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  Did The Witnesses Mess Up Your Sex Life?

  by minimus in

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  most of the witnesses i knew never really talked about sex.

  whatever couples did was pretty much kept quiet.

  every once in a while a wife might complain to the elders or a friend that the husband is too demanding or even immoral because of the sex practices the husband wanted.

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  When I left the JW's to go to University, I attended a JW party before I left, I was considered a JW drop out and was there on the periphery.

  During the party, the topic of sex and being privately reproved came up. To my shock, ignorance and naivety.... someone asked how many had had sex before marriage and I was one of a couple of people who had not, I was off out the JW's and there I was a mid 20's virgin, amongst all these pioneer/MS/good example kids who had all been messing around.

  I felt so naive and stupid to have been a 'good JW' all those years, a whole youth and meanwhile all these elders kids had been doing as they wished. Literally all of them.

  The irony is that these are all elders and pioneers etc now, preaching judgment and partaking in disfellowshipping and punishing people for the many petty things on the JW naughty list.
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  Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

  by minimus in

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  does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

  are you offended if you see a flag?

  what about a confederate flag?.

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  snare&racket

  An inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.

  "Snowflake"
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  RIP Murray Walker. The world is a sadder quieter place now,

  by Slidin Fast in

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  any f1 fan of a certain vintage will shed a tear for murray.

  the embodiment of enthusiasm..

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  Sunday afternoons, race home from the meeting, F1 on the TV .....Murray Walker was at his pulpit and we were ready to heed his words..

  Go, Go, Go.......
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  Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

  by minimus in

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  does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

  are you offended if you see a flag?

  what about a confederate flag?.

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  snare&racket

  It is very simple....

  Nobody has the right to NOT be offended.

  It is not a LEFT or RIGHT political issue. It's relevant to all humans that have a differing point of view on any passionate/emotive topic.

  If you feel offended by the feelings or speech or actions of someone with differing view to your own.... that is for you to deal with, not the other party.
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  Do You Get Easily Offended By What People Do or Don’t Do?

  by minimus in

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  does using uncle ben’s food products offend you?.

  are you offended if you see a flag?

  what about a confederate flag?.

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  snare&racket

  The irony......you literally post daily in a ex-religious support group forum about your dismay at what people do and say that triggers you. On a daily basis you voice clearly your intolerance for actions and perspectives that differ from your political views. You did it in this very post! Honestly, your lack of personal insight in posting this is astounding.
  

  Maybe try not to get so easily offended by what others do or don't do....... just a suggestion!
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  JW Net and Politics

  by snare&racket in

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  this site was and remains instrumental in assisting people that want to leave the jw's.. there has been political discussion here for some time now, a good couple of years and it makes me feel a little uneasy.

  i just opened up the site for the first time in some weeks, of the 10 posts being discussed, 4 were by the same poster, about politics, promoting their right wing beliefs.. this has been the trend for some time now, the same name behind a peppering of posts stirring the right v left of politics.. i remain forever grateful to the site and it's founders simon & angharad, i appreciate that simon shares some of these these political beliefs.

  it would be a shame to see the site evolve from a place for jw freedom of thought and escape, to political squabbling, that the world is frankly tired of right now.. just to clarify, politics is my hobby, whilst my friends read the football scores, i'm reading polling data.

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  "Are u pretty much healed?" Minimus

  This passive aggressive comment says much about your view of the users of this forum.

  I think healing after a JW life is likely a life long task. I don't come here because I am weak, though I once did. I now come 20 years later because I am strong and want to help people.

  I do think that 19yrs on, if you are still posting your views here several times a day... either you have some serious healing yourself to do still, or an agenda.
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  Why I care about people who see racism everywhere

  by StephaneLaliberte in

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  today, i was watching a tv show and a black celebrity in quebec said that his latest incident of racial profiling was being asked questions by the police as he was walking in a quiet neighborhood at 2am while wearing a hoody.

  then the other guest next to him validated his claim saying that she, as a white women, was never stopped like this by the police.

  i became very frustrated and agitated.

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  snare&racket

  Maybe accept that they have experienced a different life to you and see the world differently.
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  JW Net and Politics

  by snare&racket in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this site was and remains instrumental in assisting people that want to leave the jw's.. there has been political discussion here for some time now, a good couple of years and it makes me feel a little uneasy.

  i just opened up the site for the first time in some weeks, of the 10 posts being discussed, 4 were by the same poster, about politics, promoting their right wing beliefs.. this has been the trend for some time now, the same name behind a peppering of posts stirring the right v left of politics.. i remain forever grateful to the site and it's founders simon & angharad, i appreciate that simon shares some of these these political beliefs.

  it would be a shame to see the site evolve from a place for jw freedom of thought and escape, to political squabbling, that the world is frankly tired of right now.. just to clarify, politics is my hobby, whilst my friends read the football scores, i'm reading polling data.

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  Nice to see some old names again, glad you are all still ticking over 😎👍

  I made my point, it doesn't need any further dissection. Feel free to disagree obviously.

  It simply feels sad to see the site dominated by people with such a political agenda.

  I came here to heal and help. Political debate tends not to offer much to those things.
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  Try To Be Less White

  by minimus in

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  that’s what coca-cola is telling their employees.

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  this is ridiculous!.

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  Didn't say there was, we wre discussing that it is no grand conspiracy that some dating apps don't have a race filter and outwardly promote anti-racism. That is not contradictory.
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  Evolution a proven fact? LOL

  by Rex B13 in

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  some interesting quotes from evolutionists.

  natural history, vol.

  ' new scientist, vol.

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  snare&racket

  You really are arguing about a definition and description of evolution that no scientist or science is claiming pal. You are refuting a view on evolution that nobody is promoting.

  I'm not sure if you are saying that this is your understanding/description of evolution or someone else's you have come across. Either way it is irrelevant as nobody in science is claiming it.

  Start from scratch matey.....

  What is your understanding of the scientific method? What is science? Who is science, who are scientists?

  Before you state that this question is insulting or beneath you or irrelevant, in the context of you debating a view not held by science or a scientist, it could not be more relevant to appreciate what and who warrants your attention and precious time and energy. Please, tell me your perspective on 'science'.