HappyGal

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  Trying to update my email address

  by HappyGal in

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  2. tech-support

  i've been trying to update my email address without success.

  after entering new email address and hitting the update key i then wait for the confirmation email.

  have tried this several times.

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  HappyGal

  I've been trying to update my email address without success. After entering new email address and hitting the update key I then wait for the confirmation email. It never comes. Have tried this several times. What's up?
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  My parents died from the corona virus

  by Hotpepper in

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  2. friends

  both my 84 yr old jw father and my never my jw mother 82 with both together died from the the corona in 24 hours of each other.

  i can tell many fighting i have had here in the last 20 years.on this site .

  i juy hope they rest in peace.

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  HappyGal

  So sorry for your losses made tougher because of covid and isolation.
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  How do you feel about identifying roughly where you are from ? Country, Region,State ?

  by smiddy3 in

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  hi friends ,.

  is it just me or do others on this forum like to know where posters are from ?

  what country state or region you are from ?

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  HappyGal

  On an island in the Pacific. USA
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  How old were you when you left the borg?

  by Iamallcool in

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  me-23 years old.

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  HappyGal

  Mom starting studying when I was 5. I was baptized at 17 and left at 27-28. Had the internet been available back then I'd have left sooner. Best decision ever.

  When I would see the JWs standing by the carts it confirms my decision. That could have been me!
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  Shout Out to Smithy

  by Slidin Fast in

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  2. friends

  i see you are back commenting smithy.

  just wondered how things were going with regard to the fires.

  i know that the news has quietened down but i suspect we have not heard the end of it.

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  HappyGal

  Glad you are okay smiddy3!!!!
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  Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays & a Safe & Prosperous New year to all of you for 2020

  by smiddy3 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  i was just looking at some happy holidays / xmas cards some of us sent each other at the close of 2016 of the cards i received only a few of them have your jwn name on them ,the other `s gave me their real names which i cant reveal here.. however this post is for everybody that is on this forum not just to the few i`m referring to.just to clarify .. and i was going to send greetings to you all this year for 2020.. one was from hawaii.

  milwaukee.

  berlin.

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  HappyGal

  Wishing SMIDDY3 and all on the forum a HAPPY 2020!
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  How old is old?

  by joey jojo in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  having a conversation with a pimi elder and i asked him how he deals with the fact that he never expected to get old.

  i get the feeling that some dubs still have the original generation explanation hard-wired, even though they claim to accept the new version.

  so my question is, how old do you have to be to be considered old?

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  HappyGal

  "Old" keeps moving up. Now it's the 80's and beyond.

  But if a person has their health and their mind, 80's is just a number.
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  Do You Think “Higher Education “Is All That??

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  as jehovah’s witnesses, we were regularly told how awful a college education is.

  i’m no longer associated with the religion but i am not so pro university.

  it’s not because i think you are better off without a degree.

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  HappyGal

  A college degree can help to open some doors. That being said, much of what I learned to get my bachelor's degree was not helpful in the real world. Education needs to be streamlined. Why should doctors need to learn about literature or history? Same for accountants or other career fields. Lots of wasted time. We could have more doctors (that are desperately needed) if they only were required to learn the things in their field.
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  How Much of the WT Teaching Did You Believe?

  by Ding in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  some people on this forum have said that they never really believed any aspect of wt teaching, that they couldn't wait to get free of it all.. others seems to have been really gung ho, believing it all until something happened that got you questioning "the truth.".

  i would say my own high water mark was about 50%, which put me squarely on the fence, trying to decide if i should be in or out.. how about you?.

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  HappyGal

  It was all I knew for the first part of my life. I was an impressionable kid. I believed it. Yet some stuff rubbed me the wrong way. Like saying my Dad would die at Armaggedon because he wasn't a JW. He is such a great and humble man. It didn't make sense to me that God would kill him off like that.
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  Netflix “Explained: Cults”

  by Butterfly607 in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  has anyone else seen the netflix documentary “explained: cults”?

  i thought it was well done.

  i feel like a jw might watch it and feel uncomfortable as the show goes through the definition of cults and then the step by step indoctrination process.

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  HappyGal

  I just watched it yesterday. Yes it was well done.