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  Is regularly texting/phoning someone (not your partner) cheating?

  by sacdfan in

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  hello - can i ask you all for your opinions?.

  if your partner (husband/wife, gf/bf etc) was phoning and texting someone approx 20 times per day,would you find it unacceptable?

  for example, if your wife was texting/phoning another brother (also married) 20 to 30 times a day, would you get suspicious?

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  VoidEater

  My sister confronted her husband and he swears it is all to do with the ministry, calls, Bible studies etc. He says she is being ridiculous and it is entirely innocent.

  Completely got trapped in a stupid side argument - aka, red herring.

  It's not important what the texts are about. What's important is that the frequency of calls is upsetting to the wife.

  She needs to pur her big girl pants on and start a real conversation - about what is and is not OK in their relationship. And not get bogged down in trivialities (e.g., what the calls are about).

  Any caring, Christian husband would be concerned that his wife is unhappy, that he is the cause of anxiety for her.

  A guy in that situation may feel suffocated over "jealousy" - in which case he perhaps shouldn't be married.

  In any case, he's putting her down and trying to trump her concerns with his doing God's Will. That needs to be addressed.

  She'll either put up with it, or put her foot down. He'll either insist on it, or become more caring of her needs.

  Let us know what happens...
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  Reasonings on Armaggedon scenario

  by bulgogiboy in

  1. watchtower
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  something that always bothered me about jw doctrine, perhaps the thing that bothered me the most about it actually, was the notion that people who die before armaggedon are, for the most part, entitled to a resurrection, regardless of their religious inclinations or crimes, while the vast majority of those same people, if they happened just by chance to be living at the time of the end, would be destroyed eternally.. i mean some jws were actually debating over whether infamous deceased mass-murderers and genocidal maniacs(hitler, stalin,pol pot,etc) would have any chance of resurrection, whilst at the same time almost casually accepting that basically most non-jws alive at armaggedon were to be for the chop!

  so i was given the distinct impression of the armaggedon scenario that while the bodies of average, decent, everyday people littered the streets, seriously nasty and despicable individuals who had formerly committed henious crimes would be being brought back to at least 1000 yrs of extra life, if not eternal life.

  it didnt seem just.

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  VoidEater

  The kindest thing is to never preach. If you've not heard the Word, you get a free pass to Resurrection City.

  Of course, it's much saner to just drop the whole End Of The World thing.
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  How old was God when he made the earth?

  by Paralipomenon in

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  in all, i enjoy numbers and math.

  as such i can see problems from a mathmatical basis where they exist.. this thought came to me last night.. 1 in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth.. 2 now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of god was hovering over the waters.. 3 and god said, "let there be light," and there was light.

  4 god saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

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  Personally, I go for "no time", "outside of time", etc. As opposed to "inifinite time".

  BTS and I can't be the only ones to have watched Dr. Who?
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  Crux Have you found your Mummy yet?

  by mouthy in

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  just wondering!!!!

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  Grace beat me to it...I loved the "always do what I'm told" part!

  Welcome, Crux!
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  How old was God when he made the earth?

  by Paralipomenon in

  1. jw
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  in all, i enjoy numbers and math.

  as such i can see problems from a mathmatical basis where they exist.. this thought came to me last night.. 1 in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth.. 2 now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of god was hovering over the waters.. 3 and god said, "let there be light," and there was light.

  4 god saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

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  VoidEater

  Or maybe 14 billiion years old, the age of the universe.

  Before the Big Bang, there was perhaps no time dimension, so nothing moved through time until afterwards (God didn't age before then, there was no time).

  Or, you might say the current Christian God was born about 2,009 years ago or so.
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  when something bad happens in your life

  by rockmehardplace in

  1. jw
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  when something bad happened in your life or someone that you knew, did anyone ever say it was because you/that person must be doing something wrong and that jehovah stopped blessing you/that person?.

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  It's easy to thank God for all that is good and blame Satan for all that is bad.

  It's easy to think you're blessed by God when you think you're doing His will, and be cursed by God when you think you've failed.

  Remember Job. He was a favorite of God's, but He let Satan screw up his life pretty good. Was that because Job stopped going to meetings?

  I had one of the most hellish childhoods imaginable, while being raised in the truth, victimized by an elder. Was that because I stopped going to meetings?

  No. God causes rain to fall on the good and the wicked alike.

  I would stop using my time trying to figure out the will of invisible spirit creatures. That takes too much time away from focusing on how to get my life in shape.
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  would you date this guy???

  by highdose in

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  about 2 weeks ago i met a guy online, we chatted on the phone one evening and had a good conversation and aranged to go on a date this friday coming.. since then i have heard almost nothing at all from him!

  i think about 2 texts and thats it!

  in one of the texts he hints that he would like to see a picture of me "wearing alot less".

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  VoidEater

  Depends on what you want from a date.

  Sounds like you can learn more on Friday. If he doesn't show, you can cross him off your list.
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  Is regularly texting/phoning someone (not your partner) cheating?

  by sacdfan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hello - can i ask you all for your opinions?.

  if your partner (husband/wife, gf/bf etc) was phoning and texting someone approx 20 times per day,would you find it unacceptable?

  for example, if your wife was texting/phoning another brother (also married) 20 to 30 times a day, would you get suspicious?

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  VoidEater

  On the other hand, I don't think everyone wants to be closeted in a straight-jacket 24/7 to avoid "too much" contact.

  Nothing like this is ever cut-and-dried. There is no absolute reference where friendship ends and cheating begins.

  The *only* yardstick is what two people agree to. Everything else is you projecting your personal opinions on another.

  Personally, I don't think anyone can carry on a 20 text exchange on FS. So my question is what really is the content of the texts. But that' doesn't make it cheating per se.

  Sorry about that - but negotiating boundaries is what grown-ups do.
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  Is Aspartame bad for you?????

  by asilentone in

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  take a look at www.aspartame.org they said it is not bad for you.

  i am confused.

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  VoidEater

  Hansen's Natural Can Soda - http://www.hansens.com/products/products.php?subcat=1&color=soda - not to advertise them specifically, but there is a non-corn syrup product out there.

  Also, for a limited time: Pepsi Throwback, made with cane sugar - http://www.pepsithrowbackhub.com/.
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  CONGRATULATE ME.....

  by troubled mind in

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  i sent my son a link to the thread about facebook sex because i thought it was so funny ..... today he sent me an email and told me he has joined the forum !!

  i haven't told him my name on here yet, i want him to see if he can figure it out first .. .

  someone else should start a thread for me and ask : " crux have you found your mommy yet ?

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  VoidEater

  Congratulations!