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  Night Sweats and Burns...Heart Trouble or Pre-Menopause Symptoms?

  by White Dove in

  1. watchtower
  2. medical

  these come and go on and off.. have you had experience with them, and are they something to worry about?.

  someone said that the sweats are a symptom of a heart problem.. i'm going to my doctor to ask him, but would like to know your experiences, as well..

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  FirstLastName

  I have taken meds that the side effects were night sweats. Maybe check your current medications?

  ...wish I had a good joke right now.....
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  YOUTUBE - Kingdom Hall Of JW's

  by elder-schmelder in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  these are the best video's that i have seen on youtube.

  who makes these?

  do they post on here?.

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  FirstLastName

  I have watched all this videos and think they are hilarious ! I have to fight the urge to email these to my JW family - cause I personally think they are universally funny and so true - JW or not !
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  Something that has helped me understand why people continue to go to church

  by JimmyPage in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the more i realized how ridiculous religion as a whole is the more i wondered why so many people even bother to continue going to church.. but someone on this board made a comment recently that has stuck with me- it's something that i could never relate to because i was brought up a jw.

  and maybe many people here have trouble relating too for the same reason.. the comment was simple: people go to church because they enjoy it.

  it was a new thought to me because as a jw meetings have always been such a bland and boring affair.

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  FirstLastName

  I got a GREAT quote from this board a while ago and saved it cause I thought it was so meaningful to me. I do not know who said it, but its telling:

  "I don't think its particularly surprising to discover that some victims of spiritual abuse are no longer interested in being preached to."

  That being said, I have never sat through another religious service (except weddings and funerals). I always felt that sitting through a religious service would insult my intelligence, so I have not opened myself to that experience yet.

  However I am open to new experiences and trying to find out what drives different people, so I would not say never again.
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  Is there a correlation between personality type and leaving the WT?...

  by Tuesday in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  on facebook tonight there was a post asking to take a personality test, in posting the personality tests a trend started emerging that certain personality types seem to leave around the same time.. i came out as an intj which is introverted intuitive thinking judging.

  which a good paragraph describing it was:.

  intjs apply (often ruthlessly) the criterion "does it work?

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  FirstLastName

  ESTJ

  11 - Extraverted

  1- Sensing

  50- Thinking

  67- Judging

  I am a Guardian Supervisor....sounds serious. I am gonna have to read more about that.

  I am 34, faded about 8 years ago. I left cause they asked me to stay in an abusive relationship, because " well, atleast he loves Jehovah" , and that was just not acceptable to me anymore.

  Now - I have all new reasons (besides the very good first one), for reasons to NEVER go back due to reading: Crisis on Conscience, Combating Cult Mind Control, Releasing the Bonds and The God Delusion.
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  Do you type or do you hunt and peck?

  by JimmyPage in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was just thinking how thankful i am that i took a typing course in school years ago.

  i would think it has to be very difficult posting on a board like this hunting and pecking all the time.

  so how fast can you type?

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  I took typing in 7th grade and was horrific at it. I pecked the key board for years - I think now I have a peck/type style now that is not at all conventional, but seems to work with how I type.

  I was watching and I move my right hand around a lot.
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  A Typical Witnessing Letter from JW Family

  by mummatron in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  thought i'd share this as this is a typical example of the kind of letters i get very occasionally from my jw family.

  in this instance it was sent as my daughter had spent some time in hospital.

  note, very little information in terms of family news.

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  FirstLastName

  You have my complete sympathies. That would drive me batty. I am fortunate enough that my family never talks about the borg with me around. The only evidence that they are still in is the Watchtower and Awake she startegically places on the coffee tables whenever I come over.
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  Where the need is great

  by noontide in

  1. jw
  2. friends

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  wow, havent been around here in a while and it's nice to see some familiar names as well as new ones.. .

  well, its that time of year again when some members of my family decide that they need to go preach where the need is great.

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  FirstLastName

  This post brought back many memories in my JW elder home as a kid.

  I had some very good friends that moved about 3 hours from us in a more rural area. Somehow every summer, the need was great in their area and we would visit them for a week. We had about 4 families that would travel up to their house and camp out on their property. Every day for a week we went out in service with their congregation. I bet that hall loved it - I think we covered their entire territory every summer.

  Also, I remember grimacing at conventions when they would interview young people on stage. The elder would ask " what do you want to do when you grow up", and the canned response was always " I want to serve were the need is great"
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  Who Do You Think Are Overrated Singers Or Movie/TV Stars?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i think patti labelle is too much of a screamer when she "sings".. i don't think jerry seinfeld is all that funny.. i'm just not into george clooney.

  he's way overrated!.

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  OMG Cult Classic said it before me - If I ever see JLo again it will be to soon. She is so over exposed.....
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  Summer reading suggestions

  by breakfast of champions in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  a great read for this summer @the beach is:.

  the origin of the brunists by robert coover.

  this is one of the best books that no one has ever read or heard of.

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  I love to read and I am going to look for that Origin or Brunist - sounds very interesting!

  I am a runner, picked up Born to Run by Christoper McDougall and I was inspired.

  Also, any books by John Krakauer are a great read. If you have to pick one - Under the Banner of Heaven is about the Mormon faith - and have some simularities to JW.
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  The Generation(s) That Wasted Their Lives

  by undercover in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  growing up as a jw, you see the world differently than most everyone else.

  you see the world as something that is going to end very soon.

  all that we know will be gone by the time we're adults.. when we were young, we were living in the last days and were expecting armageddon before we grew old.

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  FirstLastName

  I remember very specifically being told when I was in Junior High School that I would never finish High School, and being SO excited cause I HATED school and so I would never have to finish! Yeah ! I get to go straight to paradise and pet lions and not worry about school !!

  and now 15 years after HS.........

  Were is that damn lion for me to pet ???!!!!