Posts by InquiryMan

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Hi! Life story of young, 23-year-old (gay), disassociated, non-baptized publisher

by HillCountry in

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hello, this is my first post and the first time i have told my entire story, albeit abridged, to anyone.

it will be a long story, sorry.. my grandparents were brought up with different religious backgrounds but converted to bible students around the depression era.

later, my grandfather met my grandmother through the congregation and got married until his death, having a marriage that lasted over four decades.

Hi! Life story of young, 23-year-old (gay), disassociated, non-baptized publisher

by HillCountry in

jw
friends

hello, this is my first post and the first time i have told my entire story, albeit abridged, to anyone.

it will be a long story, sorry.. my grandparents were brought up with different religious backgrounds but converted to bible students around the depression era.

later, my grandfather met my grandmother through the congregation and got married until his death, having a marriage that lasted over four decades.

InquiryMan

Hi!

Thanks for sharing your touching story.

I have written you a PM.

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Obamas vs Romneys

by InquiryMan in

just a funny poll from a european perspective:.

in a major norwegian newspaper 84 percent voted barack obama best in the 2nd presidential debate,.

at the same time there was a poll on which dress was the most flattering to their wives they were both in pink.. michelle got the exact same vote as her husband, 84 per cent were in favor of her dress.. .

InquiryMan

Just a funny poll from a European perspective:

In a major Norwegian newspaper 84 percent voted Barack Obama best in the 2nd presidential debate,
at the same time there was a poll on which dress was the most flattering to their wives – they were both in pink.

Michelle got the exact same vote as her husband, 84 per cent were in favor of her dress.

:-)

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September 11, 2001- Where were you?

by SophieG in

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i work at a major airline in the in-flight training department.

i was sitting at the desk on the computer, i kid you not... writing the security (hijacking) curriculum for 2002, when someone came in and told me a plane flew into the wtc.

we all thought it was one of our planes.

InquiryMan

I was told when taking a shower with a group of men from work after training.
I then returned to work, having more work to do... Another JW was also working overtime,
we could not concentrate too much as the news unfolded on the web....

mentally, i was on the way out, although I stepped down as an elder a year after that....

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5 Reasons Why the DEAF Masturbation Video is different than anything before...

by BluePill2 in

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as some of you have noticed the asl video warning against masturbation (another guilt trip) is creating waves.

this is not small fry.

1. it is humorous - most topics (like other policies) are serious/depressing (blood, shunning, pedos).

InquiryMan

well

http://www.abload.de/img/untitled-1l3kkd.gif

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Mast... Video hits Norway

by InquiryMan in

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it is given wide coverage at the web site pondus.no which is a comic strip web site:.

http://www.pondus.no/default.aspx?section=artikkel&id=20823.

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InquiryMan

Vi tuller ikke med tegnspråk i denne artiklen. Bare den ekstreme motsetningen mellom det denne glattslikkede narren står for, og hvordan han han fremstiller visse aktiviteter. "

translated: We are not mocking ASL in this article. Only the extremity in the differences between what this slippery licked lunatic is representing and how he portrays certain activities.

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Mast... Video hits Norway

by InquiryMan in

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friends

it is given wide coverage at the web site pondus.no which is a comic strip web site:.

http://www.pondus.no/default.aspx?section=artikkel&id=20823.

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InquiryMan

it is given wide coverage at the web site pondus.no which is a comic strip web site:

http://www.pondus.no/default.aspx?section=artikkel&id=20823

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What Do You think About Watchtower View on the Use Of Mother's Natural Milk Banks and Milk-Sharing Practices?

by Scott77 in

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-09-02/breast-milk-bank-donors/57535706/1.

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InquiryMan

This is an American cultural thing.... The sentiments against breast feeding are not the same everywhere... In my country of Norway public display of breast feeding is everywhere and most people accept that without any problems whatsoever.

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HEAR YE! HEAR YE! ADVENTISTS' GROWTH RATE IN BRAZIL OUTSTRIPS JWS'

by steve2 in

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joker10 started a thread some days ago - putatively just to "inform" us - about the growth of self-identifying jehovahs witnesses in brazil across two census periods, the year 2000 to the year 2010. this led to some enlivened discussion about growth rates, including in particular how this compared with other similar 'vintage' 'christianized' religions such as the mormons (latter-day saints of the church of jesus christ) and seventh-day adventists (sdas).

joker10 readily obliged by posting within the same day the relevant growth rates for the latter-day saints in brazil over the same census periods.

the jw growth rate easily outstripped those for the latter-day saints.