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Marriage

by Mr Magoo in

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when i married my jw wife i was told that marriage was a very important thing.. i have, however, later learned that:.

1) my sister-in-laws husbands jw brother got divorced because his jw wife fooled around.. 2 - 3) 2 couples were divorced after we got married (212 years ago).

one of them had only been married for a couple of years.

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thank you, thinker's wife, i think i finally DID get it right!:)

i'm happy for what you and thinker have found too!

nate

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Am I unwelcome here?

by Esmeralda in

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i've been sitting here a little while lurking about and reading posts...and.

forcing myself not to post to several threads that i know would get me.

i have a comment that i have to make though, and i hope that.

hi, esmeralda! i was thinking about your original post, and i think i know what you are saying, i came in right before the big influx of H2O'ers but still very recently, so i am a newcomer too. i actually liked waiting's description of the coffee shop gone popular, it doesn't make it a bad coffee shop, and it doesn't mean the new people are all lame!

i hope you don't leave the board, and though i can in no way speak for them, i doubt the old-timers mind any of us newbies who remember civility most of the time.:)

a side note i'm sure to regret, tina, why did you have to bring your beef with LW into this thread? does it always have to be about a soapbox? i'm not trying to be an Ahole, here, i just don't see how that had any place in the subject matter, except maybe to promote your own feelings about another poster. just a question-nate

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Marriage

by Mr Magoo in

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when i married my jw wife i was told that marriage was a very important thing.. i have, however, later learned that:.

1) my sister-in-laws husbands jw brother got divorced because his jw wife fooled around.. 2 - 3) 2 couples were divorced after we got married (212 years ago).

one of them had only been married for a couple of years.

unanswered

magoo-great topic!

my first marriage didn't last 2 years, mostly because i think we were too young, and made the decision too quickly. i wasn't a perfect witness at the time, but i i didn't feel like we could move in together w/out being married, because i wasn't ready to totally give up on the WT yet. i wish we had. we both could have been spared a trying marriage that ended painfully.

during that marriage i eventually did walk away from the WT, so after i was divorced i felt free to follow my instincts on what was right for me as far as relationships are concerned. i don't even consider myself an immoral person, just a realist. later, when i met rileygurl, things seemed so good, and i had never dated someone i felt so bonded and attracted to, but i still wasn't going to hop into marriage without testing the water, i just wasn't willing to make that mistake again. so we moved in together and things WERE great, i ended up comitting my life to her long before we got married. when we did get married it was cool, but almost unecessary-we were already bonded for life.:)

it felt so good to go into marriage knowing that we had as good of a foundation for one as possible, knowing that there might still be suprises down the road, but that the relationship had already stood up to testing, and stayed strong. i wish that so many young witnesses did not have to feel pressured to marry young because of hormones that they cannot control. i wish that most of them didn't have to enter marriage thinking that things would be easier after they got married, only to find out that they just get harder. maybe a few moments of "immorality" ARE better than wasting a good portion, if not all, of your life on a bad marriage. just my two-nate

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How a jW can 'get away with' taking blood

by Tallyman in

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all you have to do is pay some (phony) penance and a variation of the following:.

day 1 in hospital - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.

hlc to jw patient: did you take blood today?.

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kult cake!!! no wonder my parents keep coming back for more!!!

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How a jW can 'get away with' taking blood

by Tallyman in

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all you have to do is pay some (phony) penance and a variation of the following:.

day 1 in hospital - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.

hlc to jw patient: did you take blood today?.

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tally, you are too funny, and the last picture was just icing on the cake!-nate

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Celebrate with me!!!

by silentlambs in

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today marks a milestone in what we are trying to accomplish.

today marks over 2000 hits to silentlambs website.

we can now say honestly, thousands have visited www.silentlambs.org .

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congratulations, silentlambs!!

i admire the work you are doing so much. hopefully the WT will finally have to take some action towards prevention, and stop down-playing the problem. cheers-nate.

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Written review

by Moxy in

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i have a number of things to say about this wacky 45min school session.. why is it that it is inappropriate for the conductor to ever simply say that an answer is 'wrong'?

invariably, he must ask for 'another answer,' particularly amusing during the true & false when there is only one other answer.

shouldnt we be helped to reason on why someone might incorrectly come to this conclusion but why, in fact, this other conclusion is the 'correct' one?

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LOL, moxy!! i hadn't thought about written reviews for a while. i always found them to be odd as well. the section at the end where you match the scripture to the paraphrased text, what was that all about? an exercise in flipping through the bible? quite pointless, IMO. thanks for bringing back the memories, they are always good for a laugh.:)-nate

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Your best caption please.

by nicolaou in

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we all know how this works, just give us your best caption for this pic' .

[why do i get the feeling that 'gutter' will crop up more than once?].

nic'.

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"sir?"(through clenched teeth and forced smile),"i really, really hate selling these magazines, and i know that you don't want them, but, if you could just take them, i would look a lot better to that nosy looking group of people with bookbags, across the street."

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