The only things I don't like about getting older are grey hair, hair loss, and the fact that the body doesn't recover as well from injury. I'm not old, only in my early 30s, but I can tell my body takes longer to recover from overuse or injury than it did when I was in my late teens and early 20s. As far as knowledge goes, hopefully as I get older I continue to learn more and become wiser.
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What a drag it is getting old
by prophecor in!.........the days of youth are wasted on the youth, i've heard it said.
the days of our lives, as the scriptures so eloquently put it are 70 years.
i look at the youth of today in their teens to maybe thirty or so, and i have to say to myself, "boy, i wouldn't wish my 20's and 30's on anybody.
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WhatWasIThinking
Working. My employer never shuts down and the shift workers don't get any holidays off unless it happens to fall on your weekend.
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How was dating as Jehovah Witness?
by Pitchess Co-Gen inlooking back i'm glad i didn't marry my ex..
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WhatWasIThinking
I think the process of getting to know a person was worse,than dating. Getting to know a JW sister was like a job interview for me. I felt and still do to this day that most sisters were only interested in status. Are you A.) An Bethelite B.) An Elder , or C.) An Ministerial Servant. If not oMG why are you talking to me ?
I know I can't make a blanket statement,but I thought some sisters where waiting for a cross between a Will Smith/George Clooney/Matthey McConaughey in looks, Warren Buffet in the pocket ( not really,but def well off ) , at the same time still uber spiritual enough to be a Bethelite hopefully,but an MS at least.
I noticed the same things in my short time in. So many sisters that would only date an MS or Elder, and others that also required you to have a good job and be super hot. Sorry sisters but you can't be that choosey when you are limited to such a small dating pool.
I dated one sister that I worked with and had known for years before I got dunked. She just used me to make her inactive ex-boyfriend jealous so that he would come back to meetings. Thankfully we went to different halls. After that I hung out with another sister quite a bit and we were always flirting, chatting on the phone, texting, etc. One day I asked her out and she never said another word to me again. We were in the same hall and she never even said hello to me after that. She moved after about a year. The JW views on dating screw people up so bad. All she had to do was say no and I would have dropped it and we could have still been friends. Everyone is so sheltered it made adults act like little kids.
I tried one more time with a sister who my friend tried to hook me up with. We went out in a group a few times, with me never driving, and all was well until she saw my car. Yes it was nothing special but it wasn't bad. It was just a basic economy car that I had purchased new about 5 years before. She didn't want to date a "poor" guy. After she found out I wasn't poor (I had paid cash for the car, had a nice home, a paid off truck, two motorcycles, a quad, and no debt other than my home) she tried to get back with me. I'm glad that one didn't work out.
After that I stopped even trying to date sisters. Generally speaking they have no education, no money, are screwed up in the head, and you don't get sex (goes for brothers as well).
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When did you stand up and say No More to the GB and Witness world, mine was in 2000
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Went to the memorial in 2010 and never went back. Sent my DA letter a few months later.
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Which posters are male and which are female? Am I getting it wrong?
by Lozhasleft inthis is baffling me...someone suggested a day or so ago that outlaw is female?
and what about bandontherun ?
is that a lady too?.
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I'm male, although after this past weekend in Mexico I kind of wish I was female. I would have gotten way more action. Then again maybe not since I'm a fatty.
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Is there no hope? (daughter getting baptized)
by camicia ini'm really distraught about the fact my 23 year old daughter is ready to abandon a potential career in writing where her talent lies, and become a jehovah's witness.
i banned the study being held in our home, but it only hurt my relationship with my daughter, who screamed at me "i pay to live here and i'm not hiding, you're sabotaging my relationship with god!
" so i gave in.
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Your daughter is experiencing the opposite of what I experienced. I'll give you my summary. I had a lot of things happen in my mid-late 20's, started a study and was immediately love bombed. Always invited out to dinner, movies, picnics, game nights, etc. I was baptized six months after starting my study. The invitations started decreasing after my baptism until it got to the point where I could not get anyone to do anything with me. I even had people cancel service plans so they could go do something else (something fun that I wasn't invited to) and then was counseled for going out in service on my own.
