suddenly tried to do ramadan or something like that.. 1/ all the criticisms of the people in the truth you say on here, i've found in the world, warts and all only in the world nothing holds them back from being utterly horrible to you.. 2/ i got stabbed by a worldly boyfriend, i got married 2 times of my own choosing to men outside the truth, the first smoked and was an alcoholic, the second gambled every penny we had and defrauded me out of money after we separated, 2 divorces later i am currently pregnant and a single mum since current boyfriend decided kids was to much of a responsibility and he needed his freedom and i was 'too selfish to expect him to give up his life'.. 3/ parents-in-law!

  i have been shunned by them as equal to anything you accuse witness families of and for the silliest of reasons, i had a disabled son and his grandparents said they wanted nothing to do with him because they didn't want to become attached in case he died.. 4/ i miss the honest friendships of the truth, i had friends of all ages from 14 to 80 years old and they genuinely cared for me, many trying to keep me in the faith a long time after i left but i was determined to fade so moved away completely, but i find friendships in the world so shallow in comparison and very hard to sustain :( i've never been a drinker and sometimes thats what friendship means you being a companion for them to goto pub with.. 5/ my recent boyfriend was in a christian religion, i thought why not find out about it, harvest churches if you ever heard of them, unfortunately it still hasn't stop him leaving me pregnant and alone and when i said to him how does he clear that with god, he replies "as long as i repent it doesn't matter" it's like he has a "get out of jail free card" for any wrong-doing in the bible, this is so alien to me and my witness trained conscience.. 6/ i recently out of frustration tried looking into atheism and joined their forums, it wasn't fun, they are as bombastic and arrogant as their religious counterparts can be from any religion, they make a religion out of not believing in god, it's very weird they talk of saving people from believing in god and offer nothing to replace it.

  they said to me "be happy you are in reality now and enjoy it" and i thought "well if this is reality i've had enough of it".

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  Okay, we've gone a little off topic but I'll answer anyway.

  This would be true if you assume sexual compatibility stays the same as when you are first together. And I would also say sexual compatibility is only one aspect of how relationships survive and are strong.

  Sexual compatibility does stay the same what changes is maybe how often or trying new things. I think you maybe referring to a marraige where the sex stops for whatever reason. That doesn't mean you are not compatible anymore just means that for whatever reason one of the partners has lost interest and if you have any interest in saving your marraige you'll find out why and fix it.

  What if your partner make some weird noise during sex or just does things that irritates you to no end?

  Oh yeah things can cool off but it's up to the couple to keep it interesting and try new thing to keep it spicy. Now if you marry someone and don't test drive how do you know if that person has an interest in trying new things or keeping the spice in the relationship? Maybe that person wants to only do missionary position and you just can have an orgasm in the missionary position what then. If you find out after the fact this person is a total dud or can't even get it up then it's too late.

  Sex is one aspect but it is a very BIG aspect to having a happy marraige. I've been married to my husband for almost 22 years and we've had our share of problems, but sex was never one of them!

  nj