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  Financially Are You Doing Better Than a Year Ago?

  by minimus in

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  this isn’t a usa question.

  is your financial situation better or worse or pretty much the same?.

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  Xanthippe

  The same as last year, but next month I have to apply for my own job for the third time in about eight years. Central government has drastically cut funding to local authorities so I will probably have my working hours cut again. They say this will be the last time. Ha!

  I'm in the UK, still one of the richest countries in the world but I'm annoyed that tax payer's money is funding new nuclear weapons. Depending on who you read Trident is going to cost between 50 and 200 billion pounds! So we have to cut funding for disabled people and libraries. Fear is running my country.
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  Jehovah’s Witness dating rules

  by Addison0998 in

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  i’m sorry that i talk about dating a lot, i know it is probably very annoying, but you don’t have to read it.

  but did anyone else have the most difficult time dating as a young jw?

  me and my boyfriend have been dating for a year in half, we are in our early 20’s, and we are still not allowed to hold hands, cuddle or kiss.

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  Xanthippe

  My sister married a guy who didn't want sex with her at all. She ended up so desperate she had sex with a stranger. She was the one publicly reproved not him. He might be gay or asexual, not marriage material, not to a woman anyway. Of course being a JW she didn't find out until they were married. She's been miserable with him for over forty years. Don't do that!
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  The Longest Goodbye Of John McCain

  by minimus in

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  can you believe it?

  this funeral arrangement goes on and on and on.

  if the people loved him so much he would have been elected president.

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  Xanthippe

  Strange the way the US honours even the politicians who didn't make it. We really don't honour politicians at all in the UK. Soon forgotten.
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  Twelve days in Spain -- Nary a JW Cart in Sight

  by Room 215 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just concluded a twelve-day holiday in spain... seven cities in twelve days -- and not one sighting of a jw cart..

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  Xanthippe

  Spain... seven cities in twelve days --

  Cool, sounds like a great holiday. Where next?
  
  
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  Bumped Into One Of My Best Friends On The Carts This Morning

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so this morning i'm walking to my office and there's the jws on their carts outside as usual.

  and old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder i instantly recognized from my jw days.

  one of my best friends of about 20 years.. i genuinely just wanted to say hi as i havent seen him in 3 years.

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  Xanthippe

  But I'll know for next time that no matter how close we were to a JW, even if we we're related - they just dont want to know. -PE

  The trouble is they're so invested in it all being true. If it isn't they've thrown away an education, a good job, probably married the wrong person because they had to marry only in the Lord. They've given up birthdays, Christmas, parties, dating, experimenting with sex. They've worn themselves out for a stupid, meaningless cult and their whole lives are a waste of time if you're right. So you have to be wrong, bitter, a bad person.
  
  
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  Bumped Into One Of My Best Friends On The Carts This Morning

  by pale.emperor in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so this morning i'm walking to my office and there's the jws on their carts outside as usual.

  and old sister, a brother in his 20s and an elder i instantly recognized from my jw days.

  one of my best friends of about 20 years.. i genuinely just wanted to say hi as i havent seen him in 3 years.

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  Xanthippe

  You did good PE. A really human response. It takes great courage to be real in the face of this fake religion.
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  shameless pride in my daughter in law

  by nonjwspouse in

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  2. entertainment

  she is two weeks postpartum after having my granddaughter when she sang this .

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulm5zl-isa.

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  Xanthippe

  Great voice, I like the lyrics.
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  Why does it affect us so deeply?

  by stuckinarut2 in

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  i was having a great chat with a valued friend and fellow forum member today on the phone.. we were discussing how deeply we all get affected by jw interactions - even years after fading or disassociating.. you know what i mean.

  those days when we run into jws who we considered to be our close friends.

  or "loving shepherds" who don't act kindly.

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  Xanthippe

  It's more like a virus that invades your body when you're in a week state and takes over your DNA to multiply itself. We eventually find the strength to fight it off and develop antibodies to prevent it returning.
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  Strange first names among jw's

  by fulano in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  do you remember those families where all the sons and daughters had weird biblical names?.

  i recall a " machlon" , "eunice" , even a "jehosafath".

  can you believe it..

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  Xanthippe

  Potiphar Peleg was jokingly on one of the elder's baby names list. She ended up as Abigail. Don't mind Abigail but Abishag?
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  Apostasy: The Movie - Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo

  by darkspilver in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  daniel kokotajlo's new film apostasy has it's world premiere at the toronto international film festival in september 2017. apostasy.

  family and faith come into conflict for two jehovah’s witness sisters in manchester, when one is condemned for fornication and the other pressured to shun her sibling.. this fresh, unadorned first feature from director dan kokotajlo carries an unmistakable note of authenticity from its very first scenes.

  set in a jehovah's witness community in england, the film's strength and power lies in its directness.. apostasy depicts the growing rift in a family — a mother and two daughters — who are rigorously devoted to their religion.

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  Xanthippe

  I saw this on Saturday evening in Manchester with my daughter. It was 100% accurate which left me feeling limp with emotion at the end. The attitude of the elders to Louisa who wanted to get reinstated. Are you repentant enough? Over and over again! A young pregnant girl all on her own and unwell too. I wanted to deck them. So accurate. The lack of grief at the death. Shocking. It made my daughter cry and she's never been a witness. Brilliant film.