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  After the death of a spouse, how long did people wait to get remarried?

  by RubaDub in

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  i was on the phone with a long-time friend from my original congregation north of new york city and she told me that the 'shit hit the fan' when a brother (long-time elder i know well) got remarried about 6 weeks after his wife died.. he was about 60 and his new wife (a pioneer that i also know) was about 50 and had never been married.. it became a huge issue when the co came.

  due to all the talk and chatter in the congregation, he even included in one of his talks without naming names, that marriage is something sacred and that when and how people get married is a personal matter as long as it conforms to bible standards.. anyway, it shut everybody up.

  any similar experiences in your current/former congregations?.

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  FedUpJW

  I knew a couple that "kindly" took in another young guy and provided him a place to live. The husband was killed in a logging accident and the wife married the live in boarder less then one month later. Of course I suspect they were mattress dancing before the husband was ever killed.
  
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  confused with nowhere to turn

  by Rebecca in

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  i'm 43 and a divorced mother of 2. in january 2019 i met the man i thought i could spend the rest of my life with.

  we were happy and even though our relationship wasn't perfect (like all relationships) i thought we had a chance and were building a life together with our young kids.

  background on me - i've been divorced since 2012 after 12 years of marriage.

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  FedUpJW

  What should i do?

  RUN!!! Run fast, run far, do not look back. Oh, and did I say RUN?
  
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  Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?

  by minimus in

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  2. friends

  good move or bad?

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  FedUpJW

  Trump has certainly not been as strike-happy as Obama was.

  obama made the comment that he was getting pretty good at killing people. I guess he was right. Obama ordered 542 drone strikes while president, resulting in the deaths of 3,797 people, including 542 civilians.

  But don't let the facts confuse you. We all "KNOW" that President Trump is the only bad guy here, right?
  
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  Which songs give you goosebumps?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i don't know if this topic has been covered before - it might 've been.. i also recommend flipper's excellent music thread ('what songs have you been listening to?

  ', or similar).. but, i'd just like to start a thread about certain songs giving me goosebumps.

  y'know, when you hear a song that profoundly effects you in some difficult-to-describe way and the hairs on your arm stand on end even though the room temperature's comfortably warm.. so, which songs give you goosebumps?.

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  FedUpJW

  For me, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards playing Amazing Grace.
  
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  What the 2019 Service Report is really hiding

  by BottleGate_ in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlwfeoq2514&feature=youtu.be.

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  FedUpJW

  Only in Dubland can it be "thrilling" to see that in 2019 it took 8,471,008 JW's 2,088,560,437 hours to get 303,866 persons baptized compared to the twenty years ago totals of 5,544,059 JW's 1,186,666,708 hours to get 316,092
  persons baptized.

  Nearly 3 million more JW's spending nearly double the time to get just over 12,000 less baptized.

  Not so impressive when one looks at the numbers side-by-side.
  
  
  
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  Poll: When my PIMI wife comes back from meeting. she is a different person. how many out there experience the same and why?

  by goingthruthemotions in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so i am trying to understand if i am the only pomo that experiences the situation where the pimi spouse comes back from a meeting a different personanlity.

  it may not be obivious to the untrained eye, but i notice it and i know my sons notice it.

  this last round after all the loyalty bs and armagedon bs it's like she has stayed stuck in it.

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  FedUpJW

  I noticed that in the distant past when I was still married to a PIMI and was starting to make my escape from the hamster wheel. She would be loving, kind, considerate, helpful and all the other things that two people can do to make a marriage pleasant. The minute the last "Amen" at a meeting was said she turned into a cold, distant, non-talking shrew. It usually took two or three days of marital misery before she would lose that attitude. Then it was time for the next meeting and it started all over again. Glad that page of life is done.
  
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  Prayers for special servants

  by road to nowhere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  my very much in wife commented with no prompting that they have a hierarchy in prayers.

  bless the gb, co, elders, pioneers.

  if the ill or shutins are mentioned that is all, not so much as a phone call let alone a visit.

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  FedUpJW

  If the ill or shutins are mentioned that is all, not so much as a phone call let alone a visit.

  That is something that always put me off about the fake humble prayers. It was always, "Jehovah help those who are ill or shut-in to know that we miss them, and we look forward to when we can see them here at the Kingdom Hall again." It was NEVER help US to go SHOW THEM we miss them. Just a phony "Jehovah help them". I guess they salve their conscience, if they have one, by saying those hollow meaningless words, and forget what their Bible says, "Faith WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD."

  Yeah, it pisses me off when they flap their gums and do nothing.
  
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  2019 service report is out

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  the 2019 report is out:.

  https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/media_publication/29/syr19_e.pdf.

  the “average publisher” figure for individual countries has made a comeback!

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  FedUpJW

  A person with a full time job (40 hours per week) would be paid for 2080 hours in a full year. Given the 2,088,560,437 hours the Dubs spent "preaching", and the whopping large 303,866 that got dunked that is only about three and one-third years of forty hour weeks spent getting each person dunked. Who says that there are more productive ways to spend ones time? (Sarcasm)
  
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  What is the average cost to build a new Kingdom Hall

  by jworld in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was recently told that the average cost to build a new kingdom hall in the united states rural midwest region was $250,000.

  i was shocked to say the least.

  i remember when my childhood congregation built a new hall in 1989 for $60,000.

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  FedUpJW

  In my Congo. we had a guy who was (is) an owner of a construction company. He would always get involved on any Q.B that was happening,even if it was hundreds of miles away, he liked to be the Big Know- Effin- Everything on site.

  Yeah, there was one of those where I am located too. He finally went belly-up after embezzling a bunch of money from his business, getting caught several times for tax evasion, and left the area owing thousands of dollars to Witness employees, material providers and others who never got paid. But he did manage to get appointed as an elder in the southern US state where he ran away to.
  
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  What is the average cost to build a new Kingdom Hall

  by jworld in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was recently told that the average cost to build a new kingdom hall in the united states rural midwest region was $250,000.

  i was shocked to say the least.

  i remember when my childhood congregation built a new hall in 1989 for $60,000.

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  FedUpJW

  Wasn't that called Indentured Servitude at one time.

  Well the Dubs DO pride themselves on being "slaves".