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  jw marriages age differences

  by invisible in

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  of 3 that straightaway spring to mind:.

  dg (m) 64 e (f) 27. bm (m) 49 d (f) 18. pl (m) 43 e (f) 18.

  2 of the above were also 'arranged' marriages, do you know of any other instances of extremes in jw marriage age ranges?

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  Xander

  possibly keep up with sexually

  Oh, *phthbp*, of COURSE he can. If she was raised like most good JW girls, she's deathly afraid of sex, anyway.

  One of the 'young eligible' sisters in our hall actually mentioned that as a reason to marry an older man. Not only would you be getting someone with more income (window washers do make more the longer they stick with their company), they'd be more spiritual, and you 'don't have to deal with the whole sex thing, because they'd be too spiritual to want it' Wow, what a burden off THEIR mind that must have been...
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  We need a little controversy !

  by lucidentity in

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  it is always interesting to note the blasphemy and the be-littling of higher powers.

  how dare you all question god?

  how dare you all think that with your puny little brains you have conquered the mysteries and understandings of life?

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  Xander

  I too lost my faith through ' BROTHERS'...elders who were no worse than the scum from the streets, how they shunned me when I wasnt even d'fd. One brother actually said that he was going to treat me as being d'fd , not because I was , but because he feels I should have been.
  ....... But I am going to put all that behind me as I can really see that Jehovah will put it all right.

  You need help.

  I'll offer a tip for free (cause I'm feeling like a nice guy right now):

  Read Crisis of Conscience. Or, hell, read around the net for a while.

  Here's a clue (cause you don't seem to have one):

  You know that brother you complained about? Who was arrogant, haughty, and didn't reflect 'true christian' principles in any way? Your organization is run by others like him.
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  Hot New Aussie JW story.."x-jw and the blo...

  by TheApostleAK in

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  2. friends

  i gotta tell you this story... .

  was at the doctors today (damn flu!

  ) and instead of my usual doctor i had another one.

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  SYN: Well, no, actually...they'd prefer you dead. That way, you can't influence others in your family AT ALL.

  MARILYN: I dunno, it always seemed they hated you more for still being a good person after leaving. Kinda showed up their whole 'leaving makes you bad and immoral' banner.

  Now, the ones who leave and get pregnant/get someone pregnant, get a ton of tattoos, do drugs, lose their jobs, etc....

  Now THOSE are the ones they like to keep bringing up...
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  About privacy on the forum

  by Simon in

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  kent and his merry followers seem to have made privacy their latest crusade and unfortunately they have decided to act in a completely irresponsible manner imho.. the forum software uses cookies to remember a users login details and can also be useful for identifying duplicate accounts.

  it is not used for anything sinister and cannot be used to identify someone - all it gives is an indication that a computer is being used by more than one username and has been invaluable in identifying trouble makers like mario kempes / yo yo mama / sexy teen / help others (asking for money) and many others.

  i believe that this is a good thing to do as i do not believe it compromises anyones privacy and does help prevent everyone wasting their time responding to people who are just "yanking our chain".. apart from the accounts that you have seen and know there are many more that you may not be aware of.

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  Xander

  Incidently: Implying cookies and javascript settings are common knowledge is EXTREMELY ignorant. It IS common knowledge among IT folk, perhaps. That is NOT most computer users. No mention is made of them in the window manual. Indeed, there is NOT ONE reference to them even in the Win98 or Win2k help file (don't have XP at work, but I bet no mention is made there, either).
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  About privacy on the forum

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  kent and his merry followers seem to have made privacy their latest crusade and unfortunately they have decided to act in a completely irresponsible manner imho.. the forum software uses cookies to remember a users login details and can also be useful for identifying duplicate accounts.

  it is not used for anything sinister and cannot be used to identify someone - all it gives is an indication that a computer is being used by more than one username and has been invaluable in identifying trouble makers like mario kempes / yo yo mama / sexy teen / help others (asking for money) and many others.

  i believe that this is a good thing to do as i do not believe it compromises anyones privacy and does help prevent everyone wasting their time responding to people who are just "yanking our chain".. apart from the accounts that you have seen and know there are many more that you may not be aware of.

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  Xander

  you and Xander are unable to understand it is undoubtedly more due to your hatred for Kent than a lack of understanding simple English

  Whoah, hold on here buddy.

  Carefully note how long I've been openly out of the borg (that would be my registration date).

  I have nothing against Kent - I'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD ABOUT HIM before. (Well, not QUITE true, I think I read another post at one point that, in retrospect, was probably about Kent). I've certainly never visited his forums before.

  Simon mentioned someone causing trouble, you posted a link. I followed the link, and, as a quite dispasionate third party, came to the conclusion this person was indeed trying to cause problems.

  If he was just offering general tips on how to beef up internet security, he would have included info on disabling javascript, not giving out passwords, how to watch for spyware, etc (at the very least).