They say that the things you do before learning the truth are forgiven but they still hold them against you. My tattoos stumbled others. The fact that I listened to metal (devil music) and punk (anti-authority) before I studied were bad. My love of horror movies, "thrill-seeking" (motorcycles, scuba diving), and violence (guns, grappling, muay thai) were all bad qualities. It didn't matter that I stopped all those things once I started studying, that I got rid of all my R-rated DVDs, all of my PG and PG-13 rated DVDs that had "spiritism," a bunch of books, all of my fighting gear, and most of my CDs and MP3s. I shaved my goatee, removed my piercings, changed my hair but it didn't matter.
Your daughter might think that things will change when she gets baptized but they may not and it may cause her emotional health issues to get worse. I remember hearing counsel from the platform to invite honest-hearted studies to do things with the congregation, to surround them with good association, so I don't understand why the person studying with her told her otherwise unless things have changed since I left.
I was in for about four years and getting out was the best thing I ever did. I don't really know what to tell you to do because she is being brainwashed and you don't want to push her towards them by saying the wrong thing. What you can do is be there for her no matter what she decides. If she gets baptized and decides to get out she is going to need your support because she will instantly lose contact with all of her JW "friends." Hopefully she will wake up and see them for the false prophets and conditional friends that they are. And her being drawn in is not a sign of lack of intelligence. I had a college degree and a good job when I started studying, I was just at a low point and they know to take advantage of that (they encourage it by saying that after tragedy a person's heart condition might be better to accept "the truth.").
Good luck with your daughter, I truly hope she realizes it's a mistake before she gets baptized, or at least figures it out before she has spent too many years in.
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JW's and end of the world predictions
by Lunatic Faith insince i live in the rurals of oregon, i am having my own post-rapture party.
and to memorialize this day, i have posted the article from the herald sun on failed predictions on the facebook jehovah witness page:.
charis branson>jehovah witnesses- the jehovah's witness religion has predicted the end of the world in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975 and 1994.case of poor judgment - us preacher harold camping gets it wrong againwww.heraldsun.com.au .
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I went ahead and checked myself into Heaven on fb at 6 PM.
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Is May 21st the Judgement Day?
by witnessofjesus inwhat you need to know about date setting by dr. h.l.
willmington .
no doubt one of the most anticipated day thus far in this century was friday, april 29, when william and kate were married at westminster abbey in london.
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I'll be in Mexico so if it is at least I'll go down drinking tequila and eating ceviche on the beach.
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Question about food (OUTLAW, et al.)
by compound complex ingreetings, food lovers and hopeful avoiders of food poisoning:.
there was a recent thread on the importance of proper heating/cooling of food.
outlaw, a chef, gave good and helpful warnings.
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WhatWasIThinking
Never heard that about rice. I never put rice I cook in the fridge, it stays in the rice pot. I've never gotten sick from it, but it's something I grew up with so that may have something to do with it. I've eaten street food in Mexico, Central America, and Asia and never gotten sick. I do make sure anything I eat in a foreign land is thoroughly cooked and I never drink the water and I avoid ice cubes. I've never gotten sick from food while traveling but just about anytime I eat fast food I feel like crap.
I don't like leftovers so I try to cook simple meals in a small enough portion to just feed myself one meal.
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DOUBLE STANDARDS from the Watchtower Society
by Terry inthe double think standards of jehovah's witness authority is best illustrated by the following:.
jehovahs witnesses refuse to buy the malawi congress party card.
this card declares the holder to be a member of the ruling political party of malawi.
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WhatWasIThinking
When I was in I constantly heard that brothers were willing to go to prison to take a stand against military service. I was also told that we follow all laws and don't bribe officials when working on building projects. After learning the truth this story doesn't surprise me, but it does make me sick.