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  Viewing full site on an iPhone

  by Robert7 in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  is there a way to view the full (non-iphone optimized) site on an iphone?

  i have tried both safari and chrome and both use the iphone optimized site, with no obvious way to fall back to the full site.. .

  ok, here's part 2 of the question, and one reason i would like to view the full site.

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  Stop fighting about Oompa.

  by Robert7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i am writing this because i am so upset about the bickering and fighting that is going on about oompa.

  this was an amazing wonderful, peaceful, giving man who never met a strager who is now deceased and you are taking his name and running all over the place with it using it for your own agendas.

  he is not a statistic.

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  I would love for you to know my Oompa.... (from one of his closest friends)

  by Robert7 in

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  2. friends

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  My observation, the "threefold cord" actually weakens a marriage

  by Robert7 in

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  2. friends

  so my wife and i survived leaving the jw faith together over the course of the last 4 years.

  it was a wild ride for our relationship, but thankfully we are stronger than ever.

  so looking back, here is my observation about the "threefold cord", at least the jw version of it.. i believe the idea of the threefold cord actually weakens a marriage, keeping it less mature.

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  How much are the financial crises played up at meetings nowadays?

  by Robert7 in

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  2. friends

  i haven't been to a meeting in years... and with the us and european financial crises in play, i would imagine the jws would be all over this as the sign that "we're so close to the end"... that this system is ready to collapse.. for those of you going to meetings, is there much talk abou it... what about amongst people in conversation?

  what are they saying?.

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  Another case of JW shunning - these people have no respect!

  by Robert7 in

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  as a quick background, only my mother and my mil are jw's.

  my wife and i are inactive, but not df'd or da'd.

  my mil (who has been great to us and treats us normally) has recently told me that "jws don't shun".

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  WTS - The most inefficient marketing company in the world!

  by Robert7 in

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  2. bible

  businesses have a known customer acquision cost.

  this is the cost of advertising, subsidies, etc.

  it takes to add one new customer.

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  JW MIL having surgery - Elders there are the "blood nazis"

  by Robert7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so my jw mother-in-law is having some rather major abdominal surgery today.

  given the type of surgery, there is a chance that the blood issue may come up, where in worst case if there's a loss of blood she may need a transfusion.. so in the waiting room for the entire 3 1/2 hour surgery are two elders.

  these guys don't know my mil that well, and they are not there to support her... when it comes down to it:.

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  Birthdays not mentioned in the new elder's handbook

  by Robert7 in

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  2. friends

  i just noticed this today when i was replying to another thread.

  the new elders handbook doesn't even mention the word birthday, even though there's a big detailed chapter on offences requiring a judicial committee.. is it possible that celebrating birthdays is officially, according to the 'law', allowed?

  i can see this being the case, where technically you're allowed to, but you would just get judged like crazy..

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  Oompa update

  by Robert7 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i don't post much, so most of you don't know me.

  i live in nc near oompa, and he has become a good friend with my wife and i over the last few years.. so as an update, my wife visited oompa today!

  he's recovering, but has a long recovery to go.

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