  No, of ALL the potential 'internet security' topics he picked the ONLY one to discuss that is relevant to THIS board. And, since it is by far the LEAST dangerous 'security hole' (you are much, MUCH more vulnerable through Javascript or spyware), there could only be one reason he would choose to make an issue of it.
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  Why do you believe???

  by truthseeker1 in

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  i have a question for everybody.

  it has probably been asked before, but i'll ask it again in case anyone changed their minds.... why do/don't you believe in god/god.

  what give you faith in things not beheld/makes you not believe?.

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  Xander

  EVERYONE thinks she's pretty. Get in line.

  As to the thread....

  Well, I don't believe in the 'christian god'. There is no single, all-powerful being who sometimes answers the prayer of someone whose truck broke down but most the time just lets people be gang raped, brutally murdered, mass executed, starve to death, die a slow painful death from any of myriads upon myriads of diseases (where the hell did the virus and bacteria come from if a single all-powerful and loving god was responsible for all life?), etc.

  I think there ARE higher powers than we are aware of. They just, collectively, don't care about us. That's not to say that they don't, individually, sometimes interfere for good or ill. Think more like the 1st world relations to the third world. Sometimes the US helps. Sometimes we don't. Sometimes France helps instead. Or, the UK. Or, nobody. Or....

  It all really depends on the countries in question and our mood at the time. But, their is no single nation ultimately responsible for all good and evil, who created all the 3rd world nations and is the sole controller of what good and bad happens to them.
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  Evolution/Creation Talk

  by truthseeker1 in

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  this last sunday we had the evolution/creation talk.

  it was hard to sit there and take that load of crap.

  its funny because the night before i looked up a lot of evolution info at different schools on the web so the arguments were fresh in my mind.

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  Xander

  people who believe in evolution encourage people to act like animals, because thats where we came from

  I'm almost 100% sure that quote originated from a WTBTS publication. I KNOW I've heard it before from 'the stand'. Certainly, other ilk of its kind, like taking Darwin out of context (regularly), quoting people as the definitive source for knowledge evolution-related, then shooting their arguments down (and, generally, these 'sources' turned out to be closet Young Earth Creationists or similar).

  Someone has on the net (I think) a VERY good critique of the 'Evolution' book, which is guilty of some pretty serious flaws. (IE., if you turned in a chapter of that book for a Term paper, you'd fail due to the extreme literary liberties taken).
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  Sydlik's Prayer and Sunday's NYC Convention

  by Mister Biggs in

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  for saturday's coverage, click here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=31702&site=3.

  sunday:.

  walk to bus (10 blocks or so).

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  Xander

  In The Name Of The Watchtower Bible And Tract Society

  *choke*

  Oh, that's *perfect*.
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  WTS confirms head covering regulations

  by ozziepost in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  as a service by jehovah's "loving" organisation, the wts has issued a list of situations where sisters are to wear a "head covering".

  2. conducting a bible study with baptized son.

  1. conducting a family study where husband is not present.

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  Xander

  5. Conducting a study with a baptized male present.

  6. Conducting a study with unbaptized brother present.

  BREAKS!

  Oh, I can see why their numbers are falling off in this country.

  JW lady (with son at door): "Would you like a free home bible study?"

  Housewife: "Oh, heck, you keep bugging me about it, why not? C'mon in..."

  {Fade scene - they are now sitting at a table and the sister is fiddling around in her bag}

  Housewife : "GOOD GRIEF - what are you putting on!?!?!"

  JW lady (with son at study): "Oh, it's just my burka head covering. It's required for women to wear them when studying in the presence of a brother..."

  Housewife : "OUT OUT OUT OUT!!!"
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  About privacy on the forum

  by Simon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  kent and his merry followers seem to have made privacy their latest crusade and unfortunately they have decided to act in a completely irresponsible manner imho.. the forum software uses cookies to remember a users login details and can also be useful for identifying duplicate accounts.

  it is not used for anything sinister and cannot be used to identify someone - all it gives is an indication that a computer is being used by more than one username and has been invaluable in identifying trouble makers like mario kempes / yo yo mama / sexy teen / help others (asking for money) and many others.

  i believe that this is a good thing to do as i do not believe it compromises anyones privacy and does help prevent everyone wasting their time responding to people who are just "yanking our chain".. apart from the accounts that you have seen and know there are many more that you may not be aware of.

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  Xander

  It should actually be considerably easier. I was just taking a look at the cookies stored for Kent's board and this one - Kent's *appears* to store FAR less information about the visit. Granted, I'm not registered there, and am here, but...

  *smacks self*

  Sorry, 'chaotic evil' speaking again.

  PEOPLE SHOULD STOP FUX0RING WITH ANYONE'S MESSAGE BOARDS!!

  So, there!