Never be friends with a worldly man (single or married). All they are after is SEX.....
Hmm...(I guess most of them are gay)
Magwitch
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Name Some Stupid Watchtower Rules or Ideas
by minimus inthere's a lot.. one rule that is dumb is that a brother must wear a suit for a sunday public talk that he is giving.
any other time, the brother could wear a suit coat with a different pair of pants and not be counseled for it.. another dumb idea is that you cannot date a person unless you seriously might marry them.
if you're on a date, you were supposed to always have a chaperone and holding hands might not be allowed as well as sitting together.. what other dumb rules and ideas can you add?.
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wife took it pretty well i guess...it's over...
by oompa ini guess it only took three years, but they were hell in so many ways for both of us...she was not happy and lived in denial as much as possible...i was not happy and lived in a bottle as much as possible and glad that is over for me....but it was one of the saddest things i have ever experienced in my life....as was the visit to my parents before i told her....but yes...she said she kind of expected it...was thinking something was going to happen soon as she noticed i had more and more trouble saying i love you back to her when she said it on the phone at the end of goodbyes...and when i was leaving the house...i had noticed it for over a year and it was killing me..... i told her how sorry i was for changing so much again....and that she still walks on water...and is a great person and so pretty....and that she will be ok because she was happy single before me for many years and had all she needs for that again...her closeness to jehovah and her freinds in the congregation...she is very close to both and will be ok i hope...it was very surreal....very calm...very sad.
my bitterness and disdain for wt rules came through when talking to my parents and i was very open about how i feel as to their upcoming shunning of me, and how it feels to my son since he was just 17....and how the fear of losing them had kept me trying in my marriage for the past few years...dad was firm in his position of future action....mom said they will still always love me...and will still talk to me until i get dfd.....oh how this hurts.....dad said there is a name for people who only live for themselves and deny god but could not think of what it was....i told him i was not living just for myself...that i am a good person and there are values from him and the bible i hope i always have....i cry so hard as i type this and tell you just so you can know how painful this is....i told him i so loved the rule of treating others how you want to be treated and have always done that...even allowing myself to be wronged on so many occasions to keep peace....... he said that was a good rule....i agreed and said it was a big one too....and that while i could do it...treat him the way i would like to be treated...he would not be able to!.......left as i became emotional...big hug from mom, but i just barely put an arm on dad............oompa.
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Magwitch
Oompa - So many of us feel your pain on so many levels. So many of us have gone through many of the things you are going through right now. Reading it makes it raw all over again. I left my husband after 21 years because I just had to get out of the cult. He was a loyal JW and I had turned hard core atheist. I turned to the bottle for two years . Have had my fourth generation parents disown me, take me back and flipflop every few months for the last three years. You are doing the right thing - You will not regret it!!! You will be okay - I promise! Stay around people - do not drink alone - best not to drink at all, but I know how difficult that is at a time like this.
Life will be beautiful again. This picture shows how things can swing in the right direction. Moving my daughter into her ivy league dorm room this past August.
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New Light on Prayer in NOV 15 WT Study Edition
by lepermessiah ini finally saw that november 15th wt article on prayer that everyone has been talking about - the people in the photos look as stiff as corpses!.
people will be called in the back room for inadvertantly making contact with their spouse during prayer.. i think i will adopt the following stance during prayer now:.
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Magwitch
I always held on to my husband during the prayer so I would not fall over.
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Witnesses Who Were Hypocrites!
by minimus insome jws truly believe and live their faith.
but many witnesses lived double lives or spoke one way in front of the congregation but privately, they were just the opposite.. i knew an elder and his wife who owned a liquor/convenience store.
they sold tobacco and lottery tickets but claimed that the real owner of the business was the wife's "worldly" father, which was hogwash.. were there any real hypocrites that you knew about?.
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Magwitch
My ex husband was an elder for our entire 20 years of marriage. He would get drunk all the time. So drunk that he would spend 6-8 hours on the bathroom floor vomitting and then another 24 hours in bed, but then he was ready to do it all over again. He smoked marijuana on occasion, was addicted to porn on the internet. He did not see any reason to work since Jehovah will provide (funny how Jehovah stopped providing when his wealthy father died and left everything to his young trophy wife.) Everyone at the hall just loved how zealous and spiritual he was. They felt sorry for him that he had such a weak wife (me). He was so spiritual in fact that he did not allow me to see my JW parents since they did things like save seats at the conventions. He would not let me have anything to do with my sister after she quietly stopped going to meetings. The hypocrisy was endless...I could write a book about just him. He recently remarried a zealous young pioneer sister and they plan to serve where the need is great. I am sure the need will be much greater once they arrive.
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Things that Annoy Me in Grocery Stores - How About You ?
by flipper ini do a lot of the grocery shopping for my wife and myself as we live out in the mountains and i stop on the way home from working early morning hours.
there are some things that just drive me bat-$hit crazy sometimes .
i'll name a few- you carry it from there !
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Magwitch
I used to not be able to handle it when people would be taking their time strolling along the aisles. When I would see someone standing still reading a label I would want to scream or cry! I was running from pillar to post 19 hours a day; I was always between meetings, service, homeschooling kids (yes, it is true - 10 years worth), running kids to lessons, bringing food to someone at the hall, giving someone from the hall a ride to the dr, taking care of some sister's kids, preparing a talk, studying for the meetings and of course serving a needy husband that needed constant attention. OMG going to the grocery store was a reminder that everyone had more time than me.
3 years post Borg...going to the grocery story reading labels is actually quite fun...hardly anything bothers me anymore! I have time to enjoy life for the first time.
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When is it time to say goodbye?
by PEC inour cat carmel has been sick for over a month.
she started puking every morning and about a week later, on barbara's birthday, she puked five time before 8:00 am.
we canceled our plans and took her to the vet, he ran a bunch of tests and sold us some medicine for the puking.
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Magwitch
This is the first time I have cried on this forum! Our pets are so precious - I AM SO SORRY!
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Going Gray...would you dare?
by restrangled ini have been a blond my entire life, and am really sick of trying to maintain these locks in the champagne color family.
my roots are now a shimmering silver and i wonder should i get it done that way.. girls what would you do?....guys can post too by the way!.
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Magwitch
Don't you dare go grey! You have always been such a gorgeous blond. We are still YOUNG!
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Very interesting article in today's paper
by Magwitch inhttp://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/se/20090528/news/905280329.
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In the News: Jehovah's Witnesses: 'End is near'
by Elsewhere inhttp://www.wptv.com/news/local/story/jehovahs-witnesses-prepare-believers-for-the-end/ho63h5z-q0akzmfqhmrwvw.cspx.
jehovah's witnesses: 'end is near'reported by: eric glasser .
email: [email protected] .
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Magwitch
My mother was absolutely never going to see 1st grade. She is almost 80. She still beleives it is only months away.
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AGAIN with the college bashing
by Pistoff inok so the mate took good notes at the ca and here is the newest on "higher education:.
the usual bashing of motives: those who want great wealth, prestige and seek it in a college educationcollege graduates don't always get jobs in their fieldsdrugs, drinking and sex are "rampant" at collegesthose who want to "snatch us away" are near if we go to college (isa 54)if we seek a college education, we are not spiritual mindedthe most disturbing for me was this:.
those who choose college will not get blessings from jehovahand of course there was the obligatory interview with the college graduate who disdains the education whe received.. .
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Magwitch
graduating magna cum laude next month,
Wow! Congratulations!!!!