Posts by Numinous

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Don't you just hate

by John Doe in

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it when you try to flick a big booger off of your index finger but it's too sticky to come off, and you eventually end up wiping it underneath the seat?

;-)

Numinous

You guys are killing me. I had a nasty cold in my dorm room in college and stuffed a couple of ob tampons in my nose with the strings hanging...all was fine until the roommate showed.

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Who would still be a Jehovah's Witness if it wasn't for the INTERNET???

by What-A-Coincidence in

raises hand.

i thank auldsoul/blodie for helping me out...they stick out in my mind when i first lurked on jwd.

wac - bethelite for 10 years and elder for 1.

Numinous

Favorite saying after I left: WAKE UP AND SMELL THE INTERNET. Wish I had gone on much sooner. To know that I was not alone...priceless.

40

Do you have all the friends you want to have?

by JH in

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i'm not talking about internet friends, but friends close by in your town.. so, do you have as many friends as you would like to have?.

when i was young and going to school, i had a few friends, but now i don't have any friends, but on the other hand, i'm a loner and i don't really care.

i'm not really searching for friends.

Numinous

I know that I am making the mistake of putting all my eggs in one basket with one fabulous friend but...I love being alone...I always get my jokes.

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as a young dub in the 80's me along with many of my friends got married, either in our teens or early 20's.. in my area, if you were over 25 and not married, it was percieved that something was wrong with you or you were probably engaging in sex with a "worldly" person.. by why did so many of us feel the need to get married so young?.

i believe it was because of one of three reasons.. 1. you wanted to get out of your parets home.. 2. you had already gone "too far" with you girlfriend or boyfriend.. 3. you were just an average normal teenager and you knew this was the only way you could legally have sex.. .

was this true in your area?.

Numinous

Baptised a month, I was told if I broke it off in the days of the Isrealites I would be killed, and bombarded with scriptures such as "let your yes mean yes...two are better than one...I felt like the virgin at the edge of the volcano, but nobody told me I could put a stop to it without losing my relationship with god and the congregation so...peer pressure in the most unusual way.

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What's your take on "stumbling"...

by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

the phrase "cause for stumbling" often left me bewildered.

tell you what to do counsel you and impose their own opinions on you.

maybe i did something in the past that "stumbled" someone, but aren't we all able to make our own decisions when it comes to conduct and choices ... at least we should be, especially if it isn't regarding something inherently wrong.

Numinous

Talk about being authentic, the night my husband became an elder he told me on the ride home that he was approached by another elder in the congregation who said that as the wife of an elder I now needed to do something with my hair, tuck my shirt into my skirt, not wear colored nylons...and if I needed any advice about how to look like an elder's wife, that his wife would make herself available for me. I must have been stumbling people left and right before that night! Some scripture in the Psalms says that for the righteous one there is no stumbling block.

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How many happy JW marriages do you know of?

by Bonnie_Clyde in

just reading frequent flyer miles on the subject of feeling guilty for having a happy marriage with a non-jw.. in our congregation which i haven't attended for about a year, i can only think of two or three who seem to be happy.

of course, i don't know what happens behind closed doors, but i know of several who admit they are unhappy.

i wrote out a long list of couples who have divorced over the last 20 years--including three elders (one is on his second divorce).

Numinous

My marriage was an endurance race, but for what reward? Spending all of eternity with this guy? Submission fuels the fire of an egomaniac. It was surviving, not living, and I was a slave, but at the KH he was busy with his stuff, and I had the gift of gab to distract myself and others from the emotional vacuum I had at home. Seventeen years of this academy award winning performance. The words "long-suffering" still make me gag...like Jehovah wanted me to be miserable to prove my love to him. Exhausting and exasperating. If there were no consequences to divorce in the congregation, half would be running to the courthouse. Open up to someone about what is really going on in your life and the floodgates open up about their marriages.

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The results of Dr. Laura's parenting

by sixsixsixtynine in

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5934072.

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http://bigheaddc.com/2007/06/02/the-shocking-photo-that-prompted-army-to-investigate-dr-lauras-son/.

Numinous

Mike Paul BETTER come up with something good...gotta avoid the bitch-slap! Did the enemies fiddle-faddle with Dr. Laura's naked internet pics years ago too? Pranksters!

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Guilt over a happy marriage

by Frequent_Fader_Miles in

long before i began my fade, there was a certain "sister" in the congo who married a non-jw man.

she was very happily married despite of all the forecasts of "doom and gloom" among the "friends".

how sad it was to hear her make the following comment in conversation - "sometimes i feel badly about marrying an unbeliever, since other sisters may look at me and follow my example.

Numinous

I was in a miserable marriage to an elder for 17 years...should I carry that like a badge of honor? If given the opportunity, half the witnesses would divorce their "mate" if it wouldn't be considered an act of disobedience. Marrying an unbeliever is being disobedient since the Isrealites were told not to...blah blah blah...it boils down to 'if you can love HIM, you may love the rest of the human race, and since Jehover will be slaughtering them all you may come to resent this, so...I have also heard happily married , "unevenly yoked" sisters say, "I am happy now, but we will be separated at Armegeddon and I will pay for my disobedience then. This is a real sore point with me.

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Prepare to be disgusted(more jw e-mails)

by darth frosty in

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this one is the best.. this is an experience from one of our sisters from athens spanish that went to italy and greece to serve.

she relates this experience that i thought was really interesting.

she asked him why, and he replied, how can i question the man if i have not read them myself.. .

Numinous

How many times has it happened where somebody yelled at you and you were crying about it that night? Did you ever write down the address of somebody who wasn't interested? If a mafia boss came to your door would you 1. know he was a mafia boss? or 2. be happy to see him? It's quite the load...

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August 15th Watchtower 2007: 1935 A GENTLE REMINDER

by AlphaOmega in

lest you forget.... .

this provides another chance to highlight the change.. .

Numinous

The number of annointed not going down year after year posed a problem for me after 20 years of waiting for it to happen. The year 1935 and the sudden discovery of a great crowd not annointed also seemed contrived. As time goes on, the organization hopes those who knew what the doctrines were years ago will die off and the new recruits won't know any difference.