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  Soooo it's my turn to screw someone's life up...

  by Mastodon in

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  as it seems i'm going to be a daddy for the first time!.

  go sperms!!

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  Congratulations, it's the best gift you will ever receive. Enjoy!
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  Young JW males dating non-JWs scenario

  by Gayle in

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  i know this happens among the jw girls too.

  i had seen this many years ago as a jw but a couple recent circumstances i have been informed of this happening now as well.. young jw males dating non-jw girls.

  some still active, some fading (not because of questioning jw doctrines), perhaps just wanting a bit of the wild side.

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  In my last cong there were two women with children that were both left by the same guy. He brought them in the "truth" them promptly left himself.
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  Afraid to NOT shun???

  by cognac in

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  i've often thought about this.

  what if some know the borg is full of crap but stay in for family.

  then, they run into a d'fed person and they want to embrase them but are afraid to do anything else but shun them because they are afraid the d'fed person will run to the elders and rat them out.... what are your thoughts on this?.

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  Yes, I have an aunt that has been DF'ed for about 30 yrs. She is older now and lives near, I would love to reconnect (I have always spoken to her at funerals and such). There is a problem though, she still comes to the memorial and goes on to witness family that she knows she needs to come back, it's the best way of life blah blah. She never tries to come back long enough to get reinstated and seems perfectly happy. However, if I spoke to her honestly I think she would go off running to my witness family about my crazy apostate thoughts. So right now, I leave well enough alone. You really do feel as if you are in no man's land sometimes.
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  How Would You/Do You Help JWs Think About Possibly Getting Out?

  by minimus in

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  if you sensed that a jw might be unhappy, how might you get think thinking??

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  One of my few JW friends that still talks to me is expressing mega doubt. She is a born-in witness and husband is a servant. The only way I can help her right now is to listen because if she said these things to anyone else they would have her thrown out. She sees the hypocrisy and lack of love within the congregation (so does her husband by the way). She does not say much about doctrinal things because she is like most lifers and just goes along with what ever they spew from the platform, although we have had a few good discussions about Noah (thanks to all the gems I have gotten from you guys) and Job. I have not offered her CoC yet or discussed dates, I don't want to scare her. She sees the "dark side"through me and realizes it is possible and she would actually have a better life. She is college educated and I encourage her to sit through a talk or a WT study, take notes and use her critical thinking skills. Someday I hope to show her Blondie's version, that'll set her straight!
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  The Biggest B.S. stories you've heard from a talk

  by superman in

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  a few years ago at a convention, they related a story of a jw who was shot during service.

  but rather then stop and get medical attention (like a normal person would have done) they moved on to the next door to finish the street.

  when they got to the house the householder just so happened to be a (you guessed it) nurse!

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  One of the last meetings we ever attended, the public talk was given by a local brother relating statistics to prove how bad conditions are today. He was giving absolutely astronomical figures on starvation (16 bazillion kids die of hunger everyday, 4 million die of cancer every day, a trillion people die in wars every year), I am exaggerating a bit. However my husband did the math on a calculator and the whole world would have been wiped out many times over. Where the heck did he get these figures, and they are just all sitting there lapping it up. I was one of my many aha moments.
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  For those that were/are SINGLE in the ORGANIZATION, did anyone encourage you to marry a WEIRD JW?

  by BonaFide in

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  bizzybee's comment about the elders encouraging her at 19 to marry the 40+ yr old widow with 4 kids made me remember similar stuff.. the elders encouraged me as a young brother to stay single.

  some of the younger sisters seemed to like me, but the friends in the congregations i visited always wanted me to marry the weird ones.

  they called them "spiritual.

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  When I was about 17, I get this call from a 40 year old guy with kids, so I said let me get my mom for you. He said "no I wanted to ask you out". How sick is that? That was not the only weirdo interested. Then I had a relationship that was broke up by all the hen pecking old bitties at the cong that told him if he was going to get married he should marry someone that is more worthy. Worthy is apparently poor, ugly, older with lots of kids. Well, he found someone "worthy" alright. Many of these weird mismatches don't last very long. I am so happy that my kids will have more to choose from that the fresh crop of 16 year olds or a thrice divorced cat lady.
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  End of CO's and DO's? Pioneer Change Hours? Apostacy in Bethel/ Chicago? Thoughts on no more Bookstudy...

  by cognac in

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  end of co's and do's?.

  honestly, if they get rid of them i think the whole borg will crumble.

  nobody's cares about elders the way they do co's and do's.

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  I agree, if there were no CO anymore it would be devastating to the organization. I hear so many people say "wait until the circuit overseer gets here!" or "you should call the circuit overseer about that" or "this new circuit overseer isn't going to put up with this or that". If they make a local brother that just comes and gives a few talks/ encouragement, there is going to be a whole new brand of royalty power trips. As far as book study change, I don't think many JW's are using it to study. Funny I used to tell family and friends that there are just too many meetings and looked at me like I was the devil incarnate . I guess I was a visionary. My family tries to tell me "oh it's so much easier now with less meetings", so I don't think there is a lot of studying going on. I do think it's giving folks more time and I know of a couple of divorces that I was absolutely shocked by.
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  Young People Ask - Ans/Work - Now that you're older...

  by Confucious in

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  i think i was 22 when that book came out.. and i remember the being at the convention remembering how much i appreciated it.. and even at that age - feeling like that book was for me.. but how do you feel about it today?.

  i don't have a copy of it anymore, but i do remember it being one of the better books.. thoughts?.

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  I am more from the Youth Book era ( the red one). I remember the chapter for boys and then the chapter for girls. The one for girls helped me to be a firm wall, instead of a door that opens and closes willy nilly with the wind. Wow that thing really messed with our heads.
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  Talk by insane speaker ... try to listen ...

  by Albert Einstein in

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  if you are ready for everything... try to listen the talk by ciro aulicino you will be with me in paradise.. the fact, that jw are willing to listen such crap is a proof, they are all insane.

  (i wanted to say "idoits", but decided to be polite...).

  if you have good guts, sit down and go for it.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwa9kx5wjtm.

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  OMG, how did we used to sit through this stuff. Yes, "the Earth was once one land mass", look in the Awake. "The days will all be renamed", who is he quoting? Like it's the gospel. I don't get it. Oh oh we didn't have any business talking about generation, what are you talking so authoritatively about now then? Wow this got me all worked up.
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  Do you have Phantom Vibration Syndrome (PVS)?

  by Elsewhere in

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  hi, my name is elsewhere and i have phantom vibration syndrome.. .

  http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-06-12-cellphones_n.htm?csp=34.

  good vibrations?

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  Ok, I thought I was crazy, but I get this. I started happening when we got the kids cell phones, I keep mine on me at all times and feel I am very in tune to their potential need of me. However, I really didn't make the correlation until I read this article. I fessed up to this odd sensation to my husband and he concurred that I must be crazy. I can't wait to show him this. I have PVS, so relieved!