My worst date ever was with an elder's son. There's a group of islands of the coast of Lake Erie, that are notorious for their bars and nightlife. Well a group of dubs went up there for the entire day. I had to work early in the day, so I met my date when I got off work. By the time I got to the island (a 45 minute drive) he was already pissy drunk and embarrassing, and his breath was kicking like Van DAMME!
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Post your worst date story!
by hungry4life inwith all the nice guy/bad boy and do looks matter posts doing so well i thought it might be fun to do a worst date ever post.. so here goes mine: about 3 years ago my married friend had a neighbor she was good friends with he was a young widower with 2 kids and she thought we might like to get to know each other.
so we agreed to meet for dinner at his apt (he lived 2 apts down from my friend so it did not seem awkward or unsafe).
he cooked spaghetti and afterwards pulled out the old photo albums.
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Judge rejects girl's request to stop transfusion
by Lady Lee innews story .
judge rejects alta girl's request to stop transfusions due to religion.
carol harrington .
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IW,
I think the real question here is did the young woman in Canada truly make her own decision? Or was it coerced using fear tactics? If she had all the facts about what she believes, would she make the same choice? If she knew that God wasn't behind her belief, would she choose to die? Her rights are being trampled by the JWs.
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Whats the dumbest thing you were counselled for?
by Beck_Melbourne ini was once counselled by the elders for watching 'knots landing'....it became widely known in the congregation that me and a few other sisters would rush home from field service to watch our favourite soapie.
if we missed it, we would ring each other up for an update...or...if we weren't near a tv we would ask someone to put the phone handset on the top of their tv so we could hear it...pathetic huh...but that was all the excitement we could scrounge up in our otherwise dull and uneventful lives.
one of the elder's wive's conscience got the better of her...and she confessed to her husband..lol.
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Knot's Landing comes on the Soap network on my cable system, but I'm pretty sure that's only in the USA.
I was counseled for getting a job while I was in high school. All of the teenagers in my cong were either pioneers (we had the youngest pioneer in the circuit) or training to be pioneers. Well, my mom was on welfare and my deadbeat dad wasn't paying child support. So... as soon as I hit 16 I went and got a cashier's job at the local grocery store. I was being called materialistic! That was a laugh. I used my money to buy lunch and other necessities.
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What I missed being a JW
by NikL ini got to thinking the other day about things that i missed out on being a jw growing up.
not going to collage comes to mind as does dating more extensively.. the thing i look back on with the most regret though, is my lack of deep friendships.
going to high school i had worldly friends of course, but i never let myself get too close to them.
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I remember crying for days when my worldly best friend had a sleepover and of course my mother wouldn't let me go. I didn't have a date until I was 19 years old. I missed prom, college and all of the above. Those things are not trivial! I'm an adult now, with my own family and a college degree (associates, still working on the bachelor), and it still hurts. My ten year high school reunion is this year, and I have recently started to cultivate relationships with some of the people that I graduated with. I went to school with some really amazing people, and I never knew.
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JW 11 Greatest FEARS
by JT innote: the following phobias may be hazardous to your health!.
in fact many would say that these are a jw greatest fear either one of them or a combination of all of them.
just something for your files.
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True,true, true.
I think their number one fear is the fear of apostates. Very powerful post JT.
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Remaining in Association with Jehovah's W...
by Marvin Shilmer inremaining in association with jehovahs witnesses .
an active baptized member of jehovahs witnesses finds significant errors taught in the central publication of the religion, the watchtower journal.
the error is taught with frequency in private and public settings arranged by the religion.
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The last meeting I attended the elder that said the prayer made the statement 'Help us to guard against independent thinking'. I don't feel as a person that still believes in God and still wants to serve him, that I had any other option but to leave. Now I chose to fade away because my entire family are JWs. I don't think that option one is ever necessary unless its initiated by the cong. The only way to help our loved ones and friends still in the borg is to maintain a dialogue, but how can one be taken seriously if they are still active participants? If it were me, I would think that a person still in the borg could not be too serious about their convictions if they're still a member.
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Anyone here from Ohio?
by jesussaves ini know a lot of jws that seemed to disappear, and everybody just stopped talking about them.
i would love to be reunited with some of the people i grew up with in good old c-town (cleveland).
i'm 27, and if you lived on the east side of cleveland, i probably knew you.
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love that show.
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Anyone here from Ohio?
by jesussaves ini know a lot of jws that seemed to disappear, and everybody just stopped talking about them.
i would love to be reunited with some of the people i grew up with in good old c-town (cleveland).
i'm 27, and if you lived on the east side of cleveland, i probably knew you.
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trying to bump this back up, so somebody can see it
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HELP PLEASE!
by TheStar ini'm a newbie around here.
i have only posted once but i've come in here almost every day to read for about the past month.
this place has been therapeutic for me as i'm currently trying to make my exit out of the borg.
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Well, I'm one of the ones that faded away into the wallpaper. I went to my last meeting over four years ago. The elders have never approached me. I just recently told my fam that I go to church, though. I seriously doubt that they'll go to the elders. They don't want to have to shun me because they love my babies. FADE AWAY!!!! It's much easier, and on the rare occasion that I run into an old JW friend, they always speak to me.
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First Post
by DINKY inhey guys!
i've been lurking for 2 yrs and finally decided to post.
seems like y'all need some new blood around here.
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It took me over a year to post, too. I was afraid that someone would find out my true identity and out me to my family! Maybe that was an irrational fear, but growing up as a JW gave me nothing but irrational fears [:-)]