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  Please Respond To Survey! 25 more needed please.

  by Big Jim in

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  it seems like to me the majority of people who are in the truth, are were in the truth was a result of either a family member are a friend witnessing to them and not many seem to have been found in the door to door work.. from my years of associating with the borg i cannot recall many coming in the truth from the door to door work.. how were you sucked in?

  for me it was my aunt who has now even though i am not disfellowshipped decided to write me out of her will to the tune of about $150,000.00 (maybe i should hang around a couple more years)dont think i will.. please respond .

  thanks.

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  My Mom came in through the door to door work. Her sister was studying with a JW shortly before and was baptized. My Mom was Catholic and wasn't really interested. But since her sister had become one,she decided to give it a look. I was 8 at the time and my Mom was baptized 2 years later. She drug us three kids still at home with her. My youngest brother never "took" and neither did my Dad. My brother and I both married "in" and were raising our children in it. But only one of his children out of the four was baptized, but now is DF. None of my children were indoctrinated enough to take hold of it, thank goodness! My first and second husbands were raised in it too, but their family came in through the door to door work when they children, not born into it.
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  Does anyone know about ADD in adults?

  by Mulan in

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  i really need some help guys.

  my youngest son is getting married in 3 weeks to a really annoying .

  young woman, 22. she has add and talks all the time!!

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  Hmmm...Two of my children were diagnosed as having ADD as adults. My son is 33 and my daughter is almost 22. My son is very quiet, smart and very reserved. His only problem seems to be in knowing how to make better judgements with people and what he is doing with his life. Those things are getting better but I see that it will never be all okay. He is not on meds.
  My daughter is on meds but not ritalin. She tried that and a couple other things. The one that helps her the most is Paxil. She also has judgement problems but seems to be figuring things out faster than my son. She is also very reserved. They are both very social when they know you though.

  Maybe a lot of this girl's problems could be connected with an inferiority complex and the problem could be other things along with the ADD. My granddaughter's mom used to talk all the time, repeating things over and over in conversations. She thought she knew a lot too. Now that she has gotten her life together and has furthered herself with education she has become a lot nicer to be around. She thinks more of herself than before and that helps. Sometimes when people think they are dumb, so as to cover it over, they pretend to be authorities on everything. Just a thought. Goes along with the dyslexia. If she feels stupid because she can't read well then maybe she is letting everyone know she is not stupid by the things she says.

  I wish you well with this, it isn't going to be easy, as you already can see.

  Lindy
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  How much does the WTS owe YOU?

  by CornerStone in

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  i was just thinking, (whoops!, can't do that anymore, 8/1/01 wt), after reading my bible i came across a passage that discussed payment for christian workers:.

  7what soldier has to pay his own expenses?

  and have you ever heard of a farmer who harvests his crop and doesnt have the right to eat some of it?

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  If they had to really repay us, how would they know how much we are due for how many hours? Would they just pay out the money based on the hours on our past time sheets? Or would they admit to the fact that we all cheated or fudged the numbers to get our hours in. But how many hours would each person fudge? If they did admit to that, then they would have to admit that we are all "unchristian." Could get around that though with the "imperfect" thing. That wouldn't look good to the public so then they would have to find some other way of repayment. Hmmm...how about some coupons for "donation-free" magazines for the rest of your lives? But what if you don't want that? I am sure they would come up with something other than cash. How about donating back to the Society what they owe you? That would be really convenient, huh?! I am sure they could make it happen. They could lay on the guilt that if you were to accept payment then you would not be supporting Jehovah's Organization and the world-wide preaching work. Then the ones who would take the cash would be made to look like money gabbers and bad association for not doing what the society commands, I mean "suggests!
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  janet jackson

  by orbison in

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  well, janet jackson is on larry king live july 2, and cnn asked for questions via email.

  so i asked,,,,what is your current standing with the jw's, are you d/f or d/a, and how can you account for your association with mother (which she has publically acknowledged),,.

  prob wont use but will tune in to see.

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  Wendy,
  Just because no one posts back, doesn't mean they aren't reading them. Notice that the counter above your post says it has been read 51 times!

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  News About H2O - I'm Ducking <LOL>

  by Jang in

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  ok ... i am ducking first ...... .

  great news!.

  i just visited the h2o forum and it has been upgraded with removal of.

