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  Homework Help Please

  by duckie in

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  i am at my boyfriends house this weekend and his 11 year hold daughter has a homework project, she needs to make a wall chart with interesting bits about the human body, like, "the larget organ in the body is the skin".. can anyone help with interesting facts about the human body, true facts and not smutty?.

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  Buster

  most active organ: the brain - like when it wonders why someone uses such a topic for their first post in this forum?
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  Do u feel u missed out being a JW Teen?

  by Shytears in

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  do you feel that you missed out on the social part?emotional part?how do u feel your parents handled it?were they strict,let u do anything?

  i just have alot going thru my mind,just wanted to hear some of your comments

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  Xander,

  I think the point I was trying to make was that not all congregations were as oppressive as others. I suppose there are all sorts of possible reasons, ranging from the parents' force of personality to the varying invasiveness of the elders, led by the PO.

  No, I don't think I was a bad JW teen. I sure as hell wasn't some shining example. But I went in service regularly. I preached to friends and neighbors - even brought one into the truth. I prepared for, and commented at meetings. I tried sincerely to live to a high value. The same applied pretty much to all of us. These were good kids.

  But I'll say it again, we, as a group, had leeway to have fun while growing up. We had holier-than-thou friends, we had a couple friends that had an uncanny knack to get hold of beer, and others in between.

  You can judge if you want to label us 'good' or 'bad' teen-dubbies. But most of the boys are now elders, and I can't be sure, but I may be the only one 'out.' Growing up in the Franklin MA hall wasn't hell for most of us.
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  Do u feel u missed out being a JW Teen?

  by Shytears in

  1. jw
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  do you feel that you missed out on the social part?emotional part?how do u feel your parents handled it?were they strict,let u do anything?

  i just have alot going thru my mind,just wanted to hear some of your comments

  laura

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  Buster

  Its balancing opinion time.

  The congregation I grew up in had a load of kids in my sisters' and my age range. Depending on how and when you counted, we had between 15 and 20 kids. We often needed a ride to get together when we were young. But not necessarily. A lot of my friends lived within a reasonable bike ride, or we could get together after school.

  We would get together for weekend motorcylce rides, dirt bikes when we were young, road when we were older. We did everything the other kids did - except partiicipate in organized sports and other school events. I missed that stuff. But we had some athletes and could go to a playground and challenge the worldly kids to basketball or football. We did real well at b-ball, except when we went into the city and got our butts kicked.

  A couple of those guys were the funniest people I ever met. The girls were collectively the prettiest I've ever known - to this day, 25 years later.

  And except for the pretenses and piles of guilt, we did the other stuff too - though ususally a bit later that the worldly kids. We had parties all the time, whenever we wanted. Some were followed by the obligatory JC, but what the hell, that is another thread.

  Oh, and you wanna know something else: At least three of us went to college. I was first and I got a letter of reccomendation from the PO. And this was in the 70's.

  Finally, hello Laura. If you've been posintg lately, I've been missing them.
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  My first post....

  by Urpi in

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  hello, after one year of lurking i finally decided to write, introduce myself and tell my short story .

  after being jw for more than 20 years, one year and 4 months ago, my husband read some news in internet.

  it was the un affair.. i cant use any more words that have been already used to express what it ment to us to discover what we did.

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  Buster

  Welcome, Urpi!

  I was out for a long time before I started looking into this stuff and it still stunned me.

  - Buster
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  Got this letter

  by Yesterdays Child in

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  throughout the years after having come to know through your marriage to my daughter you have been a very kind and thoughtful person, sometimes more than my own son.

  i don't think that a mother-in-law could want a finer person for a son than you.

  however, it is very unfortunate that i will have to change the way that i will relate to you now and in the future.

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  Buster

  Time to chime in with some others.

  If I'm on the receiving end instead of you: Not only is mumsie-in-law not welcome in my house, but I can't let my children be around people that would treat their father that way. That is an abuse of her position of 'grandmother.' It puts children right in the middle. Here is where you need to stand up for your children. They shouldn't have to choose between Gramma and Dad but that is where she is putting them. And your wife needs to damn well see it that way too.

