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  Guns and Scary Movies Gal

  by Iamallcool in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  there is a very pretty lady friend of mine that likes guns and to watch scary movies very often.

  she emailed me yesterday to ask me how i am doing.

  i know she likes me and she is probably waiting for me to ask her out.

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  Don't go out with her. How about hooking her up with me? I love guns, shoot often and nothing scares me except the thought of going back to the hall.
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  Favorite TV Shows Growing Up

  by TOTH in

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  2. friends

  i used to love watching tv when i was a kid.

  for some reason not so much anymore.

  here are three of my favorites.

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  Great old shows! Some of my favorites already mentioned. Here's two more. Remember "The Felony Squad"? It stared Howard Duff and Dennis Cole. How about "Everglades"?, or "The Everglades"? Remember.....Lincoln Vale of the Everglades, the man on patrol in the Everglades.....
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  news to me

  by truthseeker1969 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i just heard this within the last day.. i had no clue that the society had a travel agancy within its offices!.

  anyhoo, in the area i live they called numerous hotels for deals for the convention and the gm whom i know through friends told me that they play hardball in getting the maximum commission possible for refering people.

  he said the average is about 10 to 15 percent of the room cost.

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  I knew for a fact that they get free rooms for Bethelites, didn't know they get a money kicback. Makes sense, thinking about it now it doesn't surprise me a bit.
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  ExJW who was a former friend explains why she defriended me on FB - and my response!

  by Broken Promises in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi broken promises,.

  since i'll be seeing you on saturday [at her sisters wedding who is also an exjw], i thought i should let you know why i removed you from my friends list and didn't accept your last request.

  i did this because i saw you were in an ex jehovah's witness recovery group.

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  So being friends with you would be disrespecting her mother but shacking up with her boyfriend is OK. You just cannot always find reason and make sense out of nonsense. Don't spend too much time on it
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  JW Speak - The Latest

  by Slidin Fast in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  ok - we have "direction".

  delete the word society we don't talk about the society any more.

  we talk about the organization.

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  Agree with sizemik------

  Probably just another technicality from the ones that run the WTBTS, the lawyers
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  Now that we plan for Retirement

  by designs in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  one of the big adjustments for many of us was growing older and realizing retirement was a reality.

  did you have a company or government retirement package or personal ira or 401k.

  what advice would you give the 20 to 60 year olds coming to term with 'life in this system'..

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  I lost $125,000 from my 401k in the '08 economic bust. It really was not earned money, my 401k was at about what I had put into it. Anyway, I took the rest of it out, paid the taxes on it and bought a (retirement) house. Now I have two homes, very little mortgage, when I sell one I should be OK, hoping the real estate market comes back. Just couldn't risk the Wall Street thieves getting the rest of it.
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  ....And what if it IS the truth????

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

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  what next???

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  If it is the truth, be a good JW, obey the org and you can spend eternity singing kingdom songs and shoveling lion poop
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  Many Car marques are astrological/pagan/sex connection therefore JW must abandon them or walk

  by mP in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  heres something i love to tell jw which nearly always stuns them.. nobody would buy a car called the satan, or if its logo was phallic, or was named after baal, but the facts are nearly all three of these are present in a vast majority of todays cars.

  as one can examine there are a lot of things present that a good xians should avoid.

  in many cases there are puns on names, but still.. toyota.

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  Back in the 70's elders didn't like it much that I was driving a '71 Dodge Demon
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  Tell me---We all have regrets about being in the organisation,what's yours?

  by MsGrowingGirl20 in

  1. forum
  2. tech-support

  what is/are your regrets?

  do u wish that you'd have pursued something or dealt differently with a situation?.

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  Having now to play "catch up" in preparation for retirement and old age. Should of went to college, should of worked at my career as if the future depended on it, should of stayed with a worldly girl that I was crazy about, should of, should of, should of.......all we can do now is move on making the best of and improve if we can whatever circumstance we find ourselves in. Enjoy life.
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  It was "evidence" of holy spirit that got me

  by irondork in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  when i got disfellowshipped at age 19 for alcohol and sex with, uhm... several others, i deserved it.

  after that i took a nose dive into drugs and alcohol and the whole nightclub party scene in wash. d.c.. it didnt take long for my life to start falling apart.. .

  eveidence that leaving jehovahs organization was the wrong thing to do.. .

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  And AA has worked for lots of people. Doesn't prove anything except that their program works for some people, great you worked it out for you, irondok