Posts by lohengren

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SMART phones: I got my first iPhone

by Terry in

for my birthday, my daughter (who works for apple) got me an iphone.. yes, i was using an old motorola flip-phone until now...like a geriatric captain kirk.. and i wondered why people had been giving me those strange looks before.... .

anyway, imagine my reaction to the mammoth technology contained in an iphone.. talk about a miracle, this qualifies.. i'm particularly impressed by the onboard gps.

i can type in a destination and the phone already knows exactly where i am and will plot a destination map onscreen.

lohengren

If you like music you should check out Shazam. Hold it up to the speakers/headphones and it will tell you the name of the song and the artist.

Probably my most used app.

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Sign Petition Against SOPA/PIPA

by breakfast of champions in

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friends

if you live in the us.

just go to the google home page and click on the link.

takes 30 seconds, your name, zip code and email.. or click here..

lohengren

I fear WTWizard is correct. The US has shown that they don't give two shits about the about the general population. The bill has been bought and paid for by the movie industry and will almost certainly be passed in some form.

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How can girls guard against temptation in this sex-crazy world?

by nicolaou in

just about the funniest thing i've read in ages!

*** w61 12/15 pp.

767-768 questions from readers ***.

lohengren

There is no hope. Men will find you. They will compliment you and ask you on dates. They will (gasp) buy you gifts and flowers. Then they will ask to engage in sexual realtions!

TEH HORROR.

In other news I am currently accepting "sex interviews" from beautiful young women. No previous experience necessary.

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What was life like for you as a JW teenager?

by highdose in

in the wt's illistrations they portray jw teenagers as happy, together group.

my experinace is that the jw teenagers in the cong were some of the bitchyist backstabbing arse holes i'll ever meet.. it was unheard of for us to engage in group "wholesome activity" as show in the wt's illistrations.

the competition amongst the girls for the handsome, sane and elders sons were cut throat.

lohengren

It was good and bad. I only had one real friend at first but this was okay because we were the absolute best of friends. We hung out all the time, long games of hide and seek, staying up late watching movies and playing videogames. He had a sister who I had a huge crush on. She liked me too, it was awesome

However when I was 16 my best friend died in a car accident. Our families had been close for many years so this was a devestating loss. My friends mother had been disfellowshipped a few months before hand. Despite this the majority of the hall was there to comfort the family including her. Some of the elders in the hall did not like this. They thought the congregation was using my friends death as an excuse to associate with a disfellowshipped one. Can you believe the nerve? This led to a major schism in the hall and several families, close to 40% of the congregation ended up moving to different halls. My crush moved away with her family. We kept in touch for a little but distance got the best of us. I lost two great friends that winter. that was the first time I saw the kind of damage the watchtower can do.

But I kept doing what I was supposed to do. In time I met another sister and we became good friends. (we'll call her Kate) I felt an attraction between us but when I asked her she said she already had a boyfriend in another state. I brushed it off at first but later she told me that her BF was coming to town to visit and she wanted me to meet him and hang out with him and stuff. Of course I didn't want to do it. I remember when she introduced us I begrudginly shook his hand and probably came off as a total asshole. It turns out we had a lot in common. We even shared the same first name (Jeremy). We started hanging out a lot and became pretty good friends. He ended up moving to our hall and he asked Kate to marry him. I was really happy for him. However there was a lot of murmuring in the congregation. Many in the hall did not approve of their relationship, I never could figure out why though.

We talked about everything, no subject was off limits including the flaws of the society. We shared many of the same views on some of the society's rules; it felt good to be able to vent like that. I had never had that before.

Things took a turn for the worse though when Kate abruptly called off the engagement. Jeremy was devestated. He told me she had been hanging out with friends from her job. He didn't think much of it at first but apparently she was secretly seeing another man. I felt really bad for him. He was a good person and definitely didn't deserve that. For the next couple of days told me all about they're relationship. He told me they had slept together during their engagement and he felt Jehovah was punishing him for it. I told him there was no way Jehovah would do that. Regardless he felt guilty about it and told me he was going to confess to the elders. I urged him not to do this because I didn't want to lose him as a friend. He did it anyway and was disfellowshipped. For a time afterward we still talked regularly. Eventually though someone saw me going into his apartment and ratted me out. I was pulled into the backroom with two elders and they counseled me on the dangers of associating with disfellowshipped ones. I was pretty pissed but I accepted the counsel. My friend ended up moving back home with his parents. I had lost another friend because of the borg and I wasn't happy. From this point on I cut off all my commenting and kept my service to a bear minimum and started fading.

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What was the first thing you did...

by OneDayillBeFree in

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friends

when you left the man-made organization currently known as the wtbts??.

and for those still "in" but mentally "out" what have you started doing thats against the silly, stupid and non-scriptural watchtower policy/law/rule??.

i know the question has been made before on another thread but i couldn't find it and also there's been quite some growth in new ones here to jwn, so just wanted to see if we could all share some lovely/funny/random experiences.