  Good luck,

  - Cliff

  (of the 'sick of hearing of broken families' class)
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  Are Jehovah's Witnesses A Force For Good In The Community?

  by minimus in

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  the march km has 7 reasons why jehovah's witnesses are "a force for good in the community".

  can you guess any of them??

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  Buster

  Some time ago, I was reading a CD of Watchtowers from 1912 or so. Therein, Chucky was explaining why he and his buddies would not join in a clerical call for peace in the world. His logic was that the increase in war was prophesied and therefore must occur. That is to say, to pray for peace in the world is to ask for things contrary to Jehovah's will.

  This attitude has been a part of the dubbies ever since.

  Picture a time when your neighbor's house is being broken into, would a dubbie call the police? Remember that an increase in lawlessness is prophesied. Would helping a neighbor be working against God's will? It seems like a logical extrapolation from the Russel era.

  They are lousy community members. We've all been there. The witnesses think that all this stuff that happens in the world is 'as it should/must be.'
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  Is everyone on this Web Board a Jehovah's Witness Basher?

  by sandy in

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  i grew up in the religion and was baptized at.............supposedly the most important day in our lives and i cannot remember how old i actually was, anyways...... i believe it was 13 or 14. i was never disfellowshipped.

  i have a "worldly" boyfriend whom i love dearly, and i no longer attend the "meetings".

  i do not disagree with the organization entirely; in fact i am not even sure if i disagree with it at all.

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  Buster

  Definitely no. (And Welcome Sandy)

  Tell you what, try it out. Start a new thread on some topic on which you would like to speak to people that understand. Make sure to restate you position - not looking for a bashing session. I think you can expect that the majority of replies will be from anti-WTS folks. But you'll attract reasoned, balanced opinions on just about an JW-related topic.

  I'm certain you'll find a sympathetic ear from people that have been there.
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  Invitation to the Memorial...

  by teenyuck in

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  just looked at e-mail....rather than phone and say it, i get an e-mail from my mother:hello my beautiful dolls,.

  please don't get angry.

  i'm letting you know in case you may have remotely considered attending this beautiful occasion with your family.. .

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  Buster

  Some years ago, I walked away from the family with whom I grew up. Not because I couldn't take their crap, but because I wouldn't have my wife and children subjected to the lunacy. I've never looked back and never regretted my decision.

  I introduced my then-fiance to them once - she insisted. After less than an hour, we left and I rhetorically asked her, "We never have to go back, do we?" They put on quite a show they did.

  My daughter wants to reestbalish contact someday - I told her fine with me, but that she was going to hear an explanation from me before she does.

  My son has asked a time or two about 'his other grandmother.'

  So stand strong, teenyuk.

  SwordofJack: keep your judgemental scriptures to yourself - you ain't no elder in here, pal. Think about your post here the next time you come trolling for sympathy with a story of your dead dad or your own terminal illness.
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  Independant Thought=Demon Influence

  by crinklestein in

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  i used to be a jw for a few years but i left it behind like a pair of dirty underwear.

  at first it seemed good.

  the people were all very nice and inviting (of course they would be), the teachings seemed logical.

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  Buster

  Welcome Crinkle!

  I had already quit going to meetings when I went to college. My mother held on for a while. But one day, at an assembly, that damnable long-winded closing prayer that recaps days worth of useless drivel really threw her. She told me later that the brother was up there asking to be delivered from indepedant thought. She never went back to another meeting.

  One day sister Green was trying to be helpful and upbuilding. But she was mortified when my mother explained that the Watchtower mag and it's writers were not inspired. I don't think she ever had another conversation on the topic with a JW.
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  all prophecy fulfilled

  by jst_me in

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  so, apparently they are saying at assemblies that all bible prophecy except for babylon the great has fallen have been fulfilled.

  anyone else heard this?.

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  Buster

  Well, yeah. I mean what was left after the seven angels of Revelation poured out those seven bowls at the assemblies during the 20's? At that point it was all over but the 10,000 falling at my one side and some more at my other side. That why Armageddon came in 19 ... Ooops, nevermind