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  What is you occupation

  by Beans in

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  im a liceinced electrician now working in wireless communication installations.i love the electrical industry,there is so much to learn and so many different things do work with and technology is always changing.never a boaring day especially when we are working in the office buildings downtown,chicks everywhere!.

  beans.

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  I wasted my early years pioneering so didn't go to college and university,so now I work with my dad in his wrought iron firm.Fortunately we work separately but under the same roof..split the bills etc.not ideal but at least I'm my own boss and can sometimes make a killing on bigger jobs.Now that I'm out of jw's I'm thinking about doing a degree in something that interests me.If I don't get it so what at least I'm in a job and I tried :D
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  Whats the dumbest thing you were counselled for?

  by Beck_Melbourne in

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  i was once counselled by the elders for watching 'knots landing'....it became widely known in the congregation that me and a few other sisters would rush home from field service to watch our favourite soapie.

  if we missed it, we would ring each other up for an update...or...if we weren't near a tv we would ask someone to put the phone handset on the top of their tv so we could hear it...pathetic huh...but that was all the excitement we could scrounge up in our otherwise dull and uneventful lives.

  one of the elder's wive's conscience got the better of her...and she confessed to her husband..lol.

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  I was counselled for wearing black joggers with the name "PUMA"emblazoned on one leg at pre-assembly drama practice!I was told that no worldly slogans should be seen at assembly grounds regardless whether it was cleaning or what.
  Also been counselled for doing street witnessing in someone elses territory (it would otherwise NEVER have been covered by local cong)
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  Single at 40 .JW virgins.

  by sleepy in

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  come on admit it, if you were brought up a witness you were dead scared that you were going to end up like the men you saw prowling the assembles and congregations looking for wives.. there would always be men and women in there 30's and 40 who had never had a boy or girl friend.. i used to know quite a few.. the horror of their lives shocks me.. now i not dissing anyone who has chosen not to marry that is their choice.but these people i know want to meet someone and get married.. but the bad news is that the older they get the harder it is to find a wife .what makes it worse is that the choice is so limited.. many of these grown men are even affraid of women .

  why?.

  because they are taught that even to look at a woman is to commit imorality let alone talk to one.. i knew a brother who had never had a girl friend , he was about 26 at the time.now a sister asks to go out with him so he accepts.quite soon she wants to hold his hand.. this brother now tells her off, for in the family book it says holding hands is only for people who are going to get married.. he doesn't go out with such a spiritually weak sister again.. what has the socity done to these peoples lives.. many people who were once happy teenagers hoping to meet the wife or husband of their dreams are now approaching 40 or even older and have never even had a girlfriend.theri only hope is the new system and i don't want to breack the news to them but its not coming.

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  Sorry Abaddon this guy was called Basil....
  While we're on the subject of Wales now theres a whole can of worms of bad congs.....heard a lot of stuff about Anglesey.....immorality favoritism etc wife swopping.
  What amazes me is how we shut our minds to stuff while we're active jw's...just refer to "well these people are just th weak ones..Jesus said we'll always have the weak with us" and "the smaller instruments in the orchestra analogy" !
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  Single at 40 .JW virgins.

  by sleepy in

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  come on admit it, if you were brought up a witness you were dead scared that you were going to end up like the men you saw prowling the assembles and congregations looking for wives.. there would always be men and women in there 30's and 40 who had never had a boy or girl friend.. i used to know quite a few.. the horror of their lives shocks me.. now i not dissing anyone who has chosen not to marry that is their choice.but these people i know want to meet someone and get married.. but the bad news is that the older they get the harder it is to find a wife .what makes it worse is that the choice is so limited.. many of these grown men are even affraid of women .

  why?.

  because they are taught that even to look at a woman is to commit imorality let alone talk to one.. i knew a brother who had never had a girl friend , he was about 26 at the time.now a sister asks to go out with him so he accepts.quite soon she wants to hold his hand.. this brother now tells her off, for in the family book it says holding hands is only for people who are going to get married.. he doesn't go out with such a spiritually weak sister again.. what has the socity done to these peoples lives.. many people who were once happy teenagers hoping to meet the wife or husband of their dreams are now approaching 40 or even older and have never even had a girlfriend.theri only hope is the new system and i don't want to breack the news to them but its not coming.

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  Brilliant Bean...brilliant
  We laugh because it's funny and we laugh because it's true
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  Do JW's Actually Believe This Stuff?!?

  by Mister Biggs in

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  this was just forwarded to me.. (we need more comets to help take all of the stupid people away from among us!).

  this comes from the branch in canada....... in england one of our blind brothers had a seeing-eye dog that would.

  faithfully guide and take him to the meetings each week.

