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  I am now 73 and the road has been filled with wonders

  by Terry in

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  i appreciate all my friends who stop to read what i write and post.

  you help me more than you know simply by being there as a sense of 'family of friends' for me to talk to and 'share' thoughts with.i guess if i didn't have stories left to tell or people to listen, i could pack it in and join elon musk in a colony on mars.january 15, 2020. .

  which world is this?_________________when the doctor pulled my screaming body out of mom all those 7 decades ago, i landed in a post-wwii world.it was--compared to today's world--an alien planet.the world i live in today has nothing in common with the world in which i grew up.there were no cell phones back then--there were black telephones with a dial-tone and an operator who placed your call.everywhere you found telephone booths!

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  Terry, you have a few months on me. I was the first of 6 kids because no birth control. Everyone came from a large family.

  I played marbles in the school yard. No Barbie dolls for me, she came around when I was a teenager. We walked to school... when we moved to another town that had busses for those who lived outside city limits I was amazed. How progress changes our lives. I had 4 years of home ec in high school, because I would be a house wife... Well I worked nearly 40 years at the local hospitals.

  When I was little one of my non witness relatives signed me up for a birthday subscription for a free eight ounce bottle of 7-up. I would take that coupon to the local grocery and drink it all by myself, no sharing with the siblings.. I was told that I was selfish, but "they didn't really want my germs did they"? I guess that was my first act of rebellion in the cult,
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  What happened to The Best Of, by Lady Lee?

  by bikerchic in

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  i noticed everything has a 404 message.. have these articles all been archived and is there a way to get to them?.

  tia.

  ~ kate.

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  Still not working.
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  Another Rare Beard Sighting

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  this is from a recent article about malawi, and the caption calls the man "brother welosi mbendera".. .

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  Bar fight with the Mormans!!!!.
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  Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays & a Safe & Prosperous New year to all of you for 2020

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was just looking at some happy holidays / xmas cards some of us sent each other at the close of 2016 of the cards i received only a few of them have your jwn name on them ,the other `s gave me their real names which i cant reveal here.. however this post is for everybody that is on this forum not just to the few i`m referring to.just to clarify .. and i was going to send greetings to you all this year for 2020.. one was from hawaii.

  milwaukee.

  berlin.

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  Old boomer here, I will be in bed when the clock strikes tonight. Happy Twenty Twenty. (Wish my eyesight was that.)
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  How do I recover my password?

  by Lobsto2 in

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  hello, i posted on here a few months back originally as lobsto.

  how can i recover my password if i forgot it?.

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  One thing I thought of you may be able to private message Simon or checking the technical support forum for other recovery options.
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  How do I recover my password?

  by Lobsto2 in

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  2. tech-support

  hello, i posted on here a few months back originally as lobsto.

  how can i recover my password if i forgot it?.

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  No help as such. I do recommend using Lastpass or other password saver. I used to use a small address book to save my passwords, and if you do remember to update it as you change it. If you are in a position where you cant have a notebook, try putting them in a document on your computer that can be protected or put it in a file with a deceptive name. I once used a file named Roster quilters 2016. Others will have better ideas

  I thought of the name witness protection; that made me laugh. But that is way too obvious.
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  Finding a faith that is stronger than death — or my family’s rejection

  by Tahoe in

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  2. friends

  my mother would be surprised that i did not die alone.. and that, in the end, about 25 people had volunteered to take care of me when i couldn’t do that for myself anymore.. it’s one thing, after you find out you’re going to die from metastatic colorectal cancer, to ask people to bring your favorite kind of gatorade.

  it’s quite another to ask them to stand in the place of dna-sharing family and walk through hospice with you, but that’s what i had to do.. at the age of 23, i turned away from the family of jehovah’s witnesses who raised me.they had wanted me to be an uber-witness.

  so my family forbade me to go to college and instead raised me to be a full-time, door-to-door minister who converted people to their way of thinking — i actually succeeded with one in about 15 years of trying — and to pay my bills by working menial jobs.. every meaningful connection in my life was through a local congregation of witnesses, known as the kingdom hall.

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  Thank you for sharing this lovely lady's journey. Her family is missing out on a remarkable gift.
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  Involved(ish) with a JW Man.

  by BNG-713 in

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  2. relationships

  i know there are several posts about witnesses and non-witnesses in regards to relationships.

  i couldn’t find anything specifically that spoke to me, so i would love some third-party advice and thoughts.. i have never been someone to pursue a stranger from the internet.

  earlier this year, i became friends with someone on a video game.

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  I have a friend who's brother never was baptized and lived his life pretty much "worldly" till his 70's and a random Dub witnessed to him, Much of that family were still pretty hardcore. His folks were gone and he was divorced. Well he is back waiting, for the paradise earth and his mom and dad to meet him there.

  Make sure that your internet friend knows the truth about the truth before you make any permanent decisions. Best of luck to you.
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  When should you Disassociate yourself?

  by happytobefree in

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  i have been having discussion with my sister (relative), who is an active witness, about writing a letter of disassociation.

  the reason being is that i have not attended the meetings in over a year and it's been 4 years since i have went out in the jw ministry.. i going to try to sum this topic up.

  my sister think that i should not da myself because i have not done any immoral act in her thinking.

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  Time for another bump to the top.
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  Can someone help me with a question?

  by Angelgirlnr1 in

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  2. scandals

  i am not a jehovahs witness, but i have family members who are.

  and one of them is my cousin.

  we talk now and again, and i love him very much, both him and his wife, and also my aunt and uncle, his parents.

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  They did not say it precisely in their literature but encouraged it in talking about devoted people who had done so and praised them. At the conventions it was encouraged and there were examples given of someone who decided to pioneer or be missionaries and to go where the need was "great".