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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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  Yikes the world seen is scary. I must live near the oil fields. $3.19 for 86 octaine (that is bad enough)

  banannas are .69 a lb.
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  I'm Tipsy (hiccup!)

  by odie67 in

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  well it's friday night....i worked really hard today and i'm drinking apple martini's.... what are you doing?????.

  happy friday!.

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  Happy Friday to you!

  My daughter just made me a bloody mary...she is good, lots of olives and just enough tobasco and lime.
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  Songs that move you XJW style

  by wings in

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  hotel california by the eagles is an obvious one.

  i have'nt figured out how to find the songs i like on youtube.

  sorry, can't paste a link, but "dreams of our fathers" by dave mathews is my personal favorite.

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  wings

  Hotel California by the Eagles is an obvious one.

  I have'nt figured out how to find the songs I like on youtube.

  Sorry, can't paste a link, but "Dreams of our Fathers" by Dave Mathews is my personal favorite. Even though I was converted, my heart is with those who were born in. My family, in process of in and out, especially my step kids.
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  Born in or Converted to JW? What are the stats here? and why....

  by oompa in

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  can't everyone just put this one item on their profile before posting.

  it seems like most posters have no profile, but this info could help in several ways.

  i am just guessing, but it seems like more here were born in.....your thoughts on this?......oompa.

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  wings

  I'll work on putting it on my profile. I converted, age 34, but I was held at gun point, and because I'm not allowed to own to this more than once a day, it wasn't my fault. Just so you know.
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  How many marriages has the WT busted up?

  by dinah in

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  just been clickin' around the past few weeks.. how many marriages have been ruined by the wt?

  how many were doomed from "i do" by the wt.

  it seems that love is so conditional, they should add it in the vows-----forsaking all others but not the wt.. and then what about those few whom god (elders) shine on who can get away with adultery and make the other person look guilty?

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  wings

  I know the board is exausted with these threads....the ones about one leaving the borg and the other staying. But there doesn't seem to be an end to the need.

  I left my husband after a five year fade. If I had found this board a couple of years ago, I might have been able to stick it out. Not sure, I just know the lonliness of fading can be extreme. The simple idea of not being alone, and the connection to others in the same situation could have helped. Maybe.

  Anyhoo...I thought I could deal with anything but another woman, but service to the WTBTS demands brings a iron wall down on the intimacy and friendship of a relationship that is such divided.

  Someone is headed for eternal distruction, someone is always on gauard against evil influence from you. Living a life with someone where your core beliefs are OPPOSED. No way to live a life together, especially when you are the one doom, and no thought or comment isn't scrutinized.
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  Can any who grew up JW relate to this?

  by Mickey mouse in

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  confession time!

  i was raised in the troof and therefor never "chose" it.

  i find it really hard to get my head around why anyone would ever join this organization as an adult.

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  wings

  Most converts are some kind of christians in the first place. (Look at the statistics, rarely any progress in non-chritians countries.)

  Dubs are very good at showing you what YOUR CHURCH is doing wrong, so "we must be right then".

  I am this person....going through a divorce....fell in love with a DF'd JW....hook line and sinker. 34 years old, three small kids. I will say this, understanding why doesn't make me feel like less of an idiot. I have tremendous empathy for those who were born in. My step kids are 5th generation, and I got an intimate perspective of those who had no choice. I could say so much more.
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  Can any who grew up JW relate to this?

  by Mickey mouse in

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  confession time!

  i was raised in the troof and therefor never "chose" it.

  i find it really hard to get my head around why anyone would ever join this organization as an adult.

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  Alright Mickey Mouse, you got me....I'm an idiot. I admit it. I'm in theraphy trying to deal with it. My kids are tired of my apologies, I need to get a new tape to play.
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  State A Simple Opinion About JWD Members

  by nicolaou in

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  we share a common past but have travelled many different roads to find each other here.

  our outlooks and perceptions of reality are varied and often fascinating.

  most of us are encouraging, funny, helpful and kind while others are still wrapped in bitterness and hatred or suffering from despair and privation.

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  Good answers! Way to go JWDers!!!

  I think.....

  "We are all mad as hell and we are not going to take it anymore"
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  It was 20 years ago today!

  by joelbear69 in

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  1988 was a momentous year in my life.

  about this time 20 years ago, i was in college .

  at the university of north florida.

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  wings

  A special memory....thank you for sharing. Best friends lost are missed deeply.
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  YOUR DAILY JOURNAL

  by compound complex in

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  dear friends,.

  much of what we do on a daily basis is routine and of no particular, earth-shaking importance.

  however, after reviewing letters of family going back to wwii, it is fascinating to read what dad was doing on board the aircraft carrier in the pacific on any old day, what mom was cooking on her ever-steaming range, how i was dealing with the roller coaster of emotion at bethel [mom saved all my letters], how nana wrote that she would not study with the witnesses [per my request] but 'here are some mittens i knitted for you when you canvass new york with your magazines.

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  wings

  Thoughts from another time:

  What time was that CoCo ?

  I found that during my awakening years, I was dealing with frustration and anger to the point that my old journal entries express more of a spiritual void, almost a despiration to find something real in my heart I could follow.

  It is a difficult space in time to pass through. To learn to listen to your conscience when it is telling you something completely contrary to the permeating and pervasive voice of the WTBTS. Which, of course, is everywhere in your life. Your family, friends, livelihood, everywhere.

  To actually hear our individual inner voice in the mitst of such a spinning world is a daunting path to take. To not is what I call "crazy making".

  I'm still a bit crazy, I tried to ignore it for too long I suppose .