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  Men: What's your favorite cologne?

  by ozziepost in

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  i don't see why we should allow such blatant discrimination on the board as to allow a thread "for women" only, asking their favorite men's cologne.

  so guys and blokes, so that we can participate, how's about declaring before these ladies your favorite cologne/after shave?

  mine's tuscany.

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  zenpunk

  Well - I'm not a man but I wear men's cologne (gasp!). I wear Pleasures for Men. It just smells yummy.
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  Bad JW Dating Experiences

  by zenpunk in

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  for a short period of time i experienced the joys of dating within the organization.

  here are two of my personal examples:.

  i dated a guy for about a month who's mother (in her late 30s by the way) was supposedly of the "anointed".

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  Terafera-

  The guy with the "anointed" mother was in Florida. Anyway, I feel sorry you had to experience that incident. We had a "Farm" boy at our congregation that used to pull the same sort of stunts. Fortunately, being as unpopular with the boys as I was, I wasn't a target. What was interesting though is that a few years after he arrived at our hall he got in a serious car accident. 5 sisters from surrounding congregations fled to his bedside, all claiming to be his girlfriend!
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  How Sad: Obie Gonna Die ... And my Kids Too!

  by obiefernandez in

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  for now... luis is her husband.. obie wan cubano says:.

  safari chic says:.

  safari chic says:.

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  My mom once said to me "I guess you'd better try to enjoy this life because you won't be around in the next system of things". It broke my heart.
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  A- on my Term Paper! --- MMMmmmmWaaah

  by outnfree in

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  thank you very much to the wonderful contributors to this thread.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=29183&site=3 who helped me out so much!!!.

  as you can see from the subject line, i got an a- (93%) on my term paper "active euthanasia can be moral"!

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  Congrats! - That's not an easy topic to do a paper on either!
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  stephanie and her new girlfriend...

  by airwlk149 in

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  this has nothing to do with jw's whatsoever, and it is totally personal, so here goes.... i went over to my ex girlfriend's house to pick up my mail.

  (i moved out and some of my mail still goes there even though i put in a change of address form.

  ) we had gotten in a fight the night before.

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  zenpunk

  Whenever I've had ex's try to tell me about their new relationships I always immediately pointed out the fact that they are being extremely inconsiderate! It's usually a head game they're playing and it will frustrate them if you don't allow yourself to get sucked in by it. Lesbian relationships are tough - you've got to deal with people in a multitude of phases of "coming out" as well as those who treat it as a hobby. In other words, as soon as a man's on the scene - they're gone.
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  How do YOU deal with it??

  by bad_associashun in

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  hello all- recently joined, had some probs getting logged in, but here at last.... anyway, the question is: for those that can relate, when your heart feels heavy from the hurt, pain, regret, sorrow, bitterness, anger... and the lost years, stolen time, forsaken friends, broken relationships, wasted energies, abandonment, and lost love weighs on you --> caused by wt org.

  stress.... how do you get past it?

  what heals you, brings you relief, rescues you from total worthless feelings of inadequacy, comforts your wounds, keeps you from jumping on the train tracks?.

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  zenpunk

  You've got to focus on and fill your life with new happinesses. It took me years to learn this. I used to be so filled with anger. Then, sometime ago I met a fellow XJW who was my best friend 13 years ago. When I saw how the anger had consumed him, I realized I couldn't let this 10 year period in my past destroy my entire life. I take it one day at a time...
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  Yoga Anyone?

  by dobby in

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  i just read with interest an article entitled yoga - just an exercise or something more?

  in the august 1, 2002 watchtower.. i know that growing up a witness i had always been told that yoga was related to spiritism and the occult.

  however, with the popularity of yoga among the mainstream in recent years as a means to keep fit not as a means to find spiritual enlightment, i thought the society may have lightened up a bit.

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  I can't believe that crap. I love Yoga, in fact I will be in Yoga class after work tonight. I think the WTS is against exercise that promotes mediatation with the pretense that it leaves the mind open for demons, when, in actuality they just don't want to lose their grasp on the "mind control".
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  why waste time?

  by lucidentity in

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  if everyone here , or nearly everyone here does not believe the jw's then why waste your time going onto these websites.

  when everyone leaves the truth they automaticaly go to jw websites....why?

  if you no longer believe it why waste your time?.

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  This is one part therapy and two parts friendship. Not only do we need support when we leave, but many of us who were once wholeheartedly in the "truth" have no friends when we decide to leave. The site is a great way to help me readjust to the real world.
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  The Medium of "Truth"

  by jschwehm in

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  "that is why i believe it is essential to view bible truths as existing independently of the wts, though the wts publications continue to attach themselves to core bible teachings in such a way as to depict themselves as the medium of such teachings, rather than the bible.".

  the comment above is very interesting.

  if i understand correctly this is something that greg stafford has written.

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  That comment reminds me of how the WTS used to critize the Catholic Church for not letting its followers read the bible themselves (keeping it in Latin, etc.) hundreds of years ago. Actually the WTS isn't any better and, they make it worse by making its followers feel that they are actually reading the scriptures when they are reading the WTS interpretation....
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  Bad JW Dating Experiences

  by zenpunk in

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  for a short period of time i experienced the joys of dating within the organization.

  here are two of my personal examples:.

  i dated a guy for about a month who's mother (in her late 30s by the way) was supposedly of the "anointed".

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  zenpunk

  For a short period of time I experienced the joys of dating within the organization. Here are two of my personal examples:

  I dated a guy for about a month who's mother (in her late 30s by the way) was supposedly of the "anointed". She said the angles spoke directly to her and, when I visited their house it was piled to the ceiling with clothes from yard sales. She loved to buy used clothes and put them in piles. She also had a big ol' vibrator on the bed that my "boyfriend" insisted was for her neck when I asked him about it. It was quite an interesting shape! I broke up with him after a month - 'cause he was a little bit out there, if you know what I mean.

  I also dated a guy, an elder's son, that one day when I stopped by to find out why he wasn't at the Sunday meeting, found him in bed with his 15 year old cousin. Of course he denied it and I remember the elders had the nerve to counsel me that because of the two witness rule, I had to wait for Jehovah to bring it out - all while I was sobbing in the back of the Kingdom Hall (we dated for about a year and had plans to get married). When I look back at that situation it just sickened me.

  So - any more good stories out there?