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  Flower guess what ? In 27 years as jw I never read the yearbook or even an entire magazine...they bored me to tears!I was a pioneer too what a hypocrite eh?
  PS How are you?Worried.
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  Single at 40 .JW virgins.

  by sleepy in

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  come on admit it, if you were brought up a witness you were dead scared that you were going to end up like the men you saw prowling the assembles and congregations looking for wives.. there would always be men and women in there 30's and 40 who had never had a boy or girl friend.. i used to know quite a few.. the horror of their lives shocks me.. now i not dissing anyone who has chosen not to marry that is their choice.but these people i know want to meet someone and get married.. but the bad news is that the older they get the harder it is to find a wife .what makes it worse is that the choice is so limited.. many of these grown men are even affraid of women .

  why?.

  because they are taught that even to look at a woman is to commit imorality let alone talk to one.. i knew a brother who had never had a girl friend , he was about 26 at the time.now a sister asks to go out with him so he accepts.quite soon she wants to hold his hand.. this brother now tells her off, for in the family book it says holding hands is only for people who are going to get married.. he doesn't go out with such a spiritually weak sister again.. what has the socity done to these peoples lives.. many people who were once happy teenagers hoping to meet the wife or husband of their dreams are now approaching 40 or even older and have never even had a girlfriend.theri only hope is the new system and i don't want to breack the news to them but its not coming.

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  Sleepy that is soooo true luckily not for me!
  I knew one brother who was probably in his late 20's early 30's and used to prowl assemblies for sisters(ISP remember)Trouble is he was really slimey and gave sisters the heebie jeebies
  Last I'd heard he'd had a complete breakdown and was back in Wales living with his mother.(He must be 40 odd now at least)
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  newbie here!

  by greven in

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  hi everyboby!!.

  i am a newbie in signing on for this board, however i have been surfing here quite often.

  i really like this place so i decided to sign-up.

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  Greven hope you get as much from this board as I have.I've only been here a couple of weeks and I feel like I've been given a new lease of life(thanks ISP)Its brill!
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  Wasted life as a JW?....Be Optimistic!

  by ISP in

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  its not too late to learn or be educated or retrained etc!

  its easy for me to say i guess...but it cannot be anymore.

  times have definitely changed.. in the uk most folks planned on retiring at 60..possibly 55. it was important to get ahead while in your early 20s and hope to be coining it in your 30s, 40s.

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  I've got visions of all thesw jw window cleaners still cleaning windows in their 70's.....waiting for Armageddon.
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  ah.....Ludwig!

  by razorMind in

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  does anyone remember a little cartoon in the 1970's, in which the main character was a egg-like crystal(?

  ) creature named ludwig?

  when it came on, ludwig would fly into the scene with a little propeller, to the tune of a little violin musical ditty (beethoven, i assume).

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  Razor you're not insane unless we both have exactly the same imagination ! I remember Ludwig too! Absolutely bizarre man!
  It was actually only about 5 mins per show and was shown on BBC1
  here (UK)about 1977 (?) Whoever conceived this show was on something!
  It reminds me now of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python cartoons.
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  The rotten review

  by sleepy in

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  please answer the following questions true or false.. 1. the people of sodom and gomorrah might or might not be resurrected.. 2. charles russell was part of the faithful and discreet slave of matt 24:45.. 3. samuel gave king agag a pat on the back and a pardon for his errors.. 4. noah had no trouble feeding the lions in the ark as they were happy with a crispy salad.. 5. at armageddon the ground will open up a swallow naughty children and disabled people.

  any left over will cooked alive like a roast ox by fire from the heavens.. 6. when adam first met eve he thought that god had made a mistake and put his spare rib in the wrong place.. 7. j.f.rutherford was known as a kind and gentle man and like moses he didn't like to mention his humility.. 8. scientist are only noteworthy when they agree with us.. please fill in the blank space with the correct word or phrase.. 8. only the anointed remnant born before ________go to ____________.. 9. jehovah's witnesses are ___________allowed to think their own thoughts.. 10. jehovah's reveals truth to the governing body by means of __________.. 11. the average iq of a jehovah's witness is ___________.. 12.________________.. 13_________ with your wife is fornication.. 14. the society has always been willing to ___________ its mistakes.. please chose the correct words from the choices given.. 15. when children made fun of elijah he(said "well it doesn't matter they are only children"/gave them a bag of sweets and asked politely for them to stop/called on jehovah's to get a big angry bear to rip them to shreds).. 16. reading the latest history book you notice that jerusalem was destroyed in 607bce do you(investigate further to make sure what you believe is true/point this out to the society with the evidence and hope they will see they are in error/just ignore it like the rest as we all know scientists are crap and the watchtower writers have the highest iq's on earth).

  17. worldly people should be viewed as ( people would are just like us but have a different viewpoint/people who always have sinister and bad motives/the evilest scum of the earth who will be blasted to kingdom come by jehovah's of armies).

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  Whoops forgot my review oh well I'll just pretend!
  Used to look forward to written review ..peace and quiet on platform nice easy meeting...good time for a kip