GrreatTeacher

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  What if all JWs had put off having children?

  by keyser soze in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  could the religion have survived?.

  i know it was never forbidden, but i remember growing up, how we were encouraged to put it off until the new system, and instead focus on a career in the full time service.. can you imagine if every young jw had chosen to follow that counsel?

  it's difficult to imagine the religion being sustainable without the next generation of born-ins..

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  GrreatTeacher

  That sentiment was still really strong in the late '80s. Two of my closest friends growing up never had children and are past 40 now.

  I think the religion might currently be larger in the absence of that rhetoric.
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  Struggling a bit, guess it's to be expected...........

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  throughout this process since my wife and i disassociated just over a year ago i've been pretty positive.

  focusing on my new life, new friends, having fun, and living a good life.

  it's been great.

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  GrreatTeacher

  If you don't feel comfortable with dressing up for Halloween, then don't do it.

  Be the cool guy that answers the door when trick-or-treaters show up and hands out the candy.

  Just watching their faces and allowing them to show offf their costumes is priceless!
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  I finally tied the knot, or any advice for an old "sew-and-sew"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i met up with many friends of 50-60 years over the last week.

  these were friends from the neighborhood, school, and kh.

  i renewed some really special attachments.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Stitch-witchery. Hmm. Sounds like a Watchtower offense, or maybe an offence. Or maybe D-FENCE 'cause that is how you win football games, you know, the ones where you pass and carry the football into the endzone. No? Oh, you mean the game where you kick the ball down the field into the opposing team's goal and where head shots are cool? No? Well, then, I don't even know what I no anymo.

  Ambien posting. I won't even remember this in the a.m.
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  I finally tied the knot, or any advice for an old "sew-and-sew"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i met up with many friends of 50-60 years over the last week.

  these were friends from the neighborhood, school, and kh.

  i renewed some really special attachments.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Of course it's called a Stitch Witch; it's Octobre!
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  I finally tied the knot, or any advice for an old "sew-and-sew"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i met up with many friends of 50-60 years over the last week.

  these were friends from the neighborhood, school, and kh.

  i renewed some really special attachments.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Don't be mislead; be misled.
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  I finally tied the knot, or any advice for an old "sew-and-sew"?

  by compound complex in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i met up with many friends of 50-60 years over the last week.

  these were friends from the neighborhood, school, and kh.

  i renewed some really special attachments.

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  GrreatTeacher

  Are fibers really fibres across the pond?

  I used a meter stick teaching Science today, but could it really have been a metre stick?

  I've been on this site so long that I don't know which spelling is which.

  It's October. Maybe I'll just teach witch spelling...
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  another kingdom hall closing

  by nowwhat? in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  this one in avon lake ohio 25 miles west of cleveland.

  only one congregation there.

  average attendance was only 40..

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  GrreatTeacher

  I would be pissed, too, if some business parked up the neighborhood making it difficult to navigate the streets.

  A $120 fine, especially if signs are posted saying, "No Parking'" seems about right to me.
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  Just curious - is apostasy grounds for divorce?

  by LifesNotOver in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i know only adultery is supposed to be grounds for "scriptural" divorce.

  i'm a wicked apostate in their eyes, but my believing husband and i still can't get a divorce that would allow him to remarry.

  we currently are separated - i have left him.

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  GrreatTeacher

  I'm not sure I really understand why folks feel the need to make sure their ex can remarry. Can anybody explain this to me?
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  BIG news Trump...His lewd conversation leaks.

  by James Mixon in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  if he get pass this, america deserve him...... conversation 10 years ago..

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  GrreatTeacher

  He's just viscerally disgusting. He makes my skin crawl just looking at him. I don't know how his wife can stand to be near him.
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  JWs ----( fill in the blank)

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what say you?.

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  GrreatTeacher

  JWs think they are better than you, but would deny that vociferously to anyone, maybe even themselves.