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  Do all men cheat?

  by Save My Soul in

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  a friend (someone i respected a great deal / mentor) at my job has shared some information with me.

  he cheats on his wife.

  wow!!.

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  MikeA

  20+ years married...... NOPE!
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  Pumpkins in the Kingdom Hall yard....now Christmas lights...you can too

  by oompa in

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  2. friends

  i have been a pretty serious practical joker my whole life....some say i am stuck in adolescence (i hope she is 17).

  but anyway, right before halloween i took a couple of pumpkins too close to the road at a farmers place and put them in the kingdom hall front yard....i know i should have paid for them but no one was there.

  it was sunday night, and was hoping maybe no one would notice till thursday meeting, but they were gone on wednesday.

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  MikeA

  Everyone...... take a chill pill. This is funny. It is obvious that most of us, if not all of us, would not actually do anything illegal or even "nasty." It is the thought that is hilarious. Lighten up, ok?
  
  I am aware that it takes awhile to get your humor back after departing a cult. To those who are recent departures, it will happen...... start by taking yourself a little less seriously. If something is funny, whether it "seems" mean or not, it is funny to you. Laugh at it! This doesn't mean you or anyone else is actually going to act on the thing that you laughed at.
  
  For those of us who have successfully retrieved our "funny bones," we should probably make it more than obvious that we are JOKING(!!!!), so that the more recent departees aren't confused. I am not being pedantic....... really. Humor is the first thing these cults rob you of and it is probably the last thing to return....... except maybe one's humanity as a whole, which humor is certainly a part of.
  
  Relax, enjoy and please LAUGH! Some of us have a drier sense of humor than others...... me for sure.... If it "sounds" like a joke, assume that it is a joke...... I am not a meaney and I doubt that anyone else here is, either. Assume "joke" until proven otherwise. I think that would be a safe assumption.
  
  
  Noni..... that was FUNNY and the reason it was funny to me was due to the simple fact that I never thought of that before AND it was "unexpected" with a tinge of incongruity. That is what humor is, as you likely know well. :)
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  Greetings from a recovering mormon

  by FormerMormon in

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  greetings from the other side of the street,.

  i just loved having you guys proselytizing on the other side of the street when we were tracting.

  i am a recovering mormon with a believing spouse / family.

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  MikeA

  Greetings and welcome! I am a newbie here, too.
  
  I have a significant mormon contingent in my family, as well. Don't ask me how it happened, but my grandfather and everyone up his side of the family was/is mormon and my grandmother (and all her side of the family) was/is JW........ They met, got married and that was that. I guess cults meet cults at times and find some serious common ground. I know they loved each other very, very much to their dying days. He was fairly high up the food chain in the mormon world, from my understanding. My grandmother had seen (and remembered) so many changes in the JW world that she never got very crazy about anything the society put out until it stood the test of serious time...... which counts out almost ANY of the serious stuff as we see it.
  
  Anyway, one thing I can tell you is a huge difference, if my family is any indication. Where the JW's will flush family members down the toilet at the drop of a hat when that member is seen as an apostate, I cannot say the same for the mormon in my family. One person in my family, in particular, would have been tossed aside rapidly by the JW (if she had been JW), but is still loved and wanted on the mormon side, despite her avowed disassociation from that group. Nobody, but nobody in her family has tossed her aside. She does, however, get really angry about what happened (and continues to happen) to me. In fact, all the mormon in my family are really upset with how I have been treated by the JW side. Religion notwithstanding, all of the members of my "mormon" family say time and again..... FAMILY IS EVERYTHING!
  
  Now maybe mine is a fluke, but I don't see any indication of that to tell you the truth.
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  Be honest, Do you really Enjoy Christmas?

  by BluesBrother in

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  2. friends

  dansk's christmas tree thread got me to thinking .. in this house we do not celebrate since my wife is still a die hard dub.

  i have no complaints about that, it was our joint choice for decades and i an the one that changed .but as witnesses we were always given the negative view of the holiday time :-.

  "people feel that they just have to do it although they do not really want to".

