Topics Started by Swan

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What positive things can you take from being raised JW?
by Mickey mouse in
1. jw
2. friends
rather than getting too down about wasting the best years of my life in a cult .

i have a really great imagination.

you have to have one to get through five hours of meetings per week at a young age.
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Once You Had Doubts, How Long Before You Got On The Internet?
by minimus in
1. jw
2. friends
the watchtower society keeps telling everyone to stay away from the evil internet.

they claim that once you surf the internet, even if it's done innocently, it's the beginning of the end.

were you personally affected in your faith because you turned on the computer?
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Imponderables -- Why would God Almighty Need a Day of Rest?
by Swan in
1. watchtower
2. medical
another thread reminded me of some of the things i used to think about growing up.

here are some of the things i used to think about back when i was a doubting jw.... why would an omnipotent all-powerful god need a seventh day of rest?

and if he was everlasting to everlasting, don't you think he was already bored with resting and that's why he started creating in the first place?
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Venus Williams is engaged
by orbison11 in
1. jw
2. friends
tennis star venus williams is engaged to her boyfriend of a year hank kuehne.

(over the holidays)
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Oddly Enough News
by MsMcDucket in
1. social
2. current
back to story - helpwhat are you doing here?

- man asks wife at brothel wed jan 9, 11:10 am et .

a polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.
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Bullying is a crime!
by Gill in
1. jw
2. friends
the last few months have been very difficult for us.. my husband has been experiencing bullying by his boss at work and his management team.

there is no reason for the bullying....it is just happening.

he is repeatedly being asked into investigations and disciplinary meetings for issues so small that his trade union representatives are at their wits end and have finally decided to call in the head of their trade union and a lawyer to begin going down the road of constructive dismissal.
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Things I Don't Get About Christmas
by Swan in
1. jw
2. friends
it's been a while since i've started a post.

some of you may remember me.

i'm writing tonight because i feel like such an outsider at christmas sometimes.
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Well, now THAT was exciting! :o)
by onacruse in
1. jw
2. friends
we're in the middle of a little windstorm here (portland, or).

not much of one, really, compared to some of the others i've experienced here.. about 11 p.m. bikerchic and i heard something hit the house, and there was a pretty good thud on the ground.

i thought that it was probably just a big branch, but bikerchic came running in and said: "did you hear that?
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((Swan))
by onacruse in
1. jw
2. friends
it was great talking with you tonight!.

first and foremost, it's very gratifying to know that your hubby is on the heal from his recently diagnosed cancer.

i could hear him in the background, and he certainly sounded like he was in good spirits (even if he is a bit of a raspy old fellow lol).
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Kudos to the Christians/Believers on JWD. (seriously)
by Open mind in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
first off i'd like to say that the title of this thread is not tongue-in-cheek.

i remember a thread from ak-jeff a couple months ago where he observed how some posters develop a condescending attitude towards christians and how that made him feel like he didn't really fit in here.

i'm sure that may have come across (unintentionally) in some of my recent threads where i've related my arrival at agnosticism/atheism.