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  ~ Your feelings on aging ~

  by FlyingHighNow in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, we aren't going to stay young and never die.

  how do you feel about aging, especially those of you that are over 35?

  aging poses some concerns for me, especially since i am 49 and pretty much single.

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  Nightmares?

  by KKLUV155 in

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  2. friends

  while growing up i used to have the most horrible nightmares.

  i dreamed of demons almost every night that i can remember.

  when i grew up and got married and left the borg, i no longer had nightmares.

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  Anyone else ever do this

  by superman in

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  2. friends

  i remember how much emphasis the org used to put on studying your publications, and how looking at other peoples books during the meeting was like seeing a lazar show with bright, hot, multicolored, florescent highlighted pages.

  but i never personally enjoyed studying (even when i was more hardcore in it) so since i used to have privileges/responsibilities one of the requirements was to study for all the meetings, so before the meetings i would take a hot yellow and florescent blue marker and quickly just start marking up my books so that it looked like it was studied.

  sometimes to look even more spiritual i would take a pen and start writing random crap in the margins, even scribble lines so from far away it looked likes cursive.

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  HOW do they SURVIVE ?

  by Hope4Others in

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  2. humour

  how do they survive?

  i asked for a half dozen nuggets.

  "so i can't order a half dozen nuggets, but i can order six?

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  After I bought gas today . . .

  by AuldSoul in

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  belts will be worn tighter, this year..

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  http://my.funtrivia.com/tournament/JWD-Trivia-Quiz-75350.html

  by snowbird in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  come, you sharp people of jwd,.

  play a little game along with me.. you will learn, burn, swear, and sweat,.

  yet it's something you won't regret!.

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  is it true that jws teach it is ok to lie and conceal from a new study?

  by looloo in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i remember after i had been inviting in a couple of ladys to chat a few times (but i was not a study at this point) i asked outright if me and my kids would be destroyed at armageddon , and one of them replied "yes you will if you are not a jw " i was terrified , i rang my dad and he said to tell them to piss off nxt time they come because they are a cult , how i wish i had listened , but i started a study , and i remeber an elder telling me that the other lady that used to call on me cringed when her friend said to me outright that yes you will be destroyed, and had wished she had put it differently (lied perhaps ) this elder told me that when you study you may not like everthing you learn but its like being given a meal , just because you dont like something on your plate dosnt mean you cant eat the rest of the meal !!!!!

  is it in their literature to lie to studys ?

  i know that a lot of jws have said they havnt heard about the michael porter and local child molester scandal when people have mentioned it on the ministery, there is no way that can be true considering the coverage it got , do you think it is announced at the hall to pretend they know nothing so they dont have to discuss it ?

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  Do U Look Down On People Who Remain As JWs ..1's u think should no better?

  by minimus in

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  do you find yourself looking down on people who you think should know better but still hang on to the religion?

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  Sweetface's father has a message for everyone here!

  by sweetface2233 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  after being raised as a jw, my dad was df'd for the 2nd time in 1994. that year he lost a wife, 3 children, mother and brother, as well as every friend he had made throughout his 40 years of life.

  over the years my sister and i gradually started contacting him, but never had a real father/daughter relationship.

  a few years ago, during my divorce, he and i sat down and started discussing his feelings.

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  YOUR DAILY JOURNAL

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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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