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  Yes, very much so. The first one I really celebrated was well after being an apostate. It was with my then-girlfriend (now my wife) and her delightful family. Had a ball and learned what it was really all about. Family togetherness........and of course lots of food and drink for good measure. Love the lights, love the songs, love the movies, hate the shopping (but love the ones I am shopping for, so it makes it all worth the trouble).
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  Red Lion Cong. burns to the ground; nothing left!

  by WingCommander in

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  2. friends

  this was on our local news tonight: http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_7556263.

  blaze burns windsor twp.

  churchdaily record/sunday newsarticle last updated: 11/25/2007 04:33:59 pm est 4:33 pmnov 25, 2007 a fire destroyed a jehovah's witnesses church near red lion sunday morning.

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  MikeA

  zack,
  The society is insured by the not-so-deep pockets of the congregation members. The society won't lose a dime, just watch! A "special" heart-rending request will go out...... and if that doesn't work, the strong arm tactics will be used.
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  Suggested "SAFE" Reading for Current Jehovah's Witnesses by Stan Milosevic

  by Magick in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't know about you, but i grew up as a jehovah's witness during a time when there seemed to be no access to additional reading.

  my family, devote jehovah's witnesses, discouraged reading anything but the society's publications.

  except for the thousands of paperback romance novels my mother has read daily for over 50 years.

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  erywn, thanks for making my day! THAT was funny and, I am afraid there is more than a nugget of truth to what you just said :)
  
  Although, cereal boxes often have "heroes" pix on them, so that may not be so ok....... after all, that is idolatry, right? LOL
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  Disfellowshipped without knowing

  by faundy in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  is this allowed?

  i am being ignored by my neighbours and have been gingerly waved to by an elder.

  now i haven't heard anything from anyone but is it possible to be disfellowshipped without my knowing?

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  MikeA

  I wondered the same thing and the answer is definitely, "YES!" I was done in absentia, without the slightest howdy-do on anyone's "official" part. But hey...... so what?
  
  Unlike the recommendation to "leave it alone" I would say go ahead and ask. Do you really care if you find out you weren't and the act of questioning raises a flag in their silly heads? On the other hand, if you haven't divested yourself of their company, then I can understand the desire to "be quiet about it."
  
  Personally, I would want to know so that I could then find out of there is any libel or slander associated with it and any possible legal action you could take in response. But that is me...... I have been disfellowshipped for a very long time. I really don't care what they think or say, unless it were to alter the conditions of my employment, at which time I would have them for breakfast!
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  Need scan from original Photo Drama of Creation book

  by cabasilas in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  i'm working on a project to do a scan of the original photo drama of creation book (1914) and realized i'm missing one page from the book i have.

  i've received a text scan of that page, but i'd prefer an original scan to match the pdf i'm working on.

  is there someone out there with an original book and a scanner willing to share that page with me?

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  So, let me get this straight...... god created the heavens and the earth and it was dark. Which, by default means there is no sun and therefore nothing for the earth to orbit. Hmmmm. The problem with THAT scenario is that without a sun, the water would certainly NOT be fluid. Space without a sun is REALLY cold, I tell ya! AM I the only one having a problem with young-earth creationism?
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  SHOULD JWS DRINK CAPPUCHINO?

  by badboy in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it is named after an order of monks.. therefore should a jw drink cappuchino in view of its connection with a part of babylon the great?.

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  So they stop bothering me every other weekend, trying to re-convert me. ugghhhhh! It never ends......
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  Special Needs talk at our Hall tonite...

  by CaptainSchmideo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  talk was about appreciating jehovah's provisions, something like that.... the po gave the talk.

  apparently, after the last co visit, our congo got a letter from headquarters, informing us that our numbers are wayyyy down.

  several inactive publishers, several more irregular, poor meeting attendance, and our hourly average is less than the national average (8.3 compared to 9.9).

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  MikeA

  buffalosrfree, you said it!
  
  "....in your seat ready to stand and moan...."
  
  I remember a time when one of the things that the JW's / WT talked about regularly was all of the "meaningless" rites and rituals of the catholic church and how the congregation just "went thru the motions."
  
  The funny thing is that I have attended several catholic services, because my daughter is catholic by her own choice and will, and found them to be anything but "empty" rites and rituals. Those people really are "into it" and they feel it brings them closer to their god. Sheesh, what more could one ask?
  
  But then, you never heard a word about the JW rites and rituals, because they don't think they have any...... what a joke. Every part of the service is "static"....... I think, if I am not mistaken, that is the very meaning of "ritual," no?