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  Now THAT'S being Faithful to your Marriage! --- Check it out.

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  Could an EX-JW Dating Site work?

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  hey!

  since the "in" and "active" jw's have their dating websites, what about us?

  at the moment, i see myself, at a future date, feeling most comfortable with someone with a similar background, someone who understood the issues left over from the experience of being a jw.

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  ok....i'm wasting my 2nd topic of day.....let's see what we can do with this one?.

  bourne.

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  "A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY"

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  since coming to the realization that the jw religion does not hold all the answers, let alone most, the above statement describes me to a "t".

  i'm separated from my wife, an almost certain divorce is on the horizon, and because of now being "inactive", with the exception of my family, i have seemingly lost what friends i had.. i can't bring myself to fully embrace "worldly" thinking about many things, yet, as long as i am not an "active" member of the collective, i have no chance of making friends.

  in an earlier post, someone asked me the pointed question, "what do you want?

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  Nov. K.M. Songs?.......Please?.....Anyone?

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  Question: Who verifies the Annual Partakers Report?

  by Bourne in

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  this thought just occured to me.

  since within the jw community, it is so fragmented so as to keep any one person from having the complete operating picture, what keeps the partakers number around the 8000 mark?

  could they not just as easily continue to reduce the number in a moderate way so as to keep the pressure on?

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  If you STILL believe in GOD, what do you believe is the RIGHT way?

  by Bourne in

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  i should preface this by saying that this is generally directed towards the premise of still believing in the christian god, the bible as the inspired word of god, and the desire to worship him in spite of the disillusionment of the jw "take" on "true" christianity.. i am left with many unanswered questions, but don't get me wrong, i don't have "having all answers" listed as a prerequisite to worship god, because even the bible doesnt list all answers, ......faith is expected in at least some areas.

  so........that said....... please grace little ol' me with your sincere answers to the following questions:.

  1. is this the last days?.

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  Does anyone here snow ski? Where do you go and are you going this year?

  by Bourne in

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  i should add that i realize that this is more of a northern hemisphere question.

  no offens(c)e to our southern hemisphere friends.. bourne.

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  Bourne is Back!..........Who..?

  by Bourne in

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  i am a tip-toeing lurker who finally got the nerve to join & post here about 3 months ago.

  to review: i'm in a "scripturally" ( at least by jw standards, anyways) separation, hence the apprehension about posting or revealing too much.

  but, i'm realizing that i'm being a bit too paranoid.

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  Underground Lurker....Coming up for air.....

  by Bourne in

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  i have been a lurker for the last year...finally got the courage to post.

  i guess you could say that i have successfully completed a "fade", although that was not my initial intent.

  due to my being in an "unscriptural" separation for a number of months, (that, combined with my paranoia, hence, the alias) i have been forced to go underground.

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