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Xanthippe
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Goodbye and thank you.
by wallievase init's come time for me to leave.
i honestly feel at this point continuing to visit this site and others like it is starting to hinder me from moving on by keeping all the feelings of pain, resentment, regret, etc fresh.. i haven't posted a lot since i have been on here but to those of you that replied when i did, i appreciate it very much.
you helped me through a very rough time that is affecting me to this day.
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"Active Topics" button opens a wml file
by rebel8 inwhen i press the "active topics" button this morning, it tries to open a .wml file instead of taking me to active topics.. oh, the humanity!.
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Xanthippe
Oh cool thanks Simon
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"Active Topics" button opens a wml file
by rebel8 inwhen i press the "active topics" button this morning, it tries to open a .wml file instead of taking me to active topics.. oh, the humanity!.
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Xanthippe
They are updating 7 programs at work
Oh Blondie going through this stuff at work myself, I sympathise!!!
What I would really like is to see the like and dislikes on my own posts, if any.
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If you are single and have married friends, . . .
by compound complex inis your sense of loneliness (if you are lonely) heightened when you see what they share?
how do cope (if you are coping) with a sense of isolation, of not having a significant other?.
i know some single persons who are very happy as they are.
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Xanthippe
All of my friends are divorced. A couple of my friends have been married twice. I think they are still looking for the love of their life. I suppose I was lucky that I had a happy marriage, although I have to say marriage is hard work even when you are well suited.
Most of my work colleagues are married but I can't tell if they are happy, they seem to complain about their partners much of the time. Life and marriage aren't perfect are they? Is my loneliness heightened when I see couples? I don't think so, marriage is not easy and I don't particularly envy them.
Personally I just want to keep making more friends, more people to share my real feelings with. That could be because I adored my late husband so I have already met and later lost the love of my life. We always crave that which we have not already experienced don't we?
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Xanthippe
Oh dear, another Reformation. The Protestant Reformation was about let's get back to what the Bible really said. So these guys want to get back to what Russell really said. What can you say. I dunno, how about let's just use our own brains instead.
Stan - people's popular front of Judea LOL. What have the Romans done for us?
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Will my inactive JW bring our children up as a witness?
by stevepill ini have been with an in active jw for 6 years, she now wants to marry and have a child, will she want to bring a child up as a witness, she says not but any experiences?
will she start go back once we are married?
(i'm a non jw)
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Xanthippe
I could leave the COC book with her and the offer of my help, maybe one day she will get curious. I think by me pushing her for an answer now it's making it worse.
You have decided you will marry this lady haven't you Steve? Pushing her for an answer is making what worse? So you can't talk to this woman without her getting upset. Great start to a marriage. We have tried, Sweetie.
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Within one minute JW with trolley directs me to JW.org
by steve2 ini live in relatively small seaside community (regional population around 45,000).
in my ten years here, i've had witnesses call on me perhaps twice (not special visits but during door-to-door).
whereas they once canvassed door-to-door much more frequently - and in larger size service groups - there is quite a decline in their door-knocking - at least in this region.. with the advent of the "trolley" work, their visibility has increased - but i'd estimate only marginally.
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Xanthippe
I think the GB want them to direct people to JW.Borg because they don't want anyone discussing their beliefs the way we had to.
What would they do with the overlapping generations nonsense if they tried to explain when the paradise is coming? Or if someone raised the blood issue what would they answer now?
They can't let people waffle through teachings that are as clear as mud. They would quickly realise how stupid they are for one thing and no one would be converted.
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New KingDumb Song 139 released today.
by cappytan inthis is the fourth kingdumb song released since the annual meeting.
three were released back in october.
this one was released this week.. here's the link to the recording: http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/sing-to-jehovah-new-songs/prayer-stand-firm-139/.
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Xanthippe
As they’ve made the truth their own.
They finally stopped asking questions and learnt to STFU.As their faith was under test.
They've alienated all their friends and relatives and we called it Satan persecuting them.Through endurance and obedience,
The next few years we are going to work them into the ground.
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Which of these activities bothered you the most?
by RULES & REGULATIONS inwhich of these activities did you hate/bothered you the most?
rank them from 1-5 with the most hated to the least.. .
field service.
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Fortunately I was long gone before young kids got baptised or disfellowshipped. Really didn't enjoy giving talks and then having some stupid man pick it to pieces in that patronising way 'don't we appreciate our dear sisters' .... -
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The Theory Of Everything
by 88JM inquestion: should able-bodied actors play characters with disabilities?.
i got myself into a bit of a quandary over a discussion on a facebook group.
it was partly based on this article in the guardian:.
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Stephen actually developed the disease as a young man of 21 doing his PhD and not later in life. I read that he is one of the two people in the world who has survived motor neurone disease for more than two or three years. How would they find a similarly disabled actor if the progression is usually so fast?