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  I'm with Marilyn. I don't know what the stink is about either. I came here because someone suggested it over a H2O, and like Marilyn, I stayed because it was faster.
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  JW's And Risque Mnemonics.

  by Englishman in

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  do folk in the united states use mnemonics as we do here in the uk?.

  just in case youre wondering, a mnemonic is a method by which it becomes easy to remember something, especially if it involves a table or sequence.

  most uk mnemonics have a vulgar or sexual connotation, so their use is somewhat frowned upon in jw circles.. when number 2 son was studying geology, it was essential that he remembered the hardness order of various minerals.

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  Use stuff like this in college to memorize stuff for tests. It works.
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  Does unkind talks make you a better person?

  by beroea in

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  does unkind talks make you a better person?.

  i notice a tendency to use very rough words describing each other and their posts.

  some may think that if we can make other people thing unworthy we are the ones on the top.

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  Yeah...what Amazing said.

  You get to know who's who after a while and how they "talk", who they are. Then you choose to talk to them or not. I try to take into consideration the full range of possibilities where someone might be coming from. We all loose it and make mistakes but most see that and will apologize.
  Like amazing said, some ya just ignore.

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  Do you have a circle life after being a jw?

  by beroea in

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  do you have a circle life after being a jw?.

  i been wondering about the fact so it seems - that so many after breaking and leaving - a sometime long relationship with the borg - seams to go back to old king of thinking.

  sometimes just with others words.. as jw we look/looked at the world with eyes teach by the borg.

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  Yes, many leave, and because they are human and choose certain paths, certain things happen. Not all bad though. If you take your time when you leave and don't jump from the frying pain into the fire, life gets better. It just takes time to work through the grief and the anger, etc. But it can be done without making matters worse. But you do need to be patient and some haven't learned that quaulity yet. I din't have extreme emotions when I left. I did everything very slowly and let all the new things I learned sink in. Figured out what to discard and what to keep. I took my time and really searched for the answers and came to the conclusions that I did. We are each differnt and handle things differently.
  I hate it when the Society suggests that we are all leaving and now into sex drugs and a bad and evil life style. Mine was very quiet and reserved. I didn't rebel and go off on a tangent. Most don't. But it looks good to JW's if someone does because it makes them feel better about staying. More righteous for their choses. They never want to know that you are happy and better adjusted outside of the Organization and that your life moves forward without fear, guilt and the like, that almost all JWs feel. That is a cognitive disonance that they have to deal with and they don't really know how to do that well.

  As Always,
  Lindy
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  What If ???

  by Big Jim in

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  what if the borg sent out a letter adressed to all congregations in the united states and it said this.. dear brothers:.

  the faithfull and discreet slave in which you know is directed by jehovahs holy spirit has directed us to request that you immediatley begin to rid yourself of any and all unnecessary material items, and we are requesting that all moneys from the sell of these items be sent to the wbts as soon as possible.. after you rid yourself of these burdens it should be no problem for all of the brotherhood to begin the full time preaching work as regular pioneers.

  you can rest assured that jehovah will provide for all of your needs since you are putting his kingdom first.. best wishes from your fellow slaves at the borg.. .

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  Amazing, I remember those days when the Society "suggested" that we down-size our lives and pioneer where the need was greater because the end was so very close. I am so glad that my first husband and I were struggling to make ends meet with a small child and no real belongings. We didn't have anything to give up. Being poor does have it's blessings! Many did give it all up including jobs and education and now have nothing and are struggling in their old age just to live from day to day. No retirement and savings. After all, we weren't supposed to need it!!

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  Totally off topic.....but funny as hell!!!

  by closer2fine in

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  london (reuters) - a british woman has published photographs of her boyfriend wearing skimpy panties and a bra on the internet to avenge his cheating ways.. the 22-year-old, who identified herself only as "the pimptress," said boyfriend "tom" had asked her never to show the snaps of him in various poses wearing her shiny red underwear.. "guess he shouldn't have cheated with my best m8," she wrote, using for the word "mate" the abbreviated text message language popular for communicating by mobile phone.. the picture gallery of 20 snaps includes shots of "tom" trying to squeeze on a pair of girl's cowboy boots and putting on makeup.. http://www.uboot.com/u/pimptress

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  To late dear, we are there and beyond that!

  Lindy, who does have a great imagination, although you'd never know it.