As long as you don't walk around with it in the pocket of your tight pants you should be OK.
mynameislame
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Where do JWs stand on sex toys?
by mickbobcat ini think we all know that if they are used alone it would be a no no, but what about in a marriage?
are there limits such as vibrators ok but torso with dildo not ok?.
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mynameislame
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Why So Many Young People Are Leaving The Watchtower
by Jeremy C ini have been giving a lot of thought to the young people who are leaving the watchtower organization in recent years.
last night, i was reading the thread posted by jwfacts a while back in which he provided some statistics and graphs showing the rapidly declining growth in the watchtower.
one factor that was discussed at length was the high number of young people who do not stay in the organization.
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mynameislame
Funny I was thinking about this today. Has it gotten worse since this was originally posted? There's really not much in it for a young person. I was a dedicated JW when I was in. Looking back it wasn't because I really knew what it was all about. I don't think my dad, the elder, ever had a bible study with me. I remember Saturdays after service consisted of him saying "I'm going to take a nap. When I wake up we'll study." That was my cue to head out for the afternoon.
I guess what was in it for me was being popular for pioneering. That meant I had a good excuse for living at home with my parents and not having a full time job.
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Jehovah's Witnesses can now VOTE!
by UnDisfellowshipped injehovah's witnesses were raped and tortured by the thousands in malawi because they obeyed the watchtower society's rules, and they broke caesar's law and refused to purchase a political card in a country that only had one polictical party.
now (since 1999), jehovah's witnesses are allowed to vote in political elections!
i would love to hear everyone's comments.
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mynameislame
This post is old enough to vote!
It was my understanding, even in the early to mid 80s, that you could vote. You just had to, as Disillusioned JW pointed out, write in Jehovah or something similar.
While it is sad that people had to die because of their inflexible rules in the past, better to soften those rules rather than double down on them.
Unfortunately they still seem to be doubling down on other forms of stupidity. i.e. if you got caught voting for real you would be metaphorically murdered by them in the form of DFing.
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Rotator Cuff Surgery: Anybody Have Experience?
by GrreatTeacher inmy husband is going in on tuesday to have surgery to repair a badly torn rotator cuff on his right shoulder.
he is right handed.. he's 51 and is great about exercising and staying in shape.
however, while doing push ups, his shoulder just snapped.
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mynameislame
Oh one more piece of advice. I bought a couple packs of oversized T-shirts and tore the seam under the arm on the injured side enough so that I could get in and out of them without too much trouble.
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Rotator Cuff Surgery: Anybody Have Experience?
by GrreatTeacher inmy husband is going in on tuesday to have surgery to repair a badly torn rotator cuff on his right shoulder.
he is right handed.. he's 51 and is great about exercising and staying in shape.
however, while doing push ups, his shoulder just snapped.
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mynameislame
No real advice except follow the doctor's orders. If you tear the tear you probably will make it worse and at best have to start over. And don't go crazy eating unhealthy stuff while he is also not able to be active. It's easy to think of it as a vacation but this vacation will last 3 months. You can do a lot of damage to your waistline in those three months. Especially when you are sitting around most of the day.
My mother had both of hers done separately. She was back to normal pretty quick both times. She was in her mid to late 60s at the time. Normal equals out riding her bike, playing tennis and a somewhat physical job (X-Ray Technician)
I had mine done in 2014 or 15. My rotator cuff had torn completely off. Needless to say it took a lot longer than three months to get back to normal. The physical therapist commented how my doctor underlined "massive" twice on the paper work.
I work on a computer so I was back to work as soon as the oxy wore off.
I'm pretty sure my PT started almost immediately. Which, at first, was just them moving my arm around. That was just to keep my shoulder from getting stuck in the socket. I'm sure the machine Magnum mentioned is the same thing, I just payed a human to do it. Then I graduated to doing stuff at home like carefully carrying a couple of dishes and lifting mouse weights. (those 2 pound tiny weights that look like a mouse could bench press them).
The most uncomfortable part was I had to sleep on my back at an angle for the first few days. I"m not sure why, maybe so I wouldn't roll around. Picture sleeping on a reclined reclining chair. You'd think it would be somewhat comfortable but it wasn't!
Here's a picture of the doctor putting a screw in my shoulder. (I don't find it too gross but if you are extra squeamish you might want to pass)
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Prove That Jehovah’s Witnesses Do Not Have The “Truth”
by minimus insomeone is researching jehovah’s witnesses.
they happen to come on to this site.
do the witnesses have the truth??.
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mynameislame
They consider looking into such things as dangerous
A JW could get into trouble if they got caught doing it.
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Harry, Meghan the Royal Apostates
by Slidin Fast ini just watched the oprah interview.
i know that many view them with little interest as just entitled wastes of space and i get that.. however, the description of how they were "trapped" and silenced and forced into perpetuating the system with little or no personal freedom rang bells for me.
they are effectively shunned, estranged and disparaged by their family and cut off from support.
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mynameislame
Except they knew that 100% going in. Probably, like anything else, she minimized how difficult it would be. No doubt because she grew up watching "Coming to America"
At least some of the blame falls on Harry. He should have known better than anyone how it worked.
My take is boo hoo you went through a bad time welcome to life. Except the rest of us don't get to retreat to a multi-million dollar mansion and make money doing a media circuit. In the few seconds I watched, even Oprah seemed to be trying to act like she cared.
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Ban on Independent Meetings
by lssjr insource - march 2021 announcements - - https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5085868283920384/2021-march-147-english-german-announcements-reminders.
this is a sobering reminder of what happened some 40 years ago when raymond franz and others were literally kicked out from the jehovah's witnesses for having pre-arranged private spiritual discussions.lesson: paragraph 7 is another example of the i and t in dr. steven hassan's bite model of the 21st century cult - information and thought control at its best!!!!
"my gosh, there must be a lot of independent meetings these days.
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mynameislame
even beginning and ending such meetings with prayer
WHAT??? Even if you agree that people shouldn't meet on their own, how is praying the cherry on top?
"It's bad enough that you talked about bible stuff outside of the meetings but how dare you speak to God in the process." FDS
What are these people supposed to do with their time?
I would imagine JWs were hit pretty hard by the pandemic layoffs and many of them have a lot of extra time on their hands.
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2021-March-S-147-English and German--Announcements And Reminders!
by Atlantis in2021-march-s-147--announcements and reminders.. english and german.
https://filetransfer.io/data-package/jtoy3vol#link.
another link:.
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mynameislame
I just actually read the letters. I'll say it again. What a horrible religion.
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2021-March-S-147-English and German--Announcements And Reminders!
by Atlantis in2021-march-s-147--announcements and reminders.. english and german.
https://filetransfer.io/data-package/jtoy3vol#link.
another link:.
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mynameislame
I guess the gruel they are passing out isn't satisfying the spiritual hunger of the peasants any longer.
One theme I've noticed on JWN is people mentioning how the JWs don't dig into the deeper things anymore. Instead they keep passing out the same old reheated leftovers over and over and over.
Can you imagine being a good JW especially in the pandemic. Trapped in your house with only WT literature to read? (provided you are following all the other
rulesuhh I mean suggestions...)What a horrible religion. Throw a drowning man a waterlogged life-preserver and tell him he isn't aloud to kick